Aaron Parecki

Seeing as we're paving over federal websites left and right, maybe we can finally address the issue of open redirects on .gov websites? This isn't a new issue and it's not going away. But probably we shouldn't see dozens of pages of porn results all getting indexed by search engines by abusing redirects on the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) website, for example:

https://www.google.com/search?q=site:cdc.gov&client=ubuntu-sn&hs=V5N&sca_esv=4986d38ff6c52357&channel=fs&source=lnt&tbs=qdr:d&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjU0c2NnciLAxV6STABHey_JpoQpwV6BAgDEAg&biw=1658&bih=863&dpr=1

@aaronpk They’re lonely and want to see if anyone notices.

@aaronpk Maybe adding to the mystery: my login codes always start with a 4 (yeah, I’m okay making that effectively 7 digits now, whatever), but when they gave me one for signing up with Zelle it was 8 digits with a leading 2. Totally speculative, but I wonder if they assign a leading digit per subsystem.

@aaronpk Are they counting up?

@aaronpk what gets me is they ask for user name and password, then 2fa with the password again.

@aaronpk Email codes always seem to start with 4, maybe it's something to do with the medium they sent it over?

Here's what I sent.

Revisiting my Top Tech Products of 2015
https://blog.lon.tv/2025/02/06/revisiting-my-top-tech-products-of-2015/

I'm looking to delete my Facebook profile at last. In my final message to my contacts on there I'd like to send them to one or two articles about why Facebook isn't just bad from a #privacy perspective, but also why decentralised #fediverse platforms are much better in the long-term. Maybe throw an anti-Musk/corpo message in there too.

Does anyone from those circles (and maybe #indieweb?) have any easy to read and motivating articles for non-geeks to learn more and get active?

@aaronpk true, true

and "podcast" named after two!

@aaronpk Oh my god I have no idea what I did that that stupid Dogecoin

@aaronpk www what?

Is anyone doing „this week in #indieweb” type of newsletter? I’d love to know what is the buzz.

@aaronpk oh interesting. What is your storage and reheating process?

@aaronpk I will have Questions next time I see you.

@aaronpk completely! I actually started making my own yogurt, which is cheaper and tastes better and never seems to go bad. I’m all for knowing what is going into my food.

@aaronpk Ok got it. So what did you spend, ballpark, to replace your Philips Hue bulbs with the Caseta switches?

@aaronpk Would you take 250 for the lot?

@aaronpk Yeah I might be interested. Floods especially I could use more of, and I think the strips could be fun to scatter about. With the standard/floods, are we talking color, ambiance, or just dimmers?

@aaronpk were you not a fan of the Hue switches?