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X outage: Elon Musk’s Twitter back after brief global outage

Elon Musk’s social media platform X (Formerly known as Twitter) has faced a service outage in US and…
#UnitedStates #US #USA #Downdetector #ElonMusk #ElonMuskTwitter #globaloutage #Musk #Twitterserviceoutage #Xoutage
https://www.europesays.com/2887355/

RESOLUTION OF ENDORSEMENT MORATORIUM FOR MAYOR JOHN WHITMIRE

The resolution condemns John Whitmire for aiding GOP power, legitimizing authoritarian politics, and violating Democratic values, calling for accountability and denial of future party endorsements.

RESOLUTION OF ENDORSEMENT MORATORIUM FOR MAYOR JOHN WHITMIRE

The resolution condemns John Whitmire for aiding GOP power, legitimizing authoritarian politics, and violating Democratic values, calling for accountability and denial of future party endorsements.

ChatGPT’s Creator OpenAI to Launch Social App to Rival Elon Musk’s X - OpenAI, the parent company of ChatGPT, is building a new social media platform to compete... - https://coingape.com/chatgpts-creator-openai-to-launch-social-app-to-rival-elon-musks-x/ #24/7cryptocurrencynews #elonmusktwitter #openai

#boycott #X #twitter #twittermigration #elonmusk #elonmusktwitter #elonmuskcangofuckhimself #campagne

Elon Musk Secures Victory Against US SEC As Court Rejects Sanction Request - The world’s richest man, Elon Musk, has secured victory in a legal battle with the US Sec... - https://coingape.com/elon-musk-secures-victory-against-us-sec-as-court-rejects-sanction-request/ #24/7cryptocurrencynews #elonmusktwitter #regulationnews #elonmusknews #ussec

Weekly output: Boost Mobile, AI at BT, digital privacy, Elon Musk’s X agenda, Salt Typhoon breaches T-Mobile

I have more than enough practice at traveling to the other side of the Atlantic, but this week’s trip to Lisbon for Web Summit had me sandbagged by jet lag almost every night. It appears that I never got my head into Western European Time, to judge from my not feeling wiped out in a “do not operate heavy machinery” way after I got home Friday night.

11/11/2024: Boost Mobile Touts 5G Network Progress, Adds Sub-$100 5G Phone to Lineup, PCMag

The advance copies of Boost’s PR materials were vague about some key points, but the carrier’s press rep did get back to me to clarify that the $10 billion network-buildout expense shared in them was a total estimate, not a forecast of costs to come.

11/12/2024: Will Gen AI generate value for the corporate landscape?, Web Summit

My first panel at this conference had me interviewing Alex Bell, BT’s digital director of service, and Michael Park, a senior vice president and global head of AI go-to-market at ServiceNow, about how the former company had enlisted the latter to put AI to work in some important IT and customer-service systems.

11/12/2024: Secure swipe: protecting customer data, Web Summit

My second and final panel–fewer than I usually field at this conference–put me on stage with Brittany Kaiser, the Cambridge Analytica whistleblower turned Own Your Data advocate, and Marcus Räder, founder and CEO of the lodging-services firm Hostaway, to discuss how companies collect and keep data and how they would be better off not hoarding so much customer information.

11/14/2024: ‘Things Are Different for Elon’: Who Needs X When You Have Political Power?, PCMag

I only wrote up one Web Summit panel for PCMag, but it was a very good one: New York Times reporters Kate Conger and Ryan Mac talking about Elon Musk’s chaotic takeover of Twitter. They went beyond their recount of that in their book Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter to discuss our new oligarch-in-chief’s privileged perch in Donald Trump’s circles.

11/16/2024: Chinese State-Sponsored ‘Salt Typhoon’ Hackers Also Breached T-Mobile, PCMag

I usually try to avoid writing posts on the weekend, but a) this was news that had gone uncovered at my client and b) I had written less than usual over the rest of the week and c) I have bills coming that aren’t going to pay themselves.

#AI #BoostMobile #BrittanyKaiser #BT #ChineseHackers #ElonMuskTwitter #KateConger #Lisbon #oligarch #RyanMac #SaltTyphoon #TMobile #WebSummit

Weekly output: Boost Mobile, AI at BT, digital privacy, Elon Musk’s X agenda, Salt Typhoon breaches T-Mobile

I have more than enough practice at traveling to the other side of the Atlantic, but this week’s trip to Lisbon for Web Summit had me sandbagged by jet lag almost every night. It appears that I never got my head into Western European Time, to judge from my not feeling wiped out in a “do not operate heavy machinery” way after I got home Friday night.

11/11/2024: Boost Mobile Touts 5G Network Progress, Adds Sub-$100 5G Phone to Lineup, PCMag

The advance copies of Boost’s PR materials were vague about some key points, but the carrier’s press rep did get back to me to clarify that the $10 billion network-buildout expense shared in them was a total estimate, not a forecast of costs to come.

11/12/2024: Will Gen AI generate value for the corporate landscape?, Web Summit

My first panel at this conference had me interviewing Alex Bell, BT’s digital director of service, and Michael Park, a senior vice president and global head of AI go-to-market at ServiceNow, about how the former company had enlisted the latter to put AI to work in some important IT and customer-service systems.

11/12/2024: Secure swipe: protecting customer data, Web Summit

My second and final panel–fewer than I usually field at this conference–put me on stage with Brittany Kaiser, the Cambridge Analytica whistleblower turned Own Your Data advocate, and Marcus Räder, founder and CEO of the lodging-services firm Hostaway, to discuss how companies collect and keep data and how they would be better off not hoarding so much customer information.

11/14/2024: ‘Things Are Different for Elon’: Who Needs X When You Have Political Power?, PCMag

I only wrote up one Web Summit panel for PCMag, but it was a very good one: New York Times reporters Kate Conger and Ryan Mac talking about Elon Musk’s chaotic takeover of Twitter. They went beyond their recount of that in their book Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter to discuss our new oligarch-in-chief’s privileged perch in Donald Trump’s circles.

11/16/2024: Chinese State-Sponsored ‘Salt Typhoon’ Hackers Also Breached T-Mobile, PCMag

I usually try to avoid writing posts on the weekend, but a) this was news that had gone uncovered at my client and b) I had written less than usual over the rest of the week and c) I have bills coming that aren’t going to pay themselves.

#AI #BoostMobile #BrittanyKaiser #BT #ChineseHackers #ElonMuskTwitter #KateConger #Lisbon #oligarch #RyanMac #SaltTyphoon #TMobile #WebSummit

Weekly output: Boost Mobile, AI at BT, digital privacy, Elon Musk’s X agenda, Salt Typhoon breaches T-Mobile

I have more than enough practice at traveling to the other side of the Atlantic, but this week’s trip to Lisbon for Web Summit had me sandbagged by jet lag almost every night. It appears that I never got my head into Western European Time, to judge from my not feeling wiped out in a “do not operate heavy machinery” way after I got home Friday night.

11/11/2024: Boost Mobile Touts 5G Network Progress, Adds Sub-$100 5G Phone to Lineup, PCMag

The advance copies of Boost’s PR materials were vague about some key points, but the carrier’s press rep did get back to me to clarify that the $10 billion network-buildout expense shared in them was a total estimate, not a forecast of costs to come.

11/12/2024: Will Gen AI generate value for the corporate landscape?, Web Summit

My first panel at this conference had me interviewing Alex Bell, BT’s digital director of service, and Michael Park, a senior vice president and global head of AI go-to-market at ServiceNow, about how the former company had enlisted the latter to put AI to work in some important IT and customer-service systems.

11/12/2024: Secure swipe: protecting customer data, Web Summit

My second and final panel–fewer than I usually field at this conference–put me on stage with Brittany Kaiser, the Cambridge Analytica whistleblower turned Own Your Data advocate, and Marcus Räder, founder and CEO of the lodging-services firm Hostaway, to discuss how companies collect and keep data and how they would be better off not hoarding so much customer information.

11/14/2024: ‘Things Are Different for Elon’: Who Needs X When You Have Political Power?, PCMag

I only wrote up one Web Summit panel for PCMag, but it was a very good one: New York Times reporters Kate Conger and Ryan Mac talking about Elon Musk’s chaotic takeover of Twitter. They went beyond their recount of that in their book Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter to discuss our new oligarch-in-chief’s privileged perch in Donald Trump’s circles.

