Aaruni Kaushik @double_a_runi@mastodon.edufor.me

i read a thing recently that blew my mind a little.
went something like:

people can imagine time travel to the past and one little act making massive differences in the timeline

but in their present they think even the greatest effort they can put in will not make any difference to the future

🤔

Oh Hai Ubuntu on the BBCNews this evening. In the segment about the picture of the black hole in our galaxy. 🤓

PSA: @Tusky dark mode is fantastic. That is all

Wir haben das Fediverse-Schaubild nach dem Feedback nochmal ein wenig überarbeitet. 👇

#Fediverse

@imke

From the makers of FOMO comes JOMO: The Joy of having missed out. No guilt in this schadenfreude. I hope the cryptobros lose everything

My friend Dhivya has started a new podcast about solo women travelers. In the first episode, she talks to her friend Vino about her solo trip to Rio de Janeiro.

Check it out if you’re interested.

https://thegnd.podbean.com/e/s1e1/

Today in /duh/ news: "Remote work doesn’t negatively affect productivity, study suggests".
As someone who has worked from home for over a decade, good to see everyone else catching up. 🎉
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/951980

Would someone be prepared to donate me $2,000 to buy the domain twitter.sucks? Would make the greatest mastodon server ever.

the duolingo owl seems to be of the impression that I have 3 spare minutes for a lesson today when in fact i am very busy with activities such as scrolling toots

#Mastodon makes 100000 times more sense than Twitter ever did once you start using it properly

If you hate Windows, simply switch to Linux so you can hate Linux instead

One other interesting thing to note is that, even though we've increased the Sidekiq throughput, we've actually *decreased* the total number of connections open to Postgres (~300 before and 160 now). I think this is due to Sidekiq connection pooling.

This goes to show that making better use of existing resources is often better than simply throwing more resources at a problem.

well i for one am glad we finally own the means of shitpost production