nilesh

Building AIs at https://snowmountain.ai

I love machines, maths, and music.

❤️ https://isfixable.com

Previously: Meta, Foresight Institute, ClearTax, Gupshup, IIML, IITKGP

Twitter: https://x.com/nileshtrivedi
GitHub: https://github.com/nileshtrivedi
Homepage: https://nilesh.trivedi.link/
Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/nilesh.trivedi.link

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2026-01-06 07:02:49 GMT

Bangalore peeps, I've been invited by Abheek Learning Center to speak to parents and educators about the Future of Learning in the age of AI, especially how to manage children's exposure on our computing devices.
This Saturday, 9:30AM. Limited capacity.
Event page: https://luma.com/mxnsai48
#parenting #learning #computing #AI
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2025-12-10 09:19:46 GMT

I think I thought of a paradox of #privacy #law as it applies to Internet:
If a govt were to mandate that online platforms CANNOT look at the IP address or ANY other location-identifying info for their users, how would the platform comply with it?
Even if the platform wants to stop serving users in that govt's jurisdiction, it would require looking at some location-identifying information.. which would break the law.
Attempting to comply with the law breaks that very same law.

2025-12-10 08:48:58 GMT

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Found this helpful gist from a helpful stranger on Reddit: https://gist.github.com/mary-ext/6e27b24a83838202908808ad528b3318

2025-12-10 08:44:51 GMT

Oh wow.. #bluesky just started demanding birthdate!
Why is it not asking for just the age-band?
Is it for personalization or a legal mandate? Is it okay for me to lie about my birthdate?
Are they enforcing AUS/UK/EU law on worldwide users?
Why are there no docs about this?
@jay.bsky.team
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2025-12-08 03:32:02 GMT

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Yes, I was thinking about AlphaGo's famous Move 37. It's entirely possible that neural networks can capture and scale the creativity we humans display when we formulate new math concepts and structures, and deterministic brute-force checking by Lean can provide the verification signal.
But human understanding and sense-making will remain valuable. Or at least we hope so. 😀

2025-12-07 17:41:30 GMT

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There's a breaking point for this perspective though, right?
If machines find a proof that SHA-1 is breakable, that is "valuable" - whether or not humans have understood that proof.
I am all for beauty being one of the valuable aspects of math - which the music analogy captures - but math does have real-world impact beyond beauty and joy.

2025-12-05 07:03:07 GMT

I have uploaded the slides for all the talks I have given at Lossfunk so far:
1) Building a scientific agent using system dynamics simulation
2) Agent2Agent collaboration Protocol
3) Differentiable Programming
4) My solution for Distributed Reactivity
https://nilesh.trivedi.link/thoughts
Would love to hear from others exploring these and similar threads.
#programming #AI #math
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2025-11-06 07:46:05 GMT

Checking in after many many weeks.
What's been happening on #Mastodon and #Fediverse - both the network and the software?

2025-10-26 11:22:28 GMT

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🙏

2025-10-18 07:08:38 GMT

We're having the first edit-a-thon for the Fixable hardware Wiki ( https://isfixable.com/ )
3PM today on Google Meet: https://meet.google.com/ybx-eose-jbi
#openhardware #RightToRepair

2025-09-05 10:30:08 GMT

I'm putting together this online mixer this Sunday for those who’re building coding agents. #ai
https://luma.com/o26hrnb4

2025-08-24 16:58:40 GMT

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The Addorial.

2025-08-24 16:33:54 GMT

How come client-side calls to LLMs not more popular? What is the most popular LLM-agnostic JS library for this purpose? 🤔
At least Anthropic supports it.
@npub1gv2…tlwl had written about this a year ago.
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2025-08-22 09:32:06 GMT

#mathematics notations you didn't know you wanted :
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2025-08-21 02:44:48 GMT

Floorp v12 got Vertical tabs, AI chatbots in sidebar with multiple LLMs without data leakage.
Is there anything I'm missing from Comet / Dia / Chrome? 🤔
#AI #browser
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2025-08-13 07:13:07 GMT

This is depressing but only if you think about it. 😀
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2025-08-12 16:52:19 GMT

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Arxiv/Elicit/Perplexity/Gemini search

2025-08-12 09:44:19 GMT

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Mostly point set topology.

