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Shriram Ravindranathan

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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.. https://s20n.dev Find me on github https://github.com/shriramters/

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

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

yo this file is licensed asf

07.03.2026 16:05 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
the wikipedia logo with the omega circled in green

the wikipedia logo with the omega circled in green

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

24.02.2026 03:40 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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

12.01.2026 15:11 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It's funny this keeps hitting #1 on Christmas. Isn't the song about how much she does NOT care for Christmas and all its pageantry?

25.11.2025 00:33 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

By that logic, it’s a waste to own any material goods as they’ll all β€œend up in landfills”

22.11.2025 08:45 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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My dog. Pup-Aya.
Here's her Goodmorning face.

#dog
#morningcuddles
#somekindofmixedbreed

18.11.2025 17:00 πŸ‘ 4499 πŸ” 180 πŸ’¬ 114 πŸ“Œ 11

It's been like a decade since I've played a Bethesda game. I'm glad to hear this has not changed at all lol.

19.11.2025 12:54 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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

17.11.2025 12:34 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Linux is a community-driven project dedicated to protecting user freedom and privacy. Vague criticisms like this without articulating pain points are really shortsighted and unfair.

12.11.2025 08:33 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Screenshot of Hannah Montana Linux

Screenshot of Hannah Montana Linux

Why would I use anything other than Hannah Montana Linux?

07.11.2025 04:40 πŸ‘ 25 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It’s not about singular or plural, it’s about countable and uncountable nouns.

β€œData” is an uncountable noun in English and therefore you should use β€œhas” with it.

And just having a singular form β€œdatum”, doesn’t suddenly make it countable.

en.wiktionary.org/wiki/data

31.10.2025 16:07 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Bunnywise

31.10.2025 09:45 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

hunter2

31.10.2025 09:44 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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a cartoon of peter griffin is dancing with the word roadhouse above him Alt: peter griffin performing a kick with the word roadhouse above him
31.10.2025 09:42 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Amazing work as always!

31.10.2025 08:32 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Exploits of a Mom

Little bobby tables is now making music?

xkcd.com/327/

31.10.2025 02:18 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

If you have Full Disk Encryption, I really don’t see the issue with using Biometrics for logging in.

If you don’t encrypt your disk, anyone can simply remove your hard drive and access all your files anyway, whether or not you use a password

28.10.2025 16:12 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It’s not about the money, it’s about sending a message

- Postman Pat

28.10.2025 15:46 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
We oppose DRM. | Defective by Design

DRM dabei

Obligatory www.defectivebydesign.org

28.10.2025 14:39 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

There’s a huge epidemic of doctors refusing to diagnose cases of long COVID and disbelieving patients. It’s incredibly hard to get diagnosed with it let alone get treatment for it.

It’s sad that even in 2025 there’s very little awareness in the medical community about this.

28.10.2025 07:16 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
CNN intl SDTV broadcast with stretched image and black bars

CNN intl SDTV broadcast with stretched image and black bars

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

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

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.

28.10.2025 03:49 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Categorical proposition - Wikipedia

These are ambiguous and need to be translated into the standard form to disambiguate

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categor...

For example:
"Everyone in the room is not wearing a hat" could be used informally to indicate either (1) "At least some do not have hats" or (2) "No one has hats".

26.10.2025 09:39 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Ok you gotta admit β€œHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stoneβ€œ sounds way cooler than the original name

β€œSorcerer’s Stone” evokes a picture of a mysterious wizard with an enchanted gemstone

β€œPhilosopher’s Stone” on the other hand makes you think of Socrates trying to pass a kidney stone

#HarryPotter

25.10.2025 16:01 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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

Right?

RIGHT?

25.10.2025 15:36 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Dire Straits album cover with the name stylised as dIRE sTRAITS

Dire Straits album cover with the name stylised as dIRE sTRAITS

dIRE sTRAITS

25.10.2025 07:08 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Civil Disobedience of Copyright Keeps Science Going Creating and sharing knowledge are defining traits of humankind, yet copyright law has grown so restrictive that it can require acts of civil disobedience to ensure that students and scholars have

Researchers won’t stand by as their work is cordoned off by inequitable publishing. Gatekeepers need to get on board or be left behind. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

23.10.2025 20:03 πŸ‘ 58 πŸ” 19 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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03.29.2024 Vladimir Kramnik suspended for three months, Denis Khismatullin banned indefinitely Both Former World Champion GM Vladimir Kramnik and GM Denis Khismatullin have been banned from Chess.com. Kramnik is suspended for 3 months and Khismatullin is banned indefinitely. Kramnik is prohibit...

Kramnik is a sanctimonious and dishonest man. He himself was caught cheating and impersonating another player on chess.com

www.chess.com/blog/Tournam...

24.10.2025 00:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Veg McMuffin patty has suspect looking green texture

Veg McMuffin patty has suspect looking green texture

Bro that does NOT look edible

23.10.2025 04:48 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Google’s info panel for the stanford dish cites β€œHas public restroom” under β€œHighlights”

Google’s info panel for the stanford dish cites β€œHas public restroom” under β€œHighlights”

Ah yes, the grand highlight of The Stanford Dish, β€œHas public restroom”

22.10.2025 08:35 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The difference is if someone pulls a β€œlet’s ask Wikipedia” then YOU lose by default

22.10.2025 08:16 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0