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benjojo posted 22 Jan 2025 00:19 +0000

Hmmm, did NTT As2914 and Arelion AS1299 depeer in EU? Seemingly everything in the EU between them right now goes via the East Coast USA...

(see examples of London-London going via the US, but seemingly this is also happens FRA-FRA)

Unsure if this is a maintenance, since surely the whole of the EU would not go at once?

Maybe just a misconfig or interesting localpref? Surely that would not happen on both ends though...

NTT and Arelion looking glasses showing London to London going via the USA NTT and Arelion looking glasses showing London to London going via the USA

benjojo posted 21 Jan 2025 21:21 +0000

You know, some are saying that AI will one day get free will, but they have been overlooking ceph all this time!

The average ceph installation seems to have way too much free will and has no problem in automatically doing things that either block or generate a lot of IOPS at seemingly the worst possible time

benjojo reposted 20 Jan 2025 22:21 +0000
original: luna@pony.social

closing all my jira tickets as “by design, won’t fix” because the purpose of a system is what it does

benjojo posted 20 Jan 2025 17:05 +0000

The debian java/JRE/JDK situation seems insane.

bookworm (stable) is shipping JRE 17, lots of applications require at least 21, Trixie (next stable) is shipping JRE 21, the the current openJDK JRE version is 23

Most of the time if you search for the errors caused by out of date JRE's you get "just install Oracle JDK" with instructions, but as far as I can squint that comes with some licencing payment obligation. All of this feels like putting your head into a alligators mouth!

(Do not reply "use nix/arch")

benjojo posted 20 Jan 2025 12:52 +0000

Took apart a DWDM XFP optic left over from the 140km TOSLINK stuff, A lovely person sent a load over that they no longer needed and they were part of my back up plan if more optics didn't work

Anyway it seems like they would not have worked anyway because the chip is a
GN2010EA that has CDR (my enemy)

The Receiver/Transmitter Optical Sub Assembly (ROSA/TOSA) may be useful for future fun though, Especially since the TOSA seems to have the DWDM Channel written on it, implying that it's statically tuned for that wavelength...

A XFP optic with a the lid taken off, inside are two laser modules and a chip with GN2010EA written on it, one module has "53" scribbled on it A XFP optic with a the lid taken off, inside are two laser modules and a chip with GN2010EA written on it, one module has "53" scribbled on it

benjojo posted 19 Jan 2025 17:05 +0000

Fascinating. I accidentally collided the chassis door with the motherboard on this machine I am working on, and dmesg complained about a unsolicited IRQ!

[  149.409381] irq 16: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option)

I wonder what actually happened here on the electrical level!

benjojo posted 16 Jan 2025 12:31 +0000

Leave me alone leave me alone leave me alone leave me alone leave me alone leave me alone leave

A Android notification requesting that I reboot my phone for an upgrade the next notification underneath it is a Google Gemini notification saying that my phone just got a lot smarter with AI

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?

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