Not that it needed more space, but having a full rack makes compliance, cable management and having tools and spares on site so much easier

Also having PDUs that I trust not to die makes a huge difference as well

I can highly recommenced bringing a friend who believes in cable management, I will forever now feel bad (and avoid it) about making the back of the new rack messy after this

Attachment: A side by side of the same servers, but in two racks, the first one is in a half rack and there is a total waterfall of cables at the back, the 2nd is a structured cable managed full sized rack where cables are channeled by color]]> https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/2r7Yh6W4X9pT4njJc4 Mon, 12 Oct 2026 10:37:12 UTC https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/2r7Yh6W4X9pT4njJc4 bgp.tools rack migration status

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There was this time where the company was launching a new product which is effectively fixed savings account (where you are unable to withdraw your money for a duration, normally in exchange for a better interest rate), and these were called "lockable pots" (of money), and thus the marketing person went ahead and came up with the term "locktober" as the tag line to promote the new feature (given it was October).

This got all the way to a published corporate blog and social media posting, in where it was almost immediately discovered upon using the hashtag for locktober, that locktober was an already occupied term for kink reasons...

Needless to say upon this discovery, a new marketing term was very quickly figured out. Although due to the nature of blog post URL "slugs", bank grade locktober does still live forever in the URL for that particular blog post...

A good day overall, apart from maybe the social guy

"how hard could it possibly be"

https://netldn.uk/2026/09/01/netldn-76-10-09-2026/

Attachment: ]]> https://social.netldn.uk/@netldn/statuses/01M3VMGFEY95SXTBPMQGYFHY6A Thu, 01 Oct 2026 15:32:09 UTC https://social.netldn.uk/@netldn/statuses/01M3VMGFEY95SXTBPMQGYFHY6A Cool CSS trick I stumbled upon,

html:has(.blah) :is(img, iframe, video, embed) {                       
  filter: hue-rotate(-120deg);                                                
}  

Need a different instance of something to have a slightly different color scheme so you can easily tell the difference? You can just hue shift _everything_ by 120 degrees!

I use this to tell the difference between my "corporate"/"personal" webmail client

Must be deaf and able to sleep standing up though

Attachment: The view inside of a server rack cabinet with power bars and cabling around them, a laptop is on their lap]]> https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/mjZ3k51F7q218sr1l5 Tue, 29 Sep 2026 17:25:11 UTC https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/mjZ3k51F7q218sr1l5 Remarkably good Monday, obtained new glasses, connected a new 10G transit, and rolled a upgrade on bgp.tools that saved somewhere between 20k to 40k GBP worth of RAM! (after a cosy Sunday in front of a profiler)

But can you get PCIe to come up via wago connectors?

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I guess these are all either future victims of a yet to be imagined art thing or fusion splicer target practice

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"hmm, seating in airports sucks, but what if we instead replaced that with the thing they wheel you around in a asylum"

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Now to sleep and enjoy actually sitting at my desk for a the weeks until RIPE in Sofia

Attachment: CVEs by Pope zero until Paul VI, 15130 for Paul II, 52459 for Benedict XVI and by far the most, 283784 for Francis]]> https://hsnl.social/@eloy/117308390679818819 Mon, 21 Sep 2026 10:39:01 UTC https://hsnl.social/@eloy/117308390679818819 I can't tell if the IBM s390x software porting team is the best gig ever or the worst, in that you seemingly get to spend a week or so trying to make every possible bit of open source software compile on the monstrosity computer.

This must be either very fun (in that any horrible task is surely not going to stick around that long), or the worst thing ever (moving from one train-wreck of software build system to the next train-wreck of software build system)

Regardless it always does make me smile seeing some software that is like:

"We are known to support amd64, aarch64, and s390x"

! interesting telco/science stuff

! architecture (see photos I post sometimes)

! decent parks (also see photos I post sometimes)

Not a massive museum person, but could be convinced if it's super "up my alley"

Friendly hackspaces or similar also work!

(from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1AcfyXf108)

This has a very similar vibe to SunOS's PREPOSTEROUS_YEARS being 2021 and above

Attachment: A windows XP error that says "your computer is set to the year 2514, which will cause windows media player to stop responding, set your computer to the correct date and try again"]]> https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/Qq123ttkB33jrJ5VkQ Sun, 13 Sep 2026 18:53:02 UTC https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/Qq123ttkB33jrJ5VkQ Whenever I use AliExpress I realise that my own website's search engine is not as bad as it could be

package main

import (
	"bytes"
	"compress/gzip"
	"fmt"
)

func main() {
	data := bytes.Repeat([]byte{0x00}, 64<<18+1)
	for lvl := -2; lvl <= 9; lvl++ {
		var b bytes.Buffer
		w, err := gzip.NewWriterLevel(&b, lvl)
		if err != nil {
			continue
		}
		w.Write(data)
		w.Close()
		fmt.Printf("level %2d: %d bytes\n", lvl, b.Len())
	}
}

Results in

level -2: 2097189 bytes
level -1: 32884 bytes
level  0: 16778522 bytes
level  1: 16628 bytes
level  2: 16628 bytes
level  3: 16627 bytes
level  4: 16627 bytes
level  5: 16627 bytes
level  6: 32884 bytes
level  7: 16304 bytes
level  8: 16304 bytes
level  9: 16304 bytes

Magical level 6 compression I guess

But it's so tempting...

