Tom Strickx

I'm sorry to hear you're dealing with back pain.

A 2-shelf cupboard, with a glass shelf. On the top shelf there's a set of green-glowing glassware, made with uranium glass. The bottom shelf has random trinkets.

Looks like there's a small collection of uranium glass trinkets in Bruges @astrokatie.com . Worth a trip to pick up?

Speed 4: The duckening

Love this idea. Pruning is good, and salmon is delicious.

Can you move a bit further back.
Bit further.
Keep going
Yep, more
Just keep walking until I say stop
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Yeah, right there!

You're doing rather well, as you're one of the silliest people I know.

Oi

I just had lunch. Stop making me hungry...

A graph of RAM (DDR5-6000 2X32G) module price over time. It's stable around $200 from the left of the graph (jan 2024) until sept 2025. Since the price is accelerating upwards, and is currently at $700.

The chips market is having an entirely normal one I see.
Thanks AI...

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.

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...

The video for my #taloscon2025 keynote is now up!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cum5...

JESUS MARIE, IT'S NOT A ROCK!

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...

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

Did they point some windmills at Westminster, or is it just a bit windeh?

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.

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

Yeaaaah baby! #RIPE91 time!
Excited to catch up with the @ripencc.bsky.social community this week.

Yesssssss.
See you tomorrow!

Probably has the ego to think Clos networks are named after him, but people keep spelling it wrong.

It was definitely iptables

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...
x.com/Independent/...

Animation of an aspect of the Internet's routing system: RPKI manifest issuances throughout the day, a re-issuance makes the thingies ploink rightwards

Huntington's is one of the scariest illnesses that's engrained in my subconsciousness (thanks House), seeing it cured in my lifetime is nothing but amazing

AWS ondertussen: delicious delicious egress network fees.

The LLMs is unused I think.

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...

🚨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...

A pint of cask ale in a pint glass that has Real ale & cider festival 2025 printed around a pictogram of an old diesel engine. At the top Epping Ongar Railway is printed.

With beer!

The view of the front of a steam engine, with bronze piping and levers, and an opening for the coal burner at the bottom.

A right-frontal picture of a black steam engine with a red frontal plate. The engine is named Pitchford Hall.

TRAAAAAAIIIIN!

If you get hit by a bus, you might get yeeted far enough and fast enough to win, I guess?