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benjojo12

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benjojo12··on 28% of job postings on company career sites have been open over 90 days
Petrobras?
benjojo12··on Comparison of Malloc() Algorithms
ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH on my phone it seems?
benjojo12··on Fixing a bricked Framework laptop
As with many things, "It's complicated" but effectively, yes

Such system firmware is generally provided by AMI / Insyde / Phoenix and similar.

There are a few vendors who decide to go their own way (notably google using a fork of Coreboot for their chromebooks), but it's generally list of vendors that you can count on a single hand.

If it means anything I'm pretty sure AMI provides A/B updates on most products i've used with their stuff.

benjojo12··on Google Hits 50% IPv6
As someone on the fighting end of scrapers, this is absolutely not true. If anything I should bais towards v6 as the traffic is on par better than v4
benjojo12··on AMD silently removes memory encryption from consumer Ryzen CPUs
In a cloud provider situation there is no pure software solution to this, the hypervisor can always dump your memory pages / register states
benjojo12··on Canonical Under Attack
https://dustri.org/b/my-experience-with-canonicals-interview... is one example
benjojo12··on PCI Express over Fiber [video]
I mean yes, but you could also just place the entire computer out there as well
benjojo12··on Is BGP safe yet?
Because SCION is mostly said as a joke in the more serious carrier world.

SCION is practically speaking proprietary, and has 1 and maybe a half implementations. I have a laundry list of real problems with SCION but SCION feels like one of those entities that would get quite legal-ey if discussed publicly.

benjojo12··on How far can you go with IX Route Servers only?
Post author here

For inbound traffic, they're completely fine. This is only looking at the route servers. You can almost certainly receive 50/50 traffic ratios if you do bilateral peering. This post only covers the " automatic peering " services that IXs offer

benjojo12··on Rack-mount hydroponics
I can't speak for the OPs case, but it's worth keeping in mind that not all languages that people are coming from have capital letters as a concept.

I actually didn't notice the lack of caps until I read this comment

benjojo12··on IPv6 Adoption in 2026
About 58% of all of the email my company sends out of it's outbound relays is to IPv6 MXs. I've never really had to deal with discoverability issues related to v6
benjojo12··on Reports of Telnet's death have been greatly exaggerated
It is surprisingly common to find routers with " export firmware " installed out of the box, that do not have ssh support to avoid the interactions with US Cryptographic export licencing complications
benjojo12··on Upcoming changes to Let's Encrypt and how they affect XMPP server operators
For those wondering if ejabberd Debian systems will be impacted, it seems like for now there no fix, the issue is being tracked here: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1127369
benjojo12··on Email experiments: filtering out external images
We must live in very different universes because most of my business is conducted over email!
benjojo12··on UK consulting on bringing in social media ban for under 16s
No, he gave two different examples of websites that is typically blocked in the United Kingdom
benjojo12··on Consent-O-Matic
I think in the last 12 months of using that unlock list I've only counted less than five times where sites have broken with that list enabled, I don't have to even disable the entire list. You just disable u-block for that specific site
benjojo12··on It seems that OpenAI is scraping [certificate transparency] logs
the ip address the this comes from is a OpenAI search bot range:

> "ipv4Prefix": "74.7.175.128/25"

from https://openai.com/searchbot.json

benjojo12··on So you want to speak at software conferences?
I feel like if you don't want videos (and I assume photos) of you online then speaking at a conference is probably not the aligned action to pursue that goal
benjojo12··on Hyperoptic: IPv6 and Out-of-Order Packets
I believe it heavily depends on what kind of infrastructure you are using with them.

If you are on their old legacy network (aka, you have a RJ45 Ethernet jack into your house) you will likely going to have more issues than if you are on their (X)GPON network.

I had IPv6 working for a while on mine, but realize that for some insane reason that there was basically only one v6 prefix across my entire distribution switch (basically the switch shared with a few 100 other properties). so anytime that i was going to get a v6 i was effectively stealing it from another flat/house.

unfortunately trying to get in touch with anyone from Hyper-optic is really tricky, so I just gave up

they have since upgraded some of the infrastructure in the path, mostly moving away from Huawei to Nokia, but I am not entirely sure that has improved the situation.

benjojo12··on A monopoly ISP refuses to fix upstream infrastructure
100Mbit seems fine? I obviously don't have the full picture for what the OP is doing with their line on a day-to-day basis, but, saying that you're entirely out of options when there is an option that is just slower is a little odd

(I do get that Starlink is also quite expensive if it is not your only serious choice)

benjojo12··on Samsung's 60% DRAM price hike signals a new phase of global memory tightening
The problem is that it is not entirely clear that the hyperscalers are buying DDR5, instead it seems that supplies are being diverted so that more HBM/GDDR wafers can be produced.

HBM/GDDR is not necessarily as useful to the average person as DDR4/DDR5

benjojo12··on Dr Matthew Garrett v Dr Roy Schestowitz and Anor
Sure but to my knowledge you can call someone an asshole in the UK without being at risk of libel but calling someone a [pedophile/drug addict/similar] is (and IMO should) come with consequences if unsubstantiated
benjojo12··on Dr Matthew Garrett v Dr Roy Schestowitz and Anor
> but ended up not being convincing enough not to cost them 70k pounds

It might end up being more than 70k£ for them, given MG's legal fees may not be included in that price (I can't see any indication either way)

benjojo12··on Dr Matthew Garrett v Dr Roy Schestowitz and Anor
Is it though?

If someone posts a huge amount of articles about how you are various non-good things, then a employer might do a simple Google of your name on and think "Oh, actually, I don't think I want to hire that guy" that's worth quite a lot of money if that's a job that you actually wanted to get (and that results in a loss of income/opportunities)

Typically speaking, you should probably only be saying things on the internet or otherwise that you have serious evidence for. One, to avoid looking like a complete idiot in case you're wrong or in a more serious case to stop you from being sued for libel

It blows my mind how various parts of the wider world are seemingly quite happy to ("joking" or not) call each other pedophiles or various other things in a age where things are aggressively indexed by search engines or (worse) LLMs

benjojo12··on Maestro Technology Sells Used SSD Drives as New
Yes but also the drives in the OP have 4~ TB lifetime writes, basically nothing compared to the total capability of the drive, Given these drives can do 2TB+ a day for the entire warranty period a day, I don't think these drives are that bad, the amazon seller shouldn't have claimed they were new, but in terms of the flash wear, these drives look almost as good as new
benjojo12··on Phone numbers for use in TV shows, films and creative works
The UK also has something similar https://www.ofcom.org.uk/phones-and-broadband/phone-numbers/...
benjojo12··on Recreating the US/* time zone situation
Reykjavik lives all year round in UTC
benjojo12··on American Airlines flying empty Airbus A321neo across the Atlantic 20 times
It's not hallucinated, there is just a extra ; at the end of the link
benjojo12··on UK government advises deleting emails to save water
Email has a specific carve out on the online safety act
benjojo12··on How much EU is in DNS4EU?
Claiming that AS60068 is not a "EU" because of "GB" code on their whois is really quite an ignorant way of determining that claim.

With that being said actually depends on what is good enough for you, but it's relatively clear that the DNS resolver IPs that are looking up are based in the czech republic.

As I mentioned in another comment "207 Regent Street" (the address in their whois) is a well known virtual office type address in the UK.

As someone (who himself is admittedly in the UK) who is desperately trying to move more more to European products, this kind of absolutism it's just really exhausting on should really be a shared goal. I will happily use/buy good services from the UK,EU,Swiss,etc etc if they are comparable (even just for my own feature use case) to the US ones.

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