Sandip Bhattacharya
@sandipb.net
Opensource/photog/food/other fleeting interests. SRE/Devops/Observability. Currently Toronto.
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Sandip Bhattacharya
@sandipb.net
· Jul 10
Many months back when I moved to Bluesky wholeheartedly and deleted everything on Twitter, I made a personal decision for future SM usage - I will make original posts only on Bluesky. I will continue to maintain engagement on Twitter, but restrict myself to replies and simple reposts (without quote)
Reposted by Sandip Bhattacharya
what’s more virgin than a computer
December 3, 2025 at 1:24 PM
what’s more virgin than a computer
At first you get a toilet camera where the manufacturer pinky promises that "it only sees down into the toilet", and now it is not even end to end encrypted!
techcrunch.com/2025/12/03/e...
techcrunch.com/2025/12/03/e...
‘End-to-end encrypted’ smart toilet camera is not actually end-to-end encrypted | TechCrunch
Kohler, the makers of a smart toilet camera, can access customers' data stored on its servers, and can use customers’ bowl pictures to train AI.
techcrunch.com
December 3, 2025 at 9:32 PM
At first you get a toilet camera where the manufacturer pinky promises that "it only sees down into the toilet", and now it is not even end to end encrypted!
techcrunch.com/2025/12/03/e...
techcrunch.com/2025/12/03/e...
Every day I wake up with a renewed hate of the scrum/agile fever in the industry, where more often process supercedes getting things done, the practice becomes an official sanctioned tool for micromanagement, and bad implementation of the practice is more widespread than the original intent.
December 3, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Every day I wake up with a renewed hate of the scrum/agile fever in the industry, where more often process supercedes getting things done, the practice becomes an official sanctioned tool for micromanagement, and bad implementation of the practice is more widespread than the original intent.
It is really interesting to see over and over how prominent techies push a narrative of what special internal value made them successful. Many are totally (and intentionally) blind about the barriers they didn't have. And their narrative give the wrong life lessons to people who have those barriers.
December 2, 2025 at 11:17 PM
It is really interesting to see over and over how prominent techies push a narrative of what special internal value made them successful. Many are totally (and intentionally) blind about the barriers they didn't have. And their narrative give the wrong life lessons to people who have those barriers.
All the increasingly juvenile shitposts from heads of states, agencies, governors, policians etc in Twitter and the rest of social media, has taken the freaking fun out of shitposting for the rest of us. 🤬
December 2, 2025 at 10:47 PM
All the increasingly juvenile shitposts from heads of states, agencies, governors, policians etc in Twitter and the rest of social media, has taken the freaking fun out of shitposting for the rest of us. 🤬
Had an incredible session with Claude Code yesterday debugging why my homelab k8s ingress was having trouble after every restart.
It went through my argo/helm config, used cli tools like arp etc, ran netshoot on specific nodes etc to finally diagnose it as an metallb stale arp cache problem.
It went through my argo/helm config, used cli tools like arp etc, ran netshoot on specific nodes etc to finally diagnose it as an metallb stale arp cache problem.
December 2, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Had an incredible session with Claude Code yesterday debugging why my homelab k8s ingress was having trouble after every restart.
It went through my argo/helm config, used cli tools like arp etc, ran netshoot on specific nodes etc to finally diagnose it as an metallb stale arp cache problem.
It went through my argo/helm config, used cli tools like arp etc, ran netshoot on specific nodes etc to finally diagnose it as an metallb stale arp cache problem.
December 1, 2025 at 5:40 AM
When my primary doctor was out, I had to see his colleague instead. The person was definitely more empathetic and i felt better taken care of.
If your human doctor feels less empathetic, maybe they are stressed out from the load. Or u simply need a different doctor. Too uncomfortable using a machine
If your human doctor feels less empathetic, maybe they are stressed out from the load. Or u simply need a different doctor. Too uncomfortable using a machine
November 29, 2025 at 6:19 PM
When my primary doctor was out, I had to see his colleague instead. The person was definitely more empathetic and i felt better taken care of.
If your human doctor feels less empathetic, maybe they are stressed out from the load. Or u simply need a different doctor. Too uncomfortable using a machine
If your human doctor feels less empathetic, maybe they are stressed out from the load. Or u simply need a different doctor. Too uncomfortable using a machine
Really annoyed that with Hashicorp/IBM's rogue licensing change, it has killed all interest I had in exploring Nomad as an alternative to Kubernetes. It had so much promise. Also, consul.
November 27, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Really annoyed that with Hashicorp/IBM's rogue licensing change, it has killed all interest I had in exploring Nomad as an alternative to Kubernetes. It had so much promise. Also, consul.
