vinay_ys

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by vinay_ys 24d ago
Why does this feel like arms race where the only real winner is the arms seller?
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by vinay_ys 2mo ago
Their partner can use the same key. or they also register their own yubikey and keep it safe elsewhere.
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by vinay_ys 2mo ago
Long time ago I used to run qmail for my school (about 2000 users). It was a lot of fun to do as a student sysadmin. Today, I'm tempted to build a minimal mail system for 1-10 users using agentic coding and use it for less critical use
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by vinay_ys 2mo ago
They should buy a Yubikey (a physical key) and keep their passkeys resident on that. Then they can truly keep that physical key locked up in their safe. And it is truly safer than their physical notebook because they are safe from being tri
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by vinay_ys 2mo ago
The right question to ask is if it is enabling us to do more interesting things or take on harder or bigger problems that seemed too daunting before. That's what all delegation of tasks (to other humans or machines) have enabled humans
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by vinay_ys 2mo ago
All payment rails in India are RBI regulated directly or indirectly. NPCI is a non-profit section 8 company which is basically owned by the major PSU and private banks of India. And NPCI operates not just UPI, it also operates NEFT, IMPS, A
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by vinay_ys 2mo ago
AFAIK banks don't charge for NEFT transfers when initiated via their mobile app or Internet banking website. Fees apply only when you do it via their physical branch.
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by vinay_ys 2mo ago
Yep. Here's the accurate Month-to-date stats published daily by the network operator NPCI https://x.com/NPCI_NPCI . If you want official stats across all banks, across all payment rails, look at the central bank (RBI)&#
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by vinay_ys 2mo ago
The right comparison for Nasdaq's order processing volume or messaging volume would be India's National Stock Exchange (NSE). It does more executed orders per day than nasdaq. I worked on scaling UPI a few years ago. Real-time Pa
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by vinay_ys 2mo ago
Right now, almost all the incentives are to build very large models that run across many machines in huge datacenters. There is very little incentive to build models that can run well on a small machine under your desk. So it is less about
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by vinay_ys 2mo ago
I have not used voice mode much with chatgpt. I was surprised to learn that they were already not running the voice model like a UX orchestrator while utilizing other models in background for actual research/response etc. I guess it&#x
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by vinay_ys 3mo ago
You can externalize the things you consider as taste by writing down generalized statements, but those statements need boundary conditions and exceptions to be also specified. Except, exceptions have exceptions and when to apply the rule vs
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by vinay_ys 5mo ago
Even if you are on modern 5G network, and set your phone to never connect to 2G/3G network, your location is still compromised because the overall network is still backward compatible to support someone who might be trying to reach you
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by vinay_ys 5mo ago
Didn't he also say you are holding it wrong?
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by vinay_ys 6mo ago
I'm not buying another expensive AirPods from Apple until they have their story straight w.r.t battery health and battery repair that is cost-effective. I'm done wasting money on these only to have battery issues, clicking noises
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by vinay_ys 7mo ago
> that require legal to get involved and you do end up with documents that sound excessively broad If you let your legal team use such broad CYA language, it is usually because you are not sure what's going on and want CYA, or you a
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by vinay_ys 10mo ago
This. I got overload error on the very first prompt just now. Didn't expect google to run into overload error.
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by vinay_ys 2y ago
If cheap is what you are looking for, then yes, a wireguard running on your home server is the way to go. Instead of exposing your home-server directly to Internet, I would put it behind a cloudflare zero trust network access product (costs
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by vinay_ys 2y ago
Well, you are better off using Google Photos for securely accessing your photos over Internet. It is not a matter of securing it once, but one of keeping it secure all the time.
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by vinay_ys 2y ago
Interesting blast from the past. We built an oblivious p2p mesh network that did this in 2010. Back then, nobody cared about security as much as we thought they should. Since then, nobody still cares about security as much as they should. D
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by vinay_ys 2y ago
Find Zen in mundane daily repetitive tasks. Avoid all screens for first hour after you wake up (and the hour before you sleep). Stay focused in the moment – focus on your body and mind. First/last thing everyday, do these activities wi
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by vinay_ys 2y ago
The most common lock and key ergonomics that everyone is familiar with is the following: 1. You have a lock, you have a corresponding physical key. You can have more identical physical keys. All of them will unlock the lock. If you lose the
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by vinay_ys 2y ago
When someone puts a significant and useful software under an open license (like BSD) and nurtures a vibrant open-source community around it, sure, everyone else can definitely take it and use it for free. But nobody serious will use it just
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by vinay_ys 2y ago
co-develop := we are in f** around and f** out mode, please bear with us.
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by vinay_ys 2y ago
Any modern software design has to meet these 3-4 key aspects: 1. Make the software scalable w.r.t machines. 2. Make the software scalable w.r.t humans. 3. Make the software maintainable over time. 4. Make the software reusable to reduce sta
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by vinay_ys 2y ago
More than hormonal physiological effects, isn't psychological conditioning a much more dominant factor in consciously self-aware/acknowledged sexual desire? (Especially when it is being measured through self-reporting). Until we i
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by vinay_ys 2y ago
Performance characteristics of the underlying hardware dictate the software abstractions that make sense. In today's machines, we still have differential cost for sequential, aligned, rightly sized block io operations vs random io oper
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by vinay_ys 2y ago
Couple of important lessons that will keep you in good stead for a long time: 1. Learn how to learn well, continuously, and sustainably. Tech changes rapidly. And you will want to hop from one domain to another, just for keeping things inte
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by vinay_ys 2y ago
It takes a lot of effort to build a system that is both user-friendly and does implement sophisticated mechanisms to prevent bypassing permissions controls. Apple has taken the pains to do that well and then to maintain it against an unendi
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by vinay_ys 2y ago
A lot of people who eat this produce and don't take any supplements are healthy and doing fine. If the nutrient levels have really fallen so much, then, how come malnutrition isn't an epidemic?

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