@layman-public.bsky.social
Old man in tech. Indian in the US.
Interests: Programming/Software development, abuse detection, Dev tools, tech in general, politics, Telugu - books, movies, culture
I don't speak for my employer, my family or my non-existent dog.
Interests: Programming/Software development, abuse detection, Dev tools, tech in general, politics, Telugu - books, movies, culture
I don't speak for my employer, my family or my non-existent dog.
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It's really bad that a publicly-traded payroll company that doesn't have nearly the level of resources nor analysis capability of the US government is the only source we have on jobs numbers.
December 3, 2025 at 1:47 PM
It's really bad that a publicly-traded payroll company that doesn't have nearly the level of resources nor analysis capability of the US government is the only source we have on jobs numbers.
It would be great visualize to plot this against the stock price.
How Tesla's Q1 2026 EPS estimates have evolved over the past 3 years.
December 3, 2025 at 7:07 PM
It would be great visualize to plot this against the stock price.
This is outrageous. There may well be another side to this story, but the police behavior sounds egregious at best, even if the startup did something wrong. That is something most Indians are familiar with.
www.financialexpress.com/trending/wev...
www.financialexpress.com/trending/wev...
‘We’ve lost the battle’: Delhi police arrest co-founder a day after Wherehouse shuts down
Delhi Police arrested Wherehouse co-founder Vaibhav Chawla late Monday night after a criminal complaint from a client, just hours after he announced on LinkedIn that he is shutting down the startup.
www.financialexpress.com
December 2, 2025 at 3:32 PM
This is outrageous. There may well be another side to this story, but the police behavior sounds egregious at best, even if the startup did something wrong. That is something most Indians are familiar with.
www.financialexpress.com/trending/wev...
www.financialexpress.com/trending/wev...
I don't know today's word! For the fifth try, I just tried a few combinations that "sounded" like words!
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November 26, 2025 at 6:05 PM
I don't know today's word! For the fifth try, I just tried a few combinations that "sounded" like words!
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$TSLA shareholder logic:
If other automakers license FSD, that's a revenue source. Stock to the moon!
If other makers aren't licensing FSD, TSLA has exclusive monopoly on Robotaxi business. Stock to the moon!!
electrek.co/2025/11/24/e...
If other automakers license FSD, that's a revenue source. Stock to the moon!
If other makers aren't licensing FSD, TSLA has exclusive monopoly on Robotaxi business. Stock to the moon!!
electrek.co/2025/11/24/e...
Elon Musk admits other automakers don't want to license Tesla's 'Full Self-Driving'
After years of teasing that other automakers would license Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) system, Elon Musk has now admitted that...
electrek.co
November 25, 2025 at 7:06 AM
$TSLA shareholder logic:
If other automakers license FSD, that's a revenue source. Stock to the moon!
If other makers aren't licensing FSD, TSLA has exclusive monopoly on Robotaxi business. Stock to the moon!!
electrek.co/2025/11/24/e...
If other automakers license FSD, that's a revenue source. Stock to the moon!
If other makers aren't licensing FSD, TSLA has exclusive monopoly on Robotaxi business. Stock to the moon!!
electrek.co/2025/11/24/e...
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#JustPublished
"Sex trafficking [on Zuckerberg's platforms]... was widely tolerated...
IG’s former head of safety... testified that when she joined Meta she was shocked to learn that [Zuckerberg] had a “17x” strike policy for accts that reportedly engaged in the “trafficking of humans for sex.”
"Sex trafficking [on Zuckerberg's platforms]... was widely tolerated...
IG’s former head of safety... testified that when she joined Meta she was shocked to learn that [Zuckerberg] had a “17x” strike policy for accts that reportedly engaged in the “trafficking of humans for sex.”
7 Allegations Against Meta in Newly Unsealed Filings
Court filings allege Meta tolerated sex trafficking, hid harms to teens, and prioritized growth over user safety for years.
time.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:25 PM
#JustPublished
"Sex trafficking [on Zuckerberg's platforms]... was widely tolerated...
IG’s former head of safety... testified that when she joined Meta she was shocked to learn that [Zuckerberg] had a “17x” strike policy for accts that reportedly engaged in the “trafficking of humans for sex.”
"Sex trafficking [on Zuckerberg's platforms]... was widely tolerated...
