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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2026-07-29 07:59:44 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.sprawl.club/@ludicity/117001838721697976
no shade to the OP or the blog but
there's a very mastodon-specific deification of europe you see here that everyone else doesn't buy. oh, EU socialism is the way forward? I love using european alternatives to evil capitalist software from socialist countries like the monarchies of Spain, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands,
#note1gsc…xxqs

2026-07-26 05:18:16 UTC

indian UC folk are done with protests and are now going back to brunch :ms_smile_hearts:

2026-06-15 08:57:30 UTC

RE: https://social.lansky.name/@hn100/116748917757603506
actively lost brain cells reading both the article and the comments here. it's 2026! are you people exercising your foreheads by smashing them with hammers?
#note1ac7…xu0n

2026-05-21 15:09:49 UTC

bro every single r/anime post on my feed is some fanservice shit. what has this medium come to. I used to have an anime club in college for fucks sake, now i feel embarassed to be associated with this shit

2026-03-31 06:07:01 UTC

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https://www.hostinger.com/in/vps-hosting
key note - they raise their prices without announcement once a year

2026-03-30 17:21:54 UTC

okay it seems the migration was successful! now mastinsaan.in is on a brand new VPS, double the RAM and disk space for four times cheaper.

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

2026-01-21 04:03:35 UTC

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lol yes but me and my wife barely chat on apps (we live together)

2026-01-17 03:10:21 UTC

okay Emacs perverts, i'm being v vulnerable here by posting my dotfile for everyone to go through. See if there's any suggestions or improvements y'all think will help!
https://codeberg.org/mehluv/nixos-config/src/branch/main/home-manager/emacs-dotfile.el

2025-12-19 11:07:38 UTC

seeing reels from well-meaning-liberals having an existential crisis because the new anti-muslim propaganda movie is actually well made
did you think BJP propaganda is bad because it's bad in quality
that garfield meme applies to every one of us. you are NOT IMMUNE to propaganda.

2025-11-30 10:50:45 UTC

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for me, GenAI is fundamentally flawed because<li>it cannot learn beyond its initial training</li><li>It's designed to give you appealing output, not accurate output</li>
people are generating plausible sounding science research and legal documents full of lies, people are generating deepfake images of real people, people are using other folks' voices to make fake voice clips. someone can take a video of you and make you say something you never said, and your lips will morph to match it. why is this something we need to use?

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?

2025-09-19 04:49:21 UTC

LB my biggest pet peeve with the Masto culture tbh. A bunch of people who like to have their posts autodeleted (which is valid) and think that should be forced on everyone in every single way - and will use flowery terms like "your history should be ephemeral, your posts like sand in the wind, your online presence fading away like flatulence"

2025-09-18 09:37:11 UTC

i do have an even deeper appreciation of the amount of work it takes to make sure a tech feature is planned from beginning to end now. you gotta scope it so you don't have any surprises. you gotta set a timeline so you have an end-goal to aim for. you gotta break up the tasks so any parallelizable parts can be picked up by multiple people. you gotta link dependencies so everyone knows which tasks can be picked up and which ones are dependent on others.

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

2025-05-23 08:59:43 UTC

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what do you think the solution needs to be? How do we change our education strategy to match?

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.

2025-05-01 18:47:49 UTC

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same, feels like an end of an era.

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

2025-02-26 15:26:47 UTC

(inventing a button that kills people instantly)
It is not Technology that is inherently evil, but people. Technology is but a Tool to be Used.

2025-02-20 08:49:40 UTC

the same filename syntax i gave tramp two days ago suddenly doesn't work anymore. it's nice that emacs gives debug stacktraces but because this is an internal function i have no clue what i'm doing wrong
chat, what am i doing wrong? I've installed Putty and it's on my env, i'm doing the following:<code>/pscp:root@<ip><br></code>
and it fails. using tramp-dissect-file-name after digging it up from the stacktrace shows Tramp doesn't even consider it a proper remote file name. what the hell? this was working two days ago.

