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rathish_g··on The Cluely Manifesto – cheat on everything
Every time technology makes us smarter, the world panics. Then it adapts. Then it forgets. And suddenly, it's normal.
rathish_g··on Umami is a simple, fast, privacy-focused alternative to Google Analytics
Urchin - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urchin_(software) Urchin Software Corp. was acquired by Google in April 2005, forming Google Analytics
rathish_g··on Zoho is attracting the attention of African startup founders
When did this happen? I just couldn't find any links. Is it Zoho or Zimbra?
rathish_g··on The failure of the Domino's 30-minute delivery guarantee
Domino's Pizza in India offers a 30-minute delivery guarantee. https://www.dominos.co.in/hot-pizza-30-minutes-delivery-guar...
rathish_g··on Show HN: Trains.fyi – a live map of passenger trains in the US and Canada
and integrated to Google Maps
rathish_g··on Remains of 'non-human' beings showcased at UFO hearing [video]
Better quality https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRGhT8j0LTk
rathish_g··on 11 years of hosting a SaaS
It seems that the new PIT team was unable to manage the HN traffic.
rathish_g··on Show HN: TxtNet Browser – Browse the Web over SMS, No Wi-Fi/Mobile Data Needed
True here in India as well. The cheapest pack offers 2GB data/ day and 100 SMS/ day for 3.5 USD per month
rathish_g··on Show HN: WeExpire.org – Notes readable only after your death
Gmail "Schedule Send" feature is good enough this use case :)
rathish_g··on Show HN: I made a super simple iOS app to track expenses
Congratulations on the launch. Manual entry is very tricky.

I use an app from Microsoft called SMS Organizer. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/garage/profiles/sms-organize... It scans my SMS and nicely categorizes all my transactions.

Axios (previously Walnut) also does the job well, but it's very cluttered after the latest update. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.daamitt.wa...

Not sure if these apps are globally available.

rathish_g··on Wikipedia's List of Reliable Sources
Wikipedia itself is not listed as a reliable source
rathish_g··on Overview of FIFA World Cup Match-Coverage Plans
UHD/HDR, multi-feeds, cloud-based server, immersive audio are key features
rathish_g··on Survey of workers’ views on salary transparency
The article says - 63% will demand more pay, 9% legal action and 4% quit!
rathish_g··on The Restaurant Industry’s Worst Idea: QR Code Menus
The problem is the implementation. Restaurants started embedding the PDF of the menu exactly as it is and often with complicated zoom/ pan.

They could replace it with a neat AR experience using the same mobile devices. It will be expensive but will give the user a nice user experience.

rathish_g··on VLC-developer VideoLAN sends legal notice to Indian ministries over ban
Do you have the list of ISPs blocking VLC? I am from India, and I can access videolan.org, download windows and Android app.
rathish_g··on Katapayadi System
Here is an interesting video on this https://youtu.be/QxTjaK8suMo
rathish_g··on GPS
Cable.gl is excellent.
rathish_g··on India Counting Down to 1B Doses
Open APIs : https://apisetu.gov.in/ Datasets : https://data.gov.in/ Attendance of all government employees : https://attendance.gov.in/
rathish_g··on Google Pay reimagined: pay, save, manage expenses and more
Indian version of the Google Pay even has games. They have beautifully gamified the payments services.

BTW chat is really useful feature in P2P payments.

rathish_g··on Google Takeout: Export a copy of your data in Google services
Before downvoting, just try to use the new interface and try for youself. I have used takeout about 2 years back and it was okay. Ofcourse I had just few gigs at that time.

I have tried to spin off an Amazon EC2 instance to download and copy to an S3 bucket. But it logs out every few minutes disrupting the downloads. It will not allow to down the same file multiple times. If one zip fails, the whole set is useless.

rathish_g··on Google Takeout: Export a copy of your data in Google services
It's really hard to download from takeout.google.com these days. I have 86 gb data on my google account and is trying really hard to export.

- the export size is around 176 gb. Mostly photos.

- it has the option to move to one drive or box. But 100 gb on Google will be 200 gb on one drive. Images are copied into multiple folders to recreate the albums. Note that google photos automatically create albums for family and trips.

- tried to use 2gb zip to split the files. We have to click and download 100+ pieces of zip files. Even if one file is corrupt we are done. All this shows in a modal window. We can't download more than 5-8 files at a time.

- split it into 5gb zip files. Now download numbers are manageable, but the network keeps dropping and we have to download again. We can only retry 3 times making the entire set useless.

- no options to separate videos and photos.

- we only have a week to takeout and test the whole thing.

TLDR; it's designed to make sure that we don't actually take out the files...

rathish_g··on Git-Based Wiki
With mermaid digrams, formulas etc
rathish_g··on India, Jio, and the Four Internets
'Fastest' growing teleco.
rathish_g··on Ask HN: Google removed my site from search results, what can I do?
I have tried this 'perfect switch over' for a major domain after many months of planning. Everything worked fine for a month and then the traffic dropped to 30%. The traffic went back to normal level after few months.

As usual there was no response from Google/ Forums etc. All I could speculate is the loss of backlinks. It takes months to reach the original level.

Keep improving the site and you should be back and kicking in 6 months.

rathish_g··on Google Duo rolls out realtime AV1
Google is doing something at http://chat.google.com/ Looks like a fresh start and has features similar to slack and MS team.
rathish_g··on Facebook Takes $5.7B Stake in India’s Jio
Yes, its a payment play, but not using Bitcoin. WhatsApp is trying to roll out a UPI based payment solution in India for 2 years now.

Google, on the other hand, rolled out Google Pay (Previously Tez) based on UPI platform by teaming up with major banks. Its really popular these days.

rathish_g··on A Year Ago I Put Saltwater in a Jar [video]
Shrimp survived 17 years?
rathish_g··on YouTube videos that have almost zero previous views
Disable uBlock Origin. I had the same problem
rathish_g··on Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models
Pre-ordered paperback for approx $8 from India
rathish_g··on Your Android Phone Is a Security Key
Did you enable 2FA from https://admin.google.com/ for your account ?

Dashboard -> select Security -> Basic Settings -> Two-Step Verification setting

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