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[shirsh @ShirshSandeep]

The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.
Archilochus

[Viral Clips 🎬 @Taniapari185526]

This cibra invaded a Caracal den it didn't end well

[Jay Vardhan Singh @Jayvtweets]

How dangerous afternoon naps can be. Explained through two examples.

[Anurag Shukla @Anuraag_Shukla]

Every dog after eating one slipper and then sitting quietly like a philosopher.

[@donzuley @Don_zuley]

Loyalty beyond all bounds 🎬🍿🔥

[Iyke @currentiyke]

Salt. Water. Sugar.

[shirsh @ShirshSandeep]

Hi telegram, I need help to login back in my account. my email is active but my number is allocated to someone else due to inactivity.
Pls help me get back my data to new number as I have been using this for last 10 years.
@telegram @smstelegram @durov

[shirsh @ShirshSandeep]

@smstelegram
@telegram @durov
Hi telegram, I need help to login back in my account. my email is active but my number is allocated to someone else due to inactivity.
Pls help me get back my data to new number as I have been using this for last 10 years.

[जीवन यात्रा @jeevanyatraa]

क्या है अंतर? ऋषि, मुनि, साधु, संत

संस्कृत और भारतीय आध्यात्मिक परंपरा में ऋषि, मुनि, साधु और संत चारों शब्द एक जैसे नहीं हैं। ये साधना और चेतना की अलग-अलग अवस्थाओं का संकेत करते हैं। भारतीय परंपरा में इन चारों शब्दों का सम्मान है, पर इनके अर्थ और आध्यात्मिक स्तर भिन्न हैं।

१. ऋषि (Rishi): जो सत्य को देख ले

ऋषि शब्द का अर्थ है द्रष्टा, अर्थात वह जो सत्य का प्रत्यक्ष दर्शन कर चुका हो। भारतीय परंपरा में ऋषियों को मंत्रद्रष्टा कहा गया है, क्योंकि उन्होंने वेदों के मंत्रों की सिर्फ़ रचना ही नहीं की बल्कि उन्हें अपने शुद्ध अंतःकरण में अनुभूत भी किया। वे परमात्मा, प्रकृति और अस्तित्व के गूढ़ रहस्यों का साक्षात्कार करने वाले महापुरुष होते हैं। ज्ञान, तपस्या, ध्यान और वेद-अध्ययन में उनकी गहरी निष्ठा होती है। ऐसे लोग ज्ञान, तपस्या और वेद-अध्ययन में पारंगत होते हैं।

ऋषि की विशेषता:

- सत्य का प्रत्यक्ष अनुभव
- गहन तप और आत्मबोध
- ब्रह्मांड के नियमों का साक्षात्कार
- ज्ञान का स्रोत बनना

२. मुनि (Muni): जो सत्य पर मनन करे

मुनि शब्द मन से बना है जिसका अर्थ है मनन करने वाला। ऐसे विद्वान जीवन, आत्मा, ईश्वर और जगत के रहस्यों पर गहन चिंतन करता है। ऐसे तपस्वी प्रायः मौन, व्रत और गहरे ध्यान में रहते हैं।

मुनि की विशेषता:

- गहरा चिंतन और मनन
- मौन और ध्यान
- विवेकपूर्ण जीवन
- प्रश्नों की गहराई में उतरना

३. साधु (Sadhu): जो सत्य को साधने निकले

साधु का अर्थ है साधक जो सज्जन और धर्म का आचरण करता है। वह जिसने जीवन को किसी उच्च उद्देश्य के लिए समर्पित कर दिया हो। ऐसे विद्वान सांसारिक जीवन का त्याग कर तपस्या और साधना में लीन रहते हैं तथा लोक-मंगल की कामना करते हैं।

हर साधु ऋषि या संत नहीं होता, क्योंकि साधु अभी यात्रा पर है। वह मंज़िल तक पहुँचा भी हो सकता है और नहीं भी। साधु पथिक है, अभी यात्रा में है।

