Shibaprasad Bhattacharya @shibaprasad@social.cleverlibre.org

Gonna give some people the benefit of the doubt so a quick post - every piece of software can have vulnerabilities, new vulnerabilities can pop up all the time, it's good that Mastodon had penetration testing carried out to test its security. No need to treat it as a "gotcha".

Every single time Windows has forced an update on you was to fix extremely unsafe security vulnerabilities too, for example.

the difference between twitter and mastodon is that on twitter people are engaging with idiots who think the Civil War was about "states' rights", whereas on mastodon we have a sophisticated debate over whether the loch ness monster has a high enough sperm count to impregnate me

@lupyuen

@divya A 100 years ago, an Indian came to US to study, joined the US Army, was honourably discharged as a Sergeant, proceeded to apply for citizenship, was granted and then denaturalized by the then SCOTUS.

This Indian, Bhagat Singh Thind, tried to argue that he was Caucasian by dint of being a high-caste. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Bhagat_Singh_Thind

So yeah. Casteism has existed in US for at least 100 years.

Also, Racism in US is a form of casteism, as argued recently: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caste:_The_Origins_of_Our_Discontents

Joke’s on you, I’m on #rebased

Happy boii!

My new social media app is called Grouse. You can only post criticism of the 3,000 other new social media apps.

Posts are called “Gripes.” No likes or reposts—just one button to “Commiserate.” If a Gripe receives enough Commiseration it’s elevated by the algorithm into a “Complaint.”

Also there’s an academic version called “Faculty Meeting.”

Isn’t it covered by the MSM? Of course, with each taking sides. First it was the finger pointing between Mamata’s camp v/s the CPI. And now it’s Mamata’s camp and the BJP lashing out at each other.

A state and people with such potential. Unfortunate that the brilliant ones have to move to better pastures (other states in India or abroad).

/Coming from someone who has worked in Kol for close to 5 years and has had friends from W. Bengal for the last 20 years or so - though we hardly talk politics.

his brain is melting right before our eyes

From the Onion... Of course.