Mantej Rajpal
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Mantej Rajpal
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doing security stuff / adjunct professor at NYU
I regularly frequented local NYC eateries when I lived in a rent-stabilized apartment.

Was I supposed to live off of bodega subs? lmao
nypost.com/2025/10/22/u...
Zohran Mamdani ripped for dining at pricy NYC eatery while living in rent-stabilized apartment: ‘Fraud class’
Actor and podcaster Michael Rapaport ripped Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani for eating at “one of the priciest joints in NYC” while living in a rent-stabilized apartment.
nypost.com
October 27, 2025 at 5:24 PM
love me a meritocracy 🔥🔥
October 13, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Got this Game Boy tat last weekend in London from a local artist who — we discovered while she was tatting me — is originally from Lahore, which is also where my grandfather was born 🥹
December 17, 2024 at 11:17 PM
X (Twitter) has become much less popular among teens.
December 16, 2024 at 1:55 PM
Google’s new quantum computing chip took 5 mins to solve a problem that would take a supercomputer over 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years.

blog.google/technology/r...
Meet Willow, our state-of-the-art quantum chip
Our new quantum chip demonstrates error correction and performance that paves the way to a useful, large-scale quantum computer.
blog.google
December 10, 2024 at 3:26 AM
Been missing my Oura ring post shifting to Apple Watch for tracking both fitness + sleep.

Started using Autosleep (iOS app, one time $5.99 purchase) last week, and I’m surprisingly impressed. I’m really into gamification via sleep scores, readiness, trend analysis, etc, and this does it all!
November 14, 2024 at 4:28 PM
November 14, 2024 at 4:43 AM
It’s only an oblivious PRF if it’s from an oblivious region of France.

Otherwise it’s just sparkling key exchange
January 2, 2024 at 8:09 PM
fresh herb caramelle with a creamy pesto filling

charcuterie board including a vegan variation (the further one)
January 1, 2024 at 1:58 AM
gm

is anyone else playing greedy on repeat while writing code to get into flow state?
November 16, 2023 at 1:24 PM
For reference, The Lazarus Group was also behind the 2017 ransomware attack that hit the NHS and hospitals across the UK.
https://decrypt.co/155360/fbi-says-north-koreas-lazarus-group-was-behind-41-million-stake-hack
September 8, 2023 at 5:13 PM
Regardless of how you feel about Vivek’s politics, I don’t think you should make fun of his Indian last name.

Low blow ad hominem
August 27, 2023 at 8:46 PM
Telling my kids this was Marissa Mayer
August 15, 2023 at 1:13 PM
FIRMware because it’s between SOFTware and HARDware, did any y’all realize this
August 14, 2023 at 1:47 PM
This pops up when you try viewing the privacy policy on friend.tech 💀
August 12, 2023 at 10:57 PM
Perhaps the most logically sound argument against flat-earthers
August 12, 2023 at 10:05 PM
COTE NYC wins the A5 Wagyu game
August 12, 2023 at 12:54 AM
mantejrajpal on threads

where my infosec folk at??
July 6, 2023 at 11:01 PM
short fossil fuels, long renewables
June 16, 2023 at 8:11 PM
Trying to change my password, but cannot seem to find any change pw functionality in settings?
June 15, 2023 at 3:31 PM
Cats vs Commas:

Cats have claws at the end of their paws

But commas are the pause at the end of a clause
June 4, 2023 at 1:09 PM
I don’t fancy myself a political commentator, but if you’re intellectually honest you must acknowledge that Democrats have been the more fiscally responsible party for 30+ years.
May 22, 2023 at 8:23 PM
Reposted by Mantej Rajpal
Rich people are out here making their kids into their "blood boys" and people are still worried about Drag Queens smh
May 22, 2023 at 6:04 PM
Reposted by Mantej Rajpal
Optical computing encodes data in light beams instead of electric currents.

Fully Homomorphic Encryption via optical computing would reduce processing time from 1 million seconds to between 10 and 100 seconds.

Added bonus: no energy consumption/CO2 emissions
A better way to process encrypted data
Fully homomorphic encryption is easy if you do it with light
www.economist.com
May 15, 2023 at 6:58 PM