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

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)

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

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

Pallet! at the Flat

It is really staggering how much UI/UX development has happened in the last 10~ years, remembering that in 2012 this is what a tweet (on iOS) looked like while a modern day interface is basically uncomparable in a hard to describe way!

Amazing browser benchmark page, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐:

https://rotating.parts/

Coo?

Why do I feel like this image is going to be one of those "summary of this period" types

There is something about German that just makes me smile (as a total non speaker), like the existance of "Großbritannien"

It feels quite uncomfortable that cloudflare is somewhat openly admitting to analysing login credentials that are going through the reverse proxy, and providing aggregated stats on it (without explicit consent of the user it appears?)

Based on Cloudflare's observed traffic between September - November 2024, 41% of successful logins across websites protected by Cloudflare involve compromised passwords.

Don't get me wrong the results are actually pretty interesting, but I just cannot think of a ethical way of doing this, and it feels kind of jarring that they just "did that"

https://blog.cloudflare.com/password-reuse-rampant-half-user-logins-compromised/

Hey can I get a uuuuuhhhhhhhhhh, /18 with a extra /21 on top to go please?

*old man voice* back in my webdev days, every website was just bootstrap2.css, now everything looks like this

Well, to be honest the AI didn't do a very good job at removing the barriers

Sometimes I come across a linked in profile like this and then I know I'm probably going to get along with them just fine

Juniper router/switches now have anti-virus. What a time to be alive.

root@Amnesiac> request system malware-scan quick-scan 
Found potential malware: No  

This seems to be part of JSA95385, that links to JSA93446

The JSA93446 is weirdly going out of it's way to say the victim was not Amazon:

At least one instance of malicious exploitation (not at Amazon) has been reported to the Juniper SIRT. Customers are encouraged to upgrade to a fixed release as soon as it's available and in the meantime take steps to mitigate this vulnerability.

But I enjoy(?) that the detailed report has the "pet names" that the Juniper teams names for each implant discovered in the wild.

The tl;dr of the wider thing is that one implant is JunOS specific, the rest are generic "open source malware" payloads that happen to run on FreeBSD/Linux

It really does seem like the purpose of RCS Messaging is to bring the same experience that the Americans do with spam on mobile phones to the rest of the world.

Until RCS ready kicked off I'd rarely gotten any spam, now every single piece of spam/scam/phishing SMS I get is over RCS using either groups or the E2E features

lol I had a meeting with someone and the meeting AI bot emailed me (among other things) a set of "Metrics" for the meeting.

This is just... kinda laughable?

Like who needs this, What does 93 Engagement even mean? How disconnected am I from the world of real biz where you want to score your employees on vibes based numbers of a speech to text transcription being fed into a word blender, and popping out some numbers.

Yeah next time I see one of these in a zoom/meet (I let it slide this time because I was curious) I'm just gonna.. not. Life is too short for whatever this signals about a person/company

Ah yes, a "off by one" (keypress on your prepend) error.

The upcoming death of Skype is super inconvenient, I am (or soon to be "was") a regular user of "Skype Out" because it was the most simple way of doing international POTS calls, using my own number (aka, caller id "spoofed"), with WebRTC (so I don't have to mess around with god-awful software, or even worse a real phone)

I don't know of a service (outside of google voice, that I cannot use, because I am in the UK) that can do what Skype Out does/did.

A genuine loss/pain in the ass

How fascinating! It appears that at every day at 8AM UTC (So 9AM the most of the EU) there is a huge drop in grid frequency, I can only assume because of large number of synchronized devices that switch on at that time!

( data via https://f50hz.de/ )

I think we should go back to having one company make some shit up, and everyone else reverse engineer that, and then everyone grows their own thing that is like the original thing.

Think about the existence of the "S3 Compatible API", Now that is where the true innovation is, and it was not even a standard, just genetic evolution of various people tearing their hair out until something viable was created

This would still be more productive than the IETF mailing lists where people spend 60+ emails arguing if a cipher should be described as "SHOULD" or "MAY"

Thanks BBC news

"TalkTalk Communications Limited " (RIPE) transferred 92.8.0.0/15 to "Cloudflare, Inc." (ARIN)
(Estimated Market Value: $4.19 M)

CW: bleak

Perhaps now is the time to start chasing diagnosis for things (otherwise have no benefits of being diagnosed) that are unattractive as far as conscription is concerned

Urgh.

Fine.

Firefox on the desktop it is.

I know it's probably for podcasts, but it seems particularly weird for ICANN to have a soundcloud.

I'd like to imagine it's full of DNS based rap/mixtapes

There is the aliexpress item description vibe where you have crazy 3D graphics of the product being used in questionable ways or whatever

and then there is the ebay item description vibe of

"🎉🎉🎉 SUPERB DISCOUNT! SUPER SILLY SALE! 🎉🎉🎉" and then a mini rant about drop shippers

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The post APNIC/APRICOT inbox backlog is real

While filling out the Malaysian digital landing card stuff, I noticed the infosec equivalent of the snake from adam and eve offering me to possible explore cyber-crimes to a country I am about to visit.

(I didn't check)

Processed some photos from my trip to APNIC/APRICOT in MY/Kuala Lumpur!

Having a normal one, at the normal hour

I hope this email finds you guilty on three charges of gross indecency.

On the internet these days, I guess some do know you are a dog

I wonder what the history of the Cisco CLI's default of "Any unknown command is now a (slow) DNS lookup because maybe you want to telnet ?" is.

It seems to be on almost every single IOS image I've ever touched, so it's got to have been implemented very early

The amount of devices that must have no ip domain-lookup at the top of the config must be staggering. Why does it remain this way.

It's 100% one of the more mundane uses for a time machine

Today in "Carefully worded commit messages":

Ooh a cat drawn out by making IP addresses ping!

https://bgp.tools/prefix/185.87.56.0/22

Throw your computer into your nearest lake

#feditips

Another day, Another ECDSA nonce slip up that reveals the private key

Via @matthewdgreen.bsky.social, seems to impact meta mask (aka the NFT market place thing)

New bgp.tools tag name dropped

Super scummy for microsoft to auto upgrade (at the added cost of an extra £30 a year) people to a AI plan, and not offer a "actually I don't use any of that stuff" can I not pay that £30 a year?

And then only when you are at the cancel page, it's like "🥺 oh sorry do you want the old deal back? 🥺"

For anyone else, you don't even have to get that far into the cancel page for this. So it's easy to save £30 a year with this.

I hate what the AI people have done to one of the better emojis ✨

They did my boy dirty

"John Carroll university" transferred 143.105.0.0/16 to "SpaceX Services, Inc."
(Estimated Market Value: $2.10 M)

Rapture on the Elizabeth Line

Wow, I can't tell if I am too deepfried from honk, or if I've been spoilt by honk, the rest of the AP/Fedi eco system is a lot more jank/less functionality than I expected

After sitting on the decision for quite a while, bgp.tools will be switching away from posting updates on X.

Customers and users can now follow this account, the bluesky account https://bsky.app/profile/bgp.tools

I'm the not going to be publicising this on X itself, because it's just going to attract unhelpful attention that I don't think it's going to be very useful to anybody.

urgh, my anti-flood stuff ate all of the webfinger requests for my new @bgptools / @bgptools@bgp.tools , and now it seems most mastodon instances dont believe it exists

lol

Ah yes, the mythical 24GB DDR4 DIMM