Incredibly silly tax payment coming soon

I would be nice to have a storage provider that could hold all of my RAW's on some ultra cheap, high latency storage (like tape)

The chance I ever touch a raw after 30 days of a photo is very close to 0, but not zero.

The best going rate (I think) is Google Cloud Storage Archive, that has 5TB at ~6$ with some penalty if you try and pull files (but that is kinda fine odd RAW that I want to redevelop)

It's really fucked up that the pub online ordering reminds me that 18 year olds are now post start of 2008 financial crisis people

National Power grids only do this when they're really distressed

RFC2544 (Benchmarking Addresses) lays out

The network addresses 192.18.0.0 through 198.19.255.255 are have been
assigned to the BMWG by the IANA for this purpose.

Except, this was a typo, the actual address space was 198.18.0.0 through 198.19.255.255

It seems that at the moment Oracle owns 192.18.0.0/15 , and they are not announcing it, I suspect because there are a non zero amount of things that have accidentality put that in filters

A great cinematic length watch on UK trade unions: What Can You Do When You're Replaced By Machines?

DHL and co should give you the flight numbers that your intercontinental packages are on

Can the office 365 admin give github a bigger inbox allowance please

The email address that you use to reply to github issues via email (so you can avoid opening github) is... full????

The new android has the USB icon to be a... abstract snail?

Sure I guess

I do love getting legally consequential documents over email with the file name ending in "(1) (1).docx", like how many round trips did this go via before it got to me

For the #emfcamp / #emfcamp2026 folk: Do you have photos of EMF-IX ? please share them as I was a bit busy running around the camp site to take nice photos :)

Life changing post EMF camp sleep completed , and wow

Good morning to everyone except the EMF-IX switch who has taken the opportunity to die

Anyone at #emfcamp have a couple of AAA's that I can buy off someone

Edit: solved!

A road sign with packet loss

Man I forgot how much magic I did in 2022 for EMF-IX, and then didnt write any of it down.

Finally got the EMF-IX machines booted and they are:

A) Home made cloud init metadata server
B) PXE boot
C) the rootfs is on ATAoverEthernet, and to be fair that's very cool but also looks totally insane on lsblk

If you ever see this outside of EMF-IX, run

# lsblk
NAME                  MAJ:MIN RM  SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
etherd/e0.0           152:0    0    5G  0 disk 
├─etherd/e0.0p1       152:1    0  512M  0 part 
├─etherd/e0.0p2       152:2    0  488M  0 part 
└─etherd/e0.0p3       152:3    0    4G  0 part 
  ├─debian--vg-root   254:0    0  3.1G  0 lvm  /
  └─debian--vg-swap_1 254:1    0  976M  0 lvm  [SWAP]

Really hate how JunOS CLI suppresses ^C and space when there is nothing to cancel or add a space to (like a empty prompt).

Both of those things are my go to quick tests for if the device still works, so if I've not been on one for a while I end up the deeper stages of panic ("oh SHIT did I just blow up the device") before I realise I can just press "a" and see the CLI echo it back...

Goofy contraption

   I love           
 conntrack!  ◄────┐ 
    │             │ 
    │             │ 
    ▼             │ 
 conntrack        │ 
 ruined my  ──────┘ 
 life again         

Why the SVG fox be so smug / 🥴

Hah, the UK government is mulling over killing off terrestrial digital TV broadcasts by 2034, this would save them from having to fix at least one protocol level timebomb in DVB/DVB2 that triggers in 2038: https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/ZWhvQxPRzdhVzz9p3V

Pub air-conditioning my beloved

🫠

Sometimes the spam box is amusing

Enterprise outreach idea for dnsfs

Yes, Enterprise DNSFS ( https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/dns-filesystem-true-cloud-storage-dnsfs ) is clearly the next big thing, trillion dollar idea

(it's one of those clearly [github repo -> LLM -> Marketing Email] things)

Yooo new patch notes for time just dropped: https://lists.iana.org/hyperkitty/list/tz-announce@iana.org/thread/NVHSX2PAQIT44U5FCCEVNJJYXQMMTJSA/

Alberta moved to permanent -06 on 2026-06-18.
Morocco moves to permanent +00 on 2026-09-20.

@benjojo A bit more research and I found the boots themselves: https://www.canford.co.uk/Products/50-0834_CANARE-FC-CV-M-RETROFIT-GAITER-For-Canare-and-Lemo-SMPTE-male-connector-yellow

I was at a gig on Sunday and noticed this interesting setup with one of the cameras that has this huge dark green isolator looking thing on the Power/SDI?

Does any of the broadcast nerds here know what this is and why they need it here?

hacker voice, dejected: im out

While doing some capacity shuffling today I wondered if bgp.tools had gotten to the point where there is no single motherboard that could run the whole operation.

