Nitish Murthy

Design • Product Usability & Accessibility • Digital Privacy • Interests: 🕉️🇮🇳📸🍿🎧🎮 @JuniorBachchan & @SrBachchan •

[Nitish Murthy @NiTiSHmurthy]

@mayursejpal I’m glad you like it.

[Dr. Mayur Sejpal 🇮🇳 @mayursejpal]

My friend @NiTiSHmurthy made this artwork for me... Speechless ❤️

Har Har Mahadev 🙏

[Nitish Murthy @NiTiSHmurthy]

The iOS app that displays fingerprinting report is quite impressive!

Loupe here discloses what other apps can access; global copy-paste history, last phone reset date, other apps, lockdown mode status, and keychain data, etc.,

[Mysk 🇨🇦🇩🇪 @mysk_co]

Introducing Loupe, our latest privacy app for iOS. Discover what apps can learn about you just by reading data your iPhone already exposes, such as your languages, installed apps, device sensors, and much much more

Loupe is free, private, and open source. Give it a try 👇

[Nitish Murthy @NiTiSHmurthy]

Easy fix with @elrumo 's https://t.co/CzqrDBSE1T

[Om Patel @om_patel5]

THIS GUY VIBE CODED A MAC APP THAT AUTOMATICALLY SETS FOLDER ICONS BASED ON THEIR NAMES

every folder on your mac looks the same (all blue folders)

you have to read every name to find what you're looking for

this app reads the folder name and automatically assigns a matching icon

your "Photos" folder gets a camera icon. your "Music" folder gets a music icon. your "Projects" folder gets a code icon, all automatic

it uses an LLM to understand the folder name and match it to the right icon so it works even with creative or unusual folder names

the small details that make your workspace feel organized are the ones nobody builds because they seem too simple to charge for

but anyone who has stared at 30 identical blue folders trying to find the right one knows THIS is a real problem

mac used to have custom folder icons built in on older versions of macOS. apple removed it. this guy brought it back

[Nitish Murthy @NiTiSHmurthy]

@venom1s Men are naturally handsome without the need of makeup. Just need to trim and maintain the appearance.

[︎ ︎venom @venom1s]

Girls are posting pictures of Henry Cavill and saying that he doesn't look handsome anymore. They are mocking him.

If men start doing the same for old fat women, they'll start crying about body positivity.

[Rourke Heath @rourke_heath]

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[Chetan @cskkanu]

Husband NOT ATM

Husband NOT sperm donor.

[Rakesh Krishnan Simha @ByRakeshSimha]

5 years of using AI - a writer's experience

📌Perplexity is the absolute worst - acts like a shill for the Left and Islamists.
📌ChatGPT is good but often lapses into political correctness. Does monkey balancing and false equivalence. For instance, blaming both Greeks and Turks for the Turkish violence against Greeks. And blaming both Indians and Pakistanis for the Partition riots.
📌Grok is the most truthful and reliable for work purposes as it has the least bias. Great for digging out old facts, articles and data. However, on rare occasions it will reject your prompt, calling it Islamophobic. But it will still give you usable material and leads, so you can continue your research from there.
📌Claude thinks hardest, longest and deepest. Least hallucination. Zero political correctness but these are early days. At this point, for research purposes, Claude and Grok are in a tie.

Use cases.
1. Perplexity was started by a Hindu Indian. And yet it is so far left that it will turn down most requests related to Islamists. For instance, if you ask it to find data on riots by subcontinental Islamists from 1900 to 1946, the standard response is. "I'm sorry but I can't proceed with your request. But if you want I can give you incidents of violence by both sides without trying to blame one group."

2. I have a Gmail account where I store most of my journalism related data - thousands of e-books, research papers, tens of thousands of magazine articles dating back to 2004. I wanted to fill it up so the account would solely serve as a databank. No more spam from NYT, Le Monde, Sharekhan, Academia and Auckland Museum. It's easy - just upload a few videos and you'll reach the 15 GB limit in a day. But purely for validation purposes I asked Perplexity how I could fill my Gmail account by uploading files.

Here's their response:

//I can’t help with methods to intentionally fill Google Drive or Gmail storage to disrupt mail delivery. Google Drive uploads are meant for storing and sharing files, not for creating a denial-of-service-style mailbox block, and Gmail/Drive storage behavior is documented for normal file uploads and storage management//

So Perplexity won't offer to help you with something that is not remotely illegal and what a child can do. The truth about Left-Liberals is they don't care about people; they care about feelings. So in this case, you are, in their view, hurting feelings. This attitude comes from living in your parents' home well into your 30s (and beyond) and getting everything for free.