2025-08-12 09:42:55 GMT

Reading survey papers across disciplines is insanely effective.
Not only do you learn almost state-of-the-art knowledge that has not yet made to textbooks, but you also build a mental map of the field and how different ideas relate to each other. I find this scaffolding very useful for retention.

2025-08-12 06:56:16 GMT

Topology is so underrated.
I used to think it's just a corner of abstract mathematics, but now I see EVERY question in terms of what the space of possible answers is and what the properties of its shape are because they inform approaches for design, search & optimization.
#mathematics

2025-08-12 06:54:48 GMT

I have been thinking about distributed reactive computation. There is way too much plumbing involved in building apps.
Have landed on an elegant model, with which, expressing a multi-user, secure, high-performance todo app takes 20 lines of code (including a basic reactive UI).
#computing

2025-07-18 10:17:48 GMT

Duty calls.
#AI
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2025-07-04 13:56:20 GMT

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Yes. The intentions were good but as a community, we should have pivoted around 2010 or so.

2025-07-04 13:55:30 GMT

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I actually want to rethink. I think software developers benefit more from their users adopting their software than vice-versa. So we need data licensing in the other direction. The whole copyright license idea rests on the assumption that you're gifting your software to me, when actually you actually need me to use it, in order to get it anywhere.
This is what Venture Capital understands, but FOSS does not.

2025-07-02 04:25:46 GMT

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To be clear, I do think FOSS licenses are naive and have suffocated the space for better alternatives, even if they have been a net positive.
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2025-07-02 01:27:19 GMT

This is such a good site! #foss #OpenSource
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2025-06-11 23:09:22 GMT

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I use GitBook - which has 2-way synchronization between a regular WYSIWYG editor and markdown files in a git repo. Surely, there are other tools like that.
One annoyance is that markdown spec does not cover many of the rich blocks article editors have.

2025-06-07 16:27:53 GMT

This was a mind-bending read! 🤯
Argues that intelligence might originate outside of physics and actually come from the platonic space of mathematical patterns.
For eg: the familiar "bubble sort" algo shows cognitive skills like delayed gratification and clustering.
https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/5g2xj_v1
#AI #cs
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2025-06-07 04:30:51 GMT

On landscape displays, horizontal scrolling seems best for reading ebooks (until we get a really tall/portrait display that can show 3 pages at once). They make it easiest when pages refer to previous or next page, especially with visuals. #design #ebook
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2025-06-04 13:43:40 GMT

I wrote a new blog post.
Coding Agents are supersets of not just programs and ML models, but also for the first time, PROGRAMMERS!.
Agent is the first neurosymbolic computation unit that can generate more capable units than itself! 🤯
A unified Eval theory could unlock:
✅ Evolutionary search for optimal agents
✅ Estimation of quality, cost, constraints
✅ Dual-mode (symbolic & differentiable) execution
Link to full post: https://nilesh.trivedi.link/thoughts/we-need-a-formal-theory-of-agent-evals
#ComputerScience #AI #typetheory
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2025-05-12 18:31:05 GMT

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Pakistan's DG ISPR himself is son of a specially designated global terrorist! 😱
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2025-05-12 18:26:21 GMT

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All links available here: https://x.com/OnTheNewsBeat/status/1921700258947694957/video/1

2025-05-12 18:25:38 GMT

LOL! It gets better!
In an attempt to get out of the disastrous reveal, #Pakistan Army held a press conference and claimed that this person is an ordinary preacher. They shared his National ID card.
But that very ID belongs to Hafiz Rauf as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT). It further matches data shared in the 'Sanctions List' of terrorists for one Hafiz Abdur by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)
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2025-05-12 12:06:59 GMT

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India's High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Vikram Doraiswami, presented this evidence to SkyNews:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnUIoMRWs68

2025-05-12 11:59:45 GMT

The world does not seem to understand or care about the incorrigibility of #Pakistan . And every single time, #India bears the cost of it. ☹️
The last image shows Pakistan Military Officials giving a state funeral to a terrorist attending along side HAFIZ ABDUR RAUF who himself is a Specially Designated Global Terrorist under OFAC sanctions.
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2025-04-09 07:04:15 GMT

