Archagon
@archagon.net
Software feller.
I’m also on mastodon.social/@archagon.
I’m also on mastodon.social/@archagon.
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Somewhat regularly, I run into weird indie games with, like, ten thousand reviews and an Overwhelmingly Positive rating that no publication has written a word about. How do I find out about these things?!?
STRAFTAT on Steam
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 300 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
store.steampowered.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Somewhat regularly, I run into weird indie games with, like, ten thousand reviews and an Overwhelmingly Positive rating that no publication has written a word about. How do I find out about these things?!?
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Lizard loses lawsuit:
must bob his head.
Lizard loses lawsuit:
must bob his head.
November 7, 2025 at 8:44 PM
A2255.2
Lizard loses lawsuit:
must bob his head.
Lizard loses lawsuit:
must bob his head.
A fun NYC quirk from my most recent visit was when one of the lettered subway lines would randomly swap places with a seemingly unrelated one, making all the signage obsolete and forcing me to run around the entire Times Square station desperately looking for my connection!
November 7, 2025 at 5:37 AM
A fun NYC quirk from my most recent visit was when one of the lettered subway lines would randomly swap places with a seemingly unrelated one, making all the signage obsolete and forcing me to run around the entire Times Square station desperately looking for my connection!
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i'm not trying to make this about me, this time, but among many other incredible and charismatic qualities, mamdani is the first political candidate in history that seems like maybe, just maybe, he's played firewatch or untitled goose game
November 5, 2025 at 2:52 AM
i'm not trying to make this about me, this time, but among many other incredible and charismatic qualities, mamdani is the first political candidate in history that seems like maybe, just maybe, he's played firewatch or untitled goose game
Apple influencers in my feeds: it’s super fucked up how Apple is enabling right wing authoritarianism
Same influencers, one post later: wow, check out this super cool new Apple tech!
Dude, pick a lane.
Same influencers, one post later: wow, check out this super cool new Apple tech!
Dude, pick a lane.
October 28, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Apple influencers in my feeds: it’s super fucked up how Apple is enabling right wing authoritarianism
Same influencers, one post later: wow, check out this super cool new Apple tech!
Dude, pick a lane.
Same influencers, one post later: wow, check out this super cool new Apple tech!
Dude, pick a lane.
Been reading up on ZFS over the last few weeks, and only noticed today that what I thought was "reslivering" is actually "reSILVERing" — in reference to the silver layer on a traditional reflective mirror.
October 28, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Been reading up on ZFS over the last few weeks, and only noticed today that what I thought was "reslivering" is actually "reSILVERing" — in reference to the silver layer on a traditional reflective mirror.
It's strangely difficult to mount a .dmg imaged from a drive containing encrypted APFS volumes, but I think I finally figured it out:
1) hdiutil attach -noverify -nomount Image.dmg
2) diskutil apfs unlockVolume disk5s1 -passphrase password
Something about the encryption gets macOS really confused.
1) hdiutil attach -noverify -nomount Image.dmg
2) diskutil apfs unlockVolume disk5s1 -passphrase password
Something about the encryption gets macOS really confused.
October 26, 2025 at 8:43 PM
It's strangely difficult to mount a .dmg imaged from a drive containing encrypted APFS volumes, but I think I finally figured it out:
1) hdiutil attach -noverify -nomount Image.dmg
2) diskutil apfs unlockVolume disk5s1 -passphrase password
Something about the encryption gets macOS really confused.
1) hdiutil attach -noverify -nomount Image.dmg
2) diskutil apfs unlockVolume disk5s1 -passphrase password
Something about the encryption gets macOS really confused.
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How cool are these embroidered Nona Kecil (“little woman”) figures in their vibrant, whimsical outfits by Indonesian artist Nengiren? [kottke.org]
Nengiren’s Embroidered Little Woman
How cool are these embroidered Nona Kecil (“little woman”) figures by Indonesian artist Irene Saputra, aka Nengiren. She explained to Colossal what the figures signify:
Nona Kecil’s evolution mirrors my own jour
kottke.org
October 20, 2025 at 1:56 PM
How cool are these embroidered Nona Kecil (“little woman”) figures in their vibrant, whimsical outfits by Indonesian artist Nengiren? [kottke.org]
An interview with █████████████ of "Titanic" fame as part of the Titan investigation!
This is just the interview with Cameron: media.defense.gov/2025/Sep/17/...
media.defense.gov
October 17, 2025 at 9:22 PM
An interview with █████████████ of "Titanic" fame as part of the Titan investigation!
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Thinking about ray tracing again...
October 9, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Thinking about ray tracing again...
Why does reading programming forums these days (HN, etc.) make me never want to work in the industry again, but visiting the Computer History Museum leave me energized?
How do I get back that wonder for computing in my work?
How do I get back that wonder for computing in my work?
October 8, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Why does reading programming forums these days (HN, etc.) make me never want to work in the industry again, but visiting the Computer History Museum leave me energized?
How do I get back that wonder for computing in my work?
How do I get back that wonder for computing in my work?
Great article on the history of the Manhattan Project. I’ve always wondered what the overall shape of the work actually looked like. www.construction-physics.com/p/an-enginee...
