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Shriram Ravindranathan @s20n.dev · 12/10/2026

Is there a decaf version of Diet Coke

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CockroachDB @cockroachdb.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

They say cockroaches will outlast us all. We'd settle for outlasting your database problems. New look, same resilience: distinct parts, adapting together, make the whole stronger.

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Shriram Ravindranathan @s20n.dev · 10/09/2026

Blur was the emacs of Britpop

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Shriram Ravindranathan @s20n.dev · 10/09/2026

seeing the astra demos just took all the joy out of this for me smh

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Shriram Ravindranathan @s20n.dev · 08/09/2026

Hot Take: homeöwner should be spelled with a dieresis @newyorker.com back me up gang

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Shriram Ravindranathan @s20n.dev · 02/09/2026

I was convinced that my microphone was dead, turns out I just had the bitchass pad button turned on on my interface

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Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 24/08/2026

Transgender rights are not a permission—they are the right to live itself 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Existence doesn’t need any permission, you know. Why does the world treat something so simple as if it were optional? It is the baseline of being human ♡ Chiitan will keep raising their voice.

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Shriram Ravindranathan @s20n.dev · 14/08/2026

I wonder whatever happened to GANs for image generation? I remember them being all the rage in 2019 (HyperGAN, StyleGAN etc). Somehow, the GAN’s output to me seems way more realistic that anything a diffusion model has produced Case in point: thispersondoesnotexist.com

thispersondoesnotexist.com

This Person Does Not Exist

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Shriram Ravindranathan @s20n.dev · 09/08/2026

Started watching another blender tutorial playlist today. Maybe the 20th time’s the charm?

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Shriram Ravindranathan @s20n.dev · 29/07/2026

I’m scrubbing the same frying pan for the 5th time today. I really hope I atleast get some Mr. Miyagi “wax on wax off” effect out of it.

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Shriram Ravindranathan @s20n.dev · 14/07/2026

I made dinner in my new apartment today Midway through making dinner, I realized I didn’t have a knife to cut the paneer with and had to use a fork as a makeshift knife #AlanisMorissette moment

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GhostConvert @ghostconvert.cc · 13/07/2026

Right framing. It's not 320 vs lossless in one pass, it's generation loss. Lossy->lossy (mp3->aac over BT) is the real killer: each codec drops different bands, so cymbals & reverb tails smear. Keep lossless as the master, transcode at playout, never store the transcode.

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Shriram Ravindranathan @s20n.dev · 13/07/2026

Diet Coke exploded in fridge. #fml

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Luci Gosling (it’s short for Lucinda) @lucigosling.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

I love his cute little chunky bod especially when he’s snoozing like this.

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 26/06/2026

ok this one got me

reflecting pool full of green slime and barrels and you're carrying a crowbar in the style of Half Life

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Shriram Ravindranathan @s20n.dev · 27/06/2026

I’ll never understand why the currency symbol has to go BEFORE the number unlike idk every other unit in history? You even have to pronounce ₹100 as 100 rupees so why not just write it after the number?

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Shriram Ravindranathan @s20n.dev · 19/06/2026

Today's NYT connections lists "The Entertainer" as a beginner piano piece. Sorry WHAT??? #NYTconnections #Piano

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Shriram Ravindranathan @s20n.dev · 16/06/2026

Bumping this absolute classic tonight. No skips. #blink182

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Shriram Ravindranathan @s20n.dev · 03/06/2026

6 × 7 = 42 just saying…

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Shriram Ravindranathan @s20n.dev · 18/05/2026

I love LibreOffice but why did they have to name their spreadsheet software "Calc"? Everytime I try to open the calculator from drun, I end up opening "Calc" instead 🤦‍♂️ #linux #libreoffice

media.tenor.com

a man in a space suit with the words this little maneuver 's gonna cost us 51 years above him

Alt: a man in a space suit with the words this little maneuver 's gonna cost us 51 years above him

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Shriram Ravindranathan @s20n.dev · 12/05/2026

What a graph. I didn't know it was this bad. monthly StackOverflow questions over time: data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflo... #StackOverflow

Graph of stackoverflow questions per month over time. The graph was consistently around the 200,000s in the 2010s. Now it is <5000 towards end of 2025.

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Shriram Ravindranathan @s20n.dev · 07/05/2026

This essay by Richard Stallman on why schools should only use libre software is one of my favourites. I think everyone should read it. www.gnu.org/education/ed...

gnu.org

Why Schools Should Exclusively Use Free Software - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation

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Shriram Ravindranathan @s20n.dev · 05/05/2026

TIL sheepshank does not mean "to stab a sheep" en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sheepsh...

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Anisota @anisota.net · 30/04/2026

Anisota is pro-goblin. We are also in favor of other critters such as gremlins, raccoons, and pigeons. We promise never to suppress creatures and cryptids, unless one begins to scare away all the moths.

