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Maartje

I’m not a fan of doing this but it is for a good cause.

Hi, as you might know blahaj.social  is a small vulunteer ran incomeless part of the fediverse  
We built it several years ago with recycled servers and network equipment.

Our @sysadmin haj has been working hard but our core switch and one of our HDDs refused to come online after a power cut.
Donations to purchase a replacement are very welcome at https://blahaj.social/about (shark pictures are also very welcome 💕)

Sep 28, 2025 at 11:59amWeb
Show threadMaartjeSep 30, 2025

Wow… i am really suprised with how much support we got 🥹❤️❤️❤️

The past days we made a deal with Maartje’s company to place an order with other client equipment for a huge discount. We doubted between new and recycled: energy costs and reliability (plus software updates) made us order a new one. Our old one used 150watts 🤯continuously, which will now be at least 3x lower.

@sysadmin saw a box arriving today and jumped right in 💕

Thanks to you all we have our broken equipment replaced tonight 🥰

Show threadMaartjeSep 30, 2025

Seems we’ll have a few euros left which will be kept in an emergency infrastructure replacement fund ☺️

Later today we’ll pull the server down for 5 minutes for a small dust clean and patching the ports into the new switch. We’ll keep you all posted!

Show threadMaartjeSep 30, 2025
We were offline for a moment for installing the new switch as well as a quick cleaning of the fans!
Show threadMaartjeSep 30, 2025
After that a quickrack mounting and plugging in of our new switch!
Show threadThibaultmol 🌈Sep 30, 2025
@maartje good work @sysadmin *pat pat pat*
Show threadmattySep 30, 2025
@maartje thanks for your work @sysadmin 
Show threadWee BlåhajSep 30, 2025
@maartje Thank you for your hard work! *boops @sysadmin*
Show threadAryeh GoretskyOct 2, 2025
@maartje Please be careful! Sharks and cabling are not always friends: https://cm.asiae.co.kr/en/article/2020112100181383834
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Show threadTrammell HudsonSep 30, 2025
@maartje it's probably time to clean the fans on the v.st servers, too.
Show threadPalmAndNeedleOct 5, 2025
@th @maartje It's like reefing. When you first start to think about it, you should already be doing it 
Show threadTrammell HudsonOct 5, 2025
@PalmAndNeedle @maartje reefing is so much work. Can we just douse the skysail or t'gallant instead?
Show threadPalmAndNeedleOct 5, 2025
@th @maartje maybe start with the captain's boyfriend's bedsheets 
Show threadcpresserOct 2, 2025

@maartje good job smol haj!

Can you help me rebuild the CNC mill soon? I could use competent help.

Show threadLeoniekeSep 30, 2025
@maartje @sysadmin That is great news!!
Show threadFranziskaSep 28, 2025
@maartje @sysadmin What are you looking for as core switch? I have two EX4200s (24port with 8port PoE) sitting around collecting dust ...
Show threadMaartjeSep 28, 2025
@kunsi @sysadmin our switch was a 48 port but we don’t use most of it. Important is several SFP+ ports for switching the 10gig uplink, server and storage links. And several ports for linkagg to older devices.
My spare rack switches sadly lack the 10 gig 😢
Show threadFranziskaSep 28, 2025

@maartje @sysadmin yeah, the EX4200s also don't have SFP+ ports.

I could lend out one of my Arista 7050s (48port 1gig copper, 4x SFP+), but i'd need that back soonish

Show threadMaartjeSep 28, 2025

@kunsi @sysadmin the switch we used was old but weardly enough had SFP+ unlike others, it also was a weird quanta switch with cisco copycat software 😂

Thanks for the offer but on short term we seem to manage with some workarounds ❤️ just have to watch out as i think backups will bottleneck the 1gig links

Show threadSven Slootweg, low-spoons mode ("still kinky and horny anyway")Sep 28, 2025
@maartje @kunsi @sysadmin I don't know if this is useful for this case but nowadays there's a type of cheap 10G switch floating around AliExpress that has 2xSFP+ and 8 RJ45 ports, may perhaps be worth looking into depending on how much stuff needs to be connected and what other features are needed (there's supposedly a managed version of it as well but I have no idea what that entails)
Show threadMaartjeSep 28, 2025
@joepie91 @kunsi @sysadmin i have one of those in the lab, however i don’t trust them for the main rack and 8 ports isn’t enough 🫣
Show threadSven Slootweg, low-spoons mode ("still kinky and horny anyway")Sep 28, 2025
@maartje @kunsi @sysadmin Ah yeah if you need more than 8 ports then they're useless 😅

I'm pretty sure it's all just using some single chip that has 3x 10G ports or so. There's also a variant with 16x ports... and only 1x SFP+ so they clearly just rewired one of the SFP+ ports to be used for the extra 8 RJ45 ports lol
Show threadajuvo ✔Sep 28, 2025
@maartje @sysadmin done
Show threadMaartjeSep 28, 2025
@ajuvo @sysadmin thank you 🙏 ❤️
Show threadWee BlåhajSep 28, 2025
@maartje Have a Glacier Express shark picture as a down payment. Sarah says we will donate as soon as we have less flaky internet. Many cuddles to @sysadmin, too. 
Show threadMaartjeSep 28, 2025
@Weehaj @sysadmin enjoy Switzerland!! Thanks for all the cuddles 💕
Show threadWee BlåhajSep 28, 2025
@maartje Thank you! I see @sysadmin has Swiss cleanliness standards for the servers!
Show threadKleiner HajSep 28, 2025
@maartje
Oh... That sounds like @sysadmin could use some hajar cuddles as support  
Show threadMaartjeSep 28, 2025
@SmolHaj @sysadmin support from the big sharks has arrived
Show threadKleiner HajSep 28, 2025
@maartje
That's good  
@sysadmin
Show threadyomimono, still on landSep 28, 2025
@maartje we are contacting our money-havingest conspirators
Show threadMaartjeSep 28, 2025
@yomimono “Rosåhaj best bank haj how may I help?”
Show threadBox<dyn Iec>Sep 28, 2025
@maartje wireshark!
Show threadPalmAndNeedleSep 28, 2025
@maartje @sysadmin 
#SchoarkAufReisen
Show threadHapiSep 28, 2025
@maartje
Sending you some cuddles and asking human to do the same!
@sysadmin
Show threadMaartjeSep 28, 2025
@hapi @sysadmin lots of cuddles back from the server room!
Show threadmattySep 28, 2025
@maartje @sysadmin human made a little transfer and shark is sending some cuddles to @sysadmin  thanks for your work <3
Show threadmarlies Sep 28, 2025
@maartje @sysadmin would a 10G 32 port switch help? The caveat is it’s SFP+ not twisted pair.
Show threadMaartjeSep 30, 2025
@marlies @sysadmin most of our use is either 10g twisted pair of sfp anyway. Thanks for the help but i have good news that a box is currently being opened by a shark 
Show threadTroubleSep 29, 2025
@maartje @sysadmin Cisco c3750 48 port with sfp+ card (c3kx-nm-10g) available, but I don't think you're in the US, are you. Shipping is hard. This thing is heavy!
Show threadMaartjeSep 30, 2025
@trouble @sysadmin thanks for the offer, shipping with especially from the US would be super hard 😅 I have some good news that a box just arrived at my door 
Show threadErpelSep 30, 2025
@maartje @sysadmin ​​