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.
| My writing | https://danyork.me/ |
| Where I work | https://www.internetsociety.org/ |
| Podcast | https://soundcloud.com/danyork/ |
| Live streaming (Twitch) | https://www.twitch.tv/danyork324 |
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:
-------
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.
-------
RE: https://techpolicy.social/@internetsociety/116296243937904406
This is a huge win for the #Internet and #InternetAccess in general! The movie / TV industry wants to make Internet Service Providers (ISPs) responsible for policing all their subscribers and making sure they aren't downloading pirated content - and responsible for blocking those subscribers.
But... *that's not how the Internet works!*
There could be 10s, 100s, or 1000s of people behind a single IP address - all who would be blocked - but not now.
That moment when it is 7:00am and you have it strongly in your brain that YOU HAVE A MEETING AT 8:00 AM... and yet your phone's calendar doesn't show it.
So... ASSUMING the calendar failed, as they do sometimes... you pull out your computer... and find the 8am appt is NOT there either...
... and then you remember that **YOU** MOVED IT TO MONDAY! 🤣🤦♂️
The good news is that I now have an hour more this morning for work than I thought I did an hour ago! 🤣
Apple Watch users - have you noticed anything useful or helpful in the new WatchOS 26.4?
(Installing now and just wondering if there will be any value.)
What if you could play real-world wind farms in Turbine Tycoon?
This is exactly what I've been looking at in my latest experiments.
I thought it would be fun to let you pick various real wind farms around Great Britain (maybe even the world) and then let you loose to see how well you can manage them.
Fuck. Reflect Orbital apparently had more time than we thought to respond, and they just did. We have a lot more writing to do. Hopefully some of you who wrote comments will also write and submit replies to Reflect Orbital's FCC response. I'm sure it's total bullshit, and I am not sure when I will have the strength to read it.
Fuck you, Reflect Orbital. I hate absolutely everything you are planning to do. Really tempted to submit THAT to the FCC...but I will rethink when not 100% exhausted.
Decades ago, I’d read books like “Soul of a New Machine” and “Showstopper!” as romances, about late nights and impossible tasks and the ability to will something into existence using just brains and caffeine.
It took me far too long to recognize that they were actually warnings.
Yesterday my partner and kids visited the Antarctic Centre in Christchurch, and they were all delighted by the penguins and huskies. They were less impressed by the "cold room" (which was -8C and had fans that also blow wind at 40km/hr, they have parkas you can borrow...)
Saskatchewan has completely changed our standards for cold weather! My 9yo: "It didn't even freeze my boogers! That's not cold!" My partner: "It was nice dog walking weather."
RE: https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/116292437194618572
Coming soon - your org’s code powering every competitors products.
Beginning my day as I do most Wednesday mornings, at the Charlotte-Shelburne-Hinesburg Rotary club!
Robin Hawkes ⚡️
Prof. Sam Lawler
Greg Knauss
Kevin Beaumont