Science Officer's log - we've returned from a very successful away mission to Anthro Irish where our scans recorded amazing vibes and wonderful times with friends. A stellar time was had all around.
Anyone here familiar with physical fibre types and could give me a bit of advice?
I am planning to put a network cable between my house and garage. The only feasible route seems to be the one the solar panel guys put their cables along: out the eaves of the house, down the wall, through a groove dremmelled between two paving stones in the path, and in through the garage wall. There's already an AC power cable on that route, so I'm looking at putting in fibre instead of copper as I won't be able to get any separation between the parallel AC and network cables.
I would expect to cable-clip it to the wall (I think flat plate ones with cable ties are recommended for fibre, yes? I think those have already been used for some of the other cables) and run it loose through the groove between the pavers - probably covered by gravel later. It looks like loose tube fibre is probably not right because the fibres would have a whole storey drop where they hang inside the tube and I understand that's not good. So probably tight buffered, right?
Do I need SWA or something, or is normal outdoor cable likely to be okay? Do I need to put it in a conduit to protect it from the elements? But if I do that, it'll be hanging loose inside a tube again and presumably that's not great.
Should I go for SMF? I would think if I install it right it should be fine and not need to go for MMF, but I'm not sure if there's any other reason to favour one over the other - it's only going to be 20m at most I would think. Do I need an attenuator for that kind of range?
Oof, I can't think what else I ought to consider. OM3 is presumably fine if going for multi-mode, and OS2 for single-mode. Are mode conditioning adaptors still a thing that are needed, for getting the right launch offset? I'm assuming not as I haven't seen any mention of them in my recent reading, but I just seem to have no idea…
I used to do networking in power plants and OM1 MM was used for most everything below a 2000m run and is fine for 100Mbps and 1Gig up to about a few hundred meters. MM also has the advantage of being cheaper. Loose tube should be ok if vertical run is less than a 10m or so. What ever you used, make sure that the cable has more strands than needed and are terminated (so much easier if you get a broken fiber. I always wanted my fiber runs to be protected, unless armored
@Mira Thank you! I still have plenty to think about but all the info helps. My searches for preterminated outdoor fibre cables tend not to come up with any 1- or 2-strand cables, 4 seems to be the minimum, but 8 seems barely more expensive so it might well be worth getting 8 even though I probably only need 2 at the moment and am unlikely to need more than 4 in future, IMO. I assume I'm best putting one of those little patch boxes at each end so I can plug all the strands in so they don't get dirty or damaged, and so I can fix the outdoor cable in place all the way along and never have to touch it again, then use short patch leads to the actual devices.
For that distance, even OM1 will technically do 10Gbps. These days it's easier to get SMF fiber and optics, the MMF stuff is actually getting harder to find, at least in US suppliers. We default to SMF for everything new now.
@Thumper Ah, nice. At least one supplier I looked at seemed to have SM cable slightly cheaper than MM, but the difference wasn't huge and most places seem to do both. I do wonder if SM is any more fragile? I get the feeling it would be but I'm not sure I can source that feeling. I'd guess SM might be a little more futureproof too, although 10Gbps will likely be enough for me for a long long time!
We just did SMF upgrades for two runs at two sites and both were 15-20% cheaper than MMF. I don't have hands-on experience with new SMF termination but I'm told there are lots of quick/easy termination tools that don't require the hours of polishing anymore if you're just using it for local LAN stuff and not long range stuff.
"Are you aware of anything which would prevent you from holding SC or DV clearance?"
No, but if you put me in for it, I'm going to spend the next few weeks dressing like I'm on my way to Pride. You know, just to reduce the blackmail potential a little more, and improve my chances...
I feel like this decade is going to end more or less like the XKEYSCORE/Snowden scandal did: the level of encryption used on the internet increases further. Maybe to the point of "everything travels over VPNs"
Four windows. Four cute faces: Slyde, Scotch, Russec, and Kosten, each painted on their own acrylic canvas, all turning to look at one another, just like a certain TV intro… but fluffier.
Acrylics over canvases.
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There is a time-lapse I recorded working on these 4 pieces, you can watch it on the first comment of this submission on my Telegram art channel: https://t.me/panda_paco
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Happy Spider-Man day! (Apparently? I used to have it in the calendar on my old phone, but that phone broke a few months ago and I'm still finding things I used to be forewarned about but… am no longer.)
I might adopt that. I've never liked that "self" is a convention rather than a language definitive. Using "elf" would be more obviously arbitrary but still be close enough to convention to not throw off those who depend upon them.
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official petition to the national french assembly just got 2 million signatures against bad farming practices and corruption and the speaker of the gvt responded by hiring a lobbyist as chief of staff...
For the US, just change it to say "GOP Run US Government Response: We'll not just say no. We'll do the opposite to cause the most pain, harm, and chaos."
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The physical cart shows the original cartridge's label on a tiny screen? Heh, wow. (I probably still have a Star Raiders cartridge in a box somewhere, somewhere... I am sure I've at least seen my old Atari Assembler relatively recently.)
