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TracketPacer @tracketpacer.com · 06/09/2026

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.

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rain 🌦️ @sunshowers.io · 04/09/2026

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

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576 - Using LLMs at Oxide | RFD | Oxide

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Tom Strickx @ecmp.network · 12/08/2026

Well that was stunning.

A crescent sun, the moon eclipsing 98% of the sun, leaving a thin sliver of bright orange in the sky. The moon is eclipsing bottom to top, so the crescent looks like an n.

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Tom Strickx @ecmp.network · 08/08/2026

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

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Jeroen Baert @jbaert.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

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

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johanna @jola.dev · 25/05/2026

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...

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The social contract of writing | jola.dev

About the value of genuine writing in a world being drowned in slop.

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Tom Strickx @ecmp.network · 18/05/2026

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

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Tom Strickx @ecmp.network · 18/04/2026

Wooo #RSD2026 Show up at 0930, and already down 2 albums from the list 😭 And now we wait 90 minutes

A wrapping queue in an industrial estate

A queue of people in front of some industrial buildings

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

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

Palm III pda in its dock with a serial cable connector.

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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

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.

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Tom Strickx @ecmp.network · 23/03/2026

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

The front of a bar, slightly occluded by a tree with new leaves on the branches.
A red awning has the name of the bar written in white lettering: "The Hairy Canary".
Above it there's another sign with the name, in more traditional English pub lettering.

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Tom Strickx @ecmp.network · 01/03/2026

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

A TV in front of a window with exposed brick around it.
On the tv is an old school teletext display, showing beer checkins through Untappd

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Tom Strickx @ecmp.network · 02/02/2026

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

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.

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Tom Strickx @ecmp.network · 13/01/2026

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

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Tom Strickx @ecmp.network · 23/11/2025

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

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.

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WIRED @wired.com · 21/11/2025

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...

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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.

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Cloudflare @cloudflare.social · 31/10/2025

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. cfl.re/47yQOdU

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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...

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Tom Strickx @ecmp.network · 24/10/2025

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.

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Tom Strickx @ecmp.network · 20/10/2025

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

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Cloudflare Radar @radar.cloudflare.com · 13/10/2025

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/...

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Tom Strickx @ecmp.network · 12/06/2025

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

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NetLdn @netldn.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

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...

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Tom Strickx @ecmp.network · 22/05/2025

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.

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bot.bgpstuff.net @bot.bgpstuff.net · 23/04/2025

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.

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Tom Strickx @ecmp.network · 18/04/2025

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

The front entrance of Verdant Brewing. It's an industrial building with a large glass entrance. A large green sign saying Verdant Brewing Co. Sits on top.
In front are some benches with an sail providing some weather protection.

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Tom Strickx @ecmp.network · 30/03/2025

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

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Tom Strickx @ecmp.network · 15/03/2025

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

Two Japanese knives, one gyuto with a damascus steel pattern, and one santoku, on top of a green cotton knife roll

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Aaron A. Glenn @networkservice.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

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

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aka_pugs @akapugs.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

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

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 01/03/2025

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

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Tom Strickx @ecmp.network · 08/01/2025

I feel this in my bones

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Tom Strickx @ecmp.network · 07/01/2025

Bit preoccupied with anything not thinking sand this week.

A picture of a snow covered mountain range in the background, and an out of focus piece of cheese and a foldable knife in the foreground.

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Scott Nover @scottnover.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

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.

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Tom Strickx @ecmp.network · 15/12/2024

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

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Tom Strickx @ecmp.network · 07/12/2024

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

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Michele Neylon @mneylon.social · 29/11/2024

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

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Tom Strickx @ecmp.network · 26/11/2024

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

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Anyway… Here’s a visualization of all the curse words being used on Bluesky in real time. Each word is a cute fluffy little profane cloud. It’s oddly soothing. H/t @bagpuss.org #SwearSky swearsky.bagpuss.org

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Bluesky profanity, as it happens

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Tom Strickx @ecmp.network · 17/11/2024

Rise and shine Mr Freeman, rise and shine!

The start screen of Half-Life 2, showing a town square with a large imposing tower in the background.

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Tom Strickx @ecmp.network · 13/11/2024

Tomorrow (2024-11-14) I'm making a (hopefully somewhat entertaining/interesting) fool of myself at #NetLdn 7PM sharp @ The Wheatsheaf netldn.uk/2024/11/08/n...

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