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• Post #4383775

  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

• Post #4358880

  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.

• Post #4233720

  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

• Post #4042035

  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

• Post #4011895

  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????

• Post #3996837

  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

• Post #3749158

  Goofy contraption

• Post #3740334

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

• Post #3718481

  I know that January 19th 2038 is going to be super interesting and all, but did you know that DVB (the TV stuff) wont blow up? It uses a slightly different timestamp (that is pretty miserable to parse as it turns out), so it can last a whole few more months past the end of the world, DVB will keep ticking along (at least in it's TOT and TDT packets) until May 22nd 2038

• Post #3718071

  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

• Post #3690463

  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)

• Post #3467188

  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 co...

• Post #3434510

  Turning a z-buffer into a "how badly should something be JPEG compressed" mask, giving this interestingly "robotic myopia" view (The effect is a lot better on landscape on mobile / big screen)

• Post #2899072

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

• Post #2698791

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

• Post #2530579

  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

• Post #2513056

  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...

• Post #2468317

  This MacOS (APFS?) quirk was mentioned at the pub last night, and I still cannot believe this actually works when I tried it myself

• Post #2332659

  Mildly interesting, it seems that one of the name servers for the .de DNS zone has all of their Cogent customers going via CNNIC (China Internet Network Information Center) all the way to China A traceroute from Cogent in Frankfurt: traceroute to 194.246.96.1 (194.246.96.1), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets 1 * * 2 be5200.ccr41.fra05.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.76.169) 0.603 ms 3 be7946.ccr42.par01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.72.117) 9.937 ms 4 be2780.ccr32.mrs02.atlas.cogentco.com (...

• Post #2332658

  Warnings of major disruption as trains across southern England disrupted by radio faultDid someone/something break the UK's GSM-R stack?

• Post #2303579

  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

• Post #2267977

  Do/Have you used a CD/DVD/Bluray in a while? What about burning a disk? I'm surveying modern day awareness/usage of optical media, mostly to confirm some demographic theories, so if you know what a CD/DVD is, please help me (and maybe others) out by answering some ~10 questions here: https://optical-media-survey.benjojo.co.uk/ And then please boost for better visibility! Thank you!

• Post #2193119

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

• Post #2077943

  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

• Post #2072421

  Another win for DNSSEC Unmatched at turning small ops mistakes into country wide ops consequences

• Post #1980040

  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

• Post #1925624

  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

• Post #1897334

  I would like to congratulate google for creating the most perfect phishing email (clicking the button asks for auth on the most powerful account in the org) while also not using any of the counter measures (BMI etc etc) that they tell other people to use to defend against phishing emails

• Post #1806128

  Unifi Products that look like shitposts:

• Post #1565768

  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