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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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Tomorrow (5 May) I'm incredibly thrilled to be moderating an amazing panel at the #WSISForum2023 about low earth orbit (#LEO) satellites such as SpaceX's #Starlink for #InternetAccess . I have four incredible panelists for what I hope will be a great discussion about how LEO systems may help in achieving the UN's #SDGs

You can join us live at 14:00 CEST (8am EST for me) at:

https://www.itu.int/net4/wsis/forum/2023/Agenda/Session/496

If you can't watch live, it will be recorded.

#LEOS #WSIS

danyork, to random
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"You're on mute" is what I would nominate as the "phrase of the decade" for the 2020s (even if yes, we're only 3 years in)

I think I've probably heard that phrase directed to someone on at least 4 or 5 calls this week - for work, with friends, and for a class - and in at least one case I was the one who was speaking while muted. 🤦‍♂️

danyork, to random
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Ah, yes, how many brands will we see posting Star Wars-related things today? ...

#MayThe4thBeWithYou

danyork,
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Hahaha... 🤣 As soon as I posted this message ☝️, it came out in my feed... right above a Raspberry Pi post about May 4th! 🤣

danyork, to random
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CDT Leads Broad Civil Society Coalition Urging US Senate to Drop - https://cdt.org/insights/cdt-leads-broad-civil-society-coalition-urging-senate-to-drop-earn-it-act/

danyork, to random
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We're just back from an amazing week-long family vacation in #Vancouver , BC.

Amazing city and surrounding area!

I'll post some photos at some point, but two things surprised me:

1 - in contrast to a previous trip many (many!) years ago to Seattle, there was less salmon on menus than I expected (in fact, very little!); and

2 - there was cheesecake everywhere! Coffee shops, cafes, restaurants... everywhere! 😀

It was an excellent visit and I understand why so many people move there!

danyork,
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@drfyzziks I did not realize you lived there! I can see why people do.

The cheesecake thing was amusing… we kept seeing it… and seeing it… and then we realized that pretty much everywhere we went there was cheesecake of some form!! 🤣

And places like “Trees Organic Coffee & Cheesecake”! (Which was soooo good!) https://treescoffee.com/

danyork, to internet
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Because I always like to experiment.. and because someone gave me an invite code 🙂 ... I'm also over on #BlueSky as https://bsky.app/profile/danyork.bsky.social

I expect I will continue to focus my social activity here on Mastodon, but I always like to try out new services to see how they work. 😀

My immediate first reaction was that I felt constrained by only having 300 characters! 🤣

danyork,
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@abhayakara Um… I am just going to experiment/play with BlueSky, just as I have with probably a dozen other social networks since the early 2000s. Such as Orkut, Twitter (2006), Jaiku, MySpace, FriendFeed, Facebook, Identi.ca, App.net, Status.net, Diaspora, Matrix, and probably 10 others I have forgotten.. and even Mastodon in 2016! Back then, this was just a small experiment that Gargron was trying out.

I am always interested in trying out new services to learn about them.

danyork,
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@jmichaelsturm Oh, I fully see Mastodon and ActivityPub as the primary way forward for open, decentralized messaging. That’s why I am here and plan to continue to be.

But there is always room to learn from other platforms and see what they are doing. Over the past 20 years I have probably joined a dozen other platforms to see if they could be a better/different path - or what could be learned.

That’s why I joined Mastodon back in 2016, and have made it my core platform today.

danyork,
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@bazurk No… no invites yet. I only just joined from someone else’s invite.

danyork,
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@drfyzziks Yes, if some of us thought “toot” was a silly term (as I did), the folks over there aren’t doing much better with “skeet”!! 😀

danyork, to php
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New post: 43% of the Web Can No Longer (Easily) Auto-Share to Twitter - https://www.disruptiveconversations.com/2023/05/43-of-the-web-can-no-longer-easily-auto-share-to-twitter.html

… wherein I write about how Twitter’s decision to impose huge prices on API access has caused Automattic to discontinue auto-sharing from their hosted #WordPress .com site and also through the #Jetpack plugin used by people (like me) who host their own WP sites.

The good news is that Automattic says they’ll soon enable auto-sharing to #Mastodon , which will be a great help!

evan, (edited ) to random
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So, here is what I'm trying to do to #BuildTheSocialWeb.

