@layman-public.bsky.social
Old man in tech. Indian in the US.
Interests: Programming/Software development, abuse detection, Dev tools, tech in general, politics, Telugu - books, movies, culture
I don't speak for my employer, my family or my non-existent dog.
Interests: Programming/Software development, abuse detection, Dev tools, tech in general, politics, Telugu - books, movies, culture
I don't speak for my employer, my family or my non-existent dog.
This kind of packaging should be a criminal offense!
January 5, 2026 at 4:01 AM
This kind of packaging should be a criminal offense!
electrek.co/2025/12/29/t...
This should boost $TSLA but another 10%, I guess! After all, there seems to be an inverse correlation between the fundamentals and the stock price!
This should boost $TSLA but another 10%, I guess! After all, there seems to be an inverse correlation between the fundamentals and the stock price!
Tesla’s 4680 battery supply chain collapses as partner writes down deal by 99%
A major link in Tesla’s 4680 battery supply chain has just snapped. South Korean battery material supplier L&F Co. announced...
electrek.co
December 30, 2025 at 2:46 PM
electrek.co/2025/12/29/t...
This should boost $TSLA but another 10%, I guess! After all, there seems to be an inverse correlation between the fundamentals and the stock price!
This should boost $TSLA but another 10%, I guess! After all, there seems to be an inverse correlation between the fundamentals and the stock price!
www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...
Now taking bets on which will come first: AGI, FSD, humanoid robot, or Mars colony! My money is on Mars colony. That would be ready by February 2026, I think.
Now taking bets on which will come first: AGI, FSD, humanoid robot, or Mars colony! My money is on Mars colony. That would be ready by February 2026, I think.
Elon Musk says xAI will have more AI compute than everyone else combined within five years — Macrohard-branded Colossus 2 data center a nod to Musk's AI project to challenge Microsoft
How much will this feat cost and can he really pay for it all?
www.tomshardware.com
December 26, 2025 at 10:23 PM
www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...
Now taking bets on which will come first: AGI, FSD, humanoid robot, or Mars colony! My money is on Mars colony. That would be ready by February 2026, I think.
Now taking bets on which will come first: AGI, FSD, humanoid robot, or Mars colony! My money is on Mars colony. That would be ready by February 2026, I think.
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SriSri's verses take on an entirely different meaning now for us immigrants!
SriSri's verses take on an entirely different meaning now for us immigrants!
Sri Sri Maro Prapancham with his original voice| #sama #communist #telugu #poetry
YouTube video by Sagatu Manishi
youtube.com
December 21, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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SriSri's verses take on an entirely different meaning now for us immigrants!
SriSri's verses take on an entirely different meaning now for us immigrants!
This is extremely interesting. Look at the AI summary shown for a YouTube video of Chuck Schumer's speech. The first sentence or the last sentence have nothing to do with the content of the video, but added anyway!
December 16, 2025 at 9:37 PM
This is extremely interesting. Look at the AI summary shown for a YouTube video of Chuck Schumer's speech. The first sentence or the last sentence have nothing to do with the content of the video, but added anyway!
It is so much fun to watch comments on any TSLA article. A lot of people already know the con, but there are still enough gullible investors and market manipulators that keep pumping $TSLA higher and higher.
electrek.co/2025/12/07/t...
electrek.co/2025/12/07/t...
Tesla Optimus robot takes a suspicious tumble in new demo
A new video surfacing from a Tesla demonstration in Miami this weekend shows the Optimus humanoid robot taking a nasty...
electrek.co
December 8, 2025 at 11:20 PM
It is so much fun to watch comments on any TSLA article. A lot of people already know the con, but there are still enough gullible investors and market manipulators that keep pumping $TSLA higher and higher.
electrek.co/2025/12/07/t...
electrek.co/2025/12/07/t...
I opened NYT Connections, and when I saw the word "Spur", the first word association that came to my mind was "Bone"!
December 8, 2025 at 9:27 PM
I opened NYT Connections, and when I saw the word "Spur", the first word association that came to my mind was "Bone"!
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It's really bad that a publicly-traded payroll company that doesn't have nearly the level of resources nor analysis capability of the US government is the only source we have on jobs numbers.
December 3, 2025 at 1:47 PM
It's really bad that a publicly-traded payroll company that doesn't have nearly the level of resources nor analysis capability of the US government is the only source we have on jobs numbers.
It would be great visualize to plot this against the stock price.
How Tesla's Q1 2026 EPS estimates have evolved over the past 3 years.
December 3, 2025 at 7:07 PM
It would be great visualize to plot this against the stock price.
This is outrageous. There may well be another side to this story, but the police behavior sounds egregious at best, even if the startup did something wrong. That is something most Indians are familiar with.
www.financialexpress.com/trending/wev...
www.financialexpress.com/trending/wev...
