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-title: "Week 13, Tuesday:"
+title: "Week 13, Tuesday: NLNOT"
 date: 2024-10-22T21:55:00+02:00
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+Today I got up early so that I could join NLNOG, in spirit at least. It starts at 09:00 but the
+content will be only half an hour later at 09:30. The NLNOG has a special place in my heart, as I've
+been a member of this community since the 90s and well before it was an official _thing_. The board
+are all staples and fixtures in the Dutch internet community, and I really enjoy re-connecting with
+the group as I started working more on open source routers like [[VPP](https://fd.io/)].
+
+After the opening, Yurii Polovyi of RETN discusses wavelength division multiplexing, CWDM/DWDM and
+(R)OADM solutions in the industry. It's an interesting overview. Next, Leroy de Vos (from AMS-IX
+NOC) gives a touching story about his own career from humble beginnings to the NOC of one of the
+largest internet exchanges on the planet. 
+
+In the coffee break, I start up the flight simulator and decide to fly my Cessna 172S skyhawk from
+Belp to Annecy in France. However, I'll plan a route over the alps this time, so I get to fly at
+11'000ft. In the process, I learn about the fuel mixture settings (lean during taxy, rich during
+takeoff <3'000ft, lean over 3'000ft). It's really amazing how well this simulator is programmed. As
+I touch down in Annecy with a straight in final approach, the NLNOG conference has already
+continued.
+
+On stage are Ondrej (RIPE), Arjan (Event Infra), and my buddy Andrew (Cisco) talking about how to
+make events networking uneventful. Each brings their own perspective, from outdoors venues (with
+_Datenklo's_) to huge indoors venues and a single room with 6000+ people in it. I also learned that
+the equipment sits in some storage room somewhere and weighs seven metric tonnes. Heh.
+
+Teun Vink takes us to a serious topic - specifically for those of us who have aging family members -
+and discusses our digital legacy. It's a presentation of pictures and the story it tells really
+spoke to me. Teun leads us in to lunch, and I as well have a sandwich and a cup of tea. I also fly
+my plane from Annecy to Dijon and I touch down on runway 02 and park the plane.
+
+After lunch, Rudi van Drunen shares a view into critical Dutch infrastructure with Networks at Air
+Traffic Control the Netherlands. On the heals of that, Bert Hubert brings 'part four of the
+triology' of social life lessons with Life long learning: dealing with change. We all drink some
+coffee, and I take a cup also, as I type away some of my e-mail backlog.
+
+After the break, Robin Gilijamse has a story with A Case Against Automation - I feel a little bit
+uncomfortable with the speaker venturing into aerospace investigations and drawing some conclusions
+that I would not have necessarily drawn. After Robin, Ties de Kock of RIPE NCC shares details of the
+key management of RPKI HSM. What is possibly my favorite story of the day is from Frank van Vliet,
+Debugging the impossible: the bit-flipping story. After his talk, one of the folks who lined up at
+the microphone was a senios engineer from KPN itself, saying thanks for the elaborate debugging :)
+
+I do not participate in the kahoot quiz, as doing so remotely will give me a transmission delay and
+I'll miss all of the questions. But, I do monitor it form afar, and I appreciate the quirky
+questions Peter and Pieter put in. What happens next in Amsterdam, I will have to miss: the drinks,
+food, hanging out and exchanging stories will all be for a next time.
+
+## Pictures of the Day
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