Weeknotes 145

Another late weeknotes Jordan? ‘fraid so.

IBIS hotel check-in terminal keypad-code leakage

After a hacker congress in Hamburg, Pentagrid noticed that an IBIS Budget hotel check-in terminal leaked room keypad codes of almost half of the hotel rooms, when a users searches for a specific form of a non-alphanumeric booking number.

And…

With a booking ID, guests can lookup their room number and keypad code. However, when entering a ‘——’ as booking ID, the check-in terminal lists other people’s bookings and keypad codes.

Oh dear.

Finished The Bear. Now I’m marking tupperware with green masking tape. Brilliant!

I needed to buy a new TV to leave behind when we move, so I’ve been scouring hotukdeals for something suitable. I finally settled on a LG LED UR78 55" 4K at the rather tidy price of £269.99, which I’m happy with. It isn’t nearly as good as the Philips I currently watch, but it’ll do for the intended purpose.

PRO-TIP: Don’t try and load your car with 25 flat pack cardboard boxes whilst a storm named Kathleen is blowing.

We completed on the new house as planned this week. Despite the inevitable faff and stress it was fairly straightforward in the end – 3 months almost to the day. We picked up the keys on Saturday and went for our first visit.

I was afraid I wouldn’t like the house after not having seen it for so long – a weird feeling. By the end of the visit I was happy and almost enthusiastic about it.

However, the house has revealed to us just how much work needs doing. It’s completely liveable, but the list of self-imposed jobs is long.

The previous owner left us a nice note, and the offer of an artwork his late wife had painted. A lovely gesture; but didn’t clean the oven. No one is perfect.

We’ve hired a cleaning company to deep-clean before we properly move in because we’re part of the bourgeois middle classes now apparently, of which I am uncomfortable, but also because lazy.

We move the majority of our stuff in a couple of weeks.

A new house is a good reason for a new gadget. I bought a laser tape measure. I need it for ALL THE MEASURING I’ll be doing!

ISPreview (my new favourite website) has a nice overview of which ISPs support IPv6 and CGNAT – a.k.a. how they give you an IP address for your broadband connection. Generally, CGNAT = bad, IPv6 = good.

This week I learnt about the Rhubarb Triangle.

The Rhubarb Triangle is a 9-square-mile (23 km2) area of West Yorkshire, England between Wakefield, Morley, and Rothwell famous for producing early forced rhubarb.

Put the 21st February 2025 in your diary.

Health-wise, I’ve been far more consistent with exercise (18 sessions in a row) and diet (lost 10kg) recently (with the exception of this weekend as travelling has made it difficult).

I’m trying to get into a groove so that when I move, and am forced into new routines, hopefully I can transition smoothly and continue a healthy lifestyle journey ™.