Daylight Savings Time shift

Pros:

• My server log timestamps are now in my local time

Cons:

• Dark
• Brighter earlier in the morning (sucks if you generally wake up without alarms etc)

I wonder if society will ever move to permanently sit in "Summer time"

Had an idea while cooking this evening that I could save time by trying to chop onions into small pieces by using a cheese grater instead.

After attempting to do this, I have been reminded that not all of my ideas are good ones.

Not only does this not work, but it also basically sets off a chemical warfare to your eyes in your kitchen, and the onions come out as sludge.

2/10 - would not recommend

Teaching the new trains how to train

Train training

ASN.1 was successful enough that the International Telecommunications Unions felt no need to create ASN.2. Everyone capitulatd in terror of what the ITU might do next. --SNMP Mastery

Pulls drive

What's that labe- oh. Ah.

Starlink soon to be cashing in on the lucrative ICBM market

You know, looking at the current rate that a single flagship GPU can do password hashing at, yeah, there are a whole classes of password hashing algros in the "megahash" range, and if you are using them (and the hash leaks) you are probably a bit fucked.

Unfortunately the megahash range is quite a lot of the ones that you shouldnt be using, but you know people are totally using anyway:

• MD5
• SHA.+
• unix DES crypt()

but that is fine because you use a password manager right... riiiiight?

None of this is particular new news, I was just surprised to know a single card can do 6000 megahash/s of DES crypt() these days.

I wonder how many kW's worth of Cisco 6500 are still left, recently read a about a carrier just this year clearing out a 3 digit number of kW's worth of them, so surely there is still a good few MW still of these devices likely lost in the inventory after 10's of years of operation but still running doing nothing or almost nothing.

It's a shame that taking photos in the airport security area is extremely frowned upon, some of the stuff that people are taking through are absolutely spectacular.

I recently learned that supreme make traffic cones, mostly because somebody was stuck in the queue keep getting their traffic cone swabbed for explosives

" Oh yeah the HiFi audio people are funny, spending 1000's of euros on audio gear that isn't better than the cheaper stuff, it's sad that they fall for that "

- Person with 300 euro coffee grinder (2025)

Happy us-east-1 day for those who celebrate

Spent a hour or so cleaning up broken links on my talks archive ( https://benjojo.co.uk/talks/ ), also re-found some old 2018 talks that were not there, it's sad how quickly event's own PDF archives of talks disappear, NLNOG seems to have gotten rid of their 2018 ones at the very least prompting me to re-host all of my own talks on my domain. What if I wanted to know what people were presenting in 2018 at NLNOG (without youtube!)

[Drum and Bass] vs [NAS Hard Disk Access Jitter]

Google Recapcha v2 interface but instead of selecting traffic lights it's "book a train ticket using the DB kiosk interface"

I'm sure the robots will do just as bad as the humans

Waiting for the bubble to pop purely for unixsurplus.com to get interesting hardware again, much like others are waiting to buy another cheap areon chair

Hmm, the RDAP-ification of the domain world is kinda crap, the default "whois" command that ships on ubuntu (and friends) doesnt do RDAP, and it seems that some ccTLD's have shut down their whois "port 43" servers without actually doing RDAP, one example being .co (Columbia)

[15:17:34] ben@ossa:~$ whois example.co
getaddrinfo(whois.nic.co): Name or service not known

I guess this basically gives you casual domain privacy for all .co domains???

Autumn!

If you drink the tacticool/camo monster energy do you become invisible for a small period of time

Me setting up corp XMPP server a few months ago, noticing this in the config file

  ##   ## Mnesia is limited to 2GB, better to use an SQL backend
  ##   ## For small servers SQLite is a good fit and is very easy
  ##   ## to configure. Uncomment this when you have SQL configured:

You will never guess what Ben decided to defer until now

No Mr.Bond

I expect you to charge

Happy 1M IPv4 Routes! May your SUP720 be with you.

Really google? 0! 0 in just a week ! Gosh!

Enjoy this exploded 100G QSFP28 CWDM4 optic, if you look carefully you can even see the absolutely tiny de/mux inside the dark glass area

Also, sinister ass looking swan

Went on a walk and found 🤏🍄 tiny mushrooms!

