Adam was the Technical Manager for Australia's first national ISP.
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Last Notes npub1fu4n4x6ph4gnd24qlurvl7lzqvvkmz2wts5sg3l6zwtwq4yfey6s5evyrh Adam Burns Reflect on your usage of services and tools provided by these companies to measure your own personal complicity. Take action not as protest but as active personal non-involvement with corporate support of mass human suffering and death. npub1fu4n4x6ph4gnd24qlurvl7lzqvvkmz2wts5sg3l6zwtwq4yfey6s5evyrh Adam Burns now who would have thunk it? npub1fu4n4x6ph4gnd24qlurvl7lzqvvkmz2wts5sg3l6zwtwq4yfey6s5evyrh Adam Burns @nprofile…4u86 there are of course alternate models ... npub1fu4n4x6ph4gnd24qlurvl7lzqvvkmz2wts5sg3l6zwtwq4yfey6s5evyrh Adam Burns @nprofile…4u86 npub1fu4n4x6ph4gnd24qlurvl7lzqvvkmz2wts5sg3l6zwtwq4yfey6s5evyrh Adam Burns @nprofile…lyr4 Haha. I grew up near the Duncan McKinnon reserve ... Hoping they extend their tour to Berlin, where they could emulate Nick Cave heroin-laced Berlin residency. ;) npub1fu4n4x6ph4gnd24qlurvl7lzqvvkmz2wts5sg3l6zwtwq4yfey6s5evyrh Adam Burns @nprofile…0eur cool. i remember playing some of this to you in a stammtisch some time back! npub1fu4n4x6ph4gnd24qlurvl7lzqvvkmz2wts5sg3l6zwtwq4yfey6s5evyrh Adam Burns @nprofile…3eu7 https://synthux.academy/residency but as of now, it's a holding page ... npub1fu4n4x6ph4gnd24qlurvl7lzqvvkmz2wts5sg3l6zwtwq4yfey6s5evyrh Adam Burns The PSP lets you massage the trees and allow them to sing back to you ... npub1fu4n4x6ph4gnd24qlurvl7lzqvvkmz2wts5sg3l6zwtwq4yfey6s5evyrh Adam Burns Talk to the trees with a World Wide Wood emulator ... npub1fu4n4x6ph4gnd24qlurvl7lzqvvkmz2wts5sg3l6zwtwq4yfey6s5evyrh Adam Burns Meme crockery. Plates with attittude on display on Berlin. npub1fu4n4x6ph4gnd24qlurvl7lzqvvkmz2wts5sg3l6zwtwq4yfey6s5evyrh Adam Burns Modern themed Anatolian wall carpets displayed in Berlin. npub1fu4n4x6ph4gnd24qlurvl7lzqvvkmz2wts5sg3l6zwtwq4yfey6s5evyrh Adam Burns @nprofile…h4pt yw ;) npub1fu4n4x6ph4gnd24qlurvl7lzqvvkmz2wts5sg3l6zwtwq4yfey6s5evyrh Adam Burns @nprofile…6k73 depending on your comfort level in who your are happy to use as hosting service, you can also use GitHub pages to achieve free static hosting. Also works with TLS over 443. npub1fu4n4x6ph4gnd24qlurvl7lzqvvkmz2wts5sg3l6zwtwq4yfey6s5evyrh Adam Burns @nprofile…amrh Ted tried. Negativland - Destroying Anything https://youtu.be/ObUIDD_ALo0 npub1fu4n4x6ph4gnd24qlurvl7lzqvvkmz2wts5sg3l6zwtwq4yfey6s5evyrh Adam Burns @nprofile…u7p7 Thank you. Open Source is indeed nowhere near enough. It has long been weaponised as a foundational building block for automated systems of extraction and abuse. npub1fu4n4x6ph4gnd24qlurvl7lzqvvkmz2wts5sg3l6zwtwq4yfey6s5evyrh Adam Burns @nprofile…wuym ah ... That camp Canadian sci-fi romp! Mind you, the title char is a good metaphor for tech ai corps hoovering up and eating all human digital works (their bodies will be next). npub1fu4n4x6ph4gnd24qlurvl7lzqvvkmz2wts5sg3l6zwtwq4yfey6s5evyrh Adam Burns @nprofile…ugpy thanks. We need more of what Bill Hicks termed as 'positive news stories'. npub1fu4n4x6ph4gnd24qlurvl7lzqvvkmz2wts5sg3l6zwtwq4yfey6s5evyrh Adam Burns We did it! Thanks to all the 668 supporters of Community Networks & Community Infrastructures to put their faith in us to to represent them and promote and help further local initiatives around the world as an Internet Society Special Interest Group. npub1fu4n4x6ph4gnd24qlurvl7lzqvvkmz2wts5sg3l6zwtwq4yfey6s5evyrh