Aaron Parecki

Cyber Yuki https://hackers.town/@yuki2501 • Mar 6
@aaronpk Nice. 👍
Can I get a link to the wallpaper, if you don't mind?

It's a photo I took in Tokyo last year! https://aaronparecki.com/2023/03/22/45/tokyo

Portland, Oregon • 43°F

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Sam (Satyajit) Grover https://xoxo.zone/@sam • Mar 6
@aaronpk That's really nice!

Thanks! It's only a *little* bit staged

Portland, Oregon • 41°F

Wed, Mar 6, 2024 11:02am -08:00
Eric Likness https://mastodon.online/@carpetbomberz • Mar 3
@aaronpk It's not easy. I know the best I ever could do back in 2006 was screwing around with SketchUp! where I could get a "design", layout and have it match the dimension and scale of the actual physical addition. It's hard.

The frustrating thing is I can make a model really quickly in Shapr3D now, but then doing the textures and rendering is a whole separate beast

Portland, Oregon • 37°F

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Sat, Mar 2, 2024 6:32pm -08:00
Nils https://coolworld.cc/@n • Mar 3
@aaronpk For Unreal/Blender there is a nice tutorial on how to get that 'archviz' look, but it doesn't exactly start on square one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2e6qQaIdRA

Yeah that's the problem I'm finding, there's just a lot to it!

Portland, Oregon • 37°F

Sat, Mar 2, 2024 6:31pm -08:00
Eric Likness https://mastodon.online/@carpetbomberz • Mar 2
@aaronpk I'm good with compartmentalizing 5/2 split. Less Efficiency, its part of being human. But I also work from work 4 out of the 5. No advantage to sticking around after everyone leaves for the day.

I think it's very different when you go in to a place and work with people. So much of my job is quiet writing by myself these days, so it takes a bit to spin back up in to writing mode.

Portland, Oregon • 41°F

Fri, Mar 1, 2024 6:14pm -08:00
James Milot https://mastodon.social/@LeftToPonder • Mar 2
@aaronpk
The 0/0 I've been enjoying this past decade has proved optimal. Only problem is I'm geezerly AF.

I mean yeah that is the ideal state but I have a huge mortgage now 🙃

Portland, Oregon • 43°F

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Fri, Mar 1, 2024 4:37pm -08:00
https://bsky.app/profile/demon.ooo/post/3kmm2qnvi2y2t

Well I don't use Mastodon, and I really only use the BlueSky API. All my posts you see on both actually originate from my website. tbh I haven't been spending much time on any of this kind of public social media lately

Portland, Oregon, USA • 38°F

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Thu, Feb 29, 2024 6:34pm -08:00
Marty McGuire https://martymcgui.re/ • Feb 29
Thanks to capjamesg and Jeremy Cherfas in the IndieWeb chat for the nudge to post something on Leap Day because - have I ever made a Leap Day post?

I just had to check and I haven't posted much on leap days either! It's also a weird trip down memory lane to look at my site archives in 4-year chunks!

Portland, Oregon • 42°F

Thu, Feb 29, 2024 1:37pm -08:00
Anthony Sorace https://pdx.social/@a • Feb 27
@aaronpk Neat! Are you running the stock firmware?

Yep, I didn't even know there was alternative firmware!

Portland, Oregon • 48°F

Wed, Feb 28, 2024 10:05am -08:00
Molly White https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff • Feb 19
@kvnweb 💀

whoops, I just turned on some extra caching on https://indieweb.org so let's see if that helps for next time!

Portland, Oregon, USA

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Mon, Feb 19, 2024 3:58pm -08:00
Joël Franusic https://mastodon.social/@jpf • Feb 19
@aaronpk those poor souls are earning their wages, let me tell you. Each sheet of ⅝” weighs about 74 pounds.

we got 12-foot long ones too, I tried to move one at one point to get behind it and I noped out of that real quick!

