Trying to bring up a box without any BaseT ports, went into the spare optics box, picked something that looks vaguely 10G SFP+ stuck it in the workstation and uh, dmesg was not happy

System basically said

this optic is ass, interface terminated

no seriously, even reloading the driver wont bring that port back >:(

A Lot of Questions Already Answered By the Company Name

So, I'm not saying there's a coincidence here but... there is a little bit of one right?

root@blah:~# sensors
...

power_meter-acpi-0
Adapter: ACPI interface
power1:        4.29 MW (interval = 300.00 s)

Hmm yeah, Thanks HP, I am sure that the thing under my desk is 0.015% of the total grid consumption in the UK...

I mean weird place to put the databases, but sure I guess

Flying panda trying to get the last bit out of this lavender plant

Hmm, Last night (Euro time) there was a huge flood of BGP updates into the internet, looking deeper it appears that CERNET3 went down and up for a moment.

This would normally be a non issue, the BGP table sees a steady stream of updates per second of people mostly doing the same thing (your average full routing table has about 10 changes per second). Except CERNET3 is a bit weird. It has 4096 IPv6 /32's, and ASNs... CERNET3 calls this "slicing", and I've never really figured out what benifit this gives them to export 4096 prefixes, let alone 4096 ASNs.

Anyway, whatever happened hit all of the "slices". Causing a huge flood of updates to flood around the internet.

Not necessarily fatal (though this did cause a noticeable CPU spike, the only reason I noticed it), it does feel like poor behavior here to design a network where this impact is this visible from the outside!

A damp walk in a forest!

"liiiiick, oh ew"

I suppose I am glad that stripe has me covered so when I start making sixteen figures ( quadrillion? ) worth of revenue in a month

I bought this cheap ESP32 Dev board for something and IT'S SO TINY!!

tiny oled!!

ooooohhh

Dear [NL-IX] customers

While busy with another machine and needing to reboot it by accident
route server 1 (193.239.116.255, 2001:7f8:13::a503:4307:1) was rebooted.
We sincerely regret this and are sorry for the inconvenience. We will
investigate how to avoid this in the future.

--
With kind regards

Yeah I've been there, on the bright side it doesn't seem to have actually impacted any traffic on the IX, now excuse me while I go double check that I have molly-guard installed on all of my machines still.

I opened bluesky to post something for a event account (so the account doesn't follow anything) and wow, the default timeline is basically the inverted results of X/twitter.

As a friend put it, at least the arguments on fedi are mostly pointless, this is ikcy

Good afternoon to this fox who has decided to take a sunny nap in my neighbors garden bush (and the two magpies that seem to be his friend?)

I see we are at the point where we have meme ciders

Remembering back in the days where something would hit number one hacker news and then immediately start displaying the Google app engine free limit exhausted page.

Well everything that is old is new again, and we're back to the same thing

I knew I didnt need to buy angled LC cables, just sronch them against the rack door for a week, and the hot isle and low humidity airflow will do the rest

There is wide spread misuse of XKCD 2347 "Dependency", in reality it often almost always looks like this instead

Can the AI scrapers stop smashing find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk , Really quite annoying to not be able to look up stuff without trying to compete with some word blenders

Ah yes, It's the small things in life, like how home is where the windows wobble.

(because I don't have to worry about the power consumption impacts of having lots of GPU involvement when doing anything with a window)

I want off ops.lists.linx 's wild ride

I'm pretty sure this kinda shit should be in the "cia simple sabotage field manual"

Missed posting this important geese photo sequence I got a few days back

I tried taking some photos on the 300mm lens on a flight back home today, and man, I assume the subtle vibrations is the cause, but trying to make this work was nearly impossible when fully zoomed, I got a couple of good shots but nothing really that much

Frankfurt was pretty from the sky this evening!

Apparently even air freight containers now have bluetooth LE beacons in them now, Spotted this on my way home, interesting/cool product series by the looks of things

https://www.onasset.com/Product/sentry600flightsafe

After (successfully!) converting a single machine ceph to a multi machine ceph, I can confirm this is what any interaction with your ceph cluster and the ceph documentation feels like

Aye, I think this x520 be cooked

Mar 31 15:07:58 x kernel: ixgbe 0000:81:00.0: Warning firmware error detected FWSM: 0x00002000

birb

(also I now understand why "sports auto focus" lenses are a premium product, so many photos, only 3 worked)

🎶Where did it come from, Where does it go? Where did approximately 10 tbit/s of traffic in Brazil go?🎶

At some point Gboard figured out that I have a wild card rule on my email and keeps making these funny email address suggestions

HONK

Sorry, this is now a muskrat appreciation account

Spring! Spring! Spring!

Spring!

(Maybe not fake spring this time)

(Years ago)

Me: I will use a unique email address for let's encrypt "accounts" so I can see where stuff comes from

(Today)

Day 3, I now have at least 23 " Let's Encrypt Expiration Emails Update ", I do not know when they will stop

I can't be the only one who in debian-like distros, always installs the lib<blah>-dev package, just so I don't have to figure out what mystery extension goes on the end of things

FS dot com becoming the thing they set to destroy, by now charging $440 for a single 100G-LR4 optic.

Given that FlexOptix's 100G-LR4's are 420 EUR, you may as well go for the friendly Germans (rather than FS, if Flex lets you buy from them etc)

Other CN vendors are available, "QSFPTEK" is charging $290 for a 100G-LR4 (plus some reasonably small import tax)

Bend It Like Beckham, or bgp.tools in this case

(link(s) is up, so I guess I have gotten away with this)

Pallet! at the Flat

It is really staggering how much UI/UX development has happened in the last 10~ years, remembering that in 2012 this is what a tweet (on iOS) looked like while a modern day interface is basically uncomparable in a hard to describe way!

Amazing browser benchmark page, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐:

https://rotating.parts/

Coo?

Why do I feel like this image is going to be one of those "summary of this period" types

There is something about German that just makes me smile (as a total non speaker), like the existance of "Großbritannien"

It feels quite uncomfortable that cloudflare is somewhat openly admitting to analysing login credentials that are going through the reverse proxy, and providing aggregated stats on it (without explicit consent of the user it appears?)

Based on Cloudflare's observed traffic between September - November 2024, 41% of successful logins across websites protected by Cloudflare involve compromised passwords.

Don't get me wrong the results are actually pretty interesting, but I just cannot think of a ethical way of doing this, and it feels kind of jarring that they just "did that"

https://blog.cloudflare.com/password-reuse-rampant-half-user-logins-compromised/

Hey can I get a uuuuuhhhhhhhhhh, /18 with a extra /21 on top to go please?

*old man voice* back in my webdev days, every website was just bootstrap2.css, now everything looks like this

Well, to be honest the AI didn't do a very good job at removing the barriers

Sometimes I come across a linked in profile like this and then I know I'm probably going to get along with them just fine