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benjojo posted 07 May 2025 13:09 +0000

Since I've been using my Nikon 300mm zoom leans for more than just reading the model numbers of cell sites recently, I've bought a Tamron 18-300mm F/3.5-6.3 Di III-A VC VXD for the camera body I actually like to use!

Walked around today after getting lunch for some first attempts, the AF is so much faster (to be fair I think my Nikon 300mm is slightly broken anyway)

benjojo posted 05 May 2025 12:12 +0000

CW: Ben stares directly at you jump-scare

Why when I launch the front facing camera on my phone does my face slowly distort for the first few seconds? what cursed things are going on in this device?

benjojo posted 02 May 2025 11:13 +0000

Oh cool, Victron's WebUI thing now has a mode that does not involve Websockets+VNC, but instead a WASM thing that talks MQTT... written in C++ & QT with WebGL?

Cool I guess, slightly cursed, but it works beautifully, no obvious jank that I would have expected from such a setup.

Much love to the embedded software engineer that tried out wasm I guess!

Firefox screenshots of a Solar info panel, the debug menus so QT log errors, and websockets view shows MQTT messages flying around

benjojo posted 28 Apr 2025 16:45 +0000

I think another Digital Realty (data center) Madrid site went dark at 14:00 UTC, based on DE-CIX Madrid Route Server prefix graphs

A bgp.tools graph that crashes downwards at 15:00 to 15:15 (UTC+1) time

benjojo reposted 28 Apr 2025 16:13 +0000
original: ozone89@techhub.social

@benjojo I mean, they're supposed to be uninterruptible, not unexplodable

benjojo posted 28 Apr 2025 15:52 +0000

The uninterruptible power supply, a fine type of machine, apart from when they interrupt themselves by exploding

benjojo posted 28 Apr 2025 14:54 +0000

The internet routing table has lost about 5,000 IPv4+IPv6 prefixes after grid power Spain/Portugal was lost, and the number is still slowly going down as I assume batteries/generators run out.

I assume most prefixes are still announced while their final destinations are unreachable

(Graph is from a one of the sessions bgp.tools has with a T1)

benjojo posted 28 Apr 2025 14:49 +0000

Various Iberian Internet Exchanges have either seen at least 1/2 of traffic (the remaining traffic will be machine to machine, or international), or in some cases 1/4, GigaPix seems to have entirely gone (or the monitoring infra has died)

benjojo posted 28 Apr 2025 14:35 +0000

📉📈

I guess "spot the fault and then clearing" today, Spain and Portugal being the primary loser

A freqency grid reading in the EU, showing a huge rapid drop at 11:30 AM, followed by a quick recovery

benjojo posted 28 Apr 2025 14:24 +0000

One of the most "benidorm brit" possible things to complain about when a area of 60M people had their grid desync and collapse

