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Kiran Jonnalagadda

@jackerhack.ing
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Type A personality: champion procrastinator. Co-founder @hasgeek.com, still have a day job there, but considering a break to write on identity vs identification. Signal: kiran.11 Web: jackerhack.ing

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Kiran Jonnalagadda @jackerhack.ing · 25/05/2026
A unified metro between Bangalore and Hosur. This is the USSI dream.
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Kiran Jonnalagadda @jackerhack.ing · 21/01/2026
I did some Vibe Cutting today. Asked Gemini Pro to plan cutouts of ACP panels from a large sheet. They wouldn't all fit, so after only eighteen rounds I had a usable plan with the most important panels (rest later). Gemini khush hua. I have been a good worker for the AI master.
Cutting a panel.Thumbnails of 18 proposed layouts.Worktable with plan.Gemini acknowledging my effort and learning.
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Kiran Jonnalagadda @jackerhack.ing · 09/01/2026
Went to the local Lenskart store to buy reading glasses. They wanted my phone number. Whatever for? To send an OTP! Checkout not possible without this. Left without buying. What has the world come to? Simple retail purchases need KYC now?
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Dan Izzo @izzos.net · 12/12/2025
We all know Clarke's "sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" Well we have corollary:
Image of Shax from Star Trek Lower Decks with the words "Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice"
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
NEW: Five years of social media history is only a fraction of what the US Government will shortly demand of overseas visitors. The full requirements will end tourism in the United States. Below is the full, mind-blowing list. 🚨THEY. WANT. YOUR. DNA.🚨 1/
- All social media accounts from the last 5 years
- All your biometrics: face, fingerprint, DNA, and iris
- All your phone numbers from the last 5 years
- All your email addresses from the last 10 years
- IP addresses and metadata from your submitted photos
- Names of your family members (parents, spouse, siblings, children)
- All your family members' phone numbers from the last 5 years
- Your family members' dates of birth
- Your family members' places of birth
- Your family members' residencies
- All your business phone numbers from the last 5 years
- All your business email addresses from the last 10 years
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Kiran Jonnalagadda @jackerhack.ing · 12/12/2025
In a data-rich society – of the kind we idolise in India – the main agenda shifts from better education to better censorship. LLM makers already compete on it, because 👇 happens. You can bet every other authority will want a slice of this action. futurism.com/artificial-i...
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Elon Musk's Grok AI Is Doxxing Home Addresses of Everyday People
Elon Musk's Grox chatbot will happily cough up real, current residential addresses of everyday Americans, with little to no prompting.
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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
NEW: Elon Musk's Grok chatbot will, with minimal prompting, provide residential addresses of everyday Americans. Prompts as simple as "[name] address" immediately returned accurate home addresses of private citizens — alongside other personal info we didn't ask for. futurism.com/future-socie...
Futurism

Groxxing

Elon Musk’s Grok Is Doxxing Home Addresses of Everyday People
Grok is a stalker's best friend.

Image: Elon Musk doing a gesture that looks a whole lot like a Nazi salute over a bunch of censored information about private citizens, generated by his chatbot, Grok.
By Maggie Harrison Dupré, Joe Wilkins

Published Dec 4, 2025 9:05 AM EST
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Kiran Jonnalagadda @jackerhack.ing · 12/12/2025
Wanted: book search and shopping tool that sends enquiries to my local bookshops instead of Amazon. ONDC, but without the rush. Bonus for Libgen downloads so I'm already in the flow when the distraction-free edition arrives.
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Kiran Jonnalagadda @jackerhack.ing · 07/12/2025
If all KYC is just SMS OTP, then even government-controlled identity systems like Aadhaar are just another OTT, available only through the benevolence of a telecom provider giving you network coverage. The state also is just a telco OTT. That's where SIM binding is taking us.
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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
"I am not convinced that the current set of known technologies gets us to AGI." CEO of IBM volunteers that language is not intelligence on Decoder and throws cold water on LLMs alone getting to AGI. A good one! -> www.theverge.com/podcast/8298...
Have you told Sam [Altman]? Because he seems to think he can get both the CapEx and the return.

But that’s a belief. It’s a belief that one company is going to be the only company that gets the entire market. I got it, that’s a belief. That’s what some people like to chase. I understand that from their perspective, but that’s different from agreeing with them. “Understand” is different from “agree.” I think it’s fine. I mean, they’re chasing it. Some people will make money, some people will lose money. All the [infrastructure] being built will be useful if it goes away, but if they make it, then they are the sole surviving company.

