Kiran Jonnalagadda @jackerhack.ing · 25/05/2026A unified metro between Bangalore and Hosur. This is the USSI dream. 110
Kiran Jonnalagadda @jackerhack.ing · 21/01/2026I 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. 010
Kiran Jonnalagadda @jackerhack.ing · 09/01/2026Went 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? 100
Reposted by Kiran JonnalagaddaDan Izzo @izzos.net · 12/12/2025We all know Clarke's "sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" Well we have corollary: 159102712317
Reposted by Kiran JonnalagaddaNews Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 11/12/2025NEW: 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/ 22519251190
Kiran Jonnalagadda @jackerhack.ing · 12/12/2025In 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...futurism.comElon Musk's Grok AI Is Doxxing Home Addresses of Everyday PeopleElon Musk's Grox chatbot will happily cough up real, current residential addresses of everyday Americans, with little to no prompting. 010
Reposted by Kiran JonnalagaddaMaggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 04/12/2025NEW: 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... 11026981518
Kiran Jonnalagadda @jackerhack.ing · 12/12/2025They're using some stupid security tool that seems to have blocked my entire ISP because they use CGNAT and everyone gets the same public IPv4 address. There are other websites using the same stupid tool. 100
Kiran Jonnalagadda @jackerhack.ing · 12/12/2025Maybe @bookshop.org should let me visit their website. 100
Kiran Jonnalagadda @jackerhack.ing · 12/12/2025Wanted: 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. 110
Kiran Jonnalagadda @jackerhack.ing · 07/12/2025If 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. 000
Reposted by Kiran Jonnalagaddanilay 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... 1018130
Kiran Jonnalagadda @jackerhack.ing · 01/12/2025The surprise is they didn't have my name. What dataset had vehicle+phone but not name? I've just heard from others about similar messages and last week's attempt had the wrong name. Guess they've evolved by removing the unreliable data point. 000
Kiran Jonnalagadda @jackerhack.ing · 01/12/2025That'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 300
Reposted by Kiran JonnalagaddaBill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 05/11/2025This 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/nytimes.comHow Zohran Mamdani Beat Back New York’s Elite and Was Elected Mayor 844982841
Kiran Jonnalagadda @jackerhack.ing · 05/11/2025Wanted: 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. 011
Reposted by Kiran JonnalagaddaSam @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 12570178
Kiran Jonnalagadda @jackerhack.ing · 16/10/2025I 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? 200
Kiran Jonnalagadda @jackerhack.ing · 14/10/2025This drip feed of deliveries is draining the enthusiasm from my project. Twenty days! Someone disrupt Misumi, please! 010
Reposted by Kiran JonnalagaddaNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 23/09/2025Breaking 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...popehat.comHow "Free Speech Culture" Is Killing Free Speech: Part OneBlurring The Lines Between Official Censorship And Individual Criticism Built The Intellectual Foundation For Trump's Assault On Free Expression 211164262
Kiran Jonnalagadda @jackerhack.ing · 23/09/2025At 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...youtube.comYouTubeSessions 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 011
Reposted by Kiran JonnalagaddaJitin @jitin.xyz · 18/09/2025This reminded me of another Nehru story on these lines: 121
Kiran Jonnalagadda @jackerhack.ing · 18/09/2025TIL 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/fLzEX1TPBFMyoutu.bedyson spheres are a jokeI found pdfs of a bunch of these papers so I will just link there: Original Dyson… 021
Kiran Jonnalagadda @jackerhack.ing · 08/09/2025On 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. 010
Kiran Jonnalagadda @jackerhack.ing · 03/09/2025Why is there a black actor in blackface in this film? What is this supposed to mean? 000
Reposted by Kiran JonnalagaddaTal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 31/08/2025former kids who read too many books and didnt know how to pronounce the words you learned gang say hey 6454014348
Kiran Jonnalagadda @jackerhack.ing · 19/08/2025I'm going to put SSH keys in a YubiKey and see if the yubikey-agent included in Debian is usable. 010
Kiran Jonnalagadda @jackerhack.ing · 19/08/2025Debian/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. 220
Kiran Jonnalagadda @jackerhack.ing · 18/08/2025Devices without encrypted filesystems and strong lockscreens are a worry. For instance, I need to test code on an SBC, but those typically have no disk encryption and have autologin enabled, so how do I de-risk them? 100
Reposted by Kiran JonnalagaddaJack @ascienceguy99.bsky.social · 08/08/2025As 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. 2509
Kiran Jonnalagadda @jackerhack.ing · 17/08/2025Isn't wanton ssh-import-id a bit of a security risk? It depends on your GitHub account being secure and it's potentially adding too many keys to a server that's now vulnerable to any of your devices becoming compromised. 100
Kiran Jonnalagadda @jackerhack.ing · 17/08/2025How 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. 110
Kiran Jonnalagadda @jackerhack.ing · 10/08/2025Every 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? 020
Kiran Jonnalagadda @jackerhack.ing · 03/08/2025Wanted: 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. 120
Reposted by Kiran JonnalagaddaStar Trek Minus Context @nocontexttrek1.bsky.social · 02/08/2025It's the weekend, baby 1057487
Kiran Jonnalagadda @jackerhack.ing · 01/08/2025Dear Amazon, could you please slow down on your sales extravaganza so I can checkout once in a while? 020
Kiran Jonnalagadda @jackerhack.ing · 31/07/2025Amazed 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. 130