Ian Utting
ianautting.bsky.social
Ian Utting
@ianautting.bsky.social
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"The BBC tried this after 'Final Final Version (2) - Do Not Edit (1)' failed."
November 28, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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Uh oh
Vodafone did 27k bgp announcements immediately before the massive outage, and their announced address space went from 2.5m to 655k

radar.cloudflare.com/routing/as53...
Routing Information from AS5378 | Cloudflare Radar
BGP routing trends and insights from AS5378 Vodafone UK Vodafone, including statistics, announced IP address space, BGP announcements, announced prefixes, connectivity, and detected routing anomalies.
radar.cloudflare.com
October 13, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Motherfucking wind farms…
July 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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The UK did have one standout product that was considered globally valuable- universities- and unilaterally decided to stop providing the product because it was more important to be xenophobic than successful
The UK’s economic problems are quite deep-rooted. The best summary I can offer is “we don’t make enough valuable, productive stuff and sell it to the world any more”.
Things like planning and energy no doubt play a role in that - but I don’t think they’re enough to fix it on their own
July 22, 2025 at 7:01 AM
"Orangemandias"!
June 15, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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On the tariffs @strangeloopcanon.com over at the other place has pretty convincing evidence that the White House may have used LLMs to come up with its tariff model and that that evidence may have come from LLM scraping of a Peter Navarro book. We are in the dumbest AI timeline.
April 3, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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So on March 9, a French scientist, on a visa to attend a conference in Houston, was denied entry to the US and subsequently expelled because his phone had messages decrying scientific policies put forward by the Trump administration: www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
Etats-Unis : un chercheur français refoulé pour avoir exprimé « une opinion personnelle sur la politique menée par l’administration Trump »
Le ministre de la recherche français a dit sa « préoccupation », mercredi, après cette décision des autorités américaines. Le chercheur du CNRS aurait subi un contrôle aléatoire à son arrivée, avant q...
www.lemonde.fr
March 19, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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it's twelfth night, time to celebrate by finding a loyal sea captain to save you from drowning and fall hopelessly in love with you, then abandon him to rot in jail so you can marry your sister's star-crossed girlfriend
January 5, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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BLTQIA+
November 18, 2024 at 2:12 PM