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Nitish Murthy retweeted
नमित मल्होत्रा के कुंचित-केशों* के लिए कुछ प्रश्न:
क्या भारतीय संस्कृति को दुनिया के सामने ले जाने के नाम पर रामायण के मूल चरित्रों से खिलवाड़ स्वीकार कर लें?
भगवान राम गलत, लक्ष्मण गलत, शूर्पणखा बेचारी और रावण परिस्थितियों का सताया हुआ व्यक्ति! क्या यही हमारी संस्कृति का वैश्विक प्रदर्शन है?
भारत की समृद्ध संगीत परंपरा के बावजूद फिल्म के बैकग्राउंड स्कोर में भारतीयता कहाँ है? 'इंटरस्टेलर' वाला संगीत ठूँस देने से आस्था पैदा नहीं होती।
और जो कहते हैं, 'इतनी दिक्कत है तो अपनी फिल्म बना लो', उनसे कहना है; तुम भी अपनी समीक्षा कर लो, चू!#यों!
(* = तरह-तरह के बाल होते हैं और कुछ बाल छुपे हुए होते हैं।)
Nitish Murthy retweeted
1. Ranbeef's Ramayan has turned a mega box office disaster given its budget.
2. Paid reviews, increased marketing efforts, freebies, corporate bookings is making things worse.
Who knows this was the real plan?
3. Brahmastra of Ranbeef also followed same strategy - invest heavy in marketing and corporate bookings. Call it the greatest blockbuster ever. Then silently sell Dharma Productions showing heavy losses.
4. We @GemsOfBollywood had declared right when film was announced that we oppose it. And for exactly the same reasons, all influencers who refuse to sell themselves are condemning the Islamic- leftist Ravanayana.
5. Today and tomorrow, Ranbeef remains more famous as Big Beef Guy than a stone-faced Ram- pretender.
6. Demise of Urduwood is inevitable. Gems of Bollywood is proud to have been part of this Yajna against Kaalnemis without compromise.
इदं न मम।
Nitish Murthy retweeted
Brilliant point by @SuhagAShukla ji. Read this to understand how subversion of our epics starts from academia and moves into mainstream art. Don't be desperately and embarassingly grateful that a movie has been made on our epics if the intent is to subvert and distort.
Ramayana is in the news so Audrey is “loosely translating” with her lurid takes again…
Valmiki never wrote "harem pet" or "furniture cover." Just as he never said Sita calls Rama a “misogynist pig.”
Here's what the text says.
On the living deer, Aranya Kanda 3.43.16:
अन्तःपुरविभूषार्थो मृग एष भविष्यति
antaḥpura-vibhūṣārtho mṛga eṣa bhaviṣyati
"This deer will be an ornament of the inner palace." Not “harem.” Sita is talking about after the exile, when they're back in Ayodhya. The word is vibhūṣā, ornament. It's a marvel to bring home to Bharata and the queen mothers. It isn't a "pet," and it isn't a harem plaything. We also know that Rama never took another wife, let alone kept a harem.
On the slain deer, 3.43.19:
शष्पबृस्यां विनीतायामिच्छाम्यहमुपासितुम्
śaṣpa-bṛsyāṃ vinītāyām icchāmy aham upāsitum
"I wish to sit on its golden skin, spread over a seat of tender grass." A bṛsī is an ascetic's grass seat. She's a forest-dweller in exile, picturing herself sitting beside Rama. That isn't upholstery or a "furniture cover." Rama even pictures the same scene himself a few verses later (3.43.34).
So "harem pet" and "furniture cover" aren't translations. Each one picks the most lurid or trivial reading available so that Sita comes off as decadent and vain. The text doesn't support either.
We've seen this before. In 2018 Truschke "loosely translated" Sita at the agnipariksha as calling Rama a "misogynist pig." Robert Goldman, the translator she cited, disowned it.
She starts from a Sanskrit word, takes the most loaded English you can find, and presents it as scholarship. That's academic malpractice.
And it’s a pattern.
Nitish Murthy retweeted
Big Tech’s dream: you own nothing, rent everything, and they decide what’s “best” for you.
RAM is the latest target, but they already control your software, your data & your choices.
Open source + privacy-respecting services are how you take them back.
