Saw the RayBan Smart Glasses display whilst on holiday.
Couldn't help thinking this.
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Neil Craig
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mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Lead Architect @ BBC. Snowboarder, skateboarder. Oxfordshire, UK. Opinions mine. He/Him.
Interested in #serverless #nodejs #googlecloud #terraform #bigquery #analytics #web #cdn #http #tls #http2 #http3 #security #infosec #privacy #webperformance #webperf etc.
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England Vs Argentina last night was busy! Easily the busiest ever live event on the BBC (I can't give you streaming stats, sorry).
On my logging pipeline (subset of BBC logs):
- Peak: 2.2M row/s (105GB/s)
- Total: 20.1B rows (16.4TB), 2.7M log files
- 0 write fails
- 0 duplicated rows
- Peak: 1035 Cloud Run containers @ 2x CPU each ∴ 2070 CPU
Best bit is that we did precisely nothing, it all just worked.
A very large CDN supplier emailed us today to say they are having to increase prices because their energy costs have risen up to 2x and servers are now 1.5x the price.
Sounds like AI crap making everything else more expensive, again.
If this turns out to be meaningful rain, it'd be *very* welcome.
We've had zero significant rain here since March - so ~5 months. For much of that time it's been 30-35℃.
75% of England and all of Wales is in drought currently.
In south oxfordshire we've had a hosepipe band for quite a while now.
Anyone who isn't convinced about climate change needs to stop smoking whatever they're smoking and look outside.
We've officially f**ked up as a species.
Amount of AI I use at work: 0
Amount I am falling behind my peers: Also 0
Maybe AI is a thing for some people but not for me.
You know who's missing from this, right?
I've had to deploy a spare laptop for my cat to sleep on.
He was on my work laptop and managed to turn it off whilst I was mid-work.
RE: @depthsofwiktionary@wikis.world
This just reminded me of a call I was on recently when a colleague warned others not to do $thing in case they get "porned".
The English FA in 2026, everyone.
You know, a mere 61 years after metrication.
Feet and inches are literally the stupidest measurement system. Why would anyone use that when metric measurements exist and are the default for your country?
FFS. Football is run by morons.
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Yes! UEFA has a spine.
F you Gianni.
Edit: And, that's despite the fact that the next World Cup is scheduled to be hosted in ⅔ European countries - Morocco, Portugal, and Spain.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c5y67zrrdddo
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Opposition to Infantino's grift is building.
Three of the six continental governing bodies for football have rejected it:
- UEFA (Europe)
- CONCACAF (North, Central & South America)
- AFC (Asia)
UEFA (backed by the English FA) will boycott FIFA tournaments and now Carlos Cordeiro - senior adviser to Infantino has resigned.
Infantino is now trying to weasel out of it, saying it's been confused by the Media reporting and he really was going to talk to people. Prick.
Boosted by @wtrmt@mastodon.social
We're recruiting for a new Security Architect role in BBC InfoSec:
Location: Remote (within UK) Salary range: £75-85k + solid pension & benefits Type: Permanent Closing date: 2026-02-16
"The BBC reaches over half a billion people online every week. By joining this team you will help keep these systems secure. You’ll regularly collaborate with critical BBC product teams such as iPlayer, Sounds and News..."
It's a great team to work with (I do regularly)
https://careers.bbc.co.uk/job/Senior-Information-Security-Architect/27382-en_GB/
FFS. Literally the only thing I even marginally like LLMs for (Pull Request reviews, because it's a total pedant) now seems shonky.
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Just in case you thought Infantino's plan somehow wasn't a grift:
Infantino has written to all 211 member associations saying they will receive $40m (£30m) if they back his controversial plan to sell off stakes in its major competitions
TIL @Vivaldi@social.vivaldi.net has mouse gestures.
Reminds me of HP VUE we used at uni. Very cool, using that for sure.
Sweet! Orban is in the bin.
Let's keep this rolling everywhere.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c2d8zw2d3rkt
Long shot...does anyone know any details about AS213802 - "tianfeng (hong kong) communications limited" AKA TFTel?
We saw what looks like a crawler make a chunk of requests from IP addresses geoip'd in China (which may be inaccurate) so I checked them out...
- HTTP only website
- Made up or massively out of date map location
- Text looks very generic (could be a poor machine translation though)
All in all, they look a bit fishy. I suspect this is traffic from their customer though.
TIL Jamie Oliver (chef) has his own ASN
TCP RTT for a BBC telemetry service by country from end user/client to closest CDN [1] PoP.
Larger, redder circles are slower/worse.
This neatly illustrates the global web performance divide.
TCP: Transmission Control Protocol
RTT: Round Trip Time
PoP: Point of Presence
[1] I can't name the CDN, sorry, corp/competition rules.
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The investment fund Fifa is dealing with - Thrive Capital - is led by Josh Kushner, the brother-in-law of Trump's daughter Ivanka.
[Infantino] created a Peace Prize and awarded it to Trump. He opened a Fifa office in Trump Tower, New York. He allowed the Club World Cup trophy to be kept in the Oval Office at the White House. He laughed along during Trump's inauguration speech in which he threatened World Cup co-hosts Canada and Mexico.
Grift all the way down.
