Sunil Thakare 🇮🇳 🦀

It's evident that high-end hardware is now luxury items for elites. Did you know what could be the cost of the gift received by @dhh? @grok, can you find actual cost of the gift? 👇 teapawt.net/dhh/status/21178038060…

Diwali sale is ON every platform. It's high time to purchase consumer electronic products including Laptop, PCs, Mobile, Tabs, etc. Year 2027 and beyond would be the worst hit for consumer electronics. These items would no longer affordable & categorized as LUXURY items. Act now or never. Disclaimer: This is NOT a brand promotional post or Diwali Sale promotion, it's just a hint of future calamities could hit the consumer electronics market. See this thread 👇 teapawt.net/thakares/thread/211755…

We are teleporting to the 90s era when PCs were costing more than ounce of gold and beyond the capacity of common people's. If most of end-users get vanished, who would be consuming their AI and digest data? Simply disgusting...

An X account, Massimo (@Rainmaker1973), blocked me after I called out its clickbait posts. If you can’t handle criticism or engage with evidence and facts, that says more about you than it does about me. Sample: Social media loves calling this a “refrigerator that runs on salt and water with no electricity.” It is not refrigeration. Thermavault uses an endothermic salt dissolution (ammonium chloride in water) that absorbs a fixed amount of heat once, then relies on insulation to hold 2–6°C for 10–12 hours. It does not continuously cool against heat gain the way a real fridge does. Useful for short transport, but the “electricity-free refrigerator” framing is clickbait.

AI gave everyone the keys to the kingdom. Now zero-days are daily news, and nobody knows how to cope with the chaos. The solution isn't more black-box tools. It's radical simplicity and ownership. NX9: Own your software. Understand it. Control it. 🌐 nx9.in

AI just broke software security. Whether your code is twenty years old or shipped this morning, AI can audit it at a speed no human can match. Bugs that used to stay hidden for years are now found in seconds. And we are making it worse. We stack up bloated frameworks, pull in thousands of blind dependencies, and use AI to generate unverified code faster than ever. Moving fast without discipline is just a faster way to ship vulnerabilities. With NX9, I am going the other way. I strip out the layers. Write only what is essential, kill the dependency bloat, and cut the heavy runtimes. What is left is clean, self-hosted software you actually own and understand. Most security tools just tell you after you have been hit. Real security is removing the attack surface so the breach cannot happen in the first place. Less code means a smaller target. Less blind trust means real control. Stop bracing for the next breach. Stop building the doors that let attackers in. nx9.in Why move fast became pay forever: medium.com/@thakares/legacy-…

I found something interesting on @amazonIN selling LPG booking for ₹1. How come online shopping merchants sell booking for ₹1? Is such business even legitimate? As, these LPG providers already have own app/ toll-free numbers for LPG bookings. @BPCLLPG @HPCL @IndianOilcl @PetroleumMin

Adding hardware between Starlink users and the network could add latency or create a new point of control. However, the actual delay depends on how it's built. A device that just watches traffic might not slow things down, but a device that filters or changes traffic likely will. Starlink's laser links make things more complicated. Since traffic can move from satellite to satellite without hitting a ground station right away, it isn't always easy to track. Still, no hardware is perfectly safe. People can tamper with devices at home, and ground stations can be hacked. If someone uses a VPN or other encryption, the government hardware can see that data is moving, but it can't read what that data actually says. They might be able to control where the traffic goes, but they can't see the content unless they have the encryption keys. This proposal is still in the early stages. Since there is no public technical design, these are mostly educated guesses. The intent is clear, but the actual technical limits will depend on the final design.

The real research is interesting but this post mixes it with a lot of made-up stuff. Herbert Benson at Harvard did study Tibetan monks in the 80s and 90s. A 1990 paper reported that three monks could drop their metabolism by as much as 64 percent during certain meditations, and earlier work showed they could raise the temperature of their fingers and toes in the cold. Those are real, published findings from small case studies. What the post adds on top does not hold up. The video looks staged or AI-generated (the floating monk and the night-vision lion especially). There is no evidence the Pentagon funded or classified the work, and the 94 percent claim about adults losing access to deep rest does not appear in any of the studies. Heart rate dropping near zero and limbs getting cold enough to kill people are also not what was measured. The basic finding that trained meditators can shift metabolism and body temperature more than expected is documented. The rest of the framing is not.

Software Development is no longer a moat for many companies which dominated for decades and juced every penny from the end users. SaaS has losing it's ground, and by 2030s, a very few companies would servive... teapawt.net/thakares/status/210991…

@X is shadow banning the account whosoever criticize it's new drama of Roadster gimmick show. I have "Premium" X account, posted more than a dozens of posts debunking new Roadster drama by @elonmusk. Their promotional accounts like @cb_doge, @XFreeze working hard promoting the show business of @SpaceXSI. My entire reach of all the posts/replies not even more than 100. Obviously, they don't like valid criticism on their own platform. Here is an evidence. Did you notice anything strange shadow-banning?

