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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 24 Mar 2025 16:50 +0000

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

benjojo posted 24 Mar 2025 12:22 +0000

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)

benjojo posted 23 Mar 2025 23:51 +0000

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

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

A photo taken through a rack cage door, showing LC connectors in a NIC, the end of the optical cable (pink OM4 multimode) is bending against the rack door

benjojo posted 18 Mar 2025 18:01 +0000

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!

a screenshot from an i phone in 2012, showing the old skeuomorphism style UI, the tweet has a island around it, the bottom buttons are "home connect discover me", and the tweetk says "i have the worst laptop. turns on and then it says it's hibernating? you're not a fucking badger mate" by Jack Winter

benjojo posted 18 Mar 2025 08:18 +0000

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

A super micro linked in post, showing a tesla cyber truck, that has been painted in blue, with relatively poor super micro branding on it, advertising AI building blocks

benjojo posted 17 Mar 2025 14:34 +0000

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

A photo of a package label, it says "To : Ben Cartwright-Cox {blur} Großbritannien"

benjojo posted 17 Mar 2025 14:09 +0000

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/

benjojo posted 14 Mar 2025 13:36 +0000

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

The bgp.tools RIR transfer history, showing a /18 being transfered to SpaceX, and the next row is the same thing but with a /21

benjojo posted 14 Mar 2025 11:57 +0000

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

the very generic bootstrap website looking experience it's that all the buttons are self describing what they are within the wider ecosystem

benjojo posted 14 Mar 2025 11:14 +0000

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

benjojo posted 13 Mar 2025 18:43 +0000

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

Skills  +  Endorsing  10 endorsements  Receiving Endorsements  9 endorsements

benjojo posted 12 Mar 2025 16:04 +0000

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

Malware Analysis This section describes the findings made during the reverse engineering effort, which included decomposition of each malware binary, static analysis of its metadata and flow, and an impact analysis on how it could affect Junos OS at run-time. All malware samples analyzed target Junos OS, Juniper Networks' FreeBSD-based operating system. The following malware implants were recovered from the MX Series routers: 1. The Local Memory Patching Attack Daemon (lmpad) 2. The Junos Denial of Service Daemon (jdosd) 3. The Internet Remote Access Daemon (irad) 4. A Poorly Plagiarized Implant Daemon (appid) 5. The TooObvious (to) 6. The Obscure Enigmatic Malware Daemon (oemd) NOTE: These names were crafted by Juniper based on malware behavior. They were not used by the malware authors themselves

benjojo posted 12 Mar 2025 15:52 +0000

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

benjojo posted 10 Mar 2025 15:21 +0000

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

Metrics Read Score 79 Overall meeting effectiveness. Engagement 93 Attention during the meeting. Sentiment 65 How people reacted to the meeting content

benjojo posted 10 Mar 2025 15:01 +0000

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

A bgp.tools graph for 151.236.163.0/24, showing AS 59588 as the origin (Zain Iraq), but upstreamed by AS 595888 (one too many 8)

benjojo posted 09 Mar 2025 17:11 +0000

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

benjojo posted 06 Mar 2025 19:42 +0000

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/ )

3 graphs from 3 different days, over 24 hours, each one has a large and sudden drop in frequency at 8AM 3 graphs from 3 different days, over 24 hours, each one has a large and sudden drop in frequency at 8AM 3 graphs from 3 different days, over 24 hours, each one has a large and sudden drop in frequency at 8AM

benjojo posted 04 Mar 2025 21:07 +0000

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"

benjojo posted 04 Mar 2025 13:35 +0000

CW: bleak

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

benjojo posted 04 Mar 2025 07:53 +0000

Urgh.

Fine.

Firefox on the desktop it is.

These extensions were turned off because they're no longer supported Chrome recommends that you remove them. Learn more about supported extensions /  ublock origin

benjojo posted 03 Mar 2025 19:13 +0000

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

the ending slide have a talk from ICANN, listed are various social media addresses, including a soundcloud link

benjojo posted 03 Mar 2025 16:23 +0000

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

🎉🎉🎉 SUPERB DISCOUNT! SUPER SILLY SALE! 🎉🎉🎉   👀 SAVE 25% OFF RRP!! 👀  Best price on eBay! If you find this exact same product cheaper I will beat it by 10%!   Don't get suckered by “Amazon arbitrage" eBay sellers who inflate prices and don’t even hold the stock!   NO drop shipping nonsense and NO crazy markups over another certain giant online retailer’s prices.   Only genuine, brand new, never used or opened products from my warehouse to your door!

benjojo reposted 03 Mar 2025 12:35 +0000
original: eta@gotosocial.i.eta.st

I'm looking for work!

I'm a software engineer with 4 years' professional experience. Special interests include railway open data, networking (I run AS213185 for fun!), and embedded programming, but I can do most things!

✨ I care about delivering software that makes a difference, and solving interesting problems to do it. You might know me from tracking trains around the London Underground (as seen at EMF 2022!), reverse-engineering UK railway tickets, or building hardware to make LED panels work (as seen at EMF 2024!).

📍 I'm looking for fully remote and hybrid positions. I'm based in Cardiff, UK, but am happy to work US Eastern or European hours if necessary!

