Rob Pegoraro<p>Almost two weeks in Pacific time, starting with <a href="https://robpegoraro.com/tag/black-hat" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Black Hat</a> and ending with some family time in the Bay Area, should have ended at around 9 p.m. Sunday. But the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2024/08/18/dc-weather-severe-thunderstorm-flooding/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">line of thunderstorms that swept through the D.C. area</a> and shut down ramp operations at Dulles for a chunk of the evening had other ideas, which is why we got a free tour of IAD during a two-hour wait for a gate and why I’m now typing this sentence from baggage claim after midnight Monday.</p><p>8/13/2024: <a href="https://www.lightreading.com/satellite/how-hughes-network-systems-could-bring-satellite-terminal-manufacturing-down-to-earth" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">How Hughes Network Systems could bring satellite terminal manufacturing down to Earth</a>, Light Reading</p><p>I visited Hughes’ new factory the day before I flew out to Vegas for Black Hat two weeks ago, then wrote this piece on Monday to include some news about Hughes’ contract to manufacture terminals for the low-Earth-orbit satellite-broadband firm OneWeb that Hughes PR gave me in advance.</p><p>8/13/2024: <a href="https://www.pcmag.com/news/patreon-to-creators-sorry-we-have-to-let-apple-take-a-cut-of-in-app-support" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Patreon to Creators: Sorry, We Have to Let Apple Take a Cut of In-App Support</a>, PCMag</p><p>I could not have written this story the way I did had I not set up shop on Patreon over five years ago and supported other creators on that platform. Some definitions of journalistic ethics would call that being too close to the story, but sometimes there’s no replacement for lived experience in a subject.</p><p>Later that day, I followed up by writing a post for Patreon readers explaining that <a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/fyi-sign-ups-in-110032071" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">I was not going to eat Apple’s cut</a>, which meant that they could choose between paying about 43 percent extra (an increase Patreon calculated to ensure that creators would earn the same from a patron regardless of where they signed up) or following my advice to sign up on the Web.</p><p>8/15/2024: <a href="https://www.washingtonian.com/2024/08/15/hfstival-whfs-oral-history/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Come Out and Play: An Oral History of the HFStival</a>, Washingtonian</p><p>I enjoyed the hell out of revisiting some of my favorite RFK memories with Washingtonian’s Andrew Beaujon over a long phone interview in May. I also enjoyed seeing my one quote from that conversation follow extended testimony from musicians in some of my favorite D.C. indie-rock bands of that era: the Dismemberment Plan, Jawbox, Tuscadero and Velocity Girl.</p><p>8/15/2024: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbhgjki2diA" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Ep 104 SmartTechCheck Podcast — HEB and Apple Pay, Google news, desktop PC thoughts, BlackHat</a>, Mark Vena</p><p>I joined my industry-analyst friend’s podcast to share my thoughts on Black Hat and to compare notes with fellow tech scribes John Quain and Dwight Silverman.</p><p>8/16/2024: <a href="https://www.pcmag.com/news/court-calif-child-safety-bill-turns-businesses-into-censors-for-the-state" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Court: Calif. Child-Safety Bill Turns Businesses Into ‘Censors for the State’</a>, PCMag</p><p>One state’s law about online child safety getting blocked by a federal appeals court might not seem like national news, but California is a very large state and the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act has already inspired similar laws in other states and a bill that passed the Senate last month.</p><p>8/17/2024: <a href="https://www.pcmag.com/news/court-stops-disney-fox-wbd-venu-live-sports-service-on-antitrust-grounds" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Court Stops Disney-Fox-WBD ‘Venu’ Live Sports Service on Antitrust Grounds</a>, PCMag</p><p>Friday gave me a second opportunity to digest a fairly lengthy court ruling and explain it to readers, this time one that halted the rollout of a sports streaming service on antitrust grounds.</p><p><a href="https://robpegoraro.com/2024/08/19/weekly-output-hughes-network-systems-manufactures-in-maryland-apples-app-store-tax-hits-patreon-creators-hfstival-mark-vena-podcast-calfornia-online-child-safety-law-stayed-venu-sports-streami/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://robpegoraro.com/2024/08/19/weekly-output-hughes-network-systems-manufactures-in-maryland-apples-app-store-tax-hits-patreon-creators-hfstival-mark-vena-podcast-calfornia-online-child-safety-law-stayed-venu-sports-streami/</a></p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robpegoraro.com/tag/age-appropriate-design-code/" target="_blank">#AgeAppropriateDesignCode</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robpegoraro.com/tag/app-store/" target="_blank">#AppStore</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robpegoraro.com/tag/app-store-30/" target="_blank">#AppStore30_</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robpegoraro.com/tag/black-hat/" target="_blank">#BlackHat</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robpegoraro.com/tag/fubo/" target="_blank">#Fubo</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robpegoraro.com/tag/fubotv/" target="_blank">#FuboTV</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robpegoraro.com/tag/hughes-network-systems/" target="_blank">#HughesNetworkSystems</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robpegoraro.com/tag/mark-vena/" target="_blank">#MarkVena</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robpegoraro.com/tag/netchoice/" target="_blank">#NetChoice</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robpegoraro.com/tag/oneweb/" target="_blank">#OneWeb</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robpegoraro.com/tag/patreon/" target="_blank">#Patreon</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robpegoraro.com/tag/sports-streaming/" target="_blank">#sportsStreaming</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robpegoraro.com/tag/venu/" target="_blank">#Venu</a></p>