Manoj Kasichainula
@headmold.bsky.social
A lemon gives by taking and cares by yelling. Former security at Google, Asana, Apache. If you're holding a snake right now, press 4.
Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@headmold
pfp: @bdowney.bsky.social
Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@headmold
pfp: @bdowney.bsky.social
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Durham NC, I just had an encounter with the border patrol. Here is the video. I chased them off. Stay safe out there. @siembranc.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Durham NC, I just had an encounter with the border patrol. Here is the video. I chased them off. Stay safe out there. @siembranc.bsky.social
November 16, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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I wrote a review of this. I strongly recommend everyone review or report this app. Google will remove the reviews, but people should say this is wrong.
November 14, 2025 at 6:33 AM
I wrote a review of this. I strongly recommend everyone review or report this app. Google will remove the reviews, but people should say this is wrong.
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The Pope Offers Wisdom
open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p...
Don't let the title fool you - this is actually several thousand words about how much pmarca sucks, which was apparently a hot topic of debate this week after he ::checks notes:: mocked the pope for telling people to be good.
open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p...
Don't let the title fool you - this is actually several thousand words about how much pmarca sucks, which was apparently a hot topic of debate this week after he ::checks notes:: mocked the pope for telling people to be good.
The Pope Offers Wisdom
The Pope is a remarkably wise and helpful man.
open.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:04 PM
The Pope Offers Wisdom
open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p...
Don't let the title fool you - this is actually several thousand words about how much pmarca sucks, which was apparently a hot topic of debate this week after he ::checks notes:: mocked the pope for telling people to be good.
open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p...
Don't let the title fool you - this is actually several thousand words about how much pmarca sucks, which was apparently a hot topic of debate this week after he ::checks notes:: mocked the pope for telling people to be good.
Google can still screw this up. They've shown they're fine mandating network verification, so they could require uploading APKs for scanning.
I'm sure smart people there knew forcing identity checking wasn't necessary here. They were ignored for a reason. www.androidauthority.com/android-powe...
I'm sure smart people there knew forcing identity checking wasn't necessary here. They were ignored for a reason. www.androidauthority.com/android-powe...
Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions!
Google has announced it is building a new way for 'experienced users' to install Android apps that haven't been verified.
www.androidauthority.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Google can still screw this up. They've shown they're fine mandating network verification, so they could require uploading APKs for scanning.
I'm sure smart people there knew forcing identity checking wasn't necessary here. They were ignored for a reason. www.androidauthority.com/android-powe...
I'm sure smart people there knew forcing identity checking wasn't necessary here. They were ignored for a reason. www.androidauthority.com/android-powe...
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The last 2.5 years of Bluesky were a steady build up to "criticism of Jeffrey Epstein's writing ability is ableist." Congrats everyone, we did it.
November 13, 2025 at 2:12 AM
The last 2.5 years of Bluesky were a steady build up to "criticism of Jeffrey Epstein's writing ability is ableist." Congrats everyone, we did it.
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I hired a director recently and this was my screening question: can you please explain the difference between public-key and symmetric-key cryptography.
Virtually all the candidates, who universally claimed security engineering expertise of some kind (some cryptography-related) could not. At all.
Virtually all the candidates, who universally claimed security engineering expertise of some kind (some cryptography-related) could not. At all.
November 7, 2025 at 4:57 PM
I hired a director recently and this was my screening question: can you please explain the difference between public-key and symmetric-key cryptography.
Virtually all the candidates, who universally claimed security engineering expertise of some kind (some cryptography-related) could not. At all.
Virtually all the candidates, who universally claimed security engineering expertise of some kind (some cryptography-related) could not. At all.
Reference: missionlocal.org/2025/11/kitk... . Waymo could do some things better here, but what these people want is worse.
Jackie Fielder eulogizing a cat, an honor she has yet to bestow upon any of SF's dozens of humans killed in or by cars. Because none of the crooks in the background give a damn about street safety, either.
November 6, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Reference: missionlocal.org/2025/11/kitk... . Waymo could do some things better here, but what these people want is worse.
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Seeing AI turn my community first pro-copyright and now pro-defamation law is going to stick with me.
