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editing a picture in ms paint when i accidentally pressed the ai shit that pops up right underneath ur cursor when you make a selection.. yuck! 🤮 i reckon @microsoft.com should add a slop toggle to paint, like they've added the "writing tools" switch to notepad

microsoft paint, with a rectangular selection made. two buttons show up just below the cursor: one to use slop pilot to "generative erase", and another to "remove background"

notepad settings page. there's a "writing tools" switch, which i've set to "off", and doing so disables the ai rubbish buttons that would be shown otherwise

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ravindT~T @ravind.ooo · 09/10/2026

..aaaand it's the weekend!

powershell session in which i run `ps ms-teams* | kill -Verbose`. its output lists two microsoft teams processes that were stopped

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ravindT~T @ravind.ooo · 07/10/2026

saw that video of the japanese ezo squirrel going around,, :3

the "bruce landlord makes a kind exception" meme, with the ezo squirrel. the picture is a screenshot of an imessage conversation with "bruce landlord" who says "it is clear in the lease: no pets are allowed in the apt. sorry". bruce is then sent a pet pic to which he replies, "ok i will make an exception because he looks very polite"

the pet pic here, is a slightly blurry screenshot from the japanese ezo squirrel video :3 the squirrel is standing upright on their hind legs & tail, with their hands clasped together in front, and looking off to the right side

similar to the previous picture; the squirrel is slightly closer to, and looking directly at the camera, with their head tilted sideways :3

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ravindT~T @ravind.ooo · 04/10/2026

omgomgomg, i made a better website for my firefox userChrome project: ravinduwu.github.io/firefox-refi... 🎉 the page now lets you customise the style & download the final userChrome.css file, shows a preview of what the options do to the findbar 😄 and lets you link to your configuration

screenshot of the website at ravinduwu.github.io/firefox-refined-findbar. the page shows a wireframe of a firefox web browser with the "findbar" (ctrl+f search box) and some options to customise its appearance

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ravindT~T @ravind.ooo · 03/10/2026

stack overflow , 1. uses nginx 2. is down rn

a stack overflow (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/400212) link opened in firefox, shows a "503 service temporarily unavailable, nginx" page

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ravindT~T @ravind.ooo · 02/10/2026

xm6 ear pad replacements! :catpog: i thought i'd try the pink ear pads instead of black. sadly, they're not as pink as i expected them to be; they look beige

black sony xm6 headphones, sitting on a desk, with ear pads taken off. some of the internals of the ear cups are visible: in each one, a speaker in the middle, foam around the speaker and a curious rubber-housed device suspended above each speaker? probably a sensor of some kind, maybe noise cancelling-related? idk tbh. the replacements ear pads are next to the headphones

the same headphones, with the replacement ear pads attached

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ravindT~T @ravind.ooo · 16/09/2026

wdym "the address doesn't look right" firefox,? it *does* !

firefox window opened to the url "about:foxxo"

the page is the usual "unknown address" page on firefox, with a picture of their fox mascot looking confused, with text that reads "hmm. that address doesn't look right. firefox can't connect to the server at about:foxxo. what can you do about it? check to make sure you've typed the web site address correctly"

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ravindT~T @ravind.ooo · 05/08/2026

hmm 🤔, i *do* post alt text, and uh,, wh.. where’s my reflection?!

mirror reflection of uh,, an iphone suspended in midair!? as i’d imagine one would look like, in a vampire selfie

the background looks a bit motion-blurry, but let’s disregard that ehehehehe

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ravindT~T @ravind.ooo · 03/08/2026

ohkay here we go again,,

silly tabby cat wearing a grey tie, which a speech bubble that reads "hope i don't have a long week". in the background, slightly blurry, is the long week factory

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ravindT~T @ravind.ooo · 19/07/2026

smol < eeny? eeny < smol? unsure

me, on discord:

aw man the nice hoodies et cetera shop doesn’t have xxs

i’ll have to go for the smol (xs) instead of the eeny (xxs)

i understand hoodies can be worn a bit loose

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ravindT~T @ravind.ooo · 10/07/2026

need, 1) custom emojis for the windows 11 emoji picker 2) a web api with which websites can add custom emojis (and manage them) to the emoji picker (scoped to the browsing session) that'd be so cool :catpog:

windows 11 emoji picker with the search term "catthink" which shows no results because it's a discord emoji, not an emoji emoji

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ravindT~T @ravind.ooo · 01/07/2026

myki boot sequence? 👀

myki machine on a bus. the screen says it’s “loading parameters”, at 27% with an indeterminate spinny indicator, loading a “.BIN” file

same myki machine, after what i assume was the boot sequence, now says “out of service”

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ravindT~T @ravind.ooo · 11/06/2026

also microsoft 🤭:

visual studio feature request to honour editorconfig rules (specifically, indent_style and indent_size if spaces) when saving a .sln file as an .slnx. the feedback bot said "we will do some preliminary checks to make sure we can proceed; you will hear from us in about a week" on the 17th of july last year. there has been no activity since then.

the team probably hasn't triaged/reviewed this issue yet.

