Dan (Dogsbody) Benton

Seems relevant. Here's one I prepared earlier. Power cut hamper ... youtu.be/LfeqW4ldRN8?...

I gave a talk at EMF titled "Men in Tech #YesAllMen", in which I told my experience of being a woman in tech. I was afraid to publish it in case it affected my current or future employment. With all the current news I would like to add my 2¢. So here is the recording: youtu.be/WXL6K1lhvt0?...

The CGPM ( General Conference on Weights and Measures) has voted to abolish the leap second: www.npl.co.uk/news/the-fut...

Need a senior engineer in #Aotearoa New Zealand - but not enough to justify sending someone over? I’m available for short engineering assignments. I’m good at practical eng., unusual environs, prototypes, mfg & troubleshooting. Need a trusted pair of technical eyes & ears? Contact me!

Remind me not to go on holiday during @cloudflare.social's birthday week again. I have 46 blog posts just from them to catch up on! 🙄😆

.dot domains are being advertised for public registration from November. And yes, the website is www.dot.dot I guess it's a good thing radio adverts aren't as big as they used to be! I'm looking forward to all the Morse code domains we are now doing to get 😆

This would also be awesome as a physical Lunar Lander game.

This has just popped up near me and I REALLY want it for #emfcamp! I wonder if it would work as a #VanLife conversion? They say you should slow down as you travel the world!

just learned this today

If anyone needs an "our engineer in Aotearoa New Zealand or the South Island" - for trouble shooting, investigations, science writing etc. Hit me up :)

"From 2027 you will not be able to get an SSL unless you publish a CAA record in your DNS. Trouble is, not all DNS providers allow you to publish CAA records!" ... I genuinely feel this will be an issue for some people

A puppet performing a puppet on the radio!! Yes please… #behindthescenes

22,000 people are set to lose their .name domains next year, and could potentially be re-registered and used to hijack decades of linked accounts. neil.fraser.name/news/2026/09...

Rude!! But true 😒

The dog now gets excited when the alert beeps on my phone to tell me the Deliveroo rider is on the way. He knows that means food is incoming. I really need to cut down on the number of takeaways. And Pavlov was onto something.

So @robinince.bsky.social wrote about @emfcamp.bsky.social in the Big Issue and gave us a new tagline. #emfcamp

#EMFCamp is such a great event and really proud of the dome the team built and coded too 🤩

I always suspected a UK government would eventually reverse course on "coding in public". So I've been backing up all government code. For six years. Today I finally generated a report on what has been deleted. Its much worse than I realised. github.com/uk-gov-mirro...

The NHS has just offered me £3,935 to be infected with coronavirus and put in quarantine for 11-13 days. I'll be honest, this is tempting!

Happy #SysAdminDay ! We have the best customers 🤩

@jingo.uk All the reflections at #EMFCamp 🪩

That’s amazing! I have the same combination on my luggage.

PHP 8.2 reaches End of Life on 31 December 2026 If your websites or applications are running PHP 8.2, now is the time to plan an upgrade. Staying on a supported version improves security, performance, & compatibility. Extended support can buy you time, but it shouldn't replace an upgrade plan.

I love AliExpress... > "81.5% chance to start delivery before Jul. 02" ... That is a very accurate percentage for a very vague promise!

I’m not prone to hyperbole, but perpetrators of this should receive the death penalty.

Devoting the rest of my life to finding and punishing the designer of these temperature controls

New threats don't change the basics...

Nothing better than sitting in silence paying close attention to everything around you while your tinnitus sounds like an alarm going off

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Discourse realised that they had one site that had used a GIF of Rachel from Friends 246,173 times which made their backups 432 GB instead of 26 GB. They fixed it with hard links only to break hardlinks as ext4 has a limit of roughly 65,000 hardlinks per inode. blog.discourse.org/2026/04/how-...

You may have seen the announcement about AWS's "S3 Files" service allowing you to "mount" An S3 bucket on a filesystem. I've been struggling to find some good data on how it actually compares to something like `s3fs-fuse` or `mountpoint-s3`. The short answer is the difference is HUGE (& expensive)

My “I’m not in the Epstein Files” T-shirt is inviting a lot of questions already answered by the shirt

In 4 months time AWS may start charging you almost double for the RDS database servers you have with them. If you are using RDS MySQL 8.0 Community Edition then you should read our latest blog post

Discussing Iran and the Strait of Hormuz on BBC Daily Politics. The Tories and Reform would have propelled the UK into offensive action and embroiled us in this ill-conceived and illegal war. Now the task is clear: de-escalation - and some serious British leadership.

Who DRM's an Invoice!? @vodafonegroup.bsky.social apparently! 🤣 This is the PDF VAT invoice that I just got from Vodafone... No Vodafone... bad Vodafone! 🤪

It seems someone actively tried to take over NTP (on IPv6) in the Philippines! A great write up by an amazing team that work tirelessly behind the scenes. community.ntppool.org/t/dns-config...

VICTORY! Government to open up the Land Registry - bringing to an end a thousand years of secrecy shrouding who owns England. I’ve been campaigning for this for ten years: the new Land Use Framework, published later today, makes it government policy. 1/ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

An interesting little blog post from someone that tried blocking all HTTP1.1 traffic. Spoiler: it's all bots! sheep.horse/2026/3/block...

did you know that SSH has a little-known secret menu? i wrote a post about this on cohost a while back, but since that site shut down i'm posting it here too

I admit being really excited for 4k but the amount of content I happily watch in 1080p and don't even notice is shocking. It doesn't surprise me at all that 8k hasn't gone anywhere.

i made a version of wikipedia you can doomscroll xikipedia.org

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This is where we can make an impact 👇 ❄️ snowflake.torproject.org

44% of the population of Denton and Gorton are ethnic minority, the majority of them born in the UK. Reform's candidate says those people aren't British and are liable for deportation. It's a bold electoral strategy: vote for me and I'll throw you into the sea. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I highly recommend the film "Dust Bunny". It's like Wes Anderson made Léon The Professional and cinematically it's beautiful too!