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The puzzling habit of networking social events having counterproductively super loud live music

@gabrielesvelto@mas.to It didn't help that they also announced quite "meh" financial performance at the same time! So I guess the market took layoffs+that=bad!

@fionafokus@mystical.garden I've been getting (about maybe three a week?) emails asking me if I have a bug bounty that looks suspiciously generated-ish, and they never actually describe what the bug is. annoyingly it seems like the concept around paying for bugs has unsurprisingly become highly motivating for people (either with little clue or care) to just run basic things (like what an uninspiring compliance 'pen test' would do) and demand payment for essentially entirely noise (as is most are those automated reports) I've not seen a real good answer for this, because on one hand I definitely want people to be paid for discovering bugs and going through the process. On the other hand, doing so invites such a huge amount of crap that it's now an entirely separate job on its own to simply triage the inbox for this. I can totally see why apples bug program is invite only

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.

It's a outrage that Firefox only has these two adorable error icons for the mascot so far: https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/tree/4cbe9648c5d4c1cf600b7a8c3589e4589541ded5/toolkit/themes/shared/illustrations

No thank you, I would rather do some incredibly unpleasant things than that

Sometimes the spam box is amusing 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)

The asynchronous_metric_log clickhouse table that has no auto expiry and just grows forever is a ploy by big SSD to get you to blindly buy more storage without checking if the cluster is just infinitely growing for no reason

Seems like this is not a new thing, so it is not likely a direct response to the DNSSEC shenanigans yesterday :) unless the Chinese have developed a very specific time travel device for DNSSEC mistake news

scdaemon -> scDemons

Picked up a AMS-IX mug from a recent conference swag table and I didn't realise it's like 70% of the size of a normal mug. Why! Surely you want your customers to use the mugs you give them, if bgp.tools was to have branded promo mugs it would be like the giant Sports Direct mugs where if you spill it you flood your fucking house

A quick gander on github code search does confirm that even today, there are people who are accidentality filtering on Oracle rather than RFC2544 space

I was in the Azores a few weeks ago, and it really does feel like a place where if humans suddenly decided to leave all at once, it would not take long for nature to reclaim everything

Great place to go for those who like [Moss, Ferns, Abandoned stuff]

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...

It was only figured out because of a Fortinet/FortiGate firewall user who wrote a email to me about having weird problems with accessing bgp.tools, and them being patient for debugging on both sides over email. Remember, if you see weird stuff, email it in! It's entirely possible your setup is unearthing some deeply cursed behaviour that the operator would really like to know about Apparently FortiGate's do not like it when you send your TLS Client Hello spread over 10+ packets, I don't really blame them since that does look quite insane over the wire

Innovation happening at Riga airport where someone said "hmm, seating in airports sucks, but what if we instead replaced that with the thing they wheel you around in a asylum"

There is something very funny that someone in Sun all of those years ago decided that 2021 was the start of "preposterous time"

#define PREPOSTEROUS_YEARS (2021 - POSIX_BASE_YEAR)

Sun Microsystems clearly accidentality hired a Cassandra because that was worryingly spot on

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Can the office 365 admin give github a bigger inbox allowance please The email address that you use to reply to github issues via email (so you can avoid opening github) is... full????

As a emoji in work presentations connoisseur, it pains me that the best ✨ emoji implementation was the original Twemoji, before in 2017 it went from purple to just boring yellow sparkles.

( I also hate that sparkles has been used to signal AI features :( )

Also, always embed actual PNGs of your emoji into your presentations, to avoid a surprise jankmoji (normally the windows ones) when your stuff gets loaded on to the event presentation laptop

I suppose I should check if that is a new thing as of yesterday or not... Since if it was, then that implies that someone has picked a incredible time to do a intercept/MITM of a large DNS zone where a lot of people were disabling DNSSEC validation for in response to a incident

The Kagi LinkedIn translate is honestly a incredible marketing tool for them.