11/16/2024: Chinese State-Sponsored ‘Salt Typhoon’ Hackers Also Breached T-Mobile, PCMag

I usually try to avoid writing posts on the weekend, but a) this was news that had gone uncovered at my client and b) I had written less than usual over the rest of the week and c) I have bills coming that aren’t going to pay themselves.

#AI #BoostMobile #BrittanyKaiser #BT #ChineseHackers #ElonMuskTwitter #KateConger #Lisbon #oligarch #RyanMac #SaltTyphoon #TMobile #WebSummit

Bluesky’s blockbuster week

Something remarkable has happened in social media over the last seven days: A non-trivial number of people hit a personal breaking point with X, Threads or both and either set up Bluesky accounts or started using ones there that they’d left dormant for months.

Since last weekend, the decentralized short-form social platform launched in 2019 as a Twitter research project and that required an invite code to use only nine months ago has seen its user totals climb by about a million people a day above previously modest numbers–from more than 15 million users on Wednesday to above 18 million users per a real-time count Saturday night. As I write this, Bluesky sits atop the chart of free Android apps and is ranked second after Netflix in the iOS free-apps chart.

My own follower total has about tripled over the past week, which looks like table-stakes growth compared to what other people have reported.

But the stats barely tell the tale. So many of the people whom I used to regard as my reward for putting up with the noise of Twitter even after Elon Musk’s conquest of the platform have pivoted to posting mainly or only on Bluesky. Some examples: the avgeek community (but not yet airlines), a recently-growing slice of Election Twitter, even some of my local elected representatives and such local appointed political types as Metro’s can-do general manager Randy Clarke.

(Disclosure: I sent a constituent e-mail last Friday to the youngest member of the Arlington County Board, Maureen Coffey, asking her to try meeting her constituents on Bluesky and suggesting two Arlington-related starter packs of people to follow. Coffey has since become an active user, not that I necessarily had anything to do with that.)

Many of these new Bluesky arrivals appear to have reacted to Musk putting his billionaire foot on the scale to support Donald Trump’s impending return to the White House by outright deleting their Twitter/X accounts, then sharing a screenshot or a GIF on Bluesky of their “X-it.”

(I’m keeping my Xitter account public and not deleting my past tweets—I’ve linked to them too many times, and sometimes find that the easiest way to find an old link is to search for a tweet that shared it. I also continue to read X, although that’s become increasingly unnecessary over just the past week.)

Other recent Bluesky converts have pointed to Meta downranking political and news discussions on Threads in favor of… whatever Meta’s inscrutable algorithm shoves into the “for your” timeline that I can’t opt out of on the platform that still gets far more traffic than Bluesky. As former Republican campaign strategist turned never-Trump activist Rick Wilson wrote Monday on Bluesky: “I’d hoped threads would be at least somewhat flexible about political content, but here we are.”

Everybody can bring their own reason for making this decision. Mine starts with business logic–why should I bother sharing my work on X when that site downranks posts with links?–but cannot be separated from Musk’s moves to turn that platform into his own right-wing propaganda playground. Especially when that playground has welcomed back such loathsome liars as disgraced conspiracy “theorist” Alex Jones.

Meanwhile, I can’t look at the Threads app icon on my phone without thinking of how Meta has consistently shown how little it values my profession. Or how the day-to-day experience of algorithmically-pushed slop on Facebook makes me wonder what Threads will look like once it starts welcoming advertisers.

For several months, I thought that Mastodon might be the short-form-social escape pod I needed, but Bluesky has delivered a simpler setup experience and, more importantly, is built on an open-source protocol that allows for a complete export of your account to another server. That option exists more in theory than in practice to date, but it’s not possible at X and consists only of a sort of settings portability at Mastodon. Bluesky is now the better bet.

So that’s how I am refusing to stay with a platform owned by somebody who considers people in my line of work an obsolete obstacle–or to switch to another platform owned by somebody else who seems to sees little more value in my profession. I may not stop either of those services from ending up with the most eyeballs, but that doesn’t require me to lend my own eyeballs, much less my own typing fingers, to their causes.

#ATProto #Bluesky #bsky #ElectionTwitter #ElonMuskTwitter #fediverse #Mastodon #skeets #socialMedia #tweets #X #XOdus #Xit

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Nearing a year since I swore off propping up the former Twitter with free writing as my response to Elon Musk inviting loathsome conspiracy liar Alex Jones back on that service, I do not miss posting on X one bit. And as more of the people I enjoyed seeing on that platform have begun popping up on Bluesky (most recently, much of the avgeek community), I also find I need to read X less and less–and I can do so with a quick check of the lists that I compiled years ago.

But there’s one stubborn exception to that pattern that’s become even harder to back away from over the past few weeks: the Election Twitter list I created too many years ago for me to remember.

The pollsters, vote counters, campaign strategists, journalists and analysts on that list generally know what they’re talking about (although the Nate Silver of 2024 is clearly not the guy we knew in 2008), and as the 2024 election season hurtles to a close I find myself returning to this list annoyingly often.

I can’t attest that this constant refreshing is making me that much more informed about the state of the Harris and Trump campaigns. After 2016, I can’t put too much stock in polls–certainly not when the New York Times’ Nate Cohn feels compelled to answer the question “So, Can We Trust The Polls?” by reminding readers that they are not a precision instrument and may be even less precise from attempts by pollsters to avoid repeats of past misses of Trump voters.

On-the-ground reports about how many people are voting and where their support might lie can be more informative (and as a poll worker, I like to see high turnout), but they, too, cannot dispel much uncertainty in advance.

Because I can’t take the hint and stick to reading reported pieces about the state of the race (for example, Dana Milbank’s examination in the Washington Post of the Harris field operation, or Tim Alberta’s feature in the Atlantic looking into the chaotic inside of the Trump campaign), I’ve tried to recreate this list on Bluesky. But my ElectionSky list remains only a faint echo of the one part of X where I still find some utility. I have to blame that on the nearly complete lack of interest in see in X alternatives among these election tweeps, even as Musk continues to try to turn their hangout into a Truth Social knockoff.

I still think that will change–nothing I see in Musk’s mismanagement of this platform makes me think it will get better, while Bluesky’s leadership continues to take smart if sometimes small steps to build out that decentralized platform. But the social-media shift that I hope to see clearly isn’t happening between now and Tuesday.

https://robpegoraro.com/2024/11/02/ex-twitters-last-lock-on-my-attention-is-at-its-worst-right-now/

#2024Election #Bluesky #campaign #ElectionTwitter #ElonMuskTwitter #groundGame #polling #polls #X #Xitter

Nearing a year since I swore off propping up the former Twitter with free writing as my response to Elon Musk inviting loathsome conspiracy liar Alex Jones back on that service, I do not miss posting on X one bit. And as more of the people I enjoyed seeing on that platform have begun popping up on Bluesky (most recently, much of the avgeek community), I also find I need to read X less and less–and I can do so with a quick check of the lists that I compiled years ago.

But there’s one stubborn exception to that pattern that’s become even harder to back away from over the past few weeks: the Election Twitter list I created too many years ago for me to remember.

The pollsters, vote counters, campaign strategists, journalists and analysts on that list generally know what they’re talking about (although the Nate Silver of 2024 is clearly not the guy we knew in 2008), and as the 2024 election season hurtles to a close I find myself returning to this list annoyingly often.

I can’t attest that this constant refreshing is making me that much more informed about the state of the Harris and Trump campaigns. After 2016, I can’t put too much stock in polls–certainly not when the New York Times’ Nate Cohn feels compelled to answer the question “So, Can We Trust The Polls?” by reminding readers that they are not a precision instrument and may be even less precise from attempts by pollsters to avoid repeats of past misses of Trump voters.

On-the-ground reports about how many people are voting and where their support might lie can be more informative (and as a poll worker, I like to see high turnout), but they, too, cannot dispel much uncertainty in advance.

Because I can’t take the hint and stick to reading reported pieces about the state of the race (for example, Dana Milbank’s examination in the Washington Post of the Harris field operation, or Tim Alberta’s feature in the Atlantic looking into the chaotic inside of the Trump campaign), I’ve tried to recreate this list on Bluesky. But my ElectionSky list remains only a faint echo of the one part of X where I still find some utility. I have to blame that on the nearly complete lack of interest in see in X alternatives among these election tweeps, even as Musk continues to try to turn their hangout into a Truth Social knockoff.

