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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 random
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“The future isn't here, it's just not evenly distributed. Prisoners are the ultimate early adopters of the technology that the richest, most powerful, most sadistic people in the country's corporate board-rooms would like to force us all to use.”

  • @pluralistic on the horror that is prison-tech companies gouging the people who can afford it the least. 🙁

https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/02/captive-customers/

danyork, to internet
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Q - do you know of well-researched articles, or academic papers, that explore the risks to the Internet’s infrastructure due to climate change?

I.e. how do we keep the Internet functioning in the midst of extreme weather and other aspects of climate change? For example, if sea levels rise, what will that do to subsea cable landing stations?

I am building a list of articles and papers, and I have some.. but am looking for more.

Thanks!

danyork,
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@dsc Interesting. Is the general thinking just to try to move them to higher elevations? Or some other form of hardening?

danyork,
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@dsc That makes sense. And yes, funny thing about needing power. 🙁

brucelawson, to random
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Mastodon q: in the 'advanced' Tweetdeck-style view, where does my 'Federated timeline' come from? Most of the people in it I've never heard of, and while I have no moral objection to the nude images of attractive women that some of the posts carry, they are distracting and a bit shit when in a public place.

danyork,
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@brucelawson The “Federated” timeline is the union of all the accounts that people on your server follow. So all the postings that are “federated” onto your local server.

Timelines:

  • Home - accounts you follow (from anywhere)

  • Local - accounts on your server

  • Federated - accounts followed by accounts on your server

I think Federated was more useful in the early (late 2010s) years of Mastodon, or perhaps today if you are on a smaller server.

I never look at mine.

davidho, to random
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It's "ocean", not "oceans". Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

danyork,
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@synlogic @davidho Fascinating! (And the “Internet” argument resonates with me given what I do and who I work for 😃).

And yet in all the globes that adorn my office, they specifically label different “oceans”, i.e. Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean, Arctic Ocean, etc.

Giving rise to the thinking that they are separate, when in fact they are all interconnected.

Hmmm… 🤔

danyork, to Wikipedia
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If you are looking for a summary of what is happening with the terrible Baltimore bridge collapse, the page about the event is being constantly updated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Scott_Key_Bridge_collapse

danyork,
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@Tooden It seems like it was the mayday call from the ship that prompted police to stop all traffic going onto the bridge. (But the maintenance workers were already out on the bridge fixing potholes)

danyork,
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@jessamyn I forget this, too! And need to think of it more often!

jdlbt, to Wikipedia
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Look what I found in the mail today!

It took some time to get them because the shipping company lost the first package. But the @wikipedia store staff were super helpful at tracking down the issue and making a new shipment which was delivered quickly.

danyork,
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@jdlbt Those are cool!

danyork, to internet
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It's very disappointing that potentially as many as 60 million US citizens may lose their affordable Internet access because the US Congress has politicized things and so far failed to act:

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/23/tech/acp-affordable-connectivity-program/

#Internet #AffordableConnectivityProgram #USCongress #InternetAccess

danyork, to internet
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Go, Woz! On CNN, Steve Wozniak was asked first about Apple's situation but then about the proposed TikTok legislation. He called out the hypocrisy of pointing at one app when so many others have issues. He noted the need for privacy protection that applies to all apps rather than just one:

https://www.cnn.com/videos/business/2024/03/23/steve-wozniak-apple-cofounder-tiktok-lcl-sot-vpx.cnn

danyork,
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@MorganGeek @randulo Yes, rather than grandstanding about specific apps for political points, it would be great if our folks in the US Congress would actually look at passing comprehensive legislation that could be used to protect us with all apps and services.

But that would require people to work together... and right now that does not seem to be happening in our Congress. 🙁

danyork, to random
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The tale of a snowstorm: 1) yesterday evening: 2) this morning; 3) mid-day; 4) this evening. 🙂

Up to about 10 inches (25 cm) and it seems to be slowing down…

danyork,
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@jessamyn Oh, cool! I’ll have to look tomorrow and see if the data is refreshed! My brother lives down near Rutland and they got over 20” of snow!

danyork, to random
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As part of the ongoing fever throughout northern , UVM Health Network reminds us that no all “eclipse glasses” are the same: https://www.uvmhealth.org/healthsource/eclipse-viewing-dos-and-donts

danyork,
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And people here in northern are very concerned about what will happen if hundreds of thousands of people drive up from New York and southern New England to experience totality. Amusingly, one article points to the mess that happened 20 years ago when Phish had their massive event up in northern VT:

https://www.vermontpublic.org/local-news/2024-03-20/phish-crowds-overwhelmed-vermont-highways-in-2004-how-is-the-state-preparing-for-eclipse-traffic

(I would argue the eclipse is a bit different in that it’s not a single location… but the point is valid about our roads)

danyork, to random
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Waking up this morning to about 4 inches (10 cm) of white stuff, with more falling from the sky. Let’s see where we end the day at!

Adam_Cadmon1, to random
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I have been going to bed around 9pm for the last two weeks and it's downright scary. I am quickly approaching old territory.

danyork,
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@Adam_Cadmon1 I wave to you from deep inside that territory. 🤣

Adam_Cadmon1, to random
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I mean I don't see how you can NOT like 3 Body Problem the Series if you're a native English speaker and you've read and enjoyed the book.

danyork,
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@Adam_Cadmon1 I am looking forward to watching it. The books were SO complex that it will be intriguing to see how they adapt it to the screen.

danyork, to random
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Meanwhile in , the black bears are coming out of their winter dens a bit early... https://vtdigger.org/2024/03/13/black-bears-are-emerging-from-their-winter-dens-early-in-search-of-food/

jackjenkins, to random

I know we've all talked about it before, but aspects of Twitter's epic demise remain wild to me.

Like, many of us (myself included) spent years building communities of readers and sources on that app, under the auspices that it would, of course, benefit us throughout our careers.

And then it just…died. And there's very little incentive to dedicate the same time and energy to rebuilding those same networks on another app.

Those platforms and communities are just…gone now.

danyork,
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@jackjenkins Well said.

danyork, to random
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Nice to see the continued growth of this count of Mastodon users… (subject to all the usual caveats about any metrics like this trying to count a decentralized system)

From: @mastodonusercount
https://mastodon.social/@mastodonusercount/112138048409567953

danyork, to random

Ah, it would seem that I need to post after I have accounts following me from mastodon.social in order for posts to show up there. (This one should be visible there.)

danyork,
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@danyork Or is it that Threads takes 5 minutes to send something to the Fediverse?

danyork, to random
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Was amazed by the “league” that I wound up in yesterday. The leader did 4,280 “XP” (experience points) in ONE DAY. 🤯

To understand why this is amazing, each language lesson in Duolingo is typically worth 10-20 XP. With bonuses and rewards some can get to 40, 50, or 80 XP.

To get to 4,280 requires a HUGE number of lessons and investment of MANY HOURS of time!

A mind-blowing amount of work.. clearly someone is extremely focused on learning a new language! 😲

danyork,
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@djasa Oh, interesting. Never knew about that aspect. Thanks!

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