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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 français. Enjoys #curling.

#tfr

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danyork, to Starlink
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Starlink is now available in Indonesia: https://www.reuters.com/technology/musk-arrives-indonesias-bali-planned-starlink-launch-2024-05-19/

danyork, to privacy
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Good to see #Vermont making headlines about protecting the data #privacy of people. We’ll see if our governor signs it… but regardless, it’s good to see! https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/18/vermont-data-privacy-law-tech-lobbyists-00158711

steely_glint, to random
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I'm proud to have played a small part in @sundogplanets 's campaign on the space junk pollution (both light and actual) that starlink and it's ilk produce .

https://distributedfutu.re/episode83.html

(We had a good track record of predicting future hot issues on that podcast - reality hasn't caught up with us yet)

danyork,
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@steely_glint Are you guys planning to do any more episodes?

danyork,
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@steely_glint Completely understand!

ricmac, to random
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A media podcast I listened to today said that “the web is old-fashioned”, as part of their analysis of the OpenAI and Google news this week. As if the web will turn into The Well, or something. But I am seeing the fediverse, standards-based web builders like Eleventy, and open newsletter platforms like Ghost and Buttondown (that both support the web), and I just don’t agree that the web is old-fashioned. Quite the opposite, it’s only just getting started (again)!

danyork,
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@ricmac Yes, the Web never went away… it was just consigned to the back room by the seductive power and convenience of the bright and shiny social platforms. But now finally some of that bright and shiny has faded for some people, and they are seeing what has developed in that back room while so many were looking at the shiny…

danyork, to random
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I no longer feel so bad about having a couple hundred tabs open…. 😃

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, don’t use them if you are trying to build a weapon to attack Star Trek’s Borg, because as they say…. “Resistance is futile!” 🤣🤓

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 — 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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I’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 dealings… 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 – 3 Articles To Read On Earth Day

Today is Earth Day... and when I climb up into that crow’s nest, hold up my spyglass, and look out at the horizon… it can look pretty bleak. It seems like the whole world is on fire in different ways. But amidst the chaos… 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 #Wikipedia ! 🎉

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

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