Abhinav Krishna C K

(മസ്ഥകൻ: @[email protected]) • engineering @HashiCorp • systems ← between → software & freedom • ham radio VU3UQI
• GSoC'21 @matrixdotorg | Own views

[Stay Classy @Knubbeh]

I will now be giving away @Microsoft 0days.

No point in ethical release if the company is not acting in good faith.

[IRIS C2 @C2IRIS]

“So you borrowed $160K to study the esoteric details of post-quantum cryptography at Johns Hopkins?”

> Yes, Dave.

“And then you found an algebraic backdoor in Apple’s quantum-resistant crypto that a nation-state would pay seven figures for?”

> That’s right, Dave.

“And you responsibly disclosed it through the bug bounty portal?”

> Correct, Dave.

“For a pair of AirPods and a thank-you email?”

…Yes, Dave.

[mas.to / @kingslyj]

Dear Journalists,

This is how badly you have failed the future of this country.

Bunch of teenagers are dealing 1-2-3 blows to expose CBSE HQ's incompetence and lies.

DON'T YOU DARE KILL THIS STORY OVER THE WEEKEND.

THIS NEEDS TO BE COVERED EVERY DAY UNTIL RESULTS ARE OUT.

[nisarga @ni5arga]

We were able to get full create, read, update and delete (CRUD) access & shell access to CBSE's prod servers (as mentioned in their circular https://t.co/MFiu5xU1DF). This is disastrous. Proof archive is at https://t.co/LWWqKBOGjv.

Prod URL (might be taken down): https://t.co/gbZKz3d65V

[Abhinav Krishna C K @abbycke]

@kingslyj @AshwiniWaishnav @ExideCare UTL Gamma+ 1200 with 1.2Kwh LFP is a good option. Hykon Halo Inverter 1200 also makes sense. If you can get a locally assembled inverter based on a MEDI board with an adjustable upper cut and lower cut, you can DIY one, but wall mounting enclosure can be tricky

[Armin Ronacher ⇌ @mitsuhiko]

This is such a good post. https://t.co/IdmAnh18Nt

[nisarga @ni5arga]

I had hacked CBSE's OSM (On-Screen Marking Portal) in February and had reported the vulnerabilities to CERT-In, but they were unable to patch most of them.

I've written a detailed blog post about it here: https://t.co/qyT23GkTEJ

[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

I had just started following @CJP_2029...and was about to ask them what their plans were on @moayush. It is a pity that their account has been withheld by the Government. Those is power have no shame, but atleast try.

22 lakh "cockroaches" were swindled in the name of NEET-UG Entrance exam by the BJP Government's education ministry. Students died by suicide. 100s of 1000s of students are now stuck in a limbo. The PM of the country where all of this is happening, is gifting Melody chocolates to a woman in another country.

The GenZ party is only asking for what is really deserving. Remove the so-called Education Minister, Mr. Dharmendra Pradhan. Destruction of student lives in such a massive scale was unheard of in this country, especially upcoming medical careers when healthcare is suffering beyond limits here.

On the AYUSH side, which I wanted to discuss with the CJP, huge public funds that can be used for immense betterment of the country are being wasted on making posters, fund useless research, run BS clinics and send pseudoscience peddlers for foreign trips.

If anyone can help bring this account back, it would help immensely to discuss openly many important matters that are now trivialized by this Government, especially those on healthcare and medical.

[yurikrupenin.bsky.social @turbojedi]

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[Mitchell Hashimoto @mitchellh]

I strongly believe there are entire companies right now under heavy AI psychosis and its impossible to have rational conversations about it with them. I can't name any specific people because they include personal friends I deeply respect, but I worry about how this plays out.

I lived through the great MTBF vs MTTR (mean-time-between-failure vs. mean-time-to-recovery) reckoning of infrastructure during the transition to cloud and cloud automation. All those arguments are rearing their ugly heads again but now its... the whole software development industry (maybe the whole world, really).

It's frightening, because the psychosis folks operate under an almost absolute "MTTR is all you need" mentality: "its fine to ship bugs because the agents will fix them so quickly and at a scale humans can't do!" We learned in infrastructure that MTTR is great but you can't yeet resilient systems entirely.

The main issue is I don't even know how to bring this up to people I know personally, because bringing this topic up leads to immediately dismissals like "no no, it has full test coverage" or "bug reports are going down" or something, which just don't paint the whole picture.

We already learned this lesson once in infrastructure: you can automate yourself into a very resilient catastrophe machine. Systems can appear healthy by local metrics while globally becoming incomprehensible. Bug reports can go down while latent risk explodes. Test coverage can rise while semantic understanding falls. Changes happens so fast that nobody notices the underlying architecture decaying.

I worry.

[anthony @asusevski]

is this what dario sees when he keeps saying SWE will be automated

[MOSET @KeKirwa]

I believe a child becoming too religious at an early age is a sign of poor parenting.

[Abhinav Krishna C K @abbycke]

True, 1st hand experience

[pikuma.com @pikuma]

Once you finaly pass your PhD viva voce, they take you to a dark room and explain this to you.

[Live Law @LiveLawIndia]

Kunal Kamra tells Bombay High Court that there is a worse situation wherein an ordinary policeman orders takedown of content, which s/he thinks is "objectionable."

The High Court is hearing his plea challenging the constitutional validity of the "Sahyog Portal" and the 2025 amendment to Rule 3(1)(d) of the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021.

@kunalkamra88

#BombayHighCourt

[Pranesh Prakash @pranesh]

The Central Govt's censorship is becoming the butt of jokes now. It's an idiotic self-goal. Wah Modi Ji, Wah. 👌

#FoE #censorship #India #Instagram #socmed #69A

[Abhinav Krishna C K @abbycke]

😌

[Ray Stings @Purba_Ray]

This is New India. Only the PM is allowed to share his Maan ki baat. If we do, we get our accounts on X withheld

[Sherief, FYI @SheriefFYI]

great talk on concurrency at a low level from Jane Street: https://t.co/OYCCi7eAXJ

(Cc @valigo)

[Pranesh Prakash @pranesh]

Good editorial in the Hindu. I disagree with its conclusion though: it isn't that the govt "could be creating a system of arbitrary censorship"; the govt already has.

#FoE #censorship #India #Twitter #socmed #69A

[gabby @GabriellaG439]

New blog post: "A sufficiently detailed spec is code"

I wrote this because I was tired of people claiming that the future of agentic coding is thoughtful specification work. As I show in the post, the reality devolves into slop pseudocode

https://t.co/V86V7cjWpS