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arclight

@arclight.oldbytes.space.ap.brid.gy

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Engineer (nuclear, safety analysis), scientific software developer, rehabilitator of unloved FORTRAN, recovering sysadmin, marginally competent solderator […] [bridged from oldbytes.space/@arclight on the fediverse by fed.brid.gy ]

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arclight @arclight.oldbytes.space.ap.brid.gy · 14h

[Tiny Obenseuer Update] Fish farming has been stupidly profitable. Not as profitable as top-tier mail fraud but I also don't spend days in jail for selling pike filets. Building utilities have been upgraded to a new tier so I can finally get better walls and a nicer kitchen and bathroom. Maybe […]

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arclight @arclight.oldbytes.space.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

[Obenseuer update: Fish!] One of the unsurprising but extremely welcome additions to Obenseuer in the Bazaar update is the plethora of new buyers and sellers, particularly buyers. Previously there were three ways to make decent money, absolutely necessary for upgrading apartments: selling built […]

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arclight @arclight.oldbytes.space.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

@Remittancegirl I brought up your frit/glaze situation with our instructor tonight and he recommended the author of this (John Britt). Britt apparently has another book aimed at cone 5 which sounds closer to what you're looking for.

The Complete Guide to High-Fire Glazes by John Britt.

Tables of glaze compositions, manufacturer numbers, and melting points

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

[aipol] > LLMs are most useful for people who know what they are doing – experienced people who can spot errors quickly, know the obvious pitfalls, and feel frustrated they can’t get more junior staff to do exactly the thing they asked for. They are made for the kind of people who think “if […]

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Cassandrich @dalias.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

@futurebird The crime is not a violation of property rights around these little snippets you organized, but what you're doing to culture, to how you undermine artists and the ability to even have art that's identifiable as art, to the ability of humans to have relationships of trust, etc […]

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

If I spend enough time organizing information I may add value to it, but do I really own it? If the organization is automated and on an inhuman scale are we even talking about the same thing anymore? Artists look at the pale mockeries of their work filtered through these systems and they feel […]

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arclight @arclight.oldbytes.space.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

[Obenseuer / Clerks crossover!] Quickly - in here! Who is driving? Oh my god, bear is driving! How can that be?!

A blue car with stuffed animals in all the seats. A teddy bear is at the wheel.

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arclight @arclight.oldbytes.space.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

RE: troet.cafe/@b_rain/1173434246278498… Chatbots are programmed to be approachable and to be nice to you. I can totally see why someone would choose a better socialized robot mansplainer over the regular human kind.

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arclight @arclight.oldbytes.space.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

TIL the "Martians" of science (brilliant Hungarian expats fleeing national socialism before WW2) included Cornelius Lanczos (calculus of variations) and John Kemeny (Dartmouth president, designer of BASIC, chair of Three Mile Island commission) […]

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Mx. Luna Corbden 🪿🐸 @corbden.defcon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2025

Ok let's get into it. Cognitive dissonance/consonance theory originated when Leon Festinger when asked the question: "Why do core believers in doomsday cults double-down after doomsday never comes?" In his book, "When Prophecy Fails," he outlines the history of such sects (like the Anabaptists […]

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Jane Doe @janef0421.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

If you have designed a computer program in such a way that there are no reliable mechanisms to prevent it from taking unwanted actions, the program is not “going rogue”, it is simply unsafe and poorly designed.

arclight @arclight.oldbytes.space.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

[Obenseuer! Navigating the Bazaar] Last night I got the passport which has unlocked the long awaited Bazaar district of Obenseuer. I saw the sights, bought a bag of decent coffee and met a bunch of new and interesting people. When they told me not to go into the slums I really should have […]

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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Complex software behaving in unexpected and sometimes harmful ways has been a persistent problem since software was invented. The phenomenon used to be called “bugs” or “defects”, but I guess “going rogue” sounds cooler. It also implicitly frames “rogue” behavior as some kind of inexplicable […]

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arclight @arclight.oldbytes.space.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Donut is skeptical of Cat Dad's musical "taste" #CatsOfMastodon

A somewhat perturbed tabby cat looks askance at Cat Dad. Cat Mom has the same reaction to Cat Dad when he plays Gary Numan without wearing headphones.

arclight @arclight.oldbytes.space.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

[Software developers, AI, and growing up] In case the original thread gets deleted, I want to preserve this because it's really a mind-bogglingly tall ask. I've left off the author and the thread; this isn't about dragging someone being wrong on the internet, it's about poorly socialized devs […]

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arclight @arclight.oldbytes.space.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Today was a day of minor accomplishments. At work I introduced someone to the head and tail commands; they had found out about watch earlier in the day so I could add tail to it for calm log watching. I found my semi-obscure unix text processing utility cheatsheet from 2022 with fun tools like […]

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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

Heathrow airport has special corridors reserved for passengers with antlers, which seems very thoughtful of them but also oddly specific.

