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Nutrias want what I have to offer (the mini cucumber in my hand)

She's never had to get a code from her authenticator app

In case someone has not done it yet

CW: NSFW text (via Google Webmaster Tools)

Google Webmaster Tools is very insightful, for example: I feel sorry for the person who was searching "just tits xxx" (with a 100 CTR) and ended up on a blog post about internet exchange fabrics letting bad packets into their broadcast domains.

I wish to one day write a README so direct and honest as Loop-Amnesia's

http://moongate.ydns.eu/amnesia.html

It's so nice that my old tweets did not die in vain, and continue to live again in my fedi account via some slightly cursed import feature of honk.

It also means I get to occasionally boost/retoot/bonk some 2018 tweet that applicable to [the situation/me] right now

In this simple, understandable, 26351 step guide I will show you how to add a IPv6 address to your Oracle Cloud Instance :tm: on your Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Compartment Account

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I don't really think that there is a wrong way of using any kind of social media, however there is absolutely a wrong way to use LinkedIn.

Please, for the love of god people, add a real photo of you (ideally recent) as your avatar (that's legible) so there's I can match up a name with who I actually met at a conference/event

I keep coming across these mostly forgotten machines in my personal infra, just now I finally solved the question of "where are all of those IRC bots I have actually running"

Downside, it's one of _those_ machines with a 3.5~ year uptime

Tasks: 79, 64 thr; 1 running
Load average: 0.00 0.06 0.02 
Uptime: 1263 days(!), 10:55:45

Pouring one out for this one, as it's about to reach end of life in the interests of having less machines running to look after

Slowly dialing in the art of making dangerous internal utilities have ominous log messages that are designed to make future Ben scared of using them

A photo I took all the way back in March that I thought was a dud (It was a bit dark and the "stock" jpeg output of the camera body didn't really inspire), but it cleaned up super well! Love this

Super happy with this photo I got when coming out of London City Airport a few days back!

Only minimally edited via the raw reprocessing on the camera body, plus then some light watermark (sorry) in case some knob wants to print it on something without credit etc

I guess Lithuania isn't really beating around the bush!

Interesting to so easily see the quite aggressive radar/jamming near key Russian sites on European Space Agency's Synthetic-Aperture Radar images

(See for yourself over here)

I suppose there is a trade off on "jam/radar on 1-3Ghz and reveal exactly where the radar is" and being blind on those bands, I assume if this is what the boring open access stuff can see, whatever the intel agencies have is a lot more interesting

But interesting regardless!

Which one are you?

No airport is complete without one of the departure boards having very visible windows error on it

You can easily determine if a European country you are in is culturally Eastern or Western by simply seeing if there are more Bolts (east) or Ubers (west)

Presentation Background styles in the era of large LED video walls at conferences

Great: Dark entirely
Good: White entirely
Hell: Switching between dark and white between slides

SHA2017 reminded me that the LED screen flashbang effect is real

New blog post!

bgp.tools is now on 120~ different IX LANs, and since IX LANs are not that different from the ethernet switches in your office and home, that means there are going to be some weird and wonderful things that people have enabled or attached to IX LANs

So I've rounded up in a blog post all of the weird stuff I've seen, how dangerous it is, and why I sometimes know when the Brazil military makes a typo on their router CLI!

Some interesting stuff I found on IX LANs

https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/ixp-bad-broadcast-packets-interesting

mmph, please, sir, one more megabyte? I promise the OneDrive Service Worker will use more of your storage responsibly?

Looks like Leaseweb / AS60781 missed the 2 key when they were writing config for a BGP announcement, and is now originating a0f:1ac0::/29.

The transit carriers rejected this (yay!) but seems like a lot of people who have direct/bi-lat sessions with them accepted it (implying they have zero BGP filtering with them)

Some networks who seem to have accepted this and carried it over to a decent number of other networks:

• AS4637 Telstra Global
• AS24961 WIIT AG (fka. myLoc Managed IT AG)
• AS33891 Core-Backbone GmbH
• AS8218 Zayo Europe
• AS58453 China Mobile International
• AS60068 Datacamp Limited (CDN77 / DataPacket)
• AS7195 EdgeUno
• AS50673 Serverius Holding B.V.
• AS2603 NORDUnet

My oddly precise 13.12TB SAS 3.5" drive is getting a lot of questions answered by my oddly precise 13.12TB drive.

I wonder what this is... weird a customer order or is it something freaky like dual actuator?

P043 – Not for people in the state of intoxication

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Author: Wikimedia Commons user Jonas Steinhöfel
Public domain

Found a place called benjoben here, as benjojo, it was a no brainer for breakfast

Literally internet exchange pilled

Noticed a typo on the email I just pressed send on, so hit the undo button in gmail, and that rare thing happened again

I like big dishes and I cannot lie

You know, the "Other OS" function of the PS3 is a great demonstration of how completely unrecognisable the landscape is today, it feels impossible that we will have hardware of that class offer anything like that ever again

Oops, missed the CFP for DENOG17 by a week or so. I guess next year

Have you considered a 300mm lens?

Pros:

~ See things from distances you would not believe
~ Super flexible for most other things
~ Birds
~ Read the model/serial numbers off the radios on cell towers

Cons:

~ Your cute mirrorless is now 1kg heavier

hehe hello random ANZ employee

For the Melbourne Aussies out there, My Sunday is pretty much entirely empty of stuff to do, what is there to do in Melbourne on a Sunday?

Some photos while wondering around Melbourne (Post AusNOG 2025) and it's Botanical Gardens

Also wow, going from Late-ish Summer in Europe to Spring in Australia is a bit of a shock!

They don't tell anyone this but Australians/Kiwi's come with a built in 500ms typing/action buffer in their brain that they use for typing prediction for terminals on systems far away from them (most of the world)

Sad tape drive :(

5 means "Tape drive problem. Tape drive determined that a hardware failure occurred. "

I guess a upcoming sneak peek into a slide from one of my upcoming talks, but I cannot ever look at a Sankey diagram the same way after that one blog post

The famous mental health dumpster

Went out and saw squirrels again, including one that always had this funny aggressive "come take me on" pose

the bird, it spherical

I know that January 19th 2038 is going to be super interesting and all, but did you know that DVB (the TV stuff) wont blow up?

It uses a slightly different timestamp (that is pretty miserable to parse as it turns out), so it can last a whole few more months past the end of the world, DVB will keep ticking along (at least in it's TOT and TDT packets) until May 22nd 2038

Mildly interesting! Chinese graffiti spotted in London Canary Wharf!

(with a attempted google lens translation, no idea if it's any good)

Gee, I wonder how the network card for this printer works...

Stepped outside of my flat to instantly find a Google street view car, neat! Time to set a calendar reminder for 3 months time to see if I made the final cut

BuyPass "Go", a free ACME TLS Cert operator is shutting down their free operation

There are several factors that together make it no longer commercially viable for Buypass to continue services related to TLS/SSL Certificates

As far as I understand it, this puts number of EU based ACME operators back down to 0

https://community.buypass.com/t/y4y130p

Also hello, I can highly recommend against food poisoning, I have managed to live 20+ years without "proper" food poisoning until this week and

w o w

.OH: oh wait, no I am not trying to send you files here, I am trying to give you access to my satellites

The unholy variation of club mate has arrived

Yeah the servers definitely have it better than I do this time of year, their home is far nicer than my home in terms of conditions, at least in the cold isle

GitHub CEO: "Either you have to embrace the Al, or you get out of your career"

Well, Look who's immediate career has gotten rid of them!

https://www.theverge.com/news/757461/microsoft-github-thomas-dohmke-resignation-coreai-team-transition

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