Aaron Parecki

wilkie https://twitter.com/wilkieii • Jan 25
oh god I need to renew my passport. how in the absolute hell am I going to do that.

I had to do that this year! It was entirely by mail! Took like 3 months turnaround in total, not bad. I figured if there was any time to not have my passport available...

Portland, Oregon • 35°F

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Mon, Jan 25, 2021 6:44am -08:00
Katherine M. Moss https://twitter.com/Cambridgeport90 • Jan 25
One of the biggest issues I have with some folks in the #Indieweb community right now are the people who want to demetricate social media posts. My opinion on that, is that metrics aren't bad in themselves.

Frankly I agree, I find value in some metrics for various reasons, it's not always a bad thing. There also isn't a single #IndieWeb opinion on this kind of thing, which is the great part about the IndieWeb.

Portland, Oregon • 37°F

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Sun, Jan 24, 2021 10:20pm -08:00 #indieweb
Scott Hanselman https://twitter.com/shanselman • Jan 24
What is a food that you or your family eats such an inappropriate amount of that you get comments and side-eye every week from the cashier at the grocery store?

Habanero peppers, about a dozen every week, sometimes more. I buy so many I tell the cashiers the PLU because they never remember it.

Portland, Oregon • 37°F

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Sun, Jan 24, 2021 4:36pm -08:00
Chris Messina https://twitter.com/chrismessina • Jan 23
Which display would you buy in that case?

Last time I bought a TV I found a "commercial display" which was the only way to get a not-smart TV. It's the kind of thing you'd buy for airports and bars. I bought this in like 2014 though and I'm hoping I don't have to replace it any time soon.

Portland, Oregon • 31°F

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Sat, Jan 23, 2021 6:32am -08:00
Chris Messina https://twitter.com/chrismessina • Jan 23
The @wirecutter recommends buying a @TCL_USA TV. I've never heard of TCL.

I was considering a @SamsungUS QLED Q70T Series.

Am I off base? Should I follow the @wirecutter's recommendation?

https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-lcd-led-tv/

Pretty sure they're all the same panels underneath. That said I still wouldn't buy any smart TV. Give me a big display and let me add the smarts in external devices instead.

Portland, Oregon • 37°F

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Fri, Jan 22, 2021 10:40pm -08:00
Django https://social.coop/@django • Jan 22
@aaronpk 21:21:21 21-21-21 in my time zone

🎉🎉2️⃣1️⃣🎉🎉

Portland, Oregon • 43°F

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Thu, Jan 21, 2021 6:23pm -08:00
Aaron Parecki https://aaronparecki.com/ • Jan 21
Happy 21st day of the 21st year of the 21st century!

oh and now it's the 21st second of the 21st minute of the 21st hour of the 21st day of the 21st year of the 21st century! 🎉 (UTC)

Portland, Oregon • 46°F

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Thu, Jan 21, 2021 1:21pm -08:00
Casey Driscoll https://twitter.com/caseydriscoll • Jan 21
oh man if it is the 21st century it should be the 22nd year, right?

Also what week is it? By my count it's Week 4, but I started Week 1 on Sun, Dec 27.

The century started in 2001 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21st_century

Portland, Oregon • 46°F

Thu, Jan 21, 2021 1:16pm -08:00
KO https://aus.social/@TechnicalKO • Jan 21
@aaronpk 22nd year, right?

does nobody remember Y2K? There was a whole thing about whether that was the last year of the 20th century or the first year of the 21st. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21st_century

Portland, Oregon • 46°F

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Thu, Jan 21, 2021 1:14pm -08:00
Christian Imhorst :opensuse: https://fosstodon.org/@datenteiler • Jan 21
@aaronpk Idk but I'd say the 21st century starts with the year 2000? I'd think it's the 22ed year of the 21st century, isn't it? 🤔

wasn't that the whole thing with Y2K which was that it wasn't actually the 21st century yet? Pretty sure the 21st century started in 2001 and 2000 was still the 20th century.

Portland, Oregon • 45°F

Thu, Jan 21, 2021 12:29pm -08:00
Christopher Lemmer Webber https://octodon.social/@cwebber • Jan 21
@aaronpk I mean I guess hasn't been missed in UTC yet either...!

ooh yes, only about an hour from now in UTC!

Portland, Oregon • 45°F

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Thu, Jan 21, 2021 12:18pm -08:00
Christopher Lemmer Webber https://octodon.social/@cwebber • Jan 21
@aaronpk you gonna do 21:21:21 your time too?

if i'm not asleep by then 😅

Portland, Oregon • 45°F

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Thu, Jan 21, 2021 12:17pm -08:00
Shannon Morse wears a mask responsibly https://twitter.com/Snubs • Jan 21
Some dude told me I should have less pink in my videos.
So I added pink.

hell yes 👏

Portland, Oregon • 43°F

Wed, Jan 20, 2021 8:21pm -08:00
atola visuals https://twitter.com/AtolaVisuals • Jan 19
Its real

whoa that's serious

Portland, Oregon • 38°F

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Mon, Jan 18, 2021 10:29pm -08:00
atola visuals https://twitter.com/AtolaVisuals • Jan 19
Meanwhile he screenshoted a YT video, printed it on paper, and mailed it to me with other tools. Like, just send me the link.

this can't be real it's too perfect 😂

Portland, Oregon • 38°F

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Mon, Jan 18, 2021 10:18pm -08:00
Dr. Matt Lee https://twitter.com/mattl • Jan 19
Love to use software

all the software I use comes in boxes

Portland, Oregon • 38°F

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Mon, Jan 18, 2021 10:17pm -08:00
Blort™ (Unofficial) 🚫 https://social.tchncs.de/@Blort • Jan 17
@aaronpk
Stadia... console? I thought the whole idea of stadia was that it ran in your browser?...

I don't really know what I'm talking about in the gaming world. The box has a controller and a chromecast, so I don't think it needs a computer though?

Portland, Oregon • 50°F

Sun, Jan 17, 2021 4:07pm -08:00
Ben Werdmuller https://twitter.com/benwerd • Jan 17
100% makes sense. I wonder how we could report those kinds of stats in a more secure way? Although I’m inclined to think there probably can’t be a verifiable way to do it and maintain privacy, so maybe we should care less about these sorts of stats anyway 🤷‍♂️

Yep, plus subscriber/follower count has definitely been the source of a lot of the terrible stuff on social media so I'm not sure it's even a good metric to try to recreate outside of a centralized system

Portland, Oregon • 42°F

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Sat, Jan 16, 2021 9:30pm -08:00
Ben Werdmuller https://twitter.com/benwerd • Jan 17
Totally, for sure. And maybe if I was a nefarious feed reader startup founder I might do something like that!

Frankly that's the reason I never added it to Aperture and never recommended anyone else do either. It's a naive practice left over from a much more trusting era before people were thinking with a security mindset.

Portland, Oregon • 42°F

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Sat, Jan 16, 2021 9:21pm -08:00
Ben Werdmuller https://twitter.com/benwerd • Jan 17
3. Indieweb readers don't seem to announce the number of subscribers in HTTP GET calls, unlike other readers.
4. Feedly seems to have an order of magnitude more users than any other reader (or for some reason my readers are all clustered there).

Also keep in mind that subscriber stats reported via user agent are 100% not a reliable source of info, I could make it look like Aperture has a million readers of your blog if you want

Portland, Oregon • 42°F

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