Posts by benjojo@benjojo.co.uk
(DIR) Post #B0gTnvNuggGaxskNTE by benjojo@benjojo.co.uk
2025-11-17T09:42:11Z
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THX Sound
(DIR) Post #B0gTvCTVXpiZzppiIy by benjojo@benjojo.co.uk
2025-11-16T01:00:15Z
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That kind of friend who you only speak to on average for one hour a month in a year.But that doesn't necessarily mean that you speak to them every monthToday's catch-up call:
(DIR) Post #B0gTwB5WBdm1z64usi by benjojo@benjojo.co.uk
2025-11-15T18:07:01Z
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That oppressive architectural vibe of TeleHouse West at night
(DIR) Post #B0gTwNyCIAdrw9kkm8 by benjojo@benjojo.co.uk
2025-11-15T18:08:44Z
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And the late 80s / 90s glass brick ish design on Global Switch 2 next door
(DIR) Post #B0gU22BQCvBU6WdFyq by benjojo@benjojo.co.uk
2025-11-13T16:28:25Z
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ah yes this is what it looks like when you're just on the edge of downloads folder bankruptcy
(DIR) Post #B0ifz0YpN3IxyAp6yO by benjojo@benjojo.co.uk
2025-11-28T23:29:26Z
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It really does say something about the civil areospace industry will happily slime millions of people over a ultra rare software bug that is triggered by a celestial event, while occasionally cars just have a woopsie in their ECU and people end up accelerating straight into a concrete wall and this is seemingly just accepted (by the manufacturers of course) as it okay-ish thing to do as long as it doesn't happen too much
(DIR) Post #B0nuhqqih7ba1vGkSG by benjojo@benjojo.co.uk
2025-12-01T12:04:43Z
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Something I miss about the days where Intel were building server cases and motherboards is that they generally didn't skimp out on the things that made the operators lives a lot easier.A great example is the drive caddies, take a look at the thickness of this thing! makes it so much easier to insert the drive when you're not trying to screw it into what is basically razor blades Drive caddies seem to be very aggressively "designed for manufacturing" even though when doing so often makes the lives of the people's who have to do the replacements a lot worse
(DIR) Post #B13Re57BvNt0yTBNPU by benjojo@benjojo.co.uk
2025-12-08T23:43:12Z
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Ah yes, disk "S.M.A.R.T"# smartctl -x /dev/sddsmartctl 7.3 2022-02-28 r5338 [x86_64-linux-6.1.0-32-amd64] (local build)Copyright (C) 2002-22, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===...Local Time is: Mon Dec 8 15:24:45 2025 GMT...=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: FAILED!Drive failure expected in less than 24 hours. SAVE ALL DATA.See vendor-specific Attribute list for failed Attributes.=====Left it for a bit, and=====# smartctl -x /dev/sddsmartctl 7.3 2022-02-28 r5338 [x86_64-linux-6.1.0-32-amd64] (local build)Copyright (C) 2002-22, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===...Local Time is: Mon Dec 8 23:38:57 2025 GMT...=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
(DIR) Post #B13Re68e7Se09Gs3Jg by benjojo@benjojo.co.uk
2025-12-08T23:51:46Z
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Hard drives have this magic (and very annoying) ability to go from "I am doomed, dead, gonzo, curtains for me, rip, F in the chat" to "actually it turns out I had some spare sectors behind the sofa I forgot about, nvm, I am good now"For this reason, there is no spinning disk that isn't entirely 100% FDE'd because I _know_ the moment that I take it out of the machine it will somehow magically fix itself.At least when SSDs go they normally go out with some "supernova event" of either:hanging, sending weird ATA replies,replying with random pages of memory rather than data, falling off the bus and returning back as a new vendor with a capacity of 4MBbut at least at that point they don't come back to life!
