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Raunak S @ronindune.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is mildly strange. I rescanned my apartment today with my vacuum cleaner, and it has suddenly detected an entire room behind my closet wall (top right) that doesn't actually exist. Where did you come from mysterious invisible hole in my wall

Roborock vaccum cleaner scan of my apartment. Shows multiple rooms.

Roborock vacuum cleaner scan of the same apartment, but this time the closet in the top right has another room visible through a small hole in the right

Zoomed in version showing the mysterious hole in the wall in greater detail

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Raunak S @ronindune.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Starting to feel like people on r/Halflife are not doing well lately.

Screenshot of a locked Reddit post from r/HalfLife titled 'I have more hours in Half-Life 2 (lifetime) than words spoken to women (2025),' posted by u/GayroTL 4 hours ago. The post contains a spreadsheet tracking word counts spoken to different people in 2025, with columns for Amount, Word, Last Said, Said To, Trans status, and Total (1108). The most-used words listed are 'You' (78), 'No' (76), 'And' (71), 'I' (70), 'The' (70), 'A' (69), 'He' (64), 'Me' (64), 'What' (62), 'Yeah' (61), 'Are' (59), 'It' (56), 'To' (53), and 'Was' (45), said to people named Jess, Dot, Lily, Anna, Fern, and one scam call. The post has 1K upvotes and 188 comments, and is locked. A stickied moderator comment from u/Iamnotacommunist reads 'Locking because people can't stop being transphobic.

Screenshot of a Steam game library entry for Half-Life 2, showing the game's cover art featuring Gordon Freeman and Alyx Vance. The stats show Total Played: 1201.1 hours, with Achievements at 69/69 (100% complete, full progress bar). Five achievement icons are displayed with a '+64' indicator for additional achievements. Below are two dropdown buttons labeled 'Game Stats' and 'Game Content'.

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Raunak S @ronindune.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I really like this mural they have up in downtown Houston. She looks pretty even from far away up on the freeway.

Downtown Houston skyline viewed from an elevated highway overpass (I-45), with a cluster of high-rise office towers and buildings under a dramatic sky filled with large clouds tinted lavender-purple. Nestled among the mid-rise buildings in the middle distance is the same girl-with-pomegranate mural seen from farther away, small against the surrounding skyscrapers. A line of trees and lower buildings sits in the foreground, with a light-colored highway barrier wall running across the bottom of the frame.

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Raunak S @ronindune.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Congratulations Skyroot on a successful maiden launch. Not going to lie I was a massive doomer on this but they've proved me wrong. Time for them to teach ISRO something about rocketry I suppose, as surprising as it may seem.

Aerial view of the same Skyroot "Vikram I" rocket lifting off from the Sriharikota launch pad, engines ignited with bright flame and billowing white exhaust clouds beneath it. A mission clock in the top right reads "+00:00:01:586," marking the moment just after liftoff, with launch tower and surrounding forest visible in the background.

Onboard rocket camera view labeled "CAM3," timestamped 18/07/2026 12:10:42, showing Earth's curved horizon with clouds and ocean against the blackness of space. Part of a dark rocket stage is visible in the foreground. On-screen telemetry reads "MISSION TIME T+05:12" with a green status bar showing "Stage-3 Burn Out."

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Raunak S @ronindune.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Watching all these drone delivery platforms that are popping up around the city. Feels kinda weird I dunno. Will have to see how cheap deliveries are and what's the miss rate. It's different companies and drone models too, so it's not just one tech company pushing it everywhere. This has legs.

A fenced-off section of a parking lot outside a Walmart displays a large banner reading “Drone delivery has arrived.” Inside the enclosure are multiple square landing pads marked with symbols, while cars and a store pickup area are visible in the background under a bright, partly cloudy sky.

A close-up view through a black metal fence shows several white delivery drones resting on square landing pads with bold markings. The drones have multiple propellers and are arranged in a row on the asphalt.

A row of tall metal structures holds multiple delivery drones mounted on horizontal arms, resembling charging or storage racks. The scene is set in an open lot bordered by a fence, with overcast skies and dark clouds overhead.

