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danyork

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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 () 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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@pluralistic@mamot.fr avatar pluralistic , to random

Bad news: tonight's terrible snowstorm means that I'm not giving my Tanner Talk at the University of Utah in person.

Good news: the (previously) sold out talk is going to be on Zoom, which means anyone can attend! We're starting in 30 minutes at 19h Mountain/18h Pacific/21h Eastern, and it's open to all!

https://utah.zoom.us/j/81227694323

Passcode: Doctorow

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@pluralistic Thanks for sharing the link, Cory! I very much enjoyed listening to you talk! Great session!

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Forty years ago, 21 people gathered for the first meeting of what became the Internet Engineering Task Force or . 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 more than 100 working groups evolving those open standards and making the Internet work better!

https://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-40/

@tante@tldr.nettime.org avatar tante , to random

A few thoughts I had after a conversation with a friend. What are you - as a professional - even saying when openly using ChatGPT for your decision-making?

https://tante.cc/2025/07/06/so-what-are-you-saying/

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@tante Bizarre that they openly used ChatGPT and friends. I could see them doing it in the office as a way of accelerating creation of information for a client (thus enabling them to theoretically service more clients)… but to do so in front of the client seems strange. Because if all you do is use ChatGPT… why do I need you? 🤷‍♂️

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Tell me how old the hotel treadmills are without telling me! 🤣

(But the treadmills of course worked fine… because equipment can long outlast whatever connectors happen to be popular at a given time..)

An individual is holding a black cable with a rectangular connector that is an old wide Apple connector for early iPods- against a blurred background featuring a screen and a water bottle.
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Dear @mozilla ,

I get that you need to FOCUS, but I'm personally bummed you are killing off , as it's a service I use pretty much ** every single day! ** 😞 (I don't care about Fakespot )

But please... literally *** NO ONE *** is asking for more "AI-powered features":

This shift allows us to shape the next era of the internet – with tools like vertical tabs, smart search and more AI-powered features on the way.

Please just STOP the AI nonsense!

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/building-whats-next/

@nixCraft@mastodon.social avatar nixCraft , to random

26 years ago GNOME 1.0 was released. Do you remember this classic desktop?

GNOME 1.0 desktop screenshot from 26 yeas ago when it was first released to us.
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@nixCraft I do remember that time! It was amazing to see all the evolution of desktops going on. (I remember being more of a KDE fan, but did try out GNOME for a bit.)

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    @dansup Best wishes with the launch. I’m looking forward to experimenting with it!

    @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io avatar molly0xfff , to random

    It’s finally time to release my newest project: https://www.followthecrypto.org/

    This website provides a real-time lens into the cryptocurrency industry’s efforts to influence 2024 elections in the United States.

    A screenshot of the front page of FollowTheCrypto.org, showing total amounts raised by crypto-currency focused PACs ($203 million) and amounts spent ($38 million). There are also graphs showing expenditures by political party, and expenditures by PAC. There is a list of the top elections influenced by crypto industry money, of the most highly-funded super PACs overall, and of recent expenditures by crypto-focused committees.
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    @molly0xfff Amazing work. Thanks!

    @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io avatar molly0xfff , to random

    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.

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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.

    @jessamyn@glammr.us avatar jessamyn , to random

    New Year new list. Reebee Garofalo was one of the original people who put together Rock Against Racism Massachusetts but you may know him as the snare player for the Good Trouble Brass Band playing in the HONK! Festival of Activist Street Bands. He was cited in a ton of other Wikipedia articles and made that Genealogy of Pop/Rock Music chart you may have seen in an Edward Tufte book. A good guy to get to know, deserves a longer article but this is good for now
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reebee_Garofalo

    A man in a red beret with a white beard looks into the camera. He is standingbehind a podium that has an apple laptop on it. He is wearing many strands of multicolored beads and a red HONK t-shirt

    A man in a red beret with a white beard looks into the camera. He is standingbehind a podium that has an apple laptop on it. He is wearing many strands of multicolored beads and a red HONK t-shirt
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    @jessamyn That’s awesome! Congrats!

    (My year in Wikipedia was MUCH less with only 272 edits in the entire year… time to change that in 2025!)

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    @jessamyn It’s just super-impressive to see how many pages you have created in the quest to fill in the blanks! That’s really awesome!

    I often will see that a page is missing and think “I should go add that one”… but then a quick search for reliable sources turns up few, and so I know it’s going to be harder… so I put it aside… and, well, I never get back to it. :-(

    So kudos to you for making all these pages happen!

    (I also like your threading of the msgs here on Mastodon.)