Luv Mehta

cat dad, occasionally political, occasional shitposter. indian from india (wow!)

I'll accept most followers as long as y'all have an active profile. Will generally follow Indians back by default.

Website: https://www.theamateurmediablog.com
Location: Pune
Interests: [#TTRPGs](https://mastinsaan.in/tags/TTRPGs ), [#VideoGames](https://mastinsaan.in/tags/VideoGames ), [#Movies](https://mastinsaan.in/tags/Movies ), [#Books](https://mastinsaan.in/tags/Books ), [#Coffee](https://mastinsaan.in/tags/Coffee )
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2026-03-25 13:43:42 UTC

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just checked on airtel mobile data with and without vpn, mastinsaan.in's working fine for me

2026-03-15 05:52:38 UTC

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usagi drop? lmao i'm so happy people are still salty, one of the worst endings ever made

2025-11-27 08:59:39 UTC

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yeah we had a gora come over last week, when our architect told him what all it isn't great for (with a lot of sugar pre-poured) the gora's face turned red and he told him we aren't "prompting properly"
they're also responding to AI generated code not suiting the codebase with "Maybe we should replace the whole codebase with AI".

2025-11-23 06:31:06 UTC

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counting both LLMs and diffusion models. I'm defining GenAI as having been trained to generate output from a massive corpus, with no inbuilt reasoning or world model.

2025-10-27 12:21:44 UTC

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Phanpy's catch-up is the main reason I keep it as my main driver! If you don't already use it you should check it out

2025-10-12 14:08:31 UTC

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this is cool! i just ran it on my wife's laptop, i don't see copilot in paint or notepad or the taskbar search menu anymore!

2025-09-28 07:04:22 UTC

i do wish linux was as usable as windows. even when windows is backsliding, choosing linux feels more like a political choice than a practical one.
ever since i've shifted to NixOS my plex server's connectivity has become unusable, and now all bluetooth connections are unstable. I can't even connect a speaker without it blanking out every 2 seconds, and i can't stream on my TV via plex without the connection crashing in 30 seconds. None of this happened with Windows.
and i'm good at tech and troubleshooting! i'm a literal professional! how do we expect laypeople to abandon big tech with all this?

2025-06-26 04:15:18 UTC

time to change my ringtone to Cyberia again
I've set it to Here We Are from Undertale for like 8 years now

2025-06-21 06:08:54 UTC

dril still undefeated

2025-05-05 04:09:26 UTC

my star wars opinions
star wars
empire
last jedi
are the only good movies
also the best star wars story is kotor 2

2025-05-03 09:49:59 UTC

anyway we've been looking around for other flats for rent because our current flat's rent will increase to 38k this coming August and that's too much
and every apartment complex we go to has flat owners deciding to buy out entire floors instead of individual flats, so we'll go to a building's 7th floor and every door will have the same fucking name
hmm i wonder why rent's going up so much
coincidentally my cats keep saying mao

2025-05-01 18:49:01 UTC

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and there's indie sites like aftermath but they can't replace a proper well funded games media website.

2025-04-30 07:12:39 UTC

feel extremely burnt out today which is weird, my workload's been light for a couple weeks. i'm in the office and physically cannot bring myself to work.

2025-04-28 17:31:08 UTC

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what news? i don't see anything, most of it rn is our govt banning pakistani youtube channels over here and using pakistan to go after local muslims and dissidents

2025-03-01 18:55:07 UTC

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nothing on the website, what is izzzzi

2025-02-19 09:59:38 UTC

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i did everything possible to make sure my laptop lasted as long as possible. and now this.
i guess it's a feat that it lasted this long, i bought it in 2019.
i just don't know what to do now, there's nothing equivalent to this laptop i can get at a good budget. it had good specs, i'd put in extra RAM, it had a good graphics card so i could play whatever.

2025-02-19 09:57:02 UTC

got a call from the MSI service centre i submitted my laptop to. They say they can't repair it either.
i'm fucked either way. I have no personal laptop, nothing to practice on, nothing to setup my personal stuff on.
i hate this so much man

2025-02-16 09:42:11 UTC

watched the substance. my wife haaaated it. honestly i gotta agree with her. great vfx though.

2025-02-14 10:40:57 UTC

been getting into emacs recently, been enjoying it, the problem is that my own laptop's still busted so I'm having to use it on my office machine, which only has fucking Windows ofc

2025-02-08 04:30:05 UTC

new episode of Severance felt off. not in a good way. never felt this way with any of the previous episodes before, pretty big quality dip for me

2025-02-06 07:42:14 UTC

left a teabag in water a minute too long

2025-02-02 13:38:49 UTC

lots of celebrating from RW colleagues because the tax slabs have been revised to lower income tax for 12 lakh LPA folks and remove it entirely for people below that threshold.
I benefit too, but i want to know what they're doing to make up for that deficit. Most of the country's taxes come in from GST anyway AFAIK, that's already increased prices for everything by a lot.

