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Patch Arcana

@patcharcana@furry.engineer
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[He/Him] Writer | 無☸️ | Junkyard Dog | Gizmo-mancer | This account not rated for consumption by minors or managers.

I like making things and witnessing other people make things. Myself I do #EmbeddedDev and #Programming alongside a fair amount of writing and TTRPG design. Dipping my toes into pixel art and eurorack modular synthesis.

I am actively trying to curate a feed of people who make things, build worlds, and spread peace.

Corona onus grave est; noli eam gerere.

774 Followers
368 Following
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Joined November 14, 2022
portfolio site:
https://www.arcanalabs.ca
books:
https://www.sanityline.net
Ko-Fi:
https://www.ko-fi.com/ArcLabs
everything else:
https://www.zadammac.ca

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Patch Arcana @patcharcana@furry.engineer · Aug 05, 2026
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@patcharcana@furry.engineer

[He/Him] Writer | 無☸️ | Junkyard Dog | Gizmo-mancer | This account not rated for consumption by minors or managers. I like making things and witnessing other people make things. Myself I do #EmbeddedDev and #Programming alongside a fair amount of writing and TTRPG design. Dipping my toes into pixel art and eurorack modular synthesis. I am actively trying to curate a feed of people who make things, build worlds, and spread peace. Corona onus grave est; noli eam gerere.

furry.engineer

After a full day in the stories and funtime factory, I have decided to put in a solid evening in a factory of another kind.

Join me while I'm building the largest factory I've ever built, which will also, funnily enough, produce almost nothing. It's all very Satisfactory.

https://twitch.tv/patcharcana

#smallstreamer #pngtuber #satisfactorygame #twitch

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Patch Arcana @patcharcana@furry.engineer · Aug 05, 2026
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@patcharcana@furry.engineer

[He/Him] Writer | 無☸️ | Junkyard Dog | Gizmo-mancer | This account not rated for consumption by minors or managers. I like making things and witnessing other people make things. Myself I do #EmbeddedDev and #Programming alongside a fair amount of writing and TTRPG design. Dipping my toes into pixel art and eurorack modular synthesis. I am actively trying to curate a feed of people who make things, build worlds, and spread peace. Corona onus grave est; noli eam gerere.

furry.engineer

I'm designing a landing page on something working off a template and my brain is already supersaturated trying to come up with copy.

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Patch Arcana @patcharcana@furry.engineer · Aug 05, 2026
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@patcharcana@furry.engineer

[He/Him] Writer | 無☸️ | Junkyard Dog | Gizmo-mancer | This account not rated for consumption by minors or managers. I like making things and witnessing other people make things. Myself I do #EmbeddedDev and #Programming alongside a fair amount of writing and TTRPG design. Dipping my toes into pixel art and eurorack modular synthesis. I am actively trying to curate a feed of people who make things, build worlds, and spread peace. Corona onus grave est; noli eam gerere.

furry.engineer

Absolutely thrilled to share this week's blog post with y'all. Today it's about more than a victorious fist-pump about having "finished" a stage of a project.

Today, I'm pleased to announce more or less the entire future roadmap for getting The Rise into print.

https://www.arcanalabs.ca/news/labnotes/arcrev/writing/2026/08/05/the-rise-nears-release.html

#blog #author #ArcaneRevolutionTrilogy #amediting

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Patch Arcana @patcharcana@furry.engineer · Aug 05, 2026
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@patcharcana@furry.engineer

[He/Him] Writer | 無☸️ | Junkyard Dog | Gizmo-mancer | This account not rated for consumption by minors or managers. I like making things and witnessing other people make things. Myself I do #EmbeddedDev and #Programming alongside a fair amount of writing and TTRPG design. Dipping my toes into pixel art and eurorack modular synthesis. I am actively trying to curate a feed of people who make things, build worlds, and spread peace. Corona onus grave est; noli eam gerere.

furry.engineer

In a way, because I've both (a) built a pretty good library overall and (b) specifically splashed out on two or three larger titles in June right before I got laid off, I am uniquely equipped in that regard.

Like especially concerning my retro backlog, I could concievably game deeply into my 40s before I'd run out of things to do.

Though I'd be lying if I said I didn't have a liiiiiiiitttttttle FOMO over Owlcat's Expanse title.

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Patch Arcana @patcharcana@furry.engineer · Aug 04, 2026
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@patcharcana@furry.engineer

[He/Him] Writer | 無☸️ | Junkyard Dog | Gizmo-mancer | This account not rated for consumption by minors or managers. I like making things and witnessing other people make things. Myself I do #EmbeddedDev and #Programming alongside a fair amount of writing and TTRPG design. Dipping my toes into pixel art and eurorack modular synthesis. I am actively trying to curate a feed of people who make things, build worlds, and spread peace. Corona onus grave est; noli eam gerere.

furry.engineer

Today has made me realize how totally lacking live captioning is on most of Twitch, and how badly I need to integrate it into my own setup.

