#UkPol

Attachment: Severe Alert Issued by the UK Government There is a very high risk of wildfires nationally. Residents, landowners and visitors should not undertake any activity that could start a fire, including disposable barbecues, firepits, garden incinerators or fireworks. Even a small flame can rapidly develop into a major wildfire placing lives, homes, businesses and emergency responders at risk. Follow official updates and report signs of fire immediately by calling 999. Search gov.uk/alerts for more information. OK]]> https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/hQ2VwLMSLTFGJXVM9t Fri, 14 Aug 2026 18:02:32 UTC https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/hQ2VwLMSLTFGJXVM9t Some eclipse photos from yesterday as seen near Zaragoza, Spain

You can understand why if someone from the 1500's saw this they would either see a bad omen or affirm their belief in god.

My camera can't do the eclipse justice, a true live demo in the dynamic range of the human eye!

Attachment: Two photos of a sun with a dark core, one is a landscape with a wind turbine under a dark core sun, the other a wide view farm/hilly landscape with a dark core sun

Attachment: Two photos of a sun with a dark core, one is a landscape with a wind turbine under a dark core sun, the other a wide view farm/hilly landscape with a dark core sun]]> https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/vRYM25hY37V88xTwmM Thu, 13 Aug 2026 16:42:22 UTC https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/vRYM25hY37V88xTwmM I'm popping in to AliExpress, Does anybody need anything?

Attachment: A photo from outside a shop front on a high Street that says AliExpress, complete with website accurate branding]]> https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/3T9Py4mS1k53fwZrL1 Thu, 13 Aug 2026 14:57:16 UTC https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/3T9Py4mS1k53fwZrL1 Hope the sun doesn't do anything weird today

Attachment: A terminal showing a listing of /dev but the top banner says "Wuff ---- Wuff!!"]]> https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/2Jpb5hRZzz59g9sd65 Sun, 09 Aug 2026 12:55:15 UTC https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/2Jpb5hRZzz59g9sd65 The stripe pay in local currency thing must be such a boondoggle for them, for a 50$ transaction stripe offered me £38.66, when it was paid directly via a UK card the FX rate came in a £37.27

That's £1.39 of upside to Stripe! Even if the rate shifts a bit before that settles it is still a incredible win for Stripe

Attachment: some photos of a industrial plant with an overall yellow/golden hue, additionally a photo of a rusted out rail that is going out to sea, probably was used to launch something into the river

Attachment: some photos of a industrial plant with an overall yellow/golden hue, additionally a photo of a rusted out rail that is going out to sea, probably was used to launch something into the river

Attachment: some photos of a industrial plant with an overall yellow/golden hue, additionally a photo of a rusted out rail that is going out to sea, probably was used to launch something into the river]]> https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/Rc2qD5Lkv7mnjv869G Tue, 04 Aug 2026 15:16:00 UTC https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/Rc2qD5Lkv7mnjv869G i didn’t think it was physically possible, but there’s finally something worse than curl | sh

Attachment: Install with an AI agent (recommended) The fastest way to get ghidrasql running end-to-end is to point an AI coding agent (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Aider, etc.) at the bundled installer prompt: (link to install-prompt.md)]]> https://labyrinth.zone/objects/96478395-64d9-452c-a906-9e6159cd10a3 Tue, 04 Aug 2026 13:14:33 UTC https://labyrinth.zone/objects/96478395-64d9-452c-a906-9e6159cd10a3 The UK Heat(wave?) is not keeping up with my demand for ice cubes at home, and it means I have to fall back to this rather strange silicone Australia one.

I don't remember how I came to own this, and it raises so many questions on a number of levels.

Attachment: A hand holding a large silicone ice cube tray shaped like Australia, inside are small ice cube spots also shaped like Australia]]> https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/Tr148sMTZDnwwkPqCh Mon, 03 Aug 2026 15:43:48 UTC https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/Tr148sMTZDnwwkPqCh I wish freezers (or at least my freezer) would do the same trick that ice cubemakers do where they run hot every now and then to defrost all of the coils (and also in the case of the Ice cube maker, release the ice cubes)

On the flip side, I currently have weird mediaeval air conditioning in my flat at the moment as I defrost my freezer

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$ date
Sat Aug  1 04:32:55 AM ChST 2026

The Chamorro Time Zone for Guam and friends... and a new location for a bgp.tools IX PoP Guam IX

(adding £0.04 to every txn if I do nothing, and a pretty large rate tweak for what I suspect is a lot of my user bases cards...)

