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Aaron Parecki

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  • Notion https://twitter.com/NotionHQ   •   Feb 5
    Appreciate you sharing this feedback - we'll highlight this to our engineering team for their consideration. More detail about our security practices here: https://www.notion.so/Security-6c56b4854b624b0d8f36711018647f68
    Aaron Parecki
    Yeah this doesn't make any sense. Even if you want to force login sessions to last 90 days, you should at least not prevent me from editing the files that already exist on my device when this token expires.
    Bronx, New York • 42°F
    Tue, Feb 18, 2020 6:25pm -05:00
  • Daniel https://twitter.com/DanielDoWrite   •   Feb 18
    Apparently they use login tokens with 90 day expiration:
    https://twitter.com/NotionHQ/status/1224791056442519552
    Not sure why, it might be the most frustrating part of the UX.
    Aaron Parecki
    Nice find. That's ridiculous though. There's no reason I should be locked out of editing the files on my own computer. Like sure prevent syncing new content, but don't block me from accessing the existing files!
    Bronx, New York • 42°F
    1 like 1 reply
    Tue, Feb 18, 2020 6:23pm -05:00
  • Quad 🌸 https://weeaboo.space/users/quad   •   Feb 18
    @aaronpk Yes.

    I managed some computers remotely on a ship outside Africa once, they paid thousands of dollars equivalent per month for satellite equipment and internet, but only got 768 down and 256 up in kilobits.

    We used to split it up into 512/128 for the servers, and 256/128 for the few clients to browse the internet (5 shared desktop computers), both splits with sad attempts of QoS ontop of them of course.

    But after Windows 10 landed we just had to give up, one or two computers would barely work on 256k, but if we connected up all of them, the 256k of bandwidth didn't work. As long as three or more computers were powered on, even doing nothing, you were lucky to browse anything. With four or five machines powered on, you could just give up, nothing would ever load.

    Eventually we gave up, giving all bandwidth to the more critical servers and said "sorry, no internet". Leaving all outside-world communication to go via the server, in the form of things such as low-bitrate VoIP calls or E-mail.

    It's sad that 15 years ago, we were happy to finally get 768k broadband to replace our broadband, and I even downloaded torrents with that connection.

    Yet now, with only a few Windows 10 computers, that whole broadband line could be almost entirely spent on forced telemetry.
    Aaron Parecki
    That's incredible! What a mess!
    Jamaica, New York • 46°F
    Tue, Feb 18, 2020 4:25pm -05:00
  • Quad 🌸 https://weeaboo.space/users/quad   •   Feb 18
    @aaronpk Did you know that even though Windows 10 still supports dial-up, it doesn't really work.

    The forced basic Telemetry, update checks, internet connectivity pings, etc. alone use up the 56k of bandwidth, so browsing the internet mostly just flat out doesn't work, regardless of patience. If you're lucky, you can get some text content popping up after a minute or two, but even if you wait 15 minutes, most sites are likely to never load a single image unless they're small sub 64x64 pixel icons. 90% of your http requests are simply going to time out or die for other reasons.
    Aaron Parecki
    oh that is terrible! I'm so sad that so much software these days assumes that the user will have a perfectly functioning internet connection 100% of the time.
    Alaska Flight 628 SEA to JFK in Springfield Gardens, New York • 47°F
    4 likes 1 reply
    Tue, Feb 18, 2020 4:06pm -05:00
  • Ric Fink https://twitter.com/ricfink   •   Feb 18
    I've run these systems.
    Aaron Parecki
    In any case, airplanes are like 0.001% of the cases where network connectivity is bad, so websites should really try harder to fail better when network conditions aren't perfect.
    Alaska Flight 628 SEA to JFK in Greenvale, New York • 45°F
    1 like 1 reply
    Tue, Feb 18, 2020 3:59pm -05:00
  • Nelson Minar https://twitter.com/nelson   •   Feb 18
    Was the Gmail basic view any better? https://support.google.com/mail/answer/15049?hl=en
    Aaron Parecki
    I'll let you know as soon as the support site loads its web fonts
    Alaska Flight 628 SEA to JFK in Greenvale, New York • 45°F
    3 likes
    Tue, Feb 18, 2020 3:56pm -05:00
  • Ric Fink https://twitter.com/ricfink   •   Feb 18
    They may be simultaneous connections but you make it sound like a server farm. They are "periodic" demands for upload or download. Maybe 30% of 300 seats are connected, for 90 connections. 10% hit the return key at the same moment, for 9 hits to the uplink at any instance.
    Aaron Parecki
    They allow YouTube now, so that's not necessarily the traffic pattern anymore.

