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Aaron Parecki

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  • jack the nonabrasive https://twitter.com/karabaic   •   Oct 16
    I'm of two minds about this, as a kid who screwed around construction sites 50 years ago. You did provide them with a story to tell. If you had a speaker that said, "Intruder alert. Killer robots activated," it would have been an awesome story.
    Aaron Parecki
    That will be version 2
    Portland, Oregon • 80°F
    2 likes 2 replies
    Sat, Oct 15, 2022 6:03pm -07:00
  • Alex @ Plane Sailing Games https://twitter.com/NAlexWhite   •   Oct 14
    255gb sounds like an enormous thumb drive! That’s like the base level HD for a whole laptop (from some companies…)
    Aaron Parecki
    It's really not bad, like $20-30 for a 256gb thumb drive from reputable sources. They don't have to be as fast as the SSD in a laptop.
    Portland, Oregon, USA • 63°F
    1 like 1 reply
    Fri, Oct 14, 2022 10:21am -07:00
  • Jonathan Maus https://twitter.com/Jonathan_Maus   •   Oct 14
    take my money aaron!
    Aaron Parecki
    hah I hadn't really planned on turning it into a service, but now I'm kind of tempted to set up a site where you can log in and buy a USB drive with your Flickr data that I'd ship to you!
    Portland, Oregon • 63°F
    1 like
    Fri, Oct 14, 2022 10:18am -07:00
  • topgold https://micro.blog/topgold   •   Oct 14

    @aaronpk super to know. I wonder if Flickr embeds geolocation into EXIF data when I drop photos onto Flickr's maps. I'm going to download a few to see

    Aaron Parecki
    IIRC it doesn't embed it, but the geo data is available via the Flickr API and is included in the archive. I didn't include any map generation code in this site build, but the data is there to use later.
    Portland, Oregon • 62°F
    Fri, Oct 14, 2022 10:08am -07:00
  • topgold https://micro.blog/topgold   •   Oct 14

    @aaronpk were you able to download Flickr albums and keep photos associated with your albums? I have more than 30,000 Flickr photos and think I would need to spend a weekend sorting downloaded content.

    Aaron Parecki
    Yep, it makes a complete archive. Albums, tags, even comments. It's all browseable as a website by just opening index.html on your drive.
    Portland, Oregon • 62°F
    Fri, Oct 14, 2022 10:05am -07:00
  • Aaron Parecki https://aaronparecki.com/   •   Oct 14
    I just finished downloading my whole Flickr account to a static website. Now browsing around it is much faster than looking at the same photos on Flickr, and it makes me want to get back to actually organizing my photos again!
    Aaron Parecki
    After downloading all the different resolutions Flickr has, it turned into 255gb on disk. Not bad, would even fit on a thumb drive.

    Here's the source if you want to try this yourself!

    https://github.com/aaronpk/Flickr-Archivr
    Portland, Oregon, USA • 62°F
    4 likes 1 repost 6 replies
    Fri, Oct 14, 2022 10:00am -07:00
  • 🎙Alex Knight🎚 https://twitter.com/ZeroDistraction   •   Oct 13
    I’ll talk to DVE store, but there’s a disconnect between the assembly instructions and the parts list. The parts list says only two drop in M4 nuts are provided, but the assembly PDF says extra nuts are provided to install additional accessories.
    Aaron Parecki
    There should be a separate little bag in the kit with M5*8 screws and two M5 slide-in nuts. We can send that to you if it's missing! Good point that it's missing from the parts list though.
    Portland, Oregon, USA • 54°F
    Fri, Oct 14, 2022 7:36am -07:00
  • Tim Chambers https://indieweb.social/@tchambers   •   Oct 14

    @aaronpk This could be self hosted: https://pixelfed.org/

    And would I think completely covers all of Flickr 1.0 features at least.

    @pixelfed

    Aaron Parecki
    Pixelfed looks neat but is definitely going for more of an Instagram feature parity than Flickr
    Portland, Oregon • 75°F
    2 likes
    Thu, Oct 13, 2022 6:32pm -07:00
  • Roberto Blake 🇺🇸🇵🇦 Creative Entrepreneur https://twitter.com/robertoblake   •   Oct 13
    I can’t believe there are only 12 weeks left in the year!
    Aaron Parecki
    thanks I hate it
    Portland, Oregon • 77°F
    1 like
    Thu, Oct 13, 2022 1:15pm -07:00
  • 🎙Alex Knight🎚 https://twitter.com/ZeroDistraction   •   Oct 13
    @aaronpk Just assembled the PK1 Pro Streamer stand for the Atem Mini Extreme ISO. It mentions it comes with replacement bolts to attach the Smallrig 1842 monitor mount, but there are no nuts to screw those bolts into. Nothing mentioned in the instructions.
    Aaron Parecki
    hmm it should have come with two slide-in nuts for that. Send an email to the store you bought it from and we can fix it!
    Portland, Oregon • 76°F
    3 replies
    Thu, Oct 13, 2022 1:01pm -07:00
  • donpdonp https://mastodon.xyz/@donpdonp   •   Oct 13

    @aaronpk https://pixelfed.org/ is the fediverse flickr. I dont know how it compares, feature-wise.

