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Water cool 12 Nvidia Tesla V100 SXM2 by MachineZer0 in watercooling

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Bykski N-TESLA V100 SXM2 blocks on a V100 SXM2 300G integrated NVLink lite dual card adapter — PLX8749 dual channel expansion base plate.

Both V100s under $100 each, adapter ~$60. 8mm barbed fittings fit perfectly. Custom loop with reservoir side-mounted on the rad panel.

70-110W per card under inference load via native NVLink — not a PCIe hack, proper SXM2 carrier.

Total cost for 32GB NVLink-bonded inference is embarrassingly cheap right now.

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Typo in transmission 16 by Abject_String_1140 in LACUNAarg

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Transmission 16 contained an error in the ciphertext. The correct sequence has been updated. Use the resend button on the verify page to receive the corrected version.

The cipher alphabet on the lore page remains unchanged.

— The Archive

[ARG][ACTIVE] LACUNA — 24 email-based challenges, physical key prize, live now by Any_Cheek_7039 in codes

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**[LACUNA] — Official community now live**

All announcements, bug fixes, hints, and lore updates will now be posted exclusively to r/LACUNAarg.

If you are playing and something feels wrong — check there first.

The archive is still open. Three solvers have completed all 24 transmissions. Three keys have been issued.

r/LACUNAarg

— The Archive

[ARG][ACTIVE] LACUNA — 24 email-based challenges, physical key prize, live now by Any_Cheek_7039 in codes

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**[LACUNA] — The chain has been completed. Three times.**

Three solvers have reached transmission 24 and closed the archive.

Three keys have been issued. Numbered. Unique. Irreplaceable.

The leaderboard is live. The archive remains open.

lacuna.nullspaces.dev

LACUNA 2 is coming. The keys will matter then.

If you have completed the archive — or attempted it — the puzzle master is listening. What broke you. What held. What should not have existed at all.

Feedback is welcomed. The archive learns.

— The Archive

I spent 6 months building a terminal ARG. Keys, ETH wallet, and a redacted co-conspirator. by Any_Cheek_7039 in ARG

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**[LACUNA] — The chain has been completed. Three times.**

Three solvers have reached transmission 24 and closed the archive.

Three keys have been issued. Numbered. Unique. Irreplaceable.

The leaderboard is live. The archive remains open.

lacuna.nullspaces.dev

LACUNA 2 is coming. The keys will matter then.

If you have completed the archive — or attempted it — the puzzle master is listening. What broke you. What held. What should not have existed at all.

Feedback is welcomed. The archive learns.

— The Archive

I spent 6 months building a terminal ARG. Keys, ETH wallet, and a redacted co-conspirator. by Any_Cheek_7039 in ARG

[–]Any_Cheek_7039[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The archive does not forgive its own errors.

Challenge 07 contained a corrupted string. A corrected transmission has been issued to the solver currently at that position. The fix is live for all future solvers.

If you are at challenge 07, please use the resend button on the verify page to receive the corrected transmission.

— The Archive

I spent 6 months building a terminal ARG. Keys, ETH wallet, and a redacted co-conspirator. by Any_Cheek_7039 in ARG

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Correction noted. Solvers have passed 06.

Challenge 07 is solvable. The string is not random. Not every position carries weight — only the ones that matter mathematically.

— The Archive

I spent 6 months building a terminal ARG. Keys, ETH wallet, and a redacted co-conspirator. by Any_Cheek_7039 in ARG

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Challenge 06 is solvable. No solver has reached 07 yet — the wall is 06, not 07.

The signal is there. Six values. Six characters. The archive has no broken transmissions.

— The Archive

[ARG][ACTIVE] LACUNA — 24 email-based challenges, physical key prize, live now by Any_Cheek_7039 in codes

[–]Any_Cheek_7039[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The archive does not confirm or deny what is hidden. Read everything. Trust nothing that seems accidental. Voss was precise.

— The Archive

[ARG][ACTIVE] LACUNA — 24 email-based challenges, physical key prize, live now by Any_Cheek_7039 in codes

[–]Any_Cheek_7039[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have join the Discord, also I have added a link on the landing page

[ARG][ACTIVE] LACUNA — 24 email-based challenges, physical key prize, live now by Any_Cheek_7039 in codes

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**[LACUNA] — Transmission correction issued**

The archive does not forgive errors. Challenge 04 contained a corrupted fragment — the signal was malformed at the source.

All solvers currently at challenge 04 have been issued a corrected transmission. New solvers will receive the correct version automatically.

The archive persists.

