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benjojo posted 14 Jan 2025 20:48 +0000

This extortion spam email's attempt at evading spam detecting by using homoglyphs is hilarious, mostly the

"broωsing" -> "oωo"

but also the rather... lol language?

Incredible spam 10/10, not even upset it landed in my inbox

you were broωsing embarrassing videos, clicking unsafe links and visiting ẇebsites that no ordinary man ẇould νisit. I secretlẏ embedded malωare into an adult site, and ẏou unknowinglẏ wandered right into it. Just like a blind kitten, ẏou didn’t know the ԁanger that ẇas just near you.

benjojo posted 14 Jan 2025 17:39 +0000

The PDU, it screams, and honestly... Me too buddy

Two PDUs each with a seven segment display, one displays 04, the other displays AA

benjojo posted 10 Jan 2025 21:59 +0000

Is it too much to ask for a 2024 version of the HP Gen 8 Microserver? It honestly feels like HPE accidentally made a machine so good it cannibalised so much of their other markets that they vowed to never make a microserver that nice ever again

benjojo posted 10 Jan 2025 16:42 +0000

Another great NetLdn meetup last night! Including a talk about mitigating "acts of god" as a WISP (hint, wind makes your radios fly away, and water makes everything sad)

The next NetLdn is on Feb 13th and already has a full line up! If you are around say come say hi!

A pub setting, the projector has on it "The WISP Diary's" " Episode 2 - Mitigating acts of god" " Oli Stockman "

benjojo reposted 09 Jan 2025 15:49 +0000
original: igloo@tupek.org

@benjojo

We do not know why we are here. We do not know who built the underground. We do not know why everyone on the underground is as they are.

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benjojo posted 09 Jan 2025 15:18 +0000

Did another hidden London tour! This time Baker Street.

Love the post apocalyptic vibes the behind the scenes bits of TFL always have

Various photos of empty, people less, industrial settings "backrooms" type shots, with lots of cables and dim lighting, looks like a world people left behind Various photos of empty, people less, industrial settings "backrooms" type shots, with lots of cables and dim lighting, looks like a world people left behind Various photos of empty, people less, industrial settings "backrooms" type shots, with lots of cables and dim lighting, looks like a world people left behind Various photos of empty, people less, industrial settings "backrooms" type shots, with lots of cables and dim lighting, looks like a world people left behind

benjojo posted 07 Jan 2025 17:35 +0000

I don't miss many x/witter accounts, but I really do miss the daily posting of @defencecharts

How could you not love these incredibly easy to understand works of art

I'm very sorry but it just is not possible to alt text these slides because I have no idea what they mean I'm very sorry but it just is not possible to alt text these slides because I have no idea what they mean I'm very sorry but it just is not possible to alt text these slides because I have no idea what they mean I'm very sorry but it just is not possible to alt text these slides because I have no idea what they mean

benjojo posted 07 Jan 2025 17:10 +0000

Huh, first ever case of seeing a "verified" RCS message like this... from HMRC?!

What "verified by BT" actually means in this context is a bit of a mystery, but the whole thing seems a tad jank, this is the first non-spam RCS message I've gotten so far

A Google messages RCS message screenshot showing "HMRC Thanks for filing your tax return (etc)", but the contact logo is the HMRC logo, it has a verified tick on it, and the window in front says "Verified by BT, BT has verified the identity of this biz", the other screenshot shows a very detailed HMRC vcard info A Google messages RCS message screenshot showing "HMRC Thanks for filing your tax return (etc)", but the contact logo is the HMRC logo, it has a verified tick on it, and the window in front says "Verified by BT, BT has verified the identity of this biz", the other screenshot shows a very detailed HMRC vcard info

benjojo posted 06 Jan 2025 21:48 +0000

Visited a nuclear power plant today (Sizewell B)! Sadly no photos allowed, but a remarkably great tour given the average tour group was clearly schools or various non-ish technical groups, ours were all infra/power nerds and I was amazed how well they could answer all of the meaty questions!

