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

Juniper router/switches now have anti-virus. What a time to be alive.

root@Amnesiac> request system malware-scan quick-scan 
Found potential malware: No  

This seems to be part of JSA95385, that links to JSA93446

The JSA93446 is weirdly going out of it's way to say the victim was not Amazon:

At least one instance of malicious exploitation (not at Amazon) has been reported to the Juniper SIRT. Customers are encouraged to upgrade to a fixed release as soon as it's available and in the meantime take steps to mitigate this vulnerability.

But I enjoy(?) that the detailed report has the "pet names" that the Juniper teams names for each implant discovered in the wild.

The tl;dr of the wider thing is that one implant is JunOS specific, the rest are generic "open source malware" payloads that happen to run on FreeBSD/Linux

It really does seem like the purpose of RCS Messaging is to bring the same experience that the Americans do with spam on mobile phones to the rest of the world.

Until RCS ready kicked off I'd rarely gotten any spam, now every single piece of spam/scam/phishing SMS I get is over RCS using either groups or the E2E features

lol I had a meeting with someone and the meeting AI bot emailed me (among other things) a set of "Metrics" for the meeting.

This is just... kinda laughable?

Like who needs this, What does 93 Engagement even mean? How disconnected am I from the world of real biz where you want to score your employees on vibes based numbers of a speech to text transcription being fed into a word blender, and popping out some numbers.

Yeah next time I see one of these in a zoom/meet (I let it slide this time because I was curious) I'm just gonna.. not. Life is too short for whatever this signals about a person/company

Ah yes, a "off by one" (keypress on your prepend) error.

The upcoming death of Skype is super inconvenient, I am (or soon to be "was") a regular user of "Skype Out" because it was the most simple way of doing international POTS calls, using my own number (aka, caller id "spoofed"), with WebRTC (so I don't have to mess around with god-awful software, or even worse a real phone)

I don't know of a service (outside of google voice, that I cannot use, because I am in the UK) that can do what Skype Out does/did.

A genuine loss/pain in the ass

How fascinating! It appears that at every day at 8AM UTC (So 9AM the most of the EU) there is a huge drop in grid frequency, I can only assume because of large number of synchronized devices that switch on at that time!

( data via https://f50hz.de/ )

I think we should go back to having one company make some shit up, and everyone else reverse engineer that, and then everyone grows their own thing that is like the original thing.

Think about the existence of the "S3 Compatible API", Now that is where the true innovation is, and it was not even a standard, just genetic evolution of various people tearing their hair out until something viable was created

This would still be more productive than the IETF mailing lists where people spend 60+ emails arguing if a cipher should be described as "SHOULD" or "MAY"

Thanks BBC news

"TalkTalk Communications Limited " (RIPE) transferred 92.8.0.0/15 to "Cloudflare, Inc." (ARIN)
(Estimated Market Value: $4.19 M)

CW: bleak

Perhaps now is the time to start chasing diagnosis for things (otherwise have no benefits of being diagnosed) that are unattractive as far as conscription is concerned

Urgh.

Fine.

Firefox on the desktop it is.

I know it's probably for podcasts, but it seems particularly weird for ICANN to have a soundcloud.

I'd like to imagine it's full of DNS based rap/mixtapes

There is the aliexpress item description vibe where you have crazy 3D graphics of the product being used in questionable ways or whatever

and then there is the ebay item description vibe of

"🎉🎉🎉 SUPERB DISCOUNT! SUPER SILLY SALE! 🎉🎉🎉" and then a mini rant about drop shippers

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The post APNIC/APRICOT inbox backlog is real

While filling out the Malaysian digital landing card stuff, I noticed the infosec equivalent of the snake from adam and eve offering me to possible explore cyber-crimes to a country I am about to visit.

(I didn't check)

Processed some photos from my trip to APNIC/APRICOT in MY/Kuala Lumpur!

Having a normal one, at the normal hour