multiple questions here,

A) why does it contain a what 3 words thing? come on...

B) why does the what 3 words thing begin with suffer on a AED? (there was almost certainly was a different one to choose)

Reading a "hot off the press" UK high court judgment that references IRC chat rooms was not on my bingo card for 202x

Given I was at BT Tower (and packed the zoooooom lens in my bag), I took the opportunity for some city infrastructure spotting

Really love the "industrial" piping that is hidden from the street level

The UK IPv6 Council meeting was held at BT (London) Tower the other day, and seemingly as part of the deal of hosting something at BT Tower is that your stuff gets put on the mini scrolling jumbotron.

I wonder how many people looked up and thought "wtf is IPv6 and this URL?"

The age-old British language game of, " is it of insult or is it food? "

hmmm, CF outage seemingly taken 50%~ of their traffic volumes out by the looks of things

@benjojo Disco Stu can't serve this webpage to you, ooh!

Why don't they just host cloudflare where they host the status page

Thank you to the global cloudflare outage for reminding me of my custom error page I made in 2014

Supermicro motherboard box art going for that Animorphs look

Unscheduled reboot safety test (failed) at nikhef this morning it seems

The Sony PlayStation Consoles are the most successful distribution of FreeBSD, this is likely obvious when you think about it, but when I look at bgp.tools traffic I see about 7x more traffic from the PS5 than (real) browsers running from FreeBSD.

I don't know who decides to use bgp.tools on their PS5/PS4, but more power to you I guess

Google Maps release the 2025 London Street-view images you cowards, I am still waiting for the other side of https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/956H4hjKbV4S2jWTVl

That kind of friend who you only speak to on average for one hour a month in a year.

But that doesn't necessarily mean that you speak to them every month

Today's catch-up call:

That oppressive architectural vibe of TeleHouse West at night

While searching for PC cases for a new NAS, I have found the ideal "youtube producer/editor" case, the "GameMax Luxury G51x Silentium PC" appears to let you just shove a bare 3.5" drive directly on the top of the machine.

Ideal for those who have their raw footage archive as just bare 3.5" drives on a shelf

ah yes this is what it looks like when you're just on the edge of downloads folder bankruptcy

Stumbled upon this image that I took in May while looking for something else, and I love it!

Ooh yeah that'll getcha

I don't think enough people appreciate the large scale public art experiment known as the "google maps reviews for boring things"

Go and look up your local supermarket or anything else that shouldn't really have reviews (something that is boring/banal) and you will find some gems I promise you

I present to you as an example, the reviews for a landfill waste gas generator site:

Today I bought a switch for 1.2k USD, then just bought 500 USD worth of lasers for the switch.

I can totally see how the switch/router is quickly seen as cheap as compared to what you install in it.

In constant awe at how British Airways, a company that famously operates in a space where not selling flights will cause rapid bankruptcy, is so bad at actually selling/booking flights

eBay fully calling me out this morning it seems

At 2025-11-10 17:40:57 UTC Cloudflare for some unknown reason withdrew 2400:cb00:2049::/48, A prefix that contains a lot of DNS name servers for many customers (including bgp.tools) (see https://bgp.tools/prefix/2400:cb00:2049::/48#dns )

Everything was back by 2025-11-10 18:00:30, but it's kinda wild that a prefix that contains .gov and loads of other name servers on it would just disappear like that.

This graph shows a selection of bgp.tools's session visibility second-by-second during the incident.

Me after getting a mosquito in mid flight first time in the bed room:

"Ladies and gentlemen, we got him"

(Actually technically her because the biting ones are female but whatever)

It will be sad when the gasometers fully go, such a icon to the landscape, but yeah up close they do seem to be rapidly falling apart

Such East London questions like:

Why is the teddy bear being crucified on the tube substation fence?

More Autumn shots today!

As winter comes around, and the trees go gold, the parakeet's are easier to spot amongst the landscape!

Good afternoon to everyone, especially this rotund squirrel I met at the park

Thinking about the corp dinner event I was at a few weeks ago where the highlight of the evening was the surprisingly huge funkion one system where I got to stand behind 5kw RMS of bass for a while

It's officially overween

Unifi Products that look like shitposts:

Daylight Savings Time shift

Pros:

• My server log timestamps are now in my local time

Cons:

• Dark
• Brighter earlier in the morning (sucks if you generally wake up without alarms etc)

I wonder if society will ever move to permanently sit in "Summer time"

Had an idea while cooking this evening that I could save time by trying to chop onions into small pieces by using a cheese grater instead.

After attempting to do this, I have been reminded that not all of my ideas are good ones.

Not only does this not work, but it also basically sets off a chemical warfare to your eyes in your kitchen, and the onions come out as sludge.

2/10 - would not recommend

Teaching the new trains how to train

Train training

ASN.1 was successful enough that the International Telecommunications Unions felt no need to create ASN.2. Everyone capitulatd in terror of what the ITU might do next. --SNMP Mastery

Pulls drive

What's that labe- oh. Ah.

Starlink soon to be cashing in on the lucrative ICBM market

You know, looking at the current rate that a single flagship GPU can do password hashing at, yeah, there are a whole classes of password hashing algros in the "megahash" range, and if you are using them (and the hash leaks) you are probably a bit fucked.

Unfortunately the megahash range is quite a lot of the ones that you shouldnt be using, but you know people are totally using anyway:

• MD5
• SHA.+
• unix DES crypt()

but that is fine because you use a password manager right... riiiiight?

None of this is particular new news, I was just surprised to know a single card can do 6000 megahash/s of DES crypt() these days.

I wonder how many kW's worth of Cisco 6500 are still left, recently read a about a carrier just this year clearing out a 3 digit number of kW's worth of them, so surely there is still a good few MW still of these devices likely lost in the inventory after 10's of years of operation but still running doing nothing or almost nothing.

It's a shame that taking photos in the airport security area is extremely frowned upon, some of the stuff that people are taking through are absolutely spectacular.

I recently learned that supreme make traffic cones, mostly because somebody was stuck in the queue keep getting their traffic cone swabbed for explosives

" Oh yeah the HiFi audio people are funny, spending 1000's of euros on audio gear that isn't better than the cheaper stuff, it's sad that they fall for that "

- Person with 300 euro coffee grinder (2025)

Happy us-east-1 day for those who celebrate

Spent a hour or so cleaning up broken links on my talks archive ( https://benjojo.co.uk/talks/ ), also re-found some old 2018 talks that were not there, it's sad how quickly event's own PDF archives of talks disappear, NLNOG seems to have gotten rid of their 2018 ones at the very least prompting me to re-host all of my own talks on my domain. What if I wanted to know what people were presenting in 2018 at NLNOG (without youtube!)

[Drum and Bass] vs [NAS Hard Disk Access Jitter]

Google Recapcha v2 interface but instead of selecting traffic lights it's "book a train ticket using the DB kiosk interface"

I'm sure the robots will do just as bad as the humans

Waiting for the bubble to pop purely for unixsurplus.com to get interesting hardware again, much like others are waiting to buy another cheap areon chair

Hmm, the RDAP-ification of the domain world is kinda crap, the default "whois" command that ships on ubuntu (and friends) doesnt do RDAP, and it seems that some ccTLD's have shut down their whois "port 43" servers without actually doing RDAP, one example being .co (Columbia)

[15:17:34] ben@ossa:~$ whois example.co
getaddrinfo(whois.nic.co): Name or service not known

I guess this basically gives you casual domain privacy for all .co domains???

Autumn!