Attachment: A VSCode update prompt box that says the new release is from April 1st (april fools day)]]> https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/w886833dwzbnhL2J5g Fri, 03 Apr 2026 09:51:47 UTC https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/w886833dwzbnhL2J5g Sir, another "Customers should enact their disaster recovery plans" has hit the AWS status page

Attachment: A bgp.tools screenshot of the Vatican's network, but the website screenshot box shows a Nginx forbidden error]]> https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/kV3t233nnp1JtFlWF2 Tue, 31 Mar 2026 21:33:57 UTC https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/kV3t233nnp1JtFlWF2 Damn they really did save that day light last weekend didn't they

Attachment: HSBC ads in LHR, one ad says "are we shaped by society [picture of a child with a t shirt that says i am the future] or are we shaping society?". the other adverts, "is it a midlife crisis or a midlife opportunity"

Attachment: HSBC ads in LHR, one ad says "are we shaped by society [picture of a child with a t shirt that says i am the future] or are we shaping society?". the other adverts, "is it a midlife crisis or a midlife opportunity"]]> https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/gms84BKqv41KT7W223 Mon, 30 Mar 2026 09:26:10 UTC https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/gms84BKqv41KT7W223 "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa"

Attachment: A bird on a small branch, with it's beak open to the world, presumably singing, or screaming, who knows these days]]> https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/1wK232SQBY86x2Fy78 Mon, 30 Mar 2026 09:15:46 UTC https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/1wK232SQBY86x2Fy78 Netbox labs going for that Jurassic Park nostalgia with their "NetBox Visual Explorer"

https://netboxlabs.com/blog/see-your-infrastructure-introducing-netbox-visual-explorer/

Attachment: A 3d interface of a data center floor showing racks, looks a lot like the "it's a unix system" scene from Jurassic Park]]> https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/PB3QB764HqpH5h7S3P Sat, 28 Mar 2026 14:21:54 UTC https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/PB3QB764HqpH5h7S3P Less than 1GW of fossil fuels on the GB grid klaxon!

Attachment: Screenshot of https://grid.iamkate.com/ showing gas generating 0.96 GW and renewables generating 32.5 GW]]> https://chaos.social/@russss/116289906326077511 Wed, 25 Mar 2026 14:32:11 UTC https://chaos.social/@russss/116289906326077511 I can only conclude that PeeringDB is increasingly vibe coded (in the fullest meaning) because they keep releasing busted code that clearly has not been tested. Today they email me and a lot of other networks with a non sensical email that tells me to do something that does... nothing.

https://github.com/peeringdb/peeringdb/issues/1936

I can sometimes understand the desire to use AI tools, but seemingly none of this stuff is actually going through even basic testing in a staging environment, so frustrating for a service that absorbs quite a lot of sponsor money from orgs

Attachment: A error " Your password must be between 6 and 20 characters long, and must include upper and lower case letters as well as numbers. (Password cannot start with $) ", the the goose chase meme asking why it can't start with the unix crypt hash symbol]]> https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/yWsT1qJ71j4DGwqj4F Thu, 19 Mar 2026 15:36:21 UTC https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/yWsT1qJ71j4DGwqj4F why why why the does Thunderbird let you sort by email subject, I have never wanted to do this and I always do it if I "miss" trying to open the newest email, and when you have a 100k+ inbox this little maneuver's is gonna cost you 51 years of CPU time

( and yes, it is a real job listing )

Attachment: A screenshot of Linked In job posting interface: the listing says: Anthropic Policy Manager, Chemical Weapons and High Yield Explosives New York, NY · 1 week ago · 27 people clicked apply Promoted by hirer · Responses managed off LinkedIn $245K/yr - $285K/yr Hybrid Full-time]]> https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/xWVSn4Tgx3kh2R5Zh7 Tue, 17 Mar 2026 14:38:59 UTC https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/xWVSn4Tgx3kh2R5Zh7 ✅ Muted all RIPE Charging Scheme members-discuss emails

There is basically nothing new to discuss and everyone is just going in the same conversation loop, all at expense of filling my inbox with crap

How far can you go with IX Route Servers only?