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Patch Arcana @patcharcana@furry.engineer · Jul 18, 2026
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@patcharcana@furry.engineer

[He/Him] Writer | 無☸️ | Junkyard Dog | Gizmo-mancer | This account not rated for consumption by minors or managers. I like making things and witnessing other people make things. Myself I do #EmbeddedDev and #Programming alongside a fair amount of writing and TTRPG design. Dipping my toes into pixel art and eurorack modular synthesis. I am actively trying to curate a feed of people who make things, build worlds, and spread peace. Corona onus grave est; noli eam gerere.

furry.engineer
Replying to @munin@infosec.exchange
@munin@infosec.exchange I too love these ideas but they don't solve the specific problem I'm having as "short of blocking a CIDR range so wide I'd certainly screw real people, I can't drop all this traffic based on the information it presents so now I need to make everyone burn hashes I don't actually need just to prove they avtually want to talk to me" Which... now that I think about it still probably won't solve my real problem.
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Patch Arcana @patcharcana@furry.engineer · Jul 18, 2026
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@patcharcana@furry.engineer

[He/Him] Writer | 無☸️ | Junkyard Dog | Gizmo-mancer | This account not rated for consumption by minors or managers. I like making things and witnessing other people make things. Myself I do #EmbeddedDev and #Programming alongside a fair amount of writing and TTRPG design. Dipping my toes into pixel art and eurorack modular synthesis. I am actively trying to curate a feed of people who make things, build worlds, and spread peace. Corona onus grave est; noli eam gerere.

furry.engineer
I'm not even sure that I want to use Anubis to solve this problem. Proof of work is not really my favourite computational solution for... any problem, honestly. I get the logic of it, I get why it punishes clients in a scalar way, but still. I also had some pride in the idea that my most important sites were effectively JS-free and now I'm talking about making a change that would make JS mandatory to access anything in my hive. But I can't keep getting hit by these guys
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Patch Arcana @patcharcana@furry.engineer · Jul 18, 2026
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@patcharcana@furry.engineer

[He/Him] Writer | 無☸️ | Junkyard Dog | Gizmo-mancer | This account not rated for consumption by minors or managers. I like making things and witnessing other people make things. Myself I do #EmbeddedDev and #Programming alongside a fair amount of writing and TTRPG design. Dipping my toes into pixel art and eurorack modular synthesis. I am actively trying to curate a feed of people who make things, build worlds, and spread peace. Corona onus grave est; noli eam gerere.

furry.engineer
Replying to @n_dimension@infosec.exchange
@n_dimension@infosec.exchange It's repeated attempts reach specific endpoints. I don't have a good log aggregation/parser on this host (yet: I guess that's Monday's project now) but it mostly seems to be trying to find the edit histories of specific pages that don't exist anymore that were created by spam bots over a few months beginning last october. I cleaned up the spam but the continued traffic has convinced me something is looking for C2 instructions or something that were embedded in the spam. Since it can't find what it's looking for it's just hammering over and over.
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Patch Arcana @patcharcana@furry.engineer · Jul 18, 2026
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[He/Him] Writer | 無☸️ | Junkyard Dog | Gizmo-mancer | This account not rated for consumption by minors or managers. I like making things and witnessing other people make things. Myself I do #EmbeddedDev and #Programming alongside a fair amount of writing and TTRPG design. Dipping my toes into pixel art and eurorack modular synthesis. I am actively trying to curate a feed of people who make things, build worlds, and spread peace. Corona onus grave est; noli eam gerere.

furry.engineer
Gods damn it my servers are getting hammered again. Get your agentic bullshit off my fucking wiki. And while we're at it, stop lying in your user agent. You're not clever, you're just a pain in my arse.
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Patch Arcana @patcharcana@furry.engineer · Jul 16, 2026
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[He/Him] Writer | 無☸️ | Junkyard Dog | Gizmo-mancer | This account not rated for consumption by minors or managers. I like making things and witnessing other people make things. Myself I do #EmbeddedDev and #Programming alongside a fair amount of writing and TTRPG design. Dipping my toes into pixel art and eurorack modular synthesis. I am actively trying to curate a feed of people who make things, build worlds, and spread peace. Corona onus grave est; noli eam gerere.

furry.engineer
It turns out they could, in fact, take the sky from me.
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Patch Arcana @patcharcana@furry.engineer · Jul 16, 2026
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@patcharcana@furry.engineer

[He/Him] Writer | 無☸️ | Junkyard Dog | Gizmo-mancer | This account not rated for consumption by minors or managers. I like making things and witnessing other people make things. Myself I do #EmbeddedDev and #Programming alongside a fair amount of writing and TTRPG design. Dipping my toes into pixel art and eurorack modular synthesis. I am actively trying to curate a feed of people who make things, build worlds, and spread peace. Corona onus grave est; noli eam gerere.

furry.engineer
Replying to @gary_alderson@infosec.exchange
@gary_alderson@infosec.exchange Yeah, there's a daily job that runs a restic backup against most of the parts of that host that actually matter. But for reasons that rhyme with "environment built out of a stack of hacks taller than Shaq himself", that doesn't protect the contents of the docker volumes that host the databases that back the wikis. The compromise there is to just take a new backup of the entire DB once a month and throw the oldest out. Keeps my cloud storage costs reasonable and, for the amount of "change per day" these things experience, it's probably sufficient.
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Patch Arcana @patcharcana@furry.engineer · Jul 16, 2026
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@patcharcana@furry.engineer