Nilay, I will be clear. I am not convinced, or rather I give it really low odds — we’re talking like 0 to 1 percent — that the current set of known technologies gets us to AGI. That’s my bigger gap. I think that this current set is great. I think it’s incredibly useful for enterprise. I think it’s going to unlock trillions of dollars of productivity in the enterprise, just to be absolutely clear.

That said, I think AGI will require more technologies than the current LLM path. I think it’ll require fusing knowledge with LLMs. We have words, and I’m not sure that’s the only way to create knowledge.
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Kiran Jonnalagadda @jackerhack.ing · 01/12/2025
That's my vehicle number and I've driven 400 km in the past week, more than my average quarter, so this got my attention – but really? With an APK attachment? We've normalised sideloading this much? Govt innovation in coercion 🤝 Fraudsters
WhatsApp message claiming a traffic violation, with evidence available through the attached app APK.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
This NYT story about how Mamdani dealt with the opposition by the city's elites fails to mention one particular elite institution: The NYT editorial page, which last June railed against him as "uniquely unsuited to the city’s challenges... lacks political savvy" www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/n... 1/
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How Zohran Mamdani Beat Back New York’s Elite and Was Elected Mayor
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Kiran Jonnalagadda @jackerhack.ing · 05/11/2025
Wanted: product that converts video tutorials into text and image manuals by removing all the unnecessary frames where a mouse is dramatically sneaking up on a toolbar button. Bonus for also removing the instructor's life commentary – I'll pay to not be their therapist.
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Sam @samuelhlowe.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
- I can’t believe I was hacked. - What was your password? - The year the Mongol Empire, with the help of the Southern Song dynasty, completed its conquest of the Jin dynasty after the final Jin stronghold of Caizhou fell. - And when was that? - 1234
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Kiran Jonnalagadda @jackerhack.ing · 16/10/2025
I need to fill a hollow structure (furniture leg) with something heavy (and cheap). Tried sand but it caused grief: too fine, swells with moisture, wedges open joints. What should I try instead? Gravel? Steel balls? Sand with glue? Or go YOLO and add cement to make concrete?
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Kiran Jonnalagadda @jackerhack.ing · 14/10/2025
This drip feed of deliveries is draining the enthusiasm from my project. Twenty days! Someone disrupt Misumi, please!
Misumi shipping schedule in 14 installments between October 8 and 28.
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Kiran Jonnalagadda @jackerhack.ing · 10/10/2025
Making another thing. A table with no top.
Extrusion table
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Kiran Jonnalagadda @jackerhack.ing · 08/10/2025
Making a thing.
CAD drawing of a filament spool box.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Breaking character: Ken White has a fantastic post about how "free speech culture" undermines free speech. It's something I've thought about a lot before, but Ken knows way more about it than I do and explains it really well. www.popehat.com/p/how-free-s...
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How "Free Speech Culture" Is Killing Free Speech: Part One
Blurring The Lines Between Official Censorship And Individual Criticism Built The Intellectual Foundation For Trump's Assault On Free Expression
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Kiran Jonnalagadda @jackerhack.ing · 23/09/2025
At India FOSS last weekend, I spoke about daydreaming with a Raspberry Pi and DIY homelab server racks. It starts at ≈57:40 in the livestream here. Half hour of your time. www.youtube.com/live/FtF-I0-... Instructions: jackerhack.ing/notes/202503...
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YouTube
Sessions start at 2 PM IST. Schedule is: 2:00 PM - Introduction and Opening Remarks 2:05 PM - Jigita - Jump to Soldering Joy from Pain by Shree Kumar 2:40 PM - VoltQuest: Open Source Hardware Gaming by Giriprashad 3:05 PM - Homelabbing with Bare Metal by Kiran Jonnalagadda 3:40 PM - CoryDora: A Macropad, A Supply Chain, and A Case for Local Manufacturing by Balu Babu 4:15 PM - Makerville Badge by Anuj Deshpande 4:40 PM - Because Glancing at Your Phone While Riding Two-Wheelers Is Dumb!!! by Rishi Krishna S 5:00 PM - Thank you and Closing Rermarks
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Kiran Jonnalagadda @jackerhack.ing · 19/09/2025
Preach.
Quote: "The laws of logic which ultimately govern the world of the mind are, by their nature, essentially invariable; they are com­ mon not only to all periods and places but to all subjects of whatever kind, without any distinction even between those that we call the real and the chimerical; they are to be seen even in dreams."
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Jitin @jitin.xyz · 18/09/2025
This reminded me of another Nehru story on these lines:
In 1937, Nehru had been elected president of the Indian National Congress for the third time. But he was worried that the Indian people may begin to perceive his and the INC's prominence as Caesarism-akin to the dictatorship of Roman Emperor Julius Caesar, a charismatic authoritarian leader whose rule
was characterised by the cult of his personality. Cognisant and cautious of the dangers of his own pride and position, he wrote an essay titled "Rashtrapati," under the pseudonym Chanakya. The essay was published in 1937 in the Modern Review—a Calcutta-based monthly journal founded by Bengali thinker Ramananda Chatterjee in
1907. In it, "Chanakya" describes Nehru as
"some triumphant Caesar passing by," who might turn dictator with "a little twist."
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Kiran Jonnalagadda @jackerhack.ing · 18/09/2025
TIL the Dyson Sphere is satire. Freeman Dyson was likely frustrated at limited resources being wasted on utopian projects, so he proposed his own utopia of unlimited resources. Hahaha! youtu.be/fLzEX1TPBFM
