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harshad, 1 day ago to random

Since last update of @tailscale on Android (11), it shows as connected with exit node enabled and yet the VPN is not actually working. Cannot reach any other nodes and all traffic is going through ISPs IPs, not the exit node as the app says.

Joined beta program, the app kept crashing. Uninstalled and reinstalled the beta version, same issue as before: claims to be enabled, does nothing.

Sigh.

Screenshot of Tailscale app stuck at "Starting" with Android 's pop-up saying Tailscale isn't responding.

harshad, 1 day ago to random

Faxing a program to C compiler

https://youtu.be/pJ-25-pRhpY

(Many moons ago, I had a python interpreter hooked into my mailbox on a *nix server - was fun to send an SMS from a dumb phone, which would be forwarded via an email gateway and receive the output back as SMS in seconds)

harshad, 2 days ago to Cats

Sunny morning after many days!

#pets #cats

harshad, 3 days ago to random

The benefit of live A/B testing and continuous integration and deployment seeping into every team is that on any given day you as the user will encounter software that's broken in novel ways, and you'll never get good at any user interface. Tools that you depend on to get shit done keep shapeshifting? Praise the A/B CI/CD baby!

harshad, 4 days ago to random

When you're not sure what you're experiencing is mid life crisis or midwife crisis 😬 New baby cow didn't have milk for several hours, finally fed her mum's milk with a bottle.

She loves to cuddle already, and dozed off on my lap. Now indoors because it's getting cold with the evening.

#pets #cows

A small calf sitting wrapped up in a blanket on my lap.

harshad, 11 days ago to random

#Caturday done, need to charge up my catteries!

harshad, 11 days ago to FreeBSD

Strange.

My laptop running FreeBSD 14.0-R-p6 locked up during resume - it's been years since I had this issue. Power cycled it, and now my wireless device won't show up. I think I'm too tired to debug now, will look at it in the morning. Bummer though, hope it's not a hardware failure due to resetting the laptop while the wireless device was being initialised.

#FreeBSD

harshad, 11 days ago to random

I use a fork of Mastodon client in Android and it seems upstream has brought in contemporary UI expertise from the industry to make things harder. (Haven't verified, so keep that bowl of salt handy)

Saving an image/video was one tap when media was open, now it's a click, a swipe and another click away.

Progress!

harshad, 12 days ago to Cats

Guess I'm sleeping somewhere else…

#pets #cats #caturday

harshad, 11 days ago to random

Ha! When you pause a conference talk you were listening to, come back a while later, hit play and the speaker goes "Got interrupted there, back now" and continues speaking 👀

harshad, 12 days ago to motorcycles

Uh, YouTube Android app froze when editing and simply ignored all the captions I had added 😔

Well, tell me if you caught that sliver of an oncoming bus in time 😬

https://youtube.com/shorts/n-I6pv4glTA

#motorcycles #Kodaikanal

harshad, 12 days ago to random

Too close to equator, at least I got to see some lightning and stuff 😆

Dark sky with a lightning bolt above silhouettes of a hill and tree.

harshad, 16 days ago to random

Hydroponics is the bitcoin of agriculture.

It's a science experiment to grow plants on life support, everyone interested should try it, but it's not how we'll feed the world. The energy, maintenance and expertise costs will remain not worth it until life support is the only way left to grow plants.

We're still far from that, and, growing plants and trees in the ground will nudge the chance of worsening climate further away.

harshad, 21 days ago to Cats

Tinkoo and Momo

#pets #cats

harshad, 22 days ago to random

A fiery March morning, 2021.

#Kodaikanal

harshad, 23 days ago to Cats

Ranger and Benji

#pets #cats

harshad, 24 days ago to random

Riding towards Kodaikanal town and I'm shook. Much of the forest is now ashes. Forest guards are finally here with fire management teams, only took two weeks of raging fires to get their attention?

Sigh.

What's remaining is very much at risk until monsoons put an end to this rampage.

#Kodaikanal

Smoke rising from green cover on hill side.

harshad, 25 days ago to random

As the wind dies down, the smoke from smoldering logs around the hill settles into the valley, forming a thick cloud. This is the 4th day we'll be breathing smoke all night. It clears up when wind picks up again in the day.

All because slash and burn agriculture is still a thing and humans are #&%§∆.

😂😭

harshad, 25 days ago to motorcycles

The colorful Poombarai village

#motorcycle #motorcycles #Kodaikanal

harshad, 26 days ago to Weather

Temperature is 30°C indoors in an airy room today. All animals (including me) are feeling sluggish and just want to lie down. I'm ensuring everyone has cool water to drink nearby.

This is not normal in the hills, 26°C is about as hot as it used to get only a few years ago.

I shudder when I recall being passed out in a pool of sweat whole day when temps in plains rose to 45+°C in summer. It is getting worse there.

#Kodaikanal #Weather

harshad, 26 days ago to random

Chimkin's first egg 🥺

Others started laying as days got longer, this one is still getting a hang of things.

harshad, 27 days ago to random

When a site takes a whole minute to load their javashit and presents you with a "Can't show you text because of GDPR" you can be sure they're a very slimy business.

harshad, 27 days ago to Cats

My purrbaby Kelly has decided to sleep on my tummy today. This is after two months of being aloof, only visiting to eat a little and then running out for another day or two.

She has no idea how much I've searched for her, even cried wondering where I fell short in convincing her that this is home.

Rest of the cats don't go too far and are back by evening, usually making me negotiate for space on my bed at night.

#pets #cats

harshad, 27 days ago to random

Is it firefly season already? One just flew into my room! (Now to get it back outdoors safely before my army of cats goes bonkers)

harshad, 27 days ago to random

Heh. Sigh.

"In order to try to resolve this the workgroup seems to be doubling down on more complex JS apis to try to patch over the issues that they created in the first place."

"That's right. I'm here saying passwords are a better experience than passkeys. Do you know how much it pains me to write this sentence?"

https://fy.blackhats.net.au/blog/2024-04-26-passkeys-a-shattered-dream/

I never touched passkeys because the hype smelled wrong, been around long enough to sharpen this gut feeling. Phew, dodged this one too!