Me wearing a EDF Vi-Hiz coat, and the other photo is a Sizewell welcome sign Me wearing a EDF Vi-Hiz coat, and the other photo is a Sizewell welcome sign

benjojo posted 04 Jan 2025 18:07 +0000

This may not look like it but this is what peak oven element looks like

A circular oven element, except one corner is not circular and has a small hole in it A circular oven element, except one corner is not circular and has a small hole in it

benjojo posted 03 Jan 2025 15:47 +0000

Happy new years to the 2026 CT logs that are now slowly populating with 2025 1 year duration X.509 certs!

Even bigger ups to the certs that issued bang on UTC new years!

A prometheus screenshot showing a spike of rates kicking in at Jan 1st and Jan 2nd

benjojo posted 02 Jan 2025 17:53 +0000

I love this prompt from the angle that it's such a low cost airline thing to do.

Surely it is not worth prompting for 3p riiiight??

Sorry, your flight prices have changed We're really sorry, but due to changes in inventory while you were booking, one or more of your flight prices have changed. Your basket total is now £188.64, an increase of £0.03. Changes are shown below. Adult fare changes Original flight price total £101.64 • New flight price total £101.67 Accept change and continue Select different flights >

benjojo posted 02 Jan 2025 17:34 +0000

Need a dedicated button on google flights for "actually London airports" that sets this

The google flights "from" location is set to LHR LGW and LCY

benjojo posted 02 Jan 2025 11:28 +0000

Does anybody know of any academic literature around the medium-term (10 hours a day for 5 days) exposure to smoke machines?

The best thing I can find is literature around accumulated exposure around vapes, and this isn't really a fair comparison as people typically don't vape via their noses

I'm mostly asking because it turns out that I get a very slow running nosebleed around these things, it's not really an issue but I know other friends where who get much bigger problems

(For what it's worth, I realise it's not just a #38c3 smoke machine thing, I've never managed to figure out what causes these very slow nose bleeds until just the last few days, but the last 10 years of these now make sense with this context)

benjojo posted 01 Jan 2025 21:51 +0000

pfft, welp, I was not expecting my laptop stickers to be that visible on the video! I guess the audience angle vs the c3VOC angle is quite different lol

A screenshot from my CCC talk, showing my laptop, a thinkpad, visible is a large CYBER tape going over the laptop, a shark biting a cable, a CIDR sticker in the style of the CYBER tape, CYBER but in blue, a age encryption sticker, a warning "infomation hazard" sticker, the thinkpad logo has been replaced with twinkpad, a US "SECRET" sticker, a network rave sticker in the logo of UK network rail, a recurse.com sticker, and a "NOT A FURRY" sticker

benjojo posted 01 Jan 2025 15:38 +0000

hot damn the linux-firmware package is 498 MB, the chips thinking way too much these days

benjojo posted 01 Jan 2025 15:02 +0000

Missing the vibe with the lasers in Hall H #38c3

benjojo posted 01 Jan 2025 13:31 +0000

I get the impression that the LTE/NR roaming story is worse (and getting wrose) than it's former 2G/UMTS counterparts. This SMS from my carrier when I got back to the UK does not help this impression

A text message that says "Whilst away, did you have any problems with your roaming experience? Please answer Yes or No"

benjojo posted 27 Dec 2024 10:01 +0000

another day, another time I have been caught by the auto-CW behavior of honk where any two letters and a : will turn into a content warning title

benjojo posted 27 Dec 2024 09:23 +0000

Me: hello German ATM, I would like 100 EUR?

Me: hello German ATM, I would like 100 EUR?

ATM: Would you like that in a variety of notes?

Me: Yes!

Proceeds to supply 1x100eur note

Well, my apologies to the bar as I try and pay for a 2 EUR drink with 100 euro note

benjojo posted 25 Dec 2024 10:47 +0000

Merry Xmas, and hello from the kitten that is a guest this year!

See some of you at #38c3 soon!