✉️ Please get in touch if you have any job leads, want to hire me, or want my CV — just reply below, or email job@eta.st.

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benjojo posted 03 Mar 2025 11:57 +0000

The post APNIC/APRICOT inbox backlog is real

at a conference for a week? too tired to reply to the inbox? try not replying for all three to seven days <photo of a thunderbird window> you certainly will not regret not replying to anything for three to seven days

benjojo posted 02 Mar 2025 12:15 +0000

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)

a screenshot of a browser, highlighting the you around which appears to be html, underneath it is a part of the web page that would correspond with that html in the url bar

benjojo posted 02 Mar 2025 12:03 +0000

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

Mostly photos of the Petronas Towers, otherwise photos of a street in Kuala Lumpur, and a house in a very "jungle" setting Mostly photos of the Petronas Towers, otherwise photos of a street in Kuala Lumpur, and a house in a very "jungle" setting Mostly photos of the Petronas Towers, otherwise photos of a street in Kuala Lumpur, and a house in a very "jungle" setting Mostly photos of the Petronas Towers, otherwise photos of a street in Kuala Lumpur, and a house in a very "jungle" setting

benjojo posted 28 Feb 2025 11:10 +0000

Having a normal one, at the normal hour

An advertisement that has the pricing for happy hour but also specifies the existence of a normal hour with higher pricing

benjojo posted 20 Feb 2025 15:45 +0000

On the internet these days, I guess some do know you are a dog

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benjojo posted 18 Feb 2025 20:03 +0000

I wonder what the history of the Cisco CLI's default of "Any unknown command is now a (slow) DNS lookup because maybe you want to telnet ?" is.

It seems to be on almost every single IOS image I've ever touched, so it's got to have been implemented very early

The amount of devices that must have no ip domain-lookup at the top of the config must be staggering. Why does it remain this way.

It's 100% one of the more mundane uses for a time machine

benjojo posted 17 Feb 2025 17:59 +0000

Today in "Carefully worded commit messages":

A github screenshot, showing a commit with the description "Add (actual) detection support for IS-IS"

benjojo posted 14 Feb 2025 13:23 +0000

New bgp.tools tag name dropped

A page with a tag that says "Sorry, We appear to be broken. while the issue has been logged on our side, it might help to send this following message to the admin. ---- BEGIN AGE"

benjojo posted 14 Feb 2025 12:42 +0000

Super scummy for microsoft to auto upgrade (at the added cost of an extra £30 a year) people to a AI plan, and not offer a "actually I don't use any of that stuff" can I not pay that £30 a year?

And then only when you are at the cancel page, it's like "🥺 oh sorry do you want the old deal back? 🥺"

For anyone else, you don't even have to get that far into the cancel page for this. So it's easy to save £30 a year with this.

Effective 14 February 2025, the price for Microsoft 365 Personal subscriptions will increase from GBP 5.99* per month to GBP 8.49* per month. To continue with the new price, no action is needed—your payment method on file will be automatically charged. To make changes to your subscription plan or turn off recurring billing, visit your Microsoft account at least two days before your next billing date. /  The next image is a screenshot of the cancel page for Office 365, but with the old 5.99 plan as a downgrade option Effective 14 February 2025, the price for Microsoft 365 Personal subscriptions will increase from GBP 5.99* per month to GBP 8.49* per month. To continue with the new price, no action is needed—your payment method on file will be automatically charged. To make changes to your subscription plan or turn off recurring billing, visit your Microsoft account at least two days before your next billing date. /  The next image is a screenshot of the cancel page for Office 365, but with the old 5.99 plan as a downgrade option

benjojo posted 14 Feb 2025 12:36 +0000

I hate what the AI people have done to one of the better emojis ✨

They did my boy dirty

benjojo posted 13 Feb 2025 15:45 +0000

Rapture on the Elizabeth Line

a photo of the seating on the London Elizabeth line train platform, nobody is sitting on the seeds however the white concrete wall underneath it has the silhouettes of people due to the dirt and greece left behind by people leaning on the walls

benjojo posted 12 Feb 2025 17:52 +0000

Wow, I can't tell if I am too deepfried from honk, or if I've been spoilt by honk, the rest of the AP/Fedi eco system is a lot more jank/less functionality than I expected

benjojo reposted 12 Feb 2025 17:40 +0000
original: bgptools@social.bgp.tools

After sitting on the decision for quite a while, bgp.tools will be switching away from posting updates on X.

Customers and users can now follow this account, the bluesky account https://bsky.app/profile/bgp.tools

I'm the not going to be publicising this on X itself, because it's just going to attract unhelpful attention that I don't think it's going to be very useful to anybody.

benjojo posted 12 Feb 2025 17:25 +0000

urgh, my anti-flood stuff ate all of the webfinger requests for my new @bgptools / @bgptools@bgp.tools , and now it seems most mastodon instances dont believe it exists

benjojo posted 10 Feb 2025 17:51 +0000

Ah yes, the mythical 24GB DDR4 DIMM

A BIOS output, showing one DIMM as 24GB, this is not possible in any other way other than a failure on DDR4