Bill Woodcock

Executive Director of Packet Clearing House. Chair of the Quad9 Foundation Council, president of EcoRace. Dad of two rambunctious girls, car guy. AS42, 715, & 3856.

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woody_at_pleroma.pch.net@mostr.pub

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2024-06-28 14:40:46

https://thepointsguy.com/news/airline-seats-concepts-aircraft-interior-expo/

2024-06-20 11:46:13

I'm just now catching up on the Proterra bankruptcy. Odd that Volvo didn't just take the whole thing, given the marginal price for the bus business.
https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/electric-vehicles/bankrupt-ev-bus-maker-proterra-finds-buyers-for-its-business-units

2024-06-07 23:49:19

Will the gay dating scene reclaim messaging privacy for us? I can only hope so!
https://www.germnetwork.com/blog/introducing-germ-dm-20

2024-05-21 21:24:41

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@npub19hx…h4p9
https://pleroma.pch.net/media/71641f830b7cd5dc014ac4115bed01a699d2c7859e625e41296d857d0e1aab99.png

2024-05-21 21:11:51

Nice! @npub19hx…h4p9 just shipped version 6, and it includes encrypted DNS to Quad9!
https://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html
https://pleroma.pch.net/media/72d9bdc3b41ba65754148849bd9f594b43319346059535e17b94b8db1862cdde.png

2024-05-03 06:39:54

https://www.takahe.org.nz/heat-death-of-the-internet/

2024-04-22 16:29:50

Thanks, LinkedIn. Let me guess... you're using AI to make recommendations, now?
https://pleroma.pch.net/media/b32fd41e17333350cc1572652705473ea523040e71af554df8595b5f7700745d.png

2024-03-28 14:39:02

https://circleid.com/posts/20240327-the-fcc-cyber-trust-label-gambit-part-ii

2024-03-27 07:05:33

No surprises here, but it's good to see the laundry aired:
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/26/facebook-secret-project-snooped-snapchat-user-traffic/

2024-03-06 21:11:14

https://bnnbreaking.com/tech/comcasts-dns-interception-sparks-privacy-concerns-transparent-dns-policy-unveiled

2024-03-04 15:57:01

For anyone who didn't see it on Friday, a really important report out from @npub1hxf…g8qu and Clingendael on the criticality of the juncture Europe (and the world) finds itself with respect to security and “cloud services.”
https://www.clingendael.org/publication/too-late-act-europes-quest-cloud-sovereignty

2024-02-29 23:46:42

Ah, the oddities of travel. Today, I saw this, in CDG. Presumably they assist each other? Or maybe the assistant has an assistant? It wasn't clear.
https://pleroma.pch.net/media/600e58906407db675cc961f45569bcf6e9aaa74c09d528a8f834179ff18bbde2.jpeg

2024-02-27 09:01:11

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@npub1w30…dh68
Careful repeating this, it contains a lot of misinformation; perhaps disinformation. The only source for the attribution to the Houthis is a single anonymous Twitter account. It's actually three cables not four (Seacom and TGN are the same cable on that segment) and the interarrival time of these outages is not out-of-the-ordinary.
Also, there's no observed effect yet, in the sense that all traffic observed thus far is being successfully re-routed, so there's no "harm" in the sense of public impact.
To my view, the most important issue is that cable repair ships are, while well-insured, also slow and expensive to build, so it may be that the reason we've stacked up three outages at once is because nobody feels like risking the future revenue of a cable ship that ventures into an area with live anti-ship missile fire.
Also worthy of note that we've been in exactly this situation before, in 2008 and 2011.

2024-02-23 18:28:36

Ford's now selling an 80A EVSE, for $2500, which is about par for the course. I can't tell if it's a re-packaged CS-100, or something from a different manufacturer.
https://www.fordpro.com/en-us/charging/ecommerce-product-details/FPC-AC0080ZC-UAA

2024-02-14 12:57:00

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@npub14sa…qgtf
But... how else would we know that they were approved messages?