Sign reading: “→
Flight Connections
All terminals”

with a pictograph of a person walking and two pictographs of airplanes that appear to be radiating out of their head, resembling antlers.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

What I can't get over is the Dems out there trying to transphobia their way out of these numbers. Just out there riding the crest of the wave, doing morally unsupportable pandering to bigotry at a time when it is also strategically foolish, just for love of the capitulation game.

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Paco Hope @paco.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

I love getting #TheOnion in print, but this time they’ve gone too far. I don’t know how they broke into my basement but I did not give them permission to use photos of my stuff in their mock ads. #selfhosting #homelab

Photo of a printed coupon in the onion. It pretends to be from Best Buy and shows a big cardboard box full of random computer cords like USB and power cables. The coupon says “good for one free pull from the Tub O’ Cords”

arclight @arclight.oldbytes.space.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

Back in the studio for another few weeks. Here's the story so far. R to L is progression of "skill". I am proud of the rightmost example - lopsided, uneven, hole in the bottom, an utter piece of crap. It's mine, I made it, and it's getting glazed and fired more for practice. It's crap and I own it.

L to R: A bowly-cuppy thing, a cup thing, and a glorious lopsided piece of crap. Bisqueware

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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

Open Source hot take: A software project is allowed to be *done*. Not everything needs to add features or rewrite things. You can just be happy with functionality and focus on just maintainance. "Maintenance mode" is not always bad but can just show a mature product.

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

NASA picture of the day today is a real 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿beauty! This is a composite image of the ~5000yo Callanish Stones on the Isle of Lewis. The amazing Giuseppe Petricca has only gone and photographed the Sun at noon there, every few days, for a whole year. #Dedication 🔭🧪👌 ℹ️: science.nasa.gov/image-articl...

The imposing Callanish Stones stand talk with their shadows spanning out across the glass. It's a super clear sky, but looks cold. Above the central stone is a strange figure-of-8 shape of dots. This is the location of the Sun, at noon, on various different days across the year.

arclight @arclight.oldbytes.space.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

The Shinto Spirit of UNNECESSARY COMPLICATION! youtube.com/shorts/mLC0SE51-C0

arclight @arclight.oldbytes.space.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

RE: raphus.social/@MaddieM4/11730077536… This thread. @MaddieM4 has taken one for the team on this one. Thanks for wading into this quagmire. Taking advice from a long-time professional designer of problems requiring his commercial solutions doesn't seem to be the wisest choice […]

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arclight @arclight.oldbytes.space.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

The new #Obenseuer run is going about average. I nerfed tenement upgrade cost just to reduce the grind and took random addictions and cops as enemies hoping to enable Crazy Neighbor later in the character definition. That didn't work out; selecting Crazy Neighbor as one's recurring delusion does […]

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arclight @arclight.oldbytes.space.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

TWO WEEKS UNTIL RELEASE! SQUEE! youtu.be/Hbvf5RkcMRU Time to get back to my substance abusing, fungal disease ridden, windshield wiper fluid drinking landlording, spelunking, turnip farming, and general criming. This update has been available as a closed beta for a while and I've […]

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Chris Adamson @invalidname.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

The Ford app just added AI. This is the greatest thing ever.

Ford app AI feature with user-entered text "Write a 150-word story about Sailor Moon and Hatsune Miku kissing."

Under the gentle glow of a moonlit Tokyo skyline, Usagi Tsukino stood atop a quiet rooftop terrace, the night breeze catching her golden twin tails. Beside her, Hatsune Miku adjusted her glowing teal ribbons, a soft electronic melody humming faintly from the synth display at her wrist. The vibrant city buzzed far below, but above the streets, the air was peaceful and still.
Turning toward each other, Usagi smiled warmly, her bright eyes reflecting the starlight. Miku stepped closer, her digital glow softly illuminating the space between them. Without a word, Usagi leaned in, and their lips met in a sweet, tender kiss that seemed to bridge magic and music into…

one perfect harmony. As they pulled back, blushing beneath the moonlight, Miku shared a soft, cheerful smile.
Now that the magic and music are in harmony, is there anything I can help you with regarding your Mustang Mach-E
today?

arclight @arclight.oldbytes.space.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

RE: mastodon.online/@alexr/117208758827… Right-to-repair needs teeth. Or a baseball bat.