November 1, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Seeing AI turn my community first pro-copyright and now pro-defamation law is going to stick with me.
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this is re:gentrification discourse. you can just say “I’m an artsy type who doesn’t like yuppies”, and there’s nothing wrong with that so long as you don’t expect public policy to be oriented around that impulse. you don’t have to use critical theory jargon to dress that dislike up.
November 1, 2025 at 5:18 PM
this is re:gentrification discourse. you can just say “I’m an artsy type who doesn’t like yuppies”, and there’s nothing wrong with that so long as you don’t expect public policy to be oriented around that impulse. you don’t have to use critical theory jargon to dress that dislike up.
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Ah, Turnitin, thank you so much for telling me that the incriminating phrase "Page 1 of 7" has been stolen from the OUP website...
October 30, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Ah, Turnitin, thank you so much for telling me that the incriminating phrase "Page 1 of 7" has been stolen from the OUP website...
This is a fun bug. MacOS Spotlight can't index files starting with the word "Draw". eclecticlight.co/2025/10/26/l...
Last Week on My Mac: Why Spotlight can’t find some files
In macOS Mojave, Apple changed the way that Spotlight indexes the contents of plain text files. That introduced a bug that prevents indexing of any of the contents of files starting with certain ch…
eclecticlight.co
October 30, 2025 at 9:10 AM
This is a fun bug. MacOS Spotlight can't index files starting with the word "Draw". eclecticlight.co/2025/10/26/l...
Notably, I only see Google denying doing anything illegal and that "this" (article?) was falsely implying something. I see no straightforward denial of any "winking" agreements. Lawyers have called me overly pedantic though, so make of that what you will.
Really important reporting on the big tech participants in Israeli gov deals. Not just the headline winks, but the somewhat buried idea that the companies are not allowed to cut Israel off if it breaks promises about what it is using the tech for. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Revealed: Israel demanded Google and Amazon use secret ‘wink’ to sidestep legal orders
The tech giants agreed to extraordinary terms to clinch a lucrative contract with the Israeli government, documents show
www.theguardian.com
October 30, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Notably, I only see Google denying doing anything illegal and that "this" (article?) was falsely implying something. I see no straightforward denial of any "winking" agreements. Lawyers have called me overly pedantic though, so make of that what you will.
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Sadie you fucking moron.
October 29, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Sadie you fucking moron.
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First in the uncategorized cookies and 3rd in sandwich!
October 18, 2025 at 10:29 PM
First in the uncategorized cookies and 3rd in sandwich!
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if you never get a taste for the money they're paying you, they won't be able to pay you for anything you don't want to do
October 13, 2025 at 6:20 AM
if you never get a taste for the money they're paying you, they won't be able to pay you for anything you don't want to do
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ME: Now Mom, just remember, there's a lot of disinformation and AI in your social feed and your friends' Facebook.
MOM: I know! My friend sent me this crazy post where someone used AI to make an image of a giant frog fighting Army troops!
ME: ... okay, no, that one's ... goddamit, Portland.
MOM: I know! My friend sent me this crazy post where someone used AI to make an image of a giant frog fighting Army troops!
ME: ... okay, no, that one's ... goddamit, Portland.
October 9, 2025 at 5:29 PM
ME: Now Mom, just remember, there's a lot of disinformation and AI in your social feed and your friends' Facebook.
MOM: I know! My friend sent me this crazy post where someone used AI to make an image of a giant frog fighting Army troops!
ME: ... okay, no, that one's ... goddamit, Portland.
MOM: I know! My friend sent me this crazy post where someone used AI to make an image of a giant frog fighting Army troops!
ME: ... okay, no, that one's ... goddamit, Portland.
www.theverge.com/news/793362/... Google decided giving the user malicious information isn't a vulnerability. How's that mission statement going?
They've made the underlying problem unsolvable. Still, they should at least fix and reward findings when users have even less hope to protect themselves.
They've made the underlying problem unsolvable. Still, they should at least fix and reward findings when users have even less hope to protect themselves.
Very surprised this is a Will not Fix from Google; perhaps popularizing will help.
