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dbelson

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Head of Data Insights at Cloudflare
I stare at data about the Internet

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dbelson, to random
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"For sale: Typewriter shop, often used"
https://archive.is/2jGW6

@mwichary @glennf

mathowie, to random
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Someone contacted me about a blog post I wrote around 2004 about a 1993 issue of Wired I bought on eBay back then that they desperately need today and I probably still have it in a storage box sitting with old office things.

Given the current state of Google Search, I’m amazed they found any part of this.

dbelson,
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@mathowie What issue? I have extra copies of a few issues from the first few years that I'd be happy to part with if you don't want to give up yours.

dbelson,
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@mathowie Issue 1.2 -- I don't have an extra copy of that one. Just 1.4/5/6 from 1993. :(

olaf, to random

I bought an assortment of resistors. It has 25 pieces of 0 Ohm.

Why and where, my kind fediferse friends, would one use those?

dbelson,
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@danyork @olaf
Dan.

danyork, to internet
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What's going with the Internet in western and southern Africa right now?

A lot of the region is currently experiencing Internet outages. @radar and IODA are both tracking the outages:

(hat tip to @dbelson for his great CloudflareRadar work!)

There are multiple reports on Twitter/X about "subsea cable cuts" from telecom companies... but even they are not definitive.

Anyone seeing clear statements?

dbelson,
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@danyork @radar Thanks! See https://azure.status.microsoft/en-us/status
"Current Status: We have determined that multiple fiber cables on the West Coast of Africa — WACS, MainOne, SAT3, ACE — have been impacted which reduced total capacity supporting our Regions in South Africa."

This is the only reference I have seen thus far to specific cables.

dbelson,
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@danyork @radar Yeah, nobody has been particularly forthcoming with specific information. :(

dbelson,
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@cybeardjm @danyork Thanks. Can you share links to where those alerts were published?

dbelson,
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@cybeardjm @danyork Many thanks!

danyork, to random
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On my way to #TownMeeting discussion tonight, because this is what we do in #Vermont. 🙂

Plus, there is lasagna catered by a local restaurant 😋🤣

dbelson,
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@danyork Even free food wouldn't get me to Town Meeting. It's an idea that is past its time.

danyork, to Wikipedia
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Too funny.. the “Top Read” articles on English yesterday **are all about the ** ! You have to go all the way down to # 16 to find a non-Super Bowl article (the Kenyan runner who died)… and then Super Bowl articles continue after that.

Predictably the top page is Usher, which you can see as “so who is this guy doing the halftime show?” 🤣

And then people wanting to learn more about the celebrities hanging out with Taylor Swift 😃

A fun look into what info people wanted!

dbelson,
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@danyork My takeaway from looking at all of those (Born 19xx) dates.... damn, I'm getting old.

danyork, to internet
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If any of you are active on TikTok, a few of us at the @internetsociety had a little bit of fun recording a video: https://www.tiktok.com/

You can tell from the clothing who was in the southern hemisphere versus the northern! 🤣

(Credit due to a colleague in our communications team who asked a bunch of us to record short videos and then put it all together.)

#Internet #InternetForEveryone #TikTok #InternetSociety

dbelson,
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@danyork @internetsociety I caught that earlier today on Instagram - very cool! And great to see some familiar faces...

dbelson, to random
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My latest post for the Cloudflare Blog:
Q4 2023 Internet disruption summary

https://blog.cloudflare.com/q4-2023-internet-disruption-summary

(via https://mastofeed.org)

danyork, to random
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The great part of working remotely … you can - for a few minutes - sit outside on a cold winter day and enjoy the view of the Adirondack mountains across Lake Champlain!

(And then after a few minutes you can decide that maybe when it is around 34 F (1 C), a better place to go would be a local coffee shop! 😃)

#Vermont

dbelson,
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@danyork That would seem to be a better "Let's work outside" spot for June, not January...

spi, to random

Received my copy of Shift Happens yesterday. As advertised it is hefty and gorgeous! @mwichary @glennf

Cardboard box open showing white packing foam.
A copy of Shift Happens
The volumes of Shift Happens partially out of the slip case

dbelson,
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@spi @mwichary @glennf Jealous! The USPS appears to have someone walking mine from Maine to Massachusetts. It has been “In Transit to Next Facility” for three days now. 🙁

dbelson,
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@spi @glennf @mwichary I'd almost rather it be misrouted, so that I could watch it take the scenic route and laugh. It is now stating the obvious: "Your package will arrive later than expected, but is still on its way. It is currently in transit to the next facility." It's less than 90 miles between the two processing facilities it needs to travel through - almost a straight shot down Route 95. 😠

dbelson,
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@spi @glennf @mwichary A couple of days late, but it made it! This packaging is no joke. The amount of care put into the shipping is impressive- I’ve seen stereo equipment with less protection… Kudos to you, Marcin, on delivering a quality product from humble newsletter beginnings to delivered package. (Will share unboxing pics if I can get them to upload.)

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@glennf @spi @mwichary Seemed to be expanding foam.

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@spi @glennf @mwichary

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gbhnews, (edited ) to random
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🎄🎶 so you want to listen to some but you want to hear more than the same 5 songs: a thread

suggestions & links from us and from you below ⤵️

dbelson,
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@gbhnews Don't forget the Xmess mixes from @boonerang
https://soundcloud.com/boonerang

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dbelson,
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@textfiles My brain still thinks that's what a gallon of paint costs, so I'm always shocked at the actual price when we decide to repaint a bedroom.

ernie, to random
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We lost Richard Moll, everyone. Goddamnit. That man was a tall, bald icon.

dbelson,
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@ernie So are Roz and Dan the only ones left? 🙁

dbelson,
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@ernie Yup, though Roz had a cameo in the last episode. Did it get renewed or was it short lived? I’ve been watching through the original series on Freevee.

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It sure would be nice if @radar mirrored the group's tweets more regularly, or at least put them somewhere else they control. Cites to #Twitter are just too unreliable now imo. #Cloudflare

dbelson,
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@jtk @radar We'll try to do a better job of posting/mirroring more consistently on Mastodon and BlueSky. Good feedback!

dbelson,
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@jtk @radar Thank you - glad it is valuable! I'm the PM/lead evangelist for it, and we're constantly working to add more good stuff...

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A big SHIFT HAPPENS update:
• Books are all bound
• Slipcases are being made
• Shipping starts in a few weeks!
• CAN U BELIEVE IT*

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mwichary/shift-happens/posts/3918550

Tune in to that post from @mwichary for the details about his massive, massive book, and pictures of the finished volumes.

I got my set of final volumes today. They are huge, staggering, beautiful, amazing, gorgeous. It is almost impossible to believe they are real after so many years, so many hours.

An open copy of a volume of the book Shift Happens showing pages up in the air to see part of a spread and details of other pages.

dbelson,
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@glennf @mwichary Trying to resist the urge to drive up to Maine to pick mine up so that I don’t have to wait for the mail. 🙂

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