‘We’ve lost the battle’: Delhi police arrest co-founder a day after Wherehouse shuts down
Delhi Police arrested Wherehouse co-founder Vaibhav Chawla late Monday night after a criminal complaint from a client, just hours after he announced on LinkedIn that he is shutting down the startup.
www.financialexpress.com
December 2, 2025 at 3:32 PM
This is outrageous. There may well be another side to this story, but the police behavior sounds egregious at best, even if the startup did something wrong. That is something most Indians are familiar with.
www.financialexpress.com/trending/wev...
www.financialexpress.com/trending/wev...
I don't know today's word! For the fifth try, I just tried a few combinations that "sounded" like words!
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November 26, 2025 at 6:05 PM
I don't know today's word! For the fifth try, I just tried a few combinations that "sounded" like words!
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$TSLA shareholder logic:
If other automakers license FSD, that's a revenue source. Stock to the moon!
If other makers aren't licensing FSD, TSLA has exclusive monopoly on Robotaxi business. Stock to the moon!!
electrek.co/2025/11/24/e...
If other automakers license FSD, that's a revenue source. Stock to the moon!
If other makers aren't licensing FSD, TSLA has exclusive monopoly on Robotaxi business. Stock to the moon!!
electrek.co/2025/11/24/e...
Elon Musk admits other automakers don't want to license Tesla's 'Full Self-Driving'
After years of teasing that other automakers would license Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) system, Elon Musk has now admitted that...
electrek.co
November 25, 2025 at 7:06 AM
$TSLA shareholder logic:
If other automakers license FSD, that's a revenue source. Stock to the moon!
If other makers aren't licensing FSD, TSLA has exclusive monopoly on Robotaxi business. Stock to the moon!!
electrek.co/2025/11/24/e...
If other automakers license FSD, that's a revenue source. Stock to the moon!
If other makers aren't licensing FSD, TSLA has exclusive monopoly on Robotaxi business. Stock to the moon!!
electrek.co/2025/11/24/e...
A positive story to close the week. Salmon fish found upstream in Alameda Creek after many decades.
www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
'Epic': Salmon seen far upstream in Bay Area creek for first time in 70 years
After the removal of small dams and the addition of fish ladders, salmon have been seen swimming further up a Bay Area creek than at anytime in decades.
www.sfchronicle.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:00 PM
A positive story to close the week. Salmon fish found upstream in Alameda Creek after many decades.
www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
www.securityweek.com/vulnerabilit...
Researchers scraped 3.5 billion WhatsApp accounts using a novel enumeration technique, bypassing rate limits - got even profile pics, names etc for a subset of them. It's disingenuous for Meta to call this "collaboration" when it's big bounty!
Researchers scraped 3.5 billion WhatsApp accounts using a novel enumeration technique, bypassing rate limits - got even profile pics, names etc for a subset of them. It's disingenuous for Meta to call this "collaboration" when it's big bounty!
Vulnerability Allowed Scraping of 3.5 Billion WhatsApp Accounts
Researchers disclosed the details of a novel enumeration technique that allowed them to scrape 3.5 billion WhatsApp accounts.
www.securityweek.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:44 PM
www.securityweek.com/vulnerabilit...
Researchers scraped 3.5 billion WhatsApp accounts using a novel enumeration technique, bypassing rate limits - got even profile pics, names etc for a subset of them. It's disingenuous for Meta to call this "collaboration" when it's big bounty!
Researchers scraped 3.5 billion WhatsApp accounts using a novel enumeration technique, bypassing rate limits - got even profile pics, names etc for a subset of them. It's disingenuous for Meta to call this "collaboration" when it's big bounty!
finance.yahoo.com/news/analysi...
Who cares about profits of the company. The company's sole purpose is to enrich one individual.
Who cares about profits of the company. The company's sole purpose is to enrich one individual.
Forget Musk's latest pay package, his last one could wipe out years of Tesla profits
(Reuters) -Tesla's gaudy $1 trillion executive-compensation package for CEO Elon Musk has obscured a more pressing concern: Musk's 2018 pay package -- still tied up in court -- could eat up years' wor...
finance.yahoo.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:52 PM
finance.yahoo.com/news/analysi...
Who cares about profits of the company. The company's sole purpose is to enrich one individual.
Who cares about profits of the company. The company's sole purpose is to enrich one individual.
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Juicero!
If I hadn’t been there to see it — it was being demoed at a conference I attended — I would have thought it was something Mike Judge invented for “Silicon Valley.”
If I hadn’t been there to see it — it was being demoed at a conference I attended — I would have thought it was something Mike Judge invented for “Silicon Valley.”
From the people who brought you the financial crisis, Theranos, and Juicero: say hello to data center financial engineering!
I'm pretty nervous about this ending badly, but everyone's dug in because AI is the only pulse in the economy.
prospect.org/2025/11/19/a...
I'm pretty nervous about this ending badly, but everyone's dug in because AI is the only pulse in the economy.
prospect.org/2025/11/19/a...
The AI Bubble Is Bigger Than You Think - The American Prospect
It’s not just OpenAI that looks overhyped. There’s a whole mountain of sketchy financial engineering underneath.
prospect.org
November 19, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Juicero!