BBC news "Power cut chaos in Spain and Portugal" --- Live Reporting By Owen Amos, Sam Hancock, and Emily McGarvey European Commission in touch with local authorities to establish cause of outagepublished at 15:20 15:20 The European Commission says it is "in contact" with Spanish and Portuguese authorities "to understand the underlying cause" of today's blackout. "The commission will keep monitoring the situation and make sure that there is smooth information exchange," a spokesperson for the EU's executive arm says. Antonio Costa, a former Portuguese premier who heads the European Council of EU member states, is also in contact with the Spanish and Portuguese leaders, EU officials add. Dark metro tunnel in LisbonImage source, Getty Images Image caption, Images of metro stations in darkness are circulating online Restoring power across Portugal 'could take up to a week'published at 15:12 15:12Breaking Some final remarks from Portugal's power firm REN, which goes on on to say that, "due to the complexity of the phenomenon and the need to rebalance electricity flows internationally, it is estimated that full normalisation of the network could take up to a week". Earlier, the head of Spain's electricity network said that restoring power could take between six and 10 hours. 'Extreme temperature variations in Spain' contributed to outage - Portuguese grid officialspublished at 15:10 15:10 We have a bit more for you now from the Portuguese energy company REN (Rede Eletrica Nacional). It says that "due to extreme temperature variations in the interior or Spain, there were anomalous oscillations in the very high voltage lines (400 KV), a phenomenon known as 'induced atmospheric vibration'". As we said in our last post, Spain is yet to respond to these claims. Portugal blames outage on 'fault in Spain's electricity grid'published at 15:07 15:07Breaking We're now hearing from Portugal's grid operator, REN, which says interruptions to the country's power supply were the result of a "fault in the Spanish electricity grid. They say this was related to a "rare atmospheric phenomenon", but don't clarify what that means. Spain is yet to respond to the claim. We'll bring you more on this in our next few posts. Customers had to leave mid-haircut, says Lisbon residentpublished at 15:04 15:04 Holly Wallis Live reporter Will David, 40, a Briton living in Lisbon, says he was having a haircut and beard trim in the basement of a barbers in Lisbon when the power went down. "Customers needing electric razors had to leave in various states of haircut and shave completion," says Will. Rita, the barber, kindly found him a spot by the window upstairs to finish the cut with scissors and left Will looking "halfway presentable". "The walk home felt very strange, both with the lack of traffic lights meaning a complete free-for-all for vehicles and pedestrians on the roads - as well as so many people milling around outside their places of work with nothing to do." People queuing for a bus in Lisbon earlier - trains and trams went down in the power cutsImage source, Getty Images Image caption, People queuing for a bus in Lisbon earlier - trains and trams went down in the power cuts Some phone signal returns - but other problems remainpublished at 14:57 14:57 Josh Parry LGBT and identity reporter Curtis Gladden, 29, is originally from Liverpool but recently moved to in La Vall D’Uixo, about 30 miles from Valencia. He tells BBC News his phone signal hadn’t worked for around two hours, which he says was "scary" as he struggled to get updates about what was happening. Now the signal has returned, he and other locals are using the time without electricity to get outside and enjoy a drink in the town’s pavement cafes. It’s a local holiday in some parts of Spain, known as Saint Vincent Ferrer’s day. Curtis and his partner Miguel were hoping to join in the festivities but say they are "uncertain" whether they’ll take place. He says: "Nothing is working; we came to get some food and a drink but they can’t cook without electricity. There’s supposed to be a festival today but we’re not sure if it will happen now." Tables in La Vall D’Uixo Image caption, Residents in La Vall D’Uixo are taking the chance to have a drink outside during the power outage In London, Gatwick reports delayed flights to affected areaspublished at 14:57 14:57 Molly Stazicker Transport reporter A shot from outside Gatwick departuresImage source, Reuters In our last post, we brought you an update from some of the affected airports across Spain and Portugal. Now Gatwick, in London, has also reported issues - telling the BBC it's experiencing short delays on flights to Spain and Portugal. The airport says there have so far been no cancellations and it's waiting for the issues to be resolved. Meanwhile, airline Ryanair says it's monitoring potential disruptions to flights operating to and from all airports in mainland Spain and Portugal. Delays at Spanish and Portuguese airportspublished at 14:53 14:53 Let's have a quick look now at the situation at airports. Madrid's international airport - Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas - and Barcelona's Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Pratairport currently have notices saying "some incidents are occurring" as a result of the outage. The airports add that contingency generators are active, but warn anyone travelling to check with airlines as disruptions may affect access and ground transportation. Lisbon and Porto airports similarly warn that "operation constraints" may occur. Portuguese news agency Lusa is reporting that airport operator Ana has activated emergency generators - enabling essential operations to continue in Porto and Faro, but Lisbon is seeing further limitations. Looking at departure boards, airports including Madrid, Barcelona and Porto are seeing delays. I'm teaching in the dark, says Lisbon-based teacherpublished at 14:49 14:49 Bernadette McCague BBC News Emily Thorowgood, who's from Bristol but who works as a teacher in an international school in Lisbon, has told the BBC she is currently "teaching in the dark" after the power went off at around noon local time. "Lots of parents are taking their children out due to the power cuts," she says. "It was flashing on and off for a long while but seems to have finally given up." A queue at a cash machine in Lisbon earlier - card payments are down across the cityImage source, Getty Images Image caption, A queue at a cash machine in Lisbon earlier - card payments are down across the city 'My husband is driving around, trying to find an open petrol station'published at 14:45 14:45 Bernadette McCague BBC News A closed pump in Castellon, north-east SpainImage source, EPA Image caption, A closed pump in Castellon, north-east Spain Lesley has lived in Spain for 11 years with her husband. The couple are currently based in Murcia, Spain. "There's very little news about what's happened," she tells the BBC. "We are worried about food, water, cash and petrol in case this goes on for a couple of days." She says there's "more to worry about" than the Madrid Open tennis tournament being suspended. "My husband is driving around now trying to find a petrol station that's open to get petrol for the generator so that we can plug in the fridge." Spanish PM hosting national security meetingpublished at 14:39 14:39Breaking Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez wears an earpiece and a suitImage source, EPA Pedro Sanchez is currently hosting an "extraordinary" meeting of Spain's national security council, the prime minister's press office says in a statement on social media, external. We're yet to hear an update from the meeting, but when we do we'll let you know. The view from Benidorm: 'If you haven't got a drink, you're out of luck'published at 14:32 14:32 James Kelly BBC News In the Spanish resort of Benidorm, Mark England tells us how the lack of power has disrupted his holiday. He says he and his partner Jonnie had gone for lunch when the lights in the dining room started to go off.

