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/ )

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"

Thanks BBC news

"TalkTalk Communications Limited " (RIPE) transferred 92.8.0.0/15 to "Cloudflare, Inc." (ARIN)
(Estimated Market Value: $4.19 M)

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

Urgh.

Fine.

Firefox on the desktop it is.

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

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

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The post APNIC/APRICOT inbox backlog is real

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)

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

Having a normal one, at the normal hour

I hope this email finds you guilty on three charges of gross indecency.

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

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

Today in "Carefully worded commit messages":

Ooh a cat drawn out by making IP addresses ping!

https://bgp.tools/prefix/185.87.56.0/22

Throw your computer into your nearest lake

#feditips

Another day, Another ECDSA nonce slip up that reveals the private key

Via @matthewdgreen.bsky.social, seems to impact meta mask (aka the NFT market place thing)

New bgp.tools tag name dropped

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.

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

They did my boy dirty

"John Carroll university" transferred 143.105.0.0/16 to "SpaceX Services, Inc."
(Estimated Market Value: $2.10 M)

Rapture on the Elizabeth Line

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

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.

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

lol

Ah yes, the mythical 24GB DDR4 DIMM

Introducing, my new bot @transfers ( @transfers@bgp.tools )

Using the stuff I built for the IP transfer history feature on bgp.tools, this bot will now post all of the new IP/ASN transfers (with a 24-48 hour delay) that the website observes, plus a rough estimate of what the market value for the IPv4 addresses are being moved around are worth

Updated the post, here is, as it were, the money shot.

You can see that the frequency on the EU side goes low and then rises while the one on Baltic side goes high and then falls right before sync - I wonder if that was intentional! But in any case, you can very clearly see the point where they sync! so this experiment was as far as I am concerned a full success!

https://halcy.de/blog/2025/02/09/measuring-power-network-frequency-using-junk-you-have-in-your-closet/ #BalticSynchro

The Baltic states have successfully synchronised with the European grid

https://elering.ee/estonian-latvian-and-lithuanian-power-systems-successfully-synchronised-continental-europe

/me clicks eject "PCI Simple Communications Controller"

_*ping* noise comes from inside chassis_

Is this just a thing about getting older, or is it just that everything is happening all of the time at the moment?

urgh, I don't know how Arthur Andersen did it, when I try to (scan and) shred at even a modest pace my shredder overheats and locks out.

Are there some secret "accounting firm grade" paper shredders?

I'm doing some well needed scanning and shredding of old letters, and I just came across this 2017 letter from Hargreaves Lansdown claiming that brexit is likely not going to be that bad

"""
Nevertheless, what seems clear to me is that the vote to leave the EU has so far not been anywhere near the economic disaster many predicted
"""

Oh if they could see into the future

OH HELL NO.

This is my name on a version of the Glue pizza/Gasoline spaghetti moment.

Other than shitposting about EVPN on fedi and maybe IRC, I've not done anything publicly to do with EVPN.

Urghhhh

Thinking back to around that (2017-2020~) time where my primary phone had basically a stock-ish android camera setup.

I don't think the phone took very good photos almost all of the time, but there's this weird aesthetic that it sometimes nailed (sort of a dreaming in space kind of feeling) where the HDR would combine to make something quite unique and appealing, while also being a signature to these kinds of cheap phones.

I get oddly nostalgic when I see the "overprocessed HDR" aesthetic in other peoples clearly cheap android phone photos, I suppose in the same way that some people adore the ascetic that very cheap/broken film cameras give

"I miss you, too" being suggested by machine just feels like the ultimate "mechanization of conversation" by allowing the outsourcing thought in what are intimate/vulnerable moments. I don't really know how to describe this, but it really does feel quite disheartening

I have a Pixel 7, and google appears to have taken the stance that the feature that they put on gmail where they try and guess a appropriate sentence to reply with, should also be taken onto the keyboard on phones.

And (IMO) there is some kind of use in this with email, as it turns out that many emails can simply just be responded with "OK"/"yes"/"go for it", and that's basically what the gmail interface excels at (I've never seen it attempt to suggest anything more complex).