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Shriram Ravindranathan @s20n.dev · 19/04/2026

Just pulled my first image from space Image of India from 825km up. Image from Meteor M2-3 LRPT (72k) received using an RTL-SDR v4 over Hyderabad Decoded on Fedora using SatDump. #SDR #Space #MeteorM2 #SatDump #LRPT #India

Satellite image of the Indian Subcontinent on 19th April 2026 captured by METEOR M2-3 as received in Hyderabad at 9:49 AM

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Shriram Ravindranathan @s20n.dev · 14/04/2026

I connected my Fedora 43 laptop to the college WiFi and my laptop audio instantly went out. PipeWire had discovered like 50 macbook audio sinks and it was so busy creating and managing outputs for those random devices that my on device speakers weren't working lol #linux #fedora #pipewire

reddit.com

From the Fedora community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the Fedora community

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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

My favorite thing is when you stop petting a dog and they put their paw on your arm like, "we're not done here."

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Shriram Ravindranathan @s20n.dev · 09/04/2026

Does anyone know why all these badass defense contractors have these Law Firm -esque double-barrel names? - Northrop-Grumman - McDonnell-Douglas - Fisher-Price - Lockheed-Martin etc

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V @vmc54.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

A gorgeous blue sky and this beautiful blossoming tree stopped me dead in my tracks on my walk to work yesterday morning. #ColorADay #BlueTue Bay Ridge, Brooklyn

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Shriram Ravindranathan @s20n.dev · 05/04/2026

The W^X (Writable XOR Executable) policy states that a memory page is either writable or executable, but never both Since 0^0=0, It technically also prohibits a memory page from being neither writable nor executable (i.e; readonly) I’m filing non-compliance reports against every major OS, brb #OS

en.wikipedia.org

W^X - Wikipedia

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Shriram Ravindranathan @s20n.dev · 01/04/2026

Everytime I hear “Physically Based Rendering” it sounds like a mistranslation to me shouldn’t it be “Physics-based rendering”? #ComputerGraphics #rendering

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Physically based rendering - Wikipedia

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Shriram Ravindranathan @s20n.dev · 31/03/2026

@t6e.dev huge thanks for working on the Steingass sqlite database Indo-Persian† was the lingua franca of India for centuries. Reconstructing its phonetics is nearly impossible because the Abjad is unforgiving with vowels. This romanized dataset is literally the Rosetta Stone of Indo-Persian.

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Shriram Ravindranathan @s20n.dev · 28/03/2026

My favourite song atm BUT the piano solo feels so wrong.. like it should be EXACTLY 4 bars longer. Maybe my ears are too accustomed to hearing 8-bar long solos / middle 8s? #CharliePuth #MusicSky

youtube.com

Charlie Puth - Changes (Official Video)

YouTube video by Charlie Puth

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Shriram Ravindranathan @s20n.dev · 23/03/2026

I grew up learning that the lion lives in a (majestic) den But in national geographic I’ve only ever seen the broke ass lion sleep under a paltry tree that barely has 4 leaves. The PR team is working overtime.

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Shriram Ravindranathan @s20n.dev · 19/03/2026

It looks like CNN has started broadcasting in anamorphic widescreen as of today The hegemony of big 4:3 is finally over

CNN Intl broadcasting in anamorphic widescreen

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Shriram Ravindranathan @s20n.dev · 07/03/2026

yo this file is licensed asf

screenshot of the apache license preamble of an apache project which says "Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF)"

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Shriram Ravindranathan @s20n.dev · 24/02/2026

Is it just me or does the omega in the Wikipedia logo look like it's not curved along the curvature of the globe unlike the other letters? #wikipedia

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Shriram Ravindranathan @s20n.dev · 12/01/2026

They ought to be updating it once a week at this point

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KCaid @kcaid.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

My dog. Pup-Aya. Here's her Goodmorning face. #dog #morningcuddles #somekindofmixedbreed

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Shriram Ravindranathan @s20n.dev · 17/11/2025

Fun fact: there are more natural numbers than there are atoms in the universe

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Shriram Ravindranathan @s20n.dev · 28/10/2025

It bothers me when channels that natively record in 16:9, letterbox their video into a 4:3 frame for their SDTV broadcast. This is inevitably stretched again by EVERY modern TV resulting in a stretched image with black bars on top of it. BBC gets it right by using anamorphic widescreen instead.

CNN intl SDTV broadcast with stretched image and black bars

BBC News SDTV broadcast correctly displaying 16:9 video using anamorphic widescreen

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Shriram Ravindranathan @s20n.dev · 25/10/2025

Ok you gotta admit “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone“ sounds way cooler than the original name “Sorcerer’s Stone” evokes a picture of a mysterious wizard with an enchanted gemstone “Philosopher’s Stone” on the other hand makes you think of Socrates trying to pass a kidney stone #HarryPotter

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Shriram Ravindranathan @s20n.dev · 25/10/2025

8mm film, 16mm film, …surely the next one would be 32mm film? Right? RIGHT?

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Shriram Ravindranathan @s20n.dev · 23/10/2025

Bro that does NOT look edible

Veg McMuffin patty has suspect looking green texture

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