benjojo posted 24 Apr 2025 15:45 +0000

switch:~# ethtool -m swp12
	Identifier                                : 0x03 (SFP)
	Extended identifier                       : 0x04 (GBIC/SFP defined by 2-wire interface ID)
	Connector                                 : 0x07 (LC)
[...]
	Length (SMF,km)                           : 0km
	Length (SMF)                              : 0m
	Length (50um)                             : 0m
	Length (62.5um)                           : 0m
	Length (Copper)                           : 10m
	Length (OM3)                              : 70m
	Laser wavelength                          : 850nm

Hmm, a the 850nm optic can do 10 meters over copper I see... Sure I guess

benjojo posted 23 Apr 2025 15:38 +0000

Trying to bring up a box without any BaseT ports, went into the spare optics box, picked something that looks vaguely 10G SFP+ stuck it in the workstation and uh, dmesg was not happy

System basically said

this optic is ass, interface terminated

no seriously, even reloading the driver wont bring that port back >:(

ixgbe 0000:c1:00.0: failed to initialize because an unsupported SFP+ module type was detected / removed PHC on enp193s0f0

benjojo posted 23 Apr 2025 14:12 +0000

A Lot of Questions Already Answered By the Company Name

UK companies house screenshot Previous company names: NOT MONEY LAUNDERING LTD

benjojo posted 21 Apr 2025 09:06 +0000

So, I'm not saying there's a coincidence here but... there is a little bit of one right?

A screenshot of Liz trust meeting the Queen for which she died one day after, a screenshot of a guardian article as the Pope met JD Vance, the Pope then died one day after this

benjojo posted 19 Apr 2025 15:02 +0000

root@blah:~# sensors
...

power_meter-acpi-0
Adapter: ACPI interface
power1:        4.29 MW (interval = 300.00 s)

Hmm yeah, Thanks HP, I am sure that the thing under my desk is 0.015% of the total grid consumption in the UK...

benjojo posted 18 Apr 2025 20:03 +0000

I mean weird place to put the databases, but sure I guess

A pciture of a train platform, and a small techical building between the two platforms, there are three white boxs attached to the wall, both outside ones are named "AWS DB"

benjojo reposted 18 Apr 2025 14:37 +0000
original: j91321@infosec.exchange

Mom, dad, Bart's dead! meme from the episode Itchy & Scratchy Land with the following text:
Mom, dad, unauth rce CVSS 10.0 in SSH server (first panel)
(Both Gasping) (second panel)
That's right -- in Erlang/OTP SSH (third panel)

benjojo posted 16 Apr 2025 11:29 +0000

Flying panda trying to get the last bit out of this lavender plant

benjojo posted 15 Apr 2025 16:01 +0000

Hmm, Last night (Euro time) there was a huge flood of BGP updates into the internet, looking deeper it appears that CERNET3 went down and up for a moment.

This would normally be a non issue, the BGP table sees a steady stream of updates per second of people mostly doing the same thing (your average full routing table has about 10 changes per second). Except CERNET3 is a bit weird. It has 4096 IPv6 /32's, and ASNs... CERNET3 calls this "slicing", and I've never really figured out what benifit this gives them to export 4096 prefixes, let alone 4096 ASNs.

Anyway, whatever happened hit all of the "slices". Causing a huge flood of updates to flood around the internet.