Portland, Oregon • 44°F

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Mon, Feb 19, 2024 1:43pm -08:00
Joël Franusic https://mastodon.social/@jpf • Feb 19
@aaronpk two‽ For fire safety / building code I assume? How did you attach them? Long drywall screws?

yeah part of the fire safety. I didn't personally hang the drywall thankfully, the drywall crew has been here for the last 2 weeks. But yeah they have longer screws for those parts.

Portland, Oregon • 44°F

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Mon, Feb 19, 2024 1:36pm -08:00
Joël Franusic https://mastodon.social/@jpf • Feb 19
Installing ⅚” drywall is way more annoying than ½”!

we had to do two layers of drywall on all the walls and ceiling between the units 😮

Portland, Oregon • 44°F

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Mon, Feb 19, 2024 1:31pm -08:00
Joël Franusic https://mastodon.social/@jpf • Feb 19
@aaronpk do you follow @Srl295 on Mastodon yet? I’ve learned basically everything that I know about Unicode from him

followed!

Portland, Oregon • 44°F

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Mon, Feb 19, 2024 1:29pm -08:00
Charlie https://indieweb.social/@whalecoiner • Feb 12
Another exciting evening in Chez Charlie as I connect a Pi, newly-equipped with a Waveshare POE hat, to a POE switch for the first time.
This setup will be extended to power a lot of smart devices in the new apartment.
When it’s finished.
Which will be sometime… in the future.
#HomeAutomation #RaspberryPi

cool, I was considering this for some things but I was worried about how loud that fan on the hat is. Is it audible? I normally run my Pis with a solid heat sink and no fan.

Portland, Oregon, USA • 51°F

Mon, Feb 12, 2024 4:46pm -08:00
Eric Likness https://mastodon.online/@carpetbomberz • Feb 8
@aaronpk To which one can only reply,... OOOOoooF! $35 a visit. harsh.

If I add any more trips, the marginal cost will go down, but it hurts to see that I fall into this category now 😅

Portland, Oregon • 43°F

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Wed, Feb 7, 2024 7:13pm -08:00
Aaron Parecki https://aaronparecki.com/ • Feb 7
I'm planning out my travel for the year, and now that Brisbane is scratched, I'm barely going to hit Alaska MVP Gold. And if I buy the annual lounge pass, even with the signup bonus discount, it will work out to about $35 per visit.

I am simultaneously disappointed and relieved that I no longer fall into the category of top tier frequent flyers.

Portland, Oregon, USA • 43°F

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Wed, Feb 7, 2024 7:03pm -08:00
starrwulfe https://micro.blog/starrwulfe • Jan 15
@aaronpk I remember doing a science experiement in elementary school involving several 2 liter bottles of generic cola from the local store and a very cold day (I think it was 22ºF/-6ºC?) doing exactly this in our schoolyard. Very fun, and very cold.

Is there something special about cola that makes it work??

Portland, Oregon • 26°F

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Mon, Jan 15, 2024 1:55pm -08:00
Aaron Parecki https://aaronparecki.com/ • Jan 14
correct. More details here: https://indieweb.org/How_is_IndieAuth_different_from_OpenID_Connect

It's also about to get a lot more confusing since there's a lot of Verifiable Credentials work being done in the OpenID Connect name too.

Technically, if you squint hard enough, you can make the OpenID Connect spec today work like OpenID 1. But in practice nobody does that, and it's not like any current OIDC implementation would magically be interoperable with something that works that way.

Portland, Oregon • 20°F

Sun, Jan 14, 2024 5:50pm -08:00
Simon Willison https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon • Jan 14
OpenID Connect, aka OIDC, has basically nothing to do with the original OpenID protocol beyond the name, right?
(It's taken me nearly a decade to figure that out)

correct. More details here: https://indieweb.org/How_is_IndieAuth_different_from_OpenID_Connect

It's also about to get a lot more confusing since there's a lot of Verifiable Credentials work being done in the OpenID Connect name too.

Portland, Oregon • 20°F

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Sun, Jan 14, 2024 5:46pm -08:00

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