Shibaprasad Bhattacharya @shibaprasad@social.cleverlibre.org

In what is being called the biggest transaction in the history of India Inc, HDFC Bank will take over its parent, housing finance major HDFC, on Saturday. Following the reverse merger, the country's first home finance company, would cease to exist.
#HDFCLeaps #World #ValuableBanksList #MegaMerger #MastIndia #MastodonIndians #India @mastodonindians
https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/hdfc-bank-merger-live-hdfc-to-be-among-worlds-most-valuable-banks-after-todays-merger-10-points-4168174

Wisdom from 17 yo Benzie

Firefox's new official home is in the Fedi!

From /r/Firefox:

All legacy technical posts will remain available so that searching for help related to the browser is still available, but henceforth and until the reddit admins appropriately reply to our concerns, the only new submissions allowed will be ones that contain the cuddly fuzzy little animals from which the subreddit indirectly received its name:‌

The red panda! Also known as fire foxes. ‌

If you are looking for technical posts, we now have an official community on Kbin. Keep in mind that Lemmy also federates with Kbin. We continue to be around on Matrix as well.

Do give them a follow on https://fedia.io/m/firefox - you should be able to follow that from most of the Fediverse i.e. Mastodon, Calckey, etc etc etc

#Firefox #Mozilla #Reddit #RedditMigration @fediversenews

@shibaprasad @mastodonindians My dream moment in LinkedIn: Get a nice job, take a chart paper and write - "LinkedIn Sucks! ❤️ if you agree!" and then post it as my first and last post on LinkedIn. (Yes will delete my account after it)

God, the amount of cat fishing + cringe + outdated memes + WhatsApp level content spins my head...

As of date, I have had a LinkedIn account after being forced (it helps you get a job yada yada) and I open it only to accept Connect requests

WTF is wrong with the Apple ecosystem? I've tried 3 different podcast apps now (Podcasts, @overcastfm and PocketCasts) and it seems like none of them are capable of easily like... opening a link to an RSS feed and turning that into a podcast if the feed is only available on the LAN. It's infuriating that every time I deal with some Apple thing it's something like this.

#apple

Apollo has an opt-out sub refund screen out. Since I unfortunately know, first hand, all about this process I'll say this is all incredibly stressful. If you ever had a sub for Apollo, even if you uninstalled it and deleted Reddit, go check it out and at least consider it.

It's probably only a few $s for you but those $s get multiplied by 10s of thousands of subs and end up being real money straight out of Christian's pockets.

Starting a new newsletter for Data enthusiasts: The Data Voyage.

In this newsletter, I will share with you my insights and experiences on topics such as statistics, operations research, data analysis, and more. I will also showcase some of the cool projects that I am working on or learning from.

I hope you will join me on this journey of discovering the power and beauty of data.

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#data #analytics #operationsresearch #orms #rstats #python #datascience #newsletter #substack

https://thedatavoyage.substack.com/p/join-me-on-the-data-voyage?sd=pf

IEEE, the largest professional org for electrical engineers, makes the case that power systems modeling should be #OpenSource and calls out the US for relying on proprietary codes for decision making.

Otherwise we will miss opportunities to integrate #renewables and prepare our grid for a changing #climate

The “traditionally closed and proprietary nature of energy system planning … is no longer fit for purpose.”
– European Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change

https://spectrum.ieee.org/power-grid-transparency-eu-us

ye daulat bhi le lo ye shohrat bhi le lo
bhale chhin lo mujh se meri jawani

magar mujh ko lauta do bachpan ka sawan
wo kaghaz ki kashti wo barish ka pani

I love some #Hindi and #Urdu #Shayari on Friday evenings.

#TuneTuesday #MusicStreets From the Album #BackOnTheStreets a #Song by #GaryMoore and #PhilLynott

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkUpfw4Hf3w

Mozilla: "In a well-intentioned yet dangerous move to fight online fraud, France is on the verge of forcing browsers to create a dystopian technical capability. It would force browser providers to create the means to mandatorily block websites present on a government provided list. Such a move will overturn decades of established content moderation norms and provide a playbook for authoritarian governments"

https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2023/06/26/france-browser-website-blocking/
#france #browser #cybersecurity #mozilla #security #surveillance

Meet 10 Women in Science Who Changed the World
#WomenInSTEM #womeninmedicine
#medicalwriters #sciencejournalists #medicaljournalists

Great article in the March Discover magazine. The 10 women mentioned in the article are:
1. Ada Lovelace, Mathematician
2. Marie Curie, Physicist and Chemist
3. Janaki Ammal, Botanist
4. Chien-Shiung Wu, Physicist
5. Katherine Johnson, Mathematician
6. Rosalind Franklin, Chemist
7. Vera Rubin, Astronomer
8. Gladys West, Mathematician
9. Flossie Wong-Staal, Virologist and Molecular Biologist
10. Jennifer Doudna, Biochemist

Changed my stance on AI art, post as much of it as you can in the places they train the AIs

Feel a need for a brief rant about #gunculture.

I am so glad I had a traditional introduction to #firearms. Anyone who wields a #firearm should definitely know the basic safety rules, but there are other rules of decorum that some folks (especially elected Republicans and the NRA) just don't adhere to. Since these are largely unwritten rules for a culture of responsibility, I figured it might be worth taking the time to put some of them to paper, as it were. So, here goes:

1) Guns are not toys. While obvious on the surface, there are ancillaries to this rule that many #gun owners don't seem to understand. I.e. we don't buy guns for "how cool they look" and we don't post pictures of us posing with our guns on social media (you may notice that when I post about guns, it's pretty much only about discussing safety / reliability). They're deadly tools, not toys.

2) Guns should be treated as objects of respect. An operator should have a degree of familiarity with a weapon before ever considering using it in a combat situation, but that familiarity should never override the basic respect for a deadly weapon. That respect leads you to follow the safety rules more strictly and with greater attention, to keep your deadly weapons under lock and key, to keep them clean and well-maintained to avoid accidents, and to think twice before brandishing one.

3) Guns are not macho. If you're carrying a gun, it's because you don't trust your skills at unarmed combat to defend yourself. There can be many good reasons for this (medical issues, deadly threats, etc.), but nonetheless, guns are the opposite of tough, and should not be handled nor brandished like a replacement penis. Bragging about guns is, and should be seen as, deeply shameful. Which leads me into...

4) Only tremendous assholes use guns for anything other than defense. When you see someone open-carrying or brandishing a weapon, they're not thinking about defense; They're trying to intimidate you with it to impose their will on the world around them. Open-carrying a gun is like strapping truck balls to your waist. Even responsible gun owners get nervous around these people.

(Note: some of the above does not apply to those who must carry a firearm for their work, but I think most of them would agree with the vast majority of this post wholeheartedly anyway)

TLDR: Humility, discretion, and thoughtfulness are the gentleman's way. If you must handle a gun, do it like a gentleman.