An Engineering History of the Manhattan Project
The Manhattan Project, the US program to build an atomic bomb during WWII, is one of the most famous and widely known major government projects: a survey in 1999 ranked the dropping of the atomic bomb as the top news story of the 20th century. Virtually everyone knows that the project built the bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. And most of us probably know that the bomb was built by some of the world’s best physicists, working under Robert Oppenheimer at Los Alamos in New Mexico. But the Manhattan Project was far more than just a science project: building the bombs required an enormous industrial effort of unprecedented scale and complexity. Enormous factory complexes were built using hundreds of millions of dollars worth of never-before-constructed equipment. Scores of new machines, analytical techniques, and methods of working with completely novel substances had to be invented. Materials which had never been produced at all, or only produced in tiny amounts, suddenly had to be manufactured in vast quantities.
www.construction-physics.com
October 6, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Great article on the history of the Manhattan Project. I’ve always wondered what the overall shape of the work actually looked like. www.construction-physics.com/p/an-enginee...
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Beat Silksong to ~100% in about 60h. What an absolutely incredible game. Improves on Hollow Knight in practically every way and the difficulty feels spot on for me. The world is brimming with micro-interactions that make it feel more alive than any AAA game I've played. Top 5 and maybe even GOAT.
October 4, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Beat Silksong to ~100% in about 60h. What an absolutely incredible game. Improves on Hollow Knight in practically every way and the difficulty feels spot on for me. The world is brimming with micro-interactions that make it feel more alive than any AAA game I've played. Top 5 and maybe even GOAT.
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a work of art is a creature that wants to destroy you and replace you with something else. it is in your interest that you allow this to happen, sometimes
counterpoint: it is good and correct to view engaging with a piece of art as an act of consumption. you just have it backwards. *you* are the thing being consumed
Gonna go even further: don't refer to it as "consuming media" when doing this. You aren't a consumer - it's not a product. You read books. You look at art. You watch movies and/or videos. Be careful about word choice.
Reject "consume" and REJECT "CONTENT."
IT IS ART.
YOU ARE ENGAGING WITH ART.
Reject "consume" and REJECT "CONTENT."
IT IS ART.
YOU ARE ENGAGING WITH ART.
September 22, 2025 at 3:10 PM
a work of art is a creature that wants to destroy you and replace you with something else. it is in your interest that you allow this to happen, sometimes
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The games industry continues to grow towards ever-longer sounds of screaming and wailing
September 4, 2025 at 4:50 PM
The games industry continues to grow towards ever-longer sounds of screaming and wailing
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The hunt is on! Hollow Knight: Silksong is available now on all platforms, including day one on Xbox Game Pass!
September 4, 2025 at 2:06 PM
The hunt is on! Hollow Knight: Silksong is available now on all platforms, including day one on Xbox Game Pass!
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I have been waiting so I can share this with the non-weekend-socials people.
It is revealing, terrifying, instructive, important, original - rare enough qualities amidst the clickbait that passes for journalism at the moment. Rarer still, it is splendidly written.
It is revealing, terrifying, instructive, important, original - rare enough qualities amidst the clickbait that passes for journalism at the moment. Rarer still, it is splendidly written.
I spent the day with Curtis Yarvin and the "dissident right" at a garden party in Surrey and wrote quite a few words about it.
My cover story for today’s FT Magazine
on.ft.com/4ooXS4t [GIFT LINK! 🎁]
My cover story for today’s FT Magazine
on.ft.com/4ooXS4t [GIFT LINK! 🎁]
Sunday at the garden party for Curtis Yarvin and the new, new right
[FREE TO READ] What you learn at a gathering of neoreactionaries, Very Online rightwingers and the formerly cancelled
on.ft.com
August 11, 2025 at 8:39 AM
I have been waiting so I can share this with the non-weekend-socials people.
It is revealing, terrifying, instructive, important, original - rare enough qualities amidst the clickbait that passes for journalism at the moment. Rarer still, it is splendidly written.
It is revealing, terrifying, instructive, important, original - rare enough qualities amidst the clickbait that passes for journalism at the moment. Rarer still, it is splendidly written.
iOS Safari ate 150 of my tabs for no reason at all. And a recent iCloud backup got restored with 0 tabs. WTF. 😢 (Not one to give up, I was able to make a local backup, dig through it using iMazing, extract SafariTabs.db, and poke around using DB4S. Somehow, the tabs were still in one of the tables!)
August 6, 2025 at 7:15 AM
iOS Safari ate 150 of my tabs for no reason at all. And a recent iCloud backup got restored with 0 tabs. WTF. 😢 (Not one to give up, I was able to make a local backup, dig through it using iMazing, extract SafariTabs.db, and poke around using DB4S. Somehow, the tabs were still in one of the tables!)
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Ai Weiwei was invited to contribute short reflections on “What I would have liked to know about Germany earlier" for an upcoming issue of Zeit Magazin. His submission was first shortened and edited, then immediately cancelled after a review by the Executive Editor. Ai shared his reflections anyway:
August 2, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Ai Weiwei was invited to contribute short reflections on “What I would have liked to know about Germany earlier" for an upcoming issue of Zeit Magazin. His submission was first shortened and edited, then immediately cancelled after a review by the Executive Editor. Ai shared his reflections anyway:
@nifflas.bsky.social Hey, just wondering, did you leave Mastodon? Realized I hadn't seen your posts in a while and now it looks like your profile is gone.
August 1, 2025 at 8:21 PM
@nifflas.bsky.social Hey, just wondering, did you leave Mastodon? Realized I hadn't seen your posts in a while and now it looks like your profile is gone.