5:18 am When I climb up into the crow’s nest and look out at the horizon, one of the “lands of opportunity” I continually see is the world of “decentralized social media”, and in particular Mastodon and the other services that use the ActivityPub protocol and are broadly referred to as the “Fediverse”. For context, […]
Nov 05
AVFTCN 024 – A long walk-through of using WordPress’ “Jetpack AI Assistant”
4:06 am Jenna (our 16yo miniature poodle) didn’t get the memo about the time change. Can someone remind me why we do this again? I was going to write about Mozilla and their plans with Mozilla.social this morning… but in trying out WordPress as a platform for a combined newsletter and blog, well… there’s something […]
Oct 26
Slides for my ISC2 Security Congress session on “Demystifying Routing Security”
Today at the ISC2 Security Congress 2023 in Nashville, TN, I gave a well-received talk on “Demystifying the World of Routing Security”. Unfortunately, the mobile app for the event had (and still has) the wrong set of slides. Instead of mine, the attached deck was for a 2019 talk. So I told participants I would put the slides up on one of my sites. And here they are: Download 2023-ISC2-Security-Congress-RoutingSecurity-Final.pdf (12033.0K) As you will see, a great amount of the slides are about the Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security (MANRS) initiative. Also, for people seeking info about how to…
Oct 21
Blue hat
Just a photo of my blue Rotary hat. (Testing something out with image uploads – this IS my test site after all. M)
Oct 13
Migration in Blue
Looked up the other day and there was a flock of geese going across the blue sky…
Sep 30
No More Status
Booking airline tickets for my first business trip since December 2019, I get down to the part where United notes your status level and it says…“General”No “Premier” status of any level.Which makes total sense given:2020 – 0 flights2021 – 0 flights2022…
Sep 22
The Curious Aspect of Facebook Supporting Multiple Personas
I find it fascinating that Meta just announced the ability of Facebook users to have multiple accounts attached to their single Facebook account. So you can have different “personas” for interacting with different communities differently. Now, this is nothing very…
Sep 21
Techxit: The UK Declares Its Exit from the High-Tech Startup World
No one in their right mind would now want to start up a high-tech company in the UK. With a last-minute addition to the Online Safety Bill (OSB), the UK government made it clear that startups are no longer welcome in the UK. Previously, the OSB applie…
Sep 07
TDYR 413 – Overcoming Fatigue and Malaise
Has it really be over a year since I last published a podcast episode? In this new episode, I talk about some of the fatigue and malaise that has kept me away from recording and also writing. I also provided an update on some of what has been going on …
May 01
43% of the Web Can No Longer (Easily) Auto-Share to Twitter
As of today, May 1, 2023, 43% of web sites will no longer be able to easily auto-share posts to Twitter. I’m referring, of course, to WordPress, which W3Techs shows as powering around 43% of all sites they scan. Due…