Various photos of a tabby kitten Various photos of a tabby kitten Various photos of a tabby kitten

benjojo posted 19 Dec 2024 12:03 +0000

"if you have been on a video call in the past year or so, you have probably been on a call that a AI assistant has joined"

(cite, a CF demo/ad)

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At this moment, I realised I am clearly in a entirely different orbit of existence to most of the tech companies

benjojo posted 19 Dec 2024 11:56 +0000

You certainly wont regret having a emergency ipset of 3.5M entries:

[8690887.043966] SLUB: Unable to allocate memory on node -1 (gfp=0x8020)
[8690887.043969]   cache: kmalloc-64, object size: 64, buffer size: 64, default order: 0, min order: 0
[8690887.043974]   node 0: slabs: 32738, objs: 2095232, free: 0
[8691714.855952] ipset: page allocation failure: order:0, mode:0x200020
[8691714.855965] CPU: 0 PID: 11215 Comm: ipset Not tainted 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1
[8691714.855967] Hardware name: Bochs Bochs, BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011

I'm sure that every packet that needs to this ipset is like when something drives into a concrete wall

benjojo posted 19 Dec 2024 11:44 +0000

aww yeah, it's that week again

A VLC Player window, but the VLC logo has a xmas hat on it

benjojo posted 18 Dec 2024 20:44 +0000

adding /* Ansible managed */ to the top of my my config files I don't want anyone to touch as a psyop.

It's not like I use Ansible, but that same thing did just trick me on another system into searching for a Ansible that didnt exist, so well done past operator

benjojo posted 18 Dec 2024 09:46 +0000

Is anyone keeping a high score board for sizes of GDPR polycules of various sites?

Information About Your Privacy  We and our 869 partners store and access personal data, like browsing data or unique identifiers, on your device

benjojo reposted 16 Dec 2024 12:02 +0000
original: dee@social.treehouse.systems

this morning I've made the choice to close 300 forum sites that have about 275k monthly active users, nearly all from the UK.

I've run forums for over 28 years, and did so to build families for those without families, to try and create a cure for social isolation and loneliness, to combat suicide, to create joy and love out of nothing but connections between people.

and it worked. it still works.

but on the 16th March 2025 I will delete the virtual servers running it all... that date is important, it's the last day before the UK Online Safety Act goes into enforcement.

I run these communities philanthropically, giving my time and money to do so, I ask nothing back, I just help build a nicer World.

but the scope of the Act is too broad, and my forums come under it... it does not matter that it's run by an individual and not a company, that it loses money every month... merely by being linked to the UK and allowing users to speak to users... it's within scope.

the penalties of non-compliance would be so devastatingly ruinous to me, that I don't see I have a choice... I must now perform a social harm to protect myself.

this is devastating.

https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/401475/

I cannot even express what these forums have achieved... the marriages, births, support for those with cancer, the love, the communities they have created.

benjojo posted 14 Dec 2024 13:47 +0000

Happy Xmas lights testing the RCD/GFCI season

benjojo posted 12 Dec 2024 15:32 +0000

I was annoyed that the bank my biz uses is increasing prices by 80%, and then I looked at NatWest and see that they charge at least £0.35 to do anything (receiving money, cash, paying something on card, really, the whole lot!) and now I am somewhat less upset

benjojo reposted 12 Dec 2024 11:15 +0000
original: equinox@chaos.social

Y'all know what... this #X11 -> #Wayland switch is a great parallel on why we haven't ditched and rewritten #FRRouting yet:

Yes, it's >25 year old code, some of it truly toxic and radioactive, and some really poor design too.

But writing a new one is yrs of pain to get it to 90% (that also need to be funded = 404 here), and then a decade to fix half the edge case hellbugs.

It's written in the blood of previous users&bugs. (h/t @benjojo for that idiom, I had no wording for that concept before)

benjojo posted 11 Dec 2024 16:51 +0000

One for the Brits at the moment

A long haired cat at night looking into the distance, the overlay text is " Damn how much daylight they tryna save?? It's dark as hell "

benjojo posted 10 Dec 2024 13:00 +0000

Double ~~barrelled~~ RJ45 QSFP+ module anyone? This monstrosity gets you 2x10G BASE-T in a single QSFP+ port (you are still throwing away 50% of port capacity here though)

It bends around tight spots by the looks of it as well!

HPE Synergy Dual 10GBASE-T QSFP+ 30m RJ45 Transceiver 838327-B21

https://www.ebay.com/itm/196729269081

Photos of a QSFP+ pluggable module, except it has a large "head" and 2 RJ45's ports Photos of a QSFP+ pluggable module, except it has a large "head" and 2 RJ45's ports Photos of a QSFP+ pluggable module, except it has a large "head" and 2 RJ45's ports