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Programmer/Geek/UX Enthusiast. @recursecenter alum #TeaOps. Follow me on @nemo@tatooine.club (Fediverse/Mastodon), I do not tweet any more.
May 29, 2022 17 tweets 7 min read
This PR from @UIDAI yet again proves how Aadhaar is malleable beyond any scrutiny.

(Now withdrawn: pib.gov.in/PressReleseDet…)

A thread on the history of how this has changed over time. @pramodkvarma (Chief Architect, Aadhaar) 's presentation in 2010 at IITB claimed Aadhaar will only have "YES/NO" response.

cse.iitb.ac.in/~comad/2010/pd… Presentation slide screenshot. Title: "...authenticate
Apr 1, 2021 9 tweets 3 min read
I wouldn't have launched this today, but @FinMinIndia has picked the dates as 1-10 April, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Go buy a (tax exempt) Electoral Bond from your nearest SBI Branch and sell it for cash!

please dm if you you'd like to buy electoral bonds in bulk.

buy-sell-electoral-bonds.carrd.co To folks asking if this is legal, this is from the last SC hearing, as reported by @the_hindu

>somebody could anonymously re-purchase the bonds from the original buyer and drop it at a political party office

thehindu.com/news/national/… Chief Justice Bobde then asked whether the purchasers of ele
Jul 29, 2020 9 tweets 3 min read
Re-ran my @BLRFoodCensus code again, and here are some *early and rough* stats:

Total restaurants: 14665
Temporarily closed: 546
Permanently closed: 9111
Still open: 5008

#Bengaluru has lost 2/3rd of its restaurants.

(Data via Zomato) Just realized, this is likely inflated since this is "all-time-stats". Can't blame this completely on covid, as many of these restaurants were permanently closed before the pandemic.

Need to see if I have a older dataset to compare.
Aug 6, 2019 8 tweets 5 min read
Has anyone actually seen this mythical consent screen where @Truecaller asks you for consent to read your SMS? @Truecaller Somehow missed this gem earlier from the TrueCaller T&C, which mentions Walnut as their Credit Partner.
Jul 31, 2019 12 tweets 4 min read
Thought I'd look at the @Truecaller app to see what changed to cause the bug (diff between 10.40.7 and 10.41.6)

Likely was just a accidental bug (see screenshot), but I found more interesting stuff.

Thread. TrueCaller includes a lot of third-party SDKs. A few cool ones I found:

messai.in