does anyone make translucent shells for thinkpads
OSM Bhopal Mapping Party 0 announcement.
A few of us are getting together to learn about Open Street Map, understand Bhopal’s administrative and spatial data, and improve the open map data of the city using satellite images.
🗓️ 11th October
🕙 17:30 – 19:00
Limited capacity event due to space constraint, so RSVP required.
More details at https://osmcal.org/event/4099/
anyone in #Thiruvananthapuram have this book and willing to lend it to a stranger (me)? couldn't find it in the central library and it's too expensive to buy
#AskFedi #Trivandrum #Kerala
@sahil I just need to invest in getting my homelab up, just need to buy a domain and setup DDNS now, just
If someone is looking at hosting a project to mirror here in India, LibreOffice is a good candidate.
Right now, we have 5 LibreOffice/TDF (The Document Foundation) mirrors https://download.documentfoundation.org/mirmon/#in . Each mirror is on average serving 400 GB/day of traffic (see https://mirrors.in.sahilister.net/stats/tdf.html), which is on higher side, hence potential to onboard more mirrors.
HowTo can be found here https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Infra/Mirroring#Example_commands . Let me know if you need help setting a mirror up.
I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset.
In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia.
In 2005 I started medical transition. For the state to recognise this I had to submit to standards of "care" which were humiliating, degrading and which placed me at risk of violence.
But I did it "by the book"
As I did it "by the book", the NHS agreed to reregister me as female, which makes sense because my anatomy now is.
In 2007 I had sex reassignment surgery. This had to be signed off by two mental health professionals, "by the book", and it was.
In 2008 I applied for gender recognition. This involved signing a statutory obligation, stating that I promised, BY LAW, to live fully as female for the rest of my life. As this was done, "by the book", the government promised that it would treat me as such.
Its first act as treating me as female was to annul our marriage because it was a same sex marriage and those were not allowed.
The state then reissued my birth certificate, correcting the "mistake" it had originally made when it recorded me as male, "by the book".
In 2009 Sylvia and I married for the second time, in a same sex civil partnership, which was done "by the book", because the state regarded me as female and I was bound by law to be female.
In 2013 we married again, because the state decided that same sex marriage was in fact allowed after all. This was done, "by the book". Despite having been married for 12 years, we had to submit ourselves to individual questioning to prove our relationship was genuine, "by the book".
In April of 2025 the state turned round and told me that I had been mistaken. That it never regarded me as female. That I was male the whole time. That the marriage it annulled because it was a same sex marriage was never a same sex marriage (but it stays annulled). That the civil partnership in 2009 never really happened because "opposite sex" civil partnerships were not allowed in 2009.
And that the legal obligation I have to live as female for the rest of my life, which I signed and gave up my marriage for, is still in effect but also if I keep following it, I am breaking the law and subject to arrest. As it's still valid, presumably if I don't keep following it, I am also breaking the law and subject to arrest.
The law of the land simultaneously requires me to be both a man and a woman and if I do either then I am breaking the law and subject to arrest.
At every stage I did what the state asked me to, even though it was humiliating, degrading and cruel.
And it kept moving the goalposts, and reneging on the agreements it made, whilst continuing to hold me to them even when they are now mutually contradictory.
Apparently this is "all my fault" and I should have known that this would be the consequences of my actions when I started medical transition 2 decades ago.
Perhaps you can now appreciate why we are upset?
re: indpol, maths syllabus, ragebait?
indpol, maths syllabus, ragebait?
Remember when mathematics meant proofs, theorems, problem-solving, logic, and rigor? Well, buckle up: the UGC’s new draft curriculum wants to replace Euclid and Euler with Kala Ganana, Bharatiya Bijaganit, and divine digressions through the Purāṇas and Darshanas.
Yes, your future calculus course might begin with:
“Let us first consult the Narada Purāṇa to derive the quadratic formula.”
https://countercurrents.org/2025/10/myth-over-math-ugcs-blueprint-for-academic-suicide/
#Inktober day 2, Prāv edition! Standards like #XMPP allow people to weave conversations without leaving the app of their choice, be it Prāv, @dino, or anything else :xmpp:
Art by @badrihippo 🎨️
Our #Inktober for Day 3 has a very simple message from our #XMPP project: community rules! 👑️
Thanks to the #Loomio decision-making platform for enabling us to manage community discussions, votes, and polls, and the Free Software Community of India (#FSCI) for hosting the instance #Codema that we use for it 🗳️
Art by @badrihippo 🎨️
is your computer into girls?
SSL: Super Sexy Lesbian
TLS: Trans Lesbian Sex
MPLS: My Pretty Lesbian Sister
VLAN: Very Lesbian Anarchist Naturist
GGWP: Gosh Girls Wanna Play