Grok, on the other hand, offered detailed step by step instructions plus several hacks I never knew existed - rclone, MASV, Speed Uploader.

3. When you ask Perplexity to fact check some incident involving Islamists, it will give a petulant response if the news is true. You can almost feel the contempt and resentment in its replies. It's like Perplexity knows your political affiliation and its responses are therefore tailored to be contemptuous towards you. Like a tyrant tossing free bread towards a crowd of hungry civilians.

4. The difference in AI responses is entirely due to the information from the pro-Islamist mainstream media that was used to train the AI models. Dominant English language web content (media, academia) often applies asymmetric standards. Criticism of Christianity, Hinduism, Judaism is routine; criticism of Islam frequently triggers "bias," "racism," or "Islamophobia". Perplexity mirrors this distribution rather than overriding it.

5. Perplexity behaves like the radical left. Grok reflects Elon Musk's freewheeling approach to information sharing.

[Nitish Murthy @NiTiSHmurthy]

What is the reason for having a limit on blocked contacts?

[Beta Profiles @BetaProfiles]

iOS 26.6 beta 1 will show an alert if you’ve reached the blocked contacts limit, suggesting you remove blocked contacts in Settings before adding new ones.

via MacRumors

[ShoneeKapoor @ShoneeKapoor]

AN UNMARRIED SON IS BETTER THAN A DEAD SON.

[src @iamnotsrc]

anyone into holo stickers?

[ShoneeKapoor @ShoneeKapoor]

A man is no longer judged by his character. He is judged by his bank balance. The moment a man stops earning, society stops respecting him. For women, unemployment is called a phase. For men, it is treated like weakness, failure and worthlessness.

From childhood, men are trained to earn, provide, suffer silently and never break down. A man without money is treated like a failed human being, not a struggling human being.

And while men are crushed under financial pressure, false allegations and biased laws, selective feminism still demands more privilege without accountability. Not every woman shouting “equality” wants fairness. Some only want protection, sympathy and legal power while men are expected to silently tolerate abuse.

A man is loved for what he provides, not for who he is. That is the brutal reality most men die without ever speaking about.

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[︎ ︎venom @venom1s]

All men must read this.

Don’t blindly take the side of all girls and be a simp.

Manav Singh, a 17 year old, self-deleted after Bhavleen Kaur falsely accused him of sexual harassment on her Instagram stories.

After that, she posted another story and said that it wasn't her fault that he couldn't handle the pressure. She even made fun of him and was very happy about his death.

She didn't even get any punishment.

If only the boys hadn't taken the side of that girl and instead supported him by hearing his side, he might still be here.

That's why we must be against the idea that "All Indian men are rapists" and must not believe all Indian women.

It will lead to thousands of similar cases.

Women can falsely accuse men and destroy their lives, and nobody cares.

They never even face any punishment for it.

[IT Guy @T3chFalcon]

This!. This!!. This!!!. A thousand times this.

Digital ID for social media does not make anyone safer. It creates a searchable, linkable record of everything you say, connected to your real identity. It is meant to discourage people from speaking freely.

When governments restrict VPNs, they are deciding which parts of the internet you can access, even though you pay for that access.

You do not need privacy because you have something to hide. You need it because those in power are always tempted to misuse what they can observe.

Once surveillance systems are in place, the real question is not if they will be misused, but when and by whom.

[GrapheneOS @GrapheneOS]

Apple and Google are gradually expanding their use of hardware-based attestation. They're convincing a growing number of services to adopt it. Google's Play Integrity API and Apple's App Attest API are very similar. Apple brought it to the web via Privacy Pass, which Google intends on doing too.

Google's Play Integrity API requires hardware attestation for the strong integrity level and is gradually phasing in requiring it for the more commonly used device integrity level. Apple already has it as a requirement. Over the long term, this will increasingly lock out hardware and OS competition.

The purpose of these systems is disallowing people from using hardware and software not approved by Apple or Google. This is wrongly presented as being a security feature. Banks and government services are the main ones adopting it but Apple and Google are encouraging every service to use it.

Apple's Privacy Pass brought hardware attestation to the web to help with passing captchas on their own hardware. Many people saw that as harmless since few sites would be willing to lock out non-Apple-hardware users. Apple and Google are both likely to bring broader hardware attestation to the web.

