Andi Chandler

I ran a speed test on my VPN's "Eritrea" server and found out most providers fake their locations Your VPN might not be telling the truth about where you're connected from.

Does your VPN go where it says on the tin?

Many VPN providers are deploying virtual locations as an alternative to providing connectivity via hard-to-host geographies.

#VPN #geolocation #Internet #telecoms #network

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Attended “In the Cloud” how the Met Office are using the Cloud and AI to transform weather and climate intelligence.
Hosted by the Royal Society.

Fascinating talks and demos. Obviously the best was the LLM to Shipping Forecast generator.

#metoffice #cloud #data #ai #hpc #science #royalsociety

Surge in GPS interference around Strait of Hormuz increases shipping risks More than 1,100 vessels have been hit by GPS interference across the Middle East Gulf since the start of the conflict, according to maritime firm Windward. Experts warn these attacks pose severe risks...

As well as the obvious implications to navigation both at sea and in the air, this is a timely reminder not to rely only on satellite-based signals for network time synchronisation.

#GPS #GNSS #jamming #NTP #PTP #time

www.france24.com/en/middle-ea...

Good to see demand management being tested to adjust the power needs of AI workloads without impacting latency, and to curtail energy usage to maintain grid stability temporarily.

#energy #power #electricity #grid #datacentre #datacenter #demandmanagement

www.nationalgrid.com/uk-first-tri...

The world’s first transatlantic fiber-optic cable is being ripped up after 37 years on the sea floor — TAT-8 to be removed after entering service in 1988, broke in 2002 Launched in 1988, it provided the blueprint model for every undersea internet cable that followed.

Good to see an old cable being recycled and clearing the route for newer cables.

#telecoms #subsea #tat8 #atlantic #internet

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Lovely little local museum, The Rural Life Centre near Farnham, Surrey. Including the Old Kiln Light Railway.
#rurallifecentre #oldkilnlightrailway #daysout #museum

Rural Life Centre An open-air museum showing a collection of buildings, tools, and other objects of the past.

Lovely afternoon at the Rural Life Centre… a handy tip from #NerdyDayTrips
#History #Museums
nerdydaytrips.org/daytrip/eu/g...

ooo... nice. Handy for places without a OSM node.

FTL crashing after upgrade to v6.2 · Issue #2473 · pi-hole/FTL Versions Pi-hole: v6.1 Web: v6.2 FTL: v6.2 Platform OS and version: Armbian Linux 6.12.23-current-sunxi64 Platform: Orange Pi Zero 3 Expected behavior FTL and DNS running Actual behavior / bug FTL ...

If your Pi-hole install is broken since the recent update, there is a 'hotfix' here:
github.com/pi-hole/FTL/...

#pihole #patches #fixes #DNS #ItWasDNS

AWS Cloud WAN looks interesting… although “AWS Obi” or “AWS Magrathea” would have been a better name.
#AWS #AWSSummit

At AWS Summit… nice day out in London….this Cloud thing looks promising ;-)

Ping me if you are about for a catch up…

#AWS #AWSSummit #Excel #Cloud

..must be a coded message in the houseplant placement! ;-)

Moon and Venus

Venus, Moon and Gigabit broadband earlier this evening. You can work out which. ;-)

Xen hypervisors updated. Not a sheep insight. :-o

Could go hideously wrong… counting servers and patching sheep :-o

If that fails, will start patching home lab servers.

Same. Counting sheep. :-o

…how many laps of the Piccadilly Line this time? ;-)

Ooo… tea :-)

Here’s something scary for Halloween.

BT/Openreach and AltNet providers building out new fibre networks using the Victorian “wires-on-dead-trees” approach!!

#fibre #tech #internet #cloud #openreach #toob #fwnetworks #halloween

Ubuntu 24.10: The Best New Features Ubuntu 24.10 'Oracular Oriole' will be released on October 13th, and as you'd expect from a new version of Ubuntu, it's packed with new features. As a

Upgraded daily driver to Ubuntu 24.10 prerelease today.
Easy upgrade. All okay so far -)

www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/09/ubun...

#Ubuntu #TestinProd #Linux #Tech #Canonical #Testing #Prerelease