Flu piece for AUSDAVOS

A few years ago I woke up hungover in a Vegas hotel room and wandered
down stairs to my conference, a conference cum cheerleading session
for which I had no real want or need. We had RFID(Radio Frequency
IDentification) tracking chips in our badges so managers could track
who went to what sessions. Technology was facilitating people
"management" akin to factory farmed battery hens. With these
micro-metrics available to our respective "managers" where was the
leadership, the humanity? I dumped my tracking chip early, pretended I
had lost it, and headed back to the pool to drink more silver rock
margaritas with my new buddies.

That was 2006. That person is gone, and springing forth from the
fertile scarred and charred earth, there is now a small green shoot; a
concept, an entity, a mission. We’ve decided that it is time to use
technology to facilitate humanity, not to constrain it. It is time to
enable the human mesh for the sake of all humans, plants and animals,
and not for profiteering. Accountability and humanity are lost in
organisational abstractions, out-sourcing, out-tasking and
off-shoring. Rather than pushing humans farther away, it's time to
bring us all closer together.

Time has indeed sped up. We are currently trying to shoehorn a new
"emergence supporting" fuzzy framework in to old legal cooperative
structures. It's hard to explain how once enough nodes or entities are
logically connected together, the new entity both mirrors the atomic
entities and creates a totally new previously unseen entity (the whole
being greater than the sum of its parts). This is nature, this is
interconnectedness, this is biomimicry.. or is it already just nature?

So what have we actually done? In 2009 we deployed free internet mesh
wireless networks to events that spread human awareness, including the
popular Future Summit and Trampoline events held in Melbourne,
Australia We continue to do so today, facilitating and helping those
who need it most. NodeCity also rebrokered a single internet
connection to provide wireless access across a temporary village built
for the displaced citizens of Flowerdale who had lost their homes in
the Victorian ‘Black Saturday’ bushfires this year.

We provide non-profit focused IT professional services, enterprise
computing and infrastructure to anyone who really needs it at a fair
and equitable price (if not gratis for good causes when feasible!).

It is this ability to access information, ideas, and to communicate
with vast pools of other people and systems outside of your normal
physical range which is so powerful. This is why we think NodeCity is
such an important project to commit to. The ability to organise is
amplified and accelerated, both locally and remotely. Dissemination of
information provides alternatives and increased numbers of options,
which facilitates real human potential. The main question however is,
are values transmitted in the same way as raw data? Does increased
information actually inform and provoke critical thought, improve
quality and benefit the world or does it detract from it? Maybe we are
seeing the next step in our shared evolution. We are a new type of
node based city, and we are going to answer the only way we can.

I want one

Biking in, snap happy.

Welcome back USA

What is nodecity

Nodecity was always going to be a community; a part of the greater network of beings and entities. Essentially, interconnectedness realised and respected.

With a mixture of technological advances, instrumentation and cooperation (through efforts like http://smartenergygroups.com/), Nodecity will be both a physical and virtual destination to learn about balanced living. Nodecity will utilise philosophies (both borrowed and evolving) from permaculture, meditation, and technology, to demonstrate a different way of living.

Currently we are looking at soil maps, climate, and building regulations around Australia. We will be looking for funding and grants to build an earthship centre and business plan around our model (including providing low footprint devices and service packages to individuals and groups wishing to utlise the internet more effectively and responsibly).

This is not about eco-tourism, it is about eco-living, learning and connecting.

Non prescriptive, explorative.

OMG

This is essentially what some of our guys have been talking about.... Zen, IT and Permaculture.

IT-in-a-box

Message passing.
Inter process communication.
Spawning processes. Process lifecycle.
Information management.
Trust, privacy, identity. Non-repudiation.
Superorganism inputs, processes, outputs.
Node inputs, processes, outputs.
Symbiotic entity node+interface+human.
Symbiotic entity human-node+network+human-node.
Symbiotic entity human-node+network+auto-node.
Symbiotic entity auto-node+network+human-node.
Flows.
Go to (Message passing)

TED-TIME-NOBEL

FCUK-YOU-YOUTUBE

DNS for dynamic geo-location

Using DNS as a covert channel to do lookups against non-existant A records, which are in fact your latitude and longitude coordinates!

