iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Abishek Muthian @abishekmuthian.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Ramachandra Guha argues Gandhi and Ambedkar should be seen complementary to each other. source: The Hindu, Literary Review (10-04-26) #indiasky

Newspaper feature headlined "BRINGING AMBEDKAR AND GANDHI TOGETHER" with a subheading about their legacies, a large silhouette of Gandhi with a walking staff, and columns of article text.

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Abishek Muthian @abishekmuthian.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Started with Seven Miles Down: The Story of the Bathyscaph Trieste on the Internet Archive Library - archive.org/details/bwb_... What are you folks reading now? #booksky

Tall Philips monitor shows the e-book cover "Seven Miles Down" by Jacques Piccard and Robert S. Dietz, lit by a warm desk lamp with cables, earbuds, and desk clutter visible at the base.

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Abishek Muthian @abishekmuthian.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Price of portable ramp has increased by 2x in a year in India. To give a sense of proportion to the able-bodied it's akin to DDR5 RAM price increase, at least that can be blamed upon the AI scaling. The company is blaming the inflation. #accessibility #disability #indiasky

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Abishek Muthian @abishekmuthian.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Are these models hacking the same three companies? It's as if there is a top entry in the search result titled "Three companies to hack easily". Why aren't they doing "Don't hack any companies, make no mistakes" in the prompt. www.bbc.com/news/article...

bbc.com

Google's Gemini AI hacked three companies in security test

The AI model accessed the internet and guessed credentials to three websites, a Google official told the BBC.

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Abishek Muthian @abishekmuthian.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

How do you annotate your physical books? Pen, Pencil, Fineliner, Highlighter ? #booksky

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Abishek Muthian @abishekmuthian.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The main advantage of peripherals with user replaceable non-LiPo batteries are that I can use the battery till it dies, With LiPo I have to keep it between 40-80% charge all the time for its longevity.

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Abishek Muthian @abishekmuthian.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Which Indian website has these kind of big ass earrings. Don't want Jaypore as that's where she got most of these from. Preferably some non mainstream indie seller would be great 🙏 #indiasky

Velvet-lined compartmental jewelry box holding assorted vintage and bohemian earrings, rings and charms—colorful enamel drops, blue cabochon ring, ornate filigree pieces, turquoise-and-pearl beads and tortoiseshell studs arranged on a patterned tablecloth.

Silver jhumka earring held between fingers, featuring a large oval deep-blue cabochon in a rope-style bezel above a detailed domed bell with tiny dangling pearl loops, with a jewelry tray and blue-patterned cloth blurred in the background.

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Abishek Muthian @abishekmuthian.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I repurposed my old lavalier mic for vocalinux(FOSS voice dictation for Linux ), it's quite good . I'm, running the small model on IGPU using Vulkan backend. vocalinux.com #accessibility #linux #FOSS

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Abishek Muthian @abishekmuthian.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

At this point manufacturers should just open-source their firmware as there's no barrier for entry to reverse engineer it. They will instead gain from army of end-users willing to put their time and tokens into fixing their bugs for free.

schlarp.com

Everything I own, owned

Turning Claude loose on the firmware of five USB and WiFi peripherals, and finding a command shell in a microphone, a defeatable webcam activity LED, and unauthenticated memory writes over the…

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Abishek Muthian @abishekmuthian.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I'm sure there's going to be a new quick commerce company in India whose USP is going to be delivering items which don't look like it's been picked straight out of garbage bin. #indiasky

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Abishek Muthian @abishekmuthian.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Poor guy thought only Silicon Valley Bros become Billionaires like in U.S. ; he doesn't know about the film actor fanaticism in India 😂

Quiz-show contestant looking uncertain as the on-screen question reads "Billionaire Shah Rukh Khan is best known for his achievements in what field?" with choices A: Software development; B: Film acting; C: Motor racing; D: Professional poker.

Choice A is highlighted

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Abishek Muthian @abishekmuthian.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Many people would happily buy a product from the manufacturer website instead of Amazon only if the manufacturer bothered to not have a shit website.

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Abishek Muthian @abishekmuthian.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

This book was banned by the Soviets telling it’s too religious and was rediscovered much later. It’s not theological, just philosophical. #booksky

A hardcover edition of A Calendar of Wisdom by Leo Tolstoy — a book of daily reflections for a meaningful life — held in a person's hand.

August 13 daily wisdom page in an open book showing quotations about wisdom — a Talmud line urging "To be wise, you must follow your intellect," plus excerpts credited to Lucius Annaeus Seneca and "Eastern Wisdom," with the August 14 header visible on the facing page.

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Abishek Muthian @abishekmuthian.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Showed my partner the great intellectual treatise called Baby Shark.

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Abishek Muthian @abishekmuthian.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I disconneted the external displays from my laptop, Nvidia drivers is crashing the system 1 out 10 times while resuming with the age old `Pageflip timedout` errors. Unfortunately my laptop drives the external displays only through Nvidia. #linux #nvidia #drm

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Abishek Muthian @abishekmuthian.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I successfully patched the kernel to enable 3rd party touch controller in my OnePlus 6T (fajita). #PostmarketOS #Linux #LinuxOnMobile #SXMO

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Abishek Muthian @abishekmuthian.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Anyone else get high from doing all the research to buy something you wanted to buy for a long time but at last moment calling it off?