[He/Him] Writer | 無☸️ | Junkyard Dog | Gizmo-mancer | This account not rated for consumption by minors or managers. I like making things and witnessing other people make things. Myself I do #EmbeddedDev and #Programming alongside a fair amount of writing and TTRPG design. Dipping my toes into pixel art and eurorack modular synthesis. I am actively trying to curate a feed of people who make things, build worlds, and spread peace. Corona onus grave est; noli eam gerere.

furry.engineer
Replying to @patcharcana@furry.engineer
Now of course, the real question is: Patch, you got lucky that in the two weeks since the last backup you had made effectively no edits to the wiki, should you consider backing up more frequently. And the answer is always "It depends"
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Patch Arcana @patcharcana@furry.engineer · Jul 16, 2026
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@patcharcana@furry.engineer

[He/Him] Writer | 無☸️ | Junkyard Dog | Gizmo-mancer | This account not rated for consumption by minors or managers. I like making things and witnessing other people make things. Myself I do #EmbeddedDev and #Programming alongside a fair amount of writing and TTRPG design. Dipping my toes into pixel art and eurorack modular synthesis. I am actively trying to curate a feed of people who make things, build worlds, and spread peace. Corona onus grave est; noli eam gerere.

furry.engineer
Total time to recover one of my wikis from backup? About five minutes. Two of which were just me trying to remember what the hell the command to read a SQL source file was. (SOURCE, for the curious)
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Patch Arcana @patcharcana@furry.engineer · Jul 16, 2026
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@patcharcana@furry.engineer

[He/Him] Writer | 無☸️ | Junkyard Dog | Gizmo-mancer | This account not rated for consumption by minors or managers. I like making things and witnessing other people make things. Myself I do #EmbeddedDev and #Programming alongside a fair amount of writing and TTRPG design. Dipping my toes into pixel art and eurorack modular synthesis. I am actively trying to curate a feed of people who make things, build worlds, and spread peace. Corona onus grave est; noli eam gerere.

furry.engineer
Replying to @patcharcana@furry.engineer
You see a lot of memes and comics these days about "Oh, I'll cook at home to save money on takeout, oh no, I spent more ingredienting up than I did on the takeout" and that statement is actually only true if you're going plate for plate. If you use up that whole set of ingredients you absolutely get that plate cost down considerably further than the restaurant ever can. Of course, you're paying in your time.
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Patch Arcana @patcharcana@furry.engineer · Jul 16, 2026
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@patcharcana@furry.engineer

[He/Him] Writer | 無☸️ | Junkyard Dog | Gizmo-mancer | This account not rated for consumption by minors or managers. I like making things and witnessing other people make things. Myself I do #EmbeddedDev and #Programming alongside a fair amount of writing and TTRPG design. Dipping my toes into pixel art and eurorack modular synthesis. I am actively trying to curate a feed of people who make things, build worlds, and spread peace. Corona onus grave est; noli eam gerere.

furry.engineer
One of the other advantages of the New Meta for my life is that I have time to make breakfast now in the morning. Of course you have to balance that against what is economical but I know one strange trick that makes people my age and younger furious. (It's almost always cheaper done at home, as long as you know what you're doing and mindful about how you're doing it.)
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Patch Arcana @patcharcana@furry.engineer · Jul 13, 2026
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@patcharcana@furry.engineer

[He/Him] Writer | 無☸️ | Junkyard Dog | Gizmo-mancer | This account not rated for consumption by minors or managers. I like making things and witnessing other people make things. Myself I do #EmbeddedDev and #Programming alongside a fair amount of writing and TTRPG design. Dipping my toes into pixel art and eurorack modular synthesis. I am actively trying to curate a feed of people who make things, build worlds, and spread peace. Corona onus grave est; noli eam gerere.

furry.engineer
Replying to @demoographics@wikis.world
@demoographics@wikis.world as a frequent mediawiki user this excites me.
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Patch Arcana @patcharcana@furry.engineer · Jul 13, 2026
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@patcharcana@furry.engineer

[He/Him] Writer | 無☸️ | Junkyard Dog | Gizmo-mancer | This account not rated for consumption by minors or managers. I like making things and witnessing other people make things. Myself I do #EmbeddedDev and #Programming alongside a fair amount of writing and TTRPG design. Dipping my toes into pixel art and eurorack modular synthesis. I am actively trying to curate a feed of people who make things, build worlds, and spread peace. Corona onus grave est; noli eam gerere.

furry.engineer
Replying to @chirpbirb@meow.social
@chirpbirb@meow.social no, effective immediately with 2 weeks pay in lieu of notice. They cancelled my access to everything while I was on the call with them. In Canada a 90 day period after hiring comes standard with the ability to terminate the employee without cause. I firmly believe this was a purely financial decision on the part of the company. I'm not perfect, but no complaints about my work were raised previously so I can't see any other explanation.
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Patch Arcana @patcharcana@furry.engineer · Jul 13, 2026
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@patcharcana@furry.engineer

