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harshad

@harshad@sharma.io

Tends to soil, plants and various animals on a small farm somewhere in the hills of Kodaikanal, India. Rides a 2008 Royal Enfield Thunderbird everywhere.

No ideologies, handful labels. Friend to life in all shapes and forms.

Expect photos, anecdotes and rants about living off-grid in middle of nowhere with occasional motorcycle rides.

He/him.

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skye, to random German

my firefox addon that displays alt text on mastodon has been broken for like a week and i am very much suffering 😩​

harshad,
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@skye +1 and would like the option to copy alt-text. Sometimes I want to copy over alt-text to my journal and it's a long process of looking at the image and typing out the whole thing.

dgar, to random
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Follow me for more recipes.

harshad,
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@dgar "It's not called a kernel, it's GMO/Kernel" 😆

harshad, to random
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Passed through Poombarai at 6:40 am, the loudspeakers from the town can be heard 2 kilometres away at the chai stop, still loud enough to have to pause the podcast I was listening 😆

Good morning hills!

harshad,
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harshad,
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@Deus that's how you know they're serious about their faith, you can't even think your own thoughts first thing in the morning if you live in the village 🙃 there were multiple loudspeakers throughout the village playing the same thing. There's nowhere to be quiet within kilometres of the place.

harshad, to random
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Browser sidebar plugin idea: word-clouds for daily bookmarks.

When a page is bookmarked, plugin extracts keywords and/or assigns topics to the link. Plugin then uses the keywords/topics to build the word-cloud for each day, displayed as a list/grid/calendar (w/ week/month as subviews).

Clicking on a word brings up all links from that day related to it. Another button to include more days around the selected day in filter.

Why? Curious: visual recall instead of search.

Judeet98, to random

I'm still getting used to my new name on here "Andrasta"...goddess worshipped by Boudicca and the Iceni. I keep thinking "who's that boosting again? She thinks like me..."

harshad,
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@nattiegoogie @Judeet98 Yup, confused myself often with my habit of new photos way back on birdsite, have been :harshad: for a few years now.

harshad, to random
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Witnessed waves of butterflies flitting through the farm yesterday, ~50 over 2 acres at any given moment.

Tried to capture on camera but they were riding the winds downhill and my skills were no match to their ungraceful (but safe from predators) flight.

They were light yellow/white. I've seen them before in much greater numbers and managed to photograph then. community says it's the Common Albatross.

Previous observation: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/39316633

Butterfly resting on carrot leaves photographed from the side, the top of the wings is whitish, underside is yellow.
Butterfly photographed from side, wings closed. Underside (showing when wings closed) is lemon yellow in color.

harshad, to random
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Saw a new (to me) flower. iNaturalist's automatic detection wasn't able to help either.

brunoph, to random
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Seeing the "no card" warning on the camera's HUD is the photographer's equivalent of seeing the "check engine" light in the car's dashboard.

harshad,
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@brunoph 💯

// At least i can reach into my pocket and take the spare card from my wallet. A spare engine seems much harder to carry around 😅

harshad, to random
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Driving through rains and clouds today.

harshad, to photography
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Woken up at 04:00 by my dogs barking at something… likely a deer on the hill.

Noticed the night is clear, so set up the camera to shoot a timelapse of the home galaxy, as one normally does 😅

Now we wait.

harshad,
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The Milky Way, as seen from on 25 May 2023, 4:39 AM.

harshad,
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Got ~4 seconds of time-lapse.

10 second exposures + 3 second delayed shutter to avoid mirror-slap.

Time-lapse of the Milky Way Galaxy moving across the frame and daylight fading everything to white towards the end.

harshad,
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@tecoholic Not entirely sure what those are.

harshad,
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@tecoholic I'm doing the same :-P someone more experienced might have a clue.

harshad,
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@tecoholic https://mastodon.social/@sundogplanets/110426833092161723

harshad, to photography
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From the perspective of "You are the Universe, awake and conscious"… every photo you take is a selfie 🤷🏽‍♂️

harshad,
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harshad, to animals
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Afternoon nap.

harshad, to random
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Cool breeze makes me forget the scorching hot sun is out as well. Must drink more water!

Have a slight headache hinting at impending dehydration X-)

harshad,
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I'll have to set up and keep my audio recorder on for some time to capture this, but after a loud crack of thunder the peafowl perched in trees around the valley start cawing as well.

And as expected, the weather turned overcast an hour ago and it has already rained heavily once for 20 minutes. Round two incoming!

harshad,
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50+ shades of green!

Br3nda, to random

A week ago, someone posted a photo claiming to be a baby peafowl (also known as a peacock).

Having grown up with peacocks and peahens on the farm, I knew it wasn't anything like what I remembered. -- so I quickly opened a tab to find an actual photo to reply with.

AAAAAND... the google image results were full of similar AI generated not-actually-a-baby-peafowl photos.

the fantastical imaginary version of a baby peacock has pushed out the real photos.

spot the real thing among the results

harshad,
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@Br3nda though it appeared rather cute, I too have seen young peafowl and knew it was a fake, but the number of times it got boosted has me worried.

masukomi, to random
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Geeks: coworker was arguing against putting some configuration stuff in environment variables. Their primary argument was that they didn't want it to "become a kitchen-sink"

I honestly can't think of a reason why that matters? who cares if you have 50 additional environment variables configuring various portions of your app?

Do you know why? Because I'm stumped.

side note: yes, there are good arguments for not putting specific types of things in there. That's not what I'm discussing.

harshad,
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@masukomi yes, the only argument against env-vars for configuring everything would be that env-vars can be supplied via various methods - especially in SaaS; all of which may not be obvious when debugging.

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