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

Finally rigging up speakers to the desk has been a huge win all around, apart from I assume the NAS's who I assume are not enjoying loud bassline music

TIL collectd (or RRD maybe) tops out at 1000 days of uptime

Also I should probably do something about this 1000 day+ uptime server

(to be clear, this machine is not involved in my biz, this is just a personal system that doesnt run anything that listens on the network)

vinyl cutters: they cut and also produce all of the Sci-fi sounds FX samples you would ever need

The access point for Pub WiFi does LLDP, and seemingly also is requesting I send power... I guess maybe if I point a magnetron at this AP it wont like it, but that would I guess be power over 802.11 WiFi

You cannot unsubscribe from emails to the registered email address as this is a legal requirement under the Companies Act 2006

Pssh, your government grade emails vs. my mental person grade filtering system

-funsafe-math-optimizations
︀︀
︀︀fun AND safe math optimizations? sign me up!

I would like to congratulate google for creating the most perfect phishing email (clicking the button asks for auth on the most powerful account in the org) while also not using any of the counter measures (BMI etc etc) that they tell other people to use to defend against phishing emails

Now this is a cool new trick that is definitely borderline on the halon razor (is it a fuck up? or is it someone doing something malicious?)

This LLM crawler is supplying two different user-agent headers presumably with the idea to confuse systems that restrict or log user-agent values

On the way to lunch the last couple of days I've noticed a tern has found a new fishing spot on my route.

Came back with a real camera just now to take a break from staring at some kernel code, Pretty happy with the results!

New Blog!

There is lots of RFC1918 space out there, yet most people use the same 10 /24 subnets

I ended up having my OOB LAN collide with someones home network a few weeks ago, and decided to find a new subnet to use that won't collide backed up with actual usage data!

Picking uncontested private IP subnets with usage data

https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/picking-unused-rfc1918-ip-space

. This route crosses through the Netherlands

Some misc Antwerp pics, I love the idea that being immortalized as a statue means that you're also the resting stop of many pigeons

Antwerp has a nice park (even though a local said this was the bad park ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)

Got some nice crow pics regardless

🧠 . Information Hazard
⚡ . Energy Hazard

Love these escape guy icons at Antwerp train station, very Portal-esque

General PSA: don’t apply for a job at Canonical. Do NOT apply for a job at Canonical. Treat the blatantly artificially enormous number of job openings they post as the mirages of trickster fae. They are unhinged. Mark Shuttleworth is unhinged. They will drag you through the mud, disrespect you and your time, and definitely not give you a job. This article I saw today is like the thirteenth of its kind that I personally have seen https://dustri.org/b/my-experience-with-canonicals-interview-process.html

I'm just not in a good place right now :(

Coffee gets converted into a dessert to become tiramisu, only then for Starbucks to covert tiramisu back into "coffee"

🐝

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Backplane wasn't paying attention when I swapped a drive and then Linux looked away for a moment to find a completely different guy sitting on it's couch

[54493010.716000] md/raid1:md0: Disk failure on sdd5, disabling device.
                  md/raid1:md0: Operation continuing on 1 devices.
[54493141.381860] ata5: SATA link up 6.0 Gbps (SStatus 133 SControl 300)
[54493141.382084] ata5.00: model number mismatch 'Samsung SSD 860 EVO 1TB' != 'SAMSUNG MZ7LH1T9HMLT-00003'
[54493141.382087] ata5.00: revalidation failed (errno=-19)

From the people who brought you DCIM/100_FUJI:

DCIM/101_FUJI Presents: The next 1000 photos

Thanks Google AI Overview - UK Rail penalty fare speed-run

The constant wide eyed look of a heron is always bemusing, though they are likely just eyeing up food in the water

Reminder that being #1 or #2 on hacker news is about 1.5 page loads per second. If your side explodes when it hits HN, something has gone horribly wrong on your end

BGP handling bug causes widespread internet routing instability

On May 20th 2025 a BGP message was propagated that triggered some surprising (to many) behaviors with two major BGP implementations that are often used for carrying internet traffic.

In a new blog post, I will dissect what that message was, and my thoughts on how it happened:

https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/bgp-attr-40-junos-arista-session-reset-incident

WTF happened here I wonder?

Why did a considerable amount of people see a random /17 from Yahoo in their google results for a few days