I've left this feature on my phone for a while a sort of "useless but i'm not going to get out of my way to disable it", until recently where I've got this suggested reply which kind of put a bunch of existential dread in to me.

This being a google-ism of course, trying to disable this feature is quite difficult because you not only have to go and disable it on "gboard" but you also have to go and find a page about 5 taps into the settings page to actually stop the UI of the phone itself from trying to suggest the message as a tool tip (see pictured). I would be surprised if many people have.

It all just seems... sterile. It's a cliche sure, but it does make me wonder for the future if we hand over moments like this over to word models of the average person replying.

I've lost track of how many "Updates on Lets Encrypt Subscriber Agreement & Ending Expiration Notification" I've gotten already

Turns out, I am inconsistent with email addresses!

Talking of ping quirks.

If you have a IP address with more than one PTR on it's reverse DNS like so:

$ dig -x x::6969 +short
hoho.b621.net.
haha.b621.net.
hehe.b621.net.

If you ping it (on seemingly older versions of ping) it will pick a random PTR to display per ping.

Resulting in amusing displays like:

# ping hehe.b621.net
PING hehe.b621.net(haha.b621.net (x::6969)) 56 data bytes
64 bytes from haha.b621.net (x::6969): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.094 ms
64 bytes from hoho.b621.net (x::6969): icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.104 ms
64 bytes from hehe.b621.net (x::6969): icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.110 ms
64 bytes from hehe.b621.net (x::6969): icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=0.136 ms
64 bytes from hoho.b621.net (x::6969): icmp_seq=5 ttl=64 time=0.132 ms
^C
--- hehe.b621.net ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 4075ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.094/0.115/0.136/0.016 ms

This was noticed because for some reason, one of Google's net infra IPs has 3 different PTRs, in two different city metros

$ dig -x 216.58.201.110 +short
prg03s02-in-f110.1e100.net.
prg03s02-in-f14.1e100.net.
lhr48s48-in-f14.1e100.net.

When a prefix ( 172.224.198.0/24 ) flaps so hard that every ping gives you a new router TTL expired. Bonus points in that it once actually got to it's destination!

$ ping 172.224.198.1
PING 172.224.198.1 (172.224.198.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
From 23.197.75.102 icmp_seq=1 Time to live exceeded
From 129.250.4.148 icmp_seq=2 Time to live exceeded
From 23.210.55.38 icmp_seq=3 Time to live exceeded
From 129.250.2.175 icmp_seq=4 Time to live exceeded
From 129.250.2.93 icmp_seq=5 Time to live exceeded
From 129.250.2.92 icmp_seq=6 Time to live exceeded
From 23.197.64.65 icmp_seq=7 Time to live exceeded
From 129.250.7.17 icmp_seq=8 Time to live exceeded
From 129.250.4.222 icmp_seq=9 Time to live exceeded
From 129.250.3.12 icmp_seq=10 Time to live exceeded
From 129.250.2.175 icmp_seq=11 Time to live exceeded
64 bytes from 172.224.198.1: icmp_seq=12 ttl=53 time=21.8 ms
From 5.158.213.66 icmp_seq=13 Time to live exceeded

( a good spot by @basil )

Oh come on, what a cop out of a danger sign.

Tell me where the danger is!

Hmph. Where's Waldo? got a lot easier with modern tech it seems.

I wonder how often on live DJ gigs is there a talkback style RF channel open with what is going out to the monitors/amps, and how plausible it is to bring a not-bomb-looking phone+SDR setup to dump it during a gig.

In unrelated news, I can't wait for a more clean version of whatever this ID to come out

Well, I guess "fuck me" for trying the greener option I guess

Equinix providing rare photos of the final boss level of the CoreSite LA1 One Wilshire meet me room

https://blog.equinix.com/blog/2025/01/31/unveiling-the-hidden-material-that-weaves-together-our-digital-lives/

Turns out the cure for impostor syndrome is discovering quite how incompetent the person who previously did the job was