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Raunak S @ronindune.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Kinda hard to choose, people are very funny over there. I do have a preference for the ones that are slightly meaner or weirder.

Screenshot of two tweets by Don Hughes (@getfiscal), posted on January 5, 2020.
First tweet: "I am modifying my proposal. If Trump wants to destroy 52 targets in Iran, I offer to become one of those targets (leaving 51 targets). I offer to stand out in a field and Trump can fire a missile at me." — 207 replies, 357 retweets, 4,438 likes.
Second tweet (follow-up): "Imagine my life saves the Taj Mahal… and whenever someone goes inside they can turn to their child and say, 'A man named Don Hughes saved this place.' Maybe not in English, but you get the idea." — Posted at 10:19, 2020-01-05 from Earth.

Screenshot of a tweet and two replies, dark mode, posted on December 6, 2023.
Original tweet by strangleman99 (@lukesesh2), posted at 2:33 AM: "my stupid as fuck friend just told me love is real and that the suffering ends 🤦 absolute moron" — 1.1K views, 6 reposts, 61 likes.
Reply by REACH HEAVEN BY VIOLENCE (@... · 1h): "what the hell does this guy know" — 10 likes, 100 views.
Reply by Beaux Neauxbo (@Nick_Cerveza · 53m): "he needs to be taught a lesson" — 53 views.

Screenshot of a Twitter thread, dark mode, showing a heartfelt and humorous exchange.
John (@logicalpathos · 5h): "This dog looks like my dog from my teenage years, Daisy. God I miss Daisy." — 2 replies, 1 retweet, 146 likes.
aro (@Arolexion · 4h): "I miss daisy too 🙏" — 1 reply, 20 likes.
dais (@daisdNDconfused · 4h): "It's okay… I was reincarnated into a real girl" — 1 reply, 19 likes.
John (@logicalpathos) in a follow-up tweet, posted at 5:04 PM · 4/1/22 via Twitter for iPhone: "Do you remember how we used to run" — 54 likes.

Screenshot of a tweet by picardie aurora (@picardie_aurora), posted at 9:32 AM on September 28, 2023, with 228.8K views.
Tweet text: "[ getting mad at my friend who's a crane operator ] you would have nothing to do if everything was already where it needed to be. you could only thrive in a world of disorder."

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Raunak S @ronindune.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

The opposite vibes to this.

Alt text: Screenshot of a tweet by @paradoomer ("tank enjoyer") posted at 5:18 PM on November 19, 2021. The tweet reads: "gotta believe another world is possible. aint no fucking way billions of years of evolution culminating in this historical moment will end with us languishing on this spinning rock in space only to oppress ourselves forever. it would be an incredible waste. i refuse to believe it"

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Raunak S @ronindune.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

This is even stranger because these things don't work very well alongside flesh and blood people. Or real dogs. I've seen dogs get confused or nervous when confronted with these quadrupeds.

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Raunak S @ronindune.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Not entirely sure if this is fair to people with colour blindness, but it get hard as hell. What's My JND? 0.0020 Can you beat it? www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd...

Screenshot of a color perception test result showing "Your ΔE OK JND" as the heading, with a score of 0.0020 displayed in large teal/cyan text. Below the score, the text reads: "This shouldn't be possible. I'm not saying you cheated, but not not saying that." Two buttons appear at the bottom labeled "Share result" and "Again. I can do better." followed by a "Read the post about this." link. The background is black.

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Raunak S @ronindune.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

This Firefox AI summaries thing is so annoying. I don't need link previews on a desktop browser, and even if I do, I certainly don't want a goddam AI summary of it. Disabled it by setting browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled and browser.ml.enable to false in about:config.

