Chained to Multimedia · @coram_ai @gstreamer @mesonbuild, emeritus @gnome @gentoo

India
Joined October 2008
We haven't even scratched the surface of what is going to be possible due to the commoditization of boutique software. Nothing like this has ever been done before.
we are living in quite interesting and fun times
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genAI has had an outsized effect on public advocacy for better infrastructure in India.
Why can’t our Babus make India free of Dhool Mitti? How it is. How it should be
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HBO's @LastWeekTonight has a long track record of citing social science findings without the appropriate context, massaging them to support whatever point @iamjohnoliver is trying to make.
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So this is an interesting story. How eMudhra became the foundation of global internet. Im surprised that no news channels are digging up the root CA history. Maybe people dont know that this is public information. groups.google.com/g/mozilla.… So this is the discussion list for mozilla security policy back in 2018. When emudhra first applied for inclusion as a root ca. One of the maintainers questions eMudhra's credentials as an "Indian co". The filing in response is very interesting. "eMudhra has been a licensed CA under Controller of Certifying Authorities which operates the Indian Government Root for more than 10 years and is also a licensed CA in Mauritius under Ministry of IT, Mauritius. eMudhra has issued over 35 million digital certificates (3% of India’s population). eMudhra is a critical partner to Digital India and supports the usage of digital signatures on a variety of eGovernance platforms for Government of India including Company Law Board, Income Tax, Goods and Service Tax (GST / VAT), eProcurement, Travel Portals, Customs, Banking etc. eMudhra’s solutions power digital signature and other multifactor authentication for over 35 Banks which include domestic and global Banks. eMudhra also has a proprietary CA solution which is today used by the Indian Army and other defense establishments." Eventually mozilla HAD to accept, because emudhra claimed publicly - "But this was not a complete Webtrust audited setup. Rather, it is under Government of India." – at San Francisco, CA
Can someone tell us how did eMudhra became the foundation of the global internet in the first place?
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One reason we have so much pollution is all this Dhool Mitti. How it is. How it should be
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new fav personal assistant use case unlocked! i was annoyed that the roads near my house in HSR were dug up for MONTHS making it hard to even walk and it felt like there's nothing i could do about it! early sept i asked faff to find a way to flag this to the authorities...
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scoop: SpaceX declined to offer Falcon for three future Space Force missions, and no other company offered to fly them either — an early sign of the launch crunch politico.com/news/2026/10/22…
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I don't know whose idea was to put Claude's scratch workspace in the tmp folder, but you my good ser, are an idiot.
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There is no better sentence to accurate describe the current journalistic quality of our national broadcaster than "BBC cyber correspondent doesn't know what PHP is".
You gotta be kidding me.
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I suspect the real reason eMudhra is exiting the SSL business is Google indicated it is most likely going to drop eMudhra from being trusted by Chrome AT ALL, after observing inexplicable incompetence in how they mis-generated their private key for the CA certificate.
BREAKING: eMudhra exits SSL/TLS certificate business, blames social media instead of incompetence for the same
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Lol I am pretty sure someone is runing a deepseek swarm to remotely patch unpatched php boxes. Well good on them.
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That’s cause Cavill gives a shit about his work… and the dumbfuck writers of the Witcher hated him for it.
Karen Gillan, who is a Highlander, says Henry Cavill's Scottish accent in the Highlander reboot is absolutely "bang on" She also says he was so dedicated to authenticity, he was even correcting people who were mispronouncing Gaelic words (via @Collider)
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So anyway this is why I got rid of PHP from my life 10 years ago.
Between October 2020 and August 2026, nearly every single up-to-date Linux server running PHP was wide open for anyone in the world to gain root access. Holy shit.
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yeah
Replying to @QiaochuYuan
Also we're inventing super cheating right now and it's on there but don't use it in school
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Amazing how quickly we went from "oh no LLMs are going to flood the Internet with insecure code" to "oh no LLMs have discovered the internet was already flooded with insecure code"
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Don't complain too loudly, the city will ban high-rises even harder to solve the problem 🤡
🚨 Bengaluru high rise fire raises a terrifying question. An 8th floor apartment reportedly burned for over an hour. Residents had to step in as the first fire engine allegedly arrived WITHOUT a ladder. A ladder equipped truck reportedly arrived nearly 2 hours later. What happens when people are trapped above the reach of emergency crews? Who is accountable for this response? Fire safety cannot arrive two hours late. Bengaluru deserves answers.
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Some stats on #php2shell. In the 10 hours before it was publicly announced, across the @Cloudflare network we saw thousands of attempts to exploit it. That jumped to tens of thousands in the 45 minutes post announcement, hundreds of thousands within 2 hours, and millions now.
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Railay is out of commission, reports that it is massively compromised.
Railway is compromised, rotate all API keys as soon as possible Deployments are down so don’t wait to redeploy Attackers are draining keys in real time, we didn’t lose much but can confirm this is still an active attack Stay safe friends
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i don't know musk but i heard from ppl around him this worry about being legally targeted is what really pushed him to become much more partisan ~2022
On the Bulwak podcast, Kara Swisher says Elon might already be in jail under Kamala Harris, and "he knows what's coming for him." Another one to put in the "what Democrats plan to do if they take power" file: "If Donald Trump loses the House and the Senate, I would worry. I'd be worried if I were him." "So they're going to start investigating again. You think he's not on the list? He's at the top of that list." "He has a very big sense of fate. And I think it's coming for him. And real hard." They're all just saying this stuff out loud now. There are no secrets about what they want to do.
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We have major heads of state posting CVEs on main and you are laughing?
皆様に、今夜に対応して頂きたい大至急のお願いです。   多くのウェブサイトで使用されているPHPに関し、PHPのセキュリティチームが、重大な2件の脆弱性に関する注意喚起を行っています。   公開しているウェブサイトでPHPを使用しているか確認し、今夜、10月21日午後11時(日本時間)に公開される修正パッチについて、可及的速やかに適用できるよう準備をお願いします。   修正パッチを速やかに適用することが困難な場合は、例えばウェブサイト等を一時的に停止させることも、リスクを低減させるための有効策の一つと考えられます。   国家サイバー統括室のXアカウントでも関係する情報を発信していますので、そちらも参考にして下さい。 国家サイバー統括室(注意・警戒情報)(@cyber_forecast) / X
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A security incident concerning eMudhra’s Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) was reported in the public domain. Meity has taken serious note of the reported incident. A special team has been constituted to investigate the matter.
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