I don't think it is mentioned enough but Google Gemini has the worst privacy policy among all its peers like chatgpt & claude
The only way in Gemini to stop Google from training on ur chats is to *completely* turn off chat history.
In other words, as u hit "New Chat", your previous chat is deleted
The only way in Gemini to stop Google from training on ur chats is to *completely* turn off chat history.
In other words, as u hit "New Chat", your previous chat is deleted
November 27, 2025 at 9:16 PM
I don't think it is mentioned enough but Google Gemini has the worst privacy policy among all its peers like chatgpt & claude
The only way in Gemini to stop Google from training on ur chats is to *completely* turn off chat history.
In other words, as u hit "New Chat", your previous chat is deleted
The only way in Gemini to stop Google from training on ur chats is to *completely* turn off chat history.
In other words, as u hit "New Chat", your previous chat is deleted
Gleason is so amazing in Mr. Mercedes
The show has some incredible moments. It was only after I finished it that I found out it was based on a Stephen King book.
#mrmercedes #netflix
The show has some incredible moments. It was only after I finished it that I found out it was based on a Stephen King book.
#mrmercedes #netflix
November 26, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Gleason is so amazing in Mr. Mercedes
The show has some incredible moments. It was only after I finished it that I found out it was based on a Stephen King book.
#mrmercedes #netflix
The show has some incredible moments. It was only after I finished it that I found out it was based on a Stephen King book.
#mrmercedes #netflix
I keep hearing people whining about how so few people pay income tax in the country. This is the flip side.
"64% of the total GST came from the bottom 50% of population in 2021-22, while 33% of GST comes from the middle 40% and only 3% of GST from the top 10%"
www.thenewsminute.com/news/indias-...
"64% of the total GST came from the bottom 50% of population in 2021-22, while 33% of GST comes from the middle 40% and only 3% of GST from the top 10%"
www.thenewsminute.com/news/indias-...
India's poorest half pays two-thirds of GST, while top richest pay only 3%: Oxfam
The top one percent of wealthy people in India owned more than 40% of the total wealth created in the country from 2012 to 2021, while only 3% of the wealth has
www.thenewsminute.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:51 PM
I keep hearing people whining about how so few people pay income tax in the country. This is the flip side.
"64% of the total GST came from the bottom 50% of population in 2021-22, while 33% of GST comes from the middle 40% and only 3% of GST from the top 10%"
www.thenewsminute.com/news/indias-...
"64% of the total GST came from the bottom 50% of population in 2021-22, while 33% of GST comes from the middle 40% and only 3% of GST from the top 10%"
www.thenewsminute.com/news/indias-...
Didn't realize that Vuescan can now stitch scanned images too! Saves me from using a separate stitch program. Will need to try this to scan some of those horrendous college marksheets.
www.hamrick.com/support/how-...
www.hamrick.com/support/how-...
How to stitch overlapping scans in VueScan | VueScan How-to Guides
VueScan 9.8.48 introduces Stitch Images, a workspace that combines overlapping scans into a single file. This guide shows you when to use it, how to prepare your scans, and how to build the final comp...
www.hamrick.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Didn't realize that Vuescan can now stitch scanned images too! Saves me from using a separate stitch program. Will need to try this to scan some of those horrendous college marksheets.
www.hamrick.com/support/how-...
www.hamrick.com/support/how-...
Today should really be called World Mental Health day.
November 18, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Today should really be called World Mental Health day.
Incredible numbers here! 200 Million Chinese currently work in the gig economy right now. About 40% of the urban workforce!
In comparison, in India, the number is 10 million. (Economist)
archive.ph/9xYfd
In comparison, in India, the number is 10 million. (Economist)
archive.ph/9xYfd
archive.ph
November 14, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Incredible numbers here! 200 Million Chinese currently work in the gig economy right now. About 40% of the urban workforce!
In comparison, in India, the number is 10 million. (Economist)
archive.ph/9xYfd
In comparison, in India, the number is 10 million. (Economist)
archive.ph/9xYfd
TIL that because of the Sarin attack in Japan several decades ago, Japan has virtually no public garbage bins.
But due to their amazing culture the country has still managed clean public spaces.
japan-dev.com/blog/trash-c...
But due to their amazing culture the country has still managed clean public spaces.
japan-dev.com/blog/trash-c...
Japan's Missing Trash Cans: How Does the Country Stay So Clean?
Have you heard of the legend of the missing trash cans in Japan? Read to find out how Japan stays clean despite having very few public trash cans.
japan-dev.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:11 PM
TIL that because of the Sarin attack in Japan several decades ago, Japan has virtually no public garbage bins.
But due to their amazing culture the country has still managed clean public spaces.
japan-dev.com/blog/trash-c...
