ghawkins - Network

Some might argue Donald Trump himself should be assigned a CVE number 😂...

Some might argue Donald Trump himself should be assigned a CVE number 😂

https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/16/homeland_security_funding_for_cve/

Yes folks, #Plusnet really have been trialling #ipv6 on and off for fourteen...

Yes folks, #Plusnet really have been trialling #ipv6 on and off for fourteen years

https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2025/04/broadband-isp-plusnet-uk-set-to-trial-ipv6-on-high-touch-network.html

How did I manage to forget to install the public root CA of my private certificate authority on the base container image and kvm VM creation...

How did I manage to forget to install the public root CA of my private certificate authority on the base container image and kvm VM creation script... #oops

Today is, according to the schedule, #Debian #trixie soft freeze day.https://release.debian.org/trixie/freeze_policy.html

Today is, according to the schedule, #Debian #trixie soft freeze day.

https://release.debian.org/trixie/freeze_policy.html

Glad I don't have any Meta accounts.https://about.fb.com/news/2025/04/making-ai-work-harder-for-europeans/

Glad I don't have any Meta accounts.

https://about.fb.com/news/2025/04/making-ai-work-harder-for-europeans/

Ofcom have published a new edition of the National Telephone Numbering Plan today which brings into force the changes banning revenue...

Ofcom have published a new edition of the National Telephone Numbering Plan today which brings into force the changes banning revenue sharing on 084/087, 05 and 076 paging services.

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/phones-and-broadband/phone-numbers/numbering

https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/fontlist/ is quite a fascinating pack of fonts, for those who are old enough to remember them!

https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/fontlist/ is quite a fascinating pack of fonts, for those who are old enough to remember them!

Kempston used to be famous for its joystick interfaces...https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz95n2837vgo

Kempston used to be famous for its joystick interfaces...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz95n2837vgo

Had a fun afternoon putting #libvirt XML stanzas in for #virtio devices I didn't know I didn't have until now, and are now supported...

Had a fun afternoon putting #libvirt XML stanzas in for #virtio devices I didn't know I didn't have until now, and are now supported in #debian #trixie. virtio-crypto and virtio-vsock in particular.

TIL that deborphan is no longer in #Debian #trixie

TIL that deborphan is no longer in #Debian #trixie

Today is the 20th anniversary of the first commit to a #Git repository, by Linus Torvalds...

Today is the 20th anniversary of the first commit to a #Git repository, by Linus Torvalds himself

https://github.com/git/git/commit/e83c5163316f89bfbde7d9ab23ca2e25604af290

Apple v the Home Office has just started to get "fun" for the Home Officehttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgn1lz3v4no

Apple v the Home Office has just started to get "fun" for the Home Office

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgn1lz3v4no

It really does make we wonder how an MVNO like spusu can last any more than five minutes with incompetence like...

It really does make we wonder how an MVNO like spusu can last any more than five minutes with incompetence like this

https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2025/04/mobile-operator-spusu-uk-enables-volte-calling-for-google-pixel.html

Upgrading from #debian #bookworm to #trixie has gone relatively well. Just a couple of boxes I can't upgrade because dependency repos...

Upgrading from #debian #bookworm to #trixie has gone relatively well. Just a couple of boxes I can't upgrade because dependency repos are not available for trixie yet, but all the boxes I can upgrade have been upgraded now. The main problem was that kea broke (not Debian's fault) but apart from that, generally been pretty smooth this time round, which is nice.

Dave Täht, the inventor of the fq-codel and CAKE algorithms for reducing bufferbloat, has...

Dave Täht, the inventor of the fq-codel and CAKE algorithms for reducing bufferbloat, has died.

https://libreqos.io/2025/04/01/in-loving-memory-of-dave/

I suppose the advantage of upgrading to #Debian #trixie at freeze stage is you don't have to worry about everything breaking on release...

I suppose the advantage of upgrading to #Debian #trixie at freeze stage is you don't have to worry about everything breaking on release day 😂

What went wrong was that apt upgrade and/or apt dist-upgrade decided to make a backup of my /etc/sysctl.conf file then replace it with a...

What went wrong was that apt upgrade and/or apt dist-upgrade decided to make a backup of my /etc/sysctl.conf file then replace it with a file full of nothing. Funnily enough, this broke IP forwarding on my network interfaces amongst other things. Grr 😠

Decided to upgrade my physical server to #debian #trixie - what could possibly go wrong?? 😂

Decided to upgrade my physical server to #debian #trixie - what could possibly go wrong?? 😂

Today is of course clock change day in Europe, and it got me thinking after remembering about the clock showing Bristol Time, what would be...

Today is of course clock change day in Europe, and it got me thinking after remembering about the clock showing Bristol Time, what would be the "correct" local time for where I live? You can easily work it out, it's 1 hour for every 15° of longitude difference.

Fun thought: The first BT System X digital telephone exchange entered public service in September 1980, nearly 45 years ago. It then took...

Fun thought: The first BT System X digital telephone exchange entered public service in September 1980, nearly 45 years ago. It then took them 18 years to replace all the mechanical and electronic exchanges with digital ones, finishing in 1998. Can you imagine people putting up with timescales like that now?