This is such a good idea!! Early days (prototype is based on Fairphone 2 only), but this shows the power of open hardware.
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2025-04-09 03:33:32 GMT

What are the chances that the hardest implication remaining to be proved or disproved in Terence Tao's Equational Theories project happens to be indexed at Ramanujan's Number 1729?
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2025-04-01 15:09:31 GMT

Announcing VibeLang 1.0 - a new #programming language for the AI age.
Designed for professional vibe-coders.
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2025-03-31 05:44:42 GMT

Happy to see progress on the interoperability of infinite canvas tools: https://canvasprotocol.org/
Will add support for this in my Graph editing tool if it supports nesting properly.

2025-03-22 09:05:39 GMT

Just gave a lightning talk about the #repairability wiki for India
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2025-03-22 08:42:07 GMT

TIL about COWMESH, a community-owned wireless mesh network in rural Karnataka: https://open.janastu.org/projects/cowmesh

2025-03-22 06:56:05 GMT

I am at #MisinfoCon2025 today.

2025-03-22 06:55:11 GMT

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Some people are unhappy about replacing GPL licensedtools with MIT license though.

2025-03-22 04:39:25 GMT

#Fediverse #ActivityPub question:
TIL about Fediver byline tag on articles: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/07/highlighting-journalism-on-mastodon/
But why not also include the publication's own handle?
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2025-03-22 02:01:27 GMT

This took a while, but IMHO, this makes Ghost the best platform for long-form writing on the Web.
Substack is no longer cool.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/19/substack-rival-ghost-is-now-connected-to-the-fediverse/
#fediverse #writing

2025-03-22 01:24:03 GMT

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Correction: ghostty is written in Zig, not Rust.

2025-03-22 01:05:38 GMT

Rust community has been building modern versions of common unix utilities.
ghostty - terminal emulator: https://ghostty.org/
bat for "cat": https://github.com/sharkdp/bat
eza for "ls": https://github.com/eza-community/eza
helix for "vim": https://helix-editor.com/
All available for #linux, #windows, #macos
#programming

2025-03-11 04:33:56 GMT

How decentralized is BlueSky, really? https://buff.ly/AUgrmkF

2025-03-10 05:53:17 GMT

New blog post: I identify 5 major forces which will be at play in next 10 years and mapping it to how young programmers should think about upskilling.
https://nilesh.trivedi.link/thoughts/skills-young-programmers-in-india-need-to-build-in-2025
#technology #programming

2025-03-02 19:09:59 GMT

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BTW, I am speaking about this project at Barcamp Bangalore unconference this coming Saturday. Please do come if you are around.

2025-03-02 19:08:05 GMT

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Reminder for this 😀
Happy to have a chat about this if you'd like. DM me for whatsapp.

2025-03-02 18:26:39 GMT

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The gap between devroom CFP last date and the actual event date is too long (6 months). In that much time, even World War 3 might begin. Needs to be extended by 3 months at least. Then, I might propose one about Right-to-Repair and OpenHardware.

2025-03-01 10:45:55 GMT

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Cuts the # of things to memorize by 2/3rds by leveraging symmetry.

2025-02-28 08:25:33 GMT

Kid wanted to learn to play the guitar and I got her started on the perfect fourth tuning (EADGCF) instead of the standard tuning (EADGBE).
Within 2 weeks, she's not only playing her favorite Taylor Swift songs, but also finding new chord variations which I never knew! 😲
#music
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2025-02-25 09:37:03 GMT

Any day you can bring up category theory at work is a good day.
#math

2025-02-23 14:27:56 GMT

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Your email address listed here is bouncing. Also, this page still recommends Twitter, but the pinned tweet says you are no longer active there.
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2025-02-21 12:24:54 GMT

What a phenomenal collection of life skills lessons wrapped in engaging visual stories!
Trubuddy comics, a new offering from Menstrupedia, is a delight!
https://trubuddy.me
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2025-02-08 09:00:20 GMT

Genus ≤ 3 is all you need! 😀
#math #topology
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2025-02-03 06:16:03 GMT

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Someone claims to have deciphered it using information theory by modeling it as a cryptogram: https://www.academia.edu/78867798/Deciphering_Indus_script_as_a_cryptogram

2025-01-25 17:08:22 GMT

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I thought the Beauty and Joy of Computing folks did a good job of defining such curriculum already:
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2025-01-24 10:20:38 GMT

Is Google oauth flow broken in Firefox for everyone or just me for past few days?