Attachment: gmail screenshot of a email title called "All set for your trip to The Hague"]]> https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/Bn5ZT53C1hQwQLWFzn Mon, 07 Sep 2026 23:29:20 UTC https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/Bn5ZT53C1hQwQLWFzn New found sympathy for the GitHub actions ops people after setting up and running everything via a Forgejo CI runner, like damn this workload sucks it churns [CPU/Disk Wear] like crazy

Attachment: Rejected I want to be sat by ellie in spanish. Rejected on 7 September 2026 i think not being sat by ellie will really impact my gcse spanish grade and detrimental to my health. I would really appreciate a change in seating plan. Why was this petition rejected? It’s about something that the UK Government or Parliament is not directly responsible for.]]> https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/8Fgs41p1Vm7v945Bq3 Mon, 07 Sep 2026 14:09:09 UTC https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/8Fgs41p1Vm7v945Bq3 I get that every software company just becomes a feature factory and the product gets slower/bloated because of it, but holy hell the stripe dashboard feels like wading through a 2000's Oracle application these days.

Single customer look ups sit there for ~5 seconds contemplating what I can only assume is the horrors of the internal dashboard application

And I'm not a large account by all means, no idea how about it is for the rest of the world

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Attachment: Various photos of soulless grey buildings with colling infra on top of them, one of then is orange has has a "telehouse" logo on it]]> https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/4ySCF1HkjDN4Mb3Qqx Mon, 07 Sep 2026 13:31:15 UTC https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/4ySCF1HkjDN4Mb3Qqx This pigeon looks like they are done with it all

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Anyway I now know that my panic() reporter that sends a blob to my XMPP clients buffers enough data that my phone will trigger enough push notifications that even if the standard paging stuff fails, my phone will quite literally vibrate off the desk (as I am slowly watching it do while I type this out)

Surely there is no reasonable universe where you need to know who I am to download this, I am not going to build a nuke out of IPMI tooling

Attachment: The supermicro page to download "IPMI CFG" and it now says I have to log in to download it]]> https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/Yqw3p17zPvY2pBq4Rp Wed, 02 Sep 2026 13:19:37 UTC https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/Yqw3p17zPvY2pBq4Rp Quite possibly every meal could be a caramelised onion meal if they didn't take such a large amount of babysitting to catch them from deciding that now is the time to perish/burn

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Attachment: The side of a glass building, some of the windows are open creating little black tile voids in otherwise a mirror finish of blue/grey evening evening sky]]> https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/4186nT5Q3f5Z446Qrv Mon, 31 Aug 2026 21:28:54 UTC https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/4186nT5Q3f5Z446Qrv 💸

"EE Limited" transferred 31.99.153.0/24 to "Port 179 LTD"

https://social.bgp.tools/@transfers/statuses/01M1BW2AAQD7JC9XQDAK9XKWAN

Attachment: green landscapes in the background as brown and white horses walk around, one photo has a single horse seemingly staring at the rolling hills in the distance

Attachment: green landscapes in the background as brown and white horses walk around, one photo has a single horse seemingly staring at the rolling hills in the distance]]> https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/16vY5prTJM4nSk2482 Sun, 30 Aug 2026 15:31:41 UTC https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/16vY5prTJM4nSk2482 I popped into the corner shop earlier and noticed this incredibly strange Fanta

(A) Extremely cursed flavor

(B) All of the text is English, but it seems that it is a Chinese SKU? (It references Chinese nutritional information) Maybe some localisation thing going on that I don't understand, all a bit strange

Attachment: Some bottles on a store shelf inside of a fridge. The primary focus being a brown Fanta bottle which has the flavor of chocolate and banana, it has a European Union style. Stay on cap, and on the corner of it it says referencing Chinese calorie reference intake and or nutritional information?]]> https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/V8dG9nR6XF5q7LD4lr Sun, 30 Aug 2026 15:16:25 UTC https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/V8dG9nR6XF5q7LD4lr So I bought a couple of new power distribution unit's for upcoming upgrades and after all of the boring software upgrading and set up I figured now is the best time to figure out exactly (since the metering on these are supposedly very good) how many watt hours a cup of tea is.

60wh apparently! For a single cup of tea

Attachment: Two long power distribution bars sitting on between a sofa and a weird cable adapter that is connecting into a white kettle]]> https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/yBrws93mZD11254wy6 Fri, 28 Aug 2026 15:32:45 UTC https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/yBrws93mZD11254wy6 I hope this email finds you, no matter how much you run, no matter how well you hide.

I highly recco this PDF, even though it's aimed at Anti-Money-Laundering it's super interesting in general

“Restricted End-use" means military use; use in connection with chemical, biological or nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices or the development, production, maintenance or storage of missiles capable of delivering such weapons; use in connection with Iran's enrichment-related, reprocessing, or heavy water-related activities; or any other end use prohibited under

wtf does the internet bandwidth supplier think I can do with their internet bandwidth