    Aaron Parecki
    I'd say it's more of the fediverse Instagram. Flickr was always less about the timeline and scrolling thru photos and more about organizing by tags and albums
    Portland, Oregon • 64°F
    1 like
    Thu, Oct 13, 2022 10:20am -07:00
  • PhotoJoseph https://twitter.com/photojoseph   •   Oct 13
    Since Instagram *still* doesn’t let you put clickable links in posts… I’m looking for a service that replicates the grid with links to anywhere so it’s easy to find the post you were just looking at and tap to go that YouTube video. Any favorites?
    Aaron Parecki
    I remember looking for these a while ago, there's a ton of them, but I ended up making my own with some simple HTML/CSS template I found https://aaronpk.tv/links/

    Source: https://github.com/MichaelBarney/LinkFree
    Portland, Oregon • 54°F
    3 likes 2 replies
    Thu, Oct 13, 2022 6:43am -07:00
  • Christian Waidner https://mastodon.online/@ChrisMcZork   •   Oct 12

    @aaronpk Pixelfed? https://pixelfed.org/

    Aaron Parecki
    maybe? That's still way more social network-y than what I actually want, which is sharing photo albums with select people.
    Portland, Oregon • 63°F
    Wed, Oct 12, 2022 11:45am -07:00
  • Aaron Parecki https://aaronparecki.com/   •   Oct 12
    also, the tools for managing photos are extremely limited, like not being able to adjust modification dates of photos, and not being able to choose sort order within albums
    Aaron Parecki
    basically I just want Flickr but self hosted 😭
    Portland, Oregon, USA • 63°F
    7 likes 1 repost 6 replies
    Wed, Oct 12, 2022 11:31am -07:00
  • Aaron Parecki https://aaronparecki.com/   •   Oct 12
    I decided to try out NextCloud for this, it mostly works, but has some weird things:

    • The new dashboard view is completely useless for this use case
    • It's weird that I'm giving people an entire toolset just to be able to look at photos
    Aaron Parecki
    also, the tools for managing photos are extremely limited, like not being able to adjust modification dates of photos, and not being able to choose sort order within albums
    Portland, Oregon, USA • 63°F
    1 reply
    Wed, Oct 12, 2022 11:26am -07:00
  • Aaron Parecki https://aaronparecki.com/   •   Oct 6
    Hello internet friends!

    What is the best way to share a set of photos with a select few people, while being able to add more photos over an extended period of time? Must not rely on creating an account like on iCloud.

    I have my own thoughts but I am interested in other ideas!
    Aaron Parecki
    I decided to try out NextCloud for this, it mostly works, but has some weird things:

    • The new dashboard view is completely useless for this use case
    • It's weird that I'm giving people an entire toolset just to be able to look at photos
    Portland, Oregon, USA • 63°F
    1 like 1 reply
    Wed, Oct 12, 2022 11:25am -07:00
  • M. Brandon Lee | THIS IS TECH TODAY https://twitter.com/thisistechtoday   •   Oct 11
    An updated ZV-1?!!!
    Aaron Parecki
    Looks like they moved the tripod screw out of the way of the battery door finally??
    Portland, Oregon • 50°F
    1 like
    Wed, Oct 12, 2022 6:57am -07:00
  • Michael Andersen https://twitter.com/andersem   •   Oct 12
    Realized at 5:44 that today was the day to get my booster

    Jabbed & out the door by 6:02

    Portlanders, you simply cannot beat LeCare Pharmacy for your vaccine needs
    Aaron Parecki
    Hah! Missed you by 3 hours! I was in and out in about 5 minutes
    Portland, Oregon • 60°F
    6 replies
    Tue, Oct 11, 2022 9:05pm -07:00
  • Randall Degges https://twitter.com/rdegges   •   Oct 12
    This did not age well. For the record: my opinion has wildly changed.
    Aaron Parecki
    Missed opportunity to wait a month and 2 days to tweet this exactly 10 years later
    Portland, Oregon • 60°F
    1 like 1 reply
    Tue, Oct 11, 2022 9:03pm -07:00
  • M. Brandon Lee | THIS IS TECH TODAY https://twitter.com/thisistechtoday   •   Oct 11
    Y'all have 6-minute videos that only take 3-4 hours to edit?!
    Aaron Parecki
    I was gonna say... my current rate is 1 hour work for 1 minute of finished video. I'd be thrilled to spend 3 hours on a 6 minute video much less 1 hour on it!
    Portland, Oregon • 63°F
    1 like
    Mon, Oct 10, 2022 9:42pm -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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