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Hope you never notice the outages I cause. Knows where the RFC2616 bodies are buried. recurse.com SP'2 18 / "The bgp.tools guy"

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benjojo posted 27 Aug 2025 13:32 +0000

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

Sankey diagram showing most IPv4 prefixes being pingable, but only about 10% of them being reachable over a exchange route server

benjojo posted 26 Aug 2025 15:34 +0000

The famous mental health dumpster

A large black bin / dumpster with a white spray paint that says "m h" on it

benjojo posted 25 Aug 2025 18:54 +0000

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

Grey squirrel close up photos Grey squirrel close up photos Grey squirrel close up photos Grey squirrel close up photos

benjojo posted 24 Aug 2025 00:07 +0000

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

benjojo posted 23 Aug 2025 21:04 +0000

Mildly interesting! Chinese graffiti spotted in London Canary Wharf!

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

Some black builidng construction works boards, on it is bright spray paint spelling out chinese characters Some black builidng construction works boards, on it is bright spray paint spelling out chinese characters

benjojo posted 23 Aug 2025 20:52 +0000

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

the back of a printer, there is a empty ethernet port, and a USB cable going between the USB B port, and a USB A port that is close to the ethernet jack

benjojo posted 20 Aug 2025 17:42 +0000

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

A Google street view car from a front-facing angle

benjojo posted 18 Aug 2025 10:52 +0000

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

benjojo posted 16 Aug 2025 14:29 +0000

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

benjojo posted 16 Aug 2025 14:22 +0000

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

benjojo posted 12 Aug 2025 12:07 +0000

The unholy variation of club mate has arrived

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benjojo posted 11 Aug 2025 18:47 +0000

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

A photo of my legs laying down in the cold vents in the middle of server racks

benjojo posted 05 Aug 2025 18:25 +0000

Man, this new assistant sucks. Doesn't even know how to use JunOS that well, just keeps biting me instead

A tiny white kitten staring at a black laptop that is displaying juniper CLI output

benjojo posted 05 Aug 2025 12:09 +0000

I wonder what the lore is behind this weird copyright year listing on *BSD's boot sequence

Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
        The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.

Like I am sure there is a "good" reason why this isnt just

Copyright (c) 1979 - 1994
        The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.

benjojo posted 04 Aug 2025 12:18 +0000

Airbags are an "amusing" demo of a product that undeniably saves lives, but also have become so toxic to make (and hold the liability of them for 5/10/20 years) that it's very questionable if it's worth making them from a manufacturing point of view.

Like would would want to produce bits of explosive chemistry that has a wide deployment and liability for decades?

benjojo posted 02 Aug 2025 22:54 +0000

Quite surprised (In a positive way?) that the default when you are adding a new domain to cloudflare is to block/drop AI scrapers, and that the options take up as much room as the most foundational questions "where are the DNS records going to come from?"

Sort of a indicator on the side of the AI companies that all of this is unsustainable if the publishers of actual content hate/discriminate against them this much

A screenshot from the cloudflare menu to add a (censored) domain, half of the page is the options for how DNS will be obtained, "Manually Enter DNS records" is selected, and the rest of the page is "Control how AI scralwers access you site", and "block ai traning bots on all pages" with another check box for "instruct AI bot traffic with robots.txt"

benjojo posted 31 Jul 2025 12:37 +0000

Hmm. Ofcom (the UK regulator for communications) has announced initial investigations on a handful of companies and their sites that are not obeying new ID requirements for porn as part of the Online Safety Act:

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/protecting-children/investigation-into-8579-llcs-compliance-with-the-duty-to-prevent-children-from-encountering-pornographic-content-through-the-use-of-age-assurance

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/protecting-children/investigation-into-avs-group-ltds-compliance-with-the-duty-to-prevent-children-from-encountering-pornographic-content-through-the-use-of-age-assurance

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/protecting-children/investigation-into-trendio-ltds-compliance-with-the-duty-to-prevent-children-from-encountering-pornographic-content-through-the-use-of-age-assurance

But amusingly by doing this, they are naming a bunch of web sites that do not verify their users ID in order to view porn, how convenient!

I'm not quite sure how they're planning to prosecutor some of these especially given that one of them ( Trendio Ltd ) is a dissolved company in the UK register, and the only known director is based in Morocco.

I guess this is a prelude to court ordered blockings...

