visuwesh

quote me daddy
all opinions are ur employer's mum's
big libreoffice hater

the u in my name is silent

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2026-03-22 06:14:07 GMT

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name drop a few?
I agree on both accounts. Whenever I go to a south Indian restaurant here, I complain about something but I was more grateful than anything else to find these during my clg days. Now, I act all like a judge in masterchef as I drink filter coffee with an appalled face at the price. (Curse you Anna idli...)

2026-03-15 06:09:59 GMT

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yea thats what I meant. I was so excited for usagi drop because I love story lines like those but then I learnt what happened with the ending... Even for someone who gets a twisted enjoyment out of incest, it was far too much.
There might be a usagi drop moment here but I can't quite put my finger on it yet. I'm holding my judgement for now.

2026-03-14 13:26:09 GMT

Where is that tumblr post doing psychoanalysis of Violet Evergarden when you need it

2026-03-12 09:04:21 GMT

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no 🇭🇲🇭🇲🇭🇲 then. I mean they did blow up 20% of the world's reserve like absolute idiots

2026-02-25 08:41:30 GMT

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I'm to the left of contra with the black and white shirt

2026-02-25 08:03:59 GMT

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it's weird seeing spam accounts in that thread. Didn't know we were so hot and popular

2026-02-25 07:57:07 GMT

RE: https://en.osm.town/@OSMIndia/116121472367451859
face reveal
face reveal
#note1dy4…yczw

2026-02-18 08:20:37 GMT

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pls tell what the A rating is for when you get to it plsssss

2026-02-09 11:34:46 GMT

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here are some more tamil movies that i would recommend off the top of my head: chitha, 96, aval appidi thaan, maanadu, dharmadurai, dhuruvangal pathinaaru, theeran adhigaram ondru

2026-02-02 03:47:46 GMT

RE: https://mastinsaan.in/@mehluv/115996566132139054
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#note19gv…fwzd

2026-01-25 05:07:47 GMT

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thanks! hopefully you can get some use out of them :)

2026-01-24 17:25:41 GMT

fellow emacs nerds, i executed the "separate the major-mode and libraries" part of my init file to user-lisp idea: https://codeberg.org/canthoff/user-lisp
there's at least two more files to be added.

2026-01-23 12:27:44 GMT

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happy bday dada!

2026-01-23 05:32:56 GMT

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because Texas is so big we're all in it but dont realise it

2026-01-22 15:53:43 GMT

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you were certified cool with a capital C if you had a flip phone after all!

2026-01-22 12:23:47 GMT

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ooohhh i wasn't aware that flip phones back then had an extra display like that!

2026-01-22 08:21:27 GMT

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oh like the outward facing screens in the earlier models? (I have no clue what I'm talking about)

2026-01-22 08:13:22 GMT

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by low-tech do you mean no touchscreen?

2026-01-21 04:16:07 GMT

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sed lyf :(

2026-01-21 04:06:24 GMT

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y'all don't send each other memes when at work?

2026-01-21 04:00:39 GMT

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:( ig you can't have regular calls with them?
(I'm somewhat wife said okay to use signal just for you both?)

2026-01-20 17:09:37 GMT

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website boy is ideal bullying target

2026-01-20 17:00:58 GMT

which one of you nerds is using signal

2026-01-17 09:59:53 GMT

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peak entertainment right here

2026-01-17 05:56:57 GMT

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I don't use it since I CBA to learn another shell with a slightly different syntax but the original use case is: you're familiar with a Bourne-like shell and the associated Unix utilities but don't have it in Windows; I have Emacs so why not bring those tools with me wherever I go by writing all of them in elisp.
This is probably less relevant nowadays with wsl and stuff but oh well.
It does let you do some cool stuff tho like redirect stdout and stderr to a buffer; full tramp integration so you can go cp /ssh:user@host:~/whatever . or use cd to automagically ssh into the host; freely mix Lisp and shell code; a sane syntax for redirecting stderr to stdout; a crazy glob syntax; Plan 9's Rio window like scrolling. OTOH, it lacks job control iirc, pipes perform poorly and probably a dozen more but idk much.
(I at least have a function that translates TRAMP filenames into scp's filename syntax to reduce editing.)