IX Route Servers are internet peering on easy mode but how effective is it really? I couldn't find any studies on this so I decided to look myself using the bgp.tools IX collector network!

https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/how-far-can-you-get-with-ix-route-servers

Attachment: a data center cable tray with a dark background, the white text above it says how far can you get with internet exchange route servers only?]]> https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/14HZB91YKq229Pn1Q6 Thu, 12 Mar 2026 11:38:49 UTC https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/14HZB91YKq229Pn1Q6 EMF-IX Returns

EMF-IX, the #emfcamp / #emfcamp2026 internet exchange will be returning for EMF 2026.

Complete with our best switch yet (the "no cost spared" Juniper LAN) this will be the best EMF-IX yet, run a personal network or similar? Reserve your (in person) port today: https://emf-ix.benjojo.co.uk/

This year the EMF Camp network itself will be peering on the exchange as well!

Attachment: A photo of a flight case with some network kit in it, and some small computers balenced on top, the text says "EMF-IX 2026 is back"]]> https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/418q624PbDShr9T4dw Mon, 09 Mar 2026 23:21:50 UTC https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/418q624PbDShr9T4dw ✅ EMF Ticket

#emfcamp #emfcamp2026

Join us for two talks this Thursday!

https://netldn.uk/2026/03/03/netldn-70-12-03-2026/

Attachment: ]]> https://social.netldn.uk/@netldn/statuses/01KK936HTJBZ9GD30J1B0MWYTT Mon, 09 Mar 2026 15:59:49 UTC https://social.netldn.uk/@netldn/statuses/01KK936HTJBZ9GD30J1B0MWYTT I was today years old when I found out that the Nürburgring (the world famous race track) is no where near Nuremberg.

I wonder how many people have incorrectly traveled to Nuremberg with the expectation of using/visiting the track

Attachment: A green banner on top of the discord UI that says that discord will go down for maintenance at 20:00]]> https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/8j2n1zQ3671yZ6S4d3 Mon, 02 Mar 2026 19:57:20 UTC https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/8j2n1zQ3671yZ6S4d3 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

• 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

But the table grows regardless

Attachment: a graph that shows prefixes going up over time (3 months) there are tiny spikes and they are all annotated with "Oops"]]> https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/KJp1pNX1Nc4Ql5k511 Sun, 22 Feb 2026 23:38:16 UTC https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/KJp1pNX1Nc4Ql5k511 Swampy ambience

Attachment: Photos of a grey overcast day, looking at a swamp with vaious dead-ish trees with water on the floor, one photo has birds "hanging out" on a fallen tree overlooking a lake next to the swap

Attachment: Photos of a grey overcast day, looking at a swamp with vaious dead-ish trees with water on the floor, one photo has birds "hanging out" on a fallen tree overlooking a lake next to the swap

Attachment: Photos of a grey overcast day, looking at a swamp with vaious dead-ish trees with water on the floor, one photo has birds "hanging out" on a fallen tree overlooking a lake next to the swap]]> https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/Y6RNw111FpG3Cgw24p Sun, 22 Feb 2026 20:14:31 UTC https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/Y6RNw111FpG3Cgw24p The kind of photo where you inadvertently take a selfie via another creatures eye

Attachment: A bird / kookaburra sitting on a ledge, the photo has a "lookup upwards at the bird angle", the 2nd photo is a zoom crop of it's eye where you can see in fisheye style two people in the reflection

Attachment: A bird / kookaburra sitting on a ledge, the photo has a "lookup upwards at the bird angle", the 2nd photo is a zoom crop of it's eye where you can see in fisheye style two people in the reflection]]> https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/69DfRHmMFC1l7W2C32 Sun, 22 Feb 2026 20:05:06 UTC https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/69DfRHmMFC1l7W2C32 love birbs

Attachment: Two duck-ish sized birds preening each others heads at the same time]]> https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/5h3f795Xdgn51JRJ3L Sun, 22 Feb 2026 19:53:00 UTC https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/5h3f795Xdgn51JRJ3L deer having a epiphany/deep thought

Attachment: A young fluffy deer in one photo staring into the distance, the other raising it head like it just had a epiphany

Attachment: A young fluffy deer in one photo staring into the distance, the other raising it head like it just had a epiphany]]> https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/q675623qMWwwq92F4m Sun, 22 Feb 2026 19:50:58 UTC https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/q675623qMWwwq92F4m Ah yes, the [checks AMD reference manual] "P2D Swiss Cheese Descriptor" CPU MSR, of course

