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Karthik Balakrishnan

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@s3thi what steam games have you been trying?

Watched Suzume this weekend in an empty theater. Please go see it before it's out of rotation - it's well worth your time.

@gonsalves you have inspired me to try and give this mess a shot

@gonsalves the solution is obviously a new serverrack rahul. Imagine how easy this would be in a tool less one 👀

@nemo i mean I'm glad people are writing about it but in the scheme of things there are so many more brazen and immediate threats, it feels like a distraction to talk about this

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that Substack CEO interview by Nilay Patel
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@anildash I got a bunch of followers on Twitter years ago when I started using it actively, and it kind of skewed how I used the platform. Everything ended up feeling performative, and I found myself subconsciously choosing to filter out stuff that wasn't "good enough", until I just stopped posting altogether.

@nemo it'll be nice to do a web leaderboard. Years back I had gotten permission to host blr.puzzledpint.com, maybe we can keep it there?

I'm so impressed with the turn out this year for Puzzled Pint. It's been 100+ people every month since December 2022. Meetup(dot)com for all it's issues atleast once in while pops off.

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PuzzledPint Reminder Post. This Tuesday, on 11th.

Register here: insider.in/puzzled-pint-bangal

Really hoping I can get back to doing some regular livestreams this year. I think between some programming projects and video-puzzle-games, I can do atleast one a week.

@nemo from their docs it _seems_ like you can't update the code for a given version number. It'll monotonically update the version with each code deployment. They have function alias which are named version, but those are separate (it seems)

Also each version has it's own ARN, so you can invoke a specific version of the function via aws's invoke API potentially.

@nemo if this is ultimately built on trusting AWS, then function versions are usually immutable

docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/lat

This could also be extended to docker image hashes too theoretically.

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@shrayasr I'll message you on telegram!

@nemo yeah I suppose polling is the only real way to do that with lambdas. You have a 15 minute window, so there is plenty of time.

What's stopping someone from updating the lambda after the invocation and before it's verified though?

@nemo can you give a higher level view of what you are trying to do? Lambda is pretty short-lived, so what data is passed to it after it's invoked that's not available at the beginning? And why does it have to be the same lambda?

@shrayasr I've been okay! Feels like the last year or two have kind of gone by in a flash, I'm only now realising how many people I've lost touch with. Currently busy with IPL work. You tell if you want to attend a CSK home game 😇

@shrayasr hello hello!

@matratype This was such a lovely read, thank you!

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I’m always forgetting to post here about my newsletter 🤦🏼‍♀️

In the last issue, I shared a type tour of Indiranagar, my old neighbourhood in Bangalore, and put together a small showcase of Kannada newspaper nameplates from my collection us12.campaign-archive.com/?u=0

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@nemo I think you technically can, but webfinger uses a query param which means you are stuck with single-actor per domain (which is probably what you'd want anyway).

I'm using a cloudflare worker to do the proxying for this.

@nemo Thank you!

It Solves my biggest gripe with the current fediverse apps - takahe actually separates identity domain from the one that runs the instance (though you have to proxy some well-known urls). So I can run it at fedi.karthikbalakrishnan.com while having my identity be @me

Mastodon compatible APIs so you can use the same client apps

It's is small enough to run on the always free tier GCP instance 🤯

Finally found an inexpensive way to join the fediverse while still using my domain/identity with @takahe