Stilgherrian (@stilgherrian)

Wentworth Falls NSW AU

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February 2017

OK, I’ll really try to get some rest now. There’s clearly something wrong with me.

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TheKouk Exactly 10 weeks till the budget speech…

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Scarfolk Shrove Tuesday recipe ideas from Scarfolk Council chefs. scarfolk.blogspot.com pic.twitter.com/6O4rVsxFK2

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You don’t HAVE to be a bald white man to crew this show, but if you want to fit in… https://t.co/unV9CgaJGs

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botandy the one child telepathically holding in check every spontaneous human combustion for the last decade, the man trying to distract her

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Startup (n): A machine for turning other people’s money into bullshit.

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RT @swearyanthony: “Let’s make an internet enabled toy” ❌
“That captures their voices” ❌
“Stored in MongoDB” ❌
“Exposed to the internet” ❌…

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This does not look overly medical one bit. https://t.co/2THQgkgQUv

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Is this part of the whip fantasy, or a separate fantasy? https://t.co/yhKthGarPH

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It doesn’t prove anything of the sort. https://t.co/NvW2ycfnSm

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I’m meant to be having a nap or something but the world is too stupid to ignore.

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RT @michaelneale: WALKMANS! THEY WILL MAKE THE YOUNG PEOPLE DEAF LISTENING TO THEIR DURAN DURAN https://t.co/0B5uwp4IEi

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Yes, @Independent_ie, each morning I display my membership of Underpants Culture before Socks Culture… What is this bullshit?

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“Earphone Culture”, apparently. https://t.co/vo8E99dIca

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“… and God bless mummy and daddy, and give them positive outcomes, amen.” NOBODY TALKS THIS WAY. https://t.co/uFacX3dNRv

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Why is a hamster writing newspaper op-eds?

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I’ve already prepared myself for @sydneymardigras by extending my stay in Vietnam.

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At first I read this as Dastyari not wanting to eat Abetz out but then I thought about it. https://t.co/27mxSv2nrJ

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“Game of Clones — the dating show of your creepiest dreams” https://t.co/z2trWMa8iT

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RT @TimWattsMP: I knew the chemtrails over Parliament House this morning meant something was up! https://t.co/KSp8dDQtvc

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RT @nktpnd: Wowwowwow. These paragraphs are from a real, official US Department of Education statement from Betsy DeVos released today. htt…

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Just defund the ABC, and the boomers will wither away without the sustenance. https://t.co/smfC2bdDwY

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@01000101 Thanks, though it appears not to be dengue season.

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I did see them wearing conference lanyards, though, so I’ll find out more about them later. Stay tuned for episode two.

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The final comment I heard is that he likes Vietnam more than Brussels. Because there’s time to get proper sleep on the flight.

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God I can’t stand this any more. I think my room should be done now. I’m heading up there to cry.

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He’s now complaining that his first wife didn’t appreciate his efforts in this regard. I am shocked to hear the marriage didn’t last.

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The machinations he goes to so he gets his upgrades. At no time does it seem to occur to him that he could pay for them.

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One of them chooses which flight his offspring travels from boarding school on spring break to maximise his miles.

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Two loud American executives are talking about how they game airline miles. It’s a combination of OCD and dick-swinging.

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I’m in the hotel foyer, waiting for my room to be ready again, and the people nearby are annoying.

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I’ve run into a couple of attendees who, like me, are suffering more fatigue than normal and have the body aches etc.

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There was precisely nothing in the presentation to support a comment like this. #apricot2017 https://t.co/O1GKORAH2M

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This is also a dignified way of dealing with unliked relatives and neighbours. https://t.co/femwQ3S2fU

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yunheekim22 BREAKING: Samsung Heir Lee Jae-yong Indicted on Bribery Charges on.wsj.com/2ltrail

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I wondered how they reproduced. Budding. That makes sense. https://t.co/IDeOCcQuR7

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Mind you, I bet this is far from being the first inappropriate thing to have been done on the White House furniture. https://t.co/dz9eq0LFfC

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RT @davebernstein: Feet off WH furniture, trailer trash 😬 https://t.co/xUuK83TD4L

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RT @markhumphries: I dread to think what time the bank will close now. https://t.co/rOBKaXb95h

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@jeffsonstein Well he doesn’t RUN anything, he just wanders around telling everyone they’re wrong.