2026-01-17 05:39:05 GMT

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if im not wrong, this is how eshell came to be!

2026-01-17 04:43:28 GMT

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best cat pic

2026-01-17 03:41:12 GMT

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oh and if you don't want _any_ disabled commands, set disabled-commands-function to nil. No need to individually fuck around with the symbol property.

2026-01-17 03:33:41 GMT

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major feedback: use setopt instead of setq to set user options. This yells at your face if you make a type error.
I was wondering if you misunderstood what require is but you had use-package right after. But you can remove the (require 'rainbow-delimiters) and the following face changes if you use use-package's :face(?) keyword.

2026-01-17 03:08:02 GMT

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🫂🫂🫂 man that sounds like hell
BTW weren't you looking for a job change last year?

2026-01-14 04:29:20 GMT

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I can't think of anything else get more specific about the type of drawing: having to draw a mountain with the sun peaking in between the valley, with a river flowing in the middle and a house situated in the banks with a couple pine trees. Maybe throw in a smiley face on the sun, and a little lamp if youre feeling fancy. And ofc, crows, a lot of them.

2026-01-13 17:28:24 GMT

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is it the first or the second ans that is close?

2026-01-13 17:22:34 GMT

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is it characteristic house with a couple trees and a crap ton of crows that you drew as a kid?
Maybe MAD or art attack?

2026-01-06 05:25:34 GMT

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I agree. Perhaps tangentially related: when people are "bullied" into using LaTeX, matplotlib, and the like ("technical" software instead of garbage like MS Word, Origin, etc.), they find the experience far better than whatever they were doing. I believe we need to either find an optimal bullying:let-go ratio or come up with simple, easy-to-follow recipes, so to speak, to serve as a gentle introduction to these "technical" stuff.
(But no one should go thru the bullshit I had to go thru when installing opensuse OTOH.)

2026-01-05 04:45:20 GMT

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ahhh fragile ego and tasteless jokes, a matvh add in heaven

2026-01-05 04:20:25 GMT

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nothing's worse than a Man who only talks about himself
(btw what prompted this?)

2026-01-03 05:34:04 GMT

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ug9ARo2-_Sw
CC [@Theorem_Poem](https://mstdn.social/@Theorem_Poem )

2026-01-02 06:08:26 GMT

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damn what a varied life! This is what I will show to my kids when they're being lazy 🤓

2026-01-02 04:28:07 GMT

@npub1rad…9rls didnt know ur reach was so world wide that there's an album named after you: https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nClq-OqUGqZh619X4Zc_sYHcuIShvtSD8

2025-12-30 14:19:38 GMT

Yoooo David Tong will give a public lecture in tifr

2025-12-28 11:01:09 GMT

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literally my ideal Ui

2025-12-24 06:38:04 GMT

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i feel like my sense of humour in english and tamil have an overlap, but my hindi one is literally just googoo gaagaa humour idk why
OTOH, the peak of my chaotic energy seems to oscillate between english and tamil

2025-12-24 03:52:59 GMT

do your guys sense of humour change depending on the language you're using?

2025-12-12 06:42:28 GMT

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yea i saw sth like that. in the morning, i could see some posts that were posted in the night. but after a couple hours, they were missing from the timeline

2025-12-12 04:56:03 GMT

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seems like posts show and go away too BTW

2025-12-05 13:30:50 GMT

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AHH thats what this was. I'm so dumb

2025-11-25 13:42:24 GMT

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oohhh this sounds really interestsing! if only it was a book or something i could read :ms_smile_w_tear:

2025-11-23 06:35:14 GMT

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I'm no artist so I don't have opinions on diffusion models but LLMs are a disaster no matter if people stop thinking through a problem IMO so voting no.

