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Aaron Parecki

  • Nelson Minar https://tech.lgbt/@nelson   •   Nov 30

    @aaronpk does the website still limit you to eight character passwords? When I asked they told me it was for security

    Aaron Parecki
    oh gosh, no thankfully i have a long random password for it
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  • Christine Lemmer-Webber https://octodon.social/@cwebber   •   Nov 29

    @erincandescent And also completely in alignment, unshockingly, with Erin that "I thought we were going to work on exactly these kinds of problems in the Social Web Working Group but instead we focused on dodging bullets as two camps sniped at each other"

    And actually a correction: there were *three camps* in the group: the linked data, activitypub, and indieweb people, and two of three of those (activitypub and linked data) hit convergence but I think the indieweb and linked data sniping is just too embedded for ridiculous personal grudge reasons, cough tantek vs timbl cough). Gosh. That was unnecessary hell. Don't do another SocialWG, anyone who wants to re-charter. Do an ActivityPubWG and focus on solving the problems we have, stay focused.

    The Indieweb vs Linked Data sniping things is one of the worst, most absurd fights in the entire standards space. Waste of time, energy, and years of peoples' lives. Certainly took a few off mine.

    Aaron Parecki
    I remember it slightly differently, I don't know that I would call it "convergence". There's no ActivityPub support in Solid or Inrupt for example. More like the Linked Data crowd really wanted to get LD into ActivityPub, which they eventually got for some reason.

    There was also quite a lot of pushback from early ActivityPub implementers against the LD part of the spec. I still maintain the LD part has no value to ActivityPub and it would be better as plain JSON. I'm also 99% sure most implementations ignore the LD part too.
    Portland, Oregon, USA • 39°F
  • Lee Zavitz https://twitter.com/ZavitzLee   •   Nov 29
    When mine got hacked couple years ago I wanted to change it. But I was worried about messing up Adsense and other things so I left it. All I did was change the email that brands contact me from instead.
    Aaron Parecki
    oh god was that years ago already?
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  • Dave - Post. Color. Gear. https://twitter.com/PostColorGear   •   Nov 29
    Has anyone successfully moved their YouTube account to another email? I know that you can have other accounts "manage" your account, but I really just want to get rid of the initial email account altogether.

    I've always read this isn't possible. Still true?
    Aaron Parecki
    I don't think google has their identity strategy coherent enough for even them to do it if you were able to call them on the phone and ask them to change your email 😅
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  • Chloe Condon https://twitter.com/ChloeCondon   •   Nov 29
    Love to catch up with old friends!! ❤️ It's so beautiful how technology connects us all!!! 💌🙏
    Aaron Parecki
    Are you serious?? This is legend 🤣

    brb taking notes for next time I get a text like this
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  • Josh Shephard https://twitter.com/TheJoshShephard   •   Nov 29
    I appreciate it! Also I can understand. Just thought to ask just in case.

    Also I'm still getting used to GitHub, so I often don't know what to look for. So I'll give it another look!

    I definitely wanna try developing more if possible!

    Thanks for everything!
    Aaron Parecki
    Just click the "Download Zip" and save it somewhere, then you can poke around the youtube.css file all you want!
    Portland, Oregon, USA • 37°F
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  • Josh Shephard https://twitter.com/TheJoshShephard   •   Nov 29
    @aaronpk with regards to the YouTube Chat Overlay plugin. Is there any possible way to get greater customization?

    I was hoping to potentially mod the animation, style and graphics at a future date potentially.

    Like being able to use After Effects with some HTML, CSS, and JS
    Aaron Parecki
    I'm not planning on adding a UI to customize things that much, but the whole thing is open source and you can dig into the CSS yourself! There's instructions here for how to load your copy of it outside the Chrome store.

    https://github.com/aaronpk/live-chat-overlay
    Portland, Oregon, USA • 37°F
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  • Aaron Parecki https://aaronparecki.com/   •   Nov 27
    I will also likely regret wading in on this, but:

    1: Using robots.txt requires also fetching robots.txt first, so that only marginally reduces the total number of requests.

    2: Caching and CDNs are already a well-established pattern on the web, and necessary for a lot of things that have nothing to do with Mastodon/fediverse. Solving that problem other ways will likely create new problems, so at least that falls back on existing solutions that are known to work.
    Aaron Parecki
    but also, I'm reading back up this thread... come on everyone, be nice! We are all on the same side!
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  • Scott Hanselman :verified:👸🏽🐝🌮 https://hachyderm.io/@shanselman   •   Nov 28

    @gme @crschmidt @tw @cshabsin @jefftk I will likely regret wading in here but this is a rather bizarre thread. Spec or not, it’s poor design. It’s irresponsible. It’s messy. It’s resource intensive. To say “put a CDN on it” doesn’t change the waste - it hides the bug/implementation and shifts the responsibility. @jwz and friends are correct to bring attention to it. Don’t bury it. Fix it. @Gargron

    Aaron Parecki
    I will also likely regret wading in on this, but:

    1: Using robots.txt requires also fetching robots.txt first, so that only marginally reduces the total number of requests.