साधु की विशेषता:

- त्याग और तपस्या
- साधना का जीवन
- इंद्रिय संयम
- ईश्वर प्राप्ति की आकांक्षा

४. संत (Sant): जो स्वयं सत्य बन जाए

संत शब्द सत् से निकला है, जिसका अर्थ है सत्य, अस्तित्व, परम वास्तविकता अर्थात् सत्य का आचरण करने वाला।

सत्य ऐसे विद्वानों का स्वभाव बन जाता है। उसके भीतर करुणा, प्रेम, क्षमा और समता सहज रूप से बहती है। वह किसी मत, पंथ या वेशभूषा स�� नहीं पहचाना जाता; उसकी पहचान उसकी उपस्थिति और आचरण से होती है।

जो लोग आत्मज्ञान प्राप्त कर लोक-मंगल की भावना से दूसरों का मार्गदर्शन करते हैं, वे संत कहलाते हैं। संत सत्य को जीता है।

संत की विशेषता:

- आत्मज्ञान
- प्रेम और करुणा
- लोक-मंगल की भावना
- अहंकार का लोप

जीवन यात्रा... 🚶🏻‍♂️

[Manish Sharma @Cheekytogeeky]

be @ni5arga

→ 19 years old, from West Bengal, studied in Delhi for a few years
→ just finished his own Class 12 exams in 2026
→ calls himself a hobbyist cybersecurity researcher
→ says he is an engineer, not a hacker
→ built an OSINT engine, a stock-tracking TUI, a pastebin in Rust
→ once found bugs in FOSS United and disclosed them quietly
→ just another CBSE student watching his own board roll out a new digital marking system

then he opened the portal

→ CBSE moves Class 12 evaluation to On-Screen Marking, 1.8 million students affected
→ Nisarga sees the portal link is fully public, gets curious
→ opens DevTools, downloads the Angular JavaScript bundle
→ first vulnerability found in 30 minutes
→ a literal master password sitting in plain text inside the frontend code
→ enter it, the OTP field auto-fills, the entire login flow gets bypassed
→ OTP validation happens in the user's browser, not on the server
→ no route guards, every internal page reachable by editing browser storage
→ password reset API never checks the old password
→ systemic IDOR across the entire API, change one value in sessionStorage, become any examiner
→ outcome: take over any teacher account, view answer sheets, edit marks

25 February 2026. He reports everything to CERT-In the same day.

→ CERT-In asks for a screen recording, he sends a full walkthrough
→ acknowledgement comes back as a boilerplate reply
→ reference number assigned: CERTIn-16590126
→ he follows up multiple times. no response.
→ three months pass. portal still live. Class 12 results released. vulnerabilities still there.
→ 22 May: publishes the blog post and a thread on X
→ Deedy Das, Satish Acharya, Internet Freedom Foundation amplify it
→ the post goes viral
→ CBSE issues a clarification: that was just a test portal, no breach
→ the URL CBSE cited in their own tweet was not even a registered domain
→ a friend buys the domain and points it at Nisarga's blog
→ CBSE quietly deletes the tweet

then it gets worse

→ 25 May: finds an SQL injection vulnerability on the live production portal
→ reports to CERT-In, gets a one-line thank you
→ gains admin access to the live https://t.co/1WpmNGsczK server
→ portal stays up for four more hours
→ he uploads anime videos and memes, links them publicly from CBSE servers
→ plays a viral Japanese song on a CBSE page, makes the news for it
→ CBSE finally takes the whole portal down

then he reads the database

→ master table accessed: 10 GB, 9.3 million records
→ examiner names, addresses, school names, bank account details
→ passwords stored in plain text
→ login tokens anyone can paste into a browser to log in as that user
→ 31 May: finds a second live CBSE production portal, 45,074 records of failed payments
→ emails, phone numbers, payment IDs, order IDs, all readable
→ 31 May, the bigger one: an AWS S3 bucket is misconfigured
→ ListObjectsV2 works without authentication, the bucket root is listable
→ samples pulled from 18 lakh scanned 2026 answer sheets, every subject
→ multiple institutions sharing the same bucket
→ also notices something strange in the scans: bedsheets visible in the background of answer sheets CBSE paid for proper scanners to handle

CBSE responds

→ posts an AI-generated image saying the system is robust and secure
→ three days later admits some vulnerabilities existed and have been contained
→ refuses to name the cybersecurity firm doing the audit
→ claims they tried contacting him. he says they have not.

