Untitled attachment

Notices where this attachment appears

1. Embed this notice
   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 17-Mar-2025 02:36:32 JST Aral Balkan

   in reply to

   @zbrando @morrick @ueeu You’re not wrong.

   But, looking ahead, we can do so much better than the commercial domain name system.

   Commercial domain names are a gold standard example of artificial scarcity. A domain name registrar cost next to nothing to operate. It’s tiny rows of text in a database. It could easily be free to own your own domain name – a huge part of what constitutes identity – on the Internet.

   In fact, a non-commercial service has been operational for 24 years. It would be trivial to regulate that browsers in the EU implement support for it and work together with, say, @letsencrypt to ensure it can handle TLS.

   That would be an amazing addition to the commons and a future-proof way forward that we could lead on with next to no investment.

   #domainNames #DNS #openNic #LetsEncrypt #EU #commons #internet #freedom #ICAAN

2. Embed this notice
   Peter Cohen (flargh@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jul-2024 07:25:14 JST Peter Cohen

   Real talk: After 25 years, I've pretty much given up on a career in tech journalism.

   It's no secret that journalism, in general, is an apocalyptic wasteland. It has nothing to do with AI, and everything to do with compounding lousy publishing business decisions that go back to the dawn of the public Internet.

   In May I took a job far outside of tech. It's modest but stable, and for the first time in years I'm not worried I'll be kicked to the curb tomorrow.