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It is kind of funny that the first allocated port outside of the "Well-known" (aka below port 1024) range is just a random "network blackjack" entry at port 1025

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Only realised until I wanted to rack something in U34 that I had accidentally last year racked a 4U 120kg+ mega chonker on the piss... So everything in that box is slightly on a slope, but even worse is blocking out a entire unit under it...

There is no way that I am moving that 4U chassis until the day it dies, or I move colo's. It was reasonably traumatic bringing it in...

Urgh

... why does call recording on android involve the google terms of service... where are these call recordings going...?

I sometimes wonder how much inadvertent eBay counter-bidding I am doing against people who I am friends with or know

There should be some kind of browser extension where you can see what your friends of bidding on to avoid accidentally stepping on each other's toes (I don't think this counts as price fixing... probably?)

TIL Aluminum Pallets exist for "heavy duty workloads"

Pros: Seemingly most of the "Website Redesign" email spam has dried up

Cons: Such people are now calling me every day instead with the same question

A interesting development of the grift

So like ... Apple juice..?

The gang

I know why the DNS recursors do it, but it's extremely funny to see

16470+ [1au] A? PrOfIlE.AcCOUNtS.fIrEFoX.COM. (57)

in tcpdump's when debugging stuff, the queries are shoved through a spongebob transform function

The 'paw warning' / ' bear at work ' sign here is certainly something

@Rairii No but according to https://hackspace.flipper.net/ they can provide you a (photoshopped in) giant radio dish on the roof

I also love to become a member to something that densest seem to really exist yet or have a serious explanation into how it works

Apparently the flipper zero people are building a [maker/hack/whatever]space in North Greenwich?

Some various photos around North Greenwich

(thread)

You know what?

[Drags you to the]:

Puffed up robin in winter (also a tricky shot because of the damn early sunsets)

Importer company did a good job at localising this for the British market

Located maybe the most hostile environments I've seen with my own eyes for a multimode patch panel, covered in decades of subway grime. Bonus points for the ADSL modem from a ISP very long gone

Got up (devastatingly) early, took a train to the north, did a tour of a nuclear power plant, observed some off shore oil rigs being deconstructed, fish and chips, train home

A good day

This week (and let's face it probably next week too)

I have a bit of a soft spot for glass buildings sections where you can see all the way through them

Birds at the Barbarian on a sunny winters day

It's always (at least when it breaks) a windows machine in this situation

DZ: Extremely London specific

I wonder how the relationship/contract works between TFL and Vitabiotics, they are seemingly always running some kind of campaign

What % of the Vitabiotics product cost is TFL tube advertising

Just another day in paradise

Booked my ticket for #RIPE92, see you all there!

Oh hell yeah, I've always wanted the Terms and conditions for bulky waste collection for Newham Council as a app on my home screen

#SoftwareGore

Sky be makin noises

Post 39c3 Ethernet switch mindwipe station

@benjojo the secret all along was to honk it

If anybody happens to see the age infobeamer thing at #39c3 please send a photo! I've yet to see it on a screen yet walking around

@benjojo

(nut rate)

I am occasionally reminded that free will exists and that people use it to find out just how huge a M64 nut is

#39c3 challenge: don't taste the ground (impossible)

my thinkpad still has the 38c3 fahrplan open, i should probably clean up some tabs

I just booked a last-minute trip to Hamburg for #39C3 ✨

Looking forward to seeing folks there. If we are mutuals and you're going too, text me!

If you have an extra ticket, DM me and I'll buy it full price.

Some fantastic tits in the winter sun!

I would love to understand why seemingly all LACNIC members use gmail/hotmail email addresses as their whois contacts. No other region seems to be this concentrated with "personal" email providers for what are almost always businesses, it seems to also extend all the way down to the actual company filings as well!

Corporate emails don't really seem to be that much of a thing in the LATAM region

When even LinkedIn starts doing the " year in review " type things, you know that the whole medium is lost

Screaming into the void about the short evenings

It has been zero days since .bash_history and my overconfidence use of "reverse-i search" has nearly killed me

lol.

I minted a new TLS cert and it seems that OpenAI is scraping CT logs for what I assume are things to scrape from, based on the near instant response from this:

Dec 12 20:43:04 xxxx xxx[719]: 
l=debug 
m="http request" 
pkg=http 
httpaccess= 
handler=(nomatch) 
method=get 
url=/robots.txt 
host=autoconfig.benjojo.uk 
duration="162.176µs" 
statuscode=404 
proto=http/2.0 
remoteaddr=74.7.175.182:38242 
tlsinfo=tls1.3 
useragent="Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36; compatible; OAI-SearchBot/1.3; robots.txt; +https://openai.com/searchbot" 
referrr= 
size=19 
cid=19b14416d95

Today I learned first hand that it is actually possible to break (by mistake rather than doing it on purpose) an mpo breakout cable

If I shine a light through the cable it seems to be fine, but I suspect it is broken for the wavelengths that actually matter

The year is 2035 and all countries now have some kind of online safety act that prevents people from accessing any kind of societal ill (of which is subjective to each individual country)

Apart from "DontGiveAShitastan" who's suspiciously leads the world in VPN companies

AS206345 (Ayandeh Afzayeh Karaneh Co PJS) has signed ASPA objects for the first time!
This means 420 unique ASNs have signed ASPA objects at some point

Hello! I post when networks make ASPA objects for the first time!

Interesting, AS1299 (Arelion/Telia) has made ASPA objects for... AS0 (aka never transit)

This is... a bold move.

Glad that they will be the lab rat for how well this works in practice for a "transit free carrier", given that in practice it seems that a lot of the transit free carriers are not entirely transit free

Ah yes, disk "S.M.A.R.T"

# smartctl -x /dev/sdd
smartctl 7.3 2022-02-28 r5338 [x86_64-linux-6.1.0-32-amd64] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-22, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
...
Local Time is:    Mon Dec  8 15:24:45 2025 GMT
...

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: FAILED!
Drive failure expected in less than 24 hours. SAVE ALL DATA.
See vendor-specific Attribute list for failed Attributes.

=====
Left it for a bit, and
=====

# smartctl -x /dev/sdd
smartctl 7.3 2022-02-28 r5338 [x86_64-linux-6.1.0-32-amd64] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-22, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
...
Local Time is:    Mon Dec  8 23:38:57 2025 GMT
...

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED