iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Aroon Deep @aroon.in · 02/06/2026

Imagine enshittifying a service that nobody even uses to begin with...

010

Aroon Deep @aroon.in · 08/05/2026

Only positive of this whole saga. Man must be cluelessly bored there

000

Aroon Deep @aroon.in · 30/04/2026

I can completely map out the Global South Kool-Aid mentality that led to this host city selection. What a mess.

000

Reposted by Aroon Deep

Techmeme @techmeme.com · 24/04/2026

Source: Meta has a system in India to "automatically restrict content, at scale" to meet local law, massively expanding the country's censorship powers (Aroon Deep/The Hindu) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

036

Reposted by Aroon Deep

Techmeme @techmeme.com · 24/04/2026

China's top market regulator says it is launching a six-month crackdown on the country's online ad sector, targeting malpractices including the misuse of AI (Ben Jiang/South China Morning Post) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

011

Aroon Deep @aroon.in · 18/03/2026

Free speech as a priority has fallen off a cliff even for civil society people. We're really going to get China's internet without China's economy

000

Reposted by Aroon Deep

Kris @cookieduh.xyz · 09/03/2026

People don’t seem to get how far along LLMs have come especially within the software development lifecycle area . Like the next iteration of engineers are going to focus more on curation / prompt engineering / conflict resolution than writing code

241

Reposted by Aroon Deep

Karthik @beastoftraal.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Was India aware that an Iranian ship that was returning to Iran after being India's guest for an official event was sunk by an American submarine in our own backyard? I hope India musters courage at least now to speak up, and protest against US, the bully.

021

Aroon Deep @aroon.in · 22/02/2026

Potentially pissed off Yann LeCun in Gurgaon while chasing a deadline. How has your weekend been?

000

Aroon Deep @aroon.in · 16/02/2026

By scanning at the theatre. This hashed URL is there in the newer certificates, but it is not predictable.

100

Aroon Deep @aroon.in · 14/02/2026

This technique is deprecated. CBFC uses hashed URLs now

110

Aroon Deep @aroon.in · 15/01/2026

We are mixture mama of the global south

020

Aroon Deep @aroon.in · 14/01/2026

These were MTNL SIMs?

100

Aroon Deep @aroon.in · 14/01/2026

This is why India will only allow Starlink kicking and screaming. The government wants the policy space to turn off the entire internet at will, if shit hits the fan. And they also want the policy space for, when shit does hit the fan, to crack down brutally.

NYT extract: [Elon] Musk’s ability to turn Starlink on and off in places, as well as his dominance in space with satellites and rockets, has made him a formidable and unpredictable geopolitical player.

1115

Aroon Deep @aroon.in · 12/01/2026

Amazing that we smothered linear TV to death/containment to previous generation before things like this could happen.

010

Aroon Deep @aroon.in · 12/01/2026

The Indian film and TV industry are in hibernation this generation. Best principle is to just wait for this medium to begin anew at some point, led by names who are nobodies today. Hope I'm alive to see the day.

151

Aroon Deep @aroon.in · 07/01/2026

Looks like they're blocking outbound RDP connections. Nothing I can do to get them to unblock it. As a middle solution I've got them to uninstall some bloatware that was not required by company policy.

110

Aroon Deep @aroon.in · 07/01/2026

Like any Hindu organization formed after 1991 in a place where Hindus are already present in decent numbers should set off alarm bells.

120

Aroon Deep @aroon.in · 07/01/2026

If only there were a way to ascertain the credibility of such community organisations...

Hindu community leaders have warned Sir Keir Starmer that Labour’s new Islamophobia definition will have a “significant chilling effect” on freedom of speech.
They say it conflates hostility towards Muslims with criticism of the religion of Islam, which would mean Hindus speaking about their historical persecution under Islamic empires in South Asia would fall foul of the definition.
Last week, the Hindu Council UK wrote a letter to Steve...

(Hindu Council UK is highlighted.)

