Danish Aziz Satkut

Rubyist, Gamer, Runner, Light weighted.

Rails Developer @BigBinary. Previously @infibeam.

[Danish Aziz Satkut @Agent47DarkSoul]

DMart trying to DDOS itself.

[Nikhil Pahwa @nixxin]

More bad news for mobile phone users in India (after SIM binding): Our government is mandating a government app (sanchar saathi) on every new phone, permanently, Reuters reports.

Will be pushed to your phone via OTA. New smartphones need to have it. Users cannot delete it. This is a first. India has never before required an unremovable state app on every device. Russia does btw, with its MAX Messenger (started September 2025).

A few comments regarding this:
1. Sanchar Saathi is a lost phone tracker, but if it gets embedded with no possibility of removal, it becomes a government tracker on your device.

IF the government is allowed to get away with this, what’s next? A mandatory digital ID app? Digiyatra forcefully installed on each device? An app that disables VPNs or tracks your app and browser history? An app that sends copies of your messages to the government once a month?

Once the OS layer is opened to the state, it doesn’t close.

2. Legally, one can argue that your mobile phone is your personal space, and this is an invasion of your personal space.

It’s where we have our most private conversations. Exchange sensitive information with people we trust.

How do we know this app isn’t used to access files and messaging on our device, which is unencrypted on device? Or a future update won’t do that? This is clearly an invasion of our privacy.

3. Remember how the government exempt itself from much of the Data Protection Law. This explains why.

The Data Protection Law will make private companies more accountable and the Indian government less accountable.

4. Bloatware is already an issue with some phones (It’s why I don’t use Samsung). Now there’s more, and this time the government is forcing bloatware. I guess we’ll all have to root our phones now. When you buy a phone with bloatware, you're choosing to buy it with bloatware. This is different.

5. The way things work with India’s Department of Telecom, there was no public consultation, the order wasn’t disclosed. Just forced. This is dictatorial in nature. If they get away with this, more will follow.

[Avinash Vasudevan @AvinashVasudev6]

😡 Enough is Enough! Navi Mumbai is GASPING!

AQI today is 165 — UNHEALTHY!
PM2.5: 82 µg/m³ | PM10: 109 µg/m³
This is the AIR our kids are breathing every morning!

What exactly are all our so-called *authorities and leaders* doing? @CPCB_OFFICIAL @NMMConline
@NMMCCommr
@NMMC_Official @MPCBOfficial @MahaEnvDept @CMOMaharashtra @MoEFCC @PMOIndia — Are you all waiting for people to fall sick before acting?

We pay taxes, we follow rules — yet we get polluted air, dusty roads, burning waste, and zero accountability.
Every department loves a photo-op when planting trees, but when it comes to actual air quality, everyone goes silent.

Stop the speeches. Stop the excuses. Start cleaning our air NOW!
Tagging media too — @ndtvindia @TOIMumbai @IndianExpress @htTweets @mid_day @lokmat
@NaviMumbaiNet @SakalMediaNews
@NavrashtraTimes @saammarathi
@abpmajhatv
@timesofindia — time to show what’s really happening in Navi Mumbai!

#NaviMumbai #AirPollution #AQI165 #UnhealthyAir #WakeUpGovernment #RightToBreathe #CleanAirNow

[Danish Aziz Satkut @Agent47DarkSoul]

@AvinashVasudev6 @mpcb_official @NMMConline @NMMCCommr Is Sector 20 affected as well?

[Danish Aziz Satkut @Agent47DarkSoul]

@24san24 @NMMConline Which sector was this from?

[Danish Aziz Satkut @Agent47DarkSoul]

@Shailesh_Hinge @NMMCCommr @NMMConline @Navimumpolice @RamzPuj @IndiaWeatherMan Was this Sec-11?

[Danish Aziz Satkut @Agent47DarkSoul]

@ViveBira1994 @mumbaimatterz @navimumbaicv @NMMConline @mieknathshinde @CMOMaharashtra @NMMCCommr @Navimumpolice @AjitPawarSpeaks What Sector is this from? I have heard it happens in Sec-11. Is Sec-20 affected as well?

[Danish Aziz Satkut @Agent47DarkSoul]

@tejasbubane @abdulkarim_me Yes, it has always been! Watched it when it aired all the way through. Mind you it was before Snowden happened.

[Danish Aziz Satkut @Agent47DarkSoul]

@BilalBudhani Same here (except React instead of Vue). We tried Hotwire in one project but the lack of readily available components really slowed us down. Moved to Inertia.js for a new project and it has been really good so far.

[Bilal @ Supadesk.co @BilalBudhani]

🎉 I’m excited to share what I’ve been working on: Fileboost - a Ruby on Rails plugin that delivers images without making your servers sweat.

When I was scaling Rails apps, I ran into a bottleneck I hadn’t expected: Active Storage.

Every image variant was being generated on demand. That meant users were waiting while servers were busy handling image transformations 😓. And even after the heavy lifting was done, Active Storage still needed a database lookup for every single request just to serve the final URL.

