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psuresh··on Keep your phone number private with Signal usernames
Dictatorship exists in varous forms. Russia has democracy though in bad shape. There various flavours of democracy. But what about total dictatorship in China has no opposition and many countries with theocratic monarchy.
psuresh··on Microsoft seeks Rust developers to rewrite core C# code
Expect MS own clone of rust like C#(for java) or typescript (extended js) in future
psuresh··on Gemini AI
The logo is from Doordarshan, a state owned Indian TV broadcasting firm
psuresh··on Review: Beepy a Palm-Sized Linux Hacking Playground
Reminds me about Ben Nanonote by some Qi-hardware which had the terrible limitation of absence of USB host though the form factor was appealing
psuresh··on Fake reviews are illegal and subject to big fines under new FTC rules
Lol. How can identity a review as fake if it is based on personal tastes and experience! True, unfounded allegations are fake reviews.
psuresh··on Text rendering hates you (2019)
>Saying OTF is tricky.. because OTF file format can be postscript outlines OR truetype outlines and you don't know what is inside until you check.

it is true .ttf fonts. .otf is always cubic

psuresh··on Happiness is a reward from our ancestors
In Indian philosophy the ultimate happiness is called _thürēya_ , roughly translates to blissfulness and it is akin to _nirvāna_, the salvation
psuresh··on Bye Bye Ubuntu, Hello Manjaro. How Did We Get Here?
Two root partions with one stable debian and another bleeding edge is an option. And a common big home partition for accomodating flatpaks which can be shared by both.
psuresh··on Samsung considers moving to Bing as default search engine
Microsoft Windows survived thanks to Apple on proprietary OS front by not licencing OS separately and Google on open source OS front by not pursuing desktop ChromeOS
psuresh··on An ancient Indian Buddhist monk buried in Athens
Indian philosophy discarded physical well-being and the so called 'living standard' thing. Instead efforts were to optimize inner well-being. They realized pointless material pleasure will lead you nowhere and the craving for better environment only grow exponentially ad infinitum.
psuresh··on Instagram’s co-founders are back with Artifact, a kind of TikTok for text
Artificial fact !?
psuresh··on Four-Day Workweek Going Well Globally, Study Says
Why not 'Two day + One off + Two day + Two Weekly Off' ?
psuresh··on Linux, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft want to break the Google Maps monopoly
Lol. LF teams up with MS! The natural course should have been supporting OSM. This will eventually effectively kill OSM not G Maps. Linux fights monopoly with monopolies!
psuresh··on Helix: A Neovim inspired editor, written in Rust
Does this 'written in Rust, written in Zig, written in Go' make any difference in the user experience? See this often nowadays.
psuresh··on Why adults still dream about school
Yes. This is everybody's dream. I see my academic life 'corrected' in dream! More meaningful relations with classmates etc.
psuresh··on Many WhatsApp accounts with Iranian numbers are disabled, even outside of Iran
Sanctions are joke nowadays. Every country tweak it to its needs.
psuresh··on EU Open Web Search project kicked off
Good to see more efforts from EU to negate big tech domination. Federation is the way forward.
psuresh··on Facebook bans Holocaust film for violating race policy
'Bigteched'
psuresh··on Zoho became a $1B company without external investment
Lol. The Wire!
psuresh··on Facebook's TikTok-like redesign marks sunset of social networking era
Social media platforms/apps are fad. Won't last. Think about Orkut. Or Myspace for that master.
psuresh··on EU Digital Markets Act, aimed at Google, Apple, Amazon, approved
This is a big step in the right direction to rein big tech. 100% inter operability based on common and accepted standards should be the next step. For eg. XMPP for messaging etc. I don't use Whatapp, and remain unconnected due to the mass adoption of that product.
psuresh··on Big Tech Monopolies Endanger American Security
Purely money making, business oriented, billionaire oligarch-run,100% opaque big tech deciding day to day proceedings is a serious concern. On the other hand snooping by governments is an issue but it is an elected body and replacble should they go wrong. Either way privacy is screwed for users.
psuresh··on Medicare Could Have Saved $3.6B on Generic Drugs
Indian government's Janaushadhi scheme is for generic push. It is highly successful and one could save 50-70% on genetics. http://janaushadhi.gov.in/
psuresh··on That Ban(e) of Indian Music: Hearing Politics in the Harmonium [pdf]
Hatmonium is not at all suitable for Carnatic music because it can not render gamaka (complex blending of notes back and forth at varied speed and levels) which is the crux of that system. Hindustani music has only limited stress on such complex treatment of gamaka. So it is widely used in Hindustani music.
psuresh··on Apple and Google seem spooked by bill requiring more app stores and sideloading
What if you get menu card too with the crockery you buy? That's what Appstore and playstore do. Don't need them from the users point of view.