I still think that will change–nothing I see in Musk’s mismanagement of this platform makes me think it will get better, while Bluesky’s leadership continues to take smart if sometimes small steps to build out that decentralized platform. But the social-media shift that I hope to see clearly isn’t happening between now and Tuesday.

https://robpegoraro.com/2024/11/02/ex-twitters-last-lock-on-my-attention-is-at-its-worst-right-now/

#2024Election #Bluesky #campaign #ElectionTwitter #ElonMuskTwitter #groundGame #polling #polls #X #Xitter

Nearing a year since I swore off propping up the former Twitter with free writing as my response to Elon Musk inviting loathsome conspiracy liar Alex Jones back on that service, I do not miss posting on X one bit. And as more of the people I enjoyed seeing on that platform have begun popping up on Bluesky (most recently, much of the avgeek community), I also find I need to read X less and less–and I can do so with a quick check of the lists that I compiled years ago.

But there’s one stubborn exception to that pattern that’s become even harder to back away from over the past few weeks: the Election Twitter list I created too many years ago for me to remember.

The pollsters, vote counters, campaign strategists, journalists and analysts on that list generally know what they’re talking about (although the Nate Silver of 2024 is clearly not the guy we knew in 2008), and as the 2024 election season hurtles to a close I find myself returning to this list annoyingly often.

I can’t attest that this constant refreshing is making me that much more informed about the state of the Harris and Trump campaigns. After 2016, I can’t put too much stock in polls–certainly not when the New York Times’ Nate Cohn feels compelled to answer the question “So, Can We Trust The Polls?” by reminding readers that they are not a precision instrument and may be even less precise from attempts by pollsters to avoid repeats of past misses of Trump voters.

On-the-ground reports about how many people are voting and where their support might lie can be more informative (and as a poll worker, I like to see high turnout), but they, too, cannot dispel much uncertainty in advance.

Because I can’t take the hint and stick to reading reported pieces about the state of the race (for example, Dana Milbank’s examination in the Washington Post of the Harris field operation, or Tim Alberta’s feature in the Atlantic looking into the chaotic inside of the Trump campaign), I’ve tried to recreate this list on Bluesky. But my ElectionSky list remains only a faint echo of the one part of X where I still find some utility. I have to blame that on the nearly complete lack of interest in see in X alternatives among these election tweeps, even as Musk continues to try to turn their hangout into a Truth Social knockoff.

I still think that will change–nothing I see in Musk’s mismanagement of this platform makes me think it will get better, while Bluesky’s leadership continues to take smart if sometimes small steps to build out that decentralized platform. But the social-media shift that I hope to see clearly isn’t happening between now and Tuesday.

https://robpegoraro.com/2024/11/02/ex-twitters-last-lock-on-my-attention-is-at-its-worst-right-now/

#2024Election #Bluesky #campaign #ElectionTwitter #ElonMuskTwitter #groundGame #polling #polls #X #Xitter

#elon #elonmusk #maga #magats #trump #trump2024 #tesla #elonmusktwitter #twitter

WAILEA, Hawaii–I’m spending the next four days here in the middle of the Pacific, but not for fun. Instead, Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit has called me here as it did in 2023, with Qualcomm once again covering airfare and lodging. I’ll be covering the event for PCMag, and a disclosure about that in all the copy that I file from here.

Patreon readers got a bonus post this week about the lengths to which I went to chisel away at the cost of a new Brother multi-function color laser printer, ultimately knocking $130 off the $369.99 list price of this model.

10/15/2024: Google Ships Android 15, Unwraps New Pixel Drop for Recent Devices, PCMag

Eight months after my first post for PCMag about Android 15, I wrote about its official release. I installed it on a Pixel 8a four days later and, as I wrote here Saturday evening, found it an initially unremarkable upgrade. To repeat a reminder I offered in that post: Don’t forget to activate the new anti-theft features in this update that are not enabled by default.

10/18/2024: X’s New Rules: Blocked Posts Will No Longer Be Hidden, Your Tweets Will Train Grok AI, PCMag

The upcoming terms of service allowing AI scraping, the first change I noticed, seemed like it might not be newsworthy since X has been doing that for months. But then I also spotted the weird “liquidated damages” provision and and another requiring that any lawsuits against the company be brought in courts in a different part of Texas–and I realized that my client had not yet covered how X has begun notifying its users that the block function is about to be downgraded to a mute tool.

10/18/2024: Bluesky Boom: X Alternative Sees Surge Of Signups, PCMag

Before PCMag had gotten around to publishing my “ToS” piece, I saw another post emerging in what looks like a serious flight of users from X to Bluesky. The growth in user numbers–the decentralized platform crossed the 12-million-account line Friday–isn’t nearly as impressive as the way Bluesky’s apps have skyrocketed up the charts in the Android and iOS app stores. As of Sunday evening, Bluesky’s iOS app is ranked 19th in free apps and fourth in social apps, while its Android client is fourth and third, respectively.

It’s been equally striking to see so many old friends from Twitter who had set up Bluesky accounts start using them–especially among avgeek circles, something that’s on my mind more than usual having spent so much of this month and this day on airplanes. I’m now waiting/hoping to see more people in Virginia and Arlington politics do likewise–and if the Harris-Walz campaign will start posting on Bluesky.

https://robpegoraro.com/2024/10/20/weekly-output-android-15-x-changes-the-rules-again-bluesky-boom/

#Android15 #Bluesky #ElonMuskTwitter #GrokAI #Hawaii #PixelDrop #Qualcomm #SnapdragonSummit #TwitterBlock #X #XTerms

WAILEA, Hawaii–I’m spending the next four days here in the middle of the Pacific, but not for fun. Instead, Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit has called me here as it did in 2023, with Qualcomm once again covering airfare and lodging. I’ll be covering the event for PCMag, and a disclosure about that in all the copy that I file from here.

Patreon readers got a bonus post this week about the lengths to which I went to chisel away at the cost of a new Brother multi-function color laser printer, ultimately knocking $130 off the $369.99 list price of this model.

10/15/2024: Google Ships Android 15, Unwraps New Pixel Drop for Recent Devices, PCMag

Eight months after my first post for PCMag about Android 15, I wrote about its official release. I installed it on a Pixel 8a four days later and, as I wrote here Saturday evening, found it an initially unremarkable upgrade. To repeat a reminder I offered in that post: Don’t forget to activate the new anti-theft features in this update that are not enabled by default.

10/18/2024: X’s New Rules: Blocked Posts Will No Longer Be Hidden, Your Tweets Will Train Grok AI, PCMag

The upcoming terms of service allowing AI scraping, the first change I noticed, seemed like it might not be newsworthy since X has been doing that for months. But then I also spotted the weird “liquidated damages” provision and and another requiring that any lawsuits against the company be brought in courts in a different part of Texas–and I realized that my client had not yet covered how X has begun notifying its users that the block function is about to be downgraded to a mute tool.

10/18/2024: Bluesky Boom: X Alternative Sees Surge Of Signups, PCMag

Before PCMag had gotten around to publishing my “ToS” piece, I saw another post emerging in what looks like a serious flight of users from X to Bluesky. The growth in user numbers–the decentralized platform crossed the 12-million-account line Friday–isn’t nearly as impressive as the way Bluesky’s apps have skyrocketed up the charts in the Android and iOS app stores. As of Sunday evening, Bluesky’s iOS app is ranked 19th in free apps and fourth in social apps, while its Android client is fourth and third, respectively.

It’s been equally striking to see so many old friends from Twitter who had set up Bluesky accounts start using them–especially among avgeek circles, something that’s on my mind more than usual having spent so much of this month and this day on airplanes. I’m now waiting/hoping to see more people in Virginia and Arlington politics do likewise–and if the Harris-Walz campaign will start posting on Bluesky.

https://robpegoraro.com/2024/10/20/weekly-output-android-15-x-changes-the-rules-again-bluesky-boom/

#Android15 #Bluesky #ElonMuskTwitter #GrokAI #Hawaii #PixelDrop #Qualcomm #SnapdragonSummit #TwitterBlock #X #XTerms

WAILEA, Hawaii–I’m spending the next four days here in the middle of the Pacific, but not for fun. Instead, Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit has called me here as it did in 2023, with Qualcomm once again covering airfare and lodging. I’ll be covering the event for PCMag, and a disclosure about that in all the copy that I file from here.

