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danyork

@danyork@mastodon.social

I look for patterns. I connect dots. I share what I see.

Working for a bigger, stronger open #Internet for everyone. Writes on #InternetAccess, #DNS, #AI, #WordPress, futures. Focused on Low Earth Orbit (#LEO) satellites at Internet Society.

#Wikipedia editor. Volunteer with #Rotary, #ITDRC, #IETF.

Speaker, author, podcaster, livestreamer.

Been online since 1980s - still remember USENET and UUCP. Lives in #Vermont. Spricht Deutsch et un peu de franรงais. Enjoys #curling.

#tfr

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danyork, to random
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I no longer feel so bad about having a couple hundred tabs openโ€ฆ. ๐Ÿ˜ƒ

From: @davidbisset
https://phpc.social/@davidbisset/112384612154510374

olaf, to random
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I bought an assortment of resistors. It has 25 pieces of 0 Ohm.

Why and where, my kind fediferse friends, would one use those?

danyork,
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@olaf Well, donโ€™t use them if you are trying to build a weapon to attack Star Trekโ€™s Borg, because as they sayโ€ฆ. โ€œResistance is futile!โ€ ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿค“

molly0xfff, to web
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If you've ever found yourself missing the "good old days" of the , what is it that you miss? (Interpret "it" broadly: specific websites? types of activities? feelings? etc.) And approximately when were those good old days?

No wrong answers โ€” I'm working on an article and wanted to get some outside thoughts.

danyork,
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@molly0xfff
I miss:

1 - the early 1990s when "the World Wide Web" was just one of many different possible systems for sharing content (others being gopher, hytelnet, etc) - and we were all trying to figure out what this "Web" was all about.

2 - that same time period when you could create a basic website using vi or emacs without any special knowledge

3 - the early to mid-2000s when we had blogs and were commenting on each other's individual sites, with discussions flowing back and forth.

kcarruthers, to random
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The good folks I liked from twitter are pretty evenly split between blue sky and mastodon. A tiny handful are on threads and I never see them anymore. Some are still on twitter and that is just sad.

danyork,
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@kcarruthers I have been surprised by some of the folks that have just stayed on X. And yes, I find it sad.

ricmac, to random
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Iโ€™ve been doing some digging on ClickOut Media, the gambling/crypto business that recently acquired ReadWrite. Its head office is in Malta and its founders have no presence on the web (that I have yet found). I discovered their names though, and there has been some reporting in Reuters about dodgy dealingsโ€ฆ this via a LinkedIn post from the reporter 5 months ago. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rachelwolcott_finixio-owners-also-own-clickout-activity-7133061394433744898-4PzV

danyork,
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@ricmac Glad you are on the trail!

danyork, to random
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AVFTCN 035 โ€“ 3 Articles To Read On Earth Day

Today is Earth Day... and when I climb up into that crowโ€™s nest, hold up my spyglass, and look out at the horizonโ€ฆ it can look pretty bleak. It seems like the whole world is on fire in different ways. But amidst the chaosโ€ฆ what gives me hope is seeing people taking action. And they are! Today I offer you three articles to hopefully provoke some thoughts on this day: one by me and two by others.

http://crowsnest.danyork.com/2024/04/22/avftcn-035-3-articles-to-read-on-earth-day/

danyork, to Wikipedia
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20 years ago today, I made my first edit to ! ๐ŸŽ‰

So I wrote a little bit about that: https://www.danyork.com/2024/04/celebrating-20-years-as-a-wikipedia-editor.html

danyork, to TaylorSwift
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Just a note for any parents who may be as culturally clueless as I apparently amโ€ฆ a global mega-superstar released her latest album this morning, and it is a BigDeal for some demographics. ๐Ÿ˜€

danyork, to space
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The degree to which SpaceX has fundamentally changed the space launch industry ๐Ÿš€ is truly amazing. As Ars Technica notes "this was the sixth Falcon 9 launch in less than eight days, more flights than SpaceX's main US rival, United Launch Alliance, has launched in 17 months."

https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/04/spacexs-most-flown-reusable-rocket-will-go-for-its-20th-launch-tonight/

danyork,
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@breakpoint Yes, exactly. They have totally transformed the pricing of the launch market, too.

danyork, to wordle
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Wordle 1,035 1/6

๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ

๐ŸŽ‰FINALLY! ๐ŸŽ‰ After almost 2 years (since July 2022) of using the same starter word, it finally was the word of the day! My first and only first-guess win.

(The side effect is that now I need a new starter word! ๐Ÿ˜ƒ)

DrakulDragon, to astrophotography
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Having never photographed a I had no idea what I was doing and rolled with it in the moment. Iโ€™m pretty happy with the final product, it turned out better than I expected! Definitely a wild experience ๐ŸŒ‘โ˜€๏ธ

danyork,
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@DrakulDragon Wow! That is amazing! Great work!

gabek, to random

I noticed the company who wanted to add their service directly into Owncast, and I said no, started releasing their own version of Owncast with their own changes in it to support this use case.

I'm not sure how to feel about this. It's kind of a fork, but it's really just another release of Owncast by somebody else. They're releasing something called Owncast with functionality and decisions that have nothing to do with the real Owncast. It specifically says stuff like "Owncast does X", and Owncast does not do X, and will never do X. Only their changes do X.

