For the last 7-8 months I’ve been watching th twice weekly YouTube updates of an incredible Dutch woman motorcycle explorer whose channel is called Itchy Boots, and I’ve got to say I’ve learned so much about bits of the world that I had no idea about. In her current series she started in […]

Today has the double effects of: 1) the change to Daylight Savings Time; and 2) getting up at 12:30 am US Eastern to be a remote participant in a 75-minute plenary panel session at #icann85 in Mumbai, India, about #InternetResilience ! We’ll see how I am doing by the end of the work day! 🤪

RE: https://techpolicy.social/@mnot/116197896191997952 Good to see this article from someone in the ad-tech industry acknowledging that #privacy advocates were right about the danger of the ad-tech infrastructure being mis-used for #surveillance ..

“we estimate that a million satellites could mean that a teragram (one billion kgs) of alumina accumulates in the upper atmosphere – enough, alongside launch emissions, to significantly alter atmospheric chemistry and heating in dramatic ways we do not yet understand. There is no public mandate […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@kiwix/116175641532766269 For #InternetResilience, I believe having offline access to #internet content is critically important. If you haven’t been paying attention to what the good folks at Kiwix are doing, I encourage you to take a look! They began many years ago […]

Today is #townmeetingday in #vermont where we will all go and vote to elect our town leaders… we’ll also vote on school budgets and various things like buying school buses or fire trucks, preserving open land, putting money aside for future risks, etc. (In our town one of the items involves […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jaffathecake/116159980831484964 Things I learned today by scrolling Mastodon… I have not been paying attention in recent years to graphic file formats, and so I honestly had no idea about AVIF emerging over the last 5-ish years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVIF […]

I had this thought that in spending 6 days walking over 20,000 steps a day in cities in northern Italy.. I might actually lose some weight. Instead I gained most of four pounds. 😱 I *did* do all that walking… but along the way there was all that glorious gelato! And the sumptuous cannolis! And […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@michelamarie/116162138790409572 I am glad that British Columbia is making this change to stop the annual time changes and just stick with one time zone. I wish we in the U.S. would just do this, too. I don’t hold out much hope, though… so it will be interesting in […]

Trying out the new “Share on Mastodon” button to share this post. Excellent to see this functionality now available as it both enables the more rapid sharing of links… and the presence also promotes the use of #mastodon and the #fediverse […]

With a 9-hour plane flight ahead of me… I just discovered the “Locally AI” app for my iPad! 🤯 Just downloaded a couple of models… this flight could have just become a bit more interesting!! 🤔😱😆 #ai

RE: https://mastodon.social/@sundogplanets/116152041766079159 This whole thread - and the accompanying article - are well worth the read if you are interested in #internetaccess from #leo, I.e. #starlink, #oneweb, #amazonleo, etc. The reality is that we do NOT yet understand all the potential […]

RE: https://mastodon.au/@Greg_Ray/116151173171456500 Substack is now doing age verification, and using Persona, the same company Discord was gonna use. Check out @writefreely for a better, open source alternative. https://writefreely.org/ #substack #blog #writing #writefreely

RE: https://www.threads.com/@anildash/post/DVUvdDHESDl This is an incredibly important point from Anil Dash … as podcasting systems move to embrace video, we need that support to be based on open standards and open systems!

I'm one of the early "members" of the Open Source Endowment. Eager to see where this is going: "Truly sustainable funding for critical OSS through a community‑driven endowment" https://endowment.dev/

Relying heavily on previous work by @riana.bsky.social I wrote a long piece about just how incredibly dangerously stupid West Virginia's "first in the nation" lawsuit against Apple is. By misunderstanding how the 4th Amendment works, if WV succeeds it will make it much harder to prosecute predators.

Hilarious. Brave new world.

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@S1m/116127178349448562 Dear Mozilla, Please do more of THIS kind of Firefox improvements, and less wasting time on AI features that very few, if any, are asking for. Thanks, A very long-time Firefox user #mozilla #firefox

For any #wikipedia editors out there who also know something about Internet routing ... earlier this week I significantly updated the "RouteViews" article after discovering to my immense surprise that it was a very short and small article that didn't say much […]

RE: https://mastodon.green/@solar_chase/116084941755282241 As Cuba’s electric grid falters due to the blocking of oil deliveries, we again see the power of the rise of #solar panels - keeping the lights on and building greater energy #resilience …

So.. folks interested in "local-first" software and apps, I could use your help! I created a Wikipedia article about local-first software: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local-first_software A few weeks ago I noticed there wasn't one, so I started doing some research and drafting some text. I […]

Why yes, I *did* hop out of bed when my wife’s usual 5:00am alarm went off… even though it is a day off for me (public holiday) but not for her. Why did I do this when I could have stayed in bed?? Two words… ** 🥌 Olympic CURLING! 🥌 ** 🎉🎉🤣🤣🎉🎉

If you're trying to persuade someone to try Mastodon (or Pixelfed, or Friendica, etc), you'll get a lot further explaining them as algorithm-free, ad-free, AI-free, nazi-free conversations, rather than trying to describe a "decentralised protocol" or why "open source" is good. Mastodon is […]

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@starchy/116076987211017348 Ha! Fun with captions!