(DIR) Post #B14wizN00GeYLEM9aK by benjojo@benjojo.co.uk
2025-12-09T16:48:36Z
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Interesting, AS1299 (Arelion/Telia) has made ASPA objects for... AS0 (aka never transit)This is... a bold move. Glad that they will be the lab rat for how well this works in practice for a "transit free carrier", given that in practice it seems that a lot of the transit free carriers are not entirely transit free
(DIR) Post #B1BTVSo4DzzF1Ew2aG by benjojo@benjojo.co.uk
2025-12-12T20:46:05Z
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lol.I minted a new TLS cert and it seems that OpenAI is scraping CT logs for what I assume are things to scrape from, based on the near instant response from this:Dec 12 20:43:04 xxxx xxx[719]: l=debug m="http request" pkg=http httpaccess= handler=(nomatch) method=get url=/robots.txt host=autoconfig.benjojo.uk duration="162.176µs" statuscode=404 proto=http/2.0 remoteaddr=74.7.175.182:38242 tlsinfo=tls1.3 useragent="Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36; compatible; OAI-SearchBot/1.3; robots.txt; +https://openai.com/searchbot" referrr= size=19 cid=19b14416d95
(DIR) Post #B1Dv8TitpvqeEaGYhE by benjojo@benjojo.co.uk
2025-12-10T12:05:16Z
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The year is 2035 and all countries now have some kind of online safety act that prevents people from accessing any kind of societal ill (of which is subjective to each individual country)Apart from "DontGiveAShitastan" who's suspiciously leads the world in VPN companies
(DIR) Post #B1FkcbN5FsZVSj8vz6 by benjojo@benjojo.co.uk
2025-12-14T22:12:21Z
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It has been zero days since .bash_history and my overconfidence use of "reverse-i search" has nearly killed me
(DIR) Post #B1iqBJSOFnv7rOaZ1s by benjojo@benjojo.co.uk
2025-12-28T21:56:00Z
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I am occasionally reminded that free will exists and that people use it to find out just how huge a M64 nut is
(DIR) Post #B1sdhtaS6ROtMJAJO4 by benjojo@benjojo.co.uk
2026-01-02T16:38:07Z
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Oh hell yeah, I've always wanted the Terms and conditions for bulky waste collection for Newham Council as a app on my home screen #SoftwareGore
(DIR) Post #B24S0y9l9I0wX5qN6W by benjojo@benjojo.co.uk
2026-01-07T22:21:30Z
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Got up (devastatingly) early, took a train to the north, did a tour of a nuclear power plant, observed some off shore oil rigs being deconstructed, fish and chips, train homeA good day
(DIR) Post #B2DLUcu9m9uq3LNaoS by benjojo@benjojo.co.uk
2026-01-12T16:26:56Z
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I know why the DNS recursors do it, but it's extremely funny to see 16470+ [1au] A? PrOfIlE.AcCOUNtS.fIrEFoX.COM. (57)in tcpdump's when debugging stuff, the queries are shoved through a spongebob transform function
(DIR) Post #B2UDdTy8auBMjep3i4 by benjojo@benjojo.co.uk
2026-01-20T19:32:09Z
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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
(DIR) Post #B2UDdV9WC4scPF9f5U by benjojo@benjojo.co.uk
2026-01-20T19:36:17Z
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Also worth reiterating that the concept of "well-known" is a incredibly stupid UNIX-ism that doesn't really deserve to exist today however some extremely fringe (and silly) cases around backwards compatibility (that are depending on authenticating based on a port number)you can fix the stupidity by settingsysctl net.ipv4.ip_unprivileged_port_start=23There is some argument to set it just below SSH (port 22) to prevent some stupid service from being able to bind on to port 22, But anything above that should be fair game lifting this limitation stops you from having to give applications root when they start up, or bless them with some systems capability flag through the file system
(DIR) Post #B2erfi8EZ2A2IvJ7uS by benjojo@benjojo.co.uk
2026-01-25T23:04:33Z
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I swear some systems setup advice on the internet is literally written by intelligence agencies as a psyopOne of these methods for generating a LUKS (full disk encryption) password is not like the other....