thatloststudent

> A nano banana photo-editing app where I don’t have to write a prompt. Just give me hundreds of templates from trying out different haircuts to seeing what you and your partner’s kid would look like to making me look like The Rock. A photo editing super-app.

Quite a few of these "ideas" make me think that the human behind it wants to maximize laziness. Glazing over what Hemingway kinda sorta would have thought about something fits into this pretty well.

Not really, this is more of an internet meme [1].

[1] - https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/pm-modi-responds-to-it...

I want to expand on this more as someone more familiar with Bangalore/Bengaluru.

Almost like clockwork, Blume Ventures releases a report every year about the state of the Indian startup ecosystem that year, and since Bengaluru startups are almost all concentrated around Koramangala or HSR layout (these are places inside Bengaluru with their own PIN/address codes), you'll find a lot of people talking about that online.

Is it that hard to find? This[1] took me one search on YouTube. I agree that India is filthy, but it's not hard to find such videos for China either.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hEJKOD1ux14

"The Ugly Indian" [1] (a ragtag group of anonymous citizens) usually does that in India. In reality, though, these kinds of issues are only really seen as a minor inconvenience at most. Anecdotally, most middle-class people in here frown upon chewing tobacco, so I assume the government thinks that as long as they keep it relatively clean, nobody would think of dirtying it with their paan stains.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tf1VA5jqmRo

I'm Indian. We also learned that Carbon dating was a thing somewhere between Middle School and High School. I also believe that the reference to isotopes was hyperbolic and that he actually wanted to talk about the fact that we teach the basics of Nuclear fission, fusion and radioactive decay in high school. [1]

In hindsight, it's funny that we use radioactive decay as one of the filters for an entrance exam for University. [2]

1 - https://ncert.nic.in/textbook/pdf/leph205.pdf

2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Entrance_Examination

I interpreted it as knowing the basics of nuclear physics in order to do a CS Bachelor's degree, which is what the entrance exam for these colleges ask.

From what I see running the test on my phone, there's an option to tunnel DNS through Rethink here, which you can change to the VPN's DNS. Everything else is tunneled by default through wireguard. Maybe there's a configuration issue on your end?

Not really on topic, but is there any plan on integrating tailscale with it? There's a userspace mode for tailscale that exposes a socks proxy, but you currently have to spawn that with Termux or another terminal, then forward your traffic on Rethink.

I didn't intend for this to be propaganda, I don't even use it anymore since I'm on grapheneOS now. But I have tried all three. I need to use a VPN in split mode for certain apps, and since using Tor with apps wasn't part of my threat model, I ended up using RethinkDNS (the app only). I don't necessarily like their upstream DNS servers, but considering that I can use my own server (and do), I don't consider that to be an issue.

There's RethinkDNS [1](not affiliated to them, just like their software). Sometimes it gets killed on my phone, but otherwise it's a great replacement, adds some much-needed features like proxies and wireguard VPNs on top of a DNS and app level control.

[1] - https://f-droid.org/packages/com.celzero.bravedns/

There's no need to dream about it, it already exists: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.celzero.bravedns/

I used to use it when I wasn't on grapheneOS and needed to block internet access.

Newpipe takes care of this pretty well. You can select what it calls "Channel groups", which would be a feed of a subset of your subscriptions.

I tried the same route, but got the logs correctly. It gave me a HTTP 410 error. I wouldn't be surprised at all if VLC's youtube plugin is just too old and there's a better one somewhere else. But in the meanwhile, mpv's plugin works (if you're using yt-dlp and not youtube-dl, that is)

You should be able to do this with radio-browser.info [1]. Specifically, look at the documentation that lists all stations.

[1] - https://de1.api.radio-browser.info/#General

I like how flexible matrix bots are but there are some problems that I'm not able to easily solve, like finding out when a new person joins a matrix room because the m.join event is used for user info changes as well as joins.

Edit: I found this [1] table that hopefully simplifies things, I'll see if that works out.

[1]: https://spec.matrix.org/v1.8/client-server-api/#mroommember

More importantly, it is indexable by search engines (if you use view.matrix.org). But it's not as simple to use as discord quite yet. I say this as a self-hosted matrix user, but it's not quite as simple to call someone else (until element call becomes a thing) or use custom emojis, to show a few problems.

This [1] is the list that UAD uses.

[1] - https://github.com/Universal-Debloater-Alliance/universal-an...

Not the OP, but the beeper client looks better and has native GIF support, among other niceties that more "normal" users would prefer over other clients.

Isn't mautrix/signal supposed to work on the cloud? Or is there some work that has been done to make it work on the phone?

Used to be that way, they decided to give it out for free for the time being. [1]

[1] - https://blog.beeper.com/p/beeper-is-now-free

This [1] makes me think gobpf uses C bindings to bcc, so golang does not compile to eBPF, bcc does.

[1] - https://github.com/iovisor/gobpf/tree/master/bcc

I definitely feel a large German presence as a very active Matrix user, but Hetzner and Contabo are also some of the cheapest providers, so it just makes more logical sense to use their VPSes and bare metal servers.

I don't think it has anything to do with Germans or French people. Hetzner, Contabo and OVH are just popular (and cheap) providers to host bare metal instances, and they're not big tech. Those two reasons are probably why we're seeing a lot of them.

This is what I assumed as a non-native speaker. He didn't really care about the word "Oriental", rather about the way he seemingly justifies punching people presumably beneath him.

I currently live in South India, and the lowest number I can fathom from this estimate of yours ($1253012 = $45000) is an pretty high salary that people in the level of Director get. If you're in places flush with VC funding, you _might_ get that at a slightly lower level of management, or you need to be in a FAANG company.

>Hindus worship Brahman As a Hindu, some people see this as the ultimate truth, while quite a lot of others don't. There are a lot of paths to salvation, depends on whom you ask.

Interesting that you rank some state boards as better than CBSE. Where I'm from (Karnataka), the state board textbooks felt like they weren't nearly as rigorous or interesting as the CBSE equivalents. Any particular state boards that you're referring to?

It would be good to let android users and desktop users (even if only through changing user-agents) to browse the website.

Even if I emulate the user-agent of an iPhone, it needs me to run it from the homescreen.

This connotation is present in India too. For example, the local church here has it as well [1].

I'm a Hindu, so my mind definitely did not go there.

[1]: https://www.google.com/maps/@12.8738405,74.8453608,3a,75y,90...