Patreon readers got a bonus post this week about the lengths to which I went to chisel away at the cost of a new Brother multi-function color laser printer, ultimately knocking $130 off the $369.99 list price of this model.

10/15/2024: Google Ships Android 15, Unwraps New Pixel Drop for Recent Devices, PCMag

Eight months after my first post for PCMag about Android 15, I wrote about its official release. I installed it on a Pixel 8a four days later and, as I wrote here Saturday evening, found it an initially unremarkable upgrade. To repeat a reminder I offered in that post: Don’t forget to activate the new anti-theft features in this update that are not enabled by default.

10/18/2024: X’s New Rules: Blocked Posts Will No Longer Be Hidden, Your Tweets Will Train Grok AI, PCMag

The upcoming terms of service allowing AI scraping, the first change I noticed, seemed like it might not be newsworthy since X has been doing that for months. But then I also spotted the weird “liquidated damages” provision and and another requiring that any lawsuits against the company be brought in courts in a different part of Texas–and I realized that my client had not yet covered how X has begun notifying its users that the block function is about to be downgraded to a mute tool.

10/18/2024: Bluesky Boom: X Alternative Sees Surge Of Signups, PCMag

Before PCMag had gotten around to publishing my “ToS” piece, I saw another post emerging in what looks like a serious flight of users from X to Bluesky. The growth in user numbers–the decentralized platform crossed the 12-million-account line Friday–isn’t nearly as impressive as the way Bluesky’s apps have skyrocketed up the charts in the Android and iOS app stores. As of Sunday evening, Bluesky’s iOS app is ranked 19th in free apps and fourth in social apps, while its Android client is fourth and third, respectively.

It’s been equally striking to see so many old friends from Twitter who had set up Bluesky accounts start using them–especially among avgeek circles, something that’s on my mind more than usual having spent so much of this month and this day on airplanes. I’m now waiting/hoping to see more people in Virginia and Arlington politics do likewise–and if the Harris-Walz campaign will start posting on Bluesky.

https://robpegoraro.com/2024/10/20/weekly-output-android-15-x-changes-the-rules-again-bluesky-boom/

#Android15 #Bluesky #ElonMuskTwitter #GrokAI #Hawaii #PixelDrop #Qualcomm #SnapdragonSummit #TwitterBlock #X #XTerms

Twitter X, le réseau d'Elon Musk, va supprimer la fonction de blocage pour les comptes publics. Les fafs et autres oiseaux de malheur vont pouvoir s'en donner à coeur joie...

#Politique #elonmusk #elonmusktwitter #Twitter #SOS #SocialMedia #ExtremeDroite

This week treated me to the very Washington experience of going to two different tech-policy events in the same room in the same large facility–the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, one of my more frequent conference settings in the District.

Patreon subscribers got an extra post on Friday: more than a thousand words’ worth of outtakes from my early-August conversation with Boom Supersonic CEO Blake Scholl at Mojave Air & Space Port.

9/24/2024: Internet Providers, Wi-Fi Router Vendors Can Now Ship Cloudflare’s DNS for Free, PCMag

I have been writing about broadband outages caused by failures at an Internet provider’s domain-name-system servers for a very long time, so the relevance of Cloudflare’s pitch was immediately relevant to me.

9/25/2024: White House 6G priorities: Openness and security, and the 6G part isn’t a prerequisite, Light Reading

The first of two stories that I wrote for my telecom trade-pub client from the 6G Symposium in Washington covered a panel in which experts spoke at length about the risks of China steering the development of 6G while saying the word “China” much less often than I would have expected.

9/26/2024: Could open RAN in orbit jumpstart the market for D2D services?, Light Reading

I needed a little more time to write up this longer and more in-the-weeds panel about the state of satellite-hosted connectivity for phones and other devices.

9/26/2024: NYC Mayor Adams’ Indictment Offers a Few Lessons in Smartphone Security, PCMag

Before I could finish laughing at the fanboy-esque devotion to Turkish Airlines recounted in the indictment of Eric Adams, I also had to laugh at its depiction of the mayor’s fortuitous forgetfulness of of the smartphone passcode he had just changed from four to six digits.

9/27/2024: X Blocks Links to Story on Leaked JD Vance Dossier, Suspends Author, PCMag

One angle to this story that I should have noted: This purported research report on the Republican Party’s vice-presidential candidate that journalist Ken Klippenstein shared on his newsletter in unredacted form Thursday (before posting a redacted version on Friday in what he later described as a test of X’s rules) does not even mention Vance’s house in Alexandria, much less include its street address. That does not speak well of the effort put into this document, if it really was a product of the Trump campaign and not something forged by Iranian hackers.

https://robpegoraro.com/2024/09/29/weekly-output-cloudflare-dns-white-house-6g-policy-satellite-to-phone-service-eric-adams-opsec-x-vs-jd-vance-dossier/

#5G #6G #8888 #Cloudflare #DNS #ElonMuskTwitter #EricAdams #JDVanceDossier #KenKlippenstein #satelliteToPhone #TurkishAirlines

This week treated me to the very Washington experience of going to two different tech-policy events in the same room in the same large facility–the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, one of my more frequent conference settings in the District.

Patreon subscribers got an extra post on Friday: more than a thousand words’ worth of outtakes from my early-August conversation with Boom Supersonic CEO Blake Scholl at Mojave Air & Space Port.

9/24/2024: Internet Providers, Wi-Fi Router Vendors Can Now Ship Cloudflare’s DNS for Free, PCMag

I have been writing about broadband outages caused by failures at an Internet provider’s domain-name-system servers for a very long time, so the relevance of Cloudflare’s pitch was immediately relevant to me.

9/25/2024: White House 6G priorities: Openness and security, and the 6G part isn’t a prerequisite, Light Reading

The first of two stories that I wrote for my telecom trade-pub client from the 6G Symposium in Washington covered a panel in which experts spoke at length about the risks of China steering the development of 6G while saying the word “China” much less often than I would have expected.

9/26/2024: Could open RAN in orbit jumpstart the market for D2D services?, Light Reading

I needed a little more time to write up this longer and more in-the-weeds panel about the state of satellite-hosted connectivity for phones and other devices.

9/26/2024: NYC Mayor Adams’ Indictment Offers a Few Lessons in Smartphone Security, PCMag

Before I could finish laughing at the fanboy-esque devotion to Turkish Airlines recounted in the indictment of Eric Adams, I also had to laugh at its depiction of the mayor’s fortuitous forgetfulness of of the smartphone passcode he had just changed from four to six digits.

9/27/2024: X Blocks Links to Story on Leaked JD Vance Dossier, Suspends Author, PCMag

One angle to this story that I should have noted: This purported research report on the Republican Party’s vice-presidential candidate that journalist Ken Klippenstein shared on his newsletter in unredacted form Thursday (before posting a redacted version on Friday in what he later described as a test of X’s rules) does not even mention Vance’s house in Alexandria, much less include its street address. That does not speak well of the effort put into this document, if it really was a product of the Trump campaign and not something forged by Iranian hackers.

https://robpegoraro.com/2024/09/29/weekly-output-cloudflare-dns-white-house-6g-policy-satellite-to-phone-service-eric-adams-opsec-x-vs-jd-vance-dossier/

#5G #6G #8888 #Cloudflare #DNS #ElonMuskTwitter #EricAdams #JDVanceDossier #KenKlippenstein #satelliteToPhone #TurkishAirlines

This week treated me to the very Washington experience of going to two different tech-policy events in the same room in the same large facility–the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, one of my more frequent conference settings in the District.

Patreon subscribers got an extra post on Friday: more than a thousand words’ worth of outtakes from my early-August conversation with Boom Supersonic CEO Blake Scholl at Mojave Air & Space Port.

9/24/2024: Internet Providers, Wi-Fi Router Vendors Can Now Ship Cloudflare’s DNS for Free, PCMag

I have been writing about broadband outages caused by failures at an Internet provider’s domain-name-system servers for a very long time, so the relevance of Cloudflare’s pitch was immediately relevant to me.

