Jonathan Brewer
@xn--t-0la.nz
I design and build networks for broadband,
public safety, utilities, and the Internet of Things.
jon.brewer.nz
public safety, utilities, and the Internet of Things.
jon.brewer.nz
If we do have another global financial crisis, maybe we can get out of building an LNG terminal, a diesel power plant, and 44 billion dollars of new roads.
What sort of dumb infrastructure projects were governments lining up in September 1929?
November 17, 2025 at 11:24 PM
If we do have another global financial crisis, maybe we can get out of building an LNG terminal, a diesel power plant, and 44 billion dollars of new roads.
What sort of dumb infrastructure projects were governments lining up in September 1929?
November 17, 2025 at 11:16 PM
What sort of dumb infrastructure projects were governments lining up in September 1929?
Charging out your lowest paid admin at $215-$245/hour to process paperwork is theft in my mind. Why do the courts put up with this - are they on the take too?
November 17, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Charging out your lowest paid admin at $215-$245/hour to process paperwork is theft in my mind. Why do the courts put up with this - are they on the take too?
Went to a winemakers' event at Rosella today with Coal Pit. Great wine and wow Anika really knows her craft and her bit of Central Otago well. Food was excellent too, as always with Rosella.
November 16, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Went to a winemakers' event at Rosella today with Coal Pit. Great wine and wow Anika really knows her craft and her bit of Central Otago well. Food was excellent too, as always with Rosella.
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Following a platform-wide outage in November 2022, #Starlink published a significantly different IP geolocation file, which included for the planet Mars:
98.97.73.224/27,XX,XX-XY,Mars
Learn more in @eldomador.bsky.social's latest post pulse.internetsociety.org/blog/blast-o...
98.97.73.224/27,XX,XX-XY,Mars
Learn more in @eldomador.bsky.social's latest post pulse.internetsociety.org/blog/blast-o...
Blast-Off: 3.5 Years of Starlink’s Growth (Part 2)
Starlink’s IP geolocation data shows the use of the satellite Internet service in isolated and disputed territories, an…
pulse.internetsociety.org
November 11, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Following a platform-wide outage in November 2022, #Starlink published a significantly different IP geolocation file, which included for the planet Mars:
98.97.73.224/27,XX,XX-XY,Mars
Learn more in @eldomador.bsky.social's latest post pulse.internetsociety.org/blog/blast-o...
98.97.73.224/27,XX,XX-XY,Mars
Learn more in @eldomador.bsky.social's latest post pulse.internetsociety.org/blog/blast-o...
Reposted by Jonathan Brewer
Today’s newsletter:
A partnership between 2degrees and AST SpaceMobile offers a distinct take on mobile to satellite. Chorus wants government help fixing digital divide. Another data record breaks.
billbennett.co.nz/2degrees-ast...
A partnership between 2degrees and AST SpaceMobile offers a distinct take on mobile to satellite. Chorus wants government help fixing digital divide. Another data record breaks.
billbennett.co.nz/2degrees-ast...
2degrees building satellite ground station for 2026 launch
A partnership between 2degrees and AST SpaceMobile offers a distinct take on mobile to satellite. Chorus wants government help fixing digital divide. Another data record breaks.
billbennett.co.nz
November 13, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Today’s newsletter:
A partnership between 2degrees and AST SpaceMobile offers a distinct take on mobile to satellite. Chorus wants government help fixing digital divide. Another data record breaks.
billbennett.co.nz/2degrees-ast...
A partnership between 2degrees and AST SpaceMobile offers a distinct take on mobile to satellite. Chorus wants government help fixing digital divide. Another data record breaks.
billbennett.co.nz/2degrees-ast...
In an environment of speech restrictions it's easy to route around the damage. Eventually people will respond "I want to take that author to Reno", "see you in Reno", or just "Reno 👼" and the point will be made.
November 12, 2025 at 8:48 PM
In an environment of speech restrictions it's easy to route around the damage. Eventually people will respond "I want to take that author to Reno", "see you in Reno", or just "Reno 👼" and the point will be made.
Reposted by Jonathan Brewer
Releasing the Epstein files could have a chilling effect on future presidents' ability to hide their history of raping children on a private island owned by a convicted sex offender.