Seems like the "Freenom world" DNS (recursor) server has at long last dropped off

[15:44:41] ben@ossa:~$ dig benjojo.co.uk @80.80.80.80
;; communications error to 80.80.80.80#53: timed out
;; communications error to 80.80.80.80#53: timed out

The BGP prefix 80.80.80.0/24 is gone from the table, but a less specific 80.80.80.0/23 is still there, and is "capturing" the old requests.

Seems like the new 80.80.80.0/23 ends up in Hong Kong somewhere. I wonder how many queries are still going in that direction (to a dead endpoint)

The alt server IP 80.80.81.81 seems to ping but not reply to DNS queries

Freenom world I guess is dead for good based on the destruction of freenom via Meta/etc after the freenom domains were phishing magnets and the common victims of such phishing domains took legal action against freenom.

Predictably the website is still frozen in time: https://www.freenom.com/en/index.html?lang=en

Really enjoying the newer Pendulum stuff, really channeling the ol' Rob Swire quote of "It's meant to sound like the fucking apocalypse" (at least more than 'The Reworks' and 'Immersion')

The problem appears to be a faulty "only to customer" (OTC) attribute announced by AS154260 and more often than not carried by AS150000.

A typical OTC attribute is only 4, this update/router is sending one that is 1024 bytes

Seems like a bad BGP update has hit a lot of route servers, a lot of internet instability is to be expected right now

Impact started at 19:42 UTC, and is ongoing

Qualcomm owns Arduino, Hackaday is owned by Siemens

My teenage electronics hobby landscape is now owned by the companies that would never supply datasheets to me back then

Apologies to those IPv6 fedi instances trying to pull stuff from mine and failing, I got owned by my providers uRPF once again

Deutsche Programmiersocken

More crow posting on main

Nutrias want what I have to offer (the mini cucumber in my hand)

She's never had to get a code from her authenticator app

In case someone has not done it yet

CW: NSFW text (via Google Webmaster Tools)

Google Webmaster Tools is very insightful, for example: I feel sorry for the person who was searching "just tits xxx" (with a 100 CTR) and ended up on a blog post about internet exchange fabrics letting bad packets into their broadcast domains.

I wish to one day write a README so direct and honest as Loop-Amnesia's

http://moongate.ydns.eu/amnesia.html

It's so nice that my old tweets did not die in vain, and continue to live again in my fedi account via some slightly cursed import feature of honk.

It also means I get to occasionally boost/retoot/bonk some 2018 tweet that applicable to [the situation/me] right now

In this simple, understandable, 26351 step guide I will show you how to add a IPv6 address to your Oracle Cloud Instance :tm: on your Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Compartment Account

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I don't really think that there is a wrong way of using any kind of social media, however there is absolutely a wrong way to use LinkedIn.

Please, for the love of god people, add a real photo of you (ideally recent) as your avatar (that's legible) so there's I can match up a name with who I actually met at a conference/event

I keep coming across these mostly forgotten machines in my personal infra, just now I finally solved the question of "where are all of those IRC bots I have actually running"

Downside, it's one of _those_ machines with a 3.5~ year uptime

Tasks: 79, 64 thr; 1 running
Load average: 0.00 0.06 0.02 
Uptime: 1263 days(!), 10:55:45

Pouring one out for this one, as it's about to reach end of life in the interests of having less machines running to look after

Slowly dialing in the art of making dangerous internal utilities have ominous log messages that are designed to make future Ben scared of using them

A photo I took all the way back in March that I thought was a dud (It was a bit dark and the "stock" jpeg output of the camera body didn't really inspire), but it cleaned up super well! Love this

Super happy with this photo I got when coming out of London City Airport a few days back!

Only minimally edited via the raw reprocessing on the camera body, plus then some light watermark (sorry) in case some knob wants to print it on something without credit etc

I guess Lithuania isn't really beating around the bush!

Interesting to so easily see the quite aggressive radar/jamming near key Russian sites on European Space Agency's Synthetic-Aperture Radar images

(See for yourself over here)

I suppose there is a trade off on "jam/radar on 1-3Ghz and reveal exactly where the radar is" and being blind on those bands, I assume if this is what the boring open access stuff can see, whatever the intel agencies have is a lot more interesting

But interesting regardless!

Which one are you?

No airport is complete without one of the departure boards having very visible windows error on it

You can easily determine if a European country you are in is culturally Eastern or Western by simply seeing if there are more Bolts (east) or Ubers (west)