China builds world’s largest electric container ship, powered by just ten containers of batteries. https://www.marineinsight.com/shipping-news/worlds-largest-all-electric-container-ship-begins-sea-trials-in-china/

RE: https://lingo.lol/@amyfou/116055641451588215 I truly love the randomness of the Internet! 🤣

For a #curling addict🥌, the “multiview” in Peacock’s app is a massive bit of awesomeness! #olympics #olympics2026

YSK about the Fediverse https://blog.elenarossini.com/fediverse-video/

RE: https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon/116015180016712361 That agonizing 😱 you are hearing is from the thousands of #wikipedia editors who know their articles have links to the #WorldFactbook in them that now are dead and need to be re-linked to archive links! 🤯 And also every researcher […]

The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions! This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub […]

Tonight would have been a great night to have been #livestreaming my #wikipedia editing… my Watchlist had all sorts of fun! A spammer, an actual edit war with a few editors teaming to stop someone who kept trying to add some opinionated text, an editor doing some amazing cleanup of references […]

If you write about the messy reality behind "free" internet services: we're seeing #OpenStreetMap hammered by scrapers hiding behind residential proxy/embedded-SDK networks. We're a volunteer-run service and the costs are real. We'd love to talk to a journalist about what we're seeing + how […]

The teenagers are SO excited about tomorrow: ❄️ *SNOW DAY*! ❄️ Schools are closed here in northwest #vermont. Some businesses are closed. Of course, for me being a remote worker, tomorrow is just... Monday! 🤣

Just think about how radical the fediverse is: a place for real human connections and communities where no single individual or business is in charge. No crypto companies pouring in money and hoping for a big payoff some day. We make the fediverse […] [Original post on stefanbohacek.online]

For decades now, the traditional telcos keep trying to find ways to get newer companies to pay them... whether it is dressed up as " #fairshare " or #NetworkFees or "dispute resolution" or whatever... in the end they are flawed ideas that are solutions trying to find problems (that don't exist) […]

The IODA team completed a comparative analysis of the ongoing Internet shutdown in Iran to shutdowns during Bloody November in 2019, Women Life Freedom Movement in 2022, and the Israel-Iran War in 2025. Please read and reach out with any questions […]

Are you doing something interesting with #dns #security, #dnssec, routing security, or other forms of #internet security that you would like to share with the wider (DNS-related) technical community? If so, consider submitting a proposal for the "DNSSEC and Security Workshop" that will be held […]

Just finished reading “Automatic Noodle”, a fun novella from @annaleen It was a thoroughly enjoyable read that left me wanting more stories of this group of robots. It was also an ultimately hopeful and kind book… which was a good mental break from all that […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

RE: https://werd.social/@ben/115922020066739276 Wow! Very prophetic words of Dr Martin Luther King in 1967! (The rest of the text surrounding this quote - about 2/3 the way down the speech - is also quite powerful to read.)

IODA sees signs of recovery of Internet connectivity in Iran for ISP Rightel. https://ioda.inetintel.cc.gatech.edu/asn/57218-IR?from=1767497620&until=1768620820&view=view1 Follow connectivity in Iran in near realtime […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

I've been wondering about Bluesky's decentralization again. I can't think of any reason why I'd want to self-host Bluesky in its current form. I cannot 100% self host "my own Bluesky". Their main selling points for building their own protocol were easier migration and better discoverability […]

In honor of Meta's latest announcement, a thread on 175 years of 3D failure. Let's first go all the way back to 1851 with the Brewster Stereoscope. No less a person than Queen Victoria was impressed, kicking off a fad that quickly sold over 250,000 units. Turns […] [Original post on sfba.social]

Forty years ago, 21 people gathered for the first meeting of what became the Internet Engineering Task Force or #ietf . Every day billions of people use the open standards and technologies developed in the IETF. And nearly 8000 volunteer IETF participants from around the world collaborate in […]

During the pandemic, I spent over a year in my evenings livestreaming #wikipedia editing out on #twitch ! 🤣😱 As we celebrate #wikipedia25 today, I reflected back on the almost 22 years that I've been a Wikipedia editor ... I've learned a huge amount... I've met some amazing people... and I've […]

In about 10 minutes, at 16:00 UTC, you can join the #wikipedia 25th virtual birthday part live at https://www.youtube.com/live/C5rPmv27YzY #wikipedia25 @wikimediafoundation

I've been banging on this general "allowing strong technical locks which lock out the ostensible owner are a serious problem" drum for a long time now. As usual @pluralistic offers a poignant analysis […]

RE: https://techpolicy.social/@internetsociety/115855835480304372 This is a great discussion around #internetgovernance, the #un, the recent #wsis +20 review, the importance of #internetaccess, and in general about what's at stake for the future of the #internet if we don't get this right... if […]

The Ugandan government has appeared to follow through with a pre-announced Internet shutdown during national elections. IODA data confirms the drop in Internet connectivity. Follow Internet connectivity in Uganda in near realtime […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@catfishing/115875881900181928 Fascinating! I had not played this #wikipedia guessing game until this morning… fun! I did not do well in guessing, but I learned a good bit, which to me is a win!

RE: https://techpolicy.social/@internetsociety/115861166630735131 Great video about the work (and need!) to improve #internetaccess in indigenous communities...