Open post Kumar Ghosh @ku@c.im · 3mo ago Replying to @fesshole@mastodon.social I used to play chess with an older guy. One evening I pulled the obscure En Passant capture move. He was furious and claimed I was cheating. I left with him shouting. Next day his daughter phoned to say he had died in his sleep. I never told her I think I killed him with chess. TIL the en passant move! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/En_passant en.wikipedia.org
Open post Kumar Ghosh @ku@c.im · 3mo ago Replying to @Daanlo@mastodon.social @ku@c.im when I first learned chess, about age 6, another kid did this move on me. Assuming it is a proper move, I used it with other players (kids & adults) - who all told me this isn‘t possible. Which I then assumed to be true. TIL 🙏 @Daanlo@mastodon.social makes so much sense, I've just never encountered it or been taught the move! You saw it in action at age 6!!
Open post Kumar Ghosh @ku@c.im · 16mo ago Replying to @davidgerard@circumstances.run <p>shel silverstein on the LLM, 1981</p> @davidgerard@circumstances.run I had a version of this in my gallery from WhatsApp messages circulated in 2023:
Open post Kumar Ghosh @ku@c.im · 5mo ago Replying to @ahltorp@mastodon.nu @honor2025 What is a British nationalist doing posting on a German server? @ahltorp dunno about that Magnus, see how they spell Honour?
Open post Kumar Ghosh @ku@c.im · 9mo ago Replying to @MatthewNewell@mastodon.social @andrewstroehlein@mastodon.social I posted a lot on Twitter - but never on X. His purchase of the platform was enough for me to leave along with a sizeable number of other mastodon posters @MatthewNewell@mastodon.social same
Open post Kumar Ghosh @ku@c.im · 10mo ago Replying to @glyph@mastodon.social @xgranade@wandering.shop It felt a little mean-spirited posting this again, but I guess if my impression that folks did not know this is accurate, then worthwhile. Sigh. @glyph@mastodon.social I didn't know, thanks for flagging!
Open post Kumar Ghosh @ku@c.im · 6mo ago Replying to @AnarchoCatgirlism@cyberpunk.gay @memdmp@catgirl.center i stg I feel so overcompetent for every role I'm applying to and its fucking radio silence out there. brutal. eventually executives will realize they can't replace us with this shit and we will be able to name our terms again like in 2021 lol @AnarchoCatgirlism THIS!!! exactly what I've been saying for ages too 😁
Open post Kumar Ghosh @ku@c.im · 5mo ago Replying to @DJDarren@mendeddrum.org @TheBreadmonkey We had one of these through the door at 9:30pm one evening last week. We literally have a sign on our door that says "NO FLYERS". Reform UK is a party that doesn't understand consent, and that doesn't surprise me in the slightest. @DJDarren did it arrive with that exact address though? Apparently it's their old headquarters... See: https://mastodon.me.uk/@geoffl/116392808577103252 mastodon.me.uk groff 🇺🇦: "@Pamela1960@kolektiva.social Reform moved out o…" - mastodon.me.uk
Open post Kumar Ghosh @ku@c.im · 5mo ago Replying to @sowa@fedi.sowi.space @afterdesign@infosec.exchange Gotta admit, since I discovered #Snapseed a few years back, I have never found better tool for processing photos. Of course, there are newer, more functional, but none of them could pack those features in such a neat manner as Snapseed does. About management and backup - #Immich is probably what you want. ;) @sowa@fedi.sowi.space @afterdesign@infosec.exchange (Snapseed is) owned by Google unfortunately 😐
Open post Kumar Ghosh @ku@c.im · 5mo ago Replying to @sowa@fedi.sowi.space @ku@c.im @afterdesign@infosec.exchange ikik, unfortunately. I wish there was a good alternative, but I haven't found one despite many attempts. @sowa@fedi.sowi.space yeah I haven't either, but I decided to just use Google photos 😱 since it's all them anyway🤷
Open post Kumar Ghosh @ku@c.im · 2w ago Replying to @skinnylatte@hachyderm.io I woke up reading about some white South African refugees to the U.S. who went back to South Africa for private healthcare, then can no longer return to the U.S. (Because you can’t legitimately say you’re a refugee if you’re still finding it safe to return to the place you had to escape) one of the articles about this: https://briefly.co.za/south-africa/253743-afrikaner-refugee-family-refused-entry-returning-south-africa-medical-care/ briefly.co.za
Open post Kumar Ghosh @ku@c.im · 6mo ago Replying to @SamanthaJaneSmith@lgbtqia.space I feel I need to say something about Artemis as a former NASA employee, Space scientist and engineer. I hope more than anything that the astronauts get back safely. But let us not be fooled by what this is. Is it spectacular, yes. Is it a feat of engineering, yes. Does it make any advance in science, no. Does it help mankind explore the universe, dubious at best. Why exactly are we sending humans to the moon? With our technology we will never send humans much further than Mars. The only way humans can possibly go further is through a scientific breakthrough. Good luck with that when Trump is gutting science. Human exploration needs money spent on long-term advances - not using the same technology to do what we did before, however, glamorous it is. So why do this and why do it now? Political theatre, a win for a Trump led NASA if it succeeds. So I hope all works well and all return safely. But let us be clear what this is and why it is being done. This is my opinion, I do not represent anyone. they probably wanted to get it out the door before Trump guts NASA 😏
Open post Kumar Ghosh @ku@c.im · 6mo ago Replying to @ObsidianUrbex@mstdn.social <p>🔥Why do so many gorgeous abandoned buildings get burned down?</p><p>This gorgeous derelict chateau in France was destroyed by a fire some years ago.</p><p>Every year so much history is lost to the flames, erased forever. All that workmanship and the stories, gone </p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Abandoned" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Abandoned</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Arson" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Arson</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Urbex" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Urbex</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/UrbanExploration" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>UrbanExploration</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Photography</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/LostPlace" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LostPlace</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/LostPlaces" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LostPlaces</span></a></p> That gash in the ceiling looked like a hornet's best at first glance 🙂
Open post Kumar Ghosh @ku@c.im · 3mo ago Replying to @rysiek@mstdn.social RE: https://mastodon.online/@mullvadnet/116822264297340100 This is immensely disappointing, @mullvadnet@mastodon.online. Your co-CEO is funding far-right authoritarians. Authoritarianism is not compatible with free speech – anyone who claims to be fighting for free speech has to be aware of this. In fact, the reason we need free speech is to fend of authoritarianism! You used "free speech" to defend anti-free-speech views. This is the "paradox of tolerance". Only, it is not a paradox. Allowing intolerance erodes a tolerant society: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance #Mullvad @rysiek@mstdn.social @mullvadnet@mastodon.online I wonder what the @torproject@mastodon.social have to say about this, considering their "collaboration" on Mullvad Browser: "Mullvad Browser is a privacy-focused web browser developed in collaboration between Mullvad VPN and the Tor Project" : https://mullvad.net/en/browser Mullvad VPN Free the internet with Mullvad Browser The Mullvad Browser is a privacy-focused web browser developed in collaboration between Mullvad VPN and the Tor Project. It’s produced to minimize tracking and fingerprinting.
Open post Kumar Ghosh @ku@c.im · 3mo ago Replying to @disroot@nixnet.social <p>Things should be back online again. We had an networking issue between file server and application server. We need to check how to prevent it as it happens too often lately. </p><p>But yeah all good.</p> @disroot@nixnet.social my email clients struggled to connect for the last couple of days: Suppose that was all related ?