Tom Strickx
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Love this idea. Pruning is good, and salmon is delicious.
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4 days ago
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The chips market is having an entirely normal one I see. Thanks AI...
about 2 months ago
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WIRED
about 2 months ago
At New Zealand's Kawaiican cybersecurity convention, organizers hacked together a way for attendees to track CO2 levels throughout the venue—even before they arrived.
www.wired.com/story/this-h...
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This Hacker Conference Installed a Literal Anti-Virus Monitoring System
At New Zealand's Kawaiican cybersecurity convention, organizers hacked together a way for attendees to track CO2 levels throughout the venue—even before they arrived.
https://www.wired.com/story/this-hacker-conference-installed-a-literal-anti-virus-monitoring-system/
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Bryan Cantrill
2 months ago
The video for my
#taloscon2025
keynote is now up!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cum5...
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Cloudflare
3 months ago
A BGP “zombie” is essentially a fancy name for a route that has become stuck in the Default-Free Zone (DFZ) of the Internet. In this post, we'll walk through riskier situations and recommended fixes.
https://cfl.re/47yQOdU
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BGP zombies and excessive path hunting
A BGP “zombie” is essentially a fancy name for a route that has become stuck in the Default-Free Zone (DFZ) of the Internet, potentially due to a missed or lost prefix withdrawal. In this post, we w...
https://cfl.re/47yQOdU
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I'd be lying if I said I wasn't a prideful person. But I get my pride from odd places Such as getting the steno team at
#RIPE91
to type "oopsy whoopsy fucky wucky" without blinking. And yes IPTables was an oopsy whoopsy fucking mistake.
3 months ago
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Job Snijders
3 months ago
OpenBSD 7.8 is out! This release includes the result of a fantastic engineering effort: a multi-threaded version of rpki-client.
man.openbsd.org/rpki-client
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Yeaaaah baby!
#RIPE91
time! Excited to catch up with the
@ripencc.bsky.social
community this week.
3 months ago
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Cloudflare Radar
3 months ago
At ~14:00 UTC, @VodafoneUK effectively dropped off the Internet, with traffic dropping to zero. No word from the provider on outage cause, and their network status checker page is currently unavailable.
radar.cloudflare.com/traffic/as53...
radar.cloudflare.com/routing/as53...
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Job Snijders
4 months ago
Animation of an aspect of the Internet's routing system: RPKI manifest issuances throughout the day, a re-issuance makes the thingies ploink rightwards
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Doug Madory
6 months ago
🚨Check out my latest blog post for
@kentik.bsky.social
: Cloudflare's DNS Downtime: Why BGP Hijacks Were Never to Blame
www.kentik.com/blog/cloudfl...
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Cloudflare's DNS Downtime: Why BGP Hijacks Were Never to Blame
On July 14, Cloudflare’s popular public DNS service (known as 1.1.1.1) suffered an outage lasting over two hours. As rumors swirled about the cause, we were the first to push back on the theory that a...
https://www.kentik.com/blog/cloudflares-dns-downtime-why-bgp-hijacks-were-never-to-blame/
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TRAAAAAAIIIIN!
6 months ago
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This architecture needs more NAT gateway, right
@quinnypig.com
?
7 months ago
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Hell yeah!
@netldn.bsky.social
is SO back
7 months ago
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NetLdn
8 months ago
Good news, we've found a new home and will be back on 12th June, in "Henry's Den" downstairs at Finch's, Finsbury Square; a short walk from Moorgate, Old Street & Liverpool St
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Today in funny router bugs: Junos will resolve ASCII characters to their decimal value in an as-path regex: 'show route aspath-regex .*;' will show you all prefixes/paths originated from AS59, as ; is 59 in the ASCII table.
8 months ago
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fearformz 👻 🇺🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇸
9 months ago
RIP Nats?
www.cncf.io/blog/2025/04...
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Protecting NATS and the integrity of open source: CNCF’s commitment to the community
When a company contributes a project to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), it’s not just sharing code—it’s making a commitment to the open source community. It’s a pledge to uphold open…
https://www.cncf.io/blog/2025/04/24/protecting-nats-and-the-integrity-of-open-source-cncfs-commitment-to-the-community/
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bot.bgpstuff.net
9 months ago
I see 1000028 IPv4 prefixes. This is 240 more prefixes than 6 hours ago and 970 more than a week ago. 61.78% of prefixes are /24.
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I have made it to the Holy Land. My pilgrimage is complete.
9 months ago
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Is there a way to make
@bsky.app
not save images to Camera, but to its own directory instead? I don't need memes backed up to Google Photos
10 months ago
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This feels like a bad hobby to get sucked into...
10 months ago
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Aaron A. Glenn
10 months ago
hi my name is aaron I’m an american immigrant in europe for a decade now and my singular obsession is building network infrastructure. can you point me to the nearest EU private equity fund soirée? my Italian bespoke suit is this messenger bag don’t worry
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aka_pugs
11 months ago
OTD 1986: #SunMicrosystems Initial Public Offering. Red Herring:
drive.google.com/fil...
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Katie Mack
11 months ago
That reporter really looked at the president of a country being battered by an invading force and asked “but what was he wearing”
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Congrats on getting to space
@tracketpacer.bsky.social
!
about 1 year ago
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I feel this in my bones
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about 1 year ago
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Bit preoccupied with anything not thinking sand this week.
about 1 year ago
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Scott Nover
about 1 year ago
Both the New York Times and Washington Post obituaries for Jimmy Carter have joint bylines including writers who have been dead for years. The Guardian ran an obit with a single byline—and yes, the writer has been dead since 2021.
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Things I have learned to hate today: ARC. Just. No. AND IT'S STILL NOT WORKING. Cable swapping time tomorrow I guess.
about 1 year ago
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Pogued at the start of Black Doves. That's a bit rude
@netflix.com
about 1 year ago
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Michele Neylon
about 1 year ago
www.checktheregister.ie/en-IE/forms
the postal vote criteria are still nutty
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It's hard enough as is to not call gNMI "OIDs as ProtoBuf" and you go ahead and pull this stunt... Goddammit Roman!
about 1 year ago
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Leah McElrath
about 1 year ago
Anyway… Here’s a visualization of all the curse words being used on Bluesky in real time. Each word is a cute fluffy little profane cloud. It’s oddly soothing. H/t
@bagpuss.org
#SwearSky
swearsky.bagpuss.org
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SwearSky
Bluesky profanity, as it happens
https://swearsky.bagpuss.org/
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Rise and shine Mr Freeman, rise and shine!
about 1 year ago
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Tomorrow (2024-11-14) I'm making a (hopefully somewhat entertaining/interesting) fool of myself at
#NetLdn
7PM sharp @ The Wheatsheaf
netldn.uk/2024/11/08/n...
about 1 year ago
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Challenge accepted!
about 1 year ago
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A wild Barry appears at
#RIPE89
to talk about IXP manager v7.
#INEX
being awesome yet again.
about 1 year ago
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Mirjam Kühne kicking off
#RIPE89
in Prague, excited to see old and new faces.
about 1 year ago
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Neighbours across the hall borrowed my hammer and screwdriver on Saturday. Still haven't returned it...
over 1 year ago
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Yesterday,
rpki.cloudflare.com/rpki.json
was migrated to
#OpenBSD
rpki-client to replace
#OctoRPKI
. It has a new production architecture, and is backed by
@cloudflare.social
R2. A VRP will be uploaded roughly ever 13 minutes (10 minute sleep + 3 minute validation time), and cached for 20m.
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