The result? Servers tied up, response times slowed down, and infrastructure costs creeping higher. On top of that, there’s no simple way to serve optimal formats like WebP or AVIF to end users on the fly.

That experience stuck with me - and now I’m channeling it into Fileboost.

⚡ Fileboost is an Active Storage compatible gem that takes over the image-serving layer by handling transformations, picking the best format, and caching everything at the edge without hammering your app servers.

The outcome: faster image delivery for users, powerful image transformations, and reduced strain on your infrastructure.

There’s no complicated setup, just play & play. Fileboost is a simple gem that works almost exactly like Rails’ image_tag. The goal is to make it a true drop-in replacement, with an opt-in patch so you don’t even have to change your code.

I’m opening early access next week. If you’ve felt the same Active Storage pain, I’d love for you to try Fileboost.

[Danish Aziz Satkut @Agent47DarkSoul]

@BilalBudhani @Tailscale Definitely! What's the use case?

[Danish Aziz Satkut @Agent47DarkSoul]

@Hiteshdotcom Yes. Revocation Strategies: https://t.co/a6TI6e387h

[Danish Aziz Satkut @Agent47DarkSoul]

@FanCode How the hell does the #ChineseGP Qualifying Replay starts from Q2? Where is Q1? Have you guys limited the replay to only 01:00:00?

I am really regretting the decision to buy your subscription.

[Varsha Bansal @VarshaaBansal]

NEW: Swiggy has gamified health insurance for its food delivery workers. Divided into gold, silver & bronze, their insurance changes weekly as per the category they fall under that week based on the points earned.

My latest for @restofworld: https://t.co/KVufjdUXAi

[DHH @dhh]

Wonderful to see yet another company join the Rails Foundation. Thank you @BigBinary for supporting the efforts to improve documentation, education, events, and marketing in the Rails world 🙏❤️ https://t.co/LMcg5p50St

[Danish Aziz Satkut @Agent47DarkSoul]

@IndiaWeatherMan Light showers in Navi Mumbai

[Curiosity @curiosity_ai]

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[कास्ट कांशियस लाला @Bihar_ke_lala]

What happens when you get earn upwards of 75-80 lakhs per annum?

You leave India. Or you try to leave India. Not because you are any less patriotic but because it makes more sense to leave than stay. Hear me out.

I know about 20 people who have left India in last 1 decade. Why? Let us break it down. All these individuals earned about 80 lakhs to 1.2 crore per annum. When you are in that earning slab, you are crème-de-la crème of the workforce. Your skill set is better than an average joe and you are in demand world over. Unfortunately, we as a nation, are not doing enough to retain such great talent who are high earners and hence high spenders.

Highest tax bracket in India is 30%. Today, India has 48.3 lakh people who are in 30% tax slab. And the 30% tax slab starts at the earning of 15 lakhs per annum. Any decently talented fresher from a good college can command that. Any moderately above average hard working individual in 4-5 years of their experience can command this sum.

But does being in highest tax bracket and hence being the highest tax payers of the nation translate into leading a lavish life in a metro for a family? Unfortunately, no. Has the cost of living not increased exponentially? Try to find a decent flat for rent in Bangalore or Gurugram in a locality where you would want your children to grow up without paying exorbitant rents and security deposits.

Let's not go back 75 years. Let's just rewind 9 years. Since last 9 years the tax payer has only a limited avenues to save his tax. 1.5 lakhs in standard deduction and 50k in NPS. Thoda bohat home loan and insurance for parents. And no matter how much you increase your earning, this remains standard. Government can incentivize savings by increasing the limit in govt backed schemes like PPF or SSY or bonds but it refuses to budge. The system is designed for a time long gone.

The services that one gets in the country right now relative to the tax that they pay is very skewed. And this is likely to remain skewed for a while. For a lot of my friends who earn similar amounts, despite paying 30 lakhs per annum in direct taxes and almost paying the same in indirect taxes, the return they get in the short run is miniscule. Can they get good clean healthcare in any government hospital? Can they drive on roads which don't have potholes? Or can their kids get quality education in government schools? These are problems that will take some time to fix and I believe, as a nation, we are on the right track. But there must be an interim solution to plug the leak, so to speak.

In 2023, 6500 HNIs will leave India. 7500 HNIs left India in 2022. In 2018, India was third after Russia and China in terms of number of HNIs migrating to other countries. This is a disturbing trend.

For the longest time, I had disdain for people who left the country. Their was a popular term which every 90s kid must have heard of ; 'Brain Drain'. I could not understand why would anybody leave Bharat and go out to make a career. But, I guess with age comes perspective. And maybe, just maybe, I now understand.

@narendramodi @nsitharamanoffc

[Neeto @NeetoHQ]

Our blog about neetoCal was on the Hacker News homepage for a while today. There are some interesting comments, so do check out https://t.co/tG5capNyYj.

[Navaneeth Padanna Kalathil @navaneeth_pk]

Two years ago, I launched ToolJet beta and saw the GitHub repository go from 0 to 1,000 stars in 8 hours.

Today, I'm thrilled to announce that ToolJet is backed by Microsoft's M12 GitHub fund! 🔥