The answer is... almost

You can buy 2S AMD 9005 machines (2x 128 C parts) that have 48 DIMM slots (48 * 128G DDR5 = 6TB~) that would fit what normally does the whole half cab into one machine..

The downside is that this one box costs roughly 280,000£, so I will take my setup thank you very much

I kind of love to wonder what the supply chain looks like that resulted in me being handed a Kurdish (according to Google translate I guess?) can of Coke at my local chippy

Fucking Around (Sailing last week)

👇️

Finding Out (Looking at the inbox today)

Regardless, have some nice photos from last week

Whoever decided where to put the Bluetooth management "PUK" code (to reset the PIN) on Victron inverters really needs to crawl into the depth of a boat to find it, to see the effects of their decisions

Can you guess where the code is here? on the outside label? no that would make too much sense, it's inside the device chassis (where the terminal blocks are) and if you can angle your body, hands, flashlight, and mobile phone camera just right, you may be able to see 50% of the code at a time between the air vent grill...

The DNS Resolver landscape is somewhat fascinating in that I think by the time you get to the point where you are close to wanting to build a DNS Resolver/Recursor you have already figured out it's hard to get right (in terms of spec compliance), and basically impossible to get right if you care (or need to care) about DNSSEC validation.

It was surprising to find that there are not really any stable/serious memory safe DNS resolvers, Hickory seems to be littered with bugs (Some not strictly it's fault and more the fact that some DNS Auths do not like QName Minimisation, but from what I can tell has a very spotty situation with DNSSEC

For what it is worth, my general views on DNSSEC's usefulness has not changed (I do not think DNSSEC is "juice worth the squeeze"), but there are compliance situations that force the existence of DNSSEC...

It's just frustrating that the closest to spec-compliance state of the art DNS resolver is Unbound

It's also shocking there is basically no DNS RFC "-bis" document that rolls up all of the (must at least 100) RFCs into a somewhat coherent document, I wonder if the rubicon has been crossed where no one will ever agree on what a RFC -bis would even look like.

Turning a z-buffer into a "how badly should something be JPEG compressed" mask, giving this interestingly "robotic myopia" view

(The effect is a lot better on landscape on mobile / big screen)

It's over at last

POV you are about to have an abysmal time

yup, that's the British election that I know

I wonder how many people have set GOAMD64=v4 in their builds and have not realised their CPU doesn't support AVX512 (since the compiler is not actually emitting AVX512 instructions yet)

That's going to be a fun upgrade path for whoever discovers has done that by mistake...

[edit, it turns out the outputted binary does actually check for v4 support, so everyone is fine]

How do these cloud SDKs get so huge (from my go mod cache)

$ du -h --max-depth=1 |& grep G
1.6G	./huaweicloud
1.5G	./oracle
3.8G	.

huaweicloud-sdk-go-v3@v0.1.187 is 239MB of _text_, text, This module is 50,000+ tiny (less than 8KB go files) that look like this: https://github.com/huaweicloud/huaweicloud-sdk-go-v3/blob/5b4358369ac2cc3cc8985b52bd2d7930d654a8b2/services/gaussdbforopengauss/v3/model/model_list_enhance_full_sql_statistics_request_body.go#L4

That's a staggering amount of (I assume/hope) automatically generated code. A true horror case of the compiler

Bond villain has developed a device that will destroy the planet. The British government sends James Bond to offer him tax incentives to build the device on brownfield land in the East Midlands.

I am in Berlin today -> tomorrow, with not much to do, Who do I know in Berlin at the moment and/or what do people recommend for things to do/see?

I need a pair of words that people wont obviously pick one over the other, a good (but non serious example) is "kiki" vs "boba", a bad example are "a" vs "b"

Thoughts on things that are not "kiki" vs "boba"

🏆 Anti-Achievement unlocked

Spend more time in a EES passport queue than in the air itself

Second attempt at sputter coating an organic sample (human hair, mildly damaged) for SEM imaging.

This was 100W DC (~400V), Cr, 3 minutes.

Blobs are Cr crystals from too aggressive deposition rate or poor sample prep... we think?

Why hello there small business owner! Are you one of those business certified gays?

Does anybody want a free official Google pixel 7A case? I accidentally bought one (I have a 7, not 7a, ooops)

Edit: Claimed! Thank you for playing

I do love Wikipedia for it's sometimes "at a glance" or "simplified" sections and then proceeds to show some maths or diagram that looks like it requires at least one degree to fully understand

Throwback to when I printed out business cards for the IDA Pro 6.8 'community edition' license owner. Still not sure if that was a real person.

Wonder if there's still a few around floating around in CTF/hacker circles? I remember distributing a bunch of them.. but this was almost a decade ago.

The megaport dashboard on my side giving me a "intercontinental ballistic ethernet layer 2" vibe

The bgp.tools megaport/megaix setup is a wonderful horror, to the point where a ARP packet in New Zealand is (eventually) heard all the way in the Netherlands where it lands on my "party" port