But due to their amazing culture the country has still managed clean public spaces.
japan-dev.com/blog/trash-c...
Earlier this yr, I started evaluating a paid search engine Kagi bcoz Google turned trash. I started off using the "Starter" plan. Today I ran out of the yrly quota. Turns out I'm not a "normal" user who only does a handful of searches every day. My monthly avg is ~400!
I now need to pony up more
I now need to pony up more
November 6, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Earlier this yr, I started evaluating a paid search engine Kagi bcoz Google turned trash. I started off using the "Starter" plan. Today I ran out of the yrly quota. Turns out I'm not a "normal" user who only does a handful of searches every day. My monthly avg is ~400!
I now need to pony up more
I now need to pony up more
Reposted by Sandip Bhattacharya
"All hot dog stands will be replaced with goat meat stands."
hold up. tell me more about that
hold up. tell me more about that
November 5, 2025 at 7:03 PM
"All hot dog stands will be replaced with goat meat stands."
hold up. tell me more about that
hold up. tell me more about that
Interesting. It seems like the increased number of typos that I have been making on iPhone is not just me!
youtu.be/hksVvXONrIo?...
youtu.be/hksVvXONrIo?...
It's Not Just You - The iOS Keyboard is Broken
YouTube video by Michi NekoMichi
youtu.be
November 5, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Interesting. It seems like the increased number of typos that I have been making on iPhone is not just me!
youtu.be/hksVvXONrIo?...
youtu.be/hksVvXONrIo?...
The new food ordering app used at work claims to use AI generated images for dishes which don’t have images from the shops.
What is the freaking point of this? We don’t look at those images because we don’t know the dishes. We want to see how the shop makes them. Else why won’t I just image search?
What is the freaking point of this? We don’t look at those images because we don’t know the dishes. We want to see how the shop makes them. Else why won’t I just image search?
October 29, 2025 at 4:36 PM
The new food ordering app used at work claims to use AI generated images for dishes which don’t have images from the shops.
What is the freaking point of this? We don’t look at those images because we don’t know the dishes. We want to see how the shop makes them. Else why won’t I just image search?
What is the freaking point of this? We don’t look at those images because we don’t know the dishes. We want to see how the shop makes them. Else why won’t I just image search?
TIL, #kubernetes will never internally keep numbers in resource limits as a fraction.
kubernetes.io/docs/referen...
“””
1.5Gi will be serialized as "1536Mi"
Note that the quantity will NEVER be internally represented by a floating point number. That is the whole point of this exercise.
“””
kubernetes.io/docs/referen...
“””
1.5Gi will be serialized as "1536Mi"
Note that the quantity will NEVER be internally represented by a floating point number. That is the whole point of this exercise.
“””
Quantity
Quantity is a fixed-point representation of a number.
kubernetes.io
October 27, 2025 at 8:28 PM
TIL, #kubernetes will never internally keep numbers in resource limits as a fraction.
kubernetes.io/docs/referen...
“””
1.5Gi will be serialized as "1536Mi"
Note that the quantity will NEVER be internally represented by a floating point number. That is the whole point of this exercise.
“””
kubernetes.io/docs/referen...
“””
1.5Gi will be serialized as "1536Mi"
Note that the quantity will NEVER be internally represented by a floating point number. That is the whole point of this exercise.
“””
This is remarkable. I wonder if there is more info about how this became such a big thing in the western world. I have not heard of peanut allergy being a thing back home in India. Perhaps because it is a part of many diets there?
apnews.com/article/pean...
apnews.com/article/pean...
Advice to feed babies peanuts early and often helped thousands of kids avoid allergies
A study that upended medical practice by recommending feeding babies peanut products early to prevent allergies has had a big effect in the real world.
apnews.com
October 27, 2025 at 3:09 PM
This is remarkable. I wonder if there is more info about how this became such a big thing in the western world. I have not heard of peanut allergy being a thing back home in India. Perhaps because it is a part of many diets there?
apnews.com/article/pean...
apnews.com/article/pean...
The usage limits on Claude Code is absolutely ridiculous. I switched to *Haiku* and tested it doing a review of my barebones tmux.conf. It used 12% of my limit for the next 4 hours.
Can't justify > $20/month for personal projects. I will switch and settle for Codex.
Can't justify > $20/month for personal projects. I will switch and settle for Codex.
October 26, 2025 at 4:06 PM
The usage limits on Claude Code is absolutely ridiculous. I switched to *Haiku* and tested it doing a review of my barebones tmux.conf. It used 12% of my limit for the next 4 hours.
Can't justify > $20/month for personal projects. I will switch and settle for Codex.
Can't justify > $20/month for personal projects. I will switch and settle for Codex.