IG’s former head of safety... testified that when she joined Meta she was shocked to learn that [Zuckerberg] had a “17x” strike policy for accts that reportedly engaged in the “trafficking of humans for sex.”
A positive story to close the week. Salmon fish found upstream in Alameda Creek after many decades.
www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
'Epic': Salmon seen far upstream in Bay Area creek for first time in 70 years
After the removal of small dams and the addition of fish ladders, salmon have been seen swimming further up a Bay Area creek than at anytime in decades.
www.sfchronicle.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:00 PM
A positive story to close the week. Salmon fish found upstream in Alameda Creek after many decades.
www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
www.securityweek.com/vulnerabilit...
Researchers scraped 3.5 billion WhatsApp accounts using a novel enumeration technique, bypassing rate limits - got even profile pics, names etc for a subset of them. It's disingenuous for Meta to call this "collaboration" when it's big bounty!
Researchers scraped 3.5 billion WhatsApp accounts using a novel enumeration technique, bypassing rate limits - got even profile pics, names etc for a subset of them. It's disingenuous for Meta to call this "collaboration" when it's big bounty!
Vulnerability Allowed Scraping of 3.5 Billion WhatsApp Accounts
Researchers disclosed the details of a novel enumeration technique that allowed them to scrape 3.5 billion WhatsApp accounts.
www.securityweek.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:44 PM
www.securityweek.com/vulnerabilit...
Researchers scraped 3.5 billion WhatsApp accounts using a novel enumeration technique, bypassing rate limits - got even profile pics, names etc for a subset of them. It's disingenuous for Meta to call this "collaboration" when it's big bounty!
Researchers scraped 3.5 billion WhatsApp accounts using a novel enumeration technique, bypassing rate limits - got even profile pics, names etc for a subset of them. It's disingenuous for Meta to call this "collaboration" when it's big bounty!
finance.yahoo.com/news/analysi...
Who cares about profits of the company. The company's sole purpose is to enrich one individual.
Who cares about profits of the company. The company's sole purpose is to enrich one individual.
Forget Musk's latest pay package, his last one could wipe out years of Tesla profits
(Reuters) -Tesla's gaudy $1 trillion executive-compensation package for CEO Elon Musk has obscured a more pressing concern: Musk's 2018 pay package -- still tied up in court -- could eat up years' wor...
finance.yahoo.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:52 PM
finance.yahoo.com/news/analysi...
Who cares about profits of the company. The company's sole purpose is to enrich one individual.
Who cares about profits of the company. The company's sole purpose is to enrich one individual.
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Juicero!
If I hadn’t been there to see it — it was being demoed at a conference I attended — I would have thought it was something Mike Judge invented for “Silicon Valley.”
If I hadn’t been there to see it — it was being demoed at a conference I attended — I would have thought it was something Mike Judge invented for “Silicon Valley.”
From the people who brought you the financial crisis, Theranos, and Juicero: say hello to data center financial engineering!
I'm pretty nervous about this ending badly, but everyone's dug in because AI is the only pulse in the economy.
prospect.org/2025/11/19/a...
I'm pretty nervous about this ending badly, but everyone's dug in because AI is the only pulse in the economy.
prospect.org/2025/11/19/a...
The AI Bubble Is Bigger Than You Think - The American Prospect
It’s not just OpenAI that looks overhyped. There’s a whole mountain of sketchy financial engineering underneath.
prospect.org
November 19, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Juicero!
If I hadn’t been there to see it — it was being demoed at a conference I attended — I would have thought it was something Mike Judge invented for “Silicon Valley.”
If I hadn’t been there to see it — it was being demoed at a conference I attended — I would have thought it was something Mike Judge invented for “Silicon Valley.”
finance.yahoo.com/news/why-one...
If there is one thing I realized, the CEO's either lie, or don't have even a foggy idea of the ground realities in the company. I don't know which is worse. When they claim they are cutting down bureaucracy, they really don't know how it actually gets executed.
If there is one thing I realized, the CEO's either lie, or don't have even a foggy idea of the ground realities in the company. I don't know which is worse. When they claim they are cutting down bureaucracy, they really don't know how it actually gets executed.
Why one of the nation’s most prosperous industries is shedding jobs
SAN FRANCISCO - After more than a decade in tech, Casey Engler thought he was prepared for another round of industry layoffs. But when Microsoft cut his job in July, the shock still hit hard - and the...
finance.yahoo.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:32 PM
finance.yahoo.com/news/why-one...
