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Aaron Parecki

  • Dennis Crowley https://twitter.com/dens   •   Sep 29
    You go to coffee shop while wearing your Airpods. You pause your podcast / music. Do you...
    Aaron Parecki
    Just now realizing that I haven't been to a coffee shop since I've owned AirPods because I bought them in March
    Portland, Oregon • 59°F
  • Gary https://twitter.com/every_daydad   •   Sep 28
    Something I just realized.

    In the last two months my YouTube revenue has been double of my day job.

    And I wouldn't hesitate to drop YouTube if push came to shove, primarily because of how important my health insurance is.

    Dang its crazy how important that is.
    Aaron Parecki
    Is this why there are so many canadian youtubers?
    Portland, Oregon • 80°F
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  • 🌮 Dave Millar 🌮 https://puz.fun/@dave   •   Sep 28

    Me: *looks at personal website stats on Google Analytics before work*
    My coworkers during morning meeting: "Why do you have a tab called 'Anal'? "

    Aaron Parecki
    It takes exactly 4 letters of the title before chrome autocompletes the website for me, so I type that a lot.
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  • Nelson Minar https://twitter.com/nelson   •   Sep 27
    I now have a display high enough resolution it needs HDMI 2.1 cables so am slowly getting some. Tempted just to throw out all the old cables but that seems wasteful. I should put tape labels on them or something; really dumb they aren't labelled.

    USB 3.0 and USB Type-C, hooboy.
    Aaron Parecki
    yeah I'm worried about enumerating all the different kinds of USB-C cables I have now... some of them are USB 2, some are 3, some are charging-only, some have Thunderbolt also, etc etc
    Portland, Oregon • 68°F
  • macgenie https://micro.blog/macgenie   •   Sep 27

    @aaronpk I need this organizer. I don’t see it on your Life Stack yet. 🙂

    Aaron Parecki
    had to test it first before I put it on the site! 😉
    Portland, Oregon • 68°F
  • cheesemaker https://micro.blog/cheesemaker   •   Sep 26

    @aaronpk I love this. What are you using to store them in? Is that a shoe holder?

    Aaron Parecki
    It is!
    Portland, Oregon • 68°F
  • Nelson Minar https://twitter.com/nelson   •   Sep 26
    How did you segregate HDMI version / bandwidth support? Is there any way to even tell, looking at a cable?
    Aaron Parecki
    Most of mine don't have any markings. I doubt I have any of the oldest type at all anymore, and everything from the second gen onward is good enough for 1080 so I don't really care about the differences beyond that right now. USB on the other hand is quite a mess.
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  • Steven D. McKie/ https://twitter.com/Steven_McKie   •   Sep 25
    The right way to use Handshake:

    > Download HSD or the HSD/Wallet wrapper, http://BobWallet.io

    > Get some HNS and send to your wallet

    > Bid on any <63char string you can think of by opening an auction for it on handshake

    > Buy a TLD for <$1

    https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1J7SNCLNP3loPVKR5lHVHG6tyIGrXh2C7yRsWEuck2pM/edit
    Aaron Parecki
    kind of proving the original point here ^^
    Portland, Oregon • 58°F
  • rabble https://twitter.com/rabble   •   Sep 25
    So if you’re able to control a domain name and set Mx records you’ve got portability. It actually works pretty well but it’s not used for individuals so much as organizations. What’s the equivalent or way to extend it to individual users.
    Aaron Parecki
    For some reason DNS providers haven't iterated on the UX around configuring records much. If as much time and money were spent on making DNS easier to use without understanding all the terminology as was spent on all the blockchain tech, we'd be in a much better place right now.
    Portland, Oregon • 65°F
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  • Blaine Cook https://twitter.com/blaine   •   Sep 25
    For sure; it just requires specific functionality on the provider's side. With webfinger, we always imagined that you could enable "portability" by setting a redirect or a pointer, again provider-dependent.
    Aaron Parecki
    in a way, email already is portable. My email address is on my domain, parecki.com, but it’s actually a Gmail account under the hood. If i want to move that to another provider, I can, and I don’t need to tell anyone a new email address. This is of course thanks to DNS 🙃
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  • Blaine Cook https://twitter.com/blaine   •   Sep 25
    i.e., is that something that *must* happen with consent from email providers/domain controllers? Or is it something that could be baked into ssb/deltachat/similar? What would ownership verification look like in that case?
    Aaron Parecki
    the “I’m locked out of my account” problem is not going away any time soon, and is a real hurdle in building this kind of thing in a decentralized way
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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
  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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.
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  • 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 😅
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  • 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
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  • 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