November 12, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Releasing the Epstein files could have a chilling effect on future presidents' ability to hide their history of raping children on a private island owned by a convicted sex offender.
If Internet Governance and Network Operations conferences want to attract a more diverse audience, we're going to need a smoke machine, sparkle pots, electric guitars, and better art.
Thank you Kawaiicon for reminding me how it should be done.
Thank you Kawaiicon for reminding me how it should be done.
November 11, 2025 at 8:05 PM
If Internet Governance and Network Operations conferences want to attract a more diverse audience, we're going to need a smoke machine, sparkle pots, electric guitars, and better art.
Thank you Kawaiicon for reminding me how it should be done.
Thank you Kawaiicon for reminding me how it should be done.
‘Gandalf’ the Medical Marijuana Grower: Folk Hero or Criminal? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/w...
‘Gandalf’ the Medical Marijuana Grower: Folk Hero or Criminal?
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:23 AM
‘Gandalf’ the Medical Marijuana Grower: Folk Hero or Criminal? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/w...
There's a good sized list of people I wanted to (and expected to) see and say hi to at Kawaiicon that I completely missed. Sorry!
November 9, 2025 at 8:25 AM
There's a good sized list of people I wanted to (and expected to) see and say hi to at Kawaiicon that I completely missed. Sorry!
Mōrena Kawaiicon! Basic device hygiene for potentially dodgy environments: Wi-Fi off, Bluetooth off, Airdrop off, Hotspot off, VPN on.
November 6, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Mōrena Kawaiicon! Basic device hygiene for potentially dodgy environments: Wi-Fi off, Bluetooth off, Airdrop off, Hotspot off, VPN on.
For the Kiwicon people, because it's going to be too loud.
I work for 30+ orgs most years doing radio engineering. I do maritime safety tech on both sides of the Cook Strait. I'm involved in Internet Gov on the numbers side. And I'm a director of APNOG who run APRICOT & assist NOGs throughout Asia.
I work for 30+ orgs most years doing radio engineering. I do maritime safety tech on both sides of the Cook Strait. I'm involved in Internet Gov on the numbers side. And I'm a director of APNOG who run APRICOT & assist NOGs throughout Asia.
November 5, 2025 at 5:50 AM
For the Kiwicon people, because it's going to be too loud.
I work for 30+ orgs most years doing radio engineering. I do maritime safety tech on both sides of the Cook Strait. I'm involved in Internet Gov on the numbers side. And I'm a director of APNOG who run APRICOT & assist NOGs throughout Asia.
I work for 30+ orgs most years doing radio engineering. I do maritime safety tech on both sides of the Cook Strait. I'm involved in Internet Gov on the numbers side. And I'm a director of APNOG who run APRICOT & assist NOGs throughout Asia.
Ata mārie te Waiharakeke.
November 3, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Ata mārie te Waiharakeke.
Moore Wilson's Wellington City had pearl onions a little while back. What else to do with them but Coq au Vin?
November 1, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Moore Wilson's Wellington City had pearl onions a little while back. What else to do with them but Coq au Vin?
What surprises me most about the One.nz led shared infrastructure here is that it smacks of cartel. Shared infrastructure should be the domain of neutral hosts. Will NZ ever have a fourth mobile operator or even the threat of one when bottlenecks like this are captured? No.
A link to today's newsletter for everyone who was preoccupied at 8:00.
billbennett.co.nz/city-rail-li...
billbennett.co.nz/city-rail-li...
City Rail Link connectivity, mobile updates, satellite surge
Auckland’s City Rail Link goes underground with full 4G and 5G coverage, Spark tops Opensignal for coverage, TCF updates broadband codes, One NZ satellite texting surges after wild weather.
billbennett.co.nz
October 31, 2025 at 4:32 AM
What surprises me most about the One.nz led shared infrastructure here is that it smacks of cartel. Shared infrastructure should be the domain of neutral hosts. Will NZ ever have a fourth mobile operator or even the threat of one when bottlenecks like this are captured? No.
On the bright side I won't be spending any time with MBIE's rage-inducing registry of radio frequencies today. Both website and API broken broken broken.