Throwing the Cloudflare layoff blog post into it and putting it through a few round trips as the "English" translation gets shorter and more frank

Every sign has a story, and I am wondering what the one was that lead to this check and error (from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1AcfyXf108) This has a very similar vibe to SunOS's PREPOSTEROUS_YEARS being 2021 and above

Some other fun things I spotted in the Cogent Q4 2025 investor presentation:

A) Cogent is now averaging at 800 tbit/s of traffic

B) While their office broadband biz is 4%~ of their total traffic, it's 43% of their $ revenue! Not bad!

C) For their off-net IP offering (aka, they use another provider to do the last mile) over half of the cost to the customer is to the last mile loop provider!

Full thing here: https://www.cogentco.com/files/docs/about_cogent/investor_relations/presentation/Cogent_IR_Presentation_4Q25.pdf

While travelling last week I came across this in my hotel room, this seems like a fantastic way to have your USB C powered device's chassis float to 120V live if you use it wrong enough in the dark

Hah, Cogent CEO seems to recognize that having the ability for customers to make RPKI ROA's on their space (aka, signing a ARIN agreement) made its IPv4 rentable there's a lot more appealing to customers!

The Debian Bookworm -> Trixie upgrade path is by far the [worst/most explosive] I have in recent memory, on the same level of tricky as the sysvinit -> systemd migration

The sysctls location change being the #1 killer, but there are so many paper cuts in that particular upgrade to keep an eye out for

@asl@mastodon.launay.org yeah I realised just as I hit upload but life is too short to go back into gimp and fix it

oh cool, I just discovered that Kagi has added "bangs" for bgp.tools so something like !bgptools AS206924 or !bgpt AS112 sends you directly there No idea how long this has existed but it's nice that exists

Goofy contraption

Despite the common consensus, self hosting your outbound email it's not impossible to do (*)

bgp.tools has been sending it's own outbound email since day one of having the ability to send email, while i have been doing a migration i have discovered that rspamd (for DKIM signing) was keeping it's own logs outside of journalctl, meaning they never got rotated (grrr)

The upside of this log rotation failure is that I can give you this graph: The total email volume sent per month via bgp.tools

I don't think it has been particularly hard (other than hotmail) to run this, and it means that I don't have to give customer emails to another 3rd party.

I think the only struggle for a lot of people is that it's quite difficult to find "clean" or at least "boring" IPs to send out from. i suspect you probably couldn't replicate these results with Hetzner/Digital Ocean/etc without some serious fighting or luck

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(*) unless your service depends on sending to hotmail/live/msn emails, because that shit is impossible

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Well, the job lot box of doom is here and I now have a lot of weird fiber patch cables (Like lots of SM APC SC-SC), including the first actual case I've seen MTRJ with my own eyes, some old 1995 to mid 2000's connector I guess these are all either future victims of a yet to be imagined art thing or fusion splicer target practice

Polymarket market for "next TLD or major domain to break DNSSEC" because it is not "if" but "when"

I love conntrack! ◄────┐ │ │ │ │ ▼ │ conntrack │ ruined my ──────┘ life again

Forgot to post this last month, but there is a abandoned huge 32m satellite dish sitting in the Azores, with nature slowly reclaiming it with weeds and moss (as is everything in the Azores)

You can see a very similar (likely the same model) still being used in Pakistan for PTCL here on google maps

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

@flangey @russss This is the LHL/LHTH one!

Honey, I z-buffer'd the cat

FWIW, It seems like one of the old Twitter ASNs AS63179 seems to be now doing heavy web scraping (presumably for grok), you can probs get away with dropping the whole thing

On a ocean facing fence full of love locks full of people's relationship commitments, somebody was just like "well this one's probably more of a combination lock job to be honest"

[ DNSSEC Bone Crunching Noises ] Seemingly the actual sigs that were made do not validate: RRSIG denic.de/DS alg 8, id 33834: The cryptographic signature of the RRSIG RR does not properly validate. See RFC 4035, Sec. 5.3.3.

inet_aton wins again

Here I was waiting for output on a tcpdump -ni any host 3306... that should have been port 3306, but of course in the world of inet_aton "3306" is a valid IP address of 0.0.12.234!

Thanks inet_aton!

Warnings of major disruption as trains across southern England disrupted by radio fault

Did someone/something break the UK's GSM-R stack?

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