Aaron Parecki

Jeremiah Lee https://twitter.com/JeremiahLee • Jan 28
My earlier point is that everyone needing to buy a domain name is an unreasonable expectation for the vast majority of people.

We pool resources for all sorts of things in meatspace society. Most people do not have a reason to be “every person for themself” digitally.

Sure, and in that case, share a domain with a friend/community you trust. My problem was very specifically with your wording "go get a Mastodon somewhere" for these two similar but unrelated reasons:

https://indieweb.org/own_your_data

https://indieweb.org/plurality

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Tue, Jan 28, 2020 10:25am -08:00
Justin Richer https://twitter.com/justin__richer

One of the hardest things about standards work is that there are just so many great hills to die on.

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Tue, Jan 28, 2020 5:35pm +00:00 (liked on Tue, Jan 28, 2020 9:51am -08:00)
Jeremiah Lee https://twitter.com/JeremiahLee • Jan 28
To parrot back: Do you run your own email server? Unless you're running your own, you don't own your email identity, the server admin does.

I think distributed instances with their own rules are many steps forward from our current centralized position. Better is good.

Nope, email *domain* not email server. My email address is @parecki.com but it's gmail behind it. That means I can swap out gmail for running my own server later and nobody who emails me will ever notice. That's the difference.

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Jeremiah Lee https://twitter.com/JeremiahLee • Jan 28
https://twitter.com/JeremiahLee/status/1222129855258558466

Sure, but I just don't think a blanket "join a mastodon somewhere" statement is really beneficial overall.

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Jeremiah Lee https://twitter.com/JeremiahLee • Jan 28
I am disappointed so many of the people who tweet about #SurveillanceCapitalism and #IndieWeb have not setup a Mastodon account somewhere. It’s federated. It works well. There is Twitter cross-posting to ease the transition. I subscribe to https://librem.one/ .

Unless you're running it on your own domain, you don't own your mastodon identity, the server admin does. Sure it's better than the Twitter monolith, but getting a mastodon account "somewhere" doesn't solve the underlying #indieweb problem.

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Sara 🍑y https://twitter.com/saradietschy

Idk why it always happens this way but somehow all my big videos drop in the same week along with a lot of other stuff and i need to learn how to spread things about better because i'm tired

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Tue, Jan 28, 2020 5:37am +00:00 (liked on Mon, Jan 27, 2020 9:45pm -08:00)
Internet of Shit https://twitter.com/internetofshit

wtf does a coffee machine need internet for? wrong answers only, thx

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Tue, Jan 28, 2020 1:54am +00:00 (liked on Mon, Jan 27, 2020 7:35pm -08:00)
Michael Bishop https://twitter.com/miklb • Jan 27
You might be interested in Overland from @aaronpk https://overland.p3k.app/

Sadly mine requires manual action to start/stop individual trips. It'll passively track *everything*, but not intelligently like Moves used to do.

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Mon, Jan 27, 2020 2:48pm -08:00
Brad Fitzpatrick https://twitter.com/bradfitz • Jan 27
"An update on bradfitz"

After ~12.5 years at Google and ~10 years working on Go, it's time for me to do something new. Tomorrow is my last day at Google. 👋

I'll still be involved with #golang but less, and differently.

More:
https://bradfitz.com/2020/01/27/leaving-google

wow congrats, and what an excellent goodbye post!

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Mon, Jan 27, 2020 9:44am -08:00
Matthias Ott https://twitter.com/m_ott

My article about personal websites is on the front page of @newsycombinator atm and I was brave enough to read the comments. 🙈

Guess what: People are adding links to their sites and #RSS feeds below! 🎉💪🤗 #takebackyourweb
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22156868

Portland, Oregon • 44°F

Mon, Jan 27, 2020 3:27pm +00:00 (liked on Mon, Jan 27, 2020 8:23am -08:00) #RSS #takebackyourweb
Peter Friese 🥑 https://twitter.com/peterfriese

This is a wonderful explanation of OAuth. Go and watch @aaronpk tell you a couple of scary stories how websites handled sign-in just a few years ago, and how OAuth changed all of that for the better.

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Mon, Jan 27, 2020 3:48pm +00:00 (liked on Mon, Jan 27, 2020 7:49am -08:00)
Devon https://twitter.com/devonzuegel

Soon I'll be that crotchety old lady grumbling at the youngins:

"Back in my day, we had Google Reader! And Highly! And Mailbox! We *trusted them*. Don't make the mistakes I made. Trust no one."

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Mon, Jan 27, 2020 2:48pm +00:00 (liked on Mon, Jan 27, 2020 7:04am -08:00)
Heather Downing 🇦🇶🐧🚢 @Antarticonf https://twitter.com/quorralyne • Jan 26
I am creating a new epic coding music playlist on Spotify and I need your suggestions! Songs that really drive you when coding, or inspire when working out. What is a favorite of yours I absolutely HAVE to add?

"Elliptic" by Vessels

"I Remember" by deadmau5

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Evan Prodromou https://twitter.com/evanpro • Jan 26
I think the math is harder to justify for this trip. I usually plan a full travel day for a flight from Montreal to SF, but this is a 3-day trip by train. I really wanted to take this trip, though.

Yeah trains are super fun! I'd love to do a long one like that some time. Maybe next time I go to Montreal!

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Evan Prodromou https://twitter.com/evanpro • Jan 26
I think air travel replacement makes a lot more sense for a regional trip like that, too. For a 90-minute flight from PDX to YYV, you have to add 4 or more hours door-to-door for getting to and from the airport, security, check-in, etc.

eh I fly so much I show up at the airport a few minutes before boarding and it's fine with precheck and such. But it's true in the end it still takes about 4-6 hours total for the 1-hour flight.

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Dave Maze https://twitter.com/davemaze • Jan 26
no, i will always punctuate properly. spelling has to be accurate too. it’s only capitalization that is gone.

but wait there are plenty of valid cases for dropping punctuation for stylistic purposes too

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Evan Prodromou https://twitter.com/evanpro • Jan 25
I'm taking the trip from Montreal to San Francisco by train this weekend. It's been amazing; beautiful scenery, nice people, and I've had several stops for meals along the way. Best of all, I saved more than a tonne of CO2. #TrainsNotPlanes

Okay this may have convinced me to take the much shorter 8 hour train from Portland to Vancouver for the next IETF meeting

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Sat, Jan 25, 2020 9:39pm -08:00
Max Hawkins https://twitter.com/maxhawkins

In an attempt to sway the algorithm, I just configured my Twitter to mute everyone I'm following and only unmute 15 random followers each day.

Do any of you do unusual things to give yourself more control over algorithmic feeds?

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Sun, Jan 26, 2020 5:22am +00:00 (liked on Sat, Jan 25, 2020 9:36pm -08:00)
Gary https://twitter.com/every_daydad

Thanks everyone for showing up to the stream. Sorry about all the chat issues with twitter/periscope.

We'll cancel any future streams here on twitter and next week we'll do the show from TEDD Live.

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Sun, Jan 26, 2020 2:48am +00:00 (liked on Sat, Jan 25, 2020 7:04pm -08:00)
Whoa Chris https://twitter.com/Whoa_Chris • Jan 26
DUde, seriously, I can't get chat to work. I can't do live streams on YT if I can't chat.

Yeah there's no chat on the website as far as I can tell. I only see it in the twitter app. but also it disappears real quick so it's pretty frustrating compared to youtube streams!

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