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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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lauren, to Youtube
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I now have over 10,000 videos on my primary Favorites playlists on #YouTube. When you exceed 5000 videos on a playlist, YouTube unhelpfully just says "Something went wrong." At which point a few minutes ago I created 0-Favorites 3 (many of you will already know why I have the "0-" on there). If you think 10,000 videos is a lot, keep in mind those are just my main Favorites. My YouTube History of all videos watched is, uh, somewhat longer. Yeah.

harshad,
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@lauren similarly I have "watch later 2" because I have exceeded the limits on default list ๐Ÿ˜‚

And it's some work to remove each video that I've watched from those lists, so there will be a third soon.

harshad,
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@lauren nods I love the infinite scroll feature where once an action is taken on a video, you get to scroll down all the way from top of the list and find the spot to continue pruning /s

harshad,
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@lauren sigh, billions of dollars with the company, PhDs on payroll and this is what we get ๐Ÿ˜†

(I'm guessing we're the edge case by using the app to curate videos instead of just consuming what the algorithm suggests immediately, not worthy of effort to fix)

harshad, to random
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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, to random
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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, to Cats
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Sunny morning after many days!

#pets #cats

harshad,
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Now it's noon, cloudy and likely going to rain. And I am headed to town for a grocery run.

harshad,
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Those clouds weren't playing. It's pouring at the moment. I'll wait until it clears up a bit, which seems likely in next half an hour looking at the clouds.

I'm ready, the motorcycle is ready, just waiting out the rain. It'll probably catch me on the way, but that's alright.

harshad,
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The rain did pause after half an hour, rode out in full rain gear to discover the next hill was sunny and dry, no rain at all!

Sweltered in the multiple layers until halfway to town (~30 minutes) and then it got overcast and started drizzling again.

On the way back i enjoyed a beautiful misty evening. Bummer that I thought it's going to be raining throughout and didn't carry my action camera ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™‚๏ธ

POV shot from motorcycle saddle, headlights are diffusing in the mist. An old dead tree stands alone in fields a little ahead.

harshad,
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There's a whole village under that cloud

harshad, to random
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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, to random
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When you're not sure what you're experiencing is mid life crisis or midwife crisis ๐Ÿ˜ฌ 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.

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

harshad,
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One of these is a trap

#pets #cats

An orange cat sleeping on my chest/neck.

harshad,
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It's cute to have a few hours old calf following you around the house, until you realise your several cats have the disadvantage of mass when knocking things over.

Fed the hungry baby again at 2:30 am, guess I can sleep for a while.

harshad,
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Lap cows are real (it's a limited time offer!)

#pets #cows

A small calf sitting on my lap, drinking milk from bottle in my hand and wagging her tail.

harshad, to FreeBSD
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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.

harshad,
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@vermaden aye! I'll try that, thank you!

harshad,
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@vermaden removed laptop battery, waited 10 minutes, put it back. wlan0 is back! Thank you :D

(Follow up edit: suspended again, resumed okay, but the wifi device keeps disconnecting and reconnecting, a reboot later it has again vanished. I'm suspecting this is hardware failure)

harshad, to random
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done, need to charge up my catteries!

harshad, to random
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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, to random
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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 ๐Ÿ‘€

harshad, to Cats
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Guess I'm sleeping somewhere elseโ€ฆ

harshad,
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@purplepadma on an average, there's 3-4 cats who choose to sleep on me, above the blanket - that's somewhere between 12 to 18kg ๐Ÿ˜†

My anxiety is getting crushed under that weight!

harshad,
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@purplepadma the universe has made a note ๐Ÿ˜ฌ

harshad,
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@purplepadma well if that's how Cinnamon rollsโ€ฆ

harshad,
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@Deus hehe, I'm learning, grew up with cats so have basic training, but with so many, there's always rough edges. There are days when I'm too overwhelmed by the responsibilities, but that's I suppose the real learning: to take care of them regardless.

And cuteness has nothing to do with it, as I've come to understand, spend the effort to earn their trust - that's where the magic happens. With half/feral cats it's more work because they don't depend on you.

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