Found a place called benjoben here, as benjojo, it was a no brainer for breakfast

Literally internet exchange pilled

Noticed a typo on the email I just pressed send on, so hit the undo button in gmail, and that rare thing happened again

I like big dishes and I cannot lie

You know, the "Other OS" function of the PS3 is a great demonstration of how completely unrecognisable the landscape is today, it feels impossible that we will have hardware of that class offer anything like that ever again

Oops, missed the CFP for DENOG17 by a week or so. I guess next year

Have you considered a 300mm lens?

Pros:

~ See things from distances you would not believe
~ Super flexible for most other things
~ Birds
~ Read the model/serial numbers off the radios on cell towers

Cons:

~ Your cute mirrorless is now 1kg heavier

hehe hello random ANZ employee

For the Melbourne Aussies out there, My Sunday is pretty much entirely empty of stuff to do, what is there to do in Melbourne on a Sunday?

Some photos while wondering around Melbourne (Post AusNOG 2025) and it's Botanical Gardens

Also wow, going from Late-ish Summer in Europe to Spring in Australia is a bit of a shock!

They don't tell anyone this but Australians/Kiwi's come with a built in 500ms typing/action buffer in their brain that they use for typing prediction for terminals on systems far away from them (most of the world)

Sad tape drive :(

5 means "Tape drive problem. Tape drive determined that a hardware failure occurred. "

I guess a upcoming sneak peek into a slide from one of my upcoming talks, but I cannot ever look at a Sankey diagram the same way after that one blog post

The famous mental health dumpster

Went out and saw squirrels again, including one that always had this funny aggressive "come take me on" pose

the bird, it spherical

I know that January 19th 2038 is going to be super interesting and all, but did you know that DVB (the TV stuff) wont blow up?

It uses a slightly different timestamp (that is pretty miserable to parse as it turns out), so it can last a whole few more months past the end of the world, DVB will keep ticking along (at least in it's TOT and TDT packets) until May 22nd 2038

Mildly interesting! Chinese graffiti spotted in London Canary Wharf!

(with a attempted google lens translation, no idea if it's any good)

Gee, I wonder how the network card for this printer works...

Stepped outside of my flat to instantly find a Google street view car, neat! Time to set a calendar reminder for 3 months time to see if I made the final cut

BuyPass "Go", a free ACME TLS Cert operator is shutting down their free operation

There are several factors that together make it no longer commercially viable for Buypass to continue services related to TLS/SSL Certificates

As far as I understand it, this puts number of EU based ACME operators back down to 0

https://community.buypass.com/t/y4y130p

Also hello, I can highly recommend against food poisoning, I have managed to live 20+ years without "proper" food poisoning until this week and

w o w

.OH: oh wait, no I am not trying to send you files here, I am trying to give you access to my satellites

The unholy variation of club mate has arrived

Yeah the servers definitely have it better than I do this time of year, their home is far nicer than my home in terms of conditions, at least in the cold isle

GitHub CEO: "Either you have to embrace the Al, or you get out of your career"

Well, Look who's immediate career has gotten rid of them!

https://www.theverge.com/news/757461/microsoft-github-thomas-dohmke-resignation-coreai-team-transition

RFC None: None, None, None #RFC None

Man, this new assistant sucks. Doesn't even know how to use JunOS that well, just keeps biting me instead

I wonder what the lore is behind this weird copyright year listing on *BSD's boot sequence

Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
        The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.

Like I am sure there is a "good" reason why this isnt just

Copyright (c) 1979 - 1994
        The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.

Airbags are an "amusing" demo of a product that undeniably saves lives, but also have become so toxic to make (and hold the liability of them for 5/10/20 years) that it's very questionable if it's worth making them from a manufacturing point of view.

Like would would want to produce bits of explosive chemistry that has a wide deployment and liability for decades?

Forget looking at the weather forecasts, you can simply tell if it's really windy in the UK by looking at the power grid and the price of energy.

It is currently very windy in Scotland

Quite surprised (In a positive way?) that the default when you are adding a new domain to cloudflare is to block/drop AI scrapers, and that the options take up as much room as the most foundational questions "where are the DNS records going to come from?"

Sort of a indicator on the side of the AI companies that all of this is unsustainable if the publishers of actual content hate/discriminate against them this much

Cortisol generating machine

Hmm. Ofcom (the UK regulator for communications) has announced initial investigations on a handful of companies and their sites that are not obeying new ID requirements for porn as part of the Online Safety Act:

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/protecting-children/investigation-into-8579-llcs-compliance-with-the-duty-to-prevent-children-from-encountering-pornographic-content-through-the-use-of-age-assurance

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/protecting-children/investigation-into-avs-group-ltds-compliance-with-the-duty-to-prevent-children-from-encountering-pornographic-content-through-the-use-of-age-assurance

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/protecting-children/investigation-into-trendio-ltds-compliance-with-the-duty-to-prevent-children-from-encountering-pornographic-content-through-the-use-of-age-assurance

But amusingly by doing this, they are naming a bunch of web sites that do not verify their users ID in order to view porn, how convenient!

I'm not quite sure how they're planning to prosecutor some of these especially given that one of them ( Trendio Ltd ) is a dissolved company in the UK register, and the only known director is based in Morocco.

I guess this is a prelude to court ordered blockings...

In case any followers were procrastinating or mulling it over, the RIPE 91 CFP closes tomorrow

https://pretalx.ripe.net/ripe91/cfp

mate I don't even know

You ever look at a company that manages quite a lot of a assets and think, "hmm, maybe you shouldn't hold my assets actually"

Man, Jumping into the ETSI world is like a completely different parallel universe to the network space.

God bless the people who wrote the ETSI decoders/dissectors for wireshark, This is making my day _significantly_ better thanks to it being able to swallow suspect MPEG-TS files and spit out "packets"

I guess when you are a wireshark, everything looks like a packet stream

Formula E near where I live again, so I walked over for some opportunistic pictures:

"Motherboard vendors don't mess up your pcie slot alignment" challenge (impossible)

2nd time I've done something like this, always uncomfortable

Entering my "nullroute youtube.com" arc again (last one was when I was in NY and ended up doing 1 blog post every week...), It's such a subtle time parasite that I can easily piss away a entire half day to

Ah yes, the circle is finally closing

https://lwn.net/Articles/1029851/

Since I am dumping photos here anyway, here are some misc photos from the drive from the UK to Bornhack, including a small detour via one of Germany's biggest holes ( At 1/3 of it's dedicated visitor areas )

(Final?) Misc #bornhack photos

mmm, the #bornhack bar area

The dogs of #bornhack (with owners permission ofc)

May have had one of the best sleeps in the last 10 years post #bornhack

Perhaps surviving 8 days on ClubMate is not the best strategy, but hey it was a lot of fun!!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqx27w1dwe9o

funding a lavish lifestyle which included Gucci designer goods bought for her cat and a £192 Bugatti kettle.

Today I learned that Gucci make pet collars, and Bugatti make kettles.

Grasshopper friend detected