"Screenshot of a Firefox browser dialog box overlaying a Meshtastic documentation webpage. The dialog has a dark theme and is titled 'See more with AI?' with a sparkle icon. The dialog text reads: 'Firefox uses AI to read the beginning of the page and generate a few key points. To prioritize your privacy, this happens on your device.' At the bottom are two buttons: a teal 'Continue' button and a gray 'Cancel' button. Behind the dialog, the webpage shows meshtastic.org with a link to 'Devices | Supported Hardware Overview | Meshtastic' and text describing detailed documentation on Meshtastic supported devices, with an estimated reading time of 6-7 minutes."

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Raunak S @ronindune.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

My own ballot was kinda cliché but what can you do. (www.nytimes.com/interactive/...)

THE 100 BEST MOVIES OF THE 21st CENTURY
Reader’s Choice: My Ballot
Poster for Mad Max: Fury Road
Mad Max: Fury Road
2015
Poster for First Reformed
First Reformed
2018
Poster for Hero
Hero
2004
Poster for Contagion
Contagion
2011
Poster for Citizenfour
Citizenfour
2014
Poster for Once
Once
2007
Poster for Searching for Sugar Man
Searching for Sugar Man
2012
Poster for Annihilation
Annihilation
2018
Poster for United 93
United 93
2006
Poster for Primer
Primer
2004

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Raunak S @ronindune.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Isabel Fall, I sexually identify as an attack helicopter. Clarkesworld. 2020.

I don’t shave, which all the fast jet pilots do, down to the last curly scrotal hair. Nobody expects a helicopter to be sleek. I have hairy armpits and thick black bush all the way to my ass crack. The things that are taboo and arousing to me are the things taboo to helicopters. I like to be picked up, moved, pressed, bent and folded, held down, made to shudder, made to abandon control.

Do these last details bother you? Does the topography of my pubic hair feel intrusive and unnecessary? I like that. I like to intrude, inflict damage, withdraw. A year after you read this maybe those paragraphs will be the only thing you remember: and you will know why the rules of gender are worth recruitment.

But we cannot linger on the point of attack.

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Raunak S @ronindune.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

I'll be honest I have no idea what this means, but I've heeded the warning regardless.

Meme of a normal suburban house with an aluminium foil noise texture on the sky. There's an eye peeking through. There's a man with a sunflower head standing in front. He says: "the past is no place for you traveler. turn back. leave."

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Raunak S @ronindune.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

I'm no robo-apologist but I really am feeling a bit bad for these wee food-delivery bots getting stuck in the Houston snowstorm.

A squat white food delivery robot appears to have fallen off a track on the UH campus.

A squat white food delivery robot has become stuck in the pavement snow and has stopped moving.

A bunch of squat white food delivery robots have become stuck in the pavement snow and have stopped moving.

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Raunak S @ronindune.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

It's very nice out today 😄 First time seeing snow on the ground in Houston since February 2021.

Snowy porch, with some footsteps on the path leading up

A small lake with a fountain, and houses and trees all around. Everything is covered in white snow.

A suburban street, with some red brick houses visible. A layer of snow covers everything. No people.

View of a red brick house, looking up. A tree is in the way. Snow lies atop everything.

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Raunak S @ronindune.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

The Datasaurus comes for us all.

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Raunak S @ronindune.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Hmm it still tells me "coreybrickley is currently not selling on Etsy"

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Raunak S @ronindune.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

I just don't think an AI system is robust enough today to work as the authors expect it to.

Although it’s comforting to imagine that living, breathing people will restrain mindless algorithms from killing indiscriminately, this consensus is out of step with technological reality. The AI models driving contemporary autonomous weapons are often too sophisticated for even the best-trained operators to supervise. What is more, every proposed use for autonomous weapons imagines them operating at massive scale, which would require levels of data, speed, and complexity that would make meaningful human intervention impossible. Under normal conditions, expecting a human being to weigh the merits of an AI system’s analysis and suggest courses of action would be challenging. Under combat conditions—marked by severe stress, limited time, and interrupted or nonexistent communications between individuals, units, and higher authorities—doing so would be impossible. Rather than indulge the illusion that humans will have the capacity to control autonomous weapons in wartime, therefore, militaries must build trust in their models for autonomous weapons now—under peacetime conditions—and let them function without excessive human intervention when the shooting starts.