9/25/2024: White House 6G priorities: Openness and security, and the 6G part isn’t a prerequisite, Light Reading

The first of two stories that I wrote for my telecom trade-pub client from the 6G Symposium in Washington covered a panel in which experts spoke at length about the risks of China steering the development of 6G while saying the word “China” much less often than I would have expected.

9/26/2024: Could open RAN in orbit jumpstart the market for D2D services?, Light Reading

I needed a little more time to write up this longer and more in-the-weeds panel about the state of satellite-hosted connectivity for phones and other devices.

9/26/2024: NYC Mayor Adams’ Indictment Offers a Few Lessons in Smartphone Security, PCMag

Before I could finish laughing at the fanboy-esque devotion to Turkish Airlines recounted in the indictment of Eric Adams, I also had to laugh at its depiction of the mayor’s fortuitous forgetfulness of of the smartphone passcode he had just changed from four to six digits.

9/27/2024: X Blocks Links to Story on Leaked JD Vance Dossier, Suspends Author, PCMag

One angle to this story that I should have noted: This purported research report on the Republican Party’s vice-presidential candidate that journalist Ken Klippenstein shared on his newsletter in unredacted form Thursday (before posting a redacted version on Friday in what he later described as a test of X’s rules) does not even mention Vance’s house in Alexandria, much less include its street address. That does not speak well of the effort put into this document, if it really was a product of the Trump campaign and not something forged by Iranian hackers.

https://robpegoraro.com/2024/09/29/weekly-output-cloudflare-dns-white-house-6g-policy-satellite-to-phone-service-eric-adams-opsec-x-vs-jd-vance-dossier/

#5G #6G #8888 #Cloudflare #DNS #ElonMuskTwitter #EricAdams #JDVanceDossier #KenKlippenstein #satelliteToPhone #TurkishAirlines

Elon Musk’s X Seeks Second Chance In Brazil, Will Supreme Court Agree? - Elon Musk’s X is reportedly seeking a second chance to resume its services in Brazil, spa... - https://coingape.com/elon-musk-x-seeks-second-chance-in-brazil-will-supreme-court-agree/ #24/7cryptocurrencynews #elonmusktwitter #elonmusknews #x(twitter)

Another Assassination Attempt on Trump: The Danger of Rising Rhetoric, Misinformation, and Political Violence

Donald Trump was once again the target of an assassination attempt. We analyze the danger of rising rhetoric, misinformation, and political violence.

#TrumpAssassinationAttempt #Trump2024 #ElonMuskTwitter #ElonMuskNews #USPolitics #USPoliticsNews #News #GlobalPolitics #USElections2024 #Politics #Election2024 #ManiaNews #ManiaPolitics

https://mania.africa/another-assassination-attempt-on-trump-the-danger-of-rising-rhetoric-misinformation-and-political-violence/

Another Assassination Attempt on Trump: The Danger of Rising Rhetoric, Misinformation, and Political Violence

Donald Trump was once again the target of an assassination attempt. We analyze the danger of rising rhetoric, misinformation, and political violence.

#TrumpAssassinationAttempt #Trump2024 #ElonMuskTwitter #ElonMuskNews #USPolitics #USPoliticsNews #News #GlobalPolitics #USElections2024 #Politics #Election2024 #ManiaNews #ManiaPolitics

https://mania.africa/another-assassination-attempt-on-trump-the-danger-of-rising-rhetoric-misinformation-and-political-violence/

Another Assassination Attempt on Trump: The Danger of Rising Rhetoric, Misinformation, and Political Violence

Donald Trump was once again the target of an assassination attempt. We analyze the danger of rising rhetoric, misinformation, and political violence.

#TrumpAssassinationAttempt #Trump2024 #ElonMuskTwitter #ElonMuskNews #USPolitics #USPoliticsNews #News #GlobalPolitics #USElections2024 #Politics #Election2024 #ManiaNews #ManiaPolitics

https://mania.africa/another-assassination-attempt-on-trump-the-danger-of-rising-rhetoric-misinformation-and-political-violence/

Elon Musk’s X Dodges EU Regulatory Crackdown: Report - Elon Musk’s social media platform X is likely to escape a regulatory crackdown by the Eur... - https://coingape.com/elon-musk-x-dodges-eu-regulatory-crackdown-report/ #24/7cryptocurrencynews #elonmusktwitter #europeanunion #elonmusknews #x(twitter)

Elon Musk promove o lançamento de um novo serviço de streaming que concorrerá com YouTube.

#alvimbandeiraoficial #elonmusk #elonmusktwitter #xTV #servicosdainternet

https://servicosdainternet.com.br/elon-musk-promoveu-a-x-tv-que-competira-com-youtube/

Breaking: Elon Musk’s X Sees Big Win Despite Latest Legal Setback - Elon Musk-owned social media platform X (formerly Twitter) has obtained a ruling requirin... - https://coingape.com/breaking-elon-musks-x-sees-big-win-despite-latest-legal-setback/ #24/7cryptocurrencynews #elonmusktwitter #blockchainnews #elonmusknews

Elon Musk Says “I Can’t Wait” to Audit US Federal Agencies Under Donald Trump - Elon Musk has recently shown eagerness to audit the U.S. Federal Agencies as Donald Trump... - https://coingape.com/elon-musk-audit-us-federal-agencies-under-donald-trump/ #24/7cryptocurrencynews #donaldtrumpcrypto #elonmusktwitter #elonmusknews #kamalaharris #donaldtrump

https://sailing-dulce.nl/home/article-8615 #snoekensnoek #autoschade #ultrafastfashion #X #ElonMuskTwitter #bluesky Maandag 02-09-2024 Gisteravond hadden we een werkelijk zalige avond bij Restaurant Snoek & Snoek ('Pasta en Wijn') op Achter De Kerk. Een gouden avond, een tafeltje op het terras waar een lauw windje de rook van sigaren en sigaretten op het terras van de kroeg ernaast verdreef. We zaten direct naast het Gasthuispoortje, dat dateert uit 1391, eeuwen geleden de toegang tot een gasthuis annex hospi..

After two weeks at home–which included a highly entertaining baseball game Wednesday in which a hilarious lack of basepath situational awareness led the Nationals to run into a phone number of a double play and yet beat the Yankees anyway–I’m headed across the Atlantic tonight to cover the IFA tech trade show in Berlin. As before, the organizers are covering most of my travel costs and those of an invited group of U.S. journalists and analysts.

Beyond the work below, I also wrote a post Friday for Patreon subscribers detailing the settings I changed on my mother-in-law’s new LG TV to make it easier for her start watching TV and have the set itself be less of a marketing mechanism.

8/26/2024: 3 Lessons From a Hacker Conference That Can Keep You Safe Online, AARP

I thought of this idea too late after covering Black Hat last year to have any hope of pitching it, much less writing it in between a schedule stuffed with both personal and work travel. This year, I remembered to pitch it in advance, got a prompt thumbs-up from my editor, and filed it the week after the conference.

8/29/2024: Cable Providers Top Telecom Rivals for Internet Reliability, PCMag

After Opensignal offered an embargoed copy of this study, I had some questions about its findings that the research firm couldn’t answer until Tuesday evening, resulting in my filing it too late for my editor to get to it until after the embargo had passed. Which nobody at PCMag blinked about, to their credit.

8/29/2024: Brazil’s Supreme Court to Elon Musk: Name a Legal Rep or X Is Banned, PCMag

I wrote a new top for this post Friday after Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court made good on its threat–and not only banned X but directed Apple and Google to block its app from their app stores and imposed a fine of about $8,900 a day for people who used “technological subterfuges” (as in, VPNs) to evade this restriction. Judge Alexandre de Moraes since seems to have relented slightly on those last two measures, but even compared to the impending commercial ban on TikTok they seem extreme in a democracy–not that Elon Musk deserves sympathy for his descent into conspiracy lies about the 2022 election that President Lula da Silva won.

https://robpegoraro.com/2024/09/01/weekly-output-black-hat-lessons-broadband-reliability-brazil-vs-x/

#AARP #Berlin #BlackHat #Brasil #Brazil #broadbandReliability #burnerPhones #cableInternetReliability #ElonMusk #ElonMuskTwitter #IFA #OpenSignal #X

Is anyone wondering why Elon Musk, after initially supporting Ukraine in its fight against russia suddenly flipped sides?