Also fuck!!! it rained. The mosquitos are going to be back in town

No idea how long this has existed but it's nice that exists

Attachment: Your balance You owe £0.01. To avoid penalties, you must pay by 11:59pm on 31 July 2026. You have 4 days left. Make a Self Assessment payment]]> https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/43Gf19xr9LBj4vc2tw Mon, 27 Jul 2026 16:46:20 UTC https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/43Gf19xr9LBj4vc2tw I would be nice to have a storage provider that could hold all of my RAW's on some ultra cheap, high latency storage (like tape)

The chance I ever touch a raw after 30 days of a photo is very close to 0, but not zero.

The best going rate (I think) is Google Cloud Storage Archive, that has 5TB at ~6$ with some penalty if you try and pull files (but that is kinda fine odd RAW that I want to redevelop)

Attachment: By adding this product, you are agreeing that you were born on or before 23/07/2008. Proof of age may be required.]]> https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/C36KPlhG7fZXMNhW2G Thu, 23 Jul 2026 21:28:59 UTC https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/C36KPlhG7fZXMNhW2G National Power grids only do this when they're really distressed

Attachment: A screenshot of the current Georgian electricity grid, the frequency currently shows as 0 Hertz because the entire power grid is down]]> https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/Wk4VgmYj98k29GlF2N Thu, 23 Jul 2026 21:26:38 UTC https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/Wk4VgmYj98k29GlF2N RFC2544 (Benchmarking Addresses) lays out

The network addresses 192.18.0.0 through 198.19.255.255 are have been
assigned to the BMWG by the IANA for this purpose.

Except, this was a typo, the actual address space was 198.18.0.0 through 198.19.255.255

It seems that at the moment Oracle owns 192.18.0.0/15 , and they are not announcing it, I suspect because there are a non zero amount of things that have accidentality put that in filters

The email address that you use to reply to github issues via email (so you can avoid opening github) is... full????

Attachment: A email bounce from postmaster@microsoft.com that says Delivery has failed to these recipients or groups: (notifications@github.com) The recipient's mailbox is full and can't accept messages now. Please try resending your message later, or contact the recipient directly.]]> https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/87p8L2pnsmkwGVyd9B Wed, 22 Jul 2026 10:04:21 UTC https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/87p8L2pnsmkwGVyd9B The new android has the USB icon to be a... abstract snail?

Sure I guess

Attachment: A screenshot of a android notification that says charging via USB, but the icon in the center looks like a snail shell in a weird art way]]> https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/F6Ty2WRW2V5lPvdLR2 Wed, 22 Jul 2026 09:33:46 UTC https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/F6Ty2WRW2V5lPvdLR2 I do love getting legally consequential documents over email with the file name ending in "(1) (1).docx", like how many round trips did this go via before it got to me

Edit: solved!

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Attachment: A Yellow road sign on the ground where some of the black words have clearly been worn off, it says " I s on opp carriage"]]> https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/5q7w74b369YZf1TXR8 Tue, 14 Jul 2026 21:01:50 UTC https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/5q7w74b369YZf1TXR8 Man I forgot how much magic I did in 2022 for EMF-IX, and then didnt write any of it down.

Finally got the EMF-IX machines booted and they are:

A) Home made cloud init metadata server
B) PXE boot
C) the rootfs is on ATAoverEthernet, and to be fair that's very cool but also looks totally insane on lsblk

If you ever see this outside of EMF-IX, run

# lsblk
NAME                  MAJ:MIN RM  SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
etherd/e0.0           152:0    0    5G  0 disk 
├─etherd/e0.0p1       152:1    0  512M  0 part 
├─etherd/e0.0p2       152:2    0  488M  0 part 
└─etherd/e0.0p3       152:3    0    4G  0 part 
  ├─debian--vg-root   254:0    0  3.1G  0 lvm  /
  └─debian--vg-swap_1 254:1    0  976M  0 lvm  [SWAP]

Both of those things are my go to quick tests for if the device still works, so if I've not been on one for a while I end up the deeper stages of panic ("oh SHIT did I just blow up the device") before I realise I can just press "a" and see the CLI echo it back...

