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Dan (Dogsbody) Benton @dogsbody.org · 25/09/2026

.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 😆

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Captain Disillusion @captaindisillusion.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

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

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Dan (Dogsbody) Benton @dogsbody.org · 21/09/2026

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!

Facebook marketplace listing for a Volvo Hagglund Bandvagn 202 (BV202) amphibious, tracked, articulated, all-terrain vehicle for sale for £10,000 in Alton

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eliko thalia @museinrevolt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

just learned this today

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Dr Lucy Rogers @drlucyrogers.com · 15/09/2026

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

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Dan (Dogsbody) Benton @dogsbody.org · 08/09/2026

"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

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Phil Fletcher @philfletcher.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

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

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Dan (Dogsbody) Benton @dogsbody.org · 03/09/2026

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...

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Neil Fraser: News: .name Termination

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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

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.

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Jonty Wareing @jonty.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

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

A photo of the "Robin Ince on the Road" column in the Big Issue, Issue 1730, 10-16th August 2026.

Unfortunately it's too large to alt-text, but the pull quote is "Electromagnetic Field is a DIY techno utopia, a field of ingenuity, robotics, lasers, full of hope and activism"

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Dan (Dogsbody) Benton @dogsbody.org · 12/08/2026

I decided to get creative with my pinhole camera and spread some love... #eclipse #eclipse2026

The words "B HAPPY" and a smiley face written with pinholes during the eclipse

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Dan (Dogsbody) Benton @dogsbody.org · 11/08/2026

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

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Jonty Wareing @jonty.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

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...

Deleted UK Government code repositories

Total deleted repositories: 1526
Organisations affected: 56

See RECENTLY_DELETED.md for the most recently deleted repositories.

Organisation Deleted Repos % Deleted
hmrc 195 9.8%
nhsdigital 169 33.8%
SkillsFundingAgency 154 22.7%
informatics-lab 154 100.0%
UKHomeOffice 101 7.5%
ministryofjustice 74 2.8%
ONSdigital 66 4.3%
moj-analytical-services 65 75.6%
ukwa 47 46.1%
dwp 46 6.7%
UKGovernmentBEIS 43 27.4%

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Dan (Dogsbody) Benton @dogsbody.org · 31/07/2026

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!

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Dan (Dogsbody) Benton @dogsbody.org · 31/07/2026

Happy #SysAdminDay ! We have the best customers 🤩

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Dan (Dogsbody) Benton @dogsbody.org · 15/07/2026

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

An unfolded envelope showing that the users "Temporary pin is 1 2 3 4"

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Dan (Dogsbody) Benton @dogsbody.org · 09/07/2026

Disadvantage #783 of a "smart" home... When you get a power cut and the power comes back on, all the bulbs in the house come on at full brightness! This happened three times last night! between 4 and 5 am 😒

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Dogsbody Technology Ltd. @dogsbody.com · 02/07/2026

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.

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Dan (Dogsbody) Benton @dogsbody.org · 01/07/2026

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

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Captain Disillusion @captaindisillusion.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

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

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Jonty Wareing @jonty.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

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

A Mitsubishi air conditioner remote control. Above a down pointing arrow it says "Too Warm" and above an up pointing arrow it says "Too Cool"

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Dan (Dogsbody) Benton @dogsbody.org · 19/05/2026

New threats don't change the basics...

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Jonty Wareing @jonty.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

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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Dogsbody Technology Ltd. @dogsbody.com · 28/04/2026

As a Linux & cloud consultancy, we have found amazing partners to help our business grow. Here we spill the beans & help you save money too!

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Our Trusted Suppliers after 15+ Years - Dogsbody Technology

As a Linux & cloud consultancy, we have found amazing partners to help our business grow. Here we spill the beans & help you save money too!

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Dan (Dogsbody) Benton @dogsbody.org · 14/04/2026

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-...

blog.discourse.org

How Jennifer Aniston and Friends Cost Us 377GB and Broke ext4 Hardlinks

One reaction GIF. Used constantly in posts, PMs, everywhere. Each use in a different security context creates a new copy. 246,173 copies of Rachel from Friends doing a happy dance.

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Dan (Dogsbody) Benton @dogsbody.org · 10/04/2026

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)

lastweekinaws.com

S3 Is Not a Filesystem (But Now There's One In Front of It)

I've been saying "S3 is not a filesystem" for over a decade. I've said it on stages, in newsletters, on podcasts, and directly to the faces of large

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Siobhan Thompson @vornietom.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

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

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Dogsbody Technology Ltd. @dogsbody.com · 31/03/2026

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

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Avoid Surprise AWS RDS Charges in 2026 - Dogsbody Technology

Running AWS RDS MySQL 8.0? Avoid costly Extended Support charges in 2026. Learn how SMEs can migrate to Aurora with zero downtime.

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Dr Al Pinkerton MP @alpinkerton.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

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.

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Dan (Dogsbody) Benton @dogsbody.org · 24/03/2026

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! 🤪

A screenshot of a PDF that just reads
"This document uses encryption powered by Microsoft Information
Protection. You're seeing this page either because you are not authorized
to view its content or are using an unsupported PDF viewer.
To open this document, use a PDF viewer that supports Azure Rights
Management or contact the document owner to grant you permissions."

