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Yup. Didn't know about this. This is cool.

TikTok was banned in India years ago. There was some noise initially but eventually everyone moved to Instagram Reels/YT Shorts. A few homegrown apps tried to capture the space but couldn't compete against Meta and Alphabet's entrenched network effect and superior platforms. TikTok wasn't as big in India back then as it is in the US right now but it was gaining traction and then lost it all. The same alternatives already exist in the US as well, people will move on in no time.

I understand that tech companies simply care about whether the user will click on the ad, video or like the next song or show. But can this also be used to change user's preferences or thought process?

Exifpurge.com. A portable Windows app to remove all exif data from multiple photos.

I wonder in what currency the kid actually made that money. Solana tokens I believe. Can they be converted to actual money with which he can pay his college tuition in future?

There's an innate human desire for gold. Humans crave gold so much that empires have been built and destroyed over it. That's a utility baked into the commodity. Many cultures hoard gold. Most of that gold will never be sold. Much of it is purchased for ornamentation and most of the time it just sits in a locker. In many cultures it is in fact considered a shame if family gold has to be sold.

Think of it this way - if there was no one to buy the gold from you, would you still buy the gold? Answer is yes. Many people all over the world would buy gold even if they could never resell it. The same can't be said about magic internet tokens. They have no inherent utility apart from the hope that a bigger fool will buy it from you at a higher price in future.

When the Access Hollywood tape came out back in 2016 I thought his campaign was over. How can someone who openly boasts about sexually assaulting women, ever be considered for any public office, let alone the most powerful office in the world? In most countries of the world a scandal of that scale would end a politician's career instantly. But not in the US. Not for him at least. I just can't understand how anyone can separate his character flaws from his policy and think he cares for anyone but himself.

>incumbents all around the world have performed terribly post COVID Except India. Yes, ruling party did lose majority on it's own but they still formed the third successive government despite terrible handling of the COVID.

A radio signal takes more than 22 hours to reach Voyager 1. And it would take the same to get a response back. Incredible. And imagine the patience needed to send commands and wait for the outcome on the part of the engineering team. You can't afford to send a wrong command and have the luxury of undo. Also, I wonder how many generations of engineers must have worked on the project by now.

Everything is becoming about ads. Ads, ads everywhere. On phone, on computer, now even car. This despite everyone knowing that consumers HATE ads. It's like companies are using ads as a ransom. Pay us more money on a regular basis else we will make your life miserable with ads and more ads.

Hasn't this rule been there for many years? I have flown to UK twice and there ere always restrictions on 100ml per bottle. Even lost a deodorant bottle because of that (security made me throw it away).

It's called decanting. And no you don't end up spilling the fragrance all over your hands while transferring it to a small bottle. Yiu can also buy travel sized bottled of many popular fragrances which are specifically meant for travelling. But yes, in general full sized fragrance bottles aren't meant for carrying along while travelling.

Not sure how it works in the US, but in India when sell a car, we have to get the registration transferred to the new owner. Till the new owner doesn't get the car transferred to their name, the old owner is legally responsible for anything that happens due to the car.

Also when we borrow money to buy the car, the hypothecation is recorded on car's registration certificate and ownership records. When the loan is repaid, we have to get it removed by submitting closure documents to authorities.

So like a property transaction, change of title also needs to be recorded in official records.

Such articles shilling blockchain had disappeared for some time. It seems they are back. Yet another in a series of good old IT project that doesn't actually need "blockchain" but uses the term to make headlines. Here in India I use an app provided by RTO (India's equivalent of DMV) where I can see my car's registration details, insurance, PUC (Pollution Certificate) and even my driving licenses details. There's another app that shows my traffic rules violation tickets and I can even pay the fines online if there are any. None of it requires "blockchain". This project is most probably using the good old SQL database at the backend to store actual data and there's an app front end. Even if uses a blockchain - it's a private blockchain and offers zero benefits over a regular database.

Is Bitcoin still thing outside of habitual gambling circles? I thought only the doomsday cult that is waiting to get rich after a global economic meltdown cared for BTC in 2024.

I was also also once banned from a forum for a few years. I kept going back there, never created a new account. Just waiting for the years to pass. It was not some crusade to get back, I was just curious and every few years when I would remember, I would check out the site. Until one day the site disappeared. It would have been fun to be able to log back in and just say "I am back".

This is so cool. The site loads fast, is responsive and will work on all browsers.

My very first website on Geocities looked pretty much like this.

Joy of creation.

Good job.

The code signing certificates that MS requires are ridiculously expensive. It's a cartel of certificate isseuers. It's a downright robbery. We need something similar to Let's Encrypt for code signing.

"We didn't fire him, we just asked him to leave because he decided to become CEO of another for profit company."

OK. It doesn't matter anyway.

I would just create software. I love coding little programs that make life easier. It gives me joy of creation. In fact that's what I have been doing, in last few months I have created (1)a video GPS viewer, (2)Windows based authenticator and an (3)online clipboard. After my day job and on weekends, this is how I like to spend my time. I have stopped trying to create the next killer app. I am just going to create whatever I feel like creating. Links to my latest creations (1) https://yash.info/camgeoplayer/ (2) https://authwin.com/ (3) https://klipit.in/

"Second things like call centers, the language models have become so sophisticated now. They can operate in multiple languages, 14, 15 languages easily. In the past, that hasn't been something we can do. So we can redeploy people off that given that the AI can do it." For the customers this is going to be a horrible experience and frustration of going in a loop with an AI model. Anyone facing a problem not listed in the 10-15 predefined problems and resolutions is going to have an excruciating time trying to get any meaningful resolution.

So nothing of value was actually stolen.

Yes, I recently signed up and they asked for a photo id. Just a photo id, not this ridiculous request.

Just setup two Ubuntu 24.04 servers in last couple of days. One at Hetzner and another on AWS.

Yes doable. Can put the unselected choices in another array which is displayed at the end of the game.

Sharing link with custom list is an interesting idea. Need to figure out a way to filter out nasty stuff for sure.

I had created this many eons ago. Nothing fancy. Absolutely nothing fancy at all. Just a page from where you can copy some text. https://yash.info/lorem.htm

Yours is also cool. I like the copy buttons.

>It's never been clearer that the VC founder's whole outlook on life revolves around how great it is to be rich and how shameful it is to be anything else.

Quite a few "successful" founders who invariably also turn angels/VCs seem to share this idea. If you aren't hustling and getting rich then that's a life wasted.

Who would have thunk?

It is cool, but having to redo from the first level after 3 drops kills the fun for me. Of course some would like that aspect, but for me as a casual fun game it's a no.