Internet Systems Architect, Maker, Father, Husband, tinkerer, IPv6 evangelist, and wanna-be mad scientist. Deals with complex systems. He/Him. Tweets my own.

Somerville, MA
Joined June 2008
I'm now posting most new content only on Mastodon at @erik@nygren.org (I may keep using twitter for contacting companies and responding to posts, but not sure how long that will last at this rate.)
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I don’t really do endorsements. I’m not shy about sharing my views, but I hate politics and don’t trust most politicians. I also understand that people want to hear from me because I am not just a celebrity, I am a former Republican Governor. My time as Governor taught me to love policy and ignore politics. I’m proud of the work I did to help clean up our air, create jobs, balance the budget, make the biggest infrastructure investment in state history, and take power from the politicians and give it back to the people when it comes to our redistricting process and our primaries in California. That’s policy. It requires working with the other side, not insulting them to win your next election, and I know it isn’t sexy to most people, but I love it when I can help make people’s lives better with policies, like I still do through my institute at USC, where we fight for clean air and stripping the power from the politicians who rig the system against the people. Let me be honest with you: I don’t like either party right now. My Republicans have forgotten the beauty of the free market, driven up deficits, and rejected election results. Democrats aren’t any better at dealing with deficits, and I worry about their local policies hurting our cities with increased crime. It is probably not a surprise that I hate politics more than ever, which, if you are a normal person who isn’t addicted to this crap, you probably understand. I want to tune out. But I can’t. Because rejecting the results of an election is as un-American as it gets. To someone like me who talks to people all over the world and still knows America is the shining city on a hill, calling America is a trash can for the world is so unpatriotic, it makes me furious. And I will always be an American before I am a Republican. That’s why, this week, I am voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. I’m sharing it with all of you because I think there are a lot of you who feel like I do. You don’t recognize our country. And you are right to be furious. For decades, we’ve talked about the national debt. For decades, we’ve talked about comprehensive immigration reform that secures the border while fixing our broken immigration system. And Washington does nothing. The problems just keep rolling, and we all keep getting angrier, because the only people that benefit from problems aren’t you, the people. The only people that benefit from this crap are the politicians who prefer having talking points to win elections to the public service that will make Americans’ lives better. It is a just game to them. But it is life for my fellow Americans. We should be pissed! But a candidate who won’t respect your vote unless it is for him, a candidate who will send his followers to storm the Capitol while he watches with a Diet Coke, a candidate who has shown no ability to work to pass any policy besides a tax cut that helped his donors and other rich people like me but helped no one else else, a candidate who thinks Americans who disagree with him are the bigger enemies than China, Russia, or North Korea - that won’t solve our problems. It will just be four more years of bullshit with no results that makes us angrier and angrier, more divided, and more hateful. We need to close the door on this chapter of American history, and I know that former President Trump won’t do that. He will divide, he will insult, he will find new ways to be more un-American than he already has been, and we, the people, will get nothing but more anger. That’s enough reason for me to share my vote with all of you. I want to move forward as a country, and even though I have plenty of disagreements with their platform, I think the only way to do that is with Harris and Walz. Vote this week. Turn the page and put this junk behind us. And even if you disagree with me, vote, because that’s what we do as Americans. vote.org
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I rarely use this platform now, mostly using it to communicate with vendors. I did want to call out how great @TMobileHelp is! Every time I've contacted them for assistance they have been amazing.
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#IPv6 adoption at MIT is still non-existent in 2024 (and has actually declined down to 0.1%). This continues to be highly disappointing for a university that was an early leader in the Internet. It's now 7 years since MIT sold off IPv4 space to AWS with a plan to shift to IPv6.
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Replying to @carrier
@carrier Do you have any authorized dealers in the Boston area who will perform warranty service on Carrier Infinity systems they didn't install? The listed authorized dealers that I've called won't service under warranty, and my distributor is unresponsive.
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Not being able to get support for my @Carrier Infinity HVAC system is not making me happy nor likely to recommend in the future. It's been not working properly ever since it was installed two years ago.
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I am also now erik.nygren.org on BlueSky although I'm not posting much there yet --- I see much better engagement on Mastodon for most topics. I've deleted the Ex-Twitter app off my phone and don't plan to post here much at all.
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I really hope the latest #covid wastewater datapoint for @MWRA_update's North region from @BiobotAnalytics is a data anomaly! I've never seen an outlier this big in their data before...
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My heart goes out to our team in Tel Aviv. We stand with you.
Akamai's statement on the War in Israel
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GOP learns the hard way: Turning the base up too high blows out your Speaker
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We’re adding 7 new core compute regions to our distributed cloud network — Amsterdam, Jakarta, Los Angeles, Miami, Milan, Osaka, and São Paulo — to help our customers around the world deliver even better digital experiences akamai.com/newsroom/press-re…
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This appears to finally be fixed in an OTA update to Android 12. Yay! #IPv6 is now stable on my Pixel 6 Pro on wifi.
It appears that my Pixel 6 Pro running Android 12 loses IPv6 wifi connectivity after awhile when the screen is off. With some help trying to track down the issue, it appears that it does not receive multicast RAs when the screen is off. Bug filed: issuetracker.google.com/issu…
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Replying to @TIDAL
@TIDAL, any plans to enable #IPv6 for your content? I was looking at residual IPv4 on my home network and traffic from your service was the top contributor.
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(For example, my client seems to request a AAAA address for resources.tidal.com but that hostname is IPv4-only.)
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This chilling reporting provides some context on Naomi Wu's recent silence. I highly valued her voice and perspective so it is disheartening she is no longer able to safely engage and contribute in the ways she could before. hackingbutlegal.com/p/naomi-…
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Ok for those of you that haven't figured it out I got my wings clipped and they weren't gentle about it- so there's not going to be much posting on social media anymore and only on very specific subjects. I can leave but Kaidi can't so we're just going to follow the new rules and that's that. Nothing personal if I don't like and reply like I used to. I'll be focusing on the store and the occasional video. Thanks for understanding, it was fun while it lasted.
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Amulet Book 9: Waverider will be in bookstores February 6th, 2024. Check with your local bookseller and ask them to pre-order a copy! @GraphixBooks @Scholastic
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Replying to @Xfinity
@Xfinity needs to be much more clear about their upload speeds on plans, especially since that is the primary differentiator at "1 Gbps" and above (especially since when using an XB68 in bridge mode you get exactly 1 Gbps port).
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It turns out that the 1000 Mbps plan only has 20 Mbps upload. (I'd had 100 Mbps upload on Xfinity before dropping TV and in negotiating my new plan was promised at least that and have a confirmation email showing 200 Mbps upload, which is a long ways from the 20 Mbps I got).
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DNS Nerd Alert! 🚨🤓😄 Testing low latency DNS resolvers under IETF NQB draft, tagging UDP/53 packets w/DSCP-45. Results positive so far (will share soon). Next frontier seems to be enabling DoH resolver for L4S and testing that. #DNS #DoH #DNSoverHTTPS #LowLatency #L4S #NQB
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BREAKING: Today is my birthday, so @awscloud got me a present: a full day of answering questions about what their price increase is going to mean for people. Your AWS bill is about to go up when they start charging for every IPv4 public address in Feb. lastweekinaws.com/blog/break…
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