The devastating moment when you go back to your bedroom to get something and your bed sheets still retain a bit of the warmth from the morning

Need to get around to writing a photo library for my (assume oddly specific ) needs like:

• SQL like query over EXIF data
• Per photo statute of limitations tracker
• Something that doesn't consume all of your local storage
• Doesn't require a jenga tower of dependencies like immitch

I love how if you look at the total unique prefixes in the BGP DFZ over 3 months you see these small spikes (less than 30 min) of like 4000~ prefixes, implying that someone accidentally exported their more specifics and obliterated a subset of their transits/peering sessions, causing the roll back.

But the table grows regardless

Swampy ambience

The kind of photo where you inadvertently take a selfie via another creatures eye

love birbs

deer having a epiphany/deep thought

Ah yes, the [checks AMD reference manual] "P2D Swiss Cheese Descriptor" CPU MSR, of course

You think web page size bloat is bad on some things? oh boy.

Good afternoon to everyone, except bumn.go.id (an Indonesian government website) for having a (at least) 3GB web page because of embedded MP4's with uncompressed audio and video seeming straight from the camera...

This must cost so much for them, like a single page load could cost at least $0.15 in cloud egress fees alone

Well the Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor episode of "24 hours in police custody" will be interesting

This is a sad way for something like Packet.net to end, First sold to Equinix metal and then shutdown, then it's customer list (silently?) sold to some other company as a marketing channel.

I don’t SPRINT. I do not SCRUM. I do not TIMEBOX. I do not give my tasks STORY POINTS. I choose my work based on WHAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN. And if your task gets in the way of my investigations? It DOES NOT HAPPEN.

@benjojo image + caption combo (shame the Bernese Mountain Dogs "appreciating gardens" was removed)

@benjojo While trying to find my favourite odd one I found the cow one. Haven't found to which page it originally belongs to.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Unusual_articles

@benjojo partial to the classic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static_electricity#/media/File:Cat_demonstrating_static_cling_with_styrofoam_peanuts.jpg

What is your favourite Wikipedia image, I'll start with the

" Chaos magic ritual involving videoconferencing .JPG "

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chaos_magic_ritual_involving_videoconferencing.JPG

Do you find yourself in the position where you just bought a piece of server kit (new or used) and you do not know what the IPMI password is, and you don't have a OS/screen to reset it, or it's set to some static IP that you don't know?

Please enjoy this small (70MB) image you can put on a USB stick and blindly boot the machine into, assuming the USB boots, it will set the IPMI to a known value, and set the network back to "normal" values (no VLAN and DHCP)

Enjoy! (and report back if you find it worked on things not already confirmed in the readme)

https://github.com/benjojo/headless-ipmi-reset

Successfully lived long enough to finally see (meaningful) IRCv3 support land on libera chat

fwiw, it seems like the greynoise assertion that the T1s are dropping the telnet port is bollocks

I present: The HSM alignment chart

I wonder what the most power (db/watts/etc) the tiktok outtro bass thump has been played at

I do appreciate the future proofing of gnu coreutils's "free" command having a --pebi (show output (of RAM) in pebibytes), at the current rate I think that might be a little preemptive

# free --pebi
               total        used        free 
Mem:               0           0           0 
Swap:              0           0           0

Suppose you could probably(?) configure a PiB of Swap though...

I swear some systems setup advice on the internet is literally written by intelligence agencies as a psyop

One of these methods for generating a LUKS (full disk encryption) password is not like the other....

"is it comic con at the moment?" I asked the lady in the local tesco who is dressed up as a mouse (complete with a inflatable tail)

Unsurprisingly the answer is: yes

It also explains why every single lunch option has been raided

I would love to understand what is going on inside IDNIC, The IRR (outside of the APNIC hosted endpoints) hasn't worked for nearly a entire year:

$ curl ftp://irr-mirror.idnic.net/
-rw-r--r--    1 0        0               4 Jan 30  2025 IDNIC.CURRENTSERIAL
-rw-r--r--    1 0        0          757397 Jan 30  2025 idnic.db.gz

$ curl ftp://irr.idnic.net/
-rw-r--r--    1 0        0               4 Jan 30  2025 IDNIC.CURRENTSERIAL
-rw-r--r--    1 0        0          757397 Jan 30  2025 idnic.db.gz

and their RPKI repo has AAAA records, but the v6 addresses don't work. this may seem harmless because things will eventually fall back to the A/IPv4 record, but that doesn't actually happen in NAT64 environments...

I tried emailing them about this and have never got a response (even trying to go via APNIC to see if they had any better contacts). For a NIC for a country with a population that is reasonably comparable to the United States this is an impressive level of abandonment to infrastructure.

Sisyphus's London electric kettle

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It is kind of funny that the first allocated port outside of the "Well-known" (aka below port 1024) range is just a random "network blackjack" entry at port 1025

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Only realised until I wanted to rack something in U34 that I had accidentally last year racked a 4U 120kg+ mega chonker on the piss... So everything in that box is slightly on a slope, but even worse is blocking out a entire unit under it...

There is no way that I am moving that 4U chassis until the day it dies, or I move colo's. It was reasonably traumatic bringing it in...

Urgh

... why does call recording on android involve the google terms of service... where are these call recordings going...?

I sometimes wonder how much inadvertent eBay counter-bidding I am doing against people who I am friends with or know

There should be some kind of browser extension where you can see what your friends of bidding on to avoid accidentally stepping on each other's toes (I don't think this counts as price fixing... probably?)

TIL Aluminum Pallets exist for "heavy duty workloads"

Pros: Seemingly most of the "Website Redesign" email spam has dried up

Cons: Such people are now calling me every day instead with the same question

A interesting development of the grift

So like ... Apple juice..?

The gang

I know why the DNS recursors do it, but it's extremely funny to see

16470+ [1au] A? PrOfIlE.AcCOUNtS.fIrEFoX.COM. (57)

in tcpdump's when debugging stuff, the queries are shoved through a spongebob transform function

The 'paw warning' / ' bear at work ' sign here is certainly something

@Rairii No but according to https://hackspace.flipper.net/ they can provide you a (photoshopped in) giant radio dish on the roof

I also love to become a member to something that densest seem to really exist yet or have a serious explanation into how it works

Apparently the flipper zero people are building a [maker/hack/whatever]space in North Greenwich?

Some various photos around North Greenwich

(thread)

You know what?

[Drags you to the]:

Puffed up robin in winter (also a tricky shot because of the damn early sunsets)

Importer company did a good job at localising this for the British market

Located maybe the most hostile environments I've seen with my own eyes for a multimode patch panel, covered in decades of subway grime. Bonus points for the ADSL modem from a ISP very long gone

Got up (devastatingly) early, took a train to the north, did a tour of a nuclear power plant, observed some off shore oil rigs being deconstructed, fish and chips, train home

A good day

This week (and let's face it probably next week too)

I have a bit of a soft spot for glass buildings sections where you can see all the way through them

Birds at the Barbarian on a sunny winters day