Hugh

Mikrotik was a mistake.

Apparently the bridge does not want to bridge. Want to communicate with any local network device? Nah mate.

(waybar:30074): Gtk-WARNING **: 18:46:56.876: Failed to set text '\xd8l Telecom (88%  59.2Mb/s  898.7Mb/s) ' from markup due to error parsing markup: Error on line 1 char 56: Invalid UTF-8 encoded text in name — not valid “\xd8l Telecom (88%  59.2Mb/s  898.7Mb/s) ” [1] + 30074 segmentation fault (core dumped) waybar --config /home/crablab/Documents/hugh/.config/waybar/config

This was a mistake - abort!

Android WiFi connection dialogue with "<unknown SSID>"

It appears Android cannot cope with my "Øl Telecom" approved connection :neocat_facepalm:

@AlexB It would be interesting to see what the long term failure rates were. Consumer hardware is not designed to be fitted and run hot for long periods of time in a datacentre.
Cooling and space efficiency is a significant part of server design.

Businesses prefer to pay higher upfront costs to […]

someone I know (cxiao) wrote a reverse engineering postmortem of a malware spreading on discord that I provided the sample for... I feel less bad now about popping it open in a disassembler and being like "what the hell is all this about" […]

I made it back from #WHY2025 teardown yesterday (onto the ferry with -4 minutes spare, and a telling off).

My server broke halfway through the event, so it's catching up on 200,000 posts :slowparrot:

Once those are processed and my new uplink is sorted, I'll post some on my photos from the […]

Steph leaning over a bundle of Cat5e and a mess of protoboard

An RJ45 block in a cardboard mount, connected via a ratsnest to a a protoboard

Øl Telecom Labs have iterated on last night's Hacker Jeapody buttons.

Join us at 2100 in Stage Cassiopeia to see if they work... 🤪

#why2025

A model railway in the corner of the tent. A ServFail flag hangs next to an NS "naar de trainen" sign

The most awesome part of the village? @aetios has brought an N-gauge model railway!

Naar de trainen in Øl Telecom!

#why2025

PCB with card reader and bodge wires

Would anyone at #why2025 like to dump the firmware on a fairly rare Mondex phone for Science (and history)?

More info: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondex

ServFail, Øl Telecom, Windows XP Welcome and Spezi pride flags in the camping

Village complete ✅

#why2025

Well, this isn't quite the dramatic opening we were hoping for!

#why2025

A white tent with "parking" made out of tape. The shuttle flag is taped on, next to the WHY flag

The WHY flag and shuttle flag below, blowing in the wind from the light tower

Team:Shuttle flags are now installed, guiding visitors towards the detailed wiki page.

(There has been a hostile takeover of Team:Parking's tent)

Thanks to @eloy for the superb meme 👌

#why2025

Two flags underneath a light pole

Flag Operations Center

#why2025

A pastry being held up to a vent. Below is the lettering "charge 300kW"

Heating your frikandel roll with the power of 2 charging shuttles

A van drives along road plates (supported by sand) towards a tent. On either side is mud with standing water

Through a sea of mud, the arcade have conducted a challenging engineering exercise to forge safe passage for the cabinets

As a reminder (to all those that are asking about this): yes, media from my server loads slowwwwwwwwly :slowparrot:

Unfortunately my Microtik arrived the day after I left for camp, so I wasn't able to upgrade the connection in time.

So enjoy the time limited dialup experience 😉

A TUI; angel-crablab has metadata Teamlead Shuttle and Teamlead Laminating

According to Team: Warehouse, I have been promoted to a new, extremely exciting role 🫠

#why2025

Empty lightbulb boxes

I'm having a lightbulb moment 💡

#why2025

A line of mate crates on a table

Another incentive to come for buildup 😛 #why2025

@kytta 👋 Will you be at WHY? 👀

A muddy field with tents in the background, and barrier tape. It's raining and muddy

Hello from a rainy Dutch field. I feel at home already :)

A silver Skoda Fabia, full of stuff.

Looking out over a port from the outside deck of a ferry

Against many odds, I have borrowed a suitable vehicle and made it to my ferry.

A big thanks to the hackspace member who dug out, reassembled and MOT'd the Skoda with 2 days notice last week.

Plus @kline for helping service it on Friday, and identifying […]

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A box and UK switch facia plate, hanging off the wall

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And so the inevitable begins. I give it until the end of the month, before there's an article in a major news outlet about people being scammed under the pretence of the OSA.

(Yes, I can see it doesn't mention the OSA by name and references the "EU" […]

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@doskel Love the t-shirt 🚀

Out on #Sheffield & #Rotherham #coffee deliveries.

Why would anyone choose a car when this isthe route on a #bike

#Cycling

headed out

Fibre ONT and media converter.

Five engineer visits later, we hopefully have working fibre 👀

Microtik probably won't arrive until after WHY now, so y'all have to put up with the dialup experience until afterwards!

@eta Would you like a 1pMobile referral code? 😛

A Raspberry Pi Zero connected to veroboard with messy wires in-between

Quality electronics here in the Øl Telecom R&D lab