    But my point was that unless you actually have experience running these systems I don't think it's fair to criticize them.
    Alaska Flight 628 SEA to JFK • 46°F
    1 like 1 reply
    Tue, Feb 18, 2020 3:54pm -05:00
  • Ric Fink https://twitter.com/ricfink   •   Feb 18
    I hear you, but I wonder if you don't have it backwards. 2020 is the year and airlines WiFi is like 1995 dialup? Something is wrong and I think it may be in the sky.
    Aaron Parecki
    I don't think that's fair to say until you've personally had to maintain a wifi network that supports 300 simultaneous connections where the only uplink is an unstable satellite or cellular connection.
    Alaska Flight 628 SEA to JFK • 45°F
    3 replies
    Tue, Feb 18, 2020 3:45pm -05:00
  • Alan https://twitter.com/alanmoo   •   Feb 18
    That’s a shame, I once had Gmail be the only way I could access a file to print on a really old computer because of its legacy support.
    Aaron Parecki
    I know! It used to be so good! Ever since the new UI it's just gone straight downhill.
    Alaska Flight 628 SEA to JFK in Rutherford, New Jersey • 44°F
    Tue, Feb 18, 2020 3:44pm -05:00
  • Emily Kager https://twitter.com/EmilyKager   •   Feb 18
    I love when you're investigating a bug and the question "why is this broken!?" turns into "why did this ever work?!?"
    Aaron Parecki
    Been there more times than I'd care to admit πŸ˜‚
    Alaska Flight 628 SEA to JFK in Rutherford, New Jersey • 44°F
    Tue, Feb 18, 2020 3:43pm -05:00
  • James Long https://twitter.com/jlongster   •   Feb 18
    I wanted to take some notes on the airplane so I pulled up Notion but it wouldn’t load because of lack of internet. This stuff kills me, it’s not acceptable
    Aaron Parecki
    I really like @NotionHQ but it logs me out of the desktop and iOS apps far too often and then won't work until I get internet again and it's really just unfortunate.
    Seattle, Washington • 33°F
    2 likes 2 replies
    Tue, Feb 18, 2020 7:44am -08:00
  • DHH https://twitter.com/dhh   •   Feb 18
    Amazing how well that 13-year old take has held up 😍. Not only does offline matter even less now than it did, the technology to do it is finally almost trivial (service workers). Glad we never wasted time on attempting it before that!
    Aaron Parecki
    If the tech is trivial, why do so many apps fail to do it properly?
    Seattle, Washington • 33°F
    1 reply
    Tue, Feb 18, 2020 7:42am -08:00
  • Sara πŸ‘y https://twitter.com/saradietschy   •   Feb 18
    Our parents have Dave Ramsey we have Jake Paul #FinancialFreedom #blessed
    Aaron Parecki
    I hadn't heard of Jake til just now, but you might actually like this podcast which is free, not $20/mo πŸ˜‚ http://www.ohmydollar.com/tag/podcast/
    Seattle, Washington • 33°F
    3 likes
    Tue, Feb 18, 2020 7:39am -08:00
  • https://events.indieweb.org/2020/02/micro-meetup-0s4UKoRqJv38
    Aaron Parecki
    Looking forward to it!
    Portland, Oregon • 41°F
    Mon, Feb 17, 2020 9:21am -08:00
  • Mitch https://mastodon.xyz/@mitchkiah   •   Feb 16

    @aaronpk Did you want to borrow Breath of the Wild??

    Aaron Parecki
    ohh yeah! I've got 12 hours coming up on planes this week so I'm probly gonna bring it with me too!
    Portland, Oregon • 49°F
    Sun, Feb 16, 2020 12:29pm -08:00
  • Stephanie Hobson https://twitter.com/stephaniehobson   •   Feb 16
    Twitter plz help. Someone took a GIF of Leslie Neilson fighting people in an airport and labeled the people with stuff like "subscribe to our newsletter" and "review our cookie policy" and it was the best thing ever and I can't find it again.
    Aaron Parecki
    I remember this gif but I have no way of finding it again lol!
    Portland, Oregon • 45°F
    1 like
    Sat, Feb 15, 2020 7:47pm -08:00
  • David Wilson https://twitter.com/dwilzon   •   Feb 15
    Ok, I'd like to have one of those stickers :-) - hope to see you at Oktane.

    Quick question, what has been updated in the Feb 2020 version of the Oauth 2.0 book? Is it worth getting over the 2017 version I have? Thanks
    Aaron Parecki
    It's mostly the same content, fixed typos and things, and I brought it up to date with the latest security recommendations from the OAuth group. If you're at Oktane stop by the developer hub and I'll give you a copy!
    Portland, Oregon • 43°F
    Sat, Feb 15, 2020 6:52am -08:00
  • Justin Richer https://twitter.com/justin__richer   •   Feb 14
    I'm quitting tech to become a good time off so that's a thing
    Aaron Parecki
    I'm quitting tech to become a good job now I wanna know how that works
    Portland, Oregon • 44°F
    1 like
    Fri, Feb 14, 2020 9:59am -08:00
  • https://2020.indieweb.org/austin
    Aaron Parecki
    Attending
    San Francisco, California, USA
    Fri, Feb 14, 2020 7:36am -08:00
  • Elisabeth Olson https://twitter.com/ElisOl   •   Feb 14
    Oh, good to know! Thanks!
    Aaron Parecki
    I bring them to give away at conferences too tho! If you ever see me speaking somewhere feel free to ask me for one cause I will definitely have some on me!
    San Francisco, California, USA
    1 like 1 reply
    Fri, Feb 14, 2020 7:34am -08:00
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Hi, I'm Aaron Parecki, Director of Identity Standards at Okta, and co-founder of IndieWebCamp. I maintain oauth.net, write and consult about OAuth, and participate in the OAuth Working Group at the IETF. I also help people learn about video production and livestreaming. (detailed bio)

I've been tracking my location since 2008 and I wrote 100 songs in 100 days. I've spoken at conferences around the world about owning your data, OAuth, quantified self, and explained why R is a vowel. Read more.

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