Attachment: The mercedes logo at the back of a car automatically flipping up and a little pointy camera coming out of the hole as the reverse camera]]> https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/Fj9LyNz82sbn6M2kh2 Sat, 11 Jul 2026 22:47:26 UTC https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/Fj9LyNz82sbn6M2kh2

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Attachment: The firefox "file not found" page with a fox doing a eyebrow raised, but it looks a bit goofy]]> https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/D5nww262Y38g2RxXqh Sat, 11 Jul 2026 08:44:15 UTC https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/D5nww262Y38g2RxXqh Hah, the UK government is mulling over killing off terrestrial digital TV broadcasts by 2034, this would save them from having to fix at least one protocol level timebomb in DVB/DVB2 that triggers in 2038: https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/ZWhvQxPRzdhVzz9p3V

Enterprise outreach idea for dnsfs

Yes, Enterprise DNSFS ( https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/dns-filesystem-true-cloud-storage-dnsfs ) is clearly the next big thing, trillion dollar idea

(it's one of those clearly [github repo -> LLM -> Marketing Email] things)

Alberta moved to permanent -06 on 2026-06-18.
Morocco moves to permanent +00 on 2026-09-20.

Does any of the broadcast nerds here know what this is and why they need it here?

Attachment: A TV Camera at the edge of a stage, there is a large green ribbed isolater looking thing going into the camera where you would expect power / SDI video output to be]]> https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/xf314fg9hgF6Lld9q6 Tue, 07 Jul 2026 09:41:39 UTC https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/xf314fg9hgF6Lld9q6 hacker voice, dejected: im out

The answer is... almost

You can buy 2S AMD 9005 machines (2x 128 C parts) that have 48 DIMM slots (48 * 128G DDR5 = 6TB~) that would fit what normally does the whole half cab into one machine..

The downside is that this one box costs roughly 280,000£, so I will take my setup thank you very much

Attachment: A red Coke can with Arabic type script writing on it]]> https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/QqmrDlJyjS3cs6gH1m Mon, 29 Jun 2026 13:36:16 UTC https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/QqmrDlJyjS3cs6gH1m Fucking Around (Sailing last week)

👇️

Finding Out (Looking at the inbox today)

Regardless, have some nice photos from last week

Attachment: Various photos of sailing in the the mediterranean, including sunset photos, and container ships being next to us out at sea

Attachment: Various photos of sailing in the the mediterranean, including sunset photos, and container ships being next to us out at sea

Attachment: Various photos of sailing in the the mediterranean, including sunset photos, and container ships being next to us out at sea

Attachment: Various photos of sailing in the the mediterranean, including sunset photos, and container ships being next to us out at sea]]> https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/p3BlqpDG22M8Y7q1Sf Mon, 29 Jun 2026 09:01:48 UTC https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/p3BlqpDG22M8Y7q1Sf Whoever decided where to put the Bluetooth management "PUK" code (to reset the PIN) on Victron inverters really needs to crawl into the depth of a boat to find it, to see the effects of their decisions

Can you guess where the code is here? on the outside label? no that would make too much sense, it's inside the device chassis (where the terminal blocks are) and if you can angle your body, hands, flashlight, and mobile phone camera just right, you may be able to see 50% of the code at a time between the air vent grill...

Attachment: The inside of a boat, a blue Victron Inverter 12 volt 2000W, it is mounted on it's side, in a very tight enviroment]]> https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/2v82nw2C7ysvw2n4c3 Mon, 29 Jun 2026 08:55:54 UTC https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/2v82nw2C7ysvw2n4c3 The DNS Resolver landscape is somewhat fascinating in that I think by the time you get to the point where you are close to wanting to build a DNS Resolver/Recursor you have already figured out it's hard to get right (in terms of spec compliance), and basically impossible to get right if you care (or need to care) about DNSSEC validation.

It was surprising to find that there are not really any stable/serious memory safe DNS resolvers, Hickory seems to be littered with bugs (Some not strictly it's fault and more the fact that some DNS Auths do not like QName Minimisation, but from what I can tell has a very spotty situation with DNSSEC

For what it is worth, my general views on DNSSEC's usefulness has not changed (I do not think DNSSEC is "juice worth the squeeze"), but there are compliance situations that force the existence of DNSSEC...

It's just frustrating that the closest to spec-compliance state of the art DNS resolver is Unbound

It's also shocking there is basically no DNS RFC "-bis" document that rolls up all of the (must at least 100) RFCs into a somewhat coherent document, I wonder if the rubicon has been crossed where no one will ever agree on what a RFC -bis would even look like.