  1. Servicing the issue queue for ActivityPub and Activity Stream 2.0 on GitHub on a weekly basis.

  2. Documenting patterns in the Activity Streams 2.0 primer, and hopefully doing the same for ActivityPub.

  3. Sharing architectural essays on my blog. I've got two lined up: end-to-end encryption and account portability.

  4. Building https://cosocial.ca/ .

  5. Expressing myself here. Bringing people here.

danyork,
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@rysiek @evan It would be fun to reactivate Identi.ca accounts… I see mine is still there all these years later - https://identi.ca/danyork

danyork, to php
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Automattic’s #Jetpack plugin drops auto-sharing of your #WordPress posts to Twitter because of Twitter’s changes to their API and pricing.

> We have attempted to work with Twitter in good faith to negotiate new terms..

.. but.. no!

Good to see that #Mastodon support will be coming soon:

> In addition, you can still auto-share your posts to Tumblr, Facebook, and Linkedin. In the near future, we are adding the ability to auto-share to Instagram and Mastodon.

More at: https://jetpack.com/blog/the-end-of-twitter-auto-sharing/

danyork, (edited ) to random
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If you have a lawn and use a lawnmower to cut the grass, how often do you sharpen the blade?

danyork,
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For the record, I have been in the “Never” camp with our current lawnmower, but after 6 or 7 years, I am now thinking it may need some sharpening. 😃

danyork, to fediverse
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Very useful analysis from @mmasnick about #Mastodon, #BlueSky, and #nostr .. and #decentralized messaging in general.

#Decentralization is critical to prevent the kind of mess and chaos we are seeing with Twitter right now.. and have seen with other sites, too.

From: @mmasnick
https://mastodon.social/@mmasnick/110278258978335092

danyork, to random
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Amazing article about a nonprofit (EDF) assembling the funding, people, and technology to launch their own satellite into space…

From: @dwb
https://qoto.org/@dwb/110276249589447641

dwb, to climate

This week, The New Yorker published a special digital issue on bottlenecks in the climate crisis. I hope you will read my contribution, about how our anemic ability to monitor methane emissions led the Environmental Defense Fund to build a spaceship and do it themselves.

#climate #space #environment #sky #carbon #methane #climatechange #environmental #nasa #spacex #globalwarming

https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-climate-action/a-security-camera-for-the-planet

danyork,
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@dwb Thank you for writing that article! Very interesting and inspiring!

darkuncle, to random

The default cut in men’s shirts should not be “slim fit”, it should be “dad fit”. Too many of the former in my closet, not enough of the latter.

danyork,
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@darkuncle Totally agree on this one! I am sadly many years and pounds away from “slim fit”. I love the idea of “dad fit”.

ricmac, to random
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I like Mastodon, so it's still my preferred Twitter alternative. However, this interview with the Bluesky CEO Jay Graber made some interesting points about the differentiation. The first two points — "account portability, global discoverability" — are both personally important to me. Dare I mention the missing global search feature in Mastodon?! We'll see how it plays out, but theoretically I like what Bluesky is trying to do. https://www.theverge.com/23686778/bluesky-ceo-jay-graber-interview-decentralized-social-media-twitter-mastodon

danyork,
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@ricmac Do you have any sense of what they mean by “composable, customizable curation”?

danyork, to random
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THIS! 100% this…

From: @carnage4life
https://mas.to/@carnage4life/110255516019279168

danyork, to fediverse
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Excellent to see a new #SocialAudio service emerge that lets you do a TwitterSpaces-style audio streaming service via your #Mastodon account. This is one of the big holes I have seen missing in the #TwitterMigration

By its nature this is a centralized service… but in reading various comments it looks like you CAN self-host this “Audon” software, which means there are ways to decentralize this.

From: @fediversereport
https://mastodon.social/@fediversereport/110254125823826754

interfluidity, to random

i really miss having a place where you could at a glance get a sense of what’s really going on in the world.

like, right now on the QSite, trends include “Because Elon”, “Even Elon”, “Musk”, and “So Elon”. along with “Matt Taibbi” and “Grimes” who are trending for their roles in dramas involving Elon.

you really can stay in touch with what’s important over there.

danyork,
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@akkartik @interfluidity @memeorandum The companion site for tech news is Techmeme at https://www.techmeme.com and @Techmeme

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