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Andy Newton | Doer of stuff, arguer of things | PE @ ICANN | ART AD @ IETF | Organizer @ NoVaLUG | WorkCamp @ Saint James
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Reply to @letoams@defcon.social
@ncweaver.skerry-tech.com@bsky.brid.gy @letoams no. debian 😀
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Reply to @jtk@infosec.exchange
@jtk @paulehoffman @ietf I can't tell if that works with Akkoma. There is a blurb that says "currently only works with WordPress" which is clearly wrong but also indicates how broadly this works.

With a git repo we can have multiple with rights to accept PRs which I think would scale better.
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Reply to @jtk@infosec.exchange
@jtk @paulehoffman @ietf Can any fediverse client see those or is it strictly a Mastodon feature? Akkoma has had lists forever, but I don't think others can see it.
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Can #DNSSEC save the world?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdv_0kqrsCQ
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Reply to @andy
@davidgerard @adamhotep @fastmail @neurovagrant @toxy

As usual, 2 sides to every story:
https://www.reddit.com/r/fastmail/comments/1do3ede/fastmail_just_lays_off_60_of_their_unions/

I get why the union is unhappy about what happened, but Fastmail's side of the story seems reasonable too. Given that they do have unionized employees to this day, calling them union busters seems a tad extreme. No matter what, layoffs suck. I hope those people found jobs.
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Reply to @davidgerard@circumstances.run
@davidgerard @neurovagrant @adamhotep @toxy @fastmail thanks. I wonder why that didn't show up before.
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Reply to @paulehoffman@infosec.exchange
@paulehoffman @ietf maybe a github or codeberg repo with a list of the handles and people can PR to it.
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Reply to @davidgerard@circumstances.run
@davidgerard @neurovagrant @adamhotep @toxy @fastmail I'm not seeing it on my timeline. This is odd.
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Reply to @paulehoffman@infosec.exchange
@paulehoffman @ietf maybe we should put our handles on one of the blank squares we can attach to our badge
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Reply to @davidgerard@circumstances.run
@fastmail @neurovagrant @adamhotep @davidgerard @toxy huh? I hope you have receipts. They are like 80 people spread across 3 countries. What union is organizing their workers?
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Reply to @neurovagrant@masto.deoan.org
@neurovagrant @adamhotep @toxy @davidgerard @fastmail the fastmail people are very involved in the standards community. They are very solid peeps.
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Reply to @andy
And if you are running Cisco gear, buckle up!

https://fortune.com/2026/10/30/cisco-president-jeetu-patel-gen-z-27-year-old-unlimited-ai-tokens-rewrite-legacy-code-entry-level-jobs/
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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.
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Reply to @paulehoffman@infosec.exchange
@paulehoffman or maybe I ask the IESG to attend your meeting. 🙂
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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.

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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?
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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.
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Reply to @Kadin2048@mefi.social
@Kadin2048 inorite! However, the press release says there are 100 open job listings in northern virginia for quantum computing, and then names a bunch of beltway bandit companies.
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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.
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I put together some utilities to do bulk operations with RDAP. If interested, take a look. Feedback welcome.

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