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Aaron Parecki

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  • rabble https://twitter.com/rabble   •   Sep 25
    I walked through setting up an account and identity on handshake. First the cheapest one was $49 and took an unbelievable amount of technical knowledge and steps. It made dns seem simple. I don’t see how normal users would ever use it.
    Aaron Parecki
    with that description, I don’t see how abnormal people would use it either!
    Portland, Oregon • 66°F
    Thu, Sep 24, 2020 6:40pm -07:00
  • Blaine Cook https://twitter.com/blaine   •   Sep 25
    The reality is that the only real question of a global namespace is a regulatory one - who gets ultimate control of it? And in that, DNS is actually not a bad approach and has spent ~30 years ironing out regulatory bugs and has found a pretty stable spot.
    Aaron Parecki
    Agreed! And all the blockchain versions of a global namespace have nowhere near this level of experience in maintaining the system in the long term, and are very likely much more fragile than DNS
    Portland, Oregon • 66°F
    2 likes 29 replies
    Thu, Sep 24, 2020 6:27pm -07:00
  • Blaine Cook https://twitter.com/blaine   •   Sep 25
    I know this is maybe something we'll never agree on, but I don't see the problem with a global namespace? Isn't it a feature? It makes the web work! It makes the phone system work! It makes email work!
    Aaron Parecki
    I wasn't saying either one is better than the other. Just that whether it's a global namespace is a property that then has all these other side effects when trying to maintain that property in a system
    Portland, Oregon • 66°F
    1 like
    Thu, Sep 24, 2020 6:26pm -07:00
  • rabble https://twitter.com/rabble   •   Sep 25
    Sure and that social distance way works for searching online but I hear folks saying their account names all the time. It’s important we do find a solution.
    Aaron Parecki
    heh social distance
    Portland, Oregon • 66°F
    1 reply
    Thu, Sep 24, 2020 6:24pm -07:00
  • Lawrence of Dystopia https://twitter.com/laprice   •   Sep 25
    so, like URI s and URLs? but with relative namespaces?
    Aaron Parecki
    I don't think there's a clear answer yet. But I'm thinking something that matches more how people communicate identities in person. Plenty of people share the same name and it's not a problem the majority of the time during normal communication.
    Portland, Oregon • 67°F
    3 replies
    Thu, Sep 24, 2020 6:19pm -07:00
  • rabble https://twitter.com/rabble   •   Sep 24
    Decentralized naming systems like @HNS and @namecoin seem focused on competing with DNS. They're also hopelessly complicated. Is there equivalent for user names instead of DNS?
    Aaron Parecki
    I think the challenge is you need to drop the idea of creating a global namespace. Otherwise you end up with DNS or blockchain solutions, both of which are centralized. You need something that doesn't rely on the entire system being aware of all other names.
    Portland, Oregon • 67°F
    1 like 40 replies
    Thu, Sep 24, 2020 6:15pm -07:00
  • Pushkar Jaltare https://twitter.com/Pushkar2911   •   Sep 24
    @aaronpk Do you have any plans of making "The Little Book of OAuth 2" available as ebook? I bought you another book as PDF and would love to do the same for this one.
    Aaron Parecki
    I thought about it, but most of the content is the specs themselves, which are already available online in a variety of formats, so I'm not sure it would add much value. Plus formatting an ebook is a *lot* of work 😅
    Portland, Oregon • 68°F
    1 like
    Thu, Sep 24, 2020 4:41pm -07:00
  • Gary https://twitter.com/every_daydad   •   Sep 24
    Cannoli day!! 🤯🤯

    Seriously thanks to all, I honestly cannot believe this has gone anywhere near this far.
    Aaron Parecki
    huge congrats! 🍾 also why do I keep thinking cannoli is a pasta?
    Portland, Oregon • 59°F
    3 likes 1 reply
    Thu, Sep 24, 2020 7:57am -07:00
  • https://twitter.com/eberdna/status/1309136159868678150?s=12
    Aaron Parecki
    If you tell me what URL you're entering at indielogin.com to start the flow I can probably tell you what's going on.
    Portland, Oregon • 59°F
    Thu, Sep 24, 2020 7:24am -07:00
  • Zach Leatherman https://twitter.com/zachleat   •   Sep 24
    SPA sold as the silver bullet architecture choice for all web development projects has caused irreparable damage to the web, both for developers and users
    Aaron Parecki
    well said 👏
    Portland, Oregon • 62°F
    7 likes
    Wed, Sep 23, 2020 8:14pm -07:00
  • Lizzie Peirce https://twitter.com/LizziePeirce   •   Sep 23
    NEW VIDEO >> What To Charge For Video Production ft. @TheChrisHau https://youtu.be/EtI90KnQ3TM
    Aaron Parecki
    having attempted to take photos of falling money before, I appreciate the amount of effort that went into this thumbnail
    Portland, Oregon • 62°F
    2 likes
    Wed, Sep 23, 2020 4:36pm -07:00
  • Bryan Welsh https://twitter.com/_bryanwelsh   •   Sep 23
    @aaronpk You use a streamdeck correct? Have you made a what’s on my stream deck vid? How do you use with Atem for macro?
    Aaron Parecki
    Good idea! I've definitely shown some of my Streamdeck setup during my live shows a few times but I couldn't tell you which episodes now 😂 I should probably do a proper video about it!
    Portland, Oregon • 68°F
    1 like
    Tue, Sep 22, 2020 7:30pm -07:00
  • Adron https://twitter.com/Adron   •   Sep 22
    Should I order ice cream?