[He/Him] Writer | 無☸️ | Junkyard Dog | Gizmo-mancer | This account not rated for consumption by minors or managers. I like making things and witnessing other people make things. Myself I do #EmbeddedDev and #Programming alongside a fair amount of writing and TTRPG design. Dipping my toes into pixel art and eurorack modular synthesis. I am actively trying to curate a feed of people who make things, build worlds, and spread peace. Corona onus grave est; noli eam gerere.

furry.engineer
Replying to @patcharcana@furry.engineer
I am probably going to post later today about ways you could help me out in the meanwhile.
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Patch Arcana @patcharcana@furry.engineer · Jul 13, 2026
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@patcharcana@furry.engineer

[He/Him] Writer | 無☸️ | Junkyard Dog | Gizmo-mancer | This account not rated for consumption by minors or managers. I like making things and witnessing other people make things. Myself I do #EmbeddedDev and #Programming alongside a fair amount of writing and TTRPG design. Dipping my toes into pixel art and eurorack modular synthesis. I am actively trying to curate a feed of people who make things, build worlds, and spread peace. Corona onus grave est; noli eam gerere.

furry.engineer
Boosted by Trending Bot @trending@homestead.social
Well, my shiny new job around which I was building a hopefully-stable career has evaporated. I was the unnecessary 2nd senior engineer on a project that couldn't afford a second engineer, and it was the 89th day of my employment. If anyone needs a quality- and documentation-minded, Canadian Senior SRE, reach out to me. I am quite good at this. #FediHire #GetFediHired
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Patch Arcana @patcharcana@furry.engineer · Jul 08, 2026
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@patcharcana@furry.engineer

[He/Him] Writer | 無☸️ | Junkyard Dog | Gizmo-mancer | This account not rated for consumption by minors or managers. I like making things and witnessing other people make things. Myself I do #EmbeddedDev and #Programming alongside a fair amount of writing and TTRPG design. Dipping my toes into pixel art and eurorack modular synthesis. I am actively trying to curate a feed of people who make things, build worlds, and spread peace. Corona onus grave est; noli eam gerere.

furry.engineer
Replying to @mark@mastodon.fixermark.com
@mark@mastodon.fixermark.com I'm fairly certain I'm not the first person to voice it, but I'm the guy who said it on my instance today, I guess.
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Patch Arcana @patcharcana@furry.engineer · Jul 08, 2026
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[He/Him] Writer | 無☸️ | Junkyard Dog | Gizmo-mancer | This account not rated for consumption by minors or managers. I like making things and witnessing other people make things. Myself I do #EmbeddedDev and #Programming alongside a fair amount of writing and TTRPG design. Dipping my toes into pixel art and eurorack modular synthesis. I am actively trying to curate a feed of people who make things, build worlds, and spread peace. Corona onus grave est; noli eam gerere.

furry.engineer
Aaron Swartz didn't die so that Sam Fuckin' Altman could get away with this shit.
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Patch Arcana @patcharcana@furry.engineer · Jul 07, 2026
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@patcharcana@furry.engineer

[He/Him] Writer | 無☸️ | Junkyard Dog | Gizmo-mancer | This account not rated for consumption by minors or managers. I like making things and witnessing other people make things. Myself I do #EmbeddedDev and #Programming alongside a fair amount of writing and TTRPG design. Dipping my toes into pixel art and eurorack modular synthesis. I am actively trying to curate a feed of people who make things, build worlds, and spread peace. Corona onus grave est; noli eam gerere.

furry.engineer
Replying to @cR0w@infosec.exchange
@cR0w@infosec.exchange I would have a harder time stealing a password out of a notebook in a locked desk drawer in your secured facility than I would stealing it from your company OnePassword account. And hell, that difficulty only goes up when you factor in remote workers.
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Patch Arcana @patcharcana@furry.engineer · Jul 03, 2026
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@patcharcana@furry.engineer

[He/Him] Writer | 無☸️ | Junkyard Dog | Gizmo-mancer | This account not rated for consumption by minors or managers. I like making things and witnessing other people make things. Myself I do #EmbeddedDev and #Programming alongside a fair amount of writing and TTRPG design. Dipping my toes into pixel art and eurorack modular synthesis. I am actively trying to curate a feed of people who make things, build worlds, and spread peace. Corona onus grave est; noli eam gerere.

furry.engineer

Last boost: at a point in the past I contemplated writing myself a tool called NeoAlexandria that had some libsci features but which was mostly just going to be a wrapper for managing large corpuses of torrented data.

The idea being that I and others could distribute the software and the library metadata and just keep a big sync'd pool of mutual backing-up.

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Patch Arcana @patcharcana@furry.engineer · Jul 03, 2026
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@patcharcana@furry.engineer

[He/Him] Writer | 無☸️ | Junkyard Dog | Gizmo-mancer | This account not rated for consumption by minors or managers. I like making things and witnessing other people make things. Myself I do #EmbeddedDev and #Programming alongside a fair amount of writing and TTRPG design. Dipping my toes into pixel art and eurorack modular synthesis. I am actively trying to curate a feed of people who make things, build worlds, and spread peace. Corona onus grave est; noli eam gerere.

furry.engineer

#ScribesAndMakers 7/3. We have some new people in the community. Re/Introduce yourself and tell us about your creative work.

