Tom Strickx

in the last 5 months i have spent more time refuting claims made by claude about networking that software engineers insist i look into than actually doing network engineering.

One recently-added section to our RFD 576 says that in public writing it's worth avoiding even the appearance of AI slop -- both at the content and at the text level

Well that was stunning.

I guess @swiftonsecurity.com is also secretly a Korn fan

Leeftijdscontrole is identiteitscontrole, voor iedereen. Laat ze hier niet op ideetjes komen.

Wrote a bit about why LLM-written text is so painful, even when the content itself is fine, and the importance of using your own voice jola.dev/posts/the-so...

And Mirjam just kicked off #RIPE92 in Edinburgh. Whoop!

On this Palm Sunday, we commemorate our lord and savior Palm III

Recently a friend got on some new meds that made them much more chilled out, but to the point that they're procrastinating tedious and boring (but important) tasks, and it made me think about how much of my productivity is just white hot free-floating anxiety.

It's been 10 years since I last set foot in this place. Nothing's changed. Truly is home away from home.

I'm feeling incredibly pigeonholed here. Teletext feed of Untappd checkins and tap list. They know their audience...

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.

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

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...

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

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.

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

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/...

🚨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...

TRAAAAAAIIIIN!

This architecture needs more NAT gateway, right @quinnypig.com ?

Hell yeah! @netldn.bsky.social is SO back

Good news, we've found a new home and will be back on 12th June, in "Henry's Den" downstairs at Finch's, Finsbury Square; a short walk from Moorgate, Old Street & Liverpool St maps.app.goo.gl/9wDtEW18MZqY...

Today in funny router bugs: Junos will resolve ASCII characters to their decimal value in an as-path regex: 'show route aspath-regex .*;' will show you all prefixes/paths originated from AS59, as ; is 59 in the ASCII table.

I see 1000028 IPv4 prefixes. This is 240 more prefixes than 6 hours ago and 970 more than a week ago. 61.78% of prefixes are /24.

I have made it to the Holy Land. My pilgrimage is complete.

Is there a way to make @bsky.app not save images to Camera, but to its own directory instead? I don't need memes backed up to Google Photos

This feels like a bad hobby to get sucked into...

hi my name is aaron I’m an american immigrant in europe for a decade now and my singular obsession is building network infrastructure. can you point me to the nearest EU private equity fund soirée? my Italian bespoke suit is this messenger bag don’t worry

OTD 1986: #SunMicrosystems Initial Public Offering. Red Herring: drive.google.com/fil...

That reporter really looked at the president of a country being battered by an invading force and asked “but what was he wearing”

Congrats on getting to space @tracketpacer.bsky.social !

I feel this in my bones

Bit preoccupied with anything not thinking sand this week.

Both the New York Times and Washington Post obituaries for Jimmy Carter have joint bylines including writers who have been dead for years. The Guardian ran an obit with a single byline—and yes, the writer has been dead since 2021.

Things I have learned to hate today: ARC. Just. No. AND IT'S STILL NOT WORKING. Cable swapping time tomorrow I guess.

Pogued at the start of Black Doves. That's a bit rude @netflix.com

www.checktheregister.ie/en-IE/forms the postal vote criteria are still nutty

It's hard enough as is to not call gNMI "OIDs as ProtoBuf" and you go ahead and pull this stunt... Goddammit Roman!