I'm slightly tickled by the fact that somewhere in the UK right now there's at least one knob head with a disposable barbecue that thinks that message was just for them and is probably hiding in a hedge waiting for the Black Helicopters to turn up.

#UkPol

Jesus fucking Christ. I thought I was about to get nuked

Some eclipse photos from yesterday as seen near Zaragoza, Spain

You can understand why if someone from the 1500's saw this they would either see a bad omen or affirm their belief in god.

My camera can't do the eclipse justice, a true live demo in the dynamic range of the human eye!

I'm popping in to AliExpress, Does anybody need anything?

Hope the sun doesn't do anything weird today

Uh, dear debian installer, why the tmux terminal thing barking like a dog?

The stripe pay in local currency thing must be such a boondoggle for them, for a 50$ transaction stripe offered me £38.66, when it was paid directly via a UK card the FX rate came in a £37.27

That's £1.39 of upside to Stripe! Even if the rate shifts a bit before that settles it is still a incredible win for Stripe

Some photos from a recent walk that happened to go and pass through a bit of an industrial site

i didn’t think it was physically possible, but there’s finally something worse than curl | sh

The UK Heat(wave?) is not keeping up with my demand for ice cubes at home, and it means I have to fall back to this rather strange silicone Australia one.

I don't remember how I came to own this, and it raises so many questions on a number of levels.

I wish freezers (or at least my freezer) would do the same trick that ice cubemakers do where they run hot every now and then to defrost all of the coils (and also in the case of the Ice cube maker, release the ice cubes)

On the flip side, I currently have weird mediaeval air conditioning in my flat at the moment as I defrost my freezer

🎶one of these things is not like the other🎶

Today I learned of a timezone with a lower case in it

$ date
Sat Aug  1 04:32:55 AM ChST 2026

The Chamorro Time Zone for Guam and friends... and a new location for a bgp.tools IX PoP Guam IX

Stripe sending a "Pricing updates for your business" email with the same vibe of "I have altered the deal, pray I don't alter it further."

(adding £0.04 to every txn if I do nothing, and a pretty large rate tweak for what I suspect is a lot of my user bases cards...)

It finally rained after 30+ days of no rain!!!

Also fuck!!! it rained. The mosquitos are going to be back in town

oh cool, I just discovered that Kagi has added "bangs" for bgp.tools so something like !bgptools AS206924 or !bgpt AS112 sends you directly there

No idea how long this has existed but it's nice that exists

Incredibly silly tax payment coming soon

I would be nice to have a storage provider that could hold all of my RAW's on some ultra cheap, high latency storage (like tape)

The chance I ever touch a raw after 30 days of a photo is very close to 0, but not zero.

The best going rate (I think) is Google Cloud Storage Archive, that has 5TB at ~6$ with some penalty if you try and pull files (but that is kinda fine odd RAW that I want to redevelop)

It's really fucked up that the pub online ordering reminds me that 18 year olds are now post start of 2008 financial crisis people

National Power grids only do this when they're really distressed

RFC2544 (Benchmarking Addresses) lays out

The network addresses 192.18.0.0 through 198.19.255.255 are have been
assigned to the BMWG by the IANA for this purpose.

Except, this was a typo, the actual address space was 198.18.0.0 through 198.19.255.255

It seems that at the moment Oracle owns 192.18.0.0/15 , and they are not announcing it, I suspect because there are a non zero amount of things that have accidentality put that in filters

A great cinematic length watch on UK trade unions: What Can You Do When You're Replaced By Machines?

DHL and co should give you the flight numbers that your intercontinental packages are on

Can the office 365 admin give github a bigger inbox allowance please

The email address that you use to reply to github issues via email (so you can avoid opening github) is... full????

The new android has the USB icon to be a... abstract snail?

Sure I guess

I do love getting legally consequential documents over email with the file name ending in "(1) (1).docx", like how many round trips did this go via before it got to me

For the #emfcamp / #emfcamp2026 folk: Do you have photos of EMF-IX ? please share them as I was a bit busy running around the camp site to take nice photos :)

Life changing post EMF camp sleep completed , and wow

Good morning to everyone except the EMF-IX switch who has taken the opportunity to die

Anyone at #emfcamp have a couple of AAA's that I can buy off someone

Edit: solved!

A road sign with packet loss

Man I forgot how much magic I did in 2022 for EMF-IX, and then didnt write any of it down.