Well, here is the so far most compelling reason: after Twitter recently having been forced to reveal publicly who its investors are it turns out that some of them are... exactly!

More details on Twitter's russian connections well explained here. 👇

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1827282706574537013.html

#elonmusk #twitter #russia #putin #elonmusktwitter

A comedic bit so true it's practically a documentary....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_Tx1SG0Clw

#elonmusk #ElonMuskTwitter

This week took me to one place I know far too well, Las Vegas, and one I’d never visited before, Mojave Air and Space Port. I’m not done writing about what I learned at the first destination during my fifth time covering the Black Hat information-security conference, and I haven’t started the story I owe from my second stop checking up on Boom Supersonic.

8/7/2024: The Biden administration has been trying to improve the U.S.’s cybersecurity—no thanks to Congress, Fast Company

The idea for this piece started at Black Hat last year, when I was struck by the level of detail in the advice government officials offered in talks at this event. I quizzed a handful of security experts for their thoughts about how the Biden administration had fared in its efforts to strengthen the nation’s information-security defenses–then after President Biden dropped out of the presidential campaign to pass the torch to Vice President Harris, I had to circle back to most of them to get their perspective about how she might continue that effort.

8/7/2024: X Sues Advertising Group Over Boycotts: ‘Now, It Is War,’ Musk Says, PCMag

Since the legal complaint didn’t recap all the things that the former Twitter has done under Elon Musk’s chaotic misrule to make itself repulsive to name-brand advertisers, I used this post to remind readers of that recent history.

8/9/2024: Feds Make a Pitch for Election Work: Here’s What I’ve Learned as a Poll Worker, PCMag

The panel that opened Black Hat Wednesday morning featured Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency director Jen Easterly inviting people curious about election security to talk to the people who run their elections–and asking attendees to serve as poll workers themselves. Since I have been doing that since early 2020, I thought this was a good opportunity to share some of my own experiences. 

8/9/2024: Signal Developer Explains Why Early Encrypted Messaging Tools Flopped, PCMag

The first part of Signal developer Moxie Marlinspike’s Thursday-morning appearance at Black Hat was a philosophical and somewhat meandering talk that didn’t look to me like grist for a post. But then his conversation onstage with Black Hat founder Jeff Moss surfaced some good insights about the intersections of security and usability.

8/9/2024: The Only Real Problem With Black Hat’s Wi-Fi Was the People Using It, PCMag 

Since I first covered Black Hat in 2018, the panel in which the people who run the event’s WiFi recount the poor life choices made by attendees on the network has been a reliable source of enlightenment as well as amusement. 

https://robpegoraro.com/2024/08/11/weekly-output-biden-harris-cybersecurity-efforts-x-sues-ex-advertisers-election-security-security-meets-usability-black-hat-network-follies/

#BidenExecutiveOrderCybersercurity #BlackHat #BoomSupersonic #CISA #cybersecurity #electionSecurity #ElonMuskTwitter #encryption #informationSecurity #infosec #LasVegas #pollWorker #Signal #Vegas

Breaking: Elon Musk To Move X Headquarters To Texas - Billionaire investor and X owner Elon Musk has just uncovered plans to move the headquart... - https://coingape.com/breaking-elon-musk-to-move-x-headquarters-to-texas/ #24/7cryptocurrencynews #elonmusktwitter

Crypto Community Stunned As Elon Musk Shuns X Censorship Immunity Deal - According to a recent report, Elon Musk’s social media platform, X (formerly Twitter), tu... - https://coingape.com/crypto-community-stunned-as-elon-musk-shuns-x-censorship-immunity-deal/ #24/7cryptocurrencynews #europeanregulators #elonmusktwitter #regulationnews

#twitter #x #elonmusk #elonmusktwitter
„Als Protest gegen zunehmende Hassrede auf X (Twitter) verlassen 47 Organisationen aus den Bereichen Umwelt, Menschenrechte, Soziales, Gesundheit und Landwirtschaft gemeinsam die Social-Media-Plattform.“
https://byebyeelon.de/

My apathetic arrival on Bluesky last spring did not suggest I had much interest or confidence in that decentralized social network: I opened my account on April 25, posted for the first time on April 27, and then waited more than two months to grace Bluesky with a second post.

And yet over the past two months, Bluesky has become my primary successor to Twitter as the platform that now goes by X continues its spiral into conspiracy-theory hell under Elon Musk’s militantly ignorant misrule. Bluesky now ranks as one of the first apps I check in the morning and among those I revisit most often during the day–even though my follower total of 608 is far smaller than the 1,404 following me on Mastodon or the 18,713 followers of my idle Twitter account.

The top reason is the quality of the conversations on Bluesky. I see more engagement with my posts here–see, for instance, the comparison I did in December when I shared the same PCMag story about Comcast rate hikes on Bluesky, Twitter, Mastodon and Meta’s Threads–and that feedback is more likely to leave me more enlightened or at least amused. I keep thinking this won’t last, especially after the platform dropped its invite system in February, but so far Bluesky’s banter remains mostly pleasant.

It also helps that so many of the voices I valued on Twitter have made their way over to Bluesky–and that I’ve had the pleasure of discovering new voices there. And since I’m not getting paid for any of this or deriving other obvious and direct professional benefit (as in, I know how few people clicked through to stories I shared on Twitter), those things matter to me.

Second, Bluesky has advanced faster than I might have expected. A small team of developers led by CEO Jay Graber has built out its foundational feature of account portability with impressive speed. That means not just the option to take my followers to a new account with a different handle, what I call settings portability as offered at Mastodon, but the ability to move my entire presence, including the handle that I’ve set to my robpegoraro.com domain name, to a different host.

That progress in building a legitimate breakthrough in social networking gives me confidence that Bluesky’s developers will check off such lesser to-do details as these items on a product-roadmap update posted May 7: direct messaging, inline video, in-app tools to create and manage custom feeds (for example, my D.C.-area airports feed), and login-security upgrades enabling a choice of multi-factor authentication options.

An edit button, however, is not among those roadmap items, and in that aspect Mastodon maintains a distinct advantage over Bluesky. But while I continue to have good conversations there, too many of the people I liked seeing on Twitter either haven’t set up shop on Mastodon or tried it and have since moved on.

A large fraction of the Twitter diaspora, meanwhile, has looked past both Mastodon and Bluesky to migrate to Threads instead. But while the default “For You” algorithmic feed isn’t as hopelessly vapid in my Threads account as it was six months ago, I still find the notion of handing over that much more of my online social presence to Meta to be profoundly distasteful. I do not need a single point of social-media failure that large, especially not one with Meta’s history of bad-faith behavior towards journalism.

Also distasteful: how I still have to read Twitter because of all the people who have not bailed on that platform and continue to share enlightening tidbits there. I mainly do that through lists I created that help me avoid the clout-chasing randos, conspiracy-lie merchants and fascism-curious creeps now polluting that platform, but because I cover social media I also have to keep up with Musk’s reputational self-immolation through his increasingly delusional tweets.

I don’t know that Bluesky will ever replace what Twitter was, or if anything can or even should. But while much about this project remains uncertain–most of all, if this public-benefit corporation can secure a reliable business model–at least I know my free writing online isn’t underwriting a shitposting billionaire’s vanity value-destruction project.

https://robpegoraro.com/2024/05/10/one-year-in-some-of-the-clouds-around-my-bluesky-experience-have-cleared/

#Bluesky #BlueskyFeeds #bsky #DMs #domainVerification #editButton #ElonMusk #ElonMuskTwitter #JackDorsey #JayGraber #journaHost #Mastodon #meta #Threads #Twitter #X

Lawsuit from Elon Musk’s X against anti-hate speech group dismissed by US judge - Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Dan Kitwood )

A US judge has s... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2012453 #centerforcounteringdigitalhate #musktwitterlawsuit #elonmusktwitter #syndication #policy

I’m headed across the Atlantic for the first time this year–to Vilnius, Lithuania, where I’m moderating a panel on AI in finance at the Fintech Day 2024 conference. In the bargain, my hosts are covering most of my travel expenses and also have set up a series of meetings with local fintech startups. I hope that some of these conversations will help me understand why international SWIFT payments can be anything but swift.