Happening now. @svembu sir, it's happening now. I said the same thing since couple of years. That, software moat has just gone. No future for #SaaS industry. It's time now for self host services, and beyond that, not even software is required. Just host your local AI agent, create workflows, and get the output. For rest of the things, FOSS ecosystem is always there to serve you. It works on air gapped systems too, BTW. teapawt.net/thakares/status/210955…

🚨 Hundreds of French supermarkets hit by a cyberattack on Danfoss refrigeration controllers. Defrost cycles were manipulated, temperatures soared to 50°C, and millions of euros in food losses followed. @Reuters reports widespread damage. @CERT_FR confirms numerous compromises. cert.ssi.gouv.fr/alerte/CERT… The root lesson is clear: Never expose industrial IoT management interfaces directly to the public internet. @ANSSI_FR @Danfoss @IndianCERT 🔐 VPN-only remote access 🧱 Default-deny firewall rules 🔒 Network segmentation 🛡️ Firmware updates and lifecycle management 📊 Auditable access and monitoring This is exactly why I built NX9-WG, a Linux-native, open-source VPN, firewall and networking appliance. Built around @WireGuardVPN and Linux kernel networking, NX9-WG orchestrates routing, network interfaces and firewall rules to help create controlled, secure network connectivity without unnecessary software dependencies. The goal: self-hosted infrastructure, privacy, full ownership, minimal footprint and no vendor lock-in. For industrial IoT, OT systems, remote sites and edge networks, secure connectivity should be the foundation, not an afterthought. 🔗 GitHub: github.com/thakares/nx9-wg Keep control systems private. Allow only explicitly authorised traffic. Reduce the attack surface. #CyberSecurity #OTSecurity #IoTSecurity #WireGuard #FOSS

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🚨 Airtel Customer Grievance: Existing Postpaid Connection → Safe Custody → SIM Replacement → Forced Plan Change? @airtelindia @airtelindia @airtelindia @airtelindia @TRAI @DoT_India @JM_Scindia @Officejmscindia I am putting this experience on record because this is not merely about a ₹200 difference in a monthly plan. It is about how an existing telecom customer is treated when restoring an existing connection. An existing Airtel postpaid number belonging to my son was placed under Safe Custody while he was residing in Berlin, Germany. ✅ Postpaid bills were paid. ✅ The number was an existing Airtel connection. ✅ It was NOT a new connection. ✅ We did NOT request a new number. ✅ We followed Airtel's prescribed process for restoration. Airtel Customer Care advised us to submit a signed NOC from the registered subscriber authorising a representative in India to collect the replacement SIM. We complied. The NOC was duly signed by the registered subscriber, identity documents were provided, and the authorised representative visited the Airtel Store. The SIM was eventually issued and the number was successfully activated. But then came the problem. The existing connection was supposed to continue with its earlier Infinity ₹249 plan. Instead, we were told that the ₹249 plan was "currently not available" and were pushed towards the ₹449 Infinity Family plan. The Airtel Thanks App now shows the ₹449 plan on the same existing postpaid connection. My question to @airtelindia is simple: Why should replacement of a SIM after Safe Custody automatically become an occasion to move an existing customer to a higher-value plan? I am NOT asking for a new connection. I am NOT asking for a new-customer offer. I am asking for restoration/continuation of the plan applicable to the existing connection before Safe Custody. There is another serious issue: At the Airtel Store, we were initially asked to pay ₹1,500, with the explanation that the number was a "vanity" number. This was disputed because the number was originally allocated by BSNL and was subsequently ported to Airtel. It was not newly selected as a vanity number by us. So I have asked Airtel for a clear written explanation: 🔹 What is the basis for calling this an Airtel "vanity" number? 🔹 Under which published policy was ₹1,500 demanded? 🔹 Why was the existing ₹249 plan not restored? 🔹 What exactly happens to an existing postpaid plan when a connection comes out of Safe Custody? 🔹 Is a customer expected to accept a higher-value plan simply because a replacement SIM is issued? The store experience was also disappointing. Customer Care subsequently acknowledged the complaint and asked for the store details. To be clear: the SIM has now been obtained and the number is active. The unresolved issue is the treatment of the existing customer and the change of plan during the restoration process. I have preserved the relevant evidence: 📌 Airtel payment receipt 📌 Airtel Thanks App showing the current ₹449 plan 📌 Airtel Care conversations 📌 NOC submitted to Airtel 📌 Store details 📌 Correspondence regarding the ₹249 → ₹449 change I am formally asking @airtelindia to provide a specific written explanation, not another generic response saying "₹249 is unavailable." If the ₹249 plan genuinely cannot be restored, please explain why an existing customer's previous plan cannot be reinstated after Safe Custody, and identify the applicable terms/policy. @TRAI @DoT_India @JM_Scindia @Officejmscindia I request that the appropriate telecom consumer-grievance mechanism take note of this case and seek a clear response from the service provider. This is about transparency, continuity of service and fair treatment of existing telecom customers — not merely about ₹200. #Airtel #AirtelIndia #AirtelCare #TRAI #DoT #Telecom #ConsumerRights #CustomerService #Postpaid #SafeCustody

from climate doomsday, ... AI doomsday ... where gr8a?

it is surprising that gr8a has not yet joined the latest wave of end-of-the-world messaging now aimed at AI... 🤣🤣🤣 guess who???

#SlowDown is the new marketing term. teapawt.net/thakares/status/209905…