Finally got the EMF-IX machines booted and they are:

A) Home made cloud init metadata server
B) PXE boot
C) the rootfs is on ATAoverEthernet, and to be fair that's very cool but also looks totally insane on lsblk

If you ever see this outside of EMF-IX, run

# lsblk
NAME                  MAJ:MIN RM  SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
etherd/e0.0           152:0    0    5G  0 disk 
├─etherd/e0.0p1       152:1    0  512M  0 part 
├─etherd/e0.0p2       152:2    0  488M  0 part 
└─etherd/e0.0p3       152:3    0    4G  0 part 
  ├─debian--vg-root   254:0    0  3.1G  0 lvm  /
  └─debian--vg-swap_1 254:1    0  976M  0 lvm  [SWAP]

Really hate how JunOS CLI suppresses ^C and space when there is nothing to cancel or add a space to (like a empty prompt).

Both of those things are my go to quick tests for if the device still works, so if I've not been on one for a while I end up the deeper stages of panic ("oh SHIT did I just blow up the device") before I realise I can just press "a" and see the CLI echo it back...

Goofy contraption

   I love           
 conntrack!  ◄────┐ 
    │             │ 
    │             │ 
    ▼             │ 
 conntrack        │ 
 ruined my  ──────┘ 
 life again         

Why the SVG fox be so smug / 🥴

Hah, the UK government is mulling over killing off terrestrial digital TV broadcasts by 2034, this would save them from having to fix at least one protocol level timebomb in DVB/DVB2 that triggers in 2038: https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/ZWhvQxPRzdhVzz9p3V

Pub air-conditioning my beloved

🫠

Sometimes the spam box is amusing

Enterprise outreach idea for dnsfs

Yes, Enterprise DNSFS ( https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/dns-filesystem-true-cloud-storage-dnsfs ) is clearly the next big thing, trillion dollar idea

(it's one of those clearly [github repo -> LLM -> Marketing Email] things)

Yooo new patch notes for time just dropped: https://lists.iana.org/hyperkitty/list/tz-announce@iana.org/thread/NVHSX2PAQIT44U5FCCEVNJJYXQMMTJSA/

Alberta moved to permanent -06 on 2026-06-18.
Morocco moves to permanent +00 on 2026-09-20.

@benjojo A bit more research and I found the boots themselves: https://www.canford.co.uk/Products/50-0834_CANARE-FC-CV-M-RETROFIT-GAITER-For-Canare-and-Lemo-SMPTE-male-connector-yellow

I was at a gig on Sunday and noticed this interesting setup with one of the cameras that has this huge dark green isolator looking thing on the Power/SDI?

Does any of the broadcast nerds here know what this is and why they need it here?

hacker voice, dejected: im out

While doing some capacity shuffling today I wondered if bgp.tools had gotten to the point where there is no single motherboard that could run the whole operation.

The answer is... almost

You can buy 2S AMD 9005 machines (2x 128 C parts) that have 48 DIMM slots (48 * 128G DDR5 = 6TB~) that would fit what normally does the whole half cab into one machine..

The downside is that this one box costs roughly 280,000£, so I will take my setup thank you very much

I kind of love to wonder what the supply chain looks like that resulted in me being handed a Kurdish (according to Google translate I guess?) can of Coke at my local chippy

Fucking Around (Sailing last week)

👇️

Finding Out (Looking at the inbox today)

Regardless, have some nice photos from last week

Whoever decided where to put the Bluetooth management "PUK" code (to reset the PIN) on Victron inverters really needs to crawl into the depth of a boat to find it, to see the effects of their decisions

Can you guess where the code is here? on the outside label? no that would make too much sense, it's inside the device chassis (where the terminal blocks are) and if you can angle your body, hands, flashlight, and mobile phone camera just right, you may be able to see 50% of the code at a time between the air vent grill...

The DNS Resolver landscape is somewhat fascinating in that I think by the time you get to the point where you are close to wanting to build a DNS Resolver/Recursor you have already figured out it's hard to get right (in terms of spec compliance), and basically impossible to get right if you care (or need to care) about DNSSEC validation.

It was surprising to find that there are not really any stable/serious memory safe DNS resolvers, Hickory seems to be littered with bugs (Some not strictly it's fault and more the fact that some DNS Auths do not like QName Minimisation, but from what I can tell has a very spotty situation with DNSSEC

For what it is worth, my general views on DNSSEC's usefulness has not changed (I do not think DNSSEC is "juice worth the squeeze"), but there are compliance situations that force the existence of DNSSEC...

It's just frustrating that the closest to spec-compliance state of the art DNS resolver is Unbound

It's also shocking there is basically no DNS RFC "-bis" document that rolls up all of the (must at least 100) RFCs into a somewhat coherent document, I wonder if the rubicon has been crossed where no one will ever agree on what a RFC -bis would even look like.