1/31/2024: TikTok Use Soars, X Slumps, But an Old Favorite Dominates Social Media, PCMag

I got an advance copy of the Pew Research Center’s latest findings on how many Americans have ever used major social-media platforms–as opposed to how often they use them regularly. The Pew report included some interesting details about the dollar-bill incentives Pew’s survey firm used to coax people to answer survey invitations sent in the mail, so I used the last paragraph to enlighten readers about them.

2/1/2024: Passkeys Are Here: We Just Have to Convince People to Use Them, PCMag

I covered the Identity, Authentication, and the Road Ahead Policy Forum in D.C. two Thursdays ago and had an enlightening conversation there with FIDO Alliance executive director Andrew Shikiar. Turning that interview into a story took a few more days, in part because of my own subpar time management and in part because of what became a fruitless effort to get more details about the Air New Zealand rollout of passkeys that Shikiar had cited in his keynote and in our conversation.

2/2/2024: Comcast Agrees to Back Off ’10G’ Branding a Little, PCMag

I thought this would be a simple story to write, but grasping the difference between “Xfinity 10G Network,” which Comcast says it won’t use in its marketin, and “Xfinity 10G” required a call and follow-up e-mail thread with a Comcast publication. And then understanding Comcast’s definition of 10-gigabit availability required some time browsing through its customer-support forums.

https://robpegoraro.com/2024/02/04/weekly-output-social-media-survey-passkey-adoption-xfinity-10g-network/

#10Gbps #10G #Comcast #ElonMuskTwitter #facebook #FIDOAlliance #FintechDay #Lithuania #passkey #passkeys #PewResearchCenter #TikTok #Vilnius #Xfinity #YouTube

I’m headed across the Atlantic for the first time this year–to Vilnius, Lithuania, where I’m moderating a panel on AI in finance at the Fintech Day 2024 conference. In the bargain, my hosts are covering most of my travel expenses and also have set up a series of meetings with local fintech startups. I hope that some of these conversations will help me understand why international SWIFT payments can be anything but swift.

1/31/2024: TikTok Use Soars, X Slumps, But an Old Favorite Dominates Social Media, PCMag

I got an advance copy of the Pew Research Center’s latest findings on how many Americans have ever used major social-media platforms–as opposed to how often they use them regularly. The Pew report included some interesting details about the dollar-bill incentives Pew’s survey firm used to coax people to answer survey invitations sent in the mail, so I used the last paragraph to enlighten readers about them.

2/1/2024: Passkeys Are Here: We Just Have to Convince People to Use Them, PCMag

I covered the Identity, Authentication, and the Road Ahead Policy Forum in D.C. two Thursdays ago and had an enlightening conversation there with FIDO Alliance executive director Andrew Shikiar. Turning that interview into a story took a few more days, in part because of my own subpar time management and in part because of what became a fruitless effort to get more details about the Air New Zealand rollout of passkeys that Shikiar had cited in his keynote and in our conversation.

2/2/2024: Comcast Agrees to Back Off ’10G’ Branding a Little, PCMag

I thought this would be a simple story to write, but grasping the difference between “Xfinity 10G Network,” which Comcast says it won’t use in its marketin, and “Xfinity 10G” required a call and follow-up e-mail thread with a Comcast publication. And then understanding Comcast’s definition of 10-gigabit availability required some time browsing through its customer-support forums.

https://robpegoraro.com/2024/02/04/weekly-output-social-media-survey-passkey-adoption-xfinity-10g-network/

#10Gbps #10G #Comcast #ElonMuskTwitter #facebook #FIDOAlliance #FintechDay #Lithuania #passkey #passkeys #PewResearchCenter #TikTok #Vilnius #Xfinity #YouTube

I’m headed across the Atlantic for the first time this year–to Vilnius, Lithuania, where I’m moderating a panel on AI in finance at the Fintech Day 2024 conference. In the bargain, my hosts are covering most of my travel expenses and also have set up a series of meetings with local fintech startups. I hope that some of these conversations will help me understand why international SWIFT payments can be anything but swift.

1/31/2024: TikTok Use Soars, X Slumps, But an Old Favorite Dominates Social Media, PCMag

I got an advance copy of the Pew Research Center’s latest findings on how many Americans have ever used major social-media platforms–as opposed to how often they use them regularly. The Pew report included some interesting details about the dollar-bill incentives Pew’s survey firm used to coax people to answer survey invitations sent in the mail, so I used the last paragraph to enlighten readers about them.

2/1/2024: Passkeys Are Here: We Just Have to Convince People to Use Them, PCMag

I covered the Identity, Authentication, and the Road Ahead Policy Forum in D.C. two Thursdays ago and had an enlightening conversation there with FIDO Alliance executive director Andrew Shikiar. Turning that interview into a story took a few more days, in part because of my own subpar time management and in part because of what became a fruitless effort to get more details about the Air New Zealand rollout of passkeys that Shikiar had cited in his keynote and in our conversation.

2/2/2024: Comcast Agrees to Back Off ’10G’ Branding a Little, PCMag

I thought this would be a simple story to write, but grasping the difference between “Xfinity 10G Network,” which Comcast says it won’t use in its marketin, and “Xfinity 10G” required a call and follow-up e-mail thread with a Comcast publication. And then understanding Comcast’s definition of 10-gigabit availability required some time browsing through its customer-support forums.

https://robpegoraro.com/2024/02/04/weekly-output-social-media-survey-passkey-adoption-xfinity-10g-network/

#10Gbps #10G #Comcast #ElonMuskTwitter #facebook #FIDOAlliance #FintechDay #Lithuania #passkey #passkeys #PewResearchCenter #TikTok #Vilnius #Xfinity #YouTube

I’m headed across the Atlantic for the first time this year–to Vilnius, Lithuania, where I’m moderating a panel on AI in finance at the Fintech Day 2024 conference. In the bargain, my hosts are covering most of my travel expenses and also have set up a series of meetings with local fintech startups. I hope that some of these conversations will help me understand why international SWIFT payments can be anything but swift.

1/31/2024: TikTok Use Soars, X Slumps, But an Old Favorite Dominates Social Media, PCMag

I got an advance copy of the Pew Research Center’s latest findings on how many Americans have ever used major social-media platforms–as opposed to how often they use them regularly. The Pew report included some interesting details about the dollar-bill incentives Pew’s survey firm used to coax people to answer survey invitations sent in the mail, so I used the last paragraph to enlighten readers about them.

2/1/2024: Passkeys Are Here: We Just Have to Convince People to Use Them, PCMag

I covered the Identity, Authentication, and the Road Ahead Policy Forum in D.C. two Thursdays ago and had an enlightening conversation there with FIDO Alliance executive director Andrew Shikiar. Turning that interview into a story took a few more days, in part because of my own subpar time management and in part because of what became a fruitless effort to get more details about the Air New Zealand rollout of passkeys that Shikiar had cited in his keynote and in our conversation.

2/2/2024: Comcast Agrees to Back Off ’10G’ Branding a Little, PCMag

I thought this would be a simple story to write, but grasping the difference between “Xfinity 10G Network,” which Comcast says it won’t use in its marketin, and “Xfinity 10G” required a call and follow-up e-mail thread with a Comcast publication. And then understanding Comcast’s definition of 10-gigabit availability required some time browsing through its customer-support forums.

https://robpegoraro.com/2024/02/04/weekly-output-social-media-survey-passkey-adoption-xfinity-10g-network/

#10Gbps #10G #Comcast #ElonMuskTwitter #facebook #FIDOAlliance #FintechDay #Lithuania #passkey #passkeys #PewResearchCenter #TikTok #Vilnius #Xfinity #YouTube

I’m headed across the Atlantic for the first time this year–to Vilnius, Lithuania, where I’m moderating a panel on AI in finance at the Fintech Day 2024 conference. In the bargain, my hosts are covering most of my travel expenses and also have set up a series of meetings with local fintech startups. I hope that some of these conversations will help me understand why international SWIFT payments can be anything but swift.