October 29, 2025 at 9:13 PM
On the bright side I won't be spending any time with MBIE's rage-inducing registry of radio frequencies today. Both website and API broken broken broken.
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Latest update on the Azure outage:
We initiated the deployment of our 'last known good' configuration...
azure.status.microsoft/en-us/status
We initiated the deployment of our 'last known good' configuration...
azure.status.microsoft/en-us/status
October 29, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Latest update on the Azure outage:
We initiated the deployment of our 'last known good' configuration...
azure.status.microsoft/en-us/status
We initiated the deployment of our 'last known good' configuration...
azure.status.microsoft/en-us/status
Reposted by Jonathan Brewer
Revealed: Israel demanded Google and Amazon use secret ‘wink’ to sidestep legal orders www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Revealed: Israel demanded Google and Amazon use secret ‘wink’ to sidestep legal orders
The tech giants agreed to extraordinary terms to clinch a lucrative contract with the Israeli government, documents show
www.theguardian.com
October 29, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Revealed: Israel demanded Google and Amazon use secret ‘wink’ to sidestep legal orders www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
It's bad when I read someone's LinkedIn post and Dead Milkmen's Instant Club Hit starts going through my head, right? Or does it just mean I'm GenX, and too old for this shit..
October 29, 2025 at 9:12 AM
It's bad when I read someone's LinkedIn post and Dead Milkmen's Instant Club Hit starts going through my head, right? Or does it just mean I'm GenX, and too old for this shit..
The weather station and nav light both survived, along with the solar panels. The grey telemetry antenna to the right in this photo was blown to bits.
October 28, 2025 at 9:21 PM
The weather station and nav light both survived, along with the solar panels. The grey telemetry antenna to the right in this photo was blown to bits.
Oh hey that was - fun- getting caught in the thunderhail.
Really, honestly, lot of good fun. I'm sure the welts will disappear in a few days.
#whywellington
Really, honestly, lot of good fun. I'm sure the welts will disappear in a few days.
#whywellington
October 28, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Oh hey that was - fun- getting caught in the thunderhail.
Really, honestly, lot of good fun. I'm sure the welts will disappear in a few days.
#whywellington
Really, honestly, lot of good fun. I'm sure the welts will disappear in a few days.
#whywellington
I've been updating the software I use to interact with MBIE's Registry of Radio Frequencies to handle a new type of work for me - coordinating UHF radio links used for SCADA. And I've found not only does the API have bugs, the data itself is atrocious.
Found another bug* in MBIE's Radio Spectrum Management APIs.
The only person who understands MBIE's RSM API is on leave for the rest of the year.
* NL for Northland is missing from the API definition. In 3.5 years this is the first time I've tried to limit a search result to Northland. 🤦♂️
The only person who understands MBIE's RSM API is on leave for the rest of the year.
* NL for Northland is missing from the API definition. In 3.5 years this is the first time I've tried to limit a search result to Northland. 🤦♂️
October 27, 2025 at 8:53 PM
I've been updating the software I use to interact with MBIE's Registry of Radio Frequencies to handle a new type of work for me - coordinating UHF radio links used for SCADA. And I've found not only does the API have bugs, the data itself is atrocious.
Reposted by Jonathan Brewer
A flash of red light over New Zealand: a rare sprite rising 90km above a storm, gone in a tenth of a second.
That image sent me back into my early work with radio astronomy and to how art and science make the electromagnetic life of the Universe perceptible.
honorharger.wordpress.com/2025/10/26/i...
That image sent me back into my early work with radio astronomy and to how art and science make the electromagnetic life of the Universe perceptible.
honorharger.wordpress.com/2025/10/26/i...
October 27, 2025 at 11:29 AM
A flash of red light over New Zealand: a rare sprite rising 90km above a storm, gone in a tenth of a second.
That image sent me back into my early work with radio astronomy and to how art and science make the electromagnetic life of the Universe perceptible.
honorharger.wordpress.com/2025/10/26/i...
That image sent me back into my early work with radio astronomy and to how art and science make the electromagnetic life of the Universe perceptible.
honorharger.wordpress.com/2025/10/26/i...