The person behind the global RAM shortage is now criticizing users for keeping memory in their own laptops instead of making it available to him.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman thinks it's "terrible" for people to have RAM in their computers rather than in a data center, as the scarcity of memory caused by the AI boom continues to drive up costs. bit.ly/47LJ09d
ALT OpenAI CEO Thinks It’s “Terrible” for You to Have RAM in Your Gaming PC
Accidentally tap a tweet, share its link, bookmark it, reply or retweet. Suddenly, your feed changes.
The algorithm takes every interaction as a signal and floods you with more of what you engaged with, even when you never asked for it.
This was incredibly useful!
Really appreciate the time and effort that went into creating this web app, while making it so easily accessible is a game changer.
If you're from/have a vote in Bengaluru in any district, check out eci-lookup.vercel.app I made it for a super easy look up by your voter-id instead of having to download 40 PDFs after having to know your district and assembly constituency etc.etc . 😊 Will do more soon.
Nitish Murthy retweeted
家人们，苹果的刀法已经进化到“反人类”的境界了！
如果你买了 256G 或 512G 的 M4 iPad Pro，我现在告诉你一个可能会让你血压飙升的真相：
你手里的平板，主板上其实焊着足足 12GB 的内存！但苹果硬生生给你锁死了 4GB，只让你用 8GB！
这可不是阴谋论，这是外媒 Tom's Hardware 和拆机大神实锤的硬件铁证！
有人扒出了 M4 iPad Pro 主板上的镁光内存颗粒编号，发现 8GB 版本的机器里，居然塞了两颗 6GB 的内存芯片！2乘6等于12，小学数学题对吧？但你在系统里永远只能看到 8GB！
很多人就不理解了：内存芯片是苹果自己花真金白银买的，既然都焊上去了，做个顺水人情给用户 12GB 不香吗？
Too young！这就是库克最恐怖的算计：
第一，市面上没有符合 M4 满血带宽的单颗 4GB 内存，去定制比直接买两颗 6GB 还要贵；
第二，也是最扎心的——如果入门版给你开放了 12GB，谁还愿意多花四五千块钱去买 1TB 的 16GB 顶配版？
宁可自己掏钱买 12G 的硬件，再亲手废掉三分之一，也绝不能让普通用户占到一点便宜！这已经不是“精准刀法”了，这是“宁可毁掉也不给你”的物理防越级！
以前我们吐槽苹果“把 8G 内存当黄金卖”，现在才知道，原来黄金早就在你机身里了，只是苹果上了把锁，钥匙扔进了太平洋。
Nitish Murthy retweeted
2FAS vs. Big Tech: 2FA Privacy Edition
Your authenticator is part of your security setup. But what does it know about you?
What data does it collect? Is it linked to you? Does your 2FA app really need it?
Choose an authenticator app that protects both your accounts and your privacy.
#2FAS #CybersecurityAwarenessMonth #opensource
Nitish Murthy retweeted
During an interview with Rajat Sharma, actor #AnupamKher shared an insightful lesson in discipline and mindset that he learned while shooting alongside Amitabh Bachchan.
That's Why he's the "Sadi ka Mahanayak" 🙌
#AmitabhBachchan 🗿🗿
The word “cheat” has become so accepted via the expression ‘cheat day’ in dieting that few notice its actual meaning and instead justify it with personal reasoning.
Hello @1Password, is there no option to bypass the AI features in the app? This represents a fivefold increase.
I suppose I would need to switch to a subscription with a credit card through the website.
I have not encountered a message like this before, although the App Store subscriptions show a different amount.
How do you subscribe to @1Password, since card billing might approach ₹3500 for India pricing based on the $35 listed on the site?
Nitish Murthy retweeted
Google might have pulled a prank on its Pro users.
If you got Google AI Pro through:
- Pixel purchase
- Jio bundle
- Student offer
You will not be able to access Gemini 4 Argon in Antigravity.
And the catch? You apparently can't switch to a regular paid Pro subscription with the same account until your existing offer expires.
2 questions for Google:
1. If Pro is Pro, why are users on these offers excluded from features advertised to paid Pro users?
2. How can existing users upgrade to paid Pro without waiting a year?
This is ridiculous.