2025-11-23 06:29:08 GMT

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define genai pls. It is so clouded by marketing idk what the technical definition is. Despite whatever the definition might be, I think I will still vote no.

2025-11-23 05:45:04 GMT

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lmfao the side eye clippy. I didn't notice it b4

2025-11-18 04:28:49 GMT

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my dumbass read whisked as whisky and proceeded to be confused and fascinated that making those alcoholic chocolate was a simple matter of mixing the booze with the chocolate melt.

2025-11-14 14:05:06 GMT

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the links to other instance posts are also opening in moshidon BTW. Thx for working thru the mess!

2025-11-14 13:53:08 GMT

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what is mastodon steaming for? I'm no steamer

2025-11-14 12:48:59 GMT

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this is what george orwell warned about in his novel 1947

2025-11-14 09:04:59 GMT

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who to bully to quote us is the qn

2025-11-14 07:57:33 GMT

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i can too

2025-11-14 04:04:20 GMT

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apparently Gemini is doing the same shit?

2025-11-13 12:40:42 GMT

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this deeply unsettles me. I've always felt uncomfortable when i had to read the stochastic parrot's vomit but this is a whole another level of unsettlement...

2025-11-06 15:36:39 GMT

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thank you ~daddy~ dada

2025-10-12 11:35:16 GMT

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I ALSO LOVE TO VERIFY THAT IM NOT A BOT

2025-10-12 11:33:55 GMT

I LOVE TO VERIFY THAT IM HUMAN

2025-10-12 10:31:11 GMT

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what do you mean exactly?

2025-10-11 12:53:56 GMT

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LMFAO imma steal this one

2025-10-11 12:48:14 GMT

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wait wait wait wdym by lacy lingerie

2025-10-11 11:09:15 GMT

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would be a good excuse to get into latex now (and swear at the screen every time you compile the document)

2025-10-03 04:01:59 GMT

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thankuu. nah, i dont have my dotfiles up anywhere, im at that stage in life where i dont have much config outside of emacs lulz, and i've stopped using a lot of my shell aliases/functions since i do a lot of work in HPCs nowadays.
the setup is bog standard xfce with bluecurve strawberry gtk theme, and haiku icons and bluecurve icons as a fallback. the wm theme is next from the old xfwm themes collection (https://github.com/Distrotech/xfwm4-themes), and i let the gtk theme dictate the colour of the window decorators
the emacs theme is a large hack where i forcefully remove all inheritance of font-lock faces (i despise random colours), and do minimal syntax highlighting by changing up fonts a lot. you can find it here: https://gist.github.com/9viz/123f5eac16dd35efe542b6c84a2d759f

2025-10-02 14:48:38 GMT

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i am ricer 😎
https://s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/mastinsaan/media_attachments/files/115/305/119/917/787/836/original/02c45a7a04f52aa5.png

2025-10-01 03:50:14 GMT

gtk themes peaked at bluecurve strawberry

2025-09-30 15:45:15 GMT

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ahh okay, the reply to the tweet in ur boost threw me off cuz it read like it supported the author's view when clearly the intent was to oppose it.
woe is me is becoming popular eh

2025-09-30 08:16:39 GMT

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wth is tender queer? Y'all came up w a new sexuality again?

2025-09-29 15:43:51 GMT

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I was wondering if you were in kol a while back👀

2025-09-28 08:07:22 GMT

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its like the annoying indian relative: you're trying to avoid precisely because it makes you go insane but its mere existence has a ripple effect that fucks u over. ah i love my life

2025-09-28 07:37:53 GMT

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video conference is completely broken on firefox AND chromium for me. I cannot figure out for the life of me why my mic is not picked up when in google meet. This is not even my fucking around the settings: it happens in a fresh profile. what even ?? :D ??
the worst part is i dont even where to start for troubleshooting this. ive given up and debating going for opensuse stable, and using spack for software i need.

