That is true. India is being destroyed from within and it is being destroyed by radical Hindus who are pushing policies which make zero sense and constantly harping on some mythological past where India was the greatest country on Earth implying always that its descent from that position was primarily because people from other religions and cultures came into the country.

This group of radicals - which includes the prime minister and his colleagues, have destroyed every single institution in the country with their pseudo science and fake history. They have also plundered the nation and have manipulated all data and statistics to the point where not many experts believe the numbers the Indian government gives out for everything from GDP, to crime statistics, to poverty statistics etc.

Who benefits? the travellers certainly won't because the boarding passes could be obtained via e-checkin anyway and you would still need to go through the luggage checkin process.

How will e-passports save time? you will still need to go through the immigration clearance. Why not just print a QR code or a barcode on the visas such that the immigration clearance system can easily pickup the details about the visa from their database?

I think a lot of discussion around "fact checking" that Meta has been doing completely misses the point that Meta has been actively manipulating news worldwide and not just in the US.

For instance, in India, FB has been actively censoring news that is inconvenient to the central government.
https://www.indiatvnews.com/ne...

Facebook has also been allowing advertising calling for genocide in India:
https://www.theguardian.com/wo...

Google and Youtube are also actively engaged in suppressing independent journalism in India.
https://reutersinstitute.polit...

I am not buying Apple's story that they don't have any backdoors on their devices. Why I don't buy that is because there is evidence to indicate that they have secret API which they allow some select companies to use which has only one conceivable purpose - for spying and surveillance. I am referring to this incident when Uber app on Iphone was caught recording screens even when the app wasn't even running on the iphone. Somehow this story just disappeared with next to no followups from the IT security people.

https://thenextweb.com/news/re...

Uber came up with a totally B.S explanation for why they were recording screens: "This API isn’t connected to anything in our current codebase, meaning it’s non-functional & there’s no existing feature using it. It was only ever used to render maps for an early version of our Apple Watch app, but has been dormant for quite some time. We are working with Apple to remove it completely ASAP."

What does recording screens have to do with displaying maps? and why didn't Apple contest this explanation? and how is it that Apple gave this secret entitlement to Uber?

This incident does show that, at the very least, there was some secret collusion between Apple and Uber to spy on users. And why would this happen unless there was some use case pushed by the surveillance state?

I would argue that it is the responsibility of ethical humans to have kids and to raise them to be very good human beings who benefit society. If enough people in an area bring up their kids to be good human beings, then in about 20 years the world may be in much better hands.

This is great news but I hope these laws apply to software diagnostic tools as well where manufacturers find ways to ensure that only those service centers who are purchasing a VERY EXPENSIVE license for the maintenance software are allowed access to the hardware through license keys etc.

Really sad to hear this - and what an impressive resume to have - to be considered the primary person responsible for the enterprise features of a database that is as widely used as PostgreSQL.

RIP and my condolences to his family and friends

Interesting.

The Orchard Valley Coffee shop looks similar to the One Field Farm Kitchen in Bangalore! Yes, I run this

It's time to sell the company to Elon and retire.

Just be remembered for Facebook and amihotornot, as opposed to a dystopic VR system with Nintendo 64 graphics, and retire with your reputation as intact as it will ever be.

I'm an actual Starlink user at my farm. It's head-and-shoulders better than any competing service.

I previously has used a cellular uplink... and even with a yagi mounted 30' up on a mast, I barely had 1-2Mb/s of bandwidth. It was truly miserable.

Starlink is a game-changer... give 'em the freakin' money. They've done something truly miraculous for rural internet users, who had previously only terrible/expensive options. As a taxpayer, I'm actually glad to see the money I contribute going to something useful.

The rise of the totalitarian Modi govt is because of sites like Twitter, FB etc giving these right wing elements full sway over their networks while restricting the voices of the opposition, human rights workers etc - Twitter didn't count on these same forces getting big enough to the point where they can exert pressure on these networks.

It was initially available only through 3D printing but the researchers have figured out how to do injection molding as well.

From the article:

And later:

What took MS down a notch wasn't ActiveX vs the web, but the fact that more and more apps simply became websites and escaped the stranglehold of the Windows Ecosystem and anyone - no matter what OS, could use these web applications.

The fact that apps like Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Hotmail, Google Docs, Google Sheet etc became a reality and you could do most of your email work, word processing, spreadsheet work, calendaring etc without buying Windows and office licenses reduced MS's grip on the market.

Agreed. The last 20 years have not been kind to this place.

This guy helped me write all the code I ever stole from Stackoverflow.