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There's also a few plugins for KOReader that achieve the same: - https://github.com/omer-faruq/assistant.koplugin , which is forked from: - https://github.com/drewbaumann/AskGPT The first one
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I switched to rgit instead of running Gitea.
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https://githubnext.com/projects/agentic-workflows/ > Instead of writing bespoke scripts that operate over GitHub using the GitHub API, you describe the desired behavior in plain language. This is converted into
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SPC Requests for Curiosity, Winter 2025
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> a single ID will limit babudom arbitrariness a bit It does not in practice, because Aadhaar data is a unverified source of big messes. As several examples: - UP Gov does not believe Aadhaar to be a proof of date of birth https:/
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Yes, because Telcos are designated as AUAs, and expected to do a full KYC under DoT regulations. Hotels are not. I have two SIMs, and I surprisingly got the newer of them in 20 minutes at a remote village in India without an Aadhaar. Telcos
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This is the ultimate facade of Digital Identity that UIDAI lets happen while sitting idly by. They put a circular against “Aadhaar photocopies not being valid” only to rescind it the next day because everyone made fun of them. The truth, as
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I’d love to see a citation for a Hotel being legally allowed access to the Aadhaar KUA system, even before the Supreme Court judgement. No hotel in India does this, because Aadhaar as implemented is a “honor based system” for the majority o
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I'm not seeing anything very specific in the code - feels like this could be just another Jekyll theme and still work the same. There's some custom front-matter in markdown files, but change that to regular YAML and it will just w
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The order states: > Ensure that the pre-installed Sanchar Saathi application is readily visible and accessible to the end users at the time of first use or device setup and that its functionalities are not disabled or restricted. https:
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For others: IFF (Internet Freedom Foundation) was born out of India's SaveTheInternet campaign for Net Neutrality, which helped save India from Facebook's Internet.org. They're currently fighting more than a dozen cases on a
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IFF's Statement against mandatory installation of "Sanchar Saathi"
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Every single Indian SIM holder got dozens of SMS from the regulator to push the app installations. When your marketing campaign is “Notify every Indian SIM holder”, 10M should be expected. Look at the reviews.
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RBI pushed an entire new second level TLD to India’s entire banking system with a 6 month deadline. It was a botched rollout but now every bank in India is using .bank.in, despite two of India’s largest bank owning their own TLDs (.hdfc, an
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NPCI ownership is not with RBI and IBA. RBI does not have any NPCI shares.
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There’s a famous article by Terence Eden about the kind of devices that people are forced to use to interact with the UK Government, written with his experiences working for the government. The devices include: A Playstation Portable. The l
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Medianama is also covering this well: - https://www.medianama.com/2025/12/223-govt-sanchar-saathi-ap... - https://www.medianama.com/2025/12/223-sim-binding-guidelines...
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Even in the case of Dillo, the migrated bugs from GitHub include ZIP files (that are still hosted on GitHub): https://bug.dillo-browser.org/50/
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> India's director of air safety announced that an explosion in the cargo hold apparently caused the crash of an Air-India Jumbo jet last June, killing all 329 people aboard the flight from Canada to Bombay I forgot what tab opened
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Disruption of Docker Hardened Images and Docker Scout
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The Future of Codewars
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Root Bear is a modern take for the playdate on that genre: https://alexsussy.itch.io/root-bear
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Thanks a lot, I've added Metaport to our list of known users: https://github.com/endoflife-date/endoflife.date/wiki/Known-...
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Not everything seems to be tagged as acquisition. Dyte.io was acquired, and announced here: https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-cloudflare-realtime-...
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Foul Play: Privilege Escalation on the Playdate
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I thought .ac was the Academic TLD, and was wondering how this domain was registered, but it is just a ccTLD (2 letter, so has to be). .ac just happens to be the academic second level TLD of choice for many countries. Apparently, you could
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The list of services makes it look like you’re using endoflife.date as the data source, which I kept under MIT, and requires attribution. We’re happy to support every usecase, but please provide attribution :) (Bitcoin-core stands out very
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I think this existed before the ALB was announced, and doesn’t see that many updates.
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https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/634-food-deserts/ 99pi has a nice podcast on food deserts. It puts the blame on the decision from the FTC to stop enforcing the Robinson-Patman Act, and only use consumer pri
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Germany lets you get a Chancenkarte with a deposit of 1000EUR/month to look for a job upto a year.
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