Can #DNSSEC save the world?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdv_0kqrsCQ

What happened to Proton!? I am not anti-AI, but this is insane.

https://www.404media.co/manifestos-fear-and-loser-thinking-inside-protons-ai-reckoning/

This just gets worse and worse the more I read this article.

I hear some bad things coming from some tech execs. They seem to have full-on AI psychosis. It's no longer build fast, break things. It's build faster, break everything.

I have been told by a friend you works for a big tech firm that their VP says that one developer day is now one develop second when using AI.

#ietf attendees: I have just scheduled an informal Mastodon user side-meeting on Wednesday morning at 8 (during the “light breakfast” hour). If any of you will be in town for the meeting, or want to participate over (ugh) WebEx, that would be great. Or, if you know other IETFers who are Mastodon users (even in +ro mode), let them know. The informal agenda is basically “all other business”.

@andy will be a no-show because the IESG meets at the same time.

https://sidemeetings.ietf.org/ — sorry that there are no links to individual side-meetings.

Apparently there are 608k unfilled manufacturing jobs in the US. I think the number is sus, but even if it is just 100k that is interesting. Part of the problem is, apparently, that there are not enough people with the right education and skills to fill them. We’re not talking about PhD education but 2 year associate degrees. So why aren’t we producing those graduates? And why aren’t the graduates getting those well-rounded 4+ year degrees getting this education? Is a well-rounded education truly all that well-rounded if you never learned how to use power tools or run a welder?

So is Lunduke vibe-coding his own OS? That doesn't just seem silly, it seems dangerous. I don't think this "owning the libs" effort will work out the way he thinks it will.

So Fairfax Public County Schools (FCPS) is purchasing a quantum computer for students at one of the high schools for $684k. This is apparently the first public k-12 school in the world to get one.

I have mixed feelings. Partly because I don't know if there is a there there for QC. Skeptics say that QC doesn't have any real-world application. I don't know. I am not an expert.

What I do know is that FCPS started this school year by laying off 11 crossing guards to save money, and consequently there have been several students hit by cars with a few fatalities. They have since started re-instating the crossing guards, but with a "this is just temporary... we're kinda broke and don't know how long we can keep these people on the payroll" messaging.

Maybe it is just me, but if the choice is to buy a quantum computer for one high school or keep 11 crossing guards on the payroll, the answer is pretty obvious.

I put together some utilities to do bulk operations with RDAP. If interested, take a look. Feedback welcome.

https://github.com/anewton1998/rdap-utils

Project completed.

The annoying part about staining is all the prep work. Anyway, first coat is on. That took around 4 hours. The wood is definitely soaking it up. My hope is that the bottom coat only takes 2 hours… and that I don’t run out of stain. I would hate to buy another can for $60 just for a few top coats.

I don’t know how to break it to you all, but you are being played. https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/09/13/the-contagion-of-fear/

All four assembled. Now for some sanding and stain.

Weekend project underway.

My project this weekend was to build two patio side tables. However, I wanted to use only wood left over from previous projects, the plans were important, which meant I needed CAD. But uh… I literally forgot all the CAD stuff I learned 2 years ago. Hey, FreeCAD has an MCP server, let’s get AI to do it. I spent all day Saturday prompting qwen3.8 and did get a plan… with no dimensions. I would not recommend this path. Tables are built, btw.

Meet the first cohort of the #SovereignTechStandards network! Antoine d’Aligny, @dansup, @minipgp6, @job, Kacper Dalach, @lolaodelola, Marten Seemann, @miri64, @jugglinmike, and Stephen Curran bring hands-on expertise from critical, open source infrastructure into standards development. Their work will help shape more secure and more interoperable technology.

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I'd somehow never seen this old video before but in the year 2026 it is needed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSKp2StlS6s

1/ You can think that Tridge made some mistakes (I do, and he acknowledges them) and disagree with his take on GenAI (I do) but the pitchfork-wielding burn-the-witch mob being led by @davidgerard should show some humility and humanity. I acknowledge I'm a bit prejudiced based on having for a few decades used Tridge's work to save my ass and achieve results that seem miraculous.

When Internet exchange points (#IXPs) keep traffic local, costs fall while speed and reliability increase.

In 40 out of 50 countries we analyzed, the share of income needed to afford basic mobile broadband fell by more than 10% after receiving a grant from the Internet Society Foundation for IXP development or local peering ecosystem support. In several countries, the improvement is far larger, suggesting substantial shifts in affordability over time.

Read more: https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2026/05/local-infrastructure-lower-costs-how-peering-is-moving-the-needle-on-internet-affordability/

Travel hell. Got deboarded in LHR due to mechanical. They called us all back an hour later. As we were all milling around and chatting, I tried to be Mr Calm by saying “it could be worse”. Well, I was right. Storm rolled through, 20 flights cancelled. British Air hustled us out of the airport without letting us know what was going on. Two hours later I learn I am flying to Copenhagen tomorrow to get back to the US. Nothing can be done about it. It takes 2 more hours to find a hotel. 1 hour taxi queue. Get to the hotel only to learn the travel agent never hit “save” or whatever. Fortunately got another hotel 20 min walk away for 50% more. Got checked in at 23:30. Sky bar closes at 24:00. Ordered two gin and tonics, doubles.

The documents people have referenced for years as JSON Schema are labeled "work in-progress". They are drafts, literally "Internet-Draft".

Today, the IETF decided to start the process to fix that... to make JSON Schema a standard.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/jsonschema/about/

Anthropic is testing only making Claude Code available in their $100/month or higher plans.

Another sign that we’re hitting the Uber moment for AI tools and everyone’s stopping subsidizing tokens.

With data center capacity at a premium, they don’t need to attract more users. It’s monetization time