If there is one thing I realized, the CEO's either lie, or don't have even a foggy idea of the ground realities in the company. I don't know which is worse. When they claim they are cutting down bureaucracy, they really don't know how it actually gets executed.
If there is one thing I realized, the CEO's either lie, or don't have even a foggy idea of the ground realities in the company. I don't know which is worse. When they claim they are cutting down bureaucracy, they really don't know how it actually gets executed.
techcrunch.com/2025/11/17/d...
DoorDash had a data breach that exposed people's names, email addresses, phone numbers, and physical addresses.
But they didn't disclose how many people are affected, and say no "sensitive" information is leaked. They don't seem to be taking it seriously enough.
DoorDash had a data breach that exposed people's names, email addresses, phone numbers, and physical addresses.
But they didn't disclose how many people are affected, and say no "sensitive" information is leaked. They don't seem to be taking it seriously enough.
DoorDash confirms data breach impacting users’ phone numbers and physical addresses | TechCrunch
The delivery giant said “no sensitive information” was accessed, and did not specify the number of customers, delivery workers, and merchants who were impacted by the breach.
techcrunch.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:35 PM
techcrunch.com/2025/11/17/d...
DoorDash had a data breach that exposed people's names, email addresses, phone numbers, and physical addresses.
But they didn't disclose how many people are affected, and say no "sensitive" information is leaked. They don't seem to be taking it seriously enough.
DoorDash had a data breach that exposed people's names, email addresses, phone numbers, and physical addresses.
But they didn't disclose how many people are affected, and say no "sensitive" information is leaked. They don't seem to be taking it seriously enough.
sherwood.news/tech/orange-...
The reason a lot of people upgrade their phones is bragging rights. ("I have the latest phone"). But if the phone looks the same as the previous version, how do they brag? So Apple made it easy to show off that you have the latest phone - by releasing an orange color.
The reason a lot of people upgrade their phones is bragging rights. ("I have the latest phone"). But if the phone looks the same as the previous version, how do they brag? So Apple made it easy to show off that you have the latest phone - by releasing an orange color.
Orange Apple iPhones are the new black
The latest iPhone Pro doesn’t come in black, the preferred iPhone color, so people are picking... Cosmic Orange....
sherwood.news
November 13, 2025 at 9:02 PM
sherwood.news/tech/orange-...
The reason a lot of people upgrade their phones is bragging rights. ("I have the latest phone"). But if the phone looks the same as the previous version, how do they brag? So Apple made it easy to show off that you have the latest phone - by releasing an orange color.
The reason a lot of people upgrade their phones is bragging rights. ("I have the latest phone"). But if the phone looks the same as the previous version, how do they brag? So Apple made it easy to show off that you have the latest phone - by releasing an orange color.
Number of jobs lost per year. 2025 is on track to be the quest year since the last crisis (2009).
November 10, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Number of jobs lost per year. 2025 is on track to be the quest year since the last crisis (2009).
fortune.com/2025/11/10/e...
A startling 760,000 seasonally adjusted cuts through October, far outpacing the same period in 2024 and running higher than any year since 2009 — the aftermath of the Great Financial Crisis.
A startling 760,000 seasonally adjusted cuts through October, far outpacing the same period in 2024 and running higher than any year since 2009 — the aftermath of the Great Financial Crisis.
'Yikes': Top investment bank looks under the hood of the economy and finds 'the labor market doesn't look that good' | Fortune
We've heard the labor market is in a "low-hire, low-fire" kind of environment. The "low hire" part seems to be true, the other not so much.
fortune.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:37 PM
fortune.com/2025/11/10/e...
A startling 760,000 seasonally adjusted cuts through October, far outpacing the same period in 2024 and running higher than any year since 2009 — the aftermath of the Great Financial Crisis.
A startling 760,000 seasonally adjusted cuts through October, far outpacing the same period in 2024 and running higher than any year since 2009 — the aftermath of the Great Financial Crisis.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/t...
