A pelican flew right over me in Marina del Rey. When I looked up to say “wow!” he shit in my mouth. I can still remember that taste of digested shellfish. I had to laugh at the novelty of it.


- Relax for the same result

TIL my college website does not validate a pdf, that is it takes any file with .pdf extension on the assignment upload page.

Nice way to smuggle in dotfiles and editor binary to lab's computers since they have very strict firewalls and only allow access to college portal

First time I am seriously trying KDE Plasma, I don't think I can ever go back, it's really good


(My file system got corrupted and after trying a few things using live usb, in haste I forgot that I had btrfs snapshots which I could rollback to, I wiped my entire drive. Lost all journals, uncommitted work, etc. I have a backup of journal but those are encrypted and dumb me forgot to backup the decryption key 😭)

If I have to credit modi for doing anything good then it would be making prisons a great place to stay. In today's India, prisons are perhaps a better option for your kids than school. You will get to meet many highly educated people there, from academics, journalists, engineers, lawyers, etc. All bad ones (rapists, murderers, thieves, etc are out most of the times on bail/parrole)

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/gurmeet-ram-rahim-40-day-parole-bail-petition-rohtak-jail-dera-ashram/article70473454.ece

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/non-application-of-mind-copy-paste-order-led-to-detention-under-nsa-wangchuk-in-sc/article70502479.ece

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/why-was-bail-denied-to-umar-and-sharjeel-explained/article70495546.ece

https://musopen.org/music/composer/johann-sebastian-bach/ (login needed)
https://www.gardnermuseum.org/experience/music?t=2404&h=all (best)
https://music.youtube.com/channel/UCFtSXTlIMFFkyJbHO3V5b7A (adware/use ublock)

TIL Hungry Judge Effect
You are more likely to get a lenient verdict if your court hearing is after lunch break
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungry_judge_effect

this is what they teaching in my college infosec class 😭 and what I am reading for tomorrow's exam. (and yes all my passwords are now UcnB2s as the slide recommend, and I hope all my classmates also keep same password)

was reading about trusted computing base and it reminded me of this

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/01/12/1130697/10-breakthrough-technologies-2026/
mechanistic interpretability one is interesting

https://youtu.be/NRrLJhQFmNg
this gov won't let opposition even cite few lines