Help me crack €1k #movember #charity movember.com/m/mneylon?m...

Day 14 Have you donated yet? Every euro helps movember.com/m/mneylon?mc=1 #movember #charity

*** MY XMAS APPEAL 2025 *** Every year at Christmas I run an appeal asking you to donate the price of a book (or whatever you can!) to some incredibly worthy charities who need funds at this time of year. So far, in 8 years I've raised over €250,000... 🧵 (link at bottom)

Seriously Hubspot on what planet does it make sense to have me subscribed to so many newsletters that I have to scroll through 3 screens of options to see them all?

11 days in to #movember Help me raise funds for a worthy cause movember.com/m/mneylon?m...

PSA: tips to protect yourself from scams on Signal. Every major comms platform has to contend w phishing, impersonation, & scams. Sadly. Signal is major, and as we've grown we've heard about more of these attacks--scammy people pretending to be something or someone to trick and abuse others. 1/

RIR governance isn't an "exciting" or anyway "sexy" topic, but it's key to how the Internet works. Without IP addresses there are no cat videos, no websites, no email, no nothing. www.icann.org/en/public-c...

Help me raise funds for men’s health movember.com/m/mneylon?m...

A sad day. Rubens will be missed. RIP nic.br/noticia/not...

i hate that AI has now caused me to question the authenticity of cute animal videos online, which is my primary use of social media. i don't even know if this baby penguin actually wore a beret to go buy a tiny baguette in paris

It’s Movember so I’m joining the Blacknight team to raise money for men’s health movember.com/m/mneylon?m...

It’s Movember so I’m joining the Blacknight team to raise money for men’s health movember.com/m/mneylon?m...

If you're interested in .us domain names and what's been going on with them, why not join the .us town hall? Full details here: www.about.us/townhall #domains

ChatGPT’s new Atlas browser doesn’t just see what you read — it remembers it. @eff.org’s Lena Cohen showed me it even logged “memories” of her looking for *abortion care* and her doctor’s name. Out-surveils even Chrome. My @washingtonpost.com column: wapo.st/49bOcVC

Imagine a browser where you type in “Taylor Swift” and it doesn’t even admit that her website exists. I write about Atlas, ChatGPT’s new anti-web browser that should come with a warning label. www.anildash.com/2025/10/22/a...

Local legislator displays the importance of kerning

AWS outage disrupts thousands of websites, apps, services (featuring a quote from me) www.techcentral.ie/aws-outage-...

The wonderful Kelly Hardy interviewed me for her newsletter #domains beyondthenextround.substack.com/p/what-regi...

Here's the problem The Internet is held together with sticky tape. Its weaknesses are its strengths and it was designed to route its way around problems. BUT Over the past +/- 10 years oodles of "stuff" has become reliant on a handful of HUGE tech providers. Today shows this.

The wonderful Kelly Hardy interviewed me for her newsletter #domains beyondthenextround.substack.com/p/what-regi...

Here's the problem The Internet is held together with sticky tape. Its weaknesses are its strengths and it was designed to route its way around problems. BUT Over the past +/- 10 years oodles of "stuff" has become reliant on a handful of HUGE tech providers. Today shows this.

The decentralised global system has ended up being centralised ...

The word of the day: Redundancy OR Enshittification Take your pick ...

Are you impacted by the AWS outage this morning? It seems to have taken out a lot of online services and apps. Hosting on your own infrastructure? No issues .. of course Remember "the cloud" is just somebody else's computer ... #hosting

Some very cute greeting cards from an Irish company pickledpompom.com/

The Ofcom Tea Party: 4Chan Lawyer publishes Ofcom correspondence, British regulator claims “sovereign immunity” to defend itself – and sovereign powers to regulate foreign companies https://alecmuffett.com/article/117792

Rapport d'information du Sénat qui pointe les incohérences de nommage des sites officiels. Un boulevard pour les noms de domaine de CT snappés + faux sites administratifs pour facturer des démarches administratives. Ex du site service-public .fr www.senat.fr/rap/r24-895/...

#aras25 apart from my mother, nobody I know seems particularly interested in this election or has many strong feelings about it. Most would happily anoint Michael D for another term if they could

#aras25 it’d be nice if Ms Humphreys got off the soapbox and answered the actual question she was asked

#ICANN84 in Dublin - A Pivotal Moment for the Future of the Internet www.icann.org/resources/p...

A “destruction” of cats is both amusing and 100% accurate

Undermining encryption puts us all at risk. A robust digital economy needs assurances that E2EE is promoted, not broken #security #privacy www.globalencryption.org/2025/10/ope...

The food and service at Augurio are top class

Not a single impressive option. Hard year to be a candidate, it must be said, following a president so beloved that knitted toys of his likeness and children’s books about him were best sellers. Tough to follow a live-action mascot, the joyful spirit of a nation in the flesh.

I’m amazed that they didn’t do proper vetting of their candidate. It’s just bonkers to think they didn’t check properly #aras25

Oh wow

Breaking: Jim Gavin withdraws from Presidential Election.

The Discord hack shows exactly why age verification is a huge risk for all users.

One of my staff summarised a key issue in the most succinct way: "if only (domain) registries were more customer oriented our life would be so much easier" and I would agree

ICANN's coming back to Dublin after 10 years so give them a warm welcome blacknight.blog/welcoming-t...

So when my nephew (7) and niece (4) are going to university we *might* have a metro / rail connection to Dublin airport www.thejournal.ie/metrolink-p...

It’s nice to see someone pointing out the obvious flaws with the “pro life” logic.