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Shriram Ravindranathan

@s20n.dev
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I write free software. Free as in Freedom Free as in Free Speech Free as in Free Bird guitar solo I also collect CDs and stuff.. s20n.dev Find me on github github.com/shriramters

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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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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
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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 · 10/08/2026
TreeFrog is underrated as hell. I used it a few years ago and remember it felt like writing Qt C++ but without Qt. I think it’s maintained by a lone maintainer. Really happy to see it’s still getting new releases.
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Shriram Ravindranathan @s20n.dev · 09/08/2026
Awhh, he got the velcros! — Macklemore 2012
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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
Looks… edible
Sautéed paneer
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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 blast aftermath
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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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Shriram Ravindranathan @s20n.dev · 01/07/2026
I just didn’t realize how much I missed this style of music
youtu.be
After - Outbound (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by afterthebandVEVO
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Shriram Ravindranathan @s20n.dev · 29/06/2026
“Trendy DIY treatment” The best kind of treatment, what could possibly go wrong amirite folks?
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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 · 27/06/2026
This is really great advice. I really should be writing stuff down more. God only knows how many worthwhile ideas I’ve lost this way.
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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
Blink 182 - Enema of the state CD
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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 · 17/05/2026
I think it’s gonna be a long long time
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Shriram Ravindranathan @s20n.dev · 17/05/2026
Hosting a search engine is the second fastest way to get your IP blacklisted (second to running your own email service) The problem is that the data changes so rapidly that you need to scrape the entire web daily just to have a usable search engine
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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 · 10/05/2026
got this mythical youtube algorithm pull today www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2DT...
youtube.com
[MASHUP] Sugar, We're Goin Down Kung-Fu Fighting
YouTube video by THiNGYBOBinc
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Ross Floate @rossfloate.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Oh my. This is spectacular. sinceyouarrived.world/taken
sinceyouarrived.world
taken.
A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission. Most pages do this. None of them tell you.
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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 · 06/05/2026
Corollary Hot Take: 4:3 CRT >> 4:3 LCD
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Shriram Ravindranathan @s20n.dev · 05/05/2026
Damn. Well done, lol.
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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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Shriram Ravindranathan @s20n.dev · 02/05/2026
RIP Jeeves 💔 www.ask.com #AskJeeves
ask.com
A Farewell to Ask.com | 25 Years of Curiosity
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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 · 30/04/2026
The author is trying to write a heavy academic critique and language policing, but they lack the basic phonetic vocabulary to describe the sounds they're complaining about. What is a 'nasal "na"' and a 'flat "na"'? In Marathi, BOTH न (n dental) and ण (ṇ retroflex) are nasal consonants.
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Shriram Ravindranathan @s20n.dev · 22/04/2026
M A G I C C L A W 🗣️🗣️
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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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Shriram Ravindranathan @s20n.dev · 10/04/2026
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouba/k...
en.wikipedia.org
Bouba/kiki effect - Wikipedia
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Shriram Ravindranathan @s20n.dev · 09/04/2026
Wiering’s style is unmistakable. I could tell immediately just looking at the tiles
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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
en.wikipedia.org
Physically based rendering - Wikipedia
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