Not necessarily fatal (though this did cause a noticeable CPU spike, the only reason I noticed it), it does feel like poor behavior here to design a network where this impact is this visible from the outside!

benjojo posted 13 Apr 2025 17:01 +0000

A damp walk in a forest!

benjojo posted 13 Apr 2025 16:49 +0000

"liiiiick, oh ew"

a photo of a white cat cleaning their feet, the next photo is a scrunched up face shortly after

benjojo posted 11 Apr 2025 22:47 +0000

I suppose I am glad that stripe has me covered so when I start making sixteen figures ( quadrillion? ) worth of revenue in a month

a stripe tax invoice, that says Exchange Rates (derived from average rate for period) GBP / EUR 1.1952456206817272 EUR / GBP 0.8366481187604219

benjojo posted 11 Apr 2025 17:32 +0000

I bought this cheap ESP32 Dev board for something and IT'S SO TINY!!

tiny oled!!

A photo of my hand with a tiny development board on it the development board is no bigger than a USB a plug

benjojo posted 11 Apr 2025 15:32 +0000

ooooohhh

Dear [NL-IX] customers
While busy with another machine and needing to reboot it by accident
route server 1 (193.239.116.255, 2001:7f8:13::a503:4307:1) was rebooted.
We sincerely regret this and are sorry for the inconvenience. We will
investigate how to avoid this in the future.

--
With kind regards

Yeah I've been there, on the bright side it doesn't seem to have actually impacted any traffic on the IX, now excuse me while I go double check that I have molly-guard installed on all of my machines still.

benjojo posted 10 Apr 2025 14:40 +0000

I opened bluesky to post something for a event account (so the account doesn't follow anything) and wow, the default timeline is basically the inverted results of X/twitter.

As a friend put it, at least the arguments on fedi are mostly pointless, this is ikcy

A screenshot of bluesky showing two posts, one by "Blue Wave Surfer" that is a image that says "IF we deported MAGA men age 17 to 50 and replaced them with immigrants the violent crime rate would drop 70-80%, crimes against women and children would be almost zero" . the next post says "You set the house on fire, watched it burn, and then lost your nerve and put it out, you now have a partially burned house, great job"

benjojo posted 10 Apr 2025 13:54 +0000

Good afternoon to this fox who has decided to take a sunny nap in my neighbors garden bush (and the two magpies that seem to be his friend?)

a photo red fox coming in and out of a very green garden bush

benjojo posted 09 Apr 2025 21:16 +0000

I see we are at the point where we have meme ciders

A photo of a pump at a pub, the pump is made by asession ciders, the beverage name is called mess with the honk

benjojo posted 09 Apr 2025 10:04 +0000

Remembering back in the days where something would hit number one hacker news and then immediately start displaying the Google app engine free limit exhausted page.

Well everything that is old is new again, and we're back to the same thing

A screenshot of a cloudflare workers rate limit exceeded page

benjojo posted 05 Apr 2025 22:26 +0000

I knew I didnt need to buy angled LC cables, just sronch them against the rack door for a week, and the hot isle and low humidity airflow will do the rest

4 Multimode LC fiber connectors coming out of a server that are bent in a left directly, but clearly not on purpose

benjojo posted 03 Apr 2025 17:45 +0000

There is wide spread misuse of XKCD 2347 "Dependency", in reality it often almost always looks like this instead

[A tower of blocks is shown. The upper half consists of many tiny blocks balanced on top of one another to form smaller towers, labeled:] All modern digital infrastructure [The blocks rest on larger blocks lower down in the image, finally on a single large block. This is balanced on top of a set of blocks on the left, and on the right, a single tiny block placed on its side. This one is labeled:] Code that will actually end the fucking world [There is another tiny but bigger set of blocks on the opposite side, labeled:] Where most people who post this image are

benjojo posted 03 Apr 2025 09:34 +0000

Can the AI scrapers stop smashing find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk , Really quite annoying to not be able to look up stuff without trying to compete with some word blenders

benjojo posted 02 Apr 2025 13:28 +0000

Ah yes, It's the small things in life, like how home is where the windows wobble.

