That oppressive architectural vibe of TeleHouse West at night

While searching for PC cases for a new NAS, I have found the ideal "youtube producer/editor" case, the "GameMax Luxury G51x Silentium PC" appears to let you just shove a bare 3.5" drive directly on the top of the machine.

Ideal for those who have their raw footage archive as just bare 3.5" drives on a shelf

ah yes this is what it looks like when you're just on the edge of downloads folder bankruptcy

Stumbled upon this image that I took in May while looking for something else, and I love it!

Ooh yeah that'll getcha

I don't think enough people appreciate the large scale public art experiment known as the "google maps reviews for boring things"

Go and look up your local supermarket or anything else that shouldn't really have reviews (something that is boring/banal) and you will find some gems I promise you

I present to you as an example, the reviews for a landfill waste gas generator site:

Today I bought a switch for 1.2k USD, then just bought 500 USD worth of lasers for the switch.

I can totally see how the switch/router is quickly seen as cheap as compared to what you install in it.

In constant awe at how British Airways, a company that famously operates in a space where not selling flights will cause rapid bankruptcy, is so bad at actually selling/booking flights

eBay fully calling me out this morning it seems

At 2025-11-10 17:40:57 UTC Cloudflare for some unknown reason withdrew 2400:cb00:2049::/48, A prefix that contains a lot of DNS name servers for many customers (including bgp.tools) (see https://bgp.tools/prefix/2400:cb00:2049::/48#dns )

Everything was back by 2025-11-10 18:00:30, but it's kinda wild that a prefix that contains .gov and loads of other name servers on it would just disappear like that.

This graph shows a selection of bgp.tools's session visibility second-by-second during the incident.

Me after getting a mosquito in mid flight first time in the bed room:

"Ladies and gentlemen, we got him"

(Actually technically her because the biting ones are female but whatever)

It will be sad when the gasometers fully go, such a icon to the landscape, but yeah up close they do seem to be rapidly falling apart

Such East London questions like:

Why is the teddy bear being crucified on the tube substation fence?

More Autumn shots today!

As winter comes around, and the trees go gold, the parakeet's are easier to spot amongst the landscape!

Good afternoon to everyone, especially this rotund squirrel I met at the park

Thinking about the corp dinner event I was at a few weeks ago where the highlight of the evening was the surprisingly huge funkion one system where I got to stand behind 5kw RMS of bass for a while

It's officially overween

Unifi Products that look like shitposts:

Daylight Savings Time shift

Pros:

• My server log timestamps are now in my local time

Cons:

• Dark
• Brighter earlier in the morning (sucks if you generally wake up without alarms etc)

I wonder if society will ever move to permanently sit in "Summer time"

Had an idea while cooking this evening that I could save time by trying to chop onions into small pieces by using a cheese grater instead.

After attempting to do this, I have been reminded that not all of my ideas are good ones.

Not only does this not work, but it also basically sets off a chemical warfare to your eyes in your kitchen, and the onions come out as sludge.

2/10 - would not recommend

Teaching the new trains how to train

Train training

ASN.1 was successful enough that the International Telecommunications Unions felt no need to create ASN.2. Everyone capitulatd in terror of what the ITU might do next. --SNMP Mastery

Pulls drive

What's that labe- oh. Ah.

Starlink soon to be cashing in on the lucrative ICBM market

You know, looking at the current rate that a single flagship GPU can do password hashing at, yeah, there are a whole classes of password hashing algros in the "megahash" range, and if you are using them (and the hash leaks) you are probably a bit fucked.

Unfortunately the megahash range is quite a lot of the ones that you shouldnt be using, but you know people are totally using anyway:

• MD5
• SHA.+
• unix DES crypt()

but that is fine because you use a password manager right... riiiiight?

None of this is particular new news, I was just surprised to know a single card can do 6000 megahash/s of DES crypt() these days.

I wonder how many kW's worth of Cisco 6500 are still left, recently read a about a carrier just this year clearing out a 3 digit number of kW's worth of them, so surely there is still a good few MW still of these devices likely lost in the inventory after 10's of years of operation but still running doing nothing or almost nothing.