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

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/...

theguardian.com

Government to lift paywall from large parts of the Land Registry

Exclusive: finding out who owns land will become simpler under plans to make the best use of green spaces and hit net zero targets

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A. M. Vincent @vincent.northsky.social · 15/03/2026

Sad to see the Ides of March becoming commercialised like this. I really feel like we're losing track of the true spirit of the holiday. It's not about how many knives you can stick in a tyrant all at once, it's about the whole community coming together to stab the tyrant as many times as possible.

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Rebane @rebane2001.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

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

Cohost post by rebane2001

secret ssh menu (and other tricks)

hi cohost, ever get annoyed by ssh sessions hanging and forcing you to kill the process? it doesn't have to be this way, for there is a secret ssh menu the ssh industry has been greedily keeping for themselves!

so how do you access this menu? from within an ssh session, press ↵Enter and type ~?

you should see something like this:

Supported escape sequences:
~. - terminate connection (and any multiplexed sessions)
~B - send a BREAK to the remote system
~C - open a command line
~R - request rekey
~V/v - decrease/increase verbosity (LogLevel)
~^Z - suspend ssh
~# - list forwarded connections
~& - background ssh (when waiting for connections to terminate)
~? - this message
~~ - send the escape character by typing it twice
(Note that escapes are only recognized immediately after newline.)

pretty cool!

These sequences are built into the ssh client itself, so they work even if the ssh server or your connection breaks! The most useful one here is ~. which exits the ssh session no matter what. Super useful if you have a session hang!
The "command line" lets you set up port forwarding (type help after opening it). Most of the other options are pretty self-explanatory - if you need them you probably understand what they mean.

What about nested ssh sessions? You can use ~~ to send the sequence to the inner client, here's an example:

pinkie@stable:~$ ssh ponyvillestable
pinkie@ponyville:~$ ssh manehattenstable > ponyville
pinkie@manehatten:~$stable > ponyville > manehatten
pinkie@manehatten:~$ Connection to manehatten closed.↵Enter~~.
pinkie@ponyville:~$stable > ponyville
pinkie@ponyville:~$ ssh manehattenstable > ponyville
pinkie@manehatten:~$stable > ponyville > manehatten
pinkie@manehatten:~$ Connection to ponyville closed.↵Enter~.
pinkie@stable:~$stable
neat!

Okay, a few bonus tricks:

ssh -C enables gzip compression - even though the documentation states that this is unneccessary on fast networks, I've found that it does wonders for improving latency and responsiveness in many situations, especially when using TUIs or printing out lots of logs.
ssh -v enables verbose logging (-vv or -vvv if you want more), which is useful on a slow connection or when connecting to a slow machine (eg a Raspberry Pi). It lets you figure out whether a connection is hanging (eg host down) or just being slow.
ssh -D 1234 creates a SOCKS proxy on your localhost:1234 that lets you use the server's network. Quite handy if you need to mess around in the LAN of the server, or if you need a quick DIY VPN in a pinch.
alright that's all, i hope you picked up something useful from this post! it's my first time posting anything of this kind so i hope you like it!

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Dan (Dogsbody) Benton @dogsbody.org · 03/02/2026

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.

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Rebane @rebane2001.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

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

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 30/01/2026

❤️

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Tor Project @torproject.org · 28/01/2026

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

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

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...

theguardian.com

Reform byelection candidate refuses to disown claim that people born in UK not necessarily British

Matthew Goodwin, who is standing in Gorton and Denton, said UK-born people from minority ethnic backgrounds were not always British

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Dan (Dogsbody) Benton @dogsbody.org · 25/01/2026

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

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Jonty Wareing @jonty.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Important

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Tim Davies @timdavies.org.uk · 20/01/2026

Alongside the #GenerativeAI for #Education summit in London yesterday, the DfE updated their ‘Product Safety Expectations’ for #EdTech developers, and for schools to consider when deciding which tools are safe to use. www.gov.uk/government/p... A quick thread on the updates (1/15)

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Generative AI: product safety standards

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TracketPacer @tracketpacer.com · 20/01/2026

purveyor of fine OSINT techniques, @harrris0n on twitter, is exposing insecure vibecoded AI slop apps in the Apple store & has put them in a database. all of these apps are exposed/leaking user data right now. you can check if anything on your phone is doing this by going to firehound.covertlabs.io

firehound.covertlabs.io

Firehound | Security Operations

Industrial management platform for Firehound-Go scans.

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Chris 🤍💛💙 @chrisb64.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Only FOUR complaints against trans women using toilets since 2022 and across 382 public bodies #Labour #LibDems shame on you You fell for the rights 'culture wars' nonsense @pluslibdems.bsky.social @pluslibdems.bsky.social @labouruk.bsky.social @libdems.org.uk www.thepinknews.com/2026/01/06/t...

thepinknews.com

Virtually no one has complained about trans people in toilets

Just four people have complained about trans people using toilets since 2022, an FOI data report has revealed.

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Dan (Dogsbody) Benton @dogsbody.org · 02/01/2026

@amyshirateitel.bsky.social (longtime follower, first time writer) I would love to see your response to this YT short from the amazing astro_alexandra about why the mortars on Apollo 14 were never fired. youtu.be/pXXvJ1csbQk?... Thank you for some awesome science content in 2025 and happy new year

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Astronauts brought grenades to the moon and set off explosions on it… #space #science #nasa #shorts

YouTube video by ASTRO ALEXANDRA

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TracketPacer @tracketpacer.com · 02/01/2026

deleting a white supremacist dating site live onstage while dressed as the pink power ranger has got to be one of the most cathartic hacker experiences

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TracketPacer @tracketpacer.com · 01/01/2026

this really was prophetic wasn’t it

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