    Clearly wrong answers only.
    Aaron Parecki
    order it to do what?
    Portland, Oregon • 61°F
    5 likes 1 reply
    Tue, Sep 22, 2020 7:46am -07:00
  • michaelborland https://micro.blog/michaelborland   •   Sep 22

    @aaronpk look at a over the door shoe organizer with clear pockets. That made a world of difference for storing my cables, adapters, etc.

    Aaron Parecki
    I actually just bought some like that but that are for hanging in a closet! They get here on Monday and I'm super excited to try them out
    Portland, Oregon • 60°F
    Tue, Sep 22, 2020 7:12am -07:00
  • Jacky Efendi https://twitter.com/jackyef__   •   Sep 21
    Curious, what do people use to measure engagements on their personal site/blog nowadays?

    Google Analytics/Webmention/other stuffs? Or do you not track at all?
    Aaron Parecki
    I started switching everything over to Fathom analytics: https://usefathom.com/ref/RQMO0T
    Portland, Oregon • 62°F
    1 like
    Mon, Sep 21, 2020 12:05pm -07:00
  • M. Brandon Lee | THIS IS TECH TODAY https://twitter.com/thisistechtoday   •   Sep 21
    These sexually explicit YouTube bot comments are so out of control that it makes one want to shut off comments or not even comment on anyone's video. It's SO BAD right now.
    Aaron Parecki
    They're all the same message too, I thought Google was good at detecting spam.
    Portland, Oregon • 62°F
    3 likes 2 replies
    Mon, Sep 21, 2020 12:02pm -07:00
  • Photo - “Wear a damn mask” - Joseph https://twitter.com/photojoseph   •   Sep 21
    Let me reiterate that this was indoors. In a well-sealed house. Now imagine the air outside.
    Aaron Parecki
    thing I learned... a well-sealed house isn’t actually well sealed if you’re forcing air from inside to outside. I woulda had a better day or two if I had not run the AC as much and just let the inside air sit still.
    Portland, Oregon • 66°F
    1 like 1 reply
    Sun, Sep 20, 2020 8:37pm -07:00
  • katattack https://twitter.com/dory_chris   •   Sep 21
    I wouldn't have survived college without those cheap burnable CD-ROMs. You'd buy 10 packs of Zip drives in bulk and every single one on the pack would fail.
    Aaron Parecki
    I owned a zip drive for a hot second. CDRWs ended up being far cheaper and better.
    Portland, Oregon • 66°F
    3 likes 2 replies
    Sun, Sep 20, 2020 8:36pm -07:00
  • Chris Messina https://twitter.com/chrismessina   •   Sep 21
    You've got to be kidding me. Deleting @AppleMusic didn't solve the problem! WTF! Is there no way to NOT be profiled?

    Hey @tim_cook, I thought "iPhone IS privacy". What is this?!

    #iOS14
    Aaron Parecki
    whoa whoa whoa. This doesn’t seem right.

    although it does seem like they’re probably doing this in the most privacy-preserving way possible? Still monopolistic unless they expose that as an API to other apps.

    but still that’s quite some fingerprinting going on wow
    Portland, Oregon • 67°F
    2 likes 1 reply
    Sun, Sep 20, 2020 8:24pm -07:00
  • SwiftOnSecurity https://twitter.com/SwiftOnSecurity   •   Sep 21
    In 1982, the Commodore64 cost an inflation-adjusted $1,600 - and had 64KB of RAM.

    A compact disc outputs 176KB. Per second.

    The CD is basically a temporal aberration and should not have existed at all.
    Aaron Parecki
    In the grand scheme of things, the CD barely did exist at all
    Portland, Oregon • 67°F
    9 likes 7 replies
    Sun, Sep 20, 2020 8:09pm -07:00
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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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