2024-01-23 12:05:28

Google and Microsoft take another shot in their attempt to kill off open-standards-based-email:
https://support.google.com/a/answer/14114704

2024-01-19 01:06:46

RIP Dave Mills. Because of his work, we know what time it is, more or less. A great contributor to the Internet.

2023-12-15 17:08:22

Price of Comcast 500mbps broadband in Berkeley, California (blue) relative to inflation (green), since May 2018.
https://pleroma.pch.net/media/9fd2df6234db32c41a594ac71201b246715926aa084274dea2cf17cbff7a1b97.png

2023-12-14 00:37:31

DropBox enshittifies itself:
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/12/dropbox-spooks-users-by-sending-data-to-openai-for-ai-search-features/

2023-12-07 01:52:13

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@npub1u3f…nne2
The former. The goal here is clearly not to stop piracy, else they would, at some point in the last 22 years, actually have gone after the pirate index site.
The goal is to create a precedent that they can demand that anyone censor anything, else have to pay them "damages" in the absence of any court judgement.

2023-12-06 15:34:47

VICTORY!
https://www.inside-it.ch/quad9-gewinnt-wichtigen-rechtsstreit-gegen-sony-20231206

2023-12-02 15:25:07

Huh. I just bought my daughter a typewriter for Christmas, on eBay. It's in Oslo. I was going to have it sent to Paris, figuring that would be simpler than shipping to Montana. Price with shipping from Oslo to Bozeman: $420. Price with shipping from Oslo to Paris: $540. I don't understand eBay.

2023-12-02 03:16:49

Well now.
https://pleroma.pch.net/media/3eafa5cbcb8c3a24daed2f74cf5608cfc396c4419bf1d3d16495a3537619e9d8.png

2023-10-28 13:53:35

For the price of a studio apartment in San Francisco, you and fifteen of your friends could be relaxing by the pool, in YOUR OWN VILLAGE, a half-hour from the beach.
https://www.bellesdemeures.com/annonces/vente/tt-2-tb-2-pl-23196/201164157/

2023-10-25 20:08:29

Mercedes is building an SUV in Alabama. It has vinyl seats and costs $180k.
https://www.autoweek.com/news/a45631084/2024-mercedes-maybach-eqs-680-pricing/

2023-09-26 06:19:56

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@npub1hvd…9sq9
That was Omnigraffle, saying that it could no longer import EPS objects for use in drawings and diagrams, which is a loss. Now I'll need to go convert them all to PDF using Adobe Illustrator.
The bigger issue, from my point of view, is Apple's gradual frog-boiling away from open standards and toward proprietary and walled-garden things. I'm not super wound up about PDF, but PDF is worse than EPS in terms of interoperability.
The real heart-breaker was the loss of XMPP support in 2018.

2023-08-17 11:41:44

Very sorry to read that Chinese authorities have restricted @npub1uqe…z6lk from posting. That's a significant hit to the global cybersecurity community, since she often surfaced issues that others didn't, particularly at the intersections with public health, transport, and other important fields.
https://www.hackingbutlegal.com/p/naomi-wu-and-the-silence-that-speaks-volumes

2023-08-16 09:08:21

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@npub1urz…39sc This is, though, exactly the kind of situation that will be made better by slightly better tools. The problem here is that the machine is laying a pattern of bricks relative to bricks, prioritizing the pattern over the form. By comparison, a slightly smarter machine would place bricks relative to the form, approximating the pattern.
I'm also a big advocate of non-periodic tilings for exactly this reason... You can "bend" them as necessary (to cover non-planar surfaces, for example) and trim tiles to fit, without offending the eye, since there's no repetition for the eye to measure against.

2023-07-03 10:10:17

Yes, I'm deeply aware of the irony of posting a link to twitter here. Particularly this link:
https://twitter.com/IanColdwater/status/1675301524400922624?s=20

2023-05-16 05:21:01

Unsurprising trouble in Trumpworld.
"Giuliani was rarely sober, and relied heavily on Viagra."
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12087277/Woman-accuses-Rudy-Giuliani-sexual-harassment-files-lurid-legal-documents.html