Attachment: 6g3GpxVvSzyjbG11Bs.png]]> https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/k5j62D12wCyPdQMXNh Sun, 22 Feb 2026 18:05:09 UTC https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/k5j62D12wCyPdQMXNh 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

Attachment: The firefox dev tools for bumn.gov.id showing (and still downloading) 1.5GB]]> https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/M4mN974CsxkwZnw4t2 Fri, 20 Feb 2026 16:00:13 UTC https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/M4mN974CsxkwZnw4t2 Well the Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor episode of "24 hours in police custody" will be interesting

Attachment: Email from limestone networks, to a packet.net spesific email address, the first bit of the email says Hi Ben, Just wanted to follow up and make sure my last note didn’t get buried. If you’re still evaluating options for any infrastructure affected by the Equinix Metal sunset]]> https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/n2HJfNWyQF45k62c9z Wed, 18 Feb 2026 19:29:35 UTC https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/n2HJfNWyQF45k62c9z 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.

Attachment: Anton Ego, the food critic antagonist from Ratatouille, scowling at the protagonist]]> https://squad.town/@QuietMisdreavus/116081598532280901 Tue, 17 Feb 2026 10:03:01 UTC https://squad.town/@QuietMisdreavus/116081598532280901 @benjojo image + caption combo (shame the Bernese Mountain Dogs "appreciating gardens" was removed)

Attachment: A Wiktionary screenie of a Chihuahua-like wet dog captioned "a scrunkly dog"]]> https://mastodon.cysioland.pl/@me/116075385240685246 Sun, 15 Feb 2026 16:37:24 UTC https://mastodon.cysioland.pl/@me/116075385240685246 @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

Attachment: A artificially made cow, placed on a pole near some power lines. It has also moose antlers]]> https://hsnl.social/@Aranea/116074877945284698 Sun, 15 Feb 2026 14:10:31 UTC https://hsnl.social/@Aranea/116074877945284698 @benjojo partial to the classic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static_electricity#/media/File:Cat_demonstrating_static_cling_with_styrofoam_peanuts.jpg

Attachment: Photo of a cat, completely covered in styrofoam packing peanuts (only its head is free), stuck to its fur by static electricity. The cat looks towards the camera with a sad expression on its face.]]> https://mathstodon.xyz/@at/116069485204178717 Sat, 14 Feb 2026 15:28:22 UTC https://mathstodon.xyz/@at/116069485204178717 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

Attachment: 5H3F18y4w9z9vhlrbt.jpg]]> https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/J4m4MzfJH8q2Jdjrg6 Sat, 14 Feb 2026 13:43:34 UTC https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/J4m4MzfJH8q2Jdjrg6 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

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

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

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

Attachment: Creating, Formatting and Mounting an Encrypted Disk : Create a passphrase for encryption. Choose something with high entropy (i.e., lots of randomness). Here are two options (pick one): the first one is an open ssl command that is actually okay, the second one is a chain of hashing on the current date time to the second, this is very much not okay]]> https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/nN53M9Wqk5SxB4J2c7 Sun, 25 Jan 2026 23:04:33 UTC https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/nN53M9Wqk5SxB4J2c7 "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

$ 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.

Attachment: A picture representing Sisyphus, a greek mythology where a man has to constantly push a boulder uphill, if he ever let's go of the boulder it will go back down again causing the task to be endlessly repeated]]> https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/Jh5zNM62LpK152FtXc Wed, 21 Jan 2026 21:21:16 UTC https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/Jh5zNM62LpK152FtXc Hello everyone and welcome to the NetLdn fediverse / Mastodon account!

This account will be primarily automatically cross-posting whatever is posted on bluesky

If you don't need to know NetLdn, come down and meet us on typically the second Thursday of every month, before going you should go and check the website https://netldn.uk to see where we are, and what is being presented!

Attachment: ]]> https://social.netldn.uk/@netldn/statuses/01KFEQ254V2BK617FRXED4A4CQ Tue, 20 Jan 2026 22:10:43 UTC https://social.netldn.uk/@netldn/statuses/01KFEQ254V2BK617FRXED4A4CQ 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