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roy 朗井 @live.from.roys.house · 23/09/2026

btw i think the reason i like magical sigils and worlds based around them is because magical sigils are actually real. you open up a satellite LNB and what you find is shapes wrought from metal to manipulate unseen forces. you can't tell me they're not magical sigils

picture of the inside of a satellite low-noise block downconverter (LNB), the circuit in the focal point of a satellite TV dish. this one's a rectangular metal case with inside of it a printed circuit board full of gold-plated traces. many have strange shapes you wouldn't find in other electronics. scientifically you might call them microstrip filters, but really they're nothing more than a well-understood magical rune

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alex! @atctwo.net · 22/09/2026

I've got a bunch of CDs recently but I forgot to put them on this thread :p I want to try to listen to them more often so I might try posting them as I listen to them! today's record is the mountain goats' latest album. the themes are pretty fitting for the stuff I've been feeling recently!

Days by the Mountain Goats sitting on a green cutting board. The album artwork shows 12 times of the day, represented as the sun at different points in the sky

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tobyfox @tobyfox.undertale.com · 16/09/2026

A friend found one of my business cards from 13 years ago

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alex! @atctwo.net · 13/09/2026

new blog post! my entire LAN is now tunneled through a VPN due to some silly firewall rules I added to my mikrotik router atctwo.net/posts/2026/0...

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Mikrotik Router as a VPN client

An approach to running network traffic through a VPN, on the routing side

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0x19.co @0x19.co · 31/08/2026

it's not tylenol giving the kids autism it's actually me

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alex! @atctwo.net · 19/08/2026

spent tonight playing on my silly scope

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alex! @atctwo.net · 17/08/2026

yesterday was a pretty yucky day for me but it's all ok since i got to see Camp Miasma at my uni's film theature. very good film, like any jane schoenbrun work i feel like i've had my emotions reduced into a fine and delicious paste. would recommend!

an embroidered patch on a wooden table. it reads "I Survived Camp Miasma at QFT", and shows the sun rising over mountains behind some trees. the patch has a yellow border

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ko² @foxgirl.systems · 09/08/2026

filed under "Gadgets, Gizmos"

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alex! @atctwo.net · 10/08/2026

new blog post: i wrote up some of my post-emfcamp thoughts! atctwo.net/posts/2026/0... i've never done a type of post like this where i just say things that i think (as opposed to describing something technical that i've done). it's nice and i want to do it more!

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I went to Electromagnetic Field 2026

Notes on my experience on EMF Camp 2026

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alex! @atctwo.net · 02/08/2026

it's an epson TM-T88V! it can do 300mm/s print speeds, and there are better models which are faster but they're also expensive (i got this one for £25 on ebay haha)

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alex! @atctwo.net · 02/08/2026

if you assume the firehose is 100 posts/s and each post takes 50mm of paper, your printer would need to print at 5000mm/s. my printer (TM-T88V) does 300mm/s, so you would need 17 printers to keep up

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alex! @atctwo.net · 02/08/2026

at the minute the software would 100% OOM if it weren't for the 100 page limit. if i wanted to do it seriously i would probably have multiple printers (since one printer alone can't keep up, see next post) and a queue for each, then send each post into the emptiest queue

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alex! @atctwo.net · 02/08/2026

in theory it is real time, it's just limited to 100 posts so i don't run out of paper haha but if it had infinite paper then it absolutely would not be able to keep up. i wrote zero async code for this

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alex! @atctwo.net · 02/08/2026

i'm not sure! i kinda want to wall mount it but with 100 posts the tape is just under 4m long. maybe i could make one of those PVC strip curtains but with these

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alex! @atctwo.net · 01/08/2026

got a new thermal receipt printer? don't know what to do with it? try printing a live feed of the atproto firehose! you certainly won't regret printing a live feed of the atproto firehose

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alex! @atctwo.net · 25/07/2026

fixed it! (by just starting again from scratch...) i'm now on the fediverse at gts2.atctwo.net/@alex

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alex! @atctwo.net · 23/07/2026

looks like i might have irrecoverably screwed up the database migration for my fediverse instance teehee 🤪 if i end up rebuilding the instance on a different domain, i guess my old account (and all of it's follow{ers, ing}) will kinda just exist as a ghost on other instances?

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alex! @atctwo.net · 20/07/2026

goodbye #emfcamp! this has been one of the most surreal and incredible experiences of my life, and hopefully i'll be there next year! (photo gallery coming soon !)

a picture of the EMF sign at night. it's glowing blue and a little red, illuminating the grass below it

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alex! @atctwo.net · 15/07/2026

where is the rest of my thumbnail

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alex! @atctwo.net · 15/07/2026

new blog post! it's just a little writeup on a repair i did for some VGA matrix switches (that i've posted a lot about here hehe) i finally got around to writing this post since i'm planning on donating two of these to the swap shop at #emfcamp atctwo.net/posts/2026/0...

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Kramer VP-8x8 VGA Matrix Repair

A little writeup on how I repaired three VGA matrix switches I got on eBay

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alex! @atctwo.net · 14/07/2026

packing stuff for my first emf camp!! i have totally no idea how much to bring... this is enough equipment, right?

a large equipment bag sitting on a bed. it contains multiple sections that contain (among other things): multiple extension reels, a power bank, an analog telephone, a USB modem, a DECT cordless phone, a mikrotik router, a small network switch, one million ethernet cables, a HackRF One, and some (unassembled) mesh nodes.

to the bag's left are two cisco 2960 series switches, and to its top are two 8x8 VGA matrix switches, and a blahaj. a second smaller bag sits in the top left

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mechachoi @mechachoi.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

remember when nintendo menus had soul?