Microsoft/GitHub should offer an easy way for enterprise orgs to fund packages/maintainers. How about something like:
Enterprise orgs allocate whatever monthly/annual amount they choose & GitHub uses the package manifest files to divide that amount up based on the org pref - e.g. % based on usage or even split or a custom setup - maybe with exclusions.
Feels like a major reason orgs don't fund maintainers is it's too fiddly & time-consuming & needs contracts.
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@fooflington@infosec.exchange I assume Moz are looking to make error pages less confusing/intimidating for less technical users - which is probably reasonable.
What's not reasonable is that this page gives wholly incorrect advice - "try again in a few moments" is not gonna work for a 403 or indeed any 4XX since they're all client/request errors.
FWIW/tangentially related, I'd still love an "I'm technical, show me all the details" setting on web browsers/software/OSs.
"My son is about to take his 40th flight - we are extreme day trippers"
```
s/day trippers/polluters
```
The kid is 6 years old. Imagine the pollution they've created.
"...two malicious versions of the widely used axios HTTP client library published to npm: axios@1.14.1 and axios@0.30.4...[which installs] a `postinstall` script that acts as a cross platform remote access trojan (RAT) dropper, targeting macOS, Windows, and Linux"
My `package.json` files across 4 projects:
```
"axios": "1.14.0"
```
Any personal recommendations (not search results please) from UK folks for a small UPS to cover our ONT, router, switches and a WIFI access point?
Ideally something fairly compact, I don't want it to be rackmount.
If it could do a few hours at something like 60-70W, that'd be fine.
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@cR0w@infosec.exchange You just reminded me of a sign on the bus from Soldeu to Andorra La Vella I saw about 10 years ago.
WTAF 🤣
We're (BBC) recruiting a Technical Product Manager to work in a team for which I cover architecture: BBC Media Analytics.
Scope: UK residents, full time
Location: Hybrid (1d/week in London)
Salary: £65-75k (35 hour week)
Closes: 2026-03-18 (apols, I just found out)
The team builds & runs our Media Analytics (logs, stats) service which runs on AWS & processes 10s of billions of data points per day inc. realtime stream telemetry from iPlayer/Sounds.
Shares/Qs welcomed
https://careers.bbc.co.uk/job/Senior-Product-Manager/39701-en_GB
I just found 4x responses in our server logs which have a `content-type` of `image/html`.
Even better, turns out they're `301` redirects.
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@isotopp I swear, any time "brigade" is used in a headline it's a lame attempt to disparage someone/something.
Whoever Matthew Lynn is, they can get in the bin.
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@briankrebs This is why we spent so much time and energy to get all of the primary BBC websites on to HTTPS *and* HSTS preloaded. Modern, mainstream web browsers will show a non-bypassable interstitial error page. Problem solved.
Google Cloud Storage now has a batch operations API.
I've not used it but you basically feed it bucket name(s) and prefix(es) or object names and the operation to run and it'll go away and do it for you - apparently across "billions of objects". Super handy for e.g. adjusting permissions/metadata/compression across an existing collection.
There's Terraform support: https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/google/latest/docs/resources/storage_batch_operations_job
https://docs.cloud.google.com/storage/docs/batch-operations/overview
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Interestingly, they didn't bother blocking www.bbc.co.uk so if folks can read English, they could block the bbc.co.uk -> bbc.com redirect and get our content that way. Just saying...
It's 2026 and people are still emailing word doc attachments around groups for joint input.
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@netblocks@mastodon.social We're seeing the same. Traffic to www.bbc.com and www.bbc.co.uk from Iran has fallen off a cliff.
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@gleick "Brian Finucane, a former legal adviser at the State Department, says of Trump’s post: “This threat against a ‘whole civilization’ could plausibly be interpreted as a threat of genocide."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5yw4g3z7qgt?post=asset%3A909c41a0-ebcb-4d97-91cb-c4027f6548d5#post
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@noratrieb@hachyderm.io @fooflington@infosec.exchange Unless it's a temporary misconfiguration - which does happen of course, but I'd argue is the exception rather than the rule - trying again is not going to make any difference.
Most 403s are there to protect content from unauthorised users and are permanent.
Hidden Agenda: Is it love?
Super chilled D&B track from the mid 90's (on one of my "for work" playlists).
Warning: YouTube Music (because I never found anything with better privacy that has the content)
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=82SJvmuqg5c&list=PL5ghxDVI5u92razjwAxVqhquIM-7PGtrd
Is It Love (2017 Remaster)
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@benschwarz Very cool! I'd love this sort of map in Grafana - that'd be waaay better for several of our use cases than the super detailed maps it currently has 🫡
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@TheRealNooshu@hachyderm.io @philhawksworth@indieweb.social FWIW, I'm seeing a DNS error. Looks like the DNS record/zone no longer exists.
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@simonzerafa Good Q. I have no idea but am hoping the bubble beings to deflate and things get at least slightly more reasonable.
Another CDN supplier told us yesterday that they were smart enough to buy all the kit they need for this FY a few months back, just before the RAM price inflation went to the moon.
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@staustellsimon Dubai to Newquay?
That seems unusual...and a pretty big plane to land at Newquay right?
@jon This may actually be the best photo of all time