When I was in grad school (and even later), Bill Gates was pretty much the villain for us Linux and Open Source believers. He had his flaws (Epstein and all), but for the past few years, he had been doing a lot of good! 1/
When I was in grad school (and even later), Bill Gates was pretty much the villain for us Linux and Open Source believers. He had his flaws (Epstein and all), but for the past few years, he had been doing a lot of good! 1/
Bill Gates on Gates Foundation: We make it clear that it is not our role to say, OK, the US government wants to save money, so we will ... - The Times of India
Tech News News: The Gates Foundation has pledged $2.5 billion over five years to advance global women's health, marking a significant increase in their investment. Th
timesofindia.indiatimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:06 PM
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/t...
When I was in grad school (and even later), Bill Gates was pretty much the villain for us Linux and Open Source believers. He had his flaws (Epstein and all), but for the past few years, he had been doing a lot of good! 1/
When I was in grad school (and even later), Bill Gates was pretty much the villain for us Linux and Open Source believers. He had his flaws (Epstein and all), but for the past few years, he had been doing a lot of good! 1/
Just sharing two news items, about two different schools in the Bay area. I think it just reveals a little bit about the person/family connected with both the schools.
1. Chan-Zuckerberg Foundation closes a school primarily meant for underprivileged kids
www.kqed.org/news/1203710...
1. Chan-Zuckerberg Foundation closes a school primarily meant for underprivileged kids
www.kqed.org/news/1203710...
Looming Closure of Zuckerberg-Funded School Raises Concerns in East Palo Alto | KQED
The tuition-free Primary School, which sought to serve low-income communities with locations in East Palo Alto and the East Bay, is closing at the end of next year.
www.kqed.org
November 6, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Just sharing two news items, about two different schools in the Bay area. I think it just reveals a little bit about the person/family connected with both the schools.
1. Chan-Zuckerberg Foundation closes a school primarily meant for underprivileged kids
www.kqed.org/news/1203710...
1. Chan-Zuckerberg Foundation closes a school primarily meant for underprivileged kids
www.kqed.org/news/1203710...
You can bet your a$$ that this will have zero impact on the $TSLA stock price! The stock is completely divorced from fundamentals!
Federal auto safety regulators have opened yet another investigation into Tesla’s so-called full-self driving technology after dozens of incidents in which its vehicles ran red lights or drove on the wrong side of the road. https://to.pbs.org/3IZkqZp
U.S. opens Tesla probe after more crashes involving its so-called full self-driving technology
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said in a filing dated Tuesday that it has 58 incident reports of Tesla vehicles violating traffic safety laws while operating in full self-driving m...
www.pbs.org
October 9, 2025 at 9:28 PM
You can bet your a$$ that this will have zero impact on the $TSLA stock price! The stock is completely divorced from fundamentals!
I am losing my faith in Bluesky as a social network public zeitgeist. I am in Indian American, and any topic that concerns India or Indian Americans are ever reflected in my feed.
Over Friday, the was new proclamation that seemed to have pretty much killed H-1B and it was the top of mind 1/
Over Friday, the was new proclamation that seemed to have pretty much killed H-1B and it was the top of mind 1/
September 21, 2025 at 2:41 PM
I am losing my faith in Bluesky as a social network public zeitgeist. I am in Indian American, and any topic that concerns India or Indian Americans are ever reflected in my feed.
Over Friday, the was new proclamation that seemed to have pretty much killed H-1B and it was the top of mind 1/
Over Friday, the was new proclamation that seemed to have pretty much killed H-1B and it was the top of mind 1/
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/w...
The hypocrisy of Western media is obvious again. Read this phrase for instance:
a massacre in which 26 people were killed on the Indian side of Kashmir in April that his country’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, _described as_ a “terror attack.” 1/
The hypocrisy of Western media is obvious again. Read this phrase for instance:
a massacre in which 26 people were killed on the Indian side of Kashmir in April that his country’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, _described as_ a “terror attack.” 1/
With a Snub on a Cricket Field, India-Pakistan Tensions Hit New Pitch
www.nytimes.com
September 15, 2025 at 7:24 PM
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/w...
The hypocrisy of Western media is obvious again. Read this phrase for instance:
a massacre in which 26 people were killed on the Indian side of Kashmir in April that his country’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, _described as_ a “terror attack.” 1/
The hypocrisy of Western media is obvious again. Read this phrase for instance:
a massacre in which 26 people were killed on the Indian side of Kashmir in April that his country’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, _described as_ a “terror attack.” 1/
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Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."
September 13, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."