If I hadn’t been there to see it — it was being demoed at a conference I attended — I would have thought it was something Mike Judge invented for “Silicon Valley.”
If I hadn’t been there to see it — it was being demoed at a conference I attended — I would have thought it was something Mike Judge invented for “Silicon Valley.”
finance.yahoo.com/news/why-one...
If there is one thing I realized, the CEO's either lie, or don't have even a foggy idea of the ground realities in the company. I don't know which is worse. When they claim they are cutting down bureaucracy, they really don't know how it actually gets executed.
If there is one thing I realized, the CEO's either lie, or don't have even a foggy idea of the ground realities in the company. I don't know which is worse. When they claim they are cutting down bureaucracy, they really don't know how it actually gets executed.
Why one of the nation’s most prosperous industries is shedding jobs
SAN FRANCISCO - After more than a decade in tech, Casey Engler thought he was prepared for another round of industry layoffs. But when Microsoft cut his job in July, the shock still hit hard - and the...
finance.yahoo.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:32 PM
finance.yahoo.com/news/why-one...
If there is one thing I realized, the CEO's either lie, or don't have even a foggy idea of the ground realities in the company. I don't know which is worse. When they claim they are cutting down bureaucracy, they really don't know how it actually gets executed.
If there is one thing I realized, the CEO's either lie, or don't have even a foggy idea of the ground realities in the company. I don't know which is worse. When they claim they are cutting down bureaucracy, they really don't know how it actually gets executed.
techcrunch.com/2025/11/17/d...
DoorDash had a data breach that exposed people's names, email addresses, phone numbers, and physical addresses.
But they didn't disclose how many people are affected, and say no "sensitive" information is leaked. They don't seem to be taking it seriously enough.
DoorDash had a data breach that exposed people's names, email addresses, phone numbers, and physical addresses.
But they didn't disclose how many people are affected, and say no "sensitive" information is leaked. They don't seem to be taking it seriously enough.
DoorDash confirms data breach impacting users’ phone numbers and physical addresses | TechCrunch
The delivery giant said “no sensitive information” was accessed, and did not specify the number of customers, delivery workers, and merchants who were impacted by the breach.
techcrunch.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:35 PM
techcrunch.com/2025/11/17/d...
DoorDash had a data breach that exposed people's names, email addresses, phone numbers, and physical addresses.
But they didn't disclose how many people are affected, and say no "sensitive" information is leaked. They don't seem to be taking it seriously enough.
DoorDash had a data breach that exposed people's names, email addresses, phone numbers, and physical addresses.
But they didn't disclose how many people are affected, and say no "sensitive" information is leaked. They don't seem to be taking it seriously enough.
sherwood.news/tech/orange-...
The reason a lot of people upgrade their phones is bragging rights. ("I have the latest phone"). But if the phone looks the same as the previous version, how do they brag? So Apple made it easy to show off that you have the latest phone - by releasing an orange color.
The reason a lot of people upgrade their phones is bragging rights. ("I have the latest phone"). But if the phone looks the same as the previous version, how do they brag? So Apple made it easy to show off that you have the latest phone - by releasing an orange color.
Orange Apple iPhones are the new black
The latest iPhone Pro doesn’t come in black, the preferred iPhone color, so people are picking... Cosmic Orange....
sherwood.news
November 13, 2025 at 9:02 PM
sherwood.news/tech/orange-...
The reason a lot of people upgrade their phones is bragging rights. ("I have the latest phone"). But if the phone looks the same as the previous version, how do they brag? So Apple made it easy to show off that you have the latest phone - by releasing an orange color.
The reason a lot of people upgrade their phones is bragging rights. ("I have the latest phone"). But if the phone looks the same as the previous version, how do they brag? So Apple made it easy to show off that you have the latest phone - by releasing an orange color.
Number of jobs lost per year. 2025 is on track to be the quest year since the last crisis (2009).
November 10, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Number of jobs lost per year. 2025 is on track to be the quest year since the last crisis (2009).
fortune.com/2025/11/10/e...
A startling 760,000 seasonally adjusted cuts through October, far outpacing the same period in 2024 and running higher than any year since 2009 — the aftermath of the Great Financial Crisis.
A startling 760,000 seasonally adjusted cuts through October, far outpacing the same period in 2024 and running higher than any year since 2009 — the aftermath of the Great Financial Crisis.
'Yikes': Top investment bank looks under the hood of the economy and finds 'the labor market doesn't look that good' | Fortune
We've heard the labor market is in a "low-hire, low-fire" kind of environment. The "low hire" part seems to be true, the other not so much.
fortune.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:37 PM
fortune.com/2025/11/10/e...
A startling 760,000 seasonally adjusted cuts through October, far outpacing the same period in 2024 and running higher than any year since 2009 — the aftermath of the Great Financial Crisis.
A startling 760,000 seasonally adjusted cuts through October, far outpacing the same period in 2024 and running higher than any year since 2009 — the aftermath of the Great Financial Crisis.