Aaron Parecki

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Jᵾlien Genestoux https://twitter.com/julien51 • Jan 9
What monoculture are you referring to? As someone who's part of that ecosystem, i can guarantee it's a lot more diverse than the orders of magnitude larger than the indieweb one for example...

Are there more than one implementation of the e*t*h protocol? As far as I can tell everyone participating in the network is expected to run the same source code.

Portland, Oregon • 40°F

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Sun, Jan 9, 2022 9:43am -08:00
Ryan Barrett https://snarfed.org/

Happy 10th Birthday, Bridgy!

Portland, Oregon • 35°F

Sat, Jan 8, 2022 10:44pm -08:00 (liked on Sun, Jan 9, 2022 7:30am -08:00)
Kevin Marks https://twitter.com/kevinmarks

Not sure that sounds like a great protocol for patching exploit bugs. "I'm sorry, we can't patch log4j until the votes are counted"
It's also not what happens in practice in cryptocurrency circles either. See the 2013 bitcoin accidental fork, for example.

Portland, Oregon • 35°F

Sun, Jan 9, 2022 2:20pm +00:00 (liked on Sun, Jan 9, 2022 7:28am -08:00)
Anil Dash https://twitter.com/anildash • Jan 9
This is one of the most important aspects of Web 2.0 that web3 advocates have tried to retcon. That generation also started with optimistic creators talking about decentralized, user-owned, open protocols (open standards, even!) that would empower people. Guess how it played out.

It's almost like the technology isn't the problem ... 🤔🤯

Portland, Oregon • 37°F

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Sat, Jan 8, 2022 10:37pm -08:00
Anil Dash https://twitter.com/anildash

This is one of the most important aspects of Web 2.0 that web3 advocates have tried to retcon. That generation also started with optimistic creators talking about decentralized, user-owned, open protocols (open standards, even!) that would empower people. Guess how it played out.

Portland, Oregon • 37°F

Sun, Jan 9, 2022 5:36am +00:00 (liked on Sat, Jan 8, 2022 10:36pm -08:00)
alex hern https://twitter.com/alexhern

One of the smaller things that grates about the crypto push is its boosters just unilaterally redefining “web 2.0” to mean “the big platforms like Facebook and Google”. It didn’t mean that! It meant “Ajax websites that don’t need to be refreshed every time the content changes”!

Portland, Oregon • 37°F

Sat, Jan 8, 2022 1:47pm +00:00 (liked on Sat, Jan 8, 2022 10:35pm -08:00)
Keith Bennett https://twitter.com/keith51032020 • Jan 8
@aaronpk have you seen this new Roland switcher? https://youtu.be/iGqkfGhi8XU

Yeah! Looks like a cute setup! I hope to get my hands on one when they are out!

Portland, Oregon, USA • 40°F

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Sat, Jan 8, 2022 6:59pm -08:00
Matt Mullenweg https://twitter.com/photomatt

People seem to be redefining Web 2.0 as Facebook, etc, that own data, but Web 2.0 at the time was platforms like WordPress, Odeo, Six Apart, Flickr, Technorati, and http://del.icio.us that had open data and interoperated. https://www.flickr.com/photos/ross/49490304 https://twitter.com/brian_armstrong/status/1479636522282455042

Portland, Oregon • 40°F

Sun, Jan 9, 2022 2:10am +00:00 (liked on Sat, Jan 8, 2022 6:58pm -08:00)
tim cappalli https://twitter.com/timcappalli • Jan 8
not sure there's a difference is there? Double standards my friend.

I mean I was never defending Apple in this conversation...

Portland, Oregon • 39°F

Fri, Jan 7, 2022 10:08pm -08:00
Robert Harvey https://twitter.com/rsharvey • Jan 8
@aaronpk Hi! First of all thanks for the live streams. Great learning how things work even when the don't and you figure it out live. I love your website. What are you using to run it? Dumb no tech question.

Thanks! aaronpk.tv is a giant pile of ugly PHP and HTML! Nothing fancy!

Portland, Oregon • 41°F

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Fri, Jan 7, 2022 7:36pm -08:00
tim cappalli https://twitter.com/timcappalli • Jan 8
how do I change the browser engine to one of my choice on iOS?

😇

well that was very specifically worded 😉

Portland, Oregon • 41°F

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Fri, Jan 7, 2022 7:34pm -08:00
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)

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