I'm a multidisciplinary maker (papercraft and coding mostly, but some electronics, woodworking, and "general handystuff") and a writer (as @zadammac@wandering.shop) specializing in fantasy and sci-fi.

Lately I'm trying hard to "de-hustle" these pursuits so that I can go back to just enjoying them, because I started a new day job that is much more demanding of my time and attention.

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Patch Arcana @patcharcana@furry.engineer · Jul 02, 2026
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@patcharcana@furry.engineer

[He/Him] Writer | 無☸️ | Junkyard Dog | Gizmo-mancer | This account not rated for consumption by minors or managers. I like making things and witnessing other people make things. Myself I do #EmbeddedDev and #Programming alongside a fair amount of writing and TTRPG design. Dipping my toes into pixel art and eurorack modular synthesis. I am actively trying to curate a feed of people who make things, build worlds, and spread peace. Corona onus grave est; noli eam gerere.

furry.engineer

Sometimes, the CreativeCommons licenses are problematic.

Currently sat here trying to figure out if using a CSV I found as the basis for a component in a game I'm working on means I cannot charge for the game because the CSV is CC-BY-SA licensed.

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Patch Arcana @patcharcana@furry.engineer · Jul 02, 2026
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@patcharcana@furry.engineer

[He/Him] Writer | 無☸️ | Junkyard Dog | Gizmo-mancer | This account not rated for consumption by minors or managers. I like making things and witnessing other people make things. Myself I do #EmbeddedDev and #Programming alongside a fair amount of writing and TTRPG design. Dipping my toes into pixel art and eurorack modular synthesis. I am actively trying to curate a feed of people who make things, build worlds, and spread peace. Corona onus grave est; noli eam gerere.

furry.engineer

So deploying forgejo from a container is pretty painless

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Patch Arcana @patcharcana@furry.engineer · Jul 02, 2026
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@patcharcana@furry.engineer

[He/Him] Writer | 無☸️ | Junkyard Dog | Gizmo-mancer | This account not rated for consumption by minors or managers. I like making things and witnessing other people make things. Myself I do #EmbeddedDev and #Programming alongside a fair amount of writing and TTRPG design. Dipping my toes into pixel art and eurorack modular synthesis. I am actively trying to curate a feed of people who make things, build worlds, and spread peace. Corona onus grave est; noli eam gerere.

furry.engineer

Today I'm getting bloodwork done.

I was meant to go do that in May.

My doctor probably fuckin' hates me.

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Patch Arcana @patcharcana@furry.engineer · Jul 02, 2026
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@patcharcana@furry.engineer

[He/Him] Writer | 無☸️ | Junkyard Dog | Gizmo-mancer | This account not rated for consumption by minors or managers. I like making things and witnessing other people make things. Myself I do #EmbeddedDev and #Programming alongside a fair amount of writing and TTRPG design. Dipping my toes into pixel art and eurorack modular synthesis. I am actively trying to curate a feed of people who make things, build worlds, and spread peace. Corona onus grave est; noli eam gerere.

furry.engineer

#ScribesAndMakers #TTMD @ElyseMGrasso@wandering.shop

My understanding is that the Elderkin Chronicles has a magic system baked into it. Would you call the style of magic more hard magic or soft magic? Do you have a preference one way or the other?

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Patch Arcana @patcharcana@furry.engineer · Jul 02, 2026
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@patcharcana@furry.engineer

[He/Him] Writer | 無☸️ | Junkyard Dog | Gizmo-mancer | This account not rated for consumption by minors or managers. I like making things and witnessing other people make things. Myself I do #EmbeddedDev and #Programming alongside a fair amount of writing and TTRPG design. Dipping my toes into pixel art and eurorack modular synthesis. I am actively trying to curate a feed of people who make things, build worlds, and spread peace. Corona onus grave est; noli eam gerere.

furry.engineer

Last boost: Yeah, that's me, in case you were wondering why I only do Scribes And Makers these days and not writerscoffeeclub

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Patch Arcana @patcharcana@furry.engineer · Jun 14, 2026
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@patcharcana@furry.engineer

[He/Him] Writer | 無☸️ | Junkyard Dog | Gizmo-mancer | This account not rated for consumption by minors or managers. I like making things and witnessing other people make things. Myself I do #EmbeddedDev and #Programming alongside a fair amount of writing and TTRPG design. Dipping my toes into pixel art and eurorack modular synthesis. I am actively trying to curate a feed of people who make things, build worlds, and spread peace. Corona onus grave est; noli eam gerere.