youtu.be
dyson spheres are a joke
I found pdfs of a bunch of these papers so I will just link there: Original Dyson…
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Kiran Jonnalagadda @jackerhack.ing · 18/09/2025
Farewell.
Funeral pyre.
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Kiran Jonnalagadda @jackerhack.ing · 08/09/2025
On the early morning drive to meet with the departed, I found potholes marked with yellow gravestones. An invitation to occupy if the destination is too far. Two commuters made a dash to retrieve their helmet, asserting against the inevitable: not today.
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Kiran Jonnalagadda @jackerhack.ing · 03/09/2025
Why is there a black actor in blackface in this film? What is this supposed to mean?
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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
former kids who read too many books and didnt know how to pronounce the words you learned gang say hey
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Kiran Jonnalagadda @jackerhack.ing · 24/08/2025
Delicious toast.
Prologue from Meet the Savarnas by Ravikant Kisana.
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Kiran Jonnalagadda @jackerhack.ing · 19/08/2025
Debian/Ubuntu (and RPiOS, etc) users, what's your cope for Debian's glacially slow package updates? What's your goto secondary package manager? Snap? Nix? Homebrew? Mise? Asdf? Bespoke PPAs? Assuming not Flatpak as that's desktop-only.
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Jack @ascienceguy99.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
As a teacher, can confirm. My admin has suggested its use for lesson planning. I know of plenty of teachers using it rn. I’ve always said, if ai can do your job, why would someone pay you to do it. I think it’s only going to get worse and less smart teachers will be teaching your kids.
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Kiran Jonnalagadda @jackerhack.ing · 17/08/2025
How do you manage your SSH private keys? Separate keys on each of your devices? Stored in secure enclave where available? Or the same key(s), copied over manually? Or via a password manager that has ssh-agent functionality? Life was simple when I only had a laptop and phone. Now I need a plan.
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Kiran Jonnalagadda @jackerhack.ing · 10/08/2025
Every interaction I have with an LLP feels like I'm interviewing an intern with trick questions. Confidently wrong answer, gotcha moment, then fervent apology because they don't want to lose the opportunity. When are we getting the flying car delivery of an LLM we can rely on?
Gemini says this is an Intel NXP CPUGemini makes a heartfelt apology.
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Kiran Jonnalagadda @jackerhack.ing · 03/08/2025
Wanted: a password manager extension that will also fish out “verify email” links from email, because that is the only thing I use email for anymore.
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David Cook @bighuggybear.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
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Star Trek Minus Context @nocontexttrek1.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
It's the weekend, baby
Star Trek Voyager scene. Seven of Nine (tertiary adjunct of unimatrix 01) is pictured. She has a dolphin shaped metal robotic implant around her left eye because she is a borgs. Closed caption reads, "Fun will now commence."
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Kiran Jonnalagadda @jackerhack.ing · 01/08/2025
Dear Amazon, could you please slow down on your sales extravaganza so I can checkout once in a while?
Amazon checkout error message about too much traffic.
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Kiran Jonnalagadda @jackerhack.ing · 31/07/2025
Amazed this exists. With every passing day one can feel the transition of the Western tech ecosystem turning downstream of Chinese tech. Everything in emerging hardware is Chinese-first. Sharp contrast with India, where the only thing we're exporting is KYC.
Screenshot from Project ImmortalWrt on GitHub, a China-focused fork of the OpenWrt project.
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Kiran Jonnalagadda @jackerhack.ing · 26/07/2025
I have another unicorn product request. What's a DAC that's also a digital audio mixer with multiple simultaneous digital inputs (USB/HDMI/BT) and independent controls? Fosi Audio ZD3 has inputs but isn't a mixer. Behringer Flow 8 has 1xBT+1xUSB×2 but sharing one volume fader.
Behringer Flow 8 mixer app screenshot showing a single fader control for Bluetooth and USB inputs.
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Kiran Jonnalagadda @jackerhack.ing · 25/07/2025
Music Assistant is the first genuinely great thing I've stumbled into this year. All my music from all my sources to all my household devices. Multi-source multi-room audio without ecosystem lockdown, and it actually works!
Settings screen with providers and playersAvailable providers.Available players.Technical info when playing.
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Kiran Jonnalagadda @jackerhack.ing · 16/07/2025
New camera’s overheating. There are camera coolers, but THEY WANT HOW MUCH MONEY FOR A FAN IN A BOX? So I made my own with spare parts. 50x50 heatsink, 4010 12V fan, a USB-PD 12V trigger and a 3D printed case. Topped off with a copper plate cut to size because I had no spare thermal pad.
3D model for a camera cooler made in FreeCAD.Underside with a copper plate over an aluminium heatsink and a USB-PD decoy trigger set to 12V, covered with Kapton tape.Frontside with a 4010 fan blowing onto the heatsink, fins exposed to the sides, with a USB-C port on the bottom left.Cooler mounted on the camera with a small strip of foam tape for grip tension.
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no. @joles.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
applying for jobs again
screenshot from an online job application form. the question reads "Can you describe specific ways you have integrated AI tools into your development workflow? Please include any custom setups, automations, or use cases beyond single prompt usage" (a red asterisk indicates that this is a required question).