It's a shame that taking photos in the airport security area is extremely frowned upon, some of the stuff that people are taking through are absolutely spectacular.

I recently learned that supreme make traffic cones, mostly because somebody was stuck in the queue keep getting their traffic cone swabbed for explosives

" Oh yeah the HiFi audio people are funny, spending 1000's of euros on audio gear that isn't better than the cheaper stuff, it's sad that they fall for that "

- Person with 300 euro coffee grinder (2025)

Happy us-east-1 day for those who celebrate

Spent a hour or so cleaning up broken links on my talks archive ( https://benjojo.co.uk/talks/ ), also re-found some old 2018 talks that were not there, it's sad how quickly event's own PDF archives of talks disappear, NLNOG seems to have gotten rid of their 2018 ones at the very least prompting me to re-host all of my own talks on my domain. What if I wanted to know what people were presenting in 2018 at NLNOG (without youtube!)

[Drum and Bass] vs [NAS Hard Disk Access Jitter]

Google Recapcha v2 interface but instead of selecting traffic lights it's "book a train ticket using the DB kiosk interface"

I'm sure the robots will do just as bad as the humans

Waiting for the bubble to pop purely for unixsurplus.com to get interesting hardware again, much like others are waiting to buy another cheap areon chair

Hmm, the RDAP-ification of the domain world is kinda crap, the default "whois" command that ships on ubuntu (and friends) doesnt do RDAP, and it seems that some ccTLD's have shut down their whois "port 43" servers without actually doing RDAP, one example being .co (Columbia)

[15:17:34] ben@ossa:~$ whois example.co
getaddrinfo(whois.nic.co): Name or service not known

I guess this basically gives you casual domain privacy for all .co domains???

Autumn!

If you drink the tacticool/camo monster energy do you become invisible for a small period of time

Me setting up corp XMPP server a few months ago, noticing this in the config file

  ##   ## Mnesia is limited to 2GB, better to use an SQL backend
  ##   ## For small servers SQLite is a good fit and is very easy
  ##   ## to configure. Uncomment this when you have SQL configured:

You will never guess what Ben decided to defer until now

No Mr.Bond

I expect you to charge

Happy 1M IPv4 Routes! May your SUP720 be with you.

Really google? 0! 0 in just a week ! Gosh!

Enjoy this exploded 100G QSFP28 CWDM4 optic, if you look carefully you can even see the absolutely tiny de/mux inside the dark glass area

Also, sinister ass looking swan

Went on a walk and found 🤏🍄 tiny mushrooms!

Seems like the "Freenom world" DNS (recursor) server has at long last dropped off

[15:44:41] ben@ossa:~$ dig benjojo.co.uk @80.80.80.80
;; communications error to 80.80.80.80#53: timed out
;; communications error to 80.80.80.80#53: timed out

The BGP prefix 80.80.80.0/24 is gone from the table, but a less specific 80.80.80.0/23 is still there, and is "capturing" the old requests.

Seems like the new 80.80.80.0/23 ends up in Hong Kong somewhere. I wonder how many queries are still going in that direction (to a dead endpoint)

The alt server IP 80.80.81.81 seems to ping but not reply to DNS queries

Freenom world I guess is dead for good based on the destruction of freenom via Meta/etc after the freenom domains were phishing magnets and the common victims of such phishing domains took legal action against freenom.

Predictably the website is still frozen in time: https://www.freenom.com/en/index.html?lang=en

Really enjoying the newer Pendulum stuff, really channeling the ol' Rob Swire quote of "It's meant to sound like the fucking apocalypse" (at least more than 'The Reworks' and 'Immersion')

The problem appears to be a faulty "only to customer" (OTC) attribute announced by AS154260 and more often than not carried by AS150000.

A typical OTC attribute is only 4, this update/router is sending one that is 1024 bytes

Seems like a bad BGP update has hit a lot of route servers, a lot of internet instability is to be expected right now

Impact started at 19:42 UTC, and is ongoing

Qualcomm owns Arduino, Hackaday is owned by Siemens

My teenage electronics hobby landscape is now owned by the companies that would never supply datasheets to me back then

Apologies to those IPv6 fedi instances trying to pull stuff from mine and failing, I got owned by my providers uRPF once again