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Shitesh Arihunta

@arihunta.net
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Computer engineer and International Man of Misery. PSA: The internet is not real life. [he/him][📍Cape Town, 🇿🇦]

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Shitesh Arihunta @arihunta.net · 30/09/2026
Hot take: Pokemon millennials are far more cringe than Potter millennials. Fight me.
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Hot Blooded Tough Guy Rusty Shackles @rustyshackles.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
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Shitesh Arihunta @arihunta.net · 03/09/2026
Finally diving into Sam Dalrymple’s debut book, and man, what a powerful opening
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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 01/09/2026
Just noticed the ChatGPT desktop app (previously named Codex) bundles a full copy of the LibreOffice open source office suite, tucked away in a hidden folder in the ~/.cache directory
I was poking around in my ~/.cache/ folder using OmniDiskSweeper when I spotted something interesting. The OpenAI Codex desktop app (since rebranded to just ChatGPT) has 1.7GB of stuff in there in a folder called codex-primary-runtime, including a full Python installation, a full Node.js installation, and native binaries for Poppler, git, and the LibreOffice open source office suite (which forked from OpenOffice.org in 2010):

Screenshot of a macOS disk usage app window in column view, titled "/Users/simon/.cache - 442.1 GB". First column: 356.8 GB huggingface, 82.5 GB uv, 1.7 GB codex-runtimes (selected), 609.0 MB datasette-sqlite, 298.8 MB rod. Second column: 1.7 GB codex-primary-runtime (selected). Third column: 1.7 GB dependencies (selected), 6.3 MB plugins, 4.1 kB runtime.json. Fourth column: 771.0 MB native (selected), 446.4 MB node, 440.6 MB python, 28.7 kB bin. Fifth column: 429.7 MB libreoffice-headless (selected), 187.9 MB poppler, 148.1 MB git, 4.7 MB libheif, 679.9 kB jxrlib.