→ Internet Freedom Foundation writes to the Ministry of Education and CERT-In
→ asks for an investigation into CBSE, a review of the contract with vendor Coempt EduTeck, a full audit

→ he points out he could have sold this data and made a lot of money
→ he did not. he is a CBSE student too.
→ his own analogy: the door wasn't just unlocked. the key was lying on the ground in front of everyone.

a 19-year-old with a anima pff broke a national exam evaluation system in 30 minutes with browser developer tools and the government is still pretending it was a test environment

[s 𓆞 @januskopfs]

hi! i have compiled yale’s reading and watchlist for their course on film studies for anyone who might be interested :)

[MERICA MEMED @Mericamemed]

Man perfectly described the current state of the democratic party.

[Rajkamal Prakashan 📚 @RajkamalBooks]

माँ तुम सारी रात
क्यों महुए के गिरने का इन्तज़ार करती हो?
क्यों नहीं पेड़ से ही
सारा महुआ तोड़ लेती हो?

ईश्वर और बाज़ार • जसिंता केरकेट्टा

#MothersDay #Poetry #साथजुड़ेंसाथपढ़ें

[Rekhta @Rekhta]

The bazaar used to be a place. Now, it’s a presence.

#ziafarooqui #urdu #rekhta #rekhtafoundation #urdupoetry

[The Sigma Mindset @thesigmamindset]

3 reasons why you should never take offense to what any person says or does ‼️‼️

[Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88]

For anyone hit by the paywall:

[Ambarish Satwik @AmbarishSatwik]

What the salad tried to do to us.

The first ambition of any plant is to make itself uneatable. Long before anything clever walked on earth, plants settled on poisoning anything with a mouth. If you can’t run, you better taste terrible. The only way to stay alive was to face your predator (dinosaur, beetle, goat, man) with chemistry. Plants got clever in the only way available to them. They made toxins, astringents, enzymes, fibrous defences. Which made them and their parts bitter. Also indigestible, and outright poisonous.

In evolutionary terms, it was a cunning move. Not that the plant knows anything about cunning. But the natural consequence was deterrence. You bite, you suffer. You learn. You stop biting.

Humans responded in the human way. By using fire and other things. We boiled, we burned, we soaked, we crushed, we fermented. We pickled. We found ways to take the bitter poisonous offerings of plants to our hungers. We hacked our own biochem, made over 50 types of CYP450 enzymes. They’re fascinating. A plant toxin molecule (alkaloid, glucosinolate, cyanogenic glycoside, saponin etc) is like a greasy stain. CYP450s act like detergent: They grab it, break it apart, make it dissolve in water, and wash it away. Cats don’t have a lot of this stuff. The thiosulfates in a couple of cloves of garlic can trigger a dangerous oxidative crisis in cat blood. About four cloves (of garlic) can be a potentially lethal dose. A tiny amount of solanine from a raw potato can sicken and kill a rabbit. Without a particular kind of P450, a potato would be your last meal.

We figured out how to eat the enemy. And then we got kinky about it. Our tongues learned to relish the sting. And the rot. We started liking the burn and the bitterness. We started having poison for the plot. Hot sauce. Tannins. Coffee so strong it peels paint. Flavour is a toxin we’ve come to applaud.

Plants spent a hundred million years trying to kill us. We’ve spent a hundred million years learning to savour their attempts. That’s the story, give or take a few famines and a few million deaths.

[𝓝𝓱 𝓒𝓲𝓷𝓰 @NhCing]

Those who know, know.