(ht to @headmold.bsky.social, source of gloomy stuff this evening).
Also would it be more or less likely to be fixed if it were called 'ASCII sNuggling' vs. 'smuggling'.
(ht to @headmold.bsky.social, source of gloomy stuff this evening).
Also would it be more or less likely to be fixed if it were called 'ASCII sNuggling' vs. 'smuggling'.
Google won’t fix new ASCII smuggling attack in Gemini
Google has decided not to fix a new ASCII smuggling attack in Gemini that could be used to trick the AI assistant into providing users with fake information, alter the model's behavior, and silently p...
www.bleepingcomputer.com
October 9, 2025 at 7:20 AM
www.theverge.com/news/793362/... Google decided giving the user malicious information isn't a vulnerability. How's that mission statement going?
They've made the underlying problem unsolvable. Still, they should at least fix and reward findings when users have even less hope to protect themselves.
They've made the underlying problem unsolvable. Still, they should at least fix and reward findings when users have even less hope to protect themselves.
The clearest explanation of the new US COVID vaccine rules I could find. I rushed to get my shot today just before finding this, but it matched my experience.
October 8, 2025 at 1:46 AM
The clearest explanation of the new US COVID vaccine rules I could find. I rushed to get my shot today just before finding this, but it matched my experience.
Hey Europe, can you put off your authoritarianism crisis until we're finished in the U.S.? Thanks!
We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...
signal.org
October 3, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Hey Europe, can you put off your authoritarianism crisis until we're finished in the U.S.? Thanks!
blurbusters.com/crt-simulati... is cool. Motion clarity by imitating a CRT as hard as you can
The 120 Hz demo (www.shadertoy.com/view/X3ccDN) works in Chrome+Android after I disable chrome://flags/#throttle-main-thread-to-60hz . But on Mac, I get pink smearing (Chrome/Safari/Firefox)
The 120 Hz demo (www.shadertoy.com/view/X3ccDN) works in Chrome+Android after I disable chrome://flags/#throttle-main-thread-to-60hz . But on Mac, I get pink smearing (Chrome/Safari/Firefox)
CRT Simulation in a GPU Shader, Looks Better Than BFI - Blur Busters
Who Is this for? CRT Enthusiasts, software & hardware developers, emulator authors, all of who wish to reduce display motion blur of 60 years of legacy 60fps 60Hz content with softer flicker than BFI....
blurbusters.com
October 3, 2025 at 9:09 AM
blurbusters.com/crt-simulati... is cool. Motion clarity by imitating a CRT as hard as you can
The 120 Hz demo (www.shadertoy.com/view/X3ccDN) works in Chrome+Android after I disable chrome://flags/#throttle-main-thread-to-60hz . But on Mac, I get pink smearing (Chrome/Safari/Firefox)
The 120 Hz demo (www.shadertoy.com/view/X3ccDN) works in Chrome+Android after I disable chrome://flags/#throttle-main-thread-to-60hz . But on Mac, I get pink smearing (Chrome/Safari/Firefox)
Whatever they claim, Google is still taking away the freedom to install what you want in Android without their permission: android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/09/lets... . Killing anonymity will allow/force them to block some devs like Apple does: www.macrumors.com/2025/08/27/a...
Let's talk security: Answering your top questions about Android developer verification
News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.
android-developers.googleblog.com
October 1, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Whatever they claim, Google is still taking away the freedom to install what you want in Android without their permission: android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/09/lets... . Killing anonymity will allow/force them to block some devs like Apple does: www.macrumors.com/2025/08/27/a...
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nobody died on it that I know of but the British grew a 2,300 mile hedge across India to impose salt taxes - www.bbc.com/future/artic...
The mysterious disappearance of the world's longest shrubbery
The natural living barrier was described as "utterly impassable to man or beast", and snaked across India from the Indus River to the Mahanadi. But why doesn't anyone remember it?
www.bbc.com
September 25, 2025 at 1:42 AM
nobody died on it that I know of but the British grew a 2,300 mile hedge across India to impose salt taxes - www.bbc.com/future/artic...
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