The ~/.cache/codex-runtimes/codex-primary-runtime/plugins/openai-primary-runtime/plugins/documents folder includes skills which tell Codex how to find and use those binaries.
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The Linux Foundation @linuxfoundation.org · 23/08/2026
In 2012, Linus Torvalds won the Millennium Technology Prize, often called tech’s Nobel, for creating the Linux kernel. The committee noted that software is too important to the modern world not to be built through open source. From a student side project to global infrastructure. 🐧 #Linux35
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2012 Millennium Technology Prize Laureate Linus Torvalds
YouTube video by Millennium Technology Prize
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beetlejess @thejessness.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
on a scale of hedgehog cake, how are you feeling today? i think i’m a 6
9 attempts to make a hedgehog cake, with varying levels of cursedness. they range from melted and sad to bloody terrifying
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Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈 @midimyers.com · 11/08/2026
all of my successes have been luck, but get this — all my failures are my fault. this is just a weird thing that’s only true of me specifically and not anyone else though, so the rest of you should feel free to still be proud of your accomplishments
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Shitesh Arihunta @arihunta.net · 30/07/2026
What a tremendous loss. youtu.be/JMqKOt7R_K8?...
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Once (2006) - Say It To Me Now (by Glen Hansard)
YouTube video by bogdan dincă
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Eva Navratilova @evanavratilova.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
This is deeply emotional for us.🥹 Scarlet Deer Inn, our dark medieval folk tale with physical embroidery, is OUT NOW on Steam! Thank you so much to everyone who has supported us on this journey. ❤️ Steam: store.steampowered.com/app1553260
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Marty Huntford 🎞️✂️🎮🖥️ ((Now in Stereo)) @ipasocialist.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
#DunePart3 and #AvengersDoomsday opening on the same day creates an epic double-bill opportunity, where I can see Dune Part 3 in the morning, directly followed by Dune Part 3 again in the afternoon.
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Freud said we need both work & love. Perhaps many people’s jobs are thankless drudgery – that already is a source of depression. But having something you do is pretty central to a lot of people’s identities, even if it’s not something you adore. If that just disappears, it will be a major adjustment
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🎃 The AbominaSean 🧟‍♂️ @sean8urson.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
"You come up with a slogan for the ice cream shop?" "Sure did boss, real fuckin haunting just like you asked." "what"
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Natasha Joseph @tashjoeza.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Look at this beautiful caracal! Seen and photographed in Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens, Cape Town, by Hinesh Patel.
A big cat with pointy tufted ears and a russet coloured coat stands among some trees and bushes.
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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Watching simultaneous fireworks and lightning bolts is a surreal experience, like we’re going to war with the sky and it’s fighting back
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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
"We're ending physical disc production, but don't worry — we're ALSO shutting down our digital stores!" blog.playstation.com/2026/07/01/a...
blog.playstation.com
An update on PlayStation Store for PS3 and PS Vita
Changes start this year in select markets, followed by global changes in 2027.
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The Register @theregister.com · 01/07/2026
Zuck saves Meta bucks by reusing memory from old servers with a custom CXL ASIC
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Zuck saves Meta bucks by reusing memory from old servers with a custom CXL ASIC
In production on millions of boxes and the payoff is a 25% reduction in machines needed for some inference workloads
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Kotaku @kotaku.com · 01/07/2026
PlayStation Is Getting Yelled At Everywhere Online One user replied to a post from the Sony Pictures account about Talladega Nights with a joke about the end of physical PlayStation games in 2028.
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PlayStation Is Getting Yelled At Everywhere Online - Kotaku
Even Sony's movie accounts are getting bullied
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Kurbs @kkurbs.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Please Use AI
PLEASE USE AI
Shawn Smucker
Be sure to use Al when making your next, I don't know, meal plan, for example. Definitely do not call your friend who loves to cook and ask her for her favorite recipes or tips or ways to save time making meals, because you will end
up talking for longer than you had hoped, hearing, perhaps, about her father's cancer diagnosis or how lonely she's been or even what she's planted in her spring garden and then lost with the early frost.
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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 07/06/2026
Here's an easter egg in the new Lego Batman that I think all of you will REALLY appreciate. It's so good, I had to make a video.
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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Sounds good to me! Who's in? #BookSky
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Michael Anderson @michael--anderson.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Revisiting literary classics...updated, of course
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Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.eurosky.social · 20/05/2026
If you use LLMs to do your data analysis, or if you listen to people who do, you should read this kucharski.substack.com/p/real-signa...
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Real signals or artificial stereotypes?
Adventures with a cultural Copilot
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brainwavez.org @brainwavez.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Event Report: Readers Den Celebrates Free Comic Book Day And Comics Giveaway Day 2026 #SAComics #CapeTown www.brainwavez.org/books/featur...
A selection of the comics that were available at Readers Den Comic Shop in Wynberg, Cape Town.

