Fibre-Optic Curiosity Poll: people who deploy single-mode point-to-point fibre links (any distance beyond inside a datacenter), do you use two-strand optics, or single-strand with two colours? Please #boost!

I very much lean on Bi-Di optics since I figure there's half the amount of OSP cable to go wrong, and swapping failed optics is MUCH easier than splicing a bad strand in an inaccessible flooded underground vault that's on fire.

Let me know in the comments what you do, and why.

[Note top-of-rack/intra-rack and in-datacenter is NOT what I'm asking about that. That's the realm of MMF and DACs.]

Additionally I'm wondering about NNIs and medium-haul 100G+ links, since bidi there is LESS common, but is beginning to happen. LR4 -> LR2 <- LR1???

#SMF #MMF #FibreOptic #FiberOptic #LongHaul #TransportNetworks #Networking #Networks #PleaseBoost

Sacramento International Airport - Sacramento, United States

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacramento_International_Airport
https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=13/38.695400/-121.591003

#KSMF #SMF #Sacramento #UnitedStates #airport #aviation #avgeeks #GIS

New blogpost about the age assurance of #discord
https://blog.boykisser.nl/2026/02/11/discord-the-alternatives-et-al/

#stoatchat #forums #phpbb #smf #blogpost #ageverification

There are a lots of alternatives to discord.

IRC is essentially the same thing as textchannels on discord. For speech you can use teamspeak, or mumble.

You can also set up a forum using phpbb, or simple machines forum. All you need is a webhost that supports PHP, and MySQL.

Blog post coming

#discord #IRC #forum #phpbb #smf

#Studie zu Sachsens defizitären #Flughäfen: Finanzminister #Piwarz will die #Zuschüsse für die Flughafen AG auf Null senken

https://www.l-iz.de/wirtschaft/metropolregion/2026/01/studie-zu-sachsens-defizitaren-flughafen-finanzminister-piwarz-will-zuschusse-flughafen-ag-null-senken-644843
#Sachsen #SMF #MFAG #LEJ