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

2025-02-12 11:14:50 UTC

My personal laptop hasn't worked for more than a month now
i gave it to a repair shop where the guy gets fairly technical and descriptive with his explanations so that makes me feel more confident in what he's doing because I understand it, but he kept it for a week trying to fix it and now he's given up, he can't figure it out
what the fuck man, why is everything bad this month

2025-02-10 07:25:18 UTC

small storytime from yesterday: after volunteering at a pet adoption camp we had all retired for some food and booze at a resto
i made some joke about invoking god when eating prawns, one of the volunteers, a college kid, says "how can you do that, you're hindu"
not getting into the atheism bit, i just say most hindus are nonveg around the country and i'm from bengal anyway, she says "ohhh can you teach me black magic i'm v interested" unironically, with a straight face

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 14:53:46 UTC

I'd like to shift to alternative apps the way people are discussing on the GlobalSwitchDay hashtag, but everyone I know is either on Whatsapp or Insta, so dropping them is out of the question lest i lose talking to my friends and family. all I can do is tell them I'm more reachable on signal, that's basically it

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

2025-01-29 04:44:32 UTC

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https://phanpy.social is a web client for Mastodon and the best interface i've ever seen for a social media website. It has a feature called Catch-Up (https://phanpy.social/#/catchup) which lets you catch up to the statuses you missed up to the last 12 hours, and lets you group the posts by their authors, and optionally filter by original posts, boosts or replies.

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?

2024-11-22 08:39:14 UTC

Fucking incredible man, the reach they must have needed to come up with this
baadmein they'll probably try to claim he should be treated like an army veteran because he's a business veteran and that's close enough
https://s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/mastinsaan/media_attachments/files/113/525/694/163/851/597/original/4183a4e967876581.png

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.

2024-11-12 06:06:50 UTC

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have you read Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber? A lot of what you wrote reminds me of the spiritual violence he talks about people experiencing when they feel they're rewarded in jobs that do nothing at best, disrupt and delay actually helpful public work at worst.

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.

2024-10-25 05:53:15 UTC

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<li>My name is Luv so there's mainly one romanization, but you can imagine what others end up spelling it as.</li><li>Unfortunately no, growing up i mainly only read english books</li>

2024-10-22 04:23:56 UTC

been spending some time trying to get nushell working with starship and nerdfetch on my setup. I like fish but i REALLY like nushell, it's something v different from what I'm used to - but nixpkgs does not have any config option for nushell the way it does for, say, bash or fish or zsh.
funny thing is, home-manager does! but i'm not installing that shit, i don't want another service perpetually running
so there is some code i can refer to but there's large gaps

2024-10-17 08:50:27 UTC

does anyone have any suggestions for privacy friendly cloud storage solutions, for simple stuff like photos and videos?
Alternatively, if there are any FOSS solutions I could self-host?
I've been looking into NextCloud for a bit but it feels like overkill for my use case.

2024-10-08 06:39:52 UTC

saw a bunch of Oct 7 anniversary posts, including by zionists talking about how they shouldn't be insulted or attacked for wanting an ethnonationalist state, and even "anti-zionists" talking about how horrific the Al-Aqsa Flood operation was (using long-debunked horror stories ofc).
Hi here's a reiteration of my position - Oct 7 was Good Actually, I'm a proponent of a one-state solution and the one state is Palestine.

2024-09-03 04:17:08 UTC

Left: Reddit gooner so far gone he knows the difference between r/femboy and r/femboys
Right: Doomer listening to Igor on repeat
Which way, millenial bisexual man?

2024-08-30 12:58:02 UTC

cis folks acting weird about dysphoria is v weird, I can very easily imagine being dysphoric and uncomfortable in a body or presentation that was different from my own. or is it just that a lot of "cis" folk feel uncomfortable about the fact that imagining themselves in a differently gendered body makes them feel like they're missing out?
this thought brought to you by an IG reel about a woman saying she "mourns the boy inside her", and multiple similar comments by other women on it

2024-08-30 12:43:49 UTC

started seeing dropout videos (i never actually saw much from them after they converted from college humour and went behind the paywall), they're pretty funny!
but also this one guy starts going off in the middle about how he admires Nancy Pelosi but she isn't "as far to the left" as he'd like
what is wrong with USians

2024-08-28 08:25:56 UTC

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

2024-08-23 18:59:51 UTC

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Gotta clarify - i didn't hate endeavour or the arch parts, i just missed having something to play around with. I may end up doing a vanilla arch thing later.

2024-08-23 17:38:56 UTC

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uninstalled in an hour

2024-08-23 16:09:23 UTC

fucked around with NixOS enough that I'm certain i like it as a base for making a new system for myself. Gonna try @npub1wxl…fmxj's advice and try out EndeavourOS now. And hey, it'll be my first time with Arch!

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.

2024-08-22 07:09:36 UTC

if they put copilot on all Windows machines I'm permanently switching to Linux boot

2024-08-18 03:27:19 UTC

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dreampop, it's like shoegaze but poppier
Also neoperreo, it's like reggaeton but more clubhouse

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.