Notices by Christian Huitema (huitema@social.secret-wg.org)

@bortzmeyer Poutine a un petit problème. L'armée Russe utilise beaucoup de groupes Telegram. Si les services Français ont accès aux serveurs, ils peuvent lire le contenu de ces groupes et passer les mouvements de troupes aux Ukrainiens...

The story of Kayla Nemour and her gold medal reminds me of so many things about France. The French federation would not send her to the Olympics, so she ended up competing for Algeria. The federation did not want her because they did not like the small town club in which she trained, which looks like a classic case of Parisian elites snubbing "the provinces". Probably mixed with the kind of racism that reserves the good jobs for "people like us". I am not surprised.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/08/04/world/olympics-gymnastics-bars

@malwaretech how can that be "every instance in the federation" fetches the link, by opposition to "every instance on which at least one of your followers received the post with the embedded link"? The scaling properties are rather different.
#MastodonScale

Dave Mills was a great contributor to the IETF and the Internet. Of course, he invented NTP. But he did not just do that. He also kept improving it, solving issues, passing his knowledge, and inspiring many to work in his field. So many reasons to miss him.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_L._Mills

For a couple of years now, I have been working with Alain Durand at ICANN to collect statistics in DNS usage, patterns, etc. Data is updated monthly. Latest addition is a table of the concentration of DNS name servers, measured by looking at where the IP addresses of the servers are hosted. The big "winner" is of course Cloudflare, but there is also a significant correlation between being hosted by AWS or served by Akamai and have the DNS on the same network.
https://ithi.research.icann.org/graph-m9.html