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@guyjantic@infosec.exchange @ifixcoinops@retro.social not I, said the pig.
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Patch Arcana @patcharcana@furry.engineer · Jun 08, 2026
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@patcharcana@furry.engineer

[He/Him] Writer | 無☸️ | Junkyard Dog | Gizmo-mancer | This account not rated for consumption by minors or managers. I like making things and witnessing other people make things. Myself I do #EmbeddedDev and #Programming alongside a fair amount of writing and TTRPG design. Dipping my toes into pixel art and eurorack modular synthesis. I am actively trying to curate a feed of people who make things, build worlds, and spread peace. Corona onus grave est; noli eam gerere.

furry.engineer

#ScribesAndMakers 6/8. What's something you consider creative that other people might not?

I mean, just name an activity, really.

A real good example is a lot of hobbies people see as consumptive - gaming, watching (TV/Movies/Streams), reading. It can be purely consumptive if you do it unimaginatively, I guess.

But you can get damned creative if you try to on purpose.

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Patch Arcana @patcharcana@furry.engineer · Jun 08, 2026
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@patcharcana@furry.engineer

[He/Him] Writer | 無☸️ | Junkyard Dog | Gizmo-mancer | This account not rated for consumption by minors or managers. I like making things and witnessing other people make things. Myself I do #EmbeddedDev and #Programming alongside a fair amount of writing and TTRPG design. Dipping my toes into pixel art and eurorack modular synthesis. I am actively trying to curate a feed of people who make things, build worlds, and spread peace. Corona onus grave est; noli eam gerere.

furry.engineer

I'm not saying you always gotta hand it to Grandpa, but a Werthers and a Coffee is a hell of a combo.

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Patch Arcana @patcharcana@furry.engineer · Jun 07, 2026
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@patcharcana@furry.engineer

[He/Him] Writer | 無☸️ | Junkyard Dog | Gizmo-mancer | This account not rated for consumption by minors or managers. I like making things and witnessing other people make things. Myself I do #EmbeddedDev and #Programming alongside a fair amount of writing and TTRPG design. Dipping my toes into pixel art and eurorack modular synthesis. I am actively trying to curate a feed of people who make things, build worlds, and spread peace. Corona onus grave est; noli eam gerere.

furry.engineer

A page I am adding to my website requires what is effectively recycled Jekyll logic but a de-novo HTML element to get it to look right, and I'm wondering if I shouldn't just knuckle under and do the full site redesign while I'm in here.

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Patch Arcana @patcharcana@furry.engineer · Jun 07, 2026
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@patcharcana@furry.engineer

[He/Him] Writer | 無☸️ | Junkyard Dog | Gizmo-mancer | This account not rated for consumption by minors or managers. I like making things and witnessing other people make things. Myself I do #EmbeddedDev and #Programming alongside a fair amount of writing and TTRPG design. Dipping my toes into pixel art and eurorack modular synthesis. I am actively trying to curate a feed of people who make things, build worlds, and spread peace. Corona onus grave est; noli eam gerere.

furry.engineer

Ah, yes, running official/semiofficial government comms through social media: a bad idea with many many layers, like a millefuelle of failure to cogitate.

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Patch Arcana @patcharcana@furry.engineer · Jun 07, 2026
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@patcharcana@furry.engineer

[He/Him] Writer | 無☸️ | Junkyard Dog | Gizmo-mancer | This account not rated for consumption by minors or managers. I like making things and witnessing other people make things. Myself I do #EmbeddedDev and #Programming alongside a fair amount of writing and TTRPG design. Dipping my toes into pixel art and eurorack modular synthesis. I am actively trying to curate a feed of people who make things, build worlds, and spread peace. Corona onus grave est; noli eam gerere.

furry.engineer

Man, I should really join a TTRPG campaign or two as a player.

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Patch Arcana @patcharcana@furry.engineer · Jun 07, 2026
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@patcharcana@furry.engineer

[He/Him] Writer | 無☸️ | Junkyard Dog | Gizmo-mancer | This account not rated for consumption by minors or managers. I like making things and witnessing other people make things. Myself I do #EmbeddedDev and #Programming alongside a fair amount of writing and TTRPG design. Dipping my toes into pixel art and eurorack modular synthesis. I am actively trying to curate a feed of people who make things, build worlds, and spread peace. Corona onus grave est; noli eam gerere.

furry.engineer

RE: @patcharcana@furry.engineer

So far, the count is up to 4 across all channels.

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Patch Arcana @patcharcana@furry.engineer · Jun 01, 2026
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@patcharcana@furry.engineer

[He/Him] Writer | 無☸️ | Junkyard Dog | Gizmo-mancer | This account not rated for consumption by minors or managers. I like making things and witnessing other people make things. Myself I do #EmbeddedDev and #Programming alongside a fair amount of writing and TTRPG design. Dipping my toes into pixel art and eurorack modular synthesis. I am actively trying to curate a feed of people who make things, build worlds, and spread peace. Corona onus grave est; noli eam gerere.

furry.engineer

Attagirl Margo.

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Patch Arcana @patcharcana@furry.engineer · May 31, 2026
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@patcharcana@furry.engineer

[He/Him] Writer | 無☸️ | Junkyard Dog | Gizmo-mancer | This account not rated for consumption by minors or managers. I like making things and witnessing other people make things. Myself I do #EmbeddedDev and #Programming alongside a fair amount of writing and TTRPG design. Dipping my toes into pixel art and eurorack modular synthesis. I am actively trying to curate a feed of people who make things, build worlds, and spread peace. Corona onus grave est; noli eam gerere.

furry.engineer

I have this thing I do where I oscilate from a sort of medievalist hyperfocus to a sort of science fiction hyperfocus.