Screenshot from RSS Tracker by The Caravan showing Hindu Council UK as having a linkage to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh with a linkage of 1 (high score). Organisation was founded in 1994.

171

Aroon Deep @aroon.in · 02/01/2026

I remote into my home PC because work machine isn't fast enough. Something mysterious is adding a 200 millisecond speedbreaker to this and making the whole thing unusable.

100

Aroon Deep @aroon.in · 02/01/2026

I have spoken to one of the ten most talented people in the country on this issue to troubleshoot. Still no luck 🥹

120

Aroon Deep @aroon.in · 30/12/2025

This Kalshi market (~$10k) has Homebound's nomination odds at eighth rank.

Screenshot of the betting market Kalshi with a list of likely Oscar nominees for Best International Feature. Homebound is #8.

031

Aroon Deep @aroon.in · 30/12/2025

I've done it again, I'm embroiled in a tech issue so niche that no troubleshooting is available

010

Aroon Deep @aroon.in · 28/12/2025

This is just insane to live through

Latest air quality in Delhi. US AQI+ 975, 564 micrograms/m³. Hazardous.

000

Aroon Deep @aroon.in · 27/12/2025

Yes, I was splurging these credits precisely because I ran into that limit. Reached out to customer care when the credits were removed from my account, and they restored them - but warned me that it would be best to spend them in order to avoid the carryover issue.

010

Aroon Deep @aroon.in · 27/12/2025

Or a day possibly. Perhaps there to prevent hackers from abusing access to abandoned accounts with an active subscription

110

Aroon Deep @aroon.in · 27/12/2025

Tried redeeming a few Audible titles with freshly recovered credits from a long-ago lapsed subscription. Couldn't spend beyond ten credits. Can't find anything online about this. So looks like I've run into a cap that literally nobody else has faced/complained about.

110

Aroon Deep @aroon.in · 26/12/2025

Please, would be very helpful 🙏

010

Reposted by Aroon Deep

Nikhil @nixxin.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Apps in ChatGPT aren’t destinations... they’re just tools. Developers don’t own the interface, the brand, the interaction, or even when their app gets called. It's just "jobs to be done". ChatGPT is the selector, the umpire, the ground, the conditions and potential future opposing team, all at the

isreasoned.substack.com

The Opportunity Trap of the ChatGPT App Store

In the AI world, context is currency.

011

Aroon Deep @aroon.in · 26/12/2025

Don't tell me. I just got a subscription for that place, that is the extent of my desperation. Predictably, a total dud. The market is also at the worst it's ever been now :(

110

Aroon Deep @aroon.in · 26/12/2025

(Yes, I'm house hunting right now so this is to me the apex of evil)

110

Aroon Deep @aroon.in · 26/12/2025

Haha, no. I'll be a broker. Why bother with value creation when I can just leech off both sides of the transaction 😈

210

Aroon Deep @aroon.in · 26/12/2025

Same — I'd have gone into real estate so fast

110

Aroon Deep @aroon.in · 26/12/2025

There's also the people desperately trying to make some USD with mechanical recycled ragebait and 2016 memes. It's just a bit much.

110

Aroon Deep @aroon.in · 26/12/2025

Been good man, just giving this a second shake because the other place is leading to insane levels of brain rot

220

Aroon Deep @aroon.in · 25/12/2025

Any India accounts still on here?

451

Aroon Deep @aroon.in · 10/07/2025

First time I'm feeling a quake at home in Delhi. Milestone!

020

Aroon Deep @aroon.in · 23/05/2025

Well turns out I was wrong about that

010

Aroon Deep @aroon.in · 08/05/2025

Some of these overreaches will take years of peacetime to roll back.

161

Aroon Deep @aroon.in · 27/03/2025

BLACK BAG has been certified with an 'A' age rating. Smoking warnings have been added on all scenes with smoking. Liquor warnings have been added on all scenes with liquor. All instances of two gendered swears have been muted. #CBFCWatch

110