Notices by Dan York (danyork@mastodon.social)

@WarnerCrocker Here in northwestern Vermont (near Burlington) a dozen of the store-brand eggs are $4.29 in a couple of the big chains. Other brands are higher.

(The caveat is that our prices have generally always been higher than other parts of New England.)

Join a #GlobalEncryptionDay event today! Organizations all around the world are celebrating how #encryption allows us to have a safe and secure online experience - and also the threats to our use of encryption. Find an event near you (or online): https://www.globalencryption.org/events/ged/ged-2024/events/

I'm joining in to parts of The Encryption Summit, a series of panels happening throughout the day: https://events.zoom.us/ev/AoJeeIwDpZ1Kw6MtWuA6WUoxljX8rFSwSQa6yIAmsrz4z0YyR_HX~AgvFs7_VrDTYubhtf6cueTP7ILUnfVmUt4de2orTkYcRAyBxf-zN57qfrg

Find out more from Global Encryption Coalition - https://www.globalencryption.org/

#ProtectTheFuture #GED2024

@dansup Best wishes with the launch. I’m looking forward to experimenting with it!

If you live in the US, work with IT, and want to help with responding to events such as #HurricaneHelene (and now #HurricaneMilton ), consider volunteering with #ITDRC - https://www.itdrc.org/volunteering-with-itdrc

Whether is is actually deploying in the field to help set up WiFi and charging stations, or helping remotely, VOLUNTEERS ARE NEEDED! You can sign up at that link to help with connecting communities in crisis. (Currently ITDRC is US-based, but other similar orgs are out there in other places.)

Who are the thought leaders you pay attention to about electrical / power / energy resilience? Either for keeping the power grid online, or for distributed energy resources and options? (Or both?) Who are the people talking about adapting our energy infrastructure to ensure we continue to have power in the face of climate change?
And are any of them talking about the linkage between energy resilience and Internet resilience? (No power = no Internet access)
Interested in learning more!

@news Thank you for writing this comprehensive post about how to set this all up! Looking forward to getting it live on my WordPress sites.

My only good shot from totality (after I remembered to take the filter off the lens! 🤦♂️🤣). Totality was amazing and so I was drinking it all in. Temps dropped a good 10 degrees F, mosquitoes came out, the birds stopped singing, everyone’s solar lights came on, and it was incredibly dark. Really amazing!
And then it was over and everything started returning to normal!

#Eclipse #Eclipse2024 #Totality #Vermont #SolarEclipse #SolarEclipse2024

If you are looking for a summary of what is happening with the terrible Baltimore bridge collapse, the #Wikipedia page about the event is being constantly updated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Scott_Key_Bridge_collapse

#Baltimore #BaltimoreBridge

It's very disappointing that potentially as many as 60 million US citizens may lose their affordable Internet access because the US Congress has politicized things and so far failed to act:

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/23/tech/acp-affordable-connectivity-program/

#Internet #AffordableConnectivityProgram #USCongress #InternetAccess

This was an easy blog post for me to write! There is so much wrong with the State of Nevada’s request for an injunction to prevent Meta from rolling out end-to-end encryption in Facebook Messenger. For starters, WhatsApp has had E2EE since 2016, Apple iMessage since 2011 … and more.

Hopefully the district court in Nevada will agree and NOT allow the injunction! We’ll see.

#E2EE #Encryption #Nevada #Meta

From: @internetsociety
https://techpolicy.social/@internetsociety/112083762463331724

Spending much of my day as a volunteer election worker helping at the polls. Today is both the Vermont Presidential Primary (part of “Super Tuesday”) and also “Town Meeting Day ” where we vote on our town budget, school budget, and yes, for a new fire engine 🚒 and a new ambulance 🚑 🙂 . My particular role is a fairly easy one.. I stand near the tabulator machine in case there are issues with it.. and I give out stickers! 😃

#Vermont #SuperTuesday #TownMeetingDay

@mmasnick Please do post more here! I very much enjoy and appreciate your take on things.

@pfefferle Cool! Clearly I just missed that. 🤦♂️

@pfefferle Excellent news! Thank you for all the work on this.

Are the Blocks new? (Follow me on Fediverse, and Fediverse Followers) Those are a nice addition.

If they have been there before, then I guess I just missed them.

@photomatt Glad you are here, Matt! There is some good #WordPress discussion that happens here.

For ppl in the USA still thinking about making tax-deductible contributions before midnight tonight, here are my entirely-subjective suggestions for US organizations to consider who are working to make the #Internet better in some way:

- The Internet Society - (Yes, this is my employer!) There are still 3 billion people with no Internet access - and governments around the world are seeking to restrict what we can see and do. We need your help to defend the Internet! https://www.internetsociety.org/donate/

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“Hope begins with the ability to imagine alternatives. And there is always an alternative.” - part of a brilliant graduation address by Cory Doctorow ( @pluralistic ) to York University.

A great piece about science fiction, optimism, pessimism, fatalism, humane agency, Luddites, tech bros, inevitability, and the need to always seek alternatives… and to find hope.

Read the whole thing: https://doctorow.medium.com/there-is-always-an-alternative-e55fd414d1fd

#hope #scifi #sciencefiction

@evan @darius @noracodes I agree! That’s why I am here.

I am just saying we need to look at WHY centralized systems keep winning (even in email).

- They make *discovery* of other people and content easy.

- They remove friction from creating content to make that as easy as possible.

- They remove friction from *running* a server.

They make it easy for people to connect, communicate, collaborate.

We have to do the same. And we are in many ways!

@darius @evan @noracodes And that’s certainly a valid concern. Attempting to run your own email server in 2023 is an exercise in frustration. (And yet I know a good number of people who still do.)

@evan @darius @noracodes A challenge is that the VAST majority of users don’t want to run servers or do anything technical like that. They just want to connect and communicate with their friends, discover new interesting people, catch up on news, follow celebrities, learn new things, etc.

They don’t care about centralized vs decentralized. They just want to connect with the people they care about.

Centralized systems made this easy, removed friction.