Speaking of modules that lie about themselves, unifi has an interesting little device called the "SFP Wizard" that can reprogram sfp modules.

https://www.ui.com/us/en/integrations/accessory-tech/sfp-wiz...

Previously seen: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45732874

You can also use a BananaPi BPI-R3 for reprogramming. And you can “upgrade“ 10 Gbit/s DACs to 25 Gb/s. Details here https://kohlschuetter.github.io/blog/posts/2026/03/22/unlock...

I tend to use fs.com optics, but I’ve heard in high rates (100g plus) that flex optic tend to be more reliable

FS has a reprogrammer, called the FS Box. Works well.

fiberstore has them as well, plus you can buy modules, DACS and everything programmed to the vendor of choice, including different vendors on each end

Especially handy for specific Intel NICs where they refuse to link up if the module isn't in the driver-allowed list and those modules are hard to come by

This is the first time hearing the term "kilobucks". I love it (and am stealing it for future conversations).

In French project management parlance, we use k€ all the time.

I guess the french equivalent of kilobucks would be briques (bricks)

Historically, a "brique" used to be a million of anciens Francs (old Francs), then converted to 10 000 nouveaux Francs (new Francs) in 1960.

Since the switch to euro, I think the most commonly accepted value of one "brique" is (unofficially) 10 000 €, but the uncertainty makes it basically useless.

See also the classic french movie: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pour_cent_briques,_t%27as_plus......

I can't recall I've heard "brique" used since the switch to € but it might just be my local bubble

If you were born before WWII, yes.

(The only person I know that still used «briques» in these decades were my grand parents born in the 1920th)

I still use « briques », typically « 10 briques » instead of « 100 k ». I think there is some poetry in sticking to the old obsolete term.

because of the metric system?

How do you pronounce that? Kilo-euro or K-euro?

Whenever I hear it, it is pronounced "keuro" (k-uh-RO). And "meuro" (m-uh-RO) for millions that are Mega-euros (M€).

kha-euh-ro - including the "euh" impronounceable by non-French.

I wish megabucks and gigabucks had the same ring...

Megabucks is a common word but not often used as a unit

My Framework 13 also has this option for some reason, even though my ctrl key is on the outside

If you're not opposed to card games, Five Crowns [1] is a house staple in both sides of my family. It will require multiple people.

Sagrada [2] is a fun game as well. Can be played solo, but I find it more fun with others.

[1] https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/1472/five-crowns [2] https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/199561/sagrada

Mine was on a similar game, GORILLA.BAS. I would edit the banana code for a much bigger explosion. Lots of fun back in computer class!

The difference being that editing the source code was the point of the BASIC examples provided with DOS/QBasic/GW-Basic (they’re there to teach you programming!)

Blast, tricked into learning by making you think you're cheating!

We added other weapons to make a poor mans scorched earth as we were only allowed to make games.

My school had a similar loophole: game weren’t allowed in the computer lab, unless you wrote it yourself…

After learning the secret of "breaking" protected BASIC programs in DOS (which involved a poke, as I recall), I remember making higher difficulty levels for a BASIC Star Trek game, because it just wasn't very hard.

I removed collision detection so I could throw bananas through buildings

Where would we be without computer class

Something I wonder! Grateful :D

oh man!!!!!! You reminded me my first gaming experience on a PC with oragne-green screen :D Awesome game

Crowdstrike gave a little talk recently about how prompts pressuring with laws (fake or real) and legal-ese can do similar things.

I made this a while back to move us off our on-prem Atlassian to Gitlab [1]. Maybe it'll help someone if they want something similar. Fair warning: I haven't tried this recently, so YMMV.

[1] https://gitlab.com/jeremygonyea/jira-to-gitlab-migration-too...

Microsoft lost my 80yr old aunt and my two under teenager kids. My last hold-out at home is my son's laptop, which he needed Windows for a proctered exam (now completed). He's excited to soon be on the same OS as his other family members.

The only thing keeping me from switching my kids to linux is minecraft.

Project Ozone 3, Enigmatica 2 Expert, Nomifactory, GregTech New Horizons, Sky Factory 4, and SevTech Ages all run fine under GNU/Linux, is there some modpack that doesn't work?

Presumably it's because of Bedrock. Which is the inferior game, yes, but it's the cross-platform one.

Yes, because all their friends use bedrock on tablets/switch/etc.

Minecraft works just fine on Linux.

If you can get bedrock working on it, I’ll be happy to follow your steps. None of their friends play java edition and it’s not compatible with their realms.

Pretty sure I once tried Bedrock in Wine and it worked.

Was the utility called slomo? I recall having to do something like `slomo sopwith.exe` to bring the processing loop back down into human ranges of reaction times.

Probably thinking of “moslo”.

We run Proxmox VMs that are running Hashicorp's Nomad orchestration at $DAYJOB. The Nomad clients are then turning around and running the docker containers (Proxmox -> Nomad VM -> Docker). For us it's easier to manage and segregate duties on the initial metal this way.