    2: Caching and CDNs are already a well-established pattern on the web, and necessary for a lot of things that have nothing to do with Mastodon/fediverse. Solving that problem other ways will likely create new problems, so at least that falls back on existing solutions that are known to work.
    Portland, Oregon • 41°F
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  • Scott Hanselman :verified:👸🏽🐝🌮 https://hachyderm.io/@shanselman   •   Nov 27

    Getting a plane to Europe tomorrow. I have full seasons of a half-dozen shows, a Retroid with retro games, a Nintendo Switch, and work and email to do. I will likely do none of it and simply fall asleep. I do this EVERY time and I NEVER learn.

    Aaron Parecki
    haha same 😅 I have done this so many times
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  • sonicrocketman https://pine.blog/u/sonicrocketman   •   Nov 27

    Just searched the App Store for my own app by name and the app appeared nowhere in the results. Thanks Apple.

    Aaron Parecki
    I keep telling people about the apps "Shoot" and "LiveApp" which are basically impossible to search for in the app store 😅
    Portland, Oregon, USA • 44°F
  • Aaron Parecki https://aaronparecki.com/   •   Nov 24
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    Aaron Parecki
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  • Gabe Kangas https://social.gabekangas.com/users/gabek   •   Nov 25
    @aaronpk Oh I don't mean the specifics of the spec, just that the concept of it never took off and I've never heard of anybody really having a problem with how things are now.
    Aaron Parecki
    Yeah I guess I just mean that part of the spec didn't offer Mastodon any real benefits over what it already had, whereas the S2S part offered the ability to do private/friends-only accounts which OStatus never had a good solution for. At this point it might make more sense to try to formalize the Mastodon API as a standard.
    Portland, Oregon, USA • 37°F
  • Gabe Kangas https://social.gabekangas.com/users/gabek   •   Nov 24
    It was a mistake that ActivityPub Client-to-Server never took off and I think we'll pay for it one day.

    Right now one person calls the shots for the client APIs of multiple projects because all the projects want to be compatible with the biggest server implementation. This feels wrong, but I don't know what the solution is at this point.
    Aaron Parecki
    Frankly I don't think that part of the spec was well thought out, and I also disagree with the fundamentals of how it works. I suspect it didn't take off because other people feel the same.

    The fact that Mastodon dictates the default posting API isn't good, but also isn't surprising, and it's definitely something I would like to see change! I'm pretty sure the reason that happened was because people were already writing Mastodon clients before Mastodon adopted ActivityPub in the first place.
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  • Aaron Parecki https://aaronparecki.com/   •   Nov 23
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    Aaron Parecki
    Just announced! 20% off a year of the Pro or Premium subscription of a very cool remote control countdown timer!

    Code: BLACKFRIDAY2022

    https://stagetimer.io
    Portland, Oregon, USA • 48°F
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  • Basil https://sarcasm.stream/@basil   •   Nov 24

    @aaronpk it's a bit of an oddity in England. There are *very* few places you are allowed to fly, and you aren't allowed to fly in public spaces at all without a license. So to build up your practice hours to get a license is an exercise in law breaking 😅

    Aaron Parecki
    Interesting, that's not what I read last month when I went to London. I was able to take the test online to get my Operator ID, then it was just a matter of finding an area that didn't have local restrictions (some parks, central London, etc)

    https://www.caa.co.uk/consumers/remotely-piloted-aircraft/drones-flying-in-the-open-category/
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  • Aaron Parecki
    Oh yeah, a classic 💯
    Portland, Oregon • 43°F
  • Clifton B 💉💉💉🪀🎮 https://twitter.com/CliftonB   •   Nov 24
    What's dangerous is that I've been thinking about finishing up my video rig, combined with the fact that I can technically afford to right now. I just know that I can't justify the cost without some more projects planned, or at least a gig or two.
    Aaron Parecki
    gotta spend money to make money, right? 😇
    Portland, Oregon • 43°F
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  • Aaron Parecki https://aaronparecki.com/   •   Nov 23
    Good timing, I just got this email from @obra!

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    Aaron Parecki
    and there's more! My favorite Teleprompter app that I use for all my videos is doing 75% off on Friday! Sign up here to get notified:

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    Portland, Oregon, USA • 43°F
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  • Aaron Parecki https://aaronparecki.com/   •   Nov 23
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    Aaron Parecki
    Good timing, I just got this email from @obra!

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    Portland, Oregon, USA • 43°F
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