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Hope you never notice the outages I cause. Knows where the RFC2616 bodies are buried. recurse.com SP'2 18

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benjojo posted 13 Oct 2024 09:14 +0000

Guy looks like Charlie from Smiling Friends

A photo of a magazine advert showing a large bright yellow man next to a woman. The ad is for tayto chips

benjojo posted 13 Oct 2024 06:03 +0000

Good god, I need something to zap me when I attempt to book a pre 10AM flight from LHR

benjojo posted 11 Oct 2024 12:09 +0000

It's impressive seeing what 8~ years of CPU progress does even on the low end of CPU SKUs

I've finished (for now) upgrades of the bgp.tools IXP remote infra and the last box went from a Atom C2550 to Celeron J6412, same core count, 4W less of TDP and the CPU time on the same workload has dropped in half!

A rrdtool graph for CPU time, there is a blip in the middle where the load looks like it has been reduced in half, due to a machine swap

benjojo posted 11 Oct 2024 11:13 +0000

May all of the PDFs you need to diff be well formatted.

Because doing pdf-diff on the one I have today is like scraping molten plastic off a frying pan

benjojo posted 08 Oct 2024 20:08 +0000

TIL of Fedi StreetPass https://streetpass.social/ (I'm probs late to the party)

Basically if the page you browse has a rel=me html tag on it, it will see if there is a fedi profile behind it, and let you know (with history!) what "hits" you have had, super nice!

(I also patched my cursed blog+fedi stuff to actually make it work)

List of fediverse profiles inside a little chrome extension window

benjojo posted 08 Oct 2024 19:45 +0000

Call error 7: App Engine APIs are not enabled, please add app_engine_apis: true to your app.yaml to enable.

Ah, thanks Google App Engine, thanks for spending 10 mins "Updating service" and then migrating all traffic to a version that instantly failed all requests 👍

benjojo posted 08 Oct 2024 14:01 +0000

I got a newly found respect for "busy people", dunno how people do more than a month of this

benjojo replied 04 Oct 2024 19:33 +0000
in reply to: https://akko.erincandescent.net/objects/ef20ed34-fcda-4025-9ffd-940934a6214b

@erincandescent FWIW, bgp.tools used raw SCTP for quite a while for data backhual over the internet from IXs (and first gen customer agents) and had 0 issues with firewalls that the common internet stuff would claim you would have, I think the nuance is that if you are going to have issues connecting to a non "normal" (IE 443/22/80 etc) port then you are going to have issues with SCTP too, otherwise, it was totally fine.

These days bgp.tools's agent/IX backhaul uses a userspace SCTP stack for different reasons, but I still have a raw SCTP transport up my sleeve if I ever need it

benjojo posted 04 Oct 2024 09:42 +0000

It's cold again (In the UK), this is good, but it has made me think of a innovation I want...

So those CPU AIO/Water cooling rigs with radiators? I want a actual radiator sized one! Why can't my EYPC workstation be put to work warming my feet this time of year

benjojo posted 03 Oct 2024 21:21 +0000

oooooh, 100G QSFP28 DWDM is now actually one-click purchasable (all be it on pre-order for a few months) on FS: https://www.fs.com/products/249327.html

Realistically it is at least 4 years too late from it's prime market, but it's amazing to see it actually exist eventually within the QSFP heat/power budget