DecentCart2350, new upcoming open source #Atari8bit computers multicart with a nice screen (and many other useful features - see video). Entry for ABBUC Hardware Contest 2025. https://youtu.be/o-sEndb4mEI #atari #retrocomputers
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DecentCart2350, new upcoming open source #Atari8bit computers multicart with a nice screen (and many other useful features - see video). Entry for ABBUC Hardware Contest 2025. https://youtu.be/o-sEndb4mEI #atari #retrocomputers
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@mattsqu It's not going to be long before we read about the death of someone who was blackmailed with stolen ID-check photos and details of the sites they were visiting. Or about them paying the ransom.
@mattsqu Exactly. Concerning adult content - it’s going to drive people to VPNs and/or deep/dark web or just overall sleazier sites with even worse control over illegal content.
They had absolutely NO REASON to retain this data. There is absolutely no way to completely trust someone you are handing your ID over to.
A few weeks ago I went to the local village fair in my new neighborhood. Of course, I Spideyed up the place. Got a card through the door the following day from my next-door neighbour… looks like I'm booked for next year! 😉
(If you saw this post, did it appear to have 2 pictures attached, or just 1? I posted 2 through Friendica's web interface, and both show up there, but I'm only seeing 1 through Tusky.)
@Darkhorse WinterWolf 🇪🇺 It was a very nice surprise to get a thank you card after just… going and having some fun! I didn't expect to be booked for next year quite so quick either. 😉
For anyone who couldn't see the second picture… (I'm guessing it was because I didn't escape some stuff in square brackets that wasn't valid BBcode. Oops.)
2 years ago I had worked on a piece where I was being such a red panda impostor, but now Cinnabar decided to reverse this and he's the impostor wah, disguising himself as a panda bear.
This is a continuation for this picture: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/51395703/ Cinnabar got the original piece at MFF's Art Show and he wanted to have the reverse version with his character to put both of them together. So here it is!
Picture for Cinnabar Panda Traditional. Colored Pencils over toned blue mix media paper.
I would like to thank all those who signed the petition.
But…
The Government has no plans to repeal the Online Safety Act, and is working closely with Ofcom to implement the Act as quickly and effectively as possible to enable UK users to benefit from its protections.
Complete waste of time. Zero commitments given to the hundreds of thousands of concerned people who signed. No “we hear your concerns and we will act on it”.
Still has to go to the Petitions Committee to decide whether to debate in Parliament, because over 100,000 signatures. The (predictable) government response was triggered by 10,000 signatures.
@cyberleagle I’m in the middle of writing another letter to my MP. I’m considering asking to meet with them at their constituency surgery to discuss the matter too. It’s far too easy for these politicians to wriggle out of doing anything meaningful.
Personally, I don't think there's anything wrong with taking a centrist approach. People tend to be very polarised politically one way or the other, and the best way to prevent that is by taking a balanced position.
Write to your MP. I mean physically write - not just an email. Letters have far more weight as they are kept as documentation on an issue: "Additionally, written correspondence allows for a documented record of public opinion, which MPs can use to inform their decisions. For instance, consider the case in 2020 when MPs received an influx of letters regarding climate change."
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They seem to be in La-La land. They believe the things they are requiring are proportionate, technically practical and enforceable. Add to that the companies on the arse-end of the legislation taking dumb fool implementations to do age confirmation...
Of course they're going to double down and make it all even worse.
@Avon DeRussate @Rick I thought I noticed a lot of mentions of enforcement in tht statement, and how they'll decide to choose who to enforce against. Which basically means police state - so many are in violation the enforcers can choose who to take action against however they like. The whole reason so many sites are choosing to block the UK is because they don't want to get into all that. If the law shouldn't be so broad, make it not so broad, don't just make everyone a criminal and then choose only to enforce against people you don't like. But apparently they just don't get that (or choose not to get that).
"how they'll decide to choose who to enforce against"
If I were writing the legislation "any domestic internet connection the traffic of which (records of which are subpoenaed from ISPS) appears to have an IP signature that suggests VPN use. "
They had more than enough (indeed quite possibly excessive) power to deal with genuine problems before that act came in. That act just pushed things way into "excessive powers" territory.
The government response has come in ... and it is of course, total nonsense, demonstrating total ignorance of the real-world collateral damage the OSA is causing.
On the way home now from Anthro Irish and... It's seriously been one of my best con experiences ever. What an amazing weekend, made so by spending it with some truly amazing friends. I'm so grateful to everybody.
![Inside the card: To [REDACTED] (and Spiderman). Thank you for coming down to the fete yesterday! The lads loved seeing Spiderman! From [REDACTED] (fete organiser). Next one 4/6/26!](https://floof.org/photo/832268496568896463ccc66086124038-1.jpeg "Inside the card: To [REDACTED] (and Spiderman). Thank you for coming down to the fete yesterday! The lads loved seeing Spiderman! From [REDACTED] (fete organiser). Next one 4/6/26!")
I have here an older photo (without wings), myself wearing a command uniform ^^
Then maybe you want to see this too ^^