2025-02-02 09:06:16 UTC

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what is a biscuit and a cookie to americans
we have both biscuits and cookies but i think both may be different for you

2025-01-27 05:57:27 UTC

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the pixelfed repo is poorly maintained and lots of important issues haven't been worked on/keep getting closed, like photos randomly being rotated after upload or reports not working at all. And now the project owner is asking for money since he's spending a lot of it on his own flagship servers, he's still recommending people join those instead of creating their own.
he's also got a history of saying weird quasi-bigoted stuff (though some of the stuff I feel is exaggerated).

2025-01-27 04:44:04 UTC

LB i know pixelfed is fedi's newest entryway and everyone seems to be banking on it but god this is so funny, only #onhere will you see this

2025-01-20 17:11:25 UTC

so what, french and spanish speaking people are now coming to fedi? aight sure, good for them

2024-12-01 07:07:19 UTC

Seeing my wife's journey with Doctor Who's been interesting, she's jumped around different seasons but generally avoided Matt Smith's seasons so far because she didn't really see him as a proper doctor, now that she's started his seasons in earnest she's glued and bingeing in full force, and thinks he's the best Doctor.
Though she's also pretty annoyed at times with the Moffatiness (and she's almost done with Season 6 so that's going to get worse)

2024-11-28 07:05:33 UTC

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but yeah seems i was wrong about people soft-blocking me :P

2024-11-28 07:02:35 UTC

ah interesting, my account's been suspended by hachyderm.io, if anyone's on there they can't see my account

2024-11-25 05:44:55 UTC

idk if i've said this before but I do not understand the appeal of Loops at all
and forget the whole "it shouldn't exist because short form video is addictive" argument, you're on a microblogging platform, that shit isn't meant for thoughtful once-a-day posting or reading like proper blogs
what i mean is, who is interested in yet another short-form video sharing service, only this time it's federated? What need does it fulfil?

2024-11-21 12:59:36 UTC

switched back to Fedilab from Trunks, the latter's gotten really weirdly slow, i think there's some issues with the loader not hiding/unhiding properly.
@npub18hc…2l55 if you have any similar bug reports you could check it out? when i start the app it shows the loader unless i refresh once or twice. could be a state variable thing? the APIs are pretty fast, it's my own instance.

2024-11-08 06:33:11 UTC

I know we're on mastodon, a platform infamous for guys going well-actually on women's posts about sexual assault, and i don't want to contribute to that
but i'm seeing lots of non-US people echoing US sentiments like "oh it's so sad that the US chose a misogynist and rapist" as if Joe Biden doesn't have allegations against him, and they literally had Bill Clinton going around canvassing for them.

2024-08-28 08:25:56 UTC

if you're into LLMs that means you're into Lucifer 👿 Luv 👿 Mehta 👿

2024-08-23 10:55:13 UTC

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i honestly get the impulse! i did the same thing eventually because I just needed nix to get out of my way!

2024-08-23 10:50:59 UTC

i built my first nix derivation from scratch! the experience was DOGSHIT. it's not enterprise ready at all lmao, i can't even pull from any git repo except a public one ONLY using HTTP, and converting project dependencies to nix-ified dependencies is too much fucking work.

2024-08-05 03:08:32 UTC

Stock market crash incoming apparently, I've seemingly got a lot of 30% indian taxpayers following me so be careful and look at your stocks probably

2024-08-02 10:23:53 UTC

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"numerous theorists possess equal or even greater expertise" any examples? Also Marx was infamous for going into excruciating detail on Capital, a doorstopper of a book that people regularly post summaries and even simplified versions of (see, Hadas Thier's A People's Guide To Capital) because it's so dense and in-depth, so not sure where this conclusion is coming from.

2024-07-31 06:04:52 UTC

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it should not be this difficult to find out how to install something in something that's a package manager! it should not be this confusing to then have to find out that the method that they provide that's similar to stuff like yum and apt is actually NOT the way they've designed the package manager to be used! it took me like 5 hours to actually find arguments online that pointed me to the correct method and how configuration.nix actually even works!

2024-07-31 06:02:08 UTC

Spent a good amount of time with Nix now and wow is it stupid and irritating.
Sure, I still think it's the next big thing coming to dev projects, but the core team seems to actively abhor logical easy-to-adopt design and make shit roundabout and difficult. Incredibly bad learning curve, high barrier of entry.
Not to mention the documentation, or how fucking bad it is.