Michio Honda

This is probably every Japanese wanted in UK! Maitame mushrooms have been only a part of mushroom mix, but we wanted just this one!

Some people say UK is not very child friendly, but I feel UK is when travelling back from France (Nice).

We're exploring how to move on from TLS/TCP in datacenters - check out our Oakland’26 paper* about encrypted message-based transport and NDSS’26 paper* about low latency, post quantum mTLS handshake! Congrats @tianyigao.net for ANRP!
*https://micchie.net/pubs/

First time ever I feel I need sunglasses in Glasgow.

Forty years ago, 21 people gathered for the first meeting of what became the IETF. Today, nearly 8000 IETF participants from around the world collaborate in more than 100 working groups and every day billions of people use technologies developed in the IETF. https://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-40/

That's horrible.. Actually I skip many talks and instead spend in the hallway to talk to the people, but I imagine such confs also have an empty hallway..

Absolutely true, but it is unavoidable to submit to conferences just as the pub venue for the career of many..

Great initiative of NDSS making paper presentations *officially* optional. For many people, having to think about visa, cost and childcare attached to travel every time submitting a paper is too much pain.

OMG in another authentic place I saw the one with only anchovies/tomato/oregano and I liked it, and I felt mozzarella kill each other's taste. But perhaps my tongue was not authentic.

I am super happy with a new pizzeria in a good location to me, even the best one in Edinburgh IMO. But they put mozzarella on anchovy/oregano pizza. It should be wrong..

first frozen pond this winter #inverleithpond

exactly.. The trader did experiment and figure out the safe queue length aka watermark in the bathtub!

Something like that. Traders are super responsible so I am happy.

Free ones here or in Germany or Bergium are like that AFAIK.

Bathroom water leak just after renovation. It turned out the new bath can stress the main drain more because the old one did "rate-limiting" with a clogged waste pipe.

Yes, usually they open on bank holidays, and Xmas and 1-2 Jan are exception.

Planning a festive period lunch/dinner is tricky as butchers/fishmongers are not well stocked on 23-24th, supermarkets are closed on 25th, and nursery is closed until 28th😱

Surprisingly my wife and son got ILR just in 1mo.

Dear ACM, you're doing AI wrong but you can still get it right

There has been outrage as the @acm.org rolls out AI generated summaries of papers. This is doing AI exactly wrong by replacing valuable, peer-reviewed content with a possibly inaccurate summary. It's still not too late to correct it though and use AI responsibly... anil.recoil.org/notes/acm-ai...

'Throw the parcel at the back door' - Evri couriers tell of pressure to earn a decent wage BBC Panorama investigates the delivery firm - a market leader with the worst reputation for non-deliveries.

Quite a match to my experience with Ervi.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Even in (traditionally) OS conferences, I feel the term kernel no longer refers to an OS kernel by default.

Oden with Chinese hotpot ingredients

What 2.5yo boy wants for Xmas toy would be obsolete on Xmas but shipping/stock gets trickier closer to that

I miss HotNets, rather disappointed in a big conf last time.

The HotNets 2025 program and papers are available! Similar mix of topics as SIGCOMM, with lots of AI, some host networking, some LEO, some eBPF...
conferences.sigcomm.org/hotnets/2025...

Yes I will be, looking forward to it!

When in Edinburgh?

Really no idea how others are coping with the ACM latex format incompatible with biber...

Submit nominations for the 2026 award period of the Applied Networking Research Prize until November 17, 2025
www.irtf.org/anrp/

Congratulations!!