Adam Burns @nprofile…u25l like the role title. link to share (if still open)? npub1fu4n4x6ph4gnd24qlurvl7lzqvvkmz2wts5sg3l6zwtwq4yfey6s5evyrh Adam Burns @nprofile…u25l why not? obligation free, i guess. npub1fu4n4x6ph4gnd24qlurvl7lzqvvkmz2wts5sg3l6zwtwq4yfey6s5evyrh Adam Burns @nprofile…dm8q thanks for the feedback. Totally understand your reluctance/skepticism. I'm surprised at the number of FF & CN activists that up til now have not been aware of ISOC, or IETF for that matter. The ISOC regional chapter structure works quite well to address concerns over historical US origins. npub1fu4n4x6ph4gnd24qlurvl7lzqvvkmz2wts5sg3l6zwtwq4yfey6s5evyrh Adam Burns Last Day to Support Community Network initiatives around the world! npub1fu4n4x6ph4gnd24qlurvl7lzqvvkmz2wts5sg3l6zwtwq4yfey6s5evyrh Adam Burns @nprofile…y66a robots are people too. 😉 npub1fu4n4x6ph4gnd24qlurvl7lzqvvkmz2wts5sg3l6zwtwq4yfey6s5evyrh Adam Burns Stefan Krempl writes comprehensive 3 page review of The Rise of the Network Commons: npub1fu4n4x6ph4gnd24qlurvl7lzqvvkmz2wts5sg3l6zwtwq4yfey6s5evyrh Adam Burns Gemini PII redaction bypass exposes private identifiable information in its AI training set. npub1fu4n4x6ph4gnd24qlurvl7lzqvvkmz2wts5sg3l6zwtwq4yfey6s5evyrh Adam Burns @nprofile…dngu @nprofile…g8lq @nprofile…wsd0 Marvellous to hear. Thanks! npub1fu4n4x6ph4gnd24qlurvl7lzqvvkmz2wts5sg3l6zwtwq4yfey6s5evyrh Adam Burns https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giT0ytynSqg npub1fu4n4x6ph4gnd24qlurvl7lzqvvkmz2wts5sg3l6zwtwq4yfey6s5evyrh Adam Burns @nprofile…7fpm @nprofile…lc8m @nprofile…tjvv After the Battlemesh event and the book launch of the Rise of the Network Commons. We should reflect and discuss how to appropriately scale an effective governance mechanism that works hand in hand with similar initiatives such as the FSF, etc. npub1fu4n4x6ph4gnd24qlurvl7lzqvvkmz2wts5sg3l6zwtwq4yfey6s5evyrh Adam Burns Don't miss today's London book launch of Armin Medosch's The Rise of the Network Commons. npub1fu4n4x6ph4gnd24qlurvl7lzqvvkmz2wts5sg3l6zwtwq4yfey6s5evyrh Adam Burns @nprofile…xu2n Some years back, I came across Niklas Roy hard at work at a grafitti wall in Berlin. https://niklasroy.com/graffomat/ npub1fu4n4x6ph4gnd24qlurvl7lzqvvkmz2wts5sg3l6zwtwq4yfey6s5evyrh Adam Burns Cyber npub1fu4n4x6ph4gnd24qlurvl7lzqvvkmz2wts5sg3l6zwtwq4yfey6s5evyrh Adam Burns @nprofile…jyaf RotNC book launch pic from evelyn ... 😍 npub1fu4n4x6ph4gnd24qlurvl7lzqvvkmz2wts5sg3l6zwtwq4yfey6s5evyrh Adam Burns @nprofile…7fpm @nprofile…ksf7 npub1fu4n4x6ph4gnd24qlurvl7lzqvvkmz2wts5sg3l6zwtwq4yfey6s5evyrh Adam Burns @nprofile…wsd0 npub1fu4n4x6ph4gnd24qlurvl7lzqvvkmz2wts5sg3l6zwtwq4yfey6s5evyrh Adam Burns NOTE: Last Minute Updated Schedule - Book Launch will now start at 20:00 npub1fu4n4x6ph4gnd24qlurvl7lzqvvkmz2wts5sg3l6zwtwq4yfey6s5evyrh Adam Burns update: remote peertube streaming of book launch at 19:00 CEST https://c-tube.c-base.org/w/nUK259rHZk5RsANhrofMqx npub1fu4n4x6ph4gnd24qlurvl7lzqvvkmz2wts5sg3l6zwtwq4yfey6s5evyrh Adam Burns @nprofile…qz4x npub1fu4n4x6ph4gnd24qlurvl7lzqvvkmz2wts5sg3l6zwtwq4yfey6s5evyrh Adam Burns @nprofile…tjvv @nprofile…g8lq npub1fu4n4x6ph4gnd24qlurvl7lzqvvkmz2wts5sg3l6zwtwq4yfey6s5evyrh Adam Burns @nprofile…tjvv @nprofile…g8lq npub1fu4n4x6ph4gnd24qlurvl7lzqvvkmz2wts5sg3l6zwtwq4yfey6s5evyrh Adam Burns Update: Book now available at the Institute of Network Cultures in PDF, EPUB and Print on Demand