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This isn't unique to Vodafone. Google has also been slowly withdrawing from IXes globally in favor of PNIs and "VPPs" (verified peering providers). This only makes it harder for smaller networks to establish presence on the internet and feels pretty anti-competitive.

On the flip side, IXes are becoming harder and less desirable to participate in: port fees are going up, useful networks are withdrawing, low quality network participants are joining and widening blast radius. I'm not sure what the answer to this is, but this has not been a great year for the "open" internet.

21G on tc egress is slightly surprising to me. I'd like to see the program used for the benchmark. Was GSO accounted for? If you pop/pull headers by hand, you'll often kill GSO which will result in a massive loss in throughput like this.

Let’s not forget that we’re also feeding in all our code into OpenAI Codex.

Parliament Hill has great views of the city - probably the most elevated viewpoint in North London. Went there yesterday - gets super quiet after 10pm unlike Primrose.

I mentioned “routed” address, e.g. an address that actually appears on the DFZ. 0.0.0.0/8 is not a range that’s assigned to any RIRs by IANA - it’s reserved for special use.

Was more pointing out the numbered hostname, not the service its-self.

16777217 is just the lowest number that corresponds with a routed IP address :)