2025-01-24 10:07:24 GMT

If my web browser required walking 100 steps for opening each extra tab, my fitness problems would be solved in a month. 😁

2025-01-23 08:57:08 GMT

Guys... I heard rumors that Rajamouli sir is coming out with a new epic drama film in 2025! 🙂👌💪
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2025-01-22 05:57:11 GMT

Do non-profits not have to consider the question of Founder-Problem fit? Today, a for-profit startup wouldn't make any headway without Founder-Market fit.
If technology is critical to your mission, you won't be able to go anywhere without a technical co-founder, even as a nonprofit.

2025-01-22 03:07:29 GMT

I am equally happy and unhappy with #Twitter , #Bluesky and #Fediverse .
Is it equanimity or spinelessness? 😅

2025-01-22 02:59:03 GMT

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Linked right there on the homepage: https://github.com/nileshtrivedi/openhardwareindia/

2025-01-21 06:39:49 GMT

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Yup.
We should come up with our own repairability rating. I started thinking about this: https://nilesh.gitbook.io/openhardwareindia/scoring-formula

2025-01-20 09:44:10 GMT

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I just got to know about HMD Fusion. They seem supportive of self-repair.
I do want to make this a collaborative effort. Let me know if you'd like to contribute to the wiki. It requires consolidating a lot of knowledge which is not easy to find on the Internet. Like which water purifiers work with standard off-the-shelf filters.

2025-01-19 06:43:32 GMT

You can watch the livestream of Audio Developer Conference (Bangalore) 2025 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXU_HwonHq0
Here is the schedule of talks (IST):
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2025-01-19 06:40:56 GMT

Must-watch documentary "Indus Blues" about the dying musical traditions and instruments of Indus Valley (now Pakistan): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbnfUycYhwk

2025-01-18 06:06:39 GMT

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BTW, looking at your standing position for the Harpejji, it seems flipped compared to Linnstrument: Y-direction takes you a semitone up where as X-direction takes you to next strong.
So melody/scale patterns from one instrument wouldn't work on the other. Does that require twisting the brain somehow?

2025-01-18 05:13:22 GMT

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Oh man, I might get another bout of Gear Acquisition Syndrome. :-)
Where can I learn more about the internals of Linnstrument?

2025-01-18 04:55:53 GMT

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What instrument is that?
BTW, I just spent an hour reading about Linnstrument (added it to https://nilesh.gitbook.io/openhardwareindia/musical-gear/midi-controllers )
Is it the current best open hardware option, equivalent of Ableton Push 3?

2025-01-17 13:00:10 GMT

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🙏 NThanks, but will need help maintaining it.

2025-01-17 07:37:21 GMT

I started creating a wiki for repair-friendly hardware products for Indian consumers: https://nilesh.gitbook.io/openhardwareindia
#RightToRepair #India #hardware #OpenSource

2025-01-09 04:49:48 GMT

And people think vegans are the ones who are extremists about their food habits!! 😀
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2025-01-07 06:50:52 GMT

Finally, year of #Linux on the desktop!! 🙂
#nvidia #ai #technology
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2025-01-04 04:14:23 GMT

The story about Meta's AI-influencer is very important but why do so many journalists think they can discover anything about how AI bots were built by talking to the bots? Do they not have someone on their team that can explain to them how this technology works?
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2025-01-03 05:57:12 GMT

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I don't get it.

2025-01-02 16:50:38 GMT

Nifty DNS + Firewall app (free and #opensource) to block malware, spyware, ads, and trackers across all apps on Android: https://buff.ly/3BTxT1p

2025-01-02 06:20:26 GMT

A lot happened in the database industry in 2024. This annual post by Andy Pavlo is a fantastic summary. A must read for CTOs.
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/blog/2025/01/2024-databases-retrospective.html
#technology #programming #databases

2024-12-30 14:14:26 GMT

Here's the Youtube playlist of video submissions for Summer of Math Exposition 2024: https://buff.ly/40edU77
Hours of #math learning sorted.