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Jenuki ☕️ MoNSTeR CAFÉ! @jenuki.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I FOUND IT twitter.com/ChiyokoMusic...

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alex! @atctwo.net · 30/06/2026

I've been working on my battlebots today. I think my desk gets really visually interesting when it's this busy so I'm sharing it!

picture of my desk, its a wooden bench with a deltarune chapter 2 deskmat. there is a lot of stuff sitting on it, including
my laptop
a lithium battery charger
a large screwdriver set
many screwdrivers
multiple disassembled small robots
a flight controller
an arduino uno
a soldering iron
a small vice
countless untracable wires going everywhere
two monitors are visible in the background

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alex! @atctwo.net · 26/06/2026

[huge deltarune spoilers with no context regarding an optional interaction in chapter 5] i was kinda on the fence about this before, but after ralsei's optional interaction with flowery i now fully support the Princess Interpretation of Ralsei Mechanics

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alex! @atctwo.net · 26/06/2026

[deltarune spoilers] also this guy is my new best friend i loooove them :) deltarune.wiki/w/Kawkaw

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alex! @atctwo.net · 26/06/2026

[deltarune spoilers] finished chapter 5! very very fun, kinda builds on the same formula as previous chapters but has it's own charm in the form of new mechanics and silly gags. it feels like each chapter takes the same formula and builds on it in very clever ways :)

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alex! @atctwo.net · 18/06/2026

new blog post! that i wrote about 6 months ago and forgot about :p it's about all the silly stuff i had to work around when using the web MediaSession api for a project atctwo.net/posts/2026/0...

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MediaSession API Skeletons

Inconsistent behaviour in the MediaSession Web API sent me down a long and deep rabbit hole

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alex! @atctwo.net · 17/06/2026

Although, when I see stuff like this my faith in this place is immediately restored. I think I have to remember that there's always more people who care than those who hate. bsky.app/profile/irla...

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alex! @atctwo.net · 10/06/2026

I think some people can't handle the idea of peace, there always needs to be a "themmuns".

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alex! @atctwo.net · 10/06/2026

So, my home city is Belfast. This is where I and the people I love spend our lives. The racist rioting last night and fears of more tonight are heartbreaking. To think that this is how the city I love treats people? It's shameful. It makes me ashamed to call this place home

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alex! @atctwo.net · 09/06/2026

yeah! i've been listening to them more recently and their new record is pretty good!!

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alex! @atctwo.net · 30/05/2026

today's new CDs! Blood Orange's Essex Honey, which i've been listening to a lot (but very out-of-order) for the past half a year Boards of Canada's new album Inferno. I've never actually owned a BOC album before and this seems like a good place to start!

two CDs sitting on a blue cutting board.
the left one is Essex Honey by Blood Orange. the artwork shows a schoolboy walking down a street holding a basket ball
the right one is Inferno by Boards of Canada. the artwork shows a group of people in a forest-type area. the image seems very faded

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alex! @atctwo.net · 22/05/2026

i'm only hearing about this now, but this is literally my dream microcontroller! bluetooth classic and native USB host in one chip 🫪

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alex! @atctwo.net · 19/05/2026

over the weekend, red bull ran a soapbox race at stormont estate in belfast (just outside the seat of the local devolved government). i got a few cool pictures! atctwo.net/photos/red-b...

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Red Bull Soapbox Race - Belfast May 2026

On 17.05.26, Red Bull held a soapbox race at Stormont Estate (just outside the seat of the local devolved government lol). I got a few cool pictures! But only of the first half, since the sudden torre...

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alex! @atctwo.net · 18/05/2026

last bandcamp friday i got Weyes Blood's Titanic Rising on CD! is the type of music i really like getting lost in while taking the train and staring out the window. listening to it feels kinda like floating

a digipak CD case sits on a cluttered desk, sandwiched between a blue and pink and white mechanical keyboard, a green flask, and a red tin. my laptop's sitting in the background.

the cd artwork features Weyes Blood in a blue bedroom which appears to be underwater. light is pouring through the curtains.

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alex! @atctwo.net · 01/05/2026

it looks like my PDS migration worked

screenshot of a bluesky notification, with the title "Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ liked your post (5m)". the referenced post simply says "test" and has attached an image of a plush Kasane Teto on a white background

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alex! @atctwo.net · 29/04/2026

next is arlo parks' new album! i really enjoyed the singles from this one, and i was able to get a bundle that came with the album on cassette as well as a live CD

Several items sitting on a blue cutting board.

Top left is a CD of Arlo Parks' album Ambiguous Desire. The artwork shows Parks sitting in a car, looking at the camera. The picture is taken from the back passenger seat, and the outside of the car is blurry.

In the middle is a cassette tape of Ambiguous Desire. It features a white cover with a drawing of a heart with an arrow going through it.

Top right is a CD of Live in London (live recordings of Parks' music from across her career). The cover shows Parks performing on a blue-lit stage in a dark room.

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alex! @atctwo.net · 29/04/2026

starting with a pile of unsorted CDs i have on my desk. i found this norah jones record at a charity shop for 50p. i don't know any of the songs on this CD but i like her other stuff so why not?

CD of Norah Jones' album Feel Like Home sitting on a blue cutting mat. The album artwork is mostly a pale orange, with Jones pictured looking downwards to the right of the artwork

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alex! @atctwo.net · 29/04/2026

i listen to a lot of music, and i like to get it on CD (and sometimes other formats) where i can. so i thought i might make a thread that i can add to to show off any physical music i get!

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