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arclight @arclight.oldbytes.space.ap.brid.gy · 7h

We got Donut a few weeks after Pico passed to keep our other cat (Snoz) company. This is the defining picture of Donut and Snoz - Donut with his face buried in Snoz's magnificent fluff and Snoz looking at us with the expression "YOU! YOU DID THIS! WHY?" Donut […] [Original post on oldbytes.space]

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Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸 @evan.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 10h

Sorry if I'm being mean; I'm in my Mean Time, Between Failures. I'll probably fail at something soon and be nice again after.

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arclight @arclight.oldbytes.space.ap.brid.gy · 8h

[Obenseuer patch notes:] These are not bugs, they're the expected behavior in a detailed accurate simulation:

* Fixed cats occupying nearby chairs (issue #5706)
* Fixed trash reappearing (issue #4210)

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 12h

[Top tip for injured hairy men] If your plaster/bandaid is the sort that's more clothy/fabricy than plasticky/rubbery then rubbing/isopropyl alcohol will wick right through the fabric to the adhesive underneath and dissolve it damn near instantly. Put a dab on your fingers and rub the cloth and […]

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arclight @arclight.oldbytes.space.ap.brid.gy · 11h

[Vidjagames! Obenseuer, the Big Elevator, and Letters of Recommendation] Oh, another thing: being flush with RM and having no impending tenement upgrades with high closing costs means I'm more free with cash when browsing machines and furniture. I have not (yet) bought my own lathe - I can […]

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arclight @arclight.oldbytes.space.ap.brid.gy · 11h

@zachweinersmith.bsky.social I wound up reading Slide Rule mainly for his autobiography working for Vickers on the R100 airship en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R100

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Aviation Librarian @aviation-librarian.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 15h

London Croydon Airport Postcard with 2 BOAC Stratocruisers and an Air India Constellation. . #London #Croydon #Airport #Postcard #BOAC #Stratocruiser #AirIndia #Constellation #AviationAvgeek #Travel #LondonHistory

Black-and-white postcard photograph of London Airport, showing three large passenger aircraft parked on the airport apron. Two BOAC Boeing 377 Stratocruisers stand near the center and left of the image, identifiable by their large, rounded fuselages and distinctive double-deck profiles. An Air India Lockheed Constellation is parked on the right, featuring its triple-tail design and long, curved fuselage. Airport buildings with flat roofs, windows, and small flags line the left side of the scene. Two people stand on a paved pedestrian approach in the foreground, facing the aircraft. A tall flagpole with supporting rigging rises prominently on the right, with a flag flying near its upper section. Curved streetlamps, low hedges, landscaped grass, and paved walkways surround the airport buildings. The postcard has a simple caption reading “London Airport” in white lettering at the lower left.

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arclight @arclight.oldbytes.space.ap.brid.gy · 11h

@dlakelan I worked Excite from 1996 to 2001 and I feel so seen right now.

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Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.

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arclight @arclight.oldbytes.space.ap.brid.gy · 20h

[Vidjagames! Obenseuer, the Big Elevator, and Letters of Recommendation] Tonight was another production day in #Obenseuer. Somehow I've managed to stabilize the farm to moonshine pipeline so I'm turning over decent cash without constantly babysitting the system. The basement pike aquaculture […]

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arclight @arclight.oldbytes.space.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

[Vidjagames! No sleep 'til Stalburg] More #Obenseuer! Flush with cash (relatively), I completed the penultimate stairwell upgrade and now have access to the fifth floor of the tenement, the top level of apartments. Two of the three are cleaned up enough for construction to start but more […]

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arclight @arclight.oldbytes.space.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

[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 · 01/10/2026

@epilepticrabbit That all tracks, sadly. Well, except for Mr. Peabody. Good for him.

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

@lproven A list of references that exist and are relevant and correct. Some way of easily confirming the generated answer is true.

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

@epilepticrabbit Now you have me wondering about Boris, Natasha, Mr. Peabody, and Sherman. What would they be doing with their retirement time?

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

@epilepticrabbit They retired to a farm upstate. Bullwinkle pursues poetry (his true calling) and occasionally teaches at the community college. Rocky directs at the local theater, most recently T. S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral.

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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

@RonJeffries There are a depressing number of people who do not understand (willfully or not) harm reduction.

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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 · 29/09/2026

@2legged Interesting that the youngest of the lot is the standard bearer. I guess the older ones are too weighted down holding grudges to do any useful work.

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

[Obenseuer! Navigating the Bazaar] It's so nice having new content, both side and main quests in addition to a lot of new map. Tenement upgrade capabilities are now fragmented over (at least) 4 different contractors and I'm starting to hit a wall regarding hard-currency income. The grind, she […]

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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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arclight @arclight.oldbytes.space.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

@juliusgoat.bsky.social Remember when Rahm helped cover up Laquan McDonald's murder by CPD's Jason Van Dyke? Good times. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Laq… (Dear Reader, they were not in fact 'good times')

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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.

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arclight @arclight.oldbytes.space.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

[Obenseuer! Navigating the Bazaar] I love this game so much - it's horrible, so absolutely horrible you can only laugh. Best advertisement for Finland ever.

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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.

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

[Software developers, AI, and growing up] Have programmers been this awful and clueless forever or did I just miss that section in "The Psychology of Computer Programming"? geraldmweinberg.com/Site/Programmin… How much of this stems from driving women and minorities […]

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

@juliusgoat.bsky.social Gotta chase those nonexistent undecided low-information voters.

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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”

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

Crappy hole-in-bottom pot was dipped in 3 glazes so it's sort of acting as a test specimen. That's sort of my goal - as weird as it is, it can play dress-up with everyone else and might show some beauty. Or it may be completely ridiculous. Either way, it's part of practice and I'm learning from it.

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

@brouhaha I'm sort of lucky in this regard. I never learned C to any fluency (too low level, not enough math) and attempted to learn C++ six separate times between 1992 and 2018, failing each time. It finally stuck in 2018 when I worked through one of those giant Learn C++ in 30 Days doorstops - […]

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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.

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