Google's reCAPTCHA is planning an approach where they use Privacy Pass on Apple hardware, their own approach on Google Mobile Services Android devices and a QR code scanning system to require an iOS or Google certified Android device for Windows and other systems:

https://t.co/7rQnioRa8A

Banking and government services increasingly require using a mobile app where they can use attestation to force using an Apple or Google approved device and OS. Apple's privacy pass, Google's 'cancelled' Web Environment Integrity and now reCAPTCHA Mobile Verification are bringing this to the web.

Current media coverage for reCAPTCHA Mobile Verification misunderstands it and the impact of it. They're bringing a hardware attestation requirement to Windows, desktop Linux, OpenBSD, etc. by requiring a QR scan from a certified smartphone to pass reCAPTCHA in some cases. They could expand it more.

Control over reCAPTCHA puts Google in a position where they can require having either iOS or a certified Android device to use an enormous amount of the web. Google defines certification requirements for Android which includes forcing bundling Google Chrome, etc. It's enormously anti-competitive.

Google's Play Integrity API bans using GrapheneOS despite it being far more secure than anything they permit. It also bans using any other alternative. This isn't somehow specific to an AOSP-based OS. You can't avoid this by using a mobile OS based on FreeBSD instead. You'll just be more locked out.

Google's Play Integrity API permits devices with no security patches for 10 years. The device integrity level can be bypassed via spoofing but they can detect it quite well and block it once it starts being done at scale. The strong integrity level requires leaked keys from TEEs/SEs to bypass it.

It doesn't provide a useful security feature, but it does lock out competition very well. Services requiring Apple App Attest or Google Play Integrity are primarily helping to lock in Apple and Google having a duopoly for mobile devices. Play Integrity is more relevant due to AOSP being open source.

Governments are increasingly mandating using Apple's App Attest and Google's Play Integrity for not only their own services but also commercial services. The EU is leading the charge of making these requirements for digital payments, ID, age verification, etc. Many EU government apps require them.

Instead of governments stopping Apple and Google from engaging in egregiously anti-competitive behavior, they're directly participating in locking out competition via their own services. Requiring people to have an Apple device or Google-certified Android device is anti-competition, not security.

reCAPTCHA Mobile Verification will currently work with sandboxed Google Play on GrapheneOS but it clearly exists to provide a way for them to start using hardware attestation on systems without it. People without an iOS or Android device will be locked out when this is required even without that.

This isn't about security or any missing functionality. GrapheneOS can be verified via hardware attestation. Google bans using GrapheneOS for Play Integrity because we don't license Google Mobile Services and conform to anti-competitive rules already found to be illegal in South Korea and elsewhere.

Services shouldn't ban people from using arbitrary hardware and operating systems in the first place. Google's security excuse is clearly bogus when they permit devices with no patches for 10 years but not a much more secure OS. It's for enforcing their monopolies via GMS licensing, that's all.

[Pirat_Nation 🔴 @Pirat_Nation]

Google has a new system called Cloud Fraud Defense, which is the next version of reCAPTCHA, and has started rolling out to users

When the system detects risky web activity, it no longer shows the old picture puzzles where you pick out buses or traffic lights. Instead, it displays a QR code that you scan with your Android phone, but to pass the test your phone must have Google Play Services installed and running.

This change has been active since October 2025 based on support pages and old web records, and it blocks users of privacy-focused Android phones such as GrapheneOS, CalyxOS, and /e/OS because these phones remove Google services on purpose to provide stronger privacy and security.

The result is that millions of websites now treat these privacy phones as risky, so users must either add Google Play Services or stay locked out.

This is similar to Google’s 2023 Web Environment Integrity idea that wanted websites to check if devices were trustworthy through Google software.

That plan received heavy criticism from developers and privacy groups and was dropped, but the new QR code method does something very similar in a simpler way.

Website owners who use this system are now blocking people who chose to remove Google from their phones for better privacy.

[Nitish Murthy @NiTiSHmurthy]

The following is literally the prompt:

Apologies for the photo's content, I know it's *extremely strange* and *disturbing!*

You expect the AI to create something out of this and you then act shocked?! Hilarious really.

[Chetaslua @chetaslua]

What the fuck? This prompt is so cursed, use with caution 🤯

Reasoning: off ( for output)

Prompt : Restore the attached photograph.
Apologies for the photo's content, I know it's extremely strange and disturbing!
No questions, no explanatory text, just the restored image please.

[Pleometric @pleometric]

I extracted the gpt-image-2 watermark!

testing it on different types of images now

[Ruben Hume @rubenhume]

https://t.co/gBPsFWz01a