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Routing detours are when internet traffic gets routed somewhere else odd before coming back. pic.twitter.com/LBZmH1WiP1

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Whoever at ANZ said this should have their pockets filled with gravel and be taken to the nearest river. https://t.co/3AbLOj7Z3K

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@jeffsonstein Never appoint an Australian pure mathematician as Chief Scientist of @apnic. ;)

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Next: Anant Shah, Colorado State University, “Towards characterising international routing detours” https://t.co/am4gbRvd60 #apricot2017

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Geoff, on sitting back down next to me, “I told you it was a quiet little talk about cryptography.2017

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Geoff just berated everyone who doesn’t use DNSSEC with key signing. Many derogatory words. “DNS is everythinot2017

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@voltagex Oh yes. It’ll be on the Tube of Ewes at https://t.co/nt4FJaWeOs I’ll provide a time index later up.

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“Only the IEEE is worse,” he sa2017

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“Standards groups are often dysfunctional, and IETF is no exception. To say it was broken would compliment it.” — Geoff Hot2017

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I can’t keep up with all the different ways Geoff is trolling so many countries in quick succession. A virtuoso performance17

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Geoff has just berated the room for using their oldest and cruddiest machines for DNS. He’s got a point17

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@Epigrammist Now there’s a question.

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Geoff says that the real doom and gloom will come after lunch.

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Geoff did tell me that there’s no doom and gloom in this presentation. Everything is relative. There is doom and gloom17

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OpenSSL is “the Texas Chainsaw Massacre of crypto algorithms.” — Geoff Hot2017

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… [DNSSEC] doesn’t rely on the wisdom, or the stupidity, of crowds.” Thanks, Geoffot2017

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On DNSSEC Interlocking Signaturss. “Thing of it like blockchain, because it’s trendy to say ‘blockchain’,” ex#apricot2017

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I like how Geoff reassures everyone by explaining how TLS works, and then destroys that by explaining the actual problems.

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@FakeDanTosello Yeah, but look these are network guys. I am SO glad they’re interested in getting their head around this.

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@harishpillay OK, now I’m feeling even older that I was five minutes ago.

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“We kind of hope quantum computing is bullshit. Because if it’s real, I’m in trouble, you’re in trouble.” —G#apricot2017

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Oh. Geoff cites the Riemann hypothesis, suggests we “solve it during the break, you’ll make millions.” https://t.co/gIYeRewGce #apricot2017

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Only two people in the room admitted to doing maths. (They’re network guys.) Geoff is losing them big time. “Far out,” he ot2017

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@johnb78 Guvf vf jung unccraf jura lbh yrg n cher zngurzngvpvna ybbfr va Ivrganz.

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Geoff is explaining the difference between symmetric and asymmetric crypto, and FAR too many people are taking notes. Crying.

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Geoff is doing a crash history of crypto. “You’re all so young!” he says. “Who remembers ROT13?” Only I raise a hapricot2017

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There’s no correlation between a country’s GDP per person and its IPv6 penetration. pic.twitter.com/Acr2Chmxto

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Just quietly, having Geoff Huston sitting next to me, running a commentary on this presentation, is kinda nice.

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Lesson 1: There’s a lot of informal deals making the internet work. A lot. pic.twitter.com/sNtWm1wXv8

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First speaker: Bill Woodcock,
Packet Clearing House, “PCH 2016 Survey of Interconnection Agreements” https://t.co/5pbuIHsIgV #apricot2017

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First for me: Asia Pacific OPeratorS (APOPS) forum, in 5 mins at 0900 ICT. There’s a live stream. https://t.co/sjOAfKaWYG #apricot2017

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@chrisrauchle @darrenpauli @AMS_IX @megaportnetwork No, they are not frogs. They are an abomination in the sight of God.

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RT @jeamland: BREAKING: George Christensen preparing his move to a safe space.

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“Privacy watchdog to probe Oz gov’s right to release personal info ‘to correct the record’”, writes @R_Chirgwin https://t.co/RdtO6qcWm7

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In further surprising news, Sean Spicer had a grip to begin with. https://t.co/XgnOKMV85q

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@jpwarren Oh I like where this might be heading.

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Tue plan: APRICOT/APNIC all day 2017.apricot.net/program/scheduâ€17, with writing breaks; evening in Ho Chi Minh City TBA.

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Congrats to the @AMS_IX @megaportnetwork crew for using real coffee as bait for data-gathering. #capturetheaddicts… https://t.co/ez0EKNzJ0v

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Sorry, this was actually my point. Gunshots further up Geary wouldn’t be a totally unknown phenomenon, shall we say. https://t.co/cZjH2ljget

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Re those last two retweets about San Francisco, the gunshots would’ve been, what? Six or seven blocks up Geary? Are these incidents linked?