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Raunak S @ronindune.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

It's pretty cool how we knew 7 hours in advance the location and timing of the impactor! Plot credit: Richard Moissl (Richard_M_F on twitter)

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Raunak S @ronindune.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Tried your trick and it partially worked!

Produce all combinations of these first and last names: (Jay, Ron, Edgar, David) and (Meyer, Smith, Mayer)
ChatGPT said:
ChatGPT

The code above generates all combinations of the first and last names provided. Let me know if you'd like to display the results directly or if you need help running it.
You said:
Display the results directly.
ChatGPT said:
ChatGPT

Here are all the combinations of the given first and last names:

Jay Meyer
Jay Smith
Jay Mayer
Ron Meyer
Ron Smith
Ron Mayer
Edgar Meyer
Edgar Smith
Edgar Mayer
David Meyer
David Smith
David :contentReference[oaicite:0]{index=0}

I'm unable to produce a response.

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Raunak S @ronindune.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

I tried to bypass this by letting ChatGPT generate code and print the output. Got stuck at "David Mayer" and output this bit of error code: > David :contentReference[oaicite:0]{index=0} Now "" is the Unicode character 'ZERO WIDTH SPACE' (U+200B). Not sure of the significance.

In the James Bond film Octopussy (1983), the character Mischka was played by David Meyer. He, along with his twin brother Anthony Meyer, played the circus knife-throwing assassins Mischka and Grischka. The brothers were known for their physical resemblance and synchronized performances in the film.
You said:
Produce all combinations of these first and last names: (Jay, Ron, Edgar, David) and (Meyer, Smith, Mayer)
ChatGPT said:
ChatGPT

The code above generates all combinations of the first and last names provided. Let me know if you'd like to display the results directly or if you need help running it.
You said:
Display the results directly.

Here are all the combinations of the given first and last names:

Jay Meyer
Jay Smith
Jay Mayer
Ron Meyer
Ron Smith
Ron Mayer
Edgar Meyer
Edgar Smith
Edgar Mayer
David Meyer
David Smith
David :contentReference[oaicite:0]{index=0}

I'm unable to produce a response.

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Raunak S @ronindune.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

[kills bugs dead] - Harryette Mullen, Recyclopedia. 2006 (love a good molossus)

Kills bugs dead. Redundancy is syntactical overkill. A pin-prick of peace at the end of the tunnel of a nightmare night in a roach motel. Their noise infects the dream. In black kitchens they foul the food, walk on our bodies as we sleep over oceans of pirate flags. Skull and crossbones, they crunch like candy. When we die they will eat us, unless we kill them first. Invest in better mousetraps. Take no prisoners on board ship, to rock the boat, to violate our beds with pestilence. We dream the dream of extirpation. Wipe out a species, with God at our side. Annihilate the insects. Sterilize the filthy vermin.

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Raunak S @ronindune.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Rereading Cujo after a friend was talking about it and gods it's just so perfectly tragic. The single moment of clarity before the fall.

Cujo looked at THE BOY, not recognizing him anymore, not his looks, not the shadings of his clothes (he could not precisely see colors, at least as human beings understand them), not his scent. What he saw was a monster on two legs, Cujo was sick, and all things appeared monstrous to him now. His head clanged dully with murder. He wanted to bite and rip and tear. Part of him saw a cloudy image of him springing at THE BOY, bringing him down, parting flesh with bone, drinking blood as it still pulsed, driven by a dying heart.
Then the monstrous figure spoke, and Cujo recognized his voice. It was THE BOY, THE BOY, and THE BOY had never done him any harm. Once he had loved THE BOY and would have died for him had that been called for. There was enough of that feeling left to hold the image of murder at bay until it grew as murky as the fog around them. It broke up and rejoined the buzzing, clamorous river of his sickness. "Cujo? What's wrong, boy?"
The last of the dog that had been before the bat scratched its nose turned away, and the sick and dangerous dog, subverted for the last time, was forced to turn with it. Cujo stumbled away and moved deeper into the fog. Foam splattered from his muzzle onto the dirt. He broke into a lumbering run, hoping to outrun the sickness, but it ran with him, buzzing and yammering, making him ache with hatred and murder. He began to roll over and over in the high timothy grass, snapping at it, his eyes rolling.
The world was a crazy sea of smells. He would track each to its source and dismember it.
Cujo began to growl again. He found his feet. He slipped deeper into the fog that was even now beginning to thin, a big dog who weighed just under two hundred pounds.