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benjojo posted 27 Jul 2025 09:45 +0000

You ever look at a company that manages quite a lot of a assets and think, "hmm, maybe you shouldn't hold my assets actually"

A freetrade pop up for a passcode reset "you'll need to uninstall and re-install the freetrade app"

benjojo posted 26 Jul 2025 22:12 +0000

Man, Jumping into the ETSI world is like a completely different parallel universe to the network space.

God bless the people who wrote the ETSI decoders/dissectors for wireshark, This is making my day _significantly_ better thanks to it being able to swallow suspect MPEG-TS files and spit out "packets"

I guess when you are a wireshark, everything looks like a packet stream

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benjojo posted 26 Jul 2025 17:56 +0000

Formula E near where I live again, so I walked over for some opportunistic pictures:

Some photos of some F1 cars but actually they're electric Some photos of some F1 cars but actually they're electric

benjojo posted 25 Jul 2025 20:46 +0000

"Motherboard vendors don't mess up your pcie slot alignment" challenge (impossible)

2nd time I've done something like this, always uncomfortable

A photo of the camera looking towards the back of a server where the back plate of the network card does not exist and it is just free floating ports, in the background of the photo, you can see the bracket for the pcie card

benjojo posted 25 Jul 2025 10:31 +0000

Entering my "nullroute youtube.com" arc again (last one was when I was in NY and ended up doing 1 blog post every week...), It's such a subtle time parasite that I can easily piss away a entire half day to

benjojo posted 24 Jul 2025 10:26 +0000

Since I am dumping photos here anyway, here are some misc photos from the drive from the UK to Bornhack, including a small detour via one of Germany's biggest holes ( At 1/3 of it's dedicated visitor areas )

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benjojo posted 24 Jul 2025 08:44 +0000

May have had one of the best sleeps in the last 10 years post #bornhack

Perhaps surviving 8 days on ClubMate is not the best strategy, but hey it was a lot of fun!!

The piracy TV advert that says you wouldn't steal a car but instead it says you wouldn't just survive on club mate

benjojo posted 16 Jul 2025 13:14 +0000

TIL Clubmate now comes in cans in the size of the smaller bottles!

A drinks can of club mate

benjojo reposted 13 Jul 2025 13:04 +0000
original: mattround@crispsandwi.ch

Idea: set up an online forum, but to comply with the Online Safety Act and verify age, new UK users have to go to a pub & buy you a drink to get access

benjojo posted 08 Jul 2025 10:29 +0000

While walking in a park on Sunday I got caught up in a pretty intense rain storm, after the rain settled (I was hiding under a tree) I spotted someone else who didn't quite have the same luxury as I did

A completely soaked Heron bird, looking rather annoyed

benjojo posted 05 Jul 2025 14:54 +0000

The latest Google pixel phone update added some AI stuff that doesn't work with my nerfed Google account, and seemingly broke the punishingly low EU decibel limits for headphones (genuine yay).

So it's impossible to say if it's bad or not

benjojo reposted 04 Jul 2025 11:44 +0000
original: codepo8@toot.cafe

If you send your AI notetaker to a meeting I invited you to instead of you, you will not be invited again. You obviously only want an email anyways…

benjojo posted 03 Jul 2025 10:57 +0000

Pretty sure I'm getting more "rewards" out of the EC261 (flight cancellation compensation scheme) than any of the airline reward programs

benjojo posted 01 Jul 2025 21:30 +0000

UK Heatwave over, watching the temps crash back down to livable values, maybe I will get something actually done tomorrow

a graph showing temps peaking at 33c, before at 8PM rapidly crashing down to 26C

benjojo posted 30 Jun 2025 20:16 +0000

Happy Discord 100 (according to their deb's) for those who "celebrate" every week

A command line listing for the downloads folder, there are many deb's for discord, the top one is discord-0.0.100.deb

benjojo posted 30 Jun 2025 11:04 +0000

Ok yeah, Red squirrels are far more cute than grey squirrels. I mean look at this thing

Various photos of a red squirrel climbing / sitting in a tree Various photos of a red squirrel climbing / sitting in a tree Various photos of a red squirrel climbing / sitting in a tree

benjojo posted 29 Jun 2025 10:25 +0000

Ah yes, when that friend who you have not spoken to for a while gets in touch

A signal screenshot of a converstaion, the other side goes "hello!" I reply "Hi!", then disappearing messages are enabled, I message in response " oh no "