When I'm in my medievalist moods I take better care of myself but get much less done.

When I'm hyperfocusing on space-trucker-mode I have a tendency to not take care of myself at all but I get a LOT of work done.

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Patch Arcana @patcharcana@furry.engineer · May 30, 2026
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@patcharcana@furry.engineer

[He/Him] Writer | 無☸️ | Junkyard Dog | Gizmo-mancer | This account not rated for consumption by minors or managers. I like making things and witnessing other people make things. Myself I do #EmbeddedDev and #Programming alongside a fair amount of writing and TTRPG design. Dipping my toes into pixel art and eurorack modular synthesis. I am actively trying to curate a feed of people who make things, build worlds, and spread peace. Corona onus grave est; noli eam gerere.

furry.engineer

Huh. That's a new one.

I just got fired by a consignor.

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Patch Arcana @patcharcana@furry.engineer · May 29, 2026
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@patcharcana@furry.engineer

[He/Him] Writer | 無☸️ | Junkyard Dog | Gizmo-mancer | This account not rated for consumption by minors or managers. I like making things and witnessing other people make things. Myself I do #EmbeddedDev and #Programming alongside a fair amount of writing and TTRPG design. Dipping my toes into pixel art and eurorack modular synthesis. I am actively trying to curate a feed of people who make things, build worlds, and spread peace. Corona onus grave est; noli eam gerere.

furry.engineer

I have some friends who are into chemistry in a big way who have just updated me on the latest in Bad Ideas In Nitrogen Bonds.

I do appreciate someone is out there trying to give me Epstein Drive performance outta a chemical rocket.

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Patch Arcana @patcharcana@furry.engineer · May 06, 2026
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@patcharcana@furry.engineer

[He/Him] Writer | 無☸️ | Junkyard Dog | Gizmo-mancer | This account not rated for consumption by minors or managers. I like making things and witnessing other people make things. Myself I do #EmbeddedDev and #Programming alongside a fair amount of writing and TTRPG design. Dipping my toes into pixel art and eurorack modular synthesis. I am actively trying to curate a feed of people who make things, build worlds, and spread peace. Corona onus grave est; noli eam gerere.

furry.engineer

#ScribesAndMakers 6 Ghoti (fish) is a word created to demonstrate the odd pronunciation variations in the English language. Create a word of your own or share one you've created.

Wisteria is full of very fancy sounding, but stupid, invented terms. The Gnostic Asceity is a favourite.

In published media though, I came up with the term "teleproprioception" to describe a facet of Vidcund's unusual abilities, though it's not really a complete label for what he's doing. The term came from his ability to sense where all his "other bodies" were, but it of course is inadequate to describe his ability to run his "mind" as a distributed phenomenon across many physical bodies.

If that's even how his mind actually works, which the series then goes on to further explore.

https://wisteria.zadammac.ca/index.php/Gnostic_Aseity

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Patch Arcana @patcharcana@furry.engineer · May 05, 2026
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@patcharcana@furry.engineer

[He/Him] Writer | 無☸️ | Junkyard Dog | Gizmo-mancer | This account not rated for consumption by minors or managers. I like making things and witnessing other people make things. Myself I do #EmbeddedDev and #Programming alongside a fair amount of writing and TTRPG design. Dipping my toes into pixel art and eurorack modular synthesis. I am actively trying to curate a feed of people who make things, build worlds, and spread peace. Corona onus grave est; noli eam gerere.

furry.engineer
Replying to @patcharcana@furry.engineer
@TheMNWolf@furry.engineer I am not kididng when I say you'd make my lifetime top ten instantly by requring me to research an unmarked data set of several books until I find the clue I need.
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Patch Arcana @patcharcana@furry.engineer · May 05, 2026
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@patcharcana@furry.engineer

[He/Him] Writer | 無☸️ | Junkyard Dog | Gizmo-mancer | This account not rated for consumption by minors or managers. I like making things and witnessing other people make things. Myself I do #EmbeddedDev and #Programming alongside a fair amount of writing and TTRPG design. Dipping my toes into pixel art and eurorack modular synthesis. I am actively trying to curate a feed of people who make things, build worlds, and spread peace. Corona onus grave est; noli eam gerere.

furry.engineer
Replying to @patcharcana@furry.engineer
@TheMNWolf@furry.engineer I mean ideally-ideally there wouldn't be "one" magic faction and "one" stealth faction but that's an argument for another decade.
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Patch Arcana @patcharcana@furry.engineer · May 05, 2026
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@patcharcana@furry.engineer

[He/Him] Writer | 無☸️ | Junkyard Dog | Gizmo-mancer | This account not rated for consumption by minors or managers. I like making things and witnessing other people make things. Myself I do #EmbeddedDev and #Programming alongside a fair amount of writing and TTRPG design. Dipping my toes into pixel art and eurorack modular synthesis. I am actively trying to curate a feed of people who make things, build worlds, and spread peace. Corona onus grave est; noli eam gerere.

