Aaron Parecki

Vittorio https://twitter.com/vibronet • Jan 8
Setting up Chrome as the default browser on Windows 11 is ridiculous. Not only it throws THREE dialogs during the process, I had to manually switch TEN dropdowns 1 by 1. Tasteless bordering unethical, likely insurmountable for non tech savvy users.
❤️ my surface, don’t love this.

Big yikes. Didn't they learn anything from, I dunno, a certain antitrust case a while back?

Portland, Oregon • 41°F

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Fri, Jan 7, 2022 6:36pm -08:00
I think this is the first time the "elevator" on a plane has made sense to me!

Too bad it has nothing to do with the quadcopters I want to fly but I need to learn it for the test anyway 😅

Portland, Oregon, USA • 42°F

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Fri, Jan 7, 2022 5:04pm -08:00 #drone #pilotinstitute
It's okay nobody really knows how maps work anyway https://twitter.com/lavenderashtray/status/1479285712641875968

Portland, Oregon, USA • 50°F

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Thu, Jan 6, 2022 10:30pm -08:00 #covid
melatonin https://twitter.com/lavenderashtray

lol the us covid bubble is so big it's being distorted by the map projection and wrapping around the arctic ?

Portland, Oregon • 50°F

Fri, Jan 7, 2022 2:56am +00:00 (liked on Thu, Jan 6, 2022 10:28pm -08:00)
Rick Turoczy https://twitter.com/turoczy

If you’re in one of those newfangled four day work week setups for the new year, this is your reminder that this is your Friday

Portland, Oregon • 50°F

Fri, Jan 7, 2022 6:15am +00:00 (liked on Thu, Jan 6, 2022 10:27pm -08:00)
christina https://twitter.com/cszhu

oh you have a weighted blanket? haha that's cute, I sleep with the crushing weight of all the shitty code I wrote years ago still running in production

Portland, Oregon • 50°F

Wed, Jan 5, 2022 5:49pm +00:00 (liked on Thu, Jan 6, 2022 10:26pm -08:00)
Reuters Pitchbot https://twitter.com/ReutersPitchbot

LATEST: Hyperloop trial successfully transports vehicles across vast expanses of time in short distance

Portland, Oregon • 51°F

Fri, Jan 7, 2022 12:43am +00:00 (liked on Thu, Jan 6, 2022 5:19pm -08:00)
Redesign BD 🌳🚲🌳 🚶🌳 https://twitter.com/RedesignBD

"Imagine a train where every car had to be individually piloted, and if any one pilot fucks up then everyone dies" - Reddit

Yikes

Portland, Oregon • 51°F

Thu, Jan 6, 2022 6:12pm +00:00 (liked on Thu, Jan 6, 2022 5:18pm -08:00)
circe moskowitz https://twitter.com/circemoskowitz

i am sad every time i'm forced to confront the fact that "vermillion" is a shade of red and not a shade of green. wish it was green tho. just feels like a green word. no i won't explain

Portland, Oregon • 51°F

Thu, Jan 6, 2022 8:18pm +00:00 (liked on Thu, Jan 6, 2022 5:17pm -08:00)
software you've purchased that auto-updates to a new version and makes you buy a new license is worse than software that is just a straight subscription model, just saying

Portland, Oregon, USA • 53°F

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Thu, Jan 6, 2022 2:45pm -08:00 #software
Chris Vermilion https://twitter.com/ChrisVermilion

it’s true, I used to have to use Google to find questionable information about a given topic but now I can just tweet about it and as long as I put “crypto” in it someone will come help

Portland, Oregon • 53°F

Thu, Jan 6, 2022 3:40am +00:00 (liked on Thu, Jan 6, 2022 11:37am -08:00)
Kelsey Hightower https://twitter.com/kelseyhightower

No one was, or is, waving centralization flags. The only thing happening right now is the people waving decentralization flags are accusing everyone else who doesn't care or support their movement to be on the opposing side.

Portland, Oregon • 53°F

Thu, Jan 6, 2022 3:09am +00:00 (liked on Thu, Jan 6, 2022 11:36am -08:00)
My Top 10 Video Gear Purchases I'm Bringing into 2022

In this video I share my top 10 purchases of video gear I made over the course of last year. These products range everywhere from $10 to $1500, so there should be a little something in here for everyone!
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Thu, Jan 6, 2022 6:46am -08:00
Andy Budd https://twitter.com/andybudd

A typical website visit in 2022

1. Figure out how to decline all but essential cookies
2. Close the support widget asking if I need help
3. Stop the auto-playing video
4. Close the “subscribe to our newsletter” pop-up
5. Try and remember why I came here in the first place

Portland, Oregon • 41°F

Sun, Jan 2, 2022 1:35pm +00:00 (liked on Wed, Jan 5, 2022 8:39am -08:00)
Tall Eddy, MD https://twitter.com/TallDoctorEddy

How the US is handling COVID

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Portland, Oregon • 41°F

Tue, Jan 4, 2022 4:08pm +00:00 (liked on Wed, Jan 5, 2022 8:39am -08:00)
👉😎👉 Jay Phelps https://twitter.com/_jayphelps • Jan 5
Hopefully so! I wouldn’t personally bet that the devs of every TV app correctly expire these codes within a short time frame 😅 I’ve seen far worse security gaffes, I’m sure you have too.

Fair! Thankfully these codes come from the authorization server rather than the app, so unless you're also building our own AS there's less of a chance of messing that one up! Your comment about the QR code is spot on tho! That's an optimization the app dev can do for better UX

Portland, Oregon • 41°F

Wed, Jan 5, 2022 6:04am -08:00
👉😎👉 Jay Phelps https://twitter.com/_jayphelps • Jan 5
I thought the exact same thing but was too lazy to get my laptop out so I could scan the pictures with my phone to check if they indeed contain the unique code too or just the same generic URL 😂 in case it wasn’t obvious they’re not my screenshots. Hopefully the codes expire.

They do! They also don't (can't) contain any identifying information at this stage in the flow. The only risk in sharing these screenshots is if you share them within like 10 minutes of seeing it, and then the "attacker" can log in their account to your TV so 🤷‍♂️

Portland, Oregon • 42°F

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Tue, Jan 4, 2022 10:10pm -08:00
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If someone has said something stupid enough to make me want to explain that to them, I block them, because the chance that this person will ever say something I want to hear is... not large.

But, maybe some day Mr. Firstname Bunchanumbers dot Eth and I woulda been pals. My loss!

Portland, Oregon • 42°F

Wed, Jan 5, 2022 6:00am +00:00 (liked on Tue, Jan 4, 2022 10:07pm -08:00)
⑆Luke Stein⑈ https://twitter.com/lukestein

Learning this stuff has involved help and advice from friends including @heretorecord, @aaronpk, and @thomas_cantrell. Thank you! 🙏

Portland, Oregon • 41°F

Tue, Jan 4, 2022 7:32pm +00:00 (liked on Tue, Jan 4, 2022 10:06pm -08:00)
👉😎👉 Jay Phelps https://twitter.com/_jayphelps • Jan 4
PSA to all TV app developers: when a user first signs-in please add a QR code that contains the “sign-in through your browser” URL along with the unique code as a query parameter.

It will delight your users who have a phone that supports it (most do now)

Examples 👇

I'm very curious why the code but not the QR is obfuscated in the first one, but the QR and not the code is obfuscated in the second one... they contain the same data! But yes this is a good UX improvement on top of the OAuth device flow 👍

Portland, Oregon • 41°F

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Tue, Jan 4, 2022 10:05pm -08:00

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My Top 10 Video Gear Purchases I'm Bringing into 2022