Ashwin Dixit

@[email protected]
44 Followers
30 Following
23 Posts
Live like a hermit, meditate, take long walks, do Yoga, smoke Cannabis, enjoy sharing laughs, writing SciFi and haiku, programming ( open source only ), making digital art with my iPad and with AI, photographing Nature, making music with my MIDI keyboard, reading, feeding my head sparse data points about the Universe, in an effort to aid @[email protected] in his efforts for Linux-based World Domination. Ssshhh, he doesn't know, so don't tell him yet. All will be revealed in due time. I'm going to get high in the garden and watch the cats lounge in the sunshine and stalk the birds in the flower bushes.

Equal Rights and Justice!


Algorithm: https://ownlifeful.com/

Code: https://github.com/ownlifeful

Personal: https://ashwindixit.com/

Blog: https://blog.ownlifeful.com/

Work-in-progress: https://glue.earth/


#Peace #Nature #Photography #Art #Music #SciFi #FlashFiction #OpenSource #Perl #Linux #Futurism
Ashwin DixitMay 14, 2023
Hello @admin


My account on calckey.social ( @ashwin ) is in a weird state. An attempt to migrate to @[email protected] failed. As a result, I have lost nearly all of my 250+ followers.

Repeated messages on this matter over the past 4 days have gotten zero responses. It's as though I have been silenced on the Fediverse. This seems like a breach of the core promise of the Fediverse ( take your followers anywhere ).

I would really appreciate it if someone could address this issue. This can't be the way a user suddenly loses their social network on the Fediverse. I appreciate all your hard work, and I know you have lots of other priorities. Believe me, I am a friend of the Calckey project. Please try to understand my situation. All of a sudden, I can't reach my friends. Wouldn't you feel upset?


Please at least acknowledge receiving this message. If there's no other solution, I might have to find a hacky workaround, like scraping all my followers, and programmatically messaging them to re-follow me on evil.social

Thanks, and have an awesome day!

—Ashwin.
Ashwin DixitMay 14, 2023
#Calckey #CalckeyBug #Fediverse

Hello @kainoa and other Calckey maintainers,

My account on calckey.social ( @ashwin ) is in a weird state. An attempt to migrate to @[email protected] failed. As a result, I have lost nearly all of my 250+ followers.

I would really appreciate it if someone could address this issue. This can't be the way a user suddenly loses their social network on the Fediverse. I appreciate all your hard work, and I know you have lots of other priorities. Believe me, I am a friend of the Calckey project. Please try to understand my situation. All of a sudden, I can't reach my friends. Wouldn't you feel upset?

Please at least acknowledge receiving this message. If there's no other solution, I might have to find a hacky workaround, like scraping all my followers, and programmatically messaging them to re-follow me on evil.social

Thanks, and have an awesome day!

—Ashwin.
Ashwin DixitMay 13, 2023
Show threadBenjamin Hollon 🇺🇸🇲🇾🇮🇳🇦🇫May 11, 2023
@nixkelley
Ah, I love that poem. But ever since I saw this, it's what I've always associated with the poem.
Ashwin DixitMay 12, 2023
@kainoa

Hello Kainoa,

Hope you're doing well.

Listen, I know I'm not your boss. But my whole online life is at your mercy now. Honestly, I love what you've done by forking Misskey and creating Calckey. It's so beautiful! Thoughtful User Interface, cool new features, freakin' MFM ( how cool is that! )! This is so awesome! Thank you so much! I have moved all my Fediverse accounts to my calckey.social account, because I really believe how amazing Calckey is, and what what potential it holds to change the world for the better.

I have been evangelizing Calckey, encouraging my 250+ Mastodon followers to try Calckey. I have been meaning to contribute to Calckey, with code, documentation, and Hindi language translations. However, I'm just a person with their own material constraints. I'm a bit depressed, and unemployed after a having been a programmer since 1984.

There was a public objection to my using the word "Tranny" as a transphobic slur. My dear Kainoa, I was programming computers and having gay sex, in 1984, before most people online were alive. I was wearing makeup and dresses in public, before most of the crowd even knew the word "drag". So being classified as "transphobic" really hurts my feelings.

"Tranny" is not such a bad word. I've been online since 1990. Transexual / Transvestite people have long used it to describe themselves. When I used to indulge in such explorations, CraigList personals would be full of hot people describing themselves as "passable trannies" ( People who looked like attractive females, but had penises )

So I was a bit dismayed at having suddenly become "persona non grata" in the Fediverse, after using one word ( "Tranny" ) , one time.