(because I don't have to worry about the power consumption impacts of having lots of GPU involvement when doing anything with a window)

benjojo posted 02 Apr 2025 10:40 +0000

I want off ops.lists.linx 's wild ride

I'm pretty sure this kinda shit should be in the "cia simple sabotage field manual"

A gmail screenshot, showing a large block of emails from DOSArrest with ticketing system style subjects

benjojo posted 01 Apr 2025 21:42 +0000

Missed posting this important geese photo sequence I got a few days back

A photo of a goose in the water, the first one is "normal", the second one looks like it's tilting it's head in confusion like a dog does

benjojo posted 01 Apr 2025 21:15 +0000

I tried taking some photos on the 300mm lens on a flight back home today, and man, I assume the subtle vibrations is the cause, but trying to make this work was nearly impossible when fully zoomed, I got a couple of good shots but nothing really that much

benjojo posted 01 Apr 2025 20:19 +0000

Frankfurt was pretty from the sky this evening!

Photos of frankfurt city from high up, with a sunset so large shadows are being cast on the city by the tall buildings

benjojo posted 01 Apr 2025 20:17 +0000

Apparently even air freight containers now have bluetooth LE beacons in them now, Spotted this on my way home, interesting/cool product series by the looks of things

https://www.onasset.com/Product/sentry600flightsafe

A photo of a air cargo box on the tarmac, the second screenshot is from nRF Connect that shows a detected device called "OnAsset Sentinel 100" Device type "LE Only" and -91 dBm

benjojo posted 01 Apr 2025 09:15 +0000

After (successfully!) converting a single machine ceph to a multi machine ceph, I can confirm this is what any interaction with your ceph cluster and the ceph documentation feels like

A bomb defuseal, with snips, but all of the wires are blue

benjojo posted 31 Mar 2025 14:08 +0000

Aye, I think this x520 be cooked

Mar 31 15:07:58 x kernel: ixgbe 0000:81:00.0: Warning firmware error detected FWSM: 0x00002000

benjojo posted 31 Mar 2025 10:47 +0000

birb

(also I now understand why "sports auto focus" lenses are a premium product, so many photos, only 3 worked)

photos of blackbirds/crows/etc, one flying in the sky, two sitting on a tree branch, one on the ground

benjojo posted 30 Mar 2025 20:10 +0000

🎶Where did it come from, Where does it go? Where did approximately 10 tbit/s of traffic in Brazil go?🎶

A RRD graph showing traffic going to 0, the resuming at 8T, previously at 18T

benjojo posted 30 Mar 2025 11:26 +0000

At some point Gboard figured out that I have a wild card rule on my email and keeps making these funny email address suggestions

The android google keyboard, the text buffer says "because" the suggestions below say " Bevaus Because because ben @benjojo.com"

benjojo posted 29 Mar 2025 11:56 +0000

HONK

benjojo posted 29 Mar 2025 11:31 +0000

Sorry, this is now a muskrat appreciation account

two close up photos of muskrats, (large water rodents), one being photgraphed by someone with a camrea, the other photo is of me taking a photo in 3rd person

benjojo posted 29 Mar 2025 11:19 +0000

Spring! Spring! Spring!

4 photos, one of a bunny, one of a muskrat coming out of the water, one of a female duck, one of white tiny flowers in a tree

benjojo posted 27 Mar 2025 19:00 +0000

Spring!

(Maybe not fake spring this time)

Photos of flowers, and a photo of two birds kissing

benjojo posted 25 Mar 2025 11:17 +0000

(Years ago)

Me: I will use a unique email address for let's encrypt "accounts" so I can see where stuff comes from

(Today)

Day 3, I now have at least 23 " Let's Encrypt Expiration Emails Update ", I do not know when they will stop

benjojo posted 24 Mar 2025 16:50 +0000

I can't be the only one who in debian-like distros, always installs the lib<blah>-dev package, just so I don't have to figure out what mystery extension goes on the end of things

benjojo posted 24 Mar 2025 12:22 +0000

FS dot com becoming the thing they set to destroy, by now charging $440 for a single 100G-LR4 optic.

Given that FlexOptix's 100G-LR4's are 420 EUR, you may as well go for the friendly Germans (rather than FS, if Flex lets you buy from them etc)

Other CN vendors are available, "QSFPTEK" is charging $290 for a 100G-LR4 (plus some reasonably small import tax)

benjojo posted 23 Mar 2025 23:51 +0000

Bend It Like Beckham, or bgp.tools in this case

(link(s) is up, so I guess I have gotten away with this)

A photo taken through a rack cage door, showing LC connectors in a NIC, the end of the optical cable (pink OM4 multimode) is bending against the rack door