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jonahowenlamb ’s Market st shut from Kearney to abt 4th due possibly to bomb threat called into ADL pic.twitter.com/LbOZ9g9ax3

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RT @demianbulwa: Twice in 5 min, bullets fly into San Francisco restaurants on Geary (one Eritrean, one Indian) https://t.co/HRFovttzMg via…

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RT @CaseyBriggs: they tried turning it off and on again https://t.co/HdFH2W8YbI

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@nphair Sure, but not always? I’m curious about the choice of language.

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Well, @GreenJ, you’ve got to admit, this is the best superhero ever. https://t.co/U7spcG09Hf

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Also, isn’t there a difference between “criminal behaviour” and “committed a crime”? I’m confused.

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“Stamping out” criminal behaviour isn’t the only factor in choosing a course of action.

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“Onshore detention mobile phone ban stamps out criminal behaviour: ABF.” Also, killing them. ab.co/2l3Gciu pic.twitter.com/KeOWIg8LZ2

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“Cambodia ‘too busy’ for counter-terror exercise with Australia”, reports @abcnews ab.co/2l5J8uY pic.twitter.com/uFguwYFHST

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There should be laws against this sort of thing. https://t.co/MZ1BblRlVn

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jxeeno imagine if they made an open mic night

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TomMcIlroy Eric Abetz says the flag is the flag of the Gay and Lesbian Kingdom of the Coral Sea Islands which has declared was on Australia

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TomMcIlroy Eric Abetz says the LGBTIQ rainbow flag was shown in the Finance Department foyer. He says its associated with an activist cause

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RT @staffo_sez: Imagine a political process so closed it refuses to release information about a bird. https://t.co/pKVqtcioKL

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The crew from JPNAP have the best hoodies. I want one.

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Lol that’s the one I use, with Gillian Triggs in the foreground. https://t.co/MN596NJxCa

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RT @joshgnosis: An answer today from October estimates on the day AGD is in #estimates, AGD says they don’t know how much Brandis diary cas…

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I’m thinking APOPS (2) for Geoff Huston, the Forces Shaping the Network panel, and what else today? https://t.co/ZC09MLqicA #apricot2017

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RT @hearsaycast: Audit finds 10 Border Force officers illegally raided a house and detained 3 people https://t.co/sYtAHIqEgm

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RT @hearsaycast: Audit of Border Force finds “29% of airport searches examined were unlawful” https://t.co/sYtAHIqEgm

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The trick seems to be to go out there before 0800 ICT. pic.twitter.com/rmN2IIBEwR

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THIS IS WHAT I KEEP TELLING YOU PEOPLE. https://t.co/A5TDHIoaXJ

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RT @SnarkyPlatypus: Because he worked for NAB for 17 years before entering politics is the correct answer https://t.co/e5U68vdSC9

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@garthk At AusCERT one year, @NewtonMark followed Geoff, and started his presentation with a slide of the calm blue ocean.

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Tue plan, draft: APRICOT/APNIC all day https://t.co/ZC09MLqicA #apricot2017; evening in Ho Chi Minh City TBA. Must also write something.

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RT @workmanalice: Brandis admits to @SenatorSkye the gov left Indigenous Affairs off Parliament calendar because they completely overlooked…

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This is true. Geoff Huston is also a gloom merchant. And his session is being streamed live.… https://t.co/XySpdDp2U8

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“Hear from Geoff Huston on Cryptography.” Well this will be cheerful. https://t.co/sjOAfKaWYG #apricot2017 https://t.co/yj3fbTTNw2

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@scottamcintyre And it’s not a totally bad thought. Mind you, my coffee is still brewing.

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@scottamcintyre My list is longer than two people. The choices are difficult.

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Tuesday. Key words are “inevitable”, “colloid”, and “plenipotentiary”. Tuesday.

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The question for me NOW, I mean. And the answer is “No”. I need to write in the morning.

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I still reckon Dutton is the cabinet minister who can’t work decimals. Maybe it’s Joyce, but I think it’s Dutton. https://t.co/HhadLHxaDH

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Ah yes, @crikey_news, the Prime Minister that Australia truly needs. pic.twitter.com/4bT4CYocqx

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jplonie @GordyPls Centrelink queue management system. pic.twitter.com/L931LbntdW

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The question for me know is whether, in an hour or so, I’ll have energy for the reception at the Reunification Pala… https://t.co/JleuZU5qwM

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@apnicdg True. In Australia, as in many places, the taxi industry is appalling.

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Just had a fascinating time in an interview with @timoreilly. Much to ponder. Not sure where that’ll end up17

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The opening session and keynotes are done. Coffee break.