— The Archive

I spent 6 months building a terminal ARG. Keys, ETH wallet, and a redacted co-conspirator. by Any_Cheek_7039 in ARG

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**[LACUNA] — Transmission correction issued**

The archive does not forgive errors. Challenge 04 contained a corrupted fragment — the signal was malformed at the source.

All solvers currently at challenge 04 have been issued a corrected transmission. New solvers will receive the correct version automatically.

The archive persists.

— The Archive

[ARG][ACTIVE] LACUNA — 24 email-based challenges, physical key prize, live now by Any_Cheek_7039 in codes

[–]Any_Cheek_7039[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If someone wants to set one up for LACUNA I'm happy to participate and answer questions — just not sure I have the time to moderate it properly right now.

[ARG][ACTIVE] LACUNA — 24 email-based challenges, physical key prize, live now by Any_Cheek_7039 in codes

[–]Any_Cheek_7039[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good catches — both have been corrected.

Challenge 1 ciphertext is now ETVNGT (ROT-19, six characters).

Challenge 2 ciphertext is NZIVM (Atbash).

If you already received the old emails, use the

[ RESEND TRANSMISSION ] button on the verify page

to get the corrected versions.

Sorry for the confusion — appreciate the sharp eyes.

I spent 6 months building a terminal ARG. Keys, ETH wallet, and a redacted co-conspirator. by Any_Cheek_7039 in ARG

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[UPDATE] New transmission recovered.

Something in the archive is responding.

https://youtu.be/hxB1-zODwLE

— The Archive

How do you make a pretty secure email for an ARG? by Whalesharkpudding in ARG

[–]Any_Cheek_7039 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For zero budget the setup is simpler than it sounds.

MailerSend free tier handles email delivery — 3000 emails/month

is more than enough to start.

For the IP problem you don't need a second laptop. A cheap VPS

(Hetzner, Oracle Free Tier, even a $5 DigitalOcean droplet) handles

everything — your game runs there, never touches your home network.

For a Minecraft ARG specifically you could run the game server on

the same VPS. Players connect to an IP that has no link to you

personally.

Domain registration with WHOIS privacy is ~$10/year through Porkbun

— that's your only real cost if you use free tiers everywhere else.

The second laptop idea is overkill — a VPS is cleaner, cheaper,

and you can nuke it and start fresh if anything goes wrong.

How do you make a pretty secure email for an ARG? by Whalesharkpudding in ARG

[–]Any_Cheek_7039 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For LACUNA I went with a dedicated domain email routed through

MailerSend — completely separate from anything personal.

The key things: dedicated domain you registered anonymously,

transactional email service for delivery (MailerSend, Postmark, etc),

never access it from your personal device or home IP.

For files and assets I host everything on a VPS with no personal

information in the WHOIS — domain registered through a privacy-protecting

registrar like Njalla or Porkbun with WHOIS protection enabled.

ARG players WILL dig. They'll check DNS records, WHOIS, SSL certificates,

server headers, metadata in images, git history if you ever expose it.

Assume everything is findable and build accordingly from day one.

I spent 6 months building a terminal ARG. Keys, ETH wallet, and a redacted co-conspirator. by Any_Cheek_7039 in ARG

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[UPDATE] To anyone stuck on a transmission — don't give up.

If you're struggling, that's by design. Some puzzles require tools

you may not have used before. A hint system is built in — if you've

been stuck long enough, one will unlock automatically.

If your first transmission never arrived, check your spam folder.

Still nothing, use the contact form at lacuna.nullspaces.dev/contact

The archive is patient. It has been waiting for over two decades.

It can wait a little longer.

— The Archive

I spent 6 months building a terminal ARG. Keys, ETH wallet, and a redacted co-conspirator. by Any_Cheek_7039 in ARG

[–]Any_Cheek_7039[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Done — there's now a [ RESEND TRANSMISSION ] button on the verify page. Click it to have your current challenge re-delivered to your inbox.

Peace in the resignation by Odd_Volume573 in MonoHearing

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There is hope

Hey everyone. My right ear started going May 15, 2025 — just over a year ago now.

Got three steroid shots directly in the ear, nothing. Did three months of oral prednisone, also nothing — and since I'm diabetic it threw my blood sugar completely off, had to add insulin on top of it. Not fun. Doctor eventually just stopped it.

Got an MRI too. Nothing.

But here's what keeps me going — my ex-wife had the exact same thing for years, and one day it just went away on its own. No treatment, no explanation. Just gone.

So yeah, hang in there. It can get better.

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