Hacker News: sekh60

New comment by sekh60 in "Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded"

sekh60 — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 16:46:58 +0000

If they said "pipes" network admins probably would have given it a pass.

New comment by sekh60 in "New AirPods leak reveals built-in cameras and Visual Intelligence"

sekh60 — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 22:35:16 +0000

So pervertPods?

New comment by sekh60 in "Anthropic CEO says the way for AI to win over the public is to cure cancer"

sekh60 — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 01:23:10 +0000

Probably new cancers.

New comment by sekh60 in "Sony BMG copy protection rootkit scandal from 2005"

sekh60 — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:32:52 +0000

Same here.

New comment by sekh60 in "Xiaomi-Robotics-1"

sekh60 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 20:05:13 +0000

But there's no feeling of power with giving everyone bread. Billionaires seem to have more than just an addiction to big numbers, maybe seem to want to rule over others.

New comment by sekh60 in "Xiaomi-Robotics-1"

sekh60 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 20:03:24 +0000

As a house spouse I want this! I _hate_ folding laundry and always procrastinate on it. Doesn't even need to be able to load the machine like they additionally show, "just" folding it is enough for me!

New comment by sekh60 in "Framework's 10G Ethernet module exposes USB-C's complexity"

sekh60 — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 06:28:10 +0000

Thank you.

New comment by sekh60 in "Texas man sentenced to 30 years for transporting pamphlets"

sekh60 — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 14:18:31 +0000

They aren't a cop.

New comment by sekh60 in "Steam Machine launches today"

sekh60 — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 19:24:55 +0000

Gotta get that -O3 flag.

New comment by sekh60 in "Did my old job only exist because of fraud?"

sekh60 — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 01:31:07 +0000

I hope he was able to get a paybump each switch!

New comment by sekh60 in "10Gb/s Ethernet: switching to a Broadcom SFP+ module"

sekh60 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 22:10:08 +0000

This is the correct answer, always single mode. It's been the most future proof to date, people just keep figuring out how to cram more and more wavelengths into it.

New comment by sekh60 in "10g Upgrade"

sekh60 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 15:15:49 +0000

Good to know! Not sure why I am so often shy on getting used. I've done it when the deals are simply very good, but that's just been with referb harddrives (with a warranty) and this switch, which was just too good of a deal. I gotta get braver there.

New comment by sekh60 in "10g Upgrade"

sekh60 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 15:13:41 +0000

The modules/transceivers are unlocked there, but the switch ports may not be. Mikrotik doesn't vendor lock their ports, but the bigger manufacturers do. Some places sell transceiver programmers, but those are locked to their own modules (I think that may be due to a technical limitation). So fs.com's modules can be reprogrammed with FS.com's fiber box thing, and ubiquiti's modules can be reprogrammed with their Ubiquiti Fiber Wizard (I think that's the name of it?).

My switch has vendor locked ports, and there's a console command to disable the lock, but I'd have to beg the manufacturer for an unlock key (it's based on the switch's serial I believe) for a key, and it's a used switch, and they are not a fan of people using their OS on used switches since their license entitlements are non-transferable. So it's FS for me, and if my next used switch is a different brand I'll have to shell out for their reprogrammer.

New comment by sekh60 in "10g Upgrade"

sekh60 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 13:15:37 +0000

Wiitek is a brand with the lower wattage ones that run around 60°C, not sure if they are on AliExpress, but they are on amazon.ca and worked perfectly in my Mikrotik. To OP and other readers, if getting into switches with transceivers be aware that many enterprise networking gear vendors vendor lock their ports and transceivers. That was an expensive lesson for me. There are third parties selling off-brand transceivers for a lot cheaper than the branded ones (fs.com is probably the biggest and best known). This can get complicated if you have different manufacturers and need different coded transceivers or even DACs with different "brands" on each end.

New comment by sekh60 in "10g Upgrade"

sekh60 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 13:06:03 +0000

Nice score on the used switch! I used a 10GbE Mikrotik up until recently until it started having hardware failures (my second one, a few years older is running perfectly, been very happy with it). I got exceptionally lucky finding a used 64 port 40/100Gbps enterprise switch on ebay for $1000CAD (same switch here normally goes for $3-4k CAD used). Most of my ceph cluster is limited to 10Gbps (onboard RJ45 for 4/5 nodes, and the PCI-E slot on each is taken by NVMe drives), but I feel I'm already outgrowing that speed, my few nodes already saturate 10Gbps - NVMe drives are fast! Now I just gotta wait for 100GbE NICs to come down in price, I'm not sure I'm ready to buy a used NIC yet (was nervous about the switch, first used piece of network gear for me), but the knock off Intels are like $350 minimum here for a 2 port.

New comment by sekh60 in "It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12"

sekh60 — Fri, 29 May 2026 16:41:39 +0000

The repair ability is why I went with a Framework. My last two laptops had keyboards that lasted until a few months after the warranty. Rest of the laptop works, but I can't find replacement keyboards at a reasonable price. So a framework, and I bought a spare keyboard upfront on the off chance they go bankrupt.

New comment by sekh60 in "Self-hosted wikis shouldn't need an ops team"

sekh60 — Fri, 22 May 2026 10:51:10 +0000

Sounds a lot like dokuwiki.

New comment by sekh60 in "Mocked by a scandal sheet, Kierkegaard endured months of personal attacks"

sekh60 — Mon, 18 May 2026 18:18:01 +0000

It's not true, it's false.

New comment by sekh60 in "OpenAI could be making a phone with AI agents replacing apps"

sekh60 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 15:27:35 +0000

Automatically generated AI music slop!

LLM hallucinated news (in French) slop!

There's two down, now someone give me a billion dollars in start-up funding please so I can tackle the others.

New comment by sekh60 in "I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it"

sekh60 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 05:00:06 +0000

Email probably could not happen today.