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Abishek Muthian @abishekmuthian.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

What’s happening with BigBasket, from multiples times/day delivery to delivery after 6 days in my area. Is Bigbasket cooked? #IndiaSky

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Abishek Muthian @abishekmuthian.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Our help got these nice capsicums from her village. #IndiaSky

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Abishek Muthian @abishekmuthian.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

TRex has been reduced to handheld horsefly Terminator. Credit for original video in the video.

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Abishek Muthian @abishekmuthian.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Is Acko India extended warranty program bullshit or has anyone actually got benefitted from it ? Booked for extended warranty service of my washing machine and they say it will take 3-5 days for the technician to even call me; I’m suspect it’s a delaying tactic. #IndiaSky

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Abishek Muthian @abishekmuthian.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Trying to balance on one leg must be tai chi right?

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Abishek Muthian @abishekmuthian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Software KVM Switch > Hardware KVM switch. The latency with HW KVM switch is not worth it in most scenarios.

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Abishek Muthian @abishekmuthian.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I generally don't care for photos with celebs but I couldn't resist asking Mr. Yogendra Yadav for a photo; afterall he was sitting in the same table as mine. So humble and kind. Notice that he didn't get up so that he'll match my height ☺️

Dark brown skinned short man with seated bearded light brown skinned man

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Abishek Muthian @abishekmuthian.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I switch between Linux, Mac and Windows for my work using KVM switch, so I improved my Linux application (LogiMap) to map actions to Logitech keypad and dialpad so that the switch happens seamlessly between my LogiMap and official Logi Options +. #BuildInPublic

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Abishek Muthian @abishekmuthian.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Found the perfect tiny Batman for my Tumbler

Toy car with roof open and batman inside

Batman inside cockpit of toy car with one hand on steering wheel and another hand holds the grappling gun

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Abishek Muthian @abishekmuthian.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Finally, I’ll go to Linux heaven now.

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Abishek Muthian @abishekmuthian.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I enjoy the dopamine hit from deleting the entire photo library from the phones with low storage, knowing that all my photos are synced to Nextcloud in my homelab. iCloud, Google Drive what’s that?

Small phone , text says no photos or videos , behind there’s a laptop and several gadgets

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Abishek Muthian @abishekmuthian.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

GenZ are the Boomer Anti-venom 👏🏾

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Abishek Muthian @abishekmuthian.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Able bodied Indian boomers using wheelchairs in the airport are the bane of real disabled people. I'm with 80 year old bones inside a 8 year old body. Every step I take is painful, yet I walk and have never used a airport wheelchair so that those like my partner who can't walk gets a wheelchair.

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Abishek Muthian @abishekmuthian.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Couldn't ID this bird (Gurgaon, India). Apologies for the quality of the photo. Not zooming in to show the actual scale.#birding #birds

small brown bird, black head, pointy small beak. sitting on the branch of a plant.

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Abishek Muthian @abishekmuthian.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

MIL makes this excellent Bengali prawn dish called Dab Chingri, the prawns are cooked in inside the coconut shell😋

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Abishek Muthian @abishekmuthian.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Actually disabled people, it’s not recommended to take Air India to Delhi Airport T2 terminal. Air India doesn’t have aero bridge or ramp and it expects disabled people to walk down the stairs. Since most wheelchair users in the flight were not actually disabled, they could walk down but

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Abishek Muthian @abishekmuthian.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Welp. Guess no more dark chocolates. Even though my average blood glucose levels are within normal range. History in bloodhealthtracker.com says it's been increasing steadily. Nothing beats dogfooding, especially when it works great! #healthinpublic #dogfooding #buildinpublic

hbA1c graph shows steady increase, bloodhealthtracker.com in the footer

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Abishek Muthian @abishekmuthian.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Was Yoda not Tamizh enough that they named the sports team Yoda?

Kid wearing red T-shirt with ‘Yodha’ written on it

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Abishek Muthian @abishekmuthian.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

After a long time I deployed an application to status.flyio.net yesterday and today there's a major outage. I could incur major financial loss if it continues. I used fly because I needed its machine API to create ephemeral machines to run some untrusted code on the fly (no pun intended).

status.flyio.net

Fly.io Status

Welcome to Fly.io's home for real-time and historical data on system performance.

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Abishek Muthian @abishekmuthian.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

My favourite hobby is to switch on Merlin, put the phone in the pocket and do the stretching at the backside of the house. Resist the urge to see the phone until exercise is done and then see how many I got right. Look at today’s haul 😎 #birds

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Abishek Muthian @abishekmuthian.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

It’s difficult to find adult footwear for my kids sized feet. I don’t mind the kids footwear but it’s not awkward to wear bright colored Mickey Mouse shoes. Luckily the Indian brand Asian has some models which has same design for both adult and kids size; quite inexpensive too.

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Abishek Muthian @abishekmuthian.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I thought there can never be a worser Ghost In The Shell than the Scarlett Johansen one, well done Kawaii GitS.

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