I fear this may confuse people. If something goes wrong with their version of the software, people are going to ask me for support, and might make the real Owncast look bad. But I don't know if this is wrong, or if this is completely acceptable. It's open source, and the name "Owncast" isn't owned by anybody, as Owncast is an open source project, not a company. So I guess they have the right to do whatever they want and call it Owncast.

But it feels wrong, and it seems like really bad things could come of this.

danyork,
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@gabek @lukem I think you will unfortunately need to register the trademark (probably before the other company tries to register it). And even if you take it out yourself right now, you could always transfer it to a nonprofit or some other entity later. Unfortunately defensive registration seems to be the way you unfortunately have to go.

danyork,
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@gabek @lukem In some cases, a nonprofit will be set up specifically to hold the trademarks, or that will be part of what it does. For instance, the Apache Software Foundation holds trademarks for its various open source projects: https://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/list/

The Linux Foundation holds a range, too: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/legal/trademarks

I have seen other projects where a specific nonprofit was set up only for that project, but I canโ€™t find an example right now.

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danyork,
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@gabek @lukem So you could, for instance, set up an โ€œOwncast Foundationโ€ that is a nonprofit and exists to hold the trademark on โ€œOwncastโ€ (and any others that make sense). If it became a charitable entity (ex. A 501(c)(3) in the USA), it could also be a way for people to make donations to your work.

It would take some effort to set up, but this could be one path to go.

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danyork,
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@gabek @lukem Another approach is finding a nonprofit who might be the owner of the trademark on your behalf (but that means finding someone like the examples I mentioned earlier).

danyork, to wordpress
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WordPress 6.5 looks like it has some nice additions. If you have updated already, what do you like most in the new release?

https://wordpress.org/download/releases/6-5/

danyork, to random
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We have high wind alerts and as I watch the trees blow outside my windows... I'm also thinking about how many old trees we have around... and about how all our power lines are above ground on poles.

So if I'm not online later... there's a reason... ๐Ÿ™‚

danyork,
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@Schouten_B @timoj To be fair, in many newer developments in Vermont, they are burying all the utilities when they are building out the lots. However, I live in a development of around 70 homes built mostly in in the 1960s and 1970s.

Amusingly, if I walk to the end of one road in our neighborhood, I reach a point where 8 or so homes were added maybe 20 years ago. And... ta da.. the wires dive down from the poles and go underground for those few homes. ๐Ÿ™‚

joebeone, to random
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Last week, the @internetsociety filed an amicus brief before the Supreme Court of Mรฉxico, in Richter v. Google, an important case in intermediary liability on the Mexican Internet, and our first non-US legal intervention. 1/

danyork,
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@karlauerbach @joebeone @internetsociety I completely agree that publishing and discussion CAN easily happen these days without intermediaries. A lot of the various Fediverse systems are a good step in that way.

My personal issue is that after decades of running my own systems, I don't want to anymore! I just want to write. I'll gladly pay or use an intermediary to take care of that for me.

Similarly, I'll use an intermediary for caching/CDN purposes so that pages load fast globally.

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danyork,
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@karlauerbach @joebeone @internetsociety

The other place I think intermediaries are with us for better or worse is... discovery of content.

I'm not really aware of how we've cracked that particular nut without centralized databases or systems, whether those are for a search engine, or for a directory site, or for a social media site where links are shared.

If you have pointers about that, I'd love to see them.

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danyork,
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@karlauerbach @joebeone @internetsociety Interesting ideas. I like your other topics, too. Increased robustness / resilience is definitely something we need in a time of bizarre and extreme weather.

danyork, to random
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VERMONTERS - you can RECYCLE YOUR ECLIPSE GLASSES at various locations. In Chittenden County, CSWD is running a program with โ€œAstronomers without Bordersโ€ and has collection bins at all their locations, many local libraries and a number of other locations mentioned here: https://cswd.net/recycling/cswd-collaborates-with-astronomers-without-borders-to-give-solar-eclipse-glasses-another-use-2/

mattblaze, (edited ) to random
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Quick photo of today's solar eclipse over DFW airport

danyork,
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@mattblaze Based on your comments before the eclipse and similar comments from some others, I did something similar for my first totality experience. I had a tripod set up and did take a few shots, but spent most of the three minutes just looking around taking it all in. It was amazing!

danyork, to random
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My only good shot from totality (after I remembered to take the filter off the lens! ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™‚๏ธ๐Ÿคฃ). Totality was amazing and so I was drinking it all in. Temps dropped a good 10 degrees F, mosquitoes came out, the birds stopped singing, everyoneโ€™s solar lights came on, and it was incredibly dark. Really amazing!
And then it was over and everything started returning to normal!

danyork,
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I played a bit with TikTok last night and compiled a series of photos showing the progression of the eclipse here in Vermont:

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTLAsPGud/

There was of course only one song that could be used as the musical background ๐Ÿคฃ

Not that I was just pointing an iPad with an added optical lens up at the sky. I wasnโ€™t aiming for high quality photosโ€ฆ just more to have some memories of an amazing experience.

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