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ravindT~T @ravind.ooo · 30/05/2026

a pigeon in coles 👀 doing their shopping for the week (omg same), thinking of buying the jasmine rice?? 🍚 don’t forget your FLYBUYS ahahahaha

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ravindT~T @ravind.ooo · 22/05/2026

ahahahaha the "read more" link next to the newsletter checkbox on the miele australia checkout page shows a modal which reads "some really long text", when clicked 😆

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ravindT~T @ravind.ooo · 18/05/2026

wouldn’t wear this sick privacy invading rubbish if you paid me 🤢 ugh

email from jbhifi that reads “prices smashed on meta ai glasses; shop ray ban & oakley, powered by meta”

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ravindT~T @ravind.ooo · 16/05/2026

hmm 🤔 i wonder where this business is located..

cloudless light blue sky; and along the bottom, the roof of a building with a sign (probably the name of the business) that reads “LEIGHOAK”

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ravindT~T @ravind.ooo · 14/05/2026

ept better!! :catpog:

garmin watch showing an eep score of 99% for 8h 2m, waow

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ravindT~T @ravind.ooo · 08/05/2026

assembling everything again 😫. did the important bit (THE BED) first, and now the desk too

point of view of me lying down on the floor underneath, looking up towards, and gesturing a thumbs up at the standing desk. the desk looks bigger than you’d would expect because i used the .5x zoom lens to snap this photo

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ravindT~T @ravind.ooo · 07/05/2026

phew, dropped the commuter off (with the panniers loaded with as much as i could comfortably carry ehehehehe 😄), then measured & modelled the new place 💅 sadly, i didn't get to disassemble anything yet. it's going to be a long night 😩

my commuter bike leaning against a wall. 2 pannier bags are mounted on its rear pannier rack, and they're full of stuff judging by their shape (the contents aren't visible)

laptop running sketchup in microsoft edge. inside sketchup, a 3d model is being designed, with some millimetres-measurements visible on screen

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ravindT~T @ravind.ooo · 05/05/2026

oh! 👀 there they are, they’re there.

computer display boxes underneath my desk, with the displays packed in

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ravindT~T @ravind.ooo · 05/05/2026

hmmm 🤔 something’s missing

desk-attached computer display mounts, with no displays. hdmi and power cables routed along them are visible, hanging off the ends close to the vesa interface

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ravindT~T @ravind.ooo · 05/05/2026

the duck bag :3 is coming with! i mean.. of course it is, i wouldn’t leave it behind it deserves its own mention whenever possible though, on account of how adorable it is 😭

smol tote bag with a picture of a duck on it, and two yellow little duck feet hanging off the bottom :3. it’s sitting in a suitcase on top of other clothes, folded & packed to be moved

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ravindT~T @ravind.ooo · 19/04/2026

the unsolicited passkey prompts that some websites do are the worst! >.< and they're usually termed "remember your account on this device?" or along those lines from what i recall, which is confusing, because the "remember me" is historically something different

windows "save your passkey" prompt saying "<email> passkey for <website> ; this will be saved to your windows device" with the options "continue" (default) and "cancel". my mouse hovers over "cancel"

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ravindT~T @ravind.ooo · 18/04/2026

hi @microsoft.com, "turn off copilot" should mean TURN IT THE FUCK OFF AND SHUT UP ABOUT IT, not silently enable it every couple days and still receive promotional content i've disabled it several times this week alone, via outlook web & mobile; still, they keep enabling this rubbish.. 😠

the outlook.com copilot preferences page, with the "turn on copilot" switch set to "off" (followed by then pressing "save")

outlook dialog that reads "new themes by copilot" "add some zing to your mailbox with the new copilot themes. choose from destinations, the weather, or make your own" with the options "custom theme" (primary) and "not interested".

some text overlaid crudely in ms paint: "zing" stricken through and replaced with "slop"; and above it, the text: "why the fuck would i want copilot to generate an outlook theme!? pay an artist, you assholes 🖕"

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ravindT~T @ravind.ooo · 13/04/2026

is the algorithm doing its job? yes has this video been recommended too many times? no (impossible)

screenshot of the youtube app on ios, with a thumbnail of a video.

the thumbnail shows two baby rabbits :3 eating cabbage, and the video is titled “if the algorithm is doing its job, everyone should be seeing this bab…” (the rest of text is clipped out of view).