furry.engineer
Replying to @TheMNWolf@furry.engineer
@TheMNWolf@furry.engineer I should be confused as hell at several points in both the stealth faction and magic faction quest lines. There should be genuine "figuring out" happening.
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Patch Arcana @patcharcana@furry.engineer · May 05, 2026
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@patcharcana@furry.engineer

[He/Him] Writer | 無☸️ | Junkyard Dog | Gizmo-mancer | This account not rated for consumption by minors or managers. I like making things and witnessing other people make things. Myself I do #EmbeddedDev and #Programming alongside a fair amount of writing and TTRPG design. Dipping my toes into pixel art and eurorack modular synthesis. I am actively trying to curate a feed of people who make things, build worlds, and spread peace. Corona onus grave est; noli eam gerere.

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@magiilaro@rollenspiel.social I'm excited for wayward realms to such a degree that I'm trying not to even anticipate its release.
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Patch Arcana @patcharcana@furry.engineer · May 05, 2026
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@patcharcana@furry.engineer

[He/Him] Writer | 無☸️ | Junkyard Dog | Gizmo-mancer | This account not rated for consumption by minors or managers. I like making things and witnessing other people make things. Myself I do #EmbeddedDev and #Programming alongside a fair amount of writing and TTRPG design. Dipping my toes into pixel art and eurorack modular synthesis. I am actively trying to curate a feed of people who make things, build worlds, and spread peace. Corona onus grave est; noli eam gerere.

furry.engineer

Some game studio is going to make mad bank one day by making "What if Elder Scrolls was still a serious RPG". Real puzzles, meaningful quest outcomes, paths closing to the player, skilling decisions that matter, etc etc.

That studio will not be Bethesda.

Given infinite resources patch hires like 5 guys from Bethesda, the entirety of Obsidian, a large chunk of the team at Cyan, and maybe a few devs from the team that did Kingdom Come: Deliverance and builds one hell of a Wisteria game. Maybe one of the wars of the Bastonian succession or something.

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Patch Arcana @patcharcana@furry.engineer · Apr 29, 2026
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@patcharcana@furry.engineer

[He/Him] Writer | 無☸️ | Junkyard Dog | Gizmo-mancer | This account not rated for consumption by minors or managers. I like making things and witnessing other people make things. Myself I do #EmbeddedDev and #Programming alongside a fair amount of writing and TTRPG design. Dipping my toes into pixel art and eurorack modular synthesis. I am actively trying to curate a feed of people who make things, build worlds, and spread peace. Corona onus grave est; noli eam gerere.

furry.engineer
A conversational typo lead me to the idea of a rook or other talking corvid assigned to you by your corporate overlords and I feel like I'd teach mine Lang Belta just to be PROFOUNDLY annoying. You think a human union is dangerous? Unionize some fuckin' crows.
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Patch Arcana @patcharcana@furry.engineer · Apr 27, 2026
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@patcharcana@furry.engineer

[He/Him] Writer | 無☸️ | Junkyard Dog | Gizmo-mancer | This account not rated for consumption by minors or managers. I like making things and witnessing other people make things. Myself I do #EmbeddedDev and #Programming alongside a fair amount of writing and TTRPG design. Dipping my toes into pixel art and eurorack modular synthesis. I am actively trying to curate a feed of people who make things, build worlds, and spread peace. Corona onus grave est; noli eam gerere.

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#ScribesAndMakers 27th Apr 2026. Reticent? I'm often reticent to engage with these single-word prompts because I'm usually concerned about over- or under-analyzing the question asked.
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Patch Arcana @patcharcana@furry.engineer · Apr 23, 2026
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@patcharcana@furry.engineer

[He/Him] Writer | 無☸️ | Junkyard Dog | Gizmo-mancer | This account not rated for consumption by minors or managers. I like making things and witnessing other people make things. Myself I do #EmbeddedDev and #Programming alongside a fair amount of writing and TTRPG design. Dipping my toes into pixel art and eurorack modular synthesis. I am actively trying to curate a feed of people who make things, build worlds, and spread peace. Corona onus grave est; noli eam gerere.

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RE: @randahl@mastodon.social

"You can't take the sky from me" would make a pretty good battle cry for renewables honestly.

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Patch Arcana @patcharcana@furry.engineer · Apr 22, 2026
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@patcharcana@furry.engineer

[He/Him] Writer | 無☸️ | Junkyard Dog | Gizmo-mancer | This account not rated for consumption by minors or managers. I like making things and witnessing other people make things. Myself I do #EmbeddedDev and #Programming alongside a fair amount of writing and TTRPG design. Dipping my toes into pixel art and eurorack modular synthesis. I am actively trying to curate a feed of people who make things, build worlds, and spread peace. Corona onus grave est; noli eam gerere.

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Hey, I know I know some game-dev folks: What (other than giveafucks) stops someone from marking their game as "proton compatible" on steam? Like what is the technical limitation that makes some games suited for it and others not? Assume all processors are intel x86 architectures for the sake of simplicity.
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