formats. https://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/tod-58-the-rise-of-the-network-commons-a-history-of-community-infrastructure/ npub1fu4n4x6ph4gnd24qlurvl7lzqvvkmz2wts5sg3l6zwtwq4yfey6s5evyrh Adam Burns @nprofile…syk3 update: we're excited to announce that the institute of network culture has released the PDF, EPUB & Print on Demand versions of The Rise of the Network Commons here https://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/tod-58-the-rise-of-the-network-commons-a-history-of-community-infrastructure/ npub1fu4n4x6ph4gnd24qlurvl7lzqvvkmz2wts5sg3l6zwtwq4yfey6s5evyrh Adam Burns @nprofile…syk3 and of course, guifi.net is mentioned in the book! ;) npub1fu4n4x6ph4gnd24qlurvl7lzqvvkmz2wts5sg3l6zwtwq4yfey6s5evyrh Adam Burns @nprofile…syk3 PDF and EPUB versions as well as Print on Demand services will be released soon. :) npub1fu4n4x6ph4gnd24qlurvl7lzqvvkmz2wts5sg3l6zwtwq4yfey6s5evyrh Adam Burns Book Launch in Berlin at 19:00 on 31.05 npub1fu4n4x6ph4gnd24qlurvl7lzqvvkmz2wts5sg3l6zwtwq4yfey6s5evyrh Adam Burns @nprofile…5pw5 @nprofile…q54u thank you. great summary of the very beginning. i want to believe in gilmore's optimism of the time, but that was then and this is now. perhaps there is more to consider with regards to cybernetics and emergent properties of technical systems at scale. the medium is indeed the massage. npub1fu4n4x6ph4gnd24qlurvl7lzqvvkmz2wts5sg3l6zwtwq4yfey6s5evyrh Adam Burns "We build the future – software infrastructure and invisible bridges" npub1fu4n4x6ph4gnd24qlurvl7lzqvvkmz2wts5sg3l6zwtwq4yfey6s5evyrh Adam Burns https://criticallegalthinking.com/2025/03/18/to-reclaim-or-resist-can-digital-sovereignty-ever-be-feminist/ npub1fu4n4x6ph4gnd24qlurvl7lzqvvkmz2wts5sg3l6zwtwq4yfey6s5evyrh Adam Burns tmp.out issue 4 freshly minted npub1fu4n4x6ph4gnd24qlurvl7lzqvvkmz2wts5sg3l6zwtwq4yfey6s5evyrh Adam Burns Bluesky federation washing npub1fu4n4x6ph4gnd24qlurvl7lzqvvkmz2wts5sg3l6zwtwq4yfey6s5evyrh Adam Burns @nprofile…xu2n Browsing gopher space with the Lagrange client got me interested in hosting a server & looking at flavours. Curious as to what boxes pygopherd ticks for you... npub1fu4n4x6ph4gnd24qlurvl7lzqvvkmz2wts5sg3l6zwtwq4yfey6s5evyrh Adam Burns Rewilding software engineering npub1fu4n4x6ph4gnd24qlurvl7lzqvvkmz2wts5sg3l6zwtwq4yfey6s5evyrh Adam Burns @nprofile…5zs3 @nprofile…udgj cool. although i don't expect avahi integration anytime soon, keep an eye out for SRP https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-dnssd-srp/ this effectively allows for secure unicast updates. npub1fu4n4x6ph4gnd24qlurvl7lzqvvkmz2wts5sg3l6zwtwq4yfey6s5evyrh Adam Burns https://collapsible.systems/@julian/113819789895269967 npub1fu4n4x6ph4gnd24qlurvl7lzqvvkmz2wts5sg3l6zwtwq4yfey6s5evyrh Adam Burns @nprofile…5zs3 @nprofile…udgj Interesting news! npub1fu4n4x6ph4gnd24qlurvl7lzqvvkmz2wts5sg3l6zwtwq4yfey6s5evyrh Adam Burns @nprofile…wfsd @nprofile…gd46 @nprofile…prnp Heartfelt congratulations for producing this important body of work documenting unseen, unknown and under-appreciated forms of communication. From the previews, the design is outstanding. npub1fu4n4x6ph4gnd24qlurvl7lzqvvkmz2wts5sg3l6zwtwq4yfey6s5evyrh Adam Burns @nprofile…5cma looks a lot safer! 😂 npub1fu4n4x6ph4gnd24qlurvl7lzqvvkmz2wts5sg3l6zwtwq4yfey6s5evyrh Adam Burns @nprofile…zc3x rtfm? nah ... ;) npub1fu4n4x6ph4gnd24qlurvl7lzqvvkmz2wts5sg3l6zwtwq4yfey6s5evyrh Adam Burns @npub105j…w7vh @npub1t8r…rvnw unfortunately can't make it - this time.
