Pope Rajulio 

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Geeker of HW, Tormentor of Linux from the 10th Circle of Redmond, Baptised in a PDP11/45 and had a VAX put on me by an Evil Sysadmin with a Penchant for Buggery #hw #python #tinkerer #cacophony #debian #djing #breakbeats #dnb #raver #iconoclaschtick
@tychi I did a variation of this using a python-based milter. The format is alias.folder-domain@virtualhost. The milter looks for 'domain' somewhere in the headers, scored according to just what kind of header it finds it in. By default the milter does not flag, but i can set the score threshold and action (flag, reject, drop) for each domain tag the system sees using a customized postfixadmin page (sql for the backend). Most of the time I dont need to set a threshold, but every once and a while someone gets pwned and then I can turn the feature on with a couple clicks (or just ban the tag entirely!)

@kwf I was thinking about this again, and am wondering now if that piece of glass has some optical channels and magic doping to direct wavelengths to their ideal locations. It is entirely likely that we'd have a hard time seeing these in the visible spectrum. The odd/even channel arrangement could also be a quirk of this sort of manufacturing.

Just like microwave circuit engineering, doped glass optical physics can be weird and seemingly magical

@brunoph well, that is odd, maybe the bevel is progressive? I mean it could use filters over the receptors, but 6db loss at a minimum unless this is a short range cwdm. It's been years since I was involved in the design of these sorts of things, but there are two schools: maximize recovery margin, or throw laser diode power at it, mabe the economics of the latter prevail?
@kwf think of it on the rx-end as a prism, where the diffraction index is engineered to split the wavelengths in such a say to align with the specific photo diode. On the tx-side, it's a simple combiner with tuned lasers repesenting each channel
#aurora pic snapped from the former Copco Lake (now Klamath river) at the border between CA and OR
When you're doing a pano and somebody drives through the scene
@forest_fr1ends I wonder what 12 made the cut!
@rogersherman I tend to not trust polls at all, because realistically, who tends to respond to random phone calls nowadays?