2025-09-27 08:46:35 GMT

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holy shit you just unlocked a whole bunch of memories... Those racing game ones were always the bomb

2025-09-25 17:23:12 GMT

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might as well upload mine too
https://s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/mastinsaan/media_attachments/files/115/266/092/286/540/126/original/6359c20861bf7919.jpg

2025-09-19 05:11:35 GMT

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i think parents are also realising how annoying windows and other OSes are becoming lol.
i was constantly complaining about windows being a spyware and hinders user freedom and whatnot when setting up a laptop he brought over from da office, and he straight up asked me "why dont u just install linux then?"
he seems to be as annoyed at android as i am lmfao
for context: i've bugged him about installing linux wayyyy back in the past because it doesn't have viruses, but he refused. i guess he has an idea that im a permanent passenger of the linux bandwagon now :ms_upside_down_smile:

2025-09-19 05:08:01 GMT

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i was in the bathroom when i realised this... it doesn't help that periyar's bday falls on the same date as this mofo

2025-09-13 18:11:34 GMT

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tfw swiss bank

2025-09-11 03:50:30 GMT

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okay boss thank you for da tipzs. i will see if i can find a tea snob place somewhere in mumbai (this is a plead for help).

2025-09-08 07:22:30 GMT

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pro gamer luv. time to update ur LinkedIn profile

2025-09-06 07:59:49 GMT

I know there are a lot of coffee people in my mutuals but where do you all get your tea leaves from?
A friend of mine brewed me a cup he got from SL (?) and ir was the bomb, I've been searching for loose tea leaves ever since whenever I hit the grocery store to no avail

2025-09-04 07:54:44 GMT

they got me good guyzzzz.... the 5g waves from the gnu+emacs virus chip has made me a lips kisser
(me as i enjoy julia-snail)

2025-09-01 06:51:25 GMT

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ah yes, the unwelcomed relatives are finally here. The server getting the Indian experience

2025-08-29 18:50:02 GMT

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why the fuck would you need to show your adhaar to get a flat?

2025-08-24 06:38:25 GMT

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where is the my little pony Linux? We've had Hannah Montana and beibian

2025-08-23 18:55:18 GMT

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what if you get her locked in on ricing 💀

2025-08-22 15:53:40 GMT

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speaking to my PI and having used it, Julia would have been famous with lips kissers

2025-08-20 04:54:45 GMT

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sounds like a W to me lulz

2025-08-19 04:53:30 GMT

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I'd take that as a W (given you're not swamped with work)

2025-08-10 10:23:36 GMT

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~congrats on your new personal best~ jeez, take care dada!

2025-08-01 10:35:54 GMT

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shit is crazy asf.
https://redlib.catsarch.com/r/Grapplerbaki/comments/1itc4kp/i_love_this_manga_so_fucking_much/

2025-08-01 10:20:29 GMT

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have you seen the baki panels?

2025-07-30 09:44:36 GMT

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I have no idea, I was just writing whatever. Whenever I catch a glimpse of the sub, I want to bash my head and kms

2025-07-30 09:23:48 GMT

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r/antiwork material

2025-07-30 07:29:43 GMT

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I mean, any popular name brand has their cheap knock off. Why would the knock offs be made if the original product has no value in the first place?

2025-07-30 06:13:05 GMT

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ahhh okay, that makes sense

2025-07-30 05:45:15 GMT

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hmm, is it more comfortable than the slippers with no stem between the thumb toe and the pointer toe (I have no idea what the correct words are but you get my point)? I ask because I cannot stand that stem for more than ten minutes.

2025-07-30 04:32:26 GMT

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are crocs even comfortable? In my eyes, they are a halfway breed between a proper shoe and a slipper. I wear the latter because I can't stand the Chennai heat in a shoe, so with crocs being so closed off, they're objectively worse yet people still buy them.
I guess it is all just fetish for brand names.

2025-07-26 07:04:57 GMT

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congrats! Party when

2025-07-14 12:24:04 GMT

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huh j never thought about it like this. Guess that shows I'm a true younger child to the bottom