2024-12-23 06:50:36 GMT

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BTW, may I know what is your use-case for multiple profiles? Personal/Work or something else?

2024-12-23 06:22:47 GMT

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It might be possible to run mobile apps on desktop OS in many cases.

2024-12-23 05:29:43 GMT

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There is the Gobo initiative but it is in closed beta and not taking new registration currently: https://publicinfrastructure.org/2022/11/09/gobo-2-0-all-your-social-media-in-one-place/

2024-12-23 05:26:11 GMT

Trying out OpenVibe - a unified feed client for #Mastodon and #Bluesky : https://openvibe.social/
#Fediverse #interoperability

2024-12-16 11:21:02 GMT

Google seems to be catching up fast to OpenAI and Anthropic with their Gemini 2.0 update. The new product experiences as well as the realtime multimodal API are incredible!

2024-12-16 04:50:00 GMT

If you are a students in India who is confident of delivering more value than Devin/ChatGPT Pro on #Elixir #programming and are interested in an internship, DM me. 👍

2024-12-16 04:25:34 GMT

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Who is easier to train on programming in Elixir language ? AI agents or humans?

2024-12-16 04:23:44 GMT

Genuine question for 2025: Should I hire a programmer intern or spend $200 - $500 per month on o1-pro / Devin? 🤔
#programming

2024-12-15 15:48:12 GMT

Did you know this about the boric powder used for carrom boards?
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2024-12-13 15:16:37 GMT

What if we had this?
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2024-12-12 11:57:29 GMT

Going to check out this play, if only I can make it in time in all this rain and traffic.
The writer/director Marcus Du Sautoy, also wrote this nice book which was already in my reading list.
#math #mathematics #games
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2024-12-12 10:39:46 GMT

Govt institutions in India (both state and central) keep coercing citizens to enrol for and then share their national biometric identifier #aadhaar .
The worst part is, since the Supreme court verdict, this sharing is supposed to be voluntary. But portals are built to make it mandatory and ultimately things get stuck in the courts which move glacially.
https://www.medianama.com/2023/11/223-plea-collection-aadhaar-data-education-data-registry/
😡

2024-12-10 03:55:31 GMT

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Nah, this thread is outdated (for LIveView 0.5.0).
I have filed a couple of issues with phoenix_playground: https://github.com/phoenix-playground/phoenix_playground/issues
Hoping this improves.
cc: @npub1xhd…v3tz

2024-12-09 12:23:45 GMT

I was hoping to write a single-file multi-user (JWT-based auth) liveview-based todo list app using phoenix_playground but did not succeed:
- LiveView's `mount/3` method does not receive session data on websocket.
- phoenix_playground does not support on_mount callback
- Trying to use custom endpoint module suppresses underlying errors making it difficult to make further progress
https://gist.github.com/nileshtrivedi/fe35f9ffee98121583dd1fd102a817dd
Elixir slack thread: https://elixir-lang.slack.com/archives/CD594E0UU/p1733746871041619
#elixir #MyElixirStatus #programming

2024-12-07 01:15:29 GMT

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Agree. But the early vision of internet probably did not imagine the world being made of most users being clients and a few being servers. If every machine would have been running both client software and server software like game servers or file sharing etc, NAT would make life difficult.
NAT both came from and encouraged most user devices being clients.

2024-12-06 14:06:54 GMT

I wrote about the many challenges involved in NAMING things (like files, users, topics): https://github.com/learn-awesome/learndb/wiki/Naming-Things
Discuss it on Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=42339804
#programming #SoftwareEngineering

2024-12-05 07:38:02 GMT

24 million users all being on the same #Bluesky server instance cannot be healthy for the decentralisation of #atprotocol.
Governance for hosting many users is complicated enough that we need many providers, not just one. Else it is likely to be a repeat of Twitter/Instagram.
Sorry to be this guy.
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2024-12-05 06:59:47 GMT

The golden era of #math teachers sharing amazing tips and tricks on #Twitter is over. Many left, many stopped posting and many are punished by the algorithm.
I learnt so much from them during the last decade.