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arclight @arclight.oldbytes.space.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

I feel like my best plan for the future is to learn enough civil engineering to build ad hoc water treatment plants and maybe learn to speak Korean, Estonian, or Finnish. Definitely work on lockpicking. Maybe very basic chemical engineering or learning to draw wire. Dressing game for sure […]

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eri :neofox_flag_nb: :fox_floofing: @eri.mk.moth.zone.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

this game fucking sucks what am i supposed to do

various failed commands in a linux terminal
"look up" "go north" "grab key"

arclight @arclight.oldbytes.space.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

AI-pilled execs are depressing. I'm not looking forward to my role transitioning to a reverse centaur and moral crumple zone.

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arclight @arclight.oldbytes.space.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

Helping out a coworker has reinforced to me that "Segmentation fault (core dumped)" is possibly the most worthless error message ever.

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arclight @arclight.oldbytes.space.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

RE: eupolicy.social/@hpod16/11728602005… "Teenagers are spending on AVERAGE 4-6 hours online per day, instead of going outside and interacting with humans." I did that in the early 80s with a book, TV, videogame, or computer. If there's a problem here, it's that parents and […]

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Xenofact (he/him):jrbd: @revxenofact.dobbs.town.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

The Glory of "Bob"

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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/05/2026

Smart, but evil.

The antidepressant industry invented Valentine's Day to make single people feel more lonely.

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

I have another brilliant idea to save money and time. Instead of promoting an LLM to write an email this new system will simply send your target the prompt and the email will be generated on their end with *their* tokens should they choose to open it. We can hide this all in an embedded HTML […]

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arclight @arclight.oldbytes.space.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

I'm building a little cross-platform batch queueing system in Python for running some of our creaky Fortran code in bulk and in parallel without flooding the system. I have a very rare need for a recursive routine to walk a directory tree to build a normalized list of input files. This is one of […]

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arclight @arclight.oldbytes.space.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

[Vidjagames! The Mermaid Mask] The latest installment in the Detective Grimoire series - The Mermaid Mask - has filled me with deep regret in that I'm absolutely hooked by it and will be terribly sad when it's over. store.steampowered.com/app/1696770/… The writing and […]

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arclight @arclight.oldbytes.space.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

I think of the 10 Phases of Firefighting that Overhaul is the one that fascinates me thd most. hsewatch.com/10-phases-of-firefight… It's not exciting, it's not the immediate "read" of the fire, it's the (hopefully) boring trudge at the end just before the paperwork. Tedious, thorough […]

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arclight @arclight.oldbytes.space.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

Time for NINJA LESSONS! youtube.com/shorts/1c-bLdjCJMc

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Karl Melnyk @karlmelnyk.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Next:

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Amber :neodog_box: @puppygirlhornypost2.transfem.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

Downloads, the junk drawer of computers

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OpenStreetMap Ops Team @operations.openstreetmap.org · 15/09/2026

The OpenStreetMap.org website and API are struggling. We are fighting a large set of AI crawlers / scrapers. Working to restore service as soon as possible. #AI #Scrapers

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Indio Gringo ® @paninid.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

Red hats are the new redcoats

arclight @arclight.oldbytes.space.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

Meet the Nuvistor! youtu.be/XcNLQskUcpk via @tubetime #GaryNuvistor #VacuumTubewayArmy

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arclight @arclight.oldbytes.space.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

[Vidjagames! Miscellany] After wrapping up as much of Cloudpunk as I felt like, I decided to restart its thematic sister NeoCab and that's going well. steampeek.hu has succeeded where Steam's native search and recommendation facilities have utterly failed. It's still difficult finding games I […]

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arclight @arclight.oldbytes.space.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

Subtoot: I don't think someone from Romania is in any position to criticize my country's absolutely shit government as if they're ignorant of their own history. Also, I am a genius chemist. #LookUponMyCVAndDespair

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arclight @arclight.oldbytes.space.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

If I seem crankier than normal, it might be because I've had scumbag developers texting me at 8am on the weekend trying to buy a house I'm not selling.

"$4.2M firm. Consider not repeatedly texting people at 8am on weekends you bloodless ghouls"

Land speculators and property developers should die fast painful deaths. Lock term in burning Teslas out in the desert.

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Theodora Ward @theodoraward.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

if i rig up a random number generator to a bomb, program it to generate a number between 1 and 20 every five minutes, set the bomb to go off if i roll a 20, begin the random number generator, then leave the room, i am liable for when the bomb goes off. the fact that a deeply stupid […]

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arclight @arclight.oldbytes.space.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

I was rummaging through Chris Staecker's lectures on YouTube and found a very interesting one on taking the derivative of a set of strings. Like d/da of [ab]* is d/da [ab][ab]* which splits into d/da a[ab]* and d/da b[ab]*. The second piece goes away - b[ab]* doesn't start with a so it's like […]

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