The photo is of a top-down view of comics on a table. The titles include Image Comics' Energon Universe, Garfield, Sonic The Hedgehog, LEGO Batman, and Street Fighter Forever.
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Matt Doyle @mattdoylemedia.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Today is Sir Terry Pratchett's birthday. By far one of the best authors of my generation. “A man is not dead while his name is still spoken.” So, may his name echo eternally through the clacks. GNUTerryPratchett
Sir Terry Pratchett, laughing, with two birds sat on his head.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Social media apps as Lord of the Rings characters, a thread: Twitter: Twitter is Gollum. Began as a normal halfling. Overexposure to evil left it thin and stretched and bitter.
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a close up of a gollum from the lord of the rings with a very angry look on his face
Alt: a close up of a gollum from the lord of the rings with a very angry look on his face
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Shitesh Arihunta @arihunta.net · 02/04/2026
Excellent little article on this. And, she shares a name with my mom! www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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A moment that changed me: for the first time in my life, a stranger pronounced my name correctly
I had grown up dreading introductions, with the inevitable mangling of my name. Suddenly, in India, we were both getting the respect we deserved
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Shitesh Arihunta @arihunta.net · 20/03/2026
Two minutes into this, I was hooked. Fifteen minutes in, I was fighting back tears. At twenty minutes, I lost that fight. Holy fuck, what a tour de force.
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James Whyle @jameswhylebooks.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
The man who used AI to build a cancer vaccine for his dog Steven Boykey Sidley substack.com/home/post/p-...
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The man who used AI to build a cancer vaccine for his dog
(Photo: via Paul Conyngham/X)
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 17/03/2026
Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.
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Shitesh Arihunta @arihunta.net · 16/03/2026
Uh, what…
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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
"you need to learn how to use gAI or you'll get left behind!" counterpoint! the absolute fastest way to render yourself unemployable is to build your skillset around a tool that does your thinking for you, that everyone has access to, and that one company can change or take away at any time
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 01/01/2026
Our Solar System is orbiting the center of our Galaxy at about 220 km/s so in 2025 we collectively traveled something like 7 billion kilometers across the Milky Way. Once in a while, when you have a moment, it’s worthwhile to take a look around, see where you are, and appreciate how far you’ve come.
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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
read CHIPWRECKED here www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
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Chipwrecked: Can Nvidia avoid the crash?
What happens if the GPU-backed loans go south?
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Shitesh Arihunta @arihunta.net · 16/12/2025
Um, WHAT
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Adam Ellis @adamtots.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
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mankrik's wife guy @byelacey.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
i was in the top 0.02% of his listeners this year
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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
NEW: I spoke to Team Cherry about Silksong DLC, cut content, difficulty settings, storytelling, what they were thinking with Bilewater, the lack of signposting for Act 3, whether they'll do another Hollow Knight game, and much, much more www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
bloomberg.com
The Makers of ‘Silksong’ Aren’t Done Just Yet
The developers at Team Cherry tell us they’re working on new content for their popular action game
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Shitesh Arihunta @arihunta.net · 19/11/2025
Such a loaded headline. First OpenAI victim—is this something we’ve been waiting for? Do we expect there to be more? Why are we specifically concerned with OpenAI here?
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Shitesh Arihunta @arihunta.net · 10/11/2025
If anyone's wondering what I've been listening to the past two months: daily.bandcamp.com/features/chr...
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Christopher Larkin Doesn’t Score Video Games, He Creates Worlds
Christopher Larkin on his "Hollow Knight: Silksong" soundtrack, favorite video game music, and more.
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Hard Drive @hard-drive.net · 13/10/2025
REPORT: Local Nine Sols Fan Thinks It’s Cute When Silksong Players Complain About Difficultly
Nine Sols cover
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Shitesh Arihunta @arihunta.net · 25/10/2025
Suck it, Groal
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Shitesh Arihunta @arihunta.net · 08/09/2025
Some of y'all complaining about Silksong bosses have never fought Eigong and it shows. 😛
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6000 @6000coza.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
CAPE TOWN: Don’t miss the eclipse tonight! There's a total lunar eclipse visible over Cape Town (and much of South Africa) this evening, and it's at a perfectly reasonable time to see, and then still get to bed ahead of your upcoming work week. tl;dr (how lazy are you?!?) Basically, to see it, you…
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CAPE TOWN: Don’t miss the eclipse tonight!
There's a total lunar eclipse visible over Cape Town (and much of South Africa) this evening, and it's at a perfectly reasonable time to see, and then still get to bed ahead of your upcoming work week. tl;dr (how lazy are you?!?) Basically, to see it, you need to look at the moon (dur!) from 7:30pm.And basically, the moon will be in the East.
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Shitesh Arihunta @arihunta.net · 05/09/2025
SKONG TIME
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Kotaku @kotaku.com · 04/09/2025
Silksong is out crashing the eShop and other storefronts kotaku.com/help-silksong-is-finally…
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Help! Silksong Is Finally Out And Everyone's Having Trouble Downloading It - Kotaku
The biggest release of 2025 is here and crashing the Switch 2 eShop and Steam page
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Shitesh Arihunta @arihunta.net · 04/09/2025
Happy SKONG DAY everybody
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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 26/08/2025
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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
BREAKING: Silksong will be out on September 4. Two weeks from today. Really. Often, games that take 7+ years to make are plagued by mismanagement and painful burnout. But for Silksong? Team Cherry was having a blast. They still are. This is their story: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
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Why ‘Silksong’ Took Seven Years to Make
The highly anticipated indie game has been in production for so long that it’s become an internet meme
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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Here we go. Silksong will have a "special announcement" on Thursday at 10:30am ET. AND coming from me on Thursday, the story behind why Silksong took seven years to make... Stay tuned! www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGe...
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Hollow Knight: Silksong - Special Announcement
YouTube video by Team Cherry
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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Earlier this month I had a video call with Team Cherry co-founders Ari Gibson and William Pellen, who talked all about what the last seven years have been like for them. It's a very fun story. Coming Thursday on Bloomberg
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