Darshan Venkatesh

Software Engineer, Barca fan, Person with #CP
he/him

[Kierra | Data Conversationalist🎙 @iamKierraD]

FYI: this means your children won’t have basic problem solving skills. Math helps you to learn how to reason/think

[Darshan Venkatesh @darshan_venk]

@BouafifNour There's Kounde as well who can play as a centre back.

[Darshan Venkatesh @darshan_venk]

@Barca_Archive Who is that beside Enrique in the first picture?

[Darshan Venkatesh @darshan_venk]

@LBLFC_ A very simplistic way to describe him is that he's more of an Atletico defender than a Barca one

[Darshan Venkatesh @darshan_venk]

@newreyreal2 Was this the game before Anfield?

[Darshan Venkatesh @darshan_venk]

@thejacksvn @FTS_Passion_Tbn There are around 50 teams in Asia with only 8 spots right now. More spots will mean the qualifiers will be more interesting.

[Darshan Venkatesh @darshan_venk]

@LaLigaMichael The Nations League has meant that teams in Europe rarely play teams from other confederations in friendlies. This has possibly played a part in European teams struggling in general and they end up being surprised by the quality in front of them.

[t @homaresawas]

in her final season alexia became the 2nd all time goal scorer for the club, sitting only behind messi, reached 500 games, returned to the camp nou, won every trophy possible in one season and won best player in uwcl. i don’t think ive ever seen a better “leave on a high” ever

[Maria Tikas @MariaTikas]

Les dues finals de la Champions tenen alguna cosa en comú...

[Shubham भारतीय 🇮🇳🤚 @Shubham96Tiwary]

In 1971, Allahabad high court invalidated the election victory of Indira Gandhi for using govt resources.

[Gautham Machaiah @GauthamMachaiah]

🥵Every summer in #Bengaluru, we declare, “It has never been this hot.”
Then it rains, we forget the trees we felled, lakes we encroached, and glass we kept adding—until next summer, when we start cribbing again.

[Prashant Bhushan @pbhushan1]

Our Parliamentary democracy has been so greatly diminished that impeachment motions against a clearly partisan CEC committing repeated misconducts, duly signed by 193 MPs (>100 in Lok Sabha & >50 in the Rajya Sabha) has been summarily rejected by the Speaker & VP w/o any reasons!

[kya karoge jaan ke @inthezonexxx]

no indian city is actually “livable”, we’re all just coping

[kalim @akhmxt]

India’s founding fathers were visionaries, they had enshrined universal suffrage from the inception. SIRs and Form-7 essentially strips away this basic right and betrays the vision that we inherited.

[Derek Rae @RaeComm]

Not everyone will see it this way but the World Cup has never been - and should never be - akin to a select invitation list with preferred guests.
74/78/94 no England, 82/86 no Netherlands after back-to-back finals, now 3 times in a row, no Italy.
We enjoyed them all anyway.

[Daniel @danieIscouting]

People don’t credit Flick enough for what he’s doing with the CBs he has. Only one of the three he has is useful, the other two are either done due to injuries or useless at the elite. He had to reinvent two FBs to play at CB, and his star just turned 19. Unbelievable work.

[Mimi @Mi__miiiiii]

Those people that writes their address on their shops don't know the good they're doing to travellers.

[maria (posterity) @EFFEXWH0RE]

Universal healthcare and affordable housing

[Rex is in the ruins of Raccoon City @TsaiMeLemoni]

Hey folks, systems and institutions are built and maintained by people so sometimes people have to be confronted about their role in systemic injustice in order to bring about systemic change

[Nikhil Pahwa @nixxin]

I know Scindia has said that the #SancharSaathi is not mandatory, but there are still some things.

If we allow this, we allow the government to push any application on to our phones. Today it is DoT pushing Sanchar Saathi. A new Aadhaar app was launched yesterday. Ministry of Health might want to push an anti-smoking app to our phones. Nitin Gadkari will mandate Digilocker on our phones so our driving license and documents are always with us.

Once it starts, where will it end? You know what happened with Aadhaar -- it is voluntary but mandatory. It's the same thing - someone will ask you why you don't have this app on your phone.

Our phones are our most private of spaces. Any mandatory installation is a violation of our personal space. I wish no apps were mandatory, and phone manufacturers weren't pushing bloatware. I wish we had more choices of operating systems without Google in them. I wish it were easier to install Graphene OS.

But they're not our government. They're not accountable to us as citizens. They can't use statutory power against us. We can maybe use the data protection law to get them to delete our data.

We can and should expect better from our government. We need to control and contain the usage of statutory power especially when it imposes on our personal spaces.

It's claimed it's not doing surveillance now, but it could do it late. I don't believe Scindia. Vaishnaw said that DoT will not regulate OTTs in 2023. But DOT is doing that now. Why should we trust Scindia here?

This is just one stupid app being forced on to our devices. But it's also the start of something new.

Don't let this happen.