1/31/2024: TikTok Use Soars, X Slumps, But an Old Favorite Dominates Social Media, PCMag

I got an advance copy of the Pew Research Center’s latest findings on how many Americans have ever used major social-media platforms–as opposed to how often they use them regularly. The Pew report included some interesting details about the dollar-bill incentives Pew’s survey firm used to coax people to answer survey invitations sent in the mail, so I used the last paragraph to enlighten readers about them.

2/1/2024: Passkeys Are Here: We Just Have to Convince People to Use Them, PCMag

I covered the Identity, Authentication, and the Road Ahead Policy Forum in D.C. two Thursdays ago and had an enlightening conversation there with FIDO Alliance executive director Andrew Shikiar. Turning that interview into a story took a few more days, in part because of my own subpar time management and in part because of what became a fruitless effort to get more details about the Air New Zealand rollout of passkeys that Shikiar had cited in his keynote and in our conversation.

2/2/2024: Comcast Agrees to Back Off ’10G’ Branding a Little, PCMag

I thought this would be a simple story to write, but grasping the difference between “Xfinity 10G Network,” which Comcast says it won’t use in its marketin, and “Xfinity 10G” required a call and follow-up e-mail thread with a Comcast publication. And then understanding Comcast’s definition of 10-gigabit availability required some time browsing through its customer-support forums.

https://robpegoraro.com/2024/02/04/weekly-output-social-media-survey-passkey-adoption-xfinity-10g-network/

#10Gbps #10G #Comcast #ElonMuskTwitter #facebook #FIDOAlliance #FintechDay #Lithuania #passkey #passkeys #PewResearchCenter #TikTok #Vilnius #Xfinity #YouTube

Merry almost-Christmas, everyone! I hope your gadget gifts don’t require prolonged firmware-update installations, repeated reboots, or lengthy tech-support interactions–but if they do, please let me know, because there might be a story in that.

12/18/2023: X Lands in the EU’s Crosshairs Over Questionable Policies, Lax Oversight, PCMag

Much of the reaction to the European Commission opening an investigation of the former Twitter for alleged violations of the Digital Services Act has focused on how EU law’s strict provisions over taking down illegal content invite abuses of government power. (See, for instance, my friend Mike Masnick’s dissent at Techdirt.) But the EU’s case also cites areas of misconduct outside of content moderation that speak to a comparable level of carelessness.

12/19/2023: Google Play Store Settlement Should Get You at Least $2, PCMag

The more time I spent reading the fine print about Google’s $700 million settlement (and looking at the fine print in its last quarterly-earnings filing that reported a cash and cash-equivalents balance almost 44 times as large as that sum), the less I liked it.

12/21/2023: How Urban Retail Can Bounce Back, Worth

I filed this feature about how urban retail can deal with challenges of crime and a reduced daytime-worker population back in October–before the National Retail Federation retracted a claim that organized retail crime made up almost half of all “shrink” from stores in 2021. But I hadn’t leaned on that report published in April and instead went with 2022 data on shrink in an NRF report posted in September that didn’t quantify “ORC.” Fortunately, no such qualms have surfaced since publication about the part of this piece (also available in Worth’s Q4 2023 print edition) that endorses mixed-use development to ensure that city neighborhoods don’t rise or fall depending on how many people sit down at desks in offices each morning.

12/22/2023: Twitter Alternative Bluesky Makes Posts Publicly Viewable, PCMag

The social platform that’s become my primary replacement for Twitter took a big step towards exiting its closed-beta status–which should be followed early next year by Bluesky letting anybody sign up, CEO Jay Graber told my Fast Company editor Harry McCracken last week.

12/23/2023: SmartTechCheck Podcast S03 E69, Mark Vena

I joined my industry-analyst friend’s podcast (also available in video form) for the first time since October to talk about our choices for the biggest tech stories of 2023. Since somebody else had picked Musk’s disastrous stewardship of what I sometimes like to call “Xitter,” I brought up the rise of fixed-wireless 5G home broadband.

https://robpegoraro.com/2023/12/24/weekly-output-eu-vs-x-google-play-store-settlement-urban-retails-future-bluesky-updates-mark-vena-podcast/

#Bluesky #BlueskyButterflyIcon #BlueskyPublicView #DSA #ElonMuskTwitter #EUDigitalServicesAct #GooglePlayServiceFees #GooglePlaySettlement #GooglePlayStoreSettlement #MarkVena #NoMa #shoplifting #sideloading #TwitterContentModeration #urbanRetail #XContentModeration

Musk can’t dodge payments to ex-Twitter execs he fired, judge rules - Enlarge / Then-Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal walks to a morning session dur... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1973174 #musktwitterlawsuit #elonmusktwitter #musktwitter #policy

In a candid and insightful discussion, Yoel Roth, former head of trust and safety at Twitter, shared his reflections on the tumultuous period leading up to and following Elon Musk’s acquisition of the platform. Roth, who served at Twitter for nearly eight years, spoke with a blend of humour and authority about the challenges he faced and the decisions that ultimately led to his departure.

Roth’s departure from Twitter came shortly after Musk’s takeover, a period he described as his “dream job” turning into a nightmare. He highlighted the overwhelming pressure from above to make impetuous decisions, often against the advice of his team and common sense. One significant turning point was the implementation of the blue verification system, which failed spectacularly as predicted by his team.

Reflecting on his time at Twitter, Roth expressed disappointment in the platform’s trajectory under Musk’s leadership. He initially believed that external factors such as advertisers and regulatory pressures would constrain Musk’s actions. However, he was proven wrong as advertisers fled, and Twitter withdrew from the European disinformation code of practice, making it an easy target for enforcement.

Roth also touched on the broader implications of Musk’s leadership style, which he characterised as dictatorial. He recounted directives that came without rationale, such as product changes and account reinstatements, which signalled a departure from Twitter’s previously rule-governed approach. This shift, he argued, led to a platform that abandoned its own operating principles, resulting in increased disinformation, hate speech, and even the resurgence of ISIS on the platform.

One of the most personal and harrowing aspects of Roth’s experience was the public smear campaign initiated by Musk. Musk mischaracterised Roth’s academic work, suggesting that Roth was responsible for the presence of child sexual abuse on Twitter. This led to a torrent of death threats and forced Roth to sell his home and live in hiding for months. Despite this, Roth emphasised that such tactics are part of a broader strategy to silence critics and deter others from speaking out.

Roth also discussed the chilling effect of lawsuits and Congressional hearings on academics and ex-employees, describing them as tools to stifle debate and intimidate individuals. He warned that these tactics are not just about silencing individuals but are part of a larger effort to control the narrative and suppress dissenting voices.

Looking forward, Roth expressed concerns about the upcoming 2024 election and the potential for misinformation to spread unchecked due to the lack of communication between government agencies and social media platforms. He noted that while some platforms, like TikTok, are investing in trust and safety, others, including Twitter, are pulling back, which could have serious implications for election security.

Despite the challenges, Roth remains hopeful about the future of social media, particularly the emergence of new platforms that could offer better user experiences and safety. He praised the investment in decentralised platforms and the potential for smaller, more manageable online communities.

In his closing remarks, Roth offered advice to Twitter’s current CEO, Linda Yaccarino, urging her to be wary of the risks and to advocate for the platform’s users. He also called on Elon Musk to listen to the experts within Twitter and to make data-driven decisions rather than relying on instinct.

Throughout the discussion, Roth maintained a balance of humour and seriousness, providing a comprehensive and thoughtful critique of Twitter’s current state and offering insights into the complexities of managing a major social media platform in today’s turbulent environment.

https://teasmith.au/resource/yoel-roth-warns-new-x-ceo-about-elon-and-company-status-full-interview/

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JFC.
🤦‍♂️ :birdsite:
It just doesn't end over there.
Like holy fuck, eh?

#elon #elonmusk #elonmusktwitter #twitter #twitterサービス終了 #x #xitter #birdsite #birdshitsite

Ich habe mir grade eine Frage gestellt...
Nachdem mir hier jemand etwas auf meinen #cagefight Toot geantwortet hat...

Kann mir das jemand beantworten...??
Stelle mir diese Frage nicht das erste mal...

Warum Elmo...?
und nicht
Elmu...??

Also wegen dem Namen hätte ich gedacht...
Aber dann passt es ja nicht das #Elmo
sondern eher Elmu...😂

#twitter #zuckerberg #Xtwitter #ElonMusk #elonmusktwitter #ElmoMuskShowdown #Musk