Aaron Parecki

we really jumped from exclusive ownership of human-created digital works (NFT) to cheap and mass-produced algorithmically generated art built on the ruthless consumption (without pay or attribution) of human artists *pretty quickly* there

software that was made before everyone was tracking and optimizing for engagement is better in a way that's hard to describe

A typical European car is parked 92% of the time. It spends 1/5th of its driving time looking for parking. Its 5 seats only move 1.5 people. 86% of its fuel never reaches the wheels, & most of the energy that does, moves the car, not people.

Sound efficient?

HT @circulareconomy

Part of designing systems that scale is recognizing immutable requirements.

Yeah, NO SHIT, ~of course~ cyber security would probably be a lot easier to solve if social engineering wasn't an attack vector.

Guess what? That's not a world that exists. Humans ARE the company.

🚫 Passkeys
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🚫 Apple Passkey
🚫 Microsoft Passkey
🚫 Google Passkey
🚫 Apple passkey
🚫 Microsoft passkey
🚫 Google passkey
✅ a passkey
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(I'm sure I missed one)

The single most expensive phrase in software engineering:

"Maybe we should just build it ourselves instead?"

Overheard at the bar tonight: "do we have any scripts with credentials embedded?" 😭

Ok. tweet thread time! Too long ago I promised to write a screed explaining how much I hated mutual-auth TLS and why. I got distracted, and I wasn't happy with the writing, so here it is in tweet thread form instead! But basically: Client certs and Mutual-Auth TLS is TERRIBAD.