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

TIL Clubmate now comes in cans in the size of the smaller bottles!

Idea: set up an online forum, but to comply with the Online Safety Act and verify age, new UK users have to go to a pub & buy you a drink to get access

While walking in a park on Sunday I got caught up in a pretty intense rain storm, after the rain settled (I was hiding under a tree) I spotted someone else who didn't quite have the same luxury as I did

The latest Google pixel phone update added some AI stuff that doesn't work with my nerfed Google account, and seemingly broke the punishingly low EU decibel limits for headphones (genuine yay).

So it's impossible to say if it's bad or not

If you send your AI notetaker to a meeting I invited you to instead of you, you will not be invited again. You obviously only want an email anyways…

Pretty sure I'm getting more "rewards" out of the EC261 (flight cancellation compensation scheme) than any of the airline reward programs

UK Heatwave over, watching the temps crash back down to livable values, maybe I will get something actually done tomorrow

Happy Discord 100 (according to their deb's) for those who "celebrate" every week

Ok yeah, Red squirrels are far more cute than grey squirrels. I mean look at this thing

Drama at the duck pond!

Ah yes, when that friend who you have not spoken to for a while gets in touch

Also visited basically the only sightseeing spot in Frankfurt it seems (The ECB)

Here! Here is where big euro is hiding!!

Walked around Frankfurt while trying the @janamarie style of photography

If can have a cold drink during summer to function better, so can the phone to charge faster

Hotel bathroom has a infinity mirror. Learned two things:

One, that a infinity mirror is very hard to get perfect and any imperfection is immediately very obvious!

Two, it's very hard to take photos of infinity mirrors, at least my phone case sticker is appropriate

Frog!

This photo looks weirdly edited, but it's right from the camera!

This weird result of me taking the photo at 85mm and f/5.6, causing the depth of field is super tight ( I also think it helps break the tiny frog's camouflage a bit )

Considering running something like YOLOv(Something) over all of my photos and I am now just learning that all of the easily downloadable models detect kinda a weird set of things, like look at this https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics/blob/d79a7332db43d341c9fd1b1cec0de4596365ea07/ultralytics/cfg/datasets/coco.yaml#L19

Like, yes cool, I want Person, bike, cat, dog. But I don't really need to detect microwave, broccoli, toaster, etc

Seems like there are no other good models for "normal things" ?

Took a photo of a pigeon at peak yawn and it turns out that looks terrifying

Interesting thing I noticed while walking through this village, some of the power poles are just embedded in the roof of the houses!

Cool I guess in tight environments (like this valley), but I assume a huge pain if you need to rebuild your roof in the future

A busy Cat waiting for their train

Still thinking about that MNT Laptop I saw at #GPN23 ( @mntmn ) with the machining marks still on it. Kind of a nice aesthetic

Computer gore!

Some network device between San Francisco and London is sometimes corrupting packets (in a way that the packet checksum survives), causing my collectd metrics packets to show up with broken hostnames (and often internal metric values...) and also causing fun named files to be made on my metrics server...

I also wonder sometimes if the destination is sometimes corrupted and my metrics packet zoops off somewhere else on the internet

(The right hostname is airmail .benjojo .co.uk)

Some #GPN23 photos!

Good news, the Tuscolo CT logs are now "Qualified" (meaning that some of your certs are/will soon be using our CT log!!)

The bad news is that by including our new logs in the well known list of CT logs, some stuff now instantly crashes (seemingly because the array of non "Sunlight" (aka next gen) logs is empty).

Impacted things seem to include:

1. 80% of the food delivery app market in Brazil
2. Lots of banks in India
3. Lowes????
4. Basically any app that uses appmattus/certificatetransparency

Suboptimal.

More info:

1. https://github.com/appmattus/certificatetransparency/issues/143
2. https://github.com/google/certificate-transparency-go/issues/1712

The email that no small biz owner wants to get 🥲

It's wild to me that some reasonably loud speakers can be just 8 watts, puts a Single Board Computer into perceptive, and also my 2kw kettle