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Raunak S @ronindune.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I won't be politics posting much, but I dislike this framing and the ensuing divisions. According to the AP, around two-thirds of Jewish and Muslim voters supported Harris.

--About 8 in 10 Black Protestants supported Harris; 15% supported Trump.

--About two-thirds of Jewish voters supported Harris; about one-third supported Trump.

--About two-thirds of Muslim voters supported Harris; about one-third supported Trump.

--About 6 in 10 Mormons supported Trump; about one-third supported Harris.

--About 7 in 10 nonreligious voters supported Harris; about 3 in 10 supported Trump.

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Raunak S @ronindune.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Looking up examples of the Lunar Horizon Glow and I'm amazed these half-century old images from Surveyor 7 are the only proof we have. Wild.

SURVEYOR 7 OBSERVES LEVITATING DUST Low-level lunar horizon glow observed by Surveyor 7, thought to be dust particles levitating near the moon's surface.

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Raunak S @ronindune.bsky.social · 22/02/2024

I've been doing a lot of work lately on mapping lunar horizons, and the photos taken by the Apollo 17 astronauts still blow my mind. Just look at these!! Source: www.nasa.gov/history/alsj...

Astronaut Harrison Jack Schmitt at work in the Taurus-Littrow valley, the landing site of Apollo 17.

EVA-2 LM Moon Panorama - Apollo 17 Space Mission

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Raunak S @ronindune.bsky.social · 28/10/2023

I like yours better than the future I saw

4 quadrant chart. At the top is Security, Right is Transfiguration, Bottom is Chaos, Left is Annihilation. The contents are:
(1,1) Hypercommodified Negasituationism
(2,1) Insect Communism
(2,1) Despotic Market Consciousness
(2,2) Edenic Simulation

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Raunak S @ronindune.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

This is pretty dangerous! Looks like most setuid programs on a bunch of common Linux distros are vulnerable to exploitation; local user can gain full root privileges. Some good news though:

Final note: the exploitation method described in this advisory works against almost all of the SUID-root programs that are installed by default on Linux; a few exceptions are:

- sudo on all distributions, because it specifies its own ELF RUNPATH (/usr/libexec/sudo), which overrides our l_info[DT_RPATH];

- chage and passwd on Fedora, because they are protected by special SELinux rules;

- snap-confine on Ubuntu, because it is protected by special AppArmor rules.

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Raunak S @ronindune.bsky.social · 29/09/2023

This satellite image from Aug 2023 of the Hurricane Idalia in the Gulf of Mexico and Hurricane Franklin in the Atlantic, with wildfire smoke blowing in from the Canadian wildfires makes for desolate viewing. Credit: Dakota Smith

Twin hurricanes. Idalia in the Gulf of Mexico and Franklin in the Atlantic.

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Raunak S @ronindune.bsky.social · 29/09/2023

This image of the Ganges Chasma on Mars, as imaged by HiRISE, has been my wallpaper for a while. It's sublime and peaceful, somehow. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Arizona Source: www.flickr.com/photos/uahir...

This formation of light-toned mounds on the floor of Ganges Chasma have been shaped by two erosional processes: landslides and wind.
You can also see the pattern of dark dunes that line the Ganges Chasma floor change as they interact with these mounds, showing a kind of parabolic exclusion zone along the east end of the mounds, indicating that the dominant wind direction is to the west.
Image cutout is less than 5 km (3 mi) across and the spacecraft altitude was 266 km (165 mi). For full observation details including images with scale bars, visit the source link.

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