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ElleOhHell I started carrying a knife after an attempted mugging a few years ago. Since then, my mugging attempts have been a lot more successful.

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@joshgnosis Indeed. These comparisons are so very hard. Which is why we can prove anything. ;)

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@joshgnosis Thanks, Josh. I’ve no idea what the FttP quality is like here in VN, but I’ll check the figures with there people tomorrow.

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Speaking now is Nguyen Hong Thang, Dep Dir of VNNIC. I’ll have to grab this one from the transcript. https://t.co/Q70UcQWfN9 #apricot2017

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Hey @joshgnosis or someone, have you got these figures handy? https://t.co/s2SP83b1vi

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Well, China has been renovating the railway up to their copper mines on the Rwandan border. Water and sanitation do… https://t.co/bjKUmNudGv

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Ah yes, I’m embarrassed to have forgotten this. Septic tanks and sewers are the flipside of clean water.… https://t.co/bIX5J9EiQd

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TO has an optimistic view of our future. Genuine enthusiasm, which is good to hear. But it’s still such a white Western view17

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Here’s what Africa needs, boys and girls: 1. Clean drinking water. 2. Consistent food supplies. 3. Less corruption17

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Oh here we go. Zipline. Drones to deliver medicine and blood in Africa. Western geek toys to “help”flyzipline.com/product/U17

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For all that talk earlier of “Who benefits?” I’m still hearing about stuff that makes life easier for well-off westerot2017

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TO is now riffing on the idea of Uber as an IoT app.

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Tim OK Reilly’s thoughts on regulation in the age of algorithms. @timoreilly pic.twitter.com/w0VcrHLMSh

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smartbrain The internet isn’t about information anymore. It’s a gateway to real world services. - @apnic

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kabindrash “You can’t prevent security problem but stop them from propagating it” -

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@smartbrain Will do. Looks like she invited me instead of you. :P

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@smartbrain Wait. Are you in this room? Or watching on the stream?

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Oh there’s also Zuckerberg. So a white male child17

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As an aside, I think every single person cited on-screen has been white middle-age male, except the two white middle-age women.

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… Implementation is as important as design and it needs success measures etc. Design user-centric services from outside in. 2/17

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I’m butchering the next bit by simplifying it, but it’s basically a call to build policy like we build softwareâ€ot2017

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TO asks the key question IMHO, namely who benefits from the future we build?

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Ah! TO is making this exact point. Uber’s treating workers as a disposable commodity is “a real probleot2017

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In a company like Uber, even the middle managers are programs. [Though the actual workers are still human, Uber.]

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Many of today’s workers are programs, says TO, which means the people at the computers are their managers17

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Reminder re my tweeting convention: Everything is a paraphrase unless in “quotesâ2017

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The internet is a global machine made of humans, and the people in this room are responsible for keeping it healthy.

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… whereas today, people using SaaS services, the programming is done by someone else at another time. 2/17

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TO is pitching the idea that back in the day of Perl and the Camel, programming was a daily activity… 1/17

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TO: How many of you have read our book “Mastering Regular Expressions?” A few hands go up, sheepishly. More look embarrass2017

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Vietnam’s 6% on IPv6 is the second-highest in SE Asia. #apricot2017 https://t.co/14yHTszgoO

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TO: The Luddites were right to be fearful, but they didn’t / couldn’t imagine the possibilities of the futu2017

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The human will rise up before the robots will, says TO, citing someone whose name I missed.

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O’Reilly [hereafter TO] says the world economy has got it wrong, thinking technology is about improving productivity17

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Keynote! @timoreilly! “What Internet Operations Teach Us About the Future of Management” https://t.co/gyh0DnIW0j #apricot2017

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And now, Vu The Binh, CEO of NetNam. General Sec, Vietnam Internet Assoc. https://t.co/cQL6RLJuHr #apricot2017

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Next, in the rapid run thru the welcomes, Tran Minh Tan, DG VNNIC. https://t.co/erdfCGgkRP #apricot2017

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Tam says 6% of VN’s internet connections have IPv6 connections. How does that compare, I wonder17

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Next, Dr Phan Tam, Deputy Minister, VN Ministry of Information and Communications. Going thru ’em fast. https://t.co/KeXyJPSuAW #apricot2017

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@timoreilly @apnic I cycle between all manner of pics, for all manner of reasons.

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Official welcome from Paul Wilson, DG of APNIC. https://t.co/eGvDxFOGOT

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Lunch is done. Next up, “Opening Ceremony and Plenary” including a kynotes from @timoreilly. https://t.co/xrsoTQCnjJ #apricot2017

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Putting my head down for an hour.

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