E.g. my device registers via dynamic DNS to a domain (mine or someones service) and enters its hostname, then subsequently does a lookup against my location+device+[sub]domain. DNS server intelligently sees query and does some stuff below:

So my device asks about a non-existant A record in my subdomain or hosted domain which now happens to contain my coords; such that the DNS server is originally told by my device where I am. The DNS server updates itself to contain a record that now reflects what I asked. Others can now query my location through a DNS resource record. Quick, single packet UDP geo-location.

Now other entities on the internet can a) ask for the IP for my host's A record b) ask for the PTR for my device in that or other subdomain, and the response points to the new 'geo' location data A record.

My latitude and longitude
-037.881721,144.978032

My device called 'bob-001' with IP address 123.123.123.123

My device uses 'dynamic DNS' and registers in a domain with:
bob-001.assets.nodecity.com 123.123.123.123

My DNS server creates the A record and also a sub-domain(no PTR record yet!):
bob-001.assets.nodecity.com 123.123.123.123
.bob-001.geo.assets.nodecity.com

My device asks about the A record:
037881721144978032.bob-001.geo.assets.nodecity.com

My DNS server now knows where I am and also inserts a PTR record for
123.123.123.123.IN.ADDR.PTR. 037881721144978032.bob-001.geo.assets.nodecity.com

Hmmmm.. can also use TXT records and/or oher DNSSEC stuff. PTR idea may not work against RFC1918 address space or devices behind NAT. Maybe just use AXFR for subdomain which could also contain the last X locations for the device....

Quality

Stage 2

When I get back from San Francisco a few things are going to happen.

I am going to spread information and connectedness with http://Nodecity.com/
I have just facilitated 3 conferences.
I am going to buy cheap land and build an earthship and free myself from the system 100% to facilitate true freedom. Shelter, air, water, food, excretion, homeostasis.

This will be my next 5 years. Probably at the base of the tropics, inland somewhat and about 100m above sea level. The islands of self-sustainable communes / gardens are about to take hold. I have a vision and need to engage in something meaningful in this super grid -> it's time to build, teach and play. Otherwise there's no point.

Time to play life like a dance, music, or some nonsensical chatter. The cosmic joke. Time to laugh along, not to be too serious.. but also to take responsiblity for my own survival, only then can one truly be free. Beholden to none. Then one can serve fellow beings and ecosystem. Time to become net neutral, before net positive.

Play life, do not race

My mate Alan

Senator Conroy

http://nocleanfeed.com/action.html

Dear Minister,

As an Australian and an internet user, I have serious concerns about your mandatory Internet filtering initiative.

Given the importance your Government has attached to modernising Australia's broadband network, pursuing a policy that can only slow down and increase the costs of home internet access seems misguided at best. Australian households are diverse, and most do not have young children, so mandating a one-size-fits-all clean feed approach will not serve the public well. I don't think it is the Government's role to decide what's appropriate for me or my children, and neither do most Australians.

Given the amount of Internet content available, the Government will never be able to classify it all and filters will always result in an unacceptable level of over-blocking. I feel that the time and money could be spent in better ways both to protect children and improve Australia's digital infrastructure. Australian parents need better education about the risks their children face online. Trying to rid the Internet of adult content is futile, and can only distract from that mission.

Sincerely,

Donal

City, State

Cynefin Framework talk from Shawn

Shawn Callahan is @unorder from Anecdote.com.au

I found the Muppets again. Resident Evil.

Infosec and Management, ring any bells?

First Principles

Cloud Computing.
IAAS (Infrastrusture as a Service)
Network architects are your friends. QED.

This is how to do it. Water and veggies.