below the thumbnail is a question: “has this video been recommended too many times?” and two buttons, “yes” and “no” (which i’m pressing)

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ravindT~T @ravind.ooo · 10/04/2026

that's end-inclusive from what i'm reading? 🤔 in pwsh, that'd be, Get-Random -Minimum 0 -Maximum (999999999 + 1) -Count 100000 the output encoding defaults to windows-1252 😬 and should be manually set to utf-8 [System.Console]::OutputEncoding = [System.Text.UTF8Encoding]::new()

$flowers.jq running on pwsh on windows terminal on windows 11. the terminal session goes, PS> [System.Console]::OutputEncoding = [System.Text.UTF8Encoding]::new() PS> Get-Random -Minimum 0 -Maximum (999999999 + 1) -Count 100000 | jq -nf .\flowers.jq -r --argjson frame 40 followed by the prettiest program output i've ever seen in my terminal, a field of randomly generated flowers made of the 🌸🌺🌼 emojis$

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ravindT~T @ravind.ooo · 08/04/2026

why is my rear derailleur going "ekekek" like a cat :3 i wonder if it's something do with how it's adjusted 😬

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ravindT~T @ravind.ooo · 08/04/2026

apple music has an annoying habit of randomly pausing playback because i'm supposedly trying to play on >1 device at once? ...except, i'm not! i *do* however, have apple music open in firefox on my laptop. i suspect this "session"/some web app activity is misinterpreted as a playback attempt? 😬

screenshot of apple music on an iphone. playback (of the song living in twilight by the weepies) is paused, and a dialog is shown with the text "more than 1 device is trying to play music. with a family plan, up to 5 other people can stream their music at once" presenting the options "upgrade" and "not now"

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ravindT~T @ravind.ooo · 24/03/2026

oh gosh,, it was beautiful outside this evening!

a rainbow, another *very* subtle rainbow, and some trees silhouetted, against a sunset sky

trees with their branches glowing orange, illuminated by the warm golden hour sunlight

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ravindT~T @ravind.ooo · 20/03/2026

made a thing :3 familiar with the "autocd" feature of bash? www.gnu.org/software/bas.... it lets you cd into directories with just their name without the leading "cd" when enabled my pwsh dotfiles module now includes a "cmd not found" handler which does something similar github.com/ravindUwU/do...

in a powershell session, ls shows that there are 2 directories named "hmm" and "huh". typing "./hmm" and "./huh" allows me to cd into those two folders, that is, instead of the typical "cd hmm" and "cd huh"

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ravindT~T @ravind.ooo · 20/03/2026

the new custom-styled dialogs are very pretty 😍, though

a "do you wantt to save changes to this file?" custom dialog (i.e., not native; enabled with the window.dialogStyle setting) with the "save", "don't save" and "cancel" options.

the new dialog is more compact, and has rounded corners consistent with the rest of the UI

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ravindT~T @ravind.ooo · 20/03/2026

eww eww eww. the @vscode.dev sidebar shows their ai slop icon 🤢 for code actions (even with the ai slop settings disabled) instead of the bulb icon 💡

vscode editor with some text typed into it and selected. its margin shows a sparkle icon (based on the ✨ emoji, which ai dipshits use to advertise their rubbish) instead of the light bulb icon it used to be.

tapping the icon opens the editor actions context menu with the "quick fix" option

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ravindT~T @ravind.ooo · 15/03/2026

ai dipshits be normal for just 1 fucking second challenge (impossible) lmao fuck off, @segyges.bsky.social, @schizanon.bsky.social, and while you're at it, consider getting a life, dickheads

screenshot of my bluesky messages from listifications w/o blocks (i.e., the account that notifies you of when you're added to a list, because bluesky, for some stupid fucking reason, doesn't 😒)

the dipshit schizanon.bsky.social has added me to a moderation list named "unoffensive list name" on the 10th, 11th, 12th and 13th of jan this year

another dipshit antiantiai.bsky.social apparently moderated (?) by segyges.bsky.social because the bio says "appeals go to <segy...@bsky....>" added me to a "ai haters" moderation list on the 14th of march (yesterday)

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ravindT~T @ravind.ooo · 06/03/2026

tsk ,you little hfkshfzehaiflis hfsjjz hfuiiaha hruukz hf;a HFIA JdizK CDzfhf;;ALWHJukFK

windows says "something didn't go as planned. no need to worry—undoing changes. please keep your computer on"

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ravindT~T @ravind.ooo · 06/03/2026

i’m going to miss my bus aren’t i?

windows restarting screen with a spinny loading indicator, with text that reads “customising features for you. you’re 79% there. please keep your computer on”

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