Balasankar 'Balu' C @balu@dravidam.net

RT @leahajk
i'm a deaf person who is making and selling masks with a clear panel to help those that are struggling due to not being able to lipread. you can purchase them from here!
https://ko-fi.com/leahajk/shop

RT @manoj_g33k
Help me out, doing someone research :

What kind of health insurance does your (Indian) employer provide?

Specifically looking for the "Sum Insured" value.

RT for good Karma.

Thanks to @jishnu7 and @indicproject for Indic Keyboard. 😀

Random techie in a chatroom comes to DM

RT: Assumes I know #Hindi (knows I am Indian), starts in #Hinglish
Me: Replies in #Malayalam
RT: Assumes I don't know Hindi, switches to #English.
Me: Replies in Hindi
RT: Jumps back to Hinglish
Me: Replies in #Tamil

Monday was fun. 😂

RT @manoj_g33k
Give me a break!

My partner, a Wipro employee was laid off during the pandemic.

I know of more than a couple of folks who have been laid off from Wipro since March 2020. https://twitter.com/etnowlive/status/1282542252380745729

Hey @HDFC_Bank / @HDFCBank_Cares,

Your #fastag related email system sucks, from a security perspective. I reset my password and you sent me the new password in plaintext, in 2020!!

Also, the link in the email to "display" images is "http://cp_hosted_cp". 🤷

If you are good in C++, here is an interesting feature for you to work on: Bring in support for complex script rendering in @KodiTV.

https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/issues/15968 and https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=303231&pid=2494034 for a little bit of context.

#kodi #help #programming #cpp #rendering #malayalam #harfbuzz
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RT @balasankarc
I so want to use @KodiTV , but the inability to render Indian language fonts properly i…
https://twitter.com/balasankarc/status/1144921033113133056

Either a bookstore or something like @WorkshopCafe.
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RT @manoj_g33k
Run a small indie book store. https://twitter.com/CallMeWuz/status/1277823090400145408
https://twitter.com/manoj_g33k/status/1277990685925203969

Hey Twitter,

How do you dispose your tech junk from the past decade(s)? I am talking about casettes, CD/DVDs, old printers/scanners, keyboards, mice, UPSs, adapters of various crap etc.

#help

Someone put this on a T-shirt. :D
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RT @manoj_g33k
@ThomanInc Apple is an adapter company.
https://twitter.com/manoj_g33k/status/1268885606458748930

RT @drawntosenia
“Cops kills white people too” THEN WHY TF ARE YALL NOT FIGHTING AGAINST POLICE BRUTALITY???

Wow. Malayalee meme version of https://http.cat. Awesome.
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RT @ar_incredible
Some commonly used HTTP Status codes #meme #tech

1. 503 Service Unavailable
https://twitter.com/ar_incredible/status/1266416560517738497

RT @guardian
The coronavirus slayer! How Kerala's rock star health minister helped save it from Covid-19 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/14/the-coronavirus-slayer-how-keralas-rock-star-health-minister-helped-save-it-from-covid-19?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1589443372

RT @rajeeshknambiar
PSA: You have a zoom meeting to attend, yet do *not* want to install it?

Take the zoom meeting link ‘...zoom.us/j/blahblahblah’ and replace that ‘/j/’ with ‘/wc/join/’ and join via browser. Both Firefox and Chromium works.

This. 100% this.
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RT @pp_raman
@mriduljacob ആ തെറിവാക്കിലെ അവസാനഭാഗം ചേർത്ത് തന്നെയല്ലേ ഇങ്ങനെ "ളി"യിൽ തീരുന്ന എല്ലാ വാക്കും ഉണ്ടാക്കിയത്? അങ്ങനെയുള്ള എല്ലാ പേരുവിളിയും അങ്ങേയറ്റം അധിക്ഷേപം ആയാണു തോന്നാറു.
https://twitter.com/pp_raman/status/1260093476877635584

RT @fsf
Free software news from India: Swathanthra Malayalam Computing (SMC) is a free software collective that is enabling the use of Malayalam script in computers and mobile devices. And SMC wants the community of speakers involved in the solution: https://u.fsf.org/326

RT @smcproject
First video from 'Humans of SMC' is out.

Hrishikesh KB (@_stultus ) discussing Indic language computing with Santhosh Thottingal ( @santhoshtr ).
Watch now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MI882Pid7Jk

Thank you @TinkerHub for hosting.

RT @smcproject
Balasankar C (@balasankarc ) is going live today (09/05/2020) at 20.00 on Tinkerhub's Instagram channel as part of 'Humans of SMC' talk series.

RT @jishnu7
New video - Part 3 of GNUCash tutorial series https://youtu.be/qq4rgedqix8