Ramnarayan Kalyanaraman

@ramkay
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Want to chase the light fantastic (holder bio - more details coming soon)

Good folks of fedi,

My trusty ThinkPad is near the end of life. What are my options in India? Not much point trying to repair or upgrade it. No Windows or Apple. I run Linux. No gaming capabilities required. Light to medium weight. I travel often and can't lug around a heavy laptop. I write a lot, so keypad needs to be top notch. The cost is not a big constraint ATM.

And yes, no "AI integration" (ugh!)

#help

Calvin and Hobbes and the Price of Integrity

How Bill Watterson Stuck to His Guns — and Vanished

The Republic of Letters

RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/116780494584602899

I remember seeing a post some weeks ago along the lines of nobody actually having said "let us use AI to crush the workers under our boot-heel", and at the time I thought it wasn't necessary to say cartoonishly evil statements in order to perpetrate evil.

But it seems cartoonishly evil statements may not be in short supply either.

@ramkay @Laird_Dave @nixCraft in India 🇮🇳 people will block the national roads in a flick and destroy these stupid company if they even try to do it. 😊 ☺️
This is the #swimming pool I've been posting about these past few days.

Today I swam 30% more lengths than yesterday!

I just remembered that the first time my grandfather tried to teach me swimming was in a walled-off section of a large pond adjacent to a village house in Kerala, and there were a couple of snakes in the room with us. I guess it would make a good story to say he taught me swimming by making me escape the snakes, but he told me it wasn't a big deal, so I wasn't bothered.

Oh, and he made me a float by tying some coconuts together. In fact, that's the only flotation device I ever used (just that one time).

#swimming

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The corporate math on pollution was simple. A company dumps toxic waste into a river, saves fifty million dollars doing it, and happily pays a five million dollar fine when they get caught. Cost of doing business.
France just broke the formula.
Under their new Climate and Resilience Act, the math changes. If a company is found guilty, the fine can be set at up to ten times the illicit profits made from the pollution. More importantly, corporate executives can now face up to a decade in prison.