Mike Hellers

From Luxembourg, living in London, working at an Internet Exchange. Views are mine. @mikehellers.bsky.social

[Mick Douglas 🇺🇦🌻 @bettersafetynet]

Orgs are laying people off "because of AI" and I (and the entire industry) need to talk about how insane all of this is.

I build AI tools. I like AI. This isn't an anti-AI rant. This is an anti-stupidity rant.

Buckle up. Spicy takes galore!

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[Mingwei 🦀🦋 @heymingwei]

Trade-secret of the day: add this MCP server and ask anything about Internet traffic trend or routing. It's unbelievably powerful.

[Mike Hellers @mikehellers]

@RyanHansenSpace X1 Carbon here, 250 mm on each axis.

[Jack Kuhr @JackKuhr]

Now that we know that the mass of each Kuiper sat is ~571 kg (just so happens to have a similar mass to Starlink v2 mini-optimize), we can compare launch costs.

Back-of-napkin launch costs:

• Starlink per sat deploy: $536K (ish)
• Kuiper per sat deploy: $2.4M (ish)

Calcs 👇

[Mike Hellers @mikehellers]

@awatila @niyyie @icoloio @LINX_Network @kixp_support Alex, pretty much any other answer on that quora question says the opposite. But you picked the one that was generated by an AI Chat Bot?

[Mike Hellers @mikehellers]

@awatila @niyyie @icoloio @LINX_Network @kixp_support Hi Alex. IXPs provide the platform to allow networks to peer with each other. IXPs themselves do not peer with other IXPs.

[Mike Hellers @mikehellers]

Seems very fitting to post this, based on Labour announcing their plans to invest 20 billion into Carbon Capture and Storage.

[Roman Dodin @ntdvps]

Oops, we did it again 🤗

Three years ago, we shook up the networking space with the release of a freely available SR Linux container image. This was a catalyst for many great community projects, such as Containerlab, gNMIc, and many others.

Today, we are announcing the availability of an ARM64 version* of the SR Linux container image 🎉
Free, public, ARM64 native.

* - preview version.

With ARM64 version of our container image, you can finally make your expensive typing machines with a fruit logo to do some actual work by running a networking lab.

There are so many things to I wanted to explain and show you, so I went and recorded a 40 minutes deep dive on the topics of
- Who can be interested in running labs on ARM64 arch?
- What challenges are ahead of us when ARM64 is the target architecture?
- What Network OSes can you run on it?
- How docker runs on macOS?
- What tools would I recommend using?
- And how I run containerlabs on macOS.

You will find a link to the YT video in the comments.

If you are in or adjacent to networking, this might be quite an entertaining show and hopefully this would make netorking labs even more accessible to the community 🚀

[Guz Khan 🥶 @GuzKhanOfficial]

Birmingham to Brighton 🫵🏽💙🫱🏻‍🫲🏾

Racism and pure hatred of Muslims is getting put back in the bin.

Tommy the tit is going to jail for a long time and your nan is getting Samosas this weekend.

We will figure out the issues. That’s our job as a society. A community. This is England. Our England 🫵🏽🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🫱🏻‍🫲🏾🫵🏿💙

[Tom Bacon @TomABacon]

For days, I've wondered why the PM was so slow to call in the army to deal with these riots. Today, I've come to understand why; he knows what the far right is attempting to do. 🧵

[Munya Chawawa @munyachawawa]

Forget riots - why not compete in the The EDL-ympics! 🎾🥋🏓

A safe space to express your misdirected hatred 😃

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

It occurred to me earlier that either Kamala Harris or Donald Trump will open the next Summer Olympics. Choose wisely America.

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

🚨We just dropped in on Farage’s election rally with a beaming picture of Putin. Nigel was not pleased.

[Wolves @Wolves]

Please don't suffer in silence.

There is 𝗮𝗹𝘄𝗮𝘆𝘀 somebody that will listen.

[Chris Howard @Chris_G_Howard]

At a height of roughly 55m, Old Trafford Falls stands as England’s 4th tallest waterfall behind only Cauldron Snout (60m), Canonteign Falls (70m) and Cautley Spout (76m)

[Mike Hellers @mikehellers]

@captainiberia I am just waiting for them to declare it a Brexit benefit...only since we left, we were able to rejoin.

[Cirian75 #YNWA 🇬🇧 62.5% 🇳🇱 25% 🇦🇺 12.5% @cirian75]

Daily Express poll

It will be a massive shame if you voted on this poll and shared it around

"Should the UK pull out of the ECHR if Rwanda migrant plan is stopped?"

As before you do not need to fill in any of your personal details, just 'next' & 'submit' click to continue

https://t.co/X3AUVxWJTY

[Electoral Commission @ElectoralCommUK]

Today we announced that we have been the subject of a complex cyber-attack, and our systems were accessed by hostile actors.

[Mike Hellers @mikehellers]

Today seems to be a good day to finish this print…guess what it is…

[The Exploding Heads @Exploding_Heads]

The Official List Of Woke Things.

As told by Colin from Portsmouth.