Now, I've lost my social life on the Fediverse. My followers are on calckey.social and I can't post, or migrate my followers. This is troubling for me. Please help restore my account on calckey.social or migrate it to evil.social so I can resume talking to my online friends.

Honestly, I am unemployed and broke at the moment. Most open source projects have some means of getting technical support. I know I'm not your boss, but I want you to prioritize and resolve my issue. I am in limbo right now, virtually silenced. I would be willing to make a donation to Calckey in return for my social network back. Please let me know what needs to be done. Surely, this isn't the way the Fediverse is supposed to operate. It's alright. We're still figuring things out.

Cheers, and have an awesome day!

—Ashwin.
Ashwin DixitMay 12, 2023
CW: Sexual Joke






A tourist rents a room in a small village hotel and
asks the owner:

"Is there something I could eat?"

"Yes, of course. The hotel restaurant is open till nine in the evening.”

"Can you also arrange sex worker services?"

"Yes, of course. Brenda is available for $50."

"How about a male sex worker?"

"We can offer that, too. Brian will cost you $500."

"Why is Brian 10 times the price of Brenda?"

"Well, I'm not particularly fond of such practices, so I take $100 for myself. The village priest, obviously, isn't fond of such practices, so he gets $100 also, and the village mayor is a conservative and as such isn't particularly fond of them, so he gets $100, too."

"Does that mean that Brian gets $200?"

"Nah. Those $200 go to John and Steve that will hold Brian, because, you see, Brian also isn't particularly fond of such practices."


#Joke #Jokes #Humor #Gay
Ashwin DixitMay 12, 2023
@SrRochardBunson @kainoa

Hello,
I can't reply to messages on calckey.social anymore, so I'm writing from here.

calckey.social is a great place. I would love to stick around. However right now, most of my followers are on calckey.social and there doesn't seem to be a way to migrate out. Effectively, I have lost my online social network. I had made all these friends over time on multiple Mastodon instances. I love Calckey so much that I migrated everything here, and consolidated things.
I would appreciate your help restoring my access and followers on calckey.social

Thanks!
Ashwin DixitMay 12, 2023
I'm very distrustful of money and its corrupting influence.

At various times in history, revolutionaries have naively called anything from pencils to computers, "the oppressor's tools", something vile and despicable.

One has to remember that Richard M. Stallman, the founder of the Free Software Foundation started out writing Free Software with the non-Free Software tools he had available to him. Fight fire with fire!

By the same token, I'm going to start a software business with the intention of making money, lots of it. Thinking of a worker-owned co-operative where people can pool talents to work on large projects from anywhere on the Net. Spread the wealth, I say! The Endgame is an End to Capitalism and Money.

At present, I'm looking into other co-ops, such as Spain's Mondragon, to learn from them.

I love the idea of an egalitarian organization. However, I'm very fearful of relinquishing creative control and producing shoddy output designed by a committee. You see, ( like everyone else ) I fancy myself a creative genius. ​​ Basically, it means that I really think that the things I like are really in good taste. I approve of me! 😆

"To make effective decisions, a committee should consist of no more than three members, two of them absent." — Civil Service Joke.

Artists are some very social people, but they don't normally invite a dozen friends into their Art studio to decide where to apply each brushstroke.


If anyone has any pointers, I'm all ears.

#cooperatives #coop #jobs #socialentrepreneur #socialentrepreneurship #socialentrepreneurs #Software #FreeSoftware #FreeSoftwareFoundation #Money
Ashwin DixitMay 12, 2023
CW F-bomb. Sexual humor.





Met this voluptuous woman who assists me at the Credit Union.

Train of thought:

Me: "I want to devour this creature's flesh RIGHT NOW!"

Higher Self: "Dude, way reptilian!"

Me: "I want to mate with this female right here!"

Higher Self: "Yeah, better. That's mammalian. Go up a level."

Me: "She's cute, and she doesn't have a ring on her finger. Maybe I should politely ask for her number."

Higher Self: "Yay! Finally human! Go on!"

Me: "But relationships are so complicated. You know what else is complicated? That code I was writing earlier. Forget her. I'm going to go home and simplify my code. It's more fun to compute!"

Higher Self: "FUCK! You've evolved into a NERD!"

Me: "As an AI, I have no opinions on that matter."

#Joke #programmer #nerdy #humor #AI