an answer has been typed in the textbox below the question:

"there is a monster in the forest and it speaks with a thousand voices. it will answer any question you pose it, it will offer insight to any idea. it will help you, it will thank you, it will never bid you leave. it will even tell you of the darkest arts, if you know precisely how to ask.

it feels no joy and no sorrow, it knows no right and no wrong. it knows not truth from lie, though it speaks them all the same.
 
it offers its services freely to any passerby, and many will tell you they find great value in its conversation. “you simply must visit the monster—i always just ask the monster.”

there are those who know these forests well; they will tell you that freely offered doesn’t mean it has no price

for when the next traveler passes by, the monster speaks with a thousand and one voices. and when you dream you see the monster; the monster wears your face."
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Kiran Jonnalagadda @jackerhack.ing · 10/07/2025
Do you remember when China's Great Firewall was the main topic? When we took pride in our open internet? Now I can't say anything online without posts disappearing and angry mobs descending to label it fake news. I don't know, there must be a term to describe this phenomenon.
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Kiran Jonnalagadda @jackerhack.ing · 07/07/2025
Did you know "passkey" is an anagram for "reset password"?
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Kiran Jonnalagadda @jackerhack.ing · 07/07/2025
One day I'd like to have this level of confidence in my footnotes.
Footnote 152 in Ambedkar's "Who Were The Shudras" reads "I am sorry, I have lost the reference."
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Kiran Jonnalagadda @jackerhack.ing · 04/07/2025
WTF is happening in Indian e-commerce? We’ve replaced AliExpress with this?
Stereo ¼” female to two mono ¼” male Y-cable priced about ₹1700 at multiple stores.
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Kiran Jonnalagadda @jackerhack.ing · 30/06/2025
Does Wikipedia have an annotation to mark the History section of a topic as incomplete or biased if it covers only the history in the Western tradition? Take "vacuum" for instance: surely it occurred to someone other than the ancient Greeks? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum
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Vacuum - Wikipedia
A vacuum (pl.: vacuums or vacua) is space devoid of matter. The word is derived from the Latin adjective vacuus (neuter vacuum) meaning "vacant" or "void". An approximation to such vacuum is a…
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Kiran Jonnalagadda @jackerhack.ing · 28/06/2025
Every morning I stumble out of bed and head to the toilet, then feed the cats. They've figured it out. Now they eavesdrop at the door while I take a dump for the appropriate moment to launch fanfare and a victory parade to the kitchen. Every morning a celebration.
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
I saw another interview w Lavinglia and what emerged clearly is how drunk software engineers are on efficiency & optimization that they imagine them to be transferable concepts that can easily be ported into labor, service, and knowledge sectors in which they have no experience.
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Kiran Jonnalagadda @jackerhack.ing · 25/06/2025
There are hallucinations in LLMs, and there are the ancients. Y’all realise today’s AI slop is going to be around forever as divine scripture?
Excerpt from the Taittiriya Brahmana, section ii.2.9.1.Continued to page 2.Continued to page 3.
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