mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06I 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.
RE: @MikeElgan@mastodon.social
Awesome way to keep track of the #Artemis mission!
RE: @dougmadory@infosec.exchange
Wow! Fascinating to see the drop in #Starlink traffic out of the #Ukraine once terminals that were not approved were disabled! Clearly others were using the Starlink network...
RE: @sundogplanets@mastodon.social
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 impacts of these new services. They can bring life-changing #Internet to so many people with few (or no) other options.. but at what cost?
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 with making #Wikipedia available offline, and have expanded to make many more resources available- and have developed a great system for displaying offline content… and very crucially for *updating* the offline content.
Do check them out!
10 years of #Mastodon! Amazing to think of how far it has come!
Congrats to @Gargron@mastodon.social , of course, but also to everyone who has participated in making Mastodon and the broader Fediverse the amazing place it is today!
Yea for open source, for open standards, for decentralization, for user choice, for accessibility, and for enabling communities to form! Looking forward to the next 10 years!
AVFTCN 040 – Returning From A Hiatus, and Plans for 2026
I'm back. After a self-imposed hiatus for most of 2025, I'm returning to something I've been deeply missing... writing and speaking. If you've been following me for any length of time, you know that not writing or speaking is, for me, a kind of pressure that builds and builds until I am ready to explode. 🤯 So what happened? The short version: my role at the…
http://crowsnest.danyork.com/2026/03/24/avftcn-040-returning-from-a-hiatus-and-plans-for-2026/
I truly love my job (seriously!) and love all the work I'm doing, but I have to admit that the 16yo boy buried decades deep inside me looks at this with a bit of envy:
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The concept is simple. “We put fuel in a rocket, blow it up in a remote location, and measure how big the boom is,” said Jason Hopper, deputy manager for the methalox assessment project at NASA’s Stennis Space Center.
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I love that there are sites like this out on the Internet:
https://www.power-plugs-sockets.com/
(Explaining electrical plugs and sockets from all over the world.)
Wow! VERY cool tool to help with the initial planning of a network to bring #Internet access to a community with a community-centered focus:
(look at "Quick Start Guide" in upper right)
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The Community Network Builder is an application that helps you estimate and understand the cost of building and operating a community network anywhere in the world.
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Great resource for people to plan the economics.
An Architecture for IP in Deep Space - https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-many-tiptop-ip-architecture/
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The IP protocol stacks used on Earth's Internet are typically configured based on assumptions of short delays and mostly uninterrupted communications. This document describes an architecture of the IP protocol stack tailored for its use in deep space. This architecture applies to the Moon, Mars, and general interplanetary networking.
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Now watching my @internetsociety@techpolicy.social colleague Amreesh Phokeer presenting at the #GAIA Research Group on one of my favorite topics...
... the dependence of #InternetResilience on energy / power / electrical resilience.
No power... no Internet!
His slides are available at https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/125/materials/slides-125-gaia-blackouts-byteouts-amreesh-phokeer-01
Boarding a flight in Montreal heading to Tokyo to participate in #IETF125 from a satellite location. Another colleague will be at the actual venue in Shenzen, China. Looking forward to all the discussions this week!
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!
@vga256@mastodon.tomodori.net Thanks for this info. Curiously, I don't have "Gemini for Workspace" in my workspace admin menu. Mine just goes:
I also didn't get an email about it. Is this perhaps something they are slowly rolling out?
