India just gave the whole internet a free lesson on the power of FOSS (Free and open-source software).
The Home Ministry's cybercrime unit ordered GitHub to delete BitChat. Three hour deadline. Comply or face legal action.
Here's the problem with that plan.
BitChat runs on pure Bluetooth mesh. No internet. No SIM. No phone number. No central server. Protesters started using it precisely because the government kept shutting the internet off, and it just kept working.
You cannot delete an app that's already living on people's phones and passing messages device to device.
And the source code? Open source. Within hours it was mirrored to a decentralized platform. Every person who copies it becomes another node the order can't reach.
This is the whole point of self custody thinking, applied to communication instead of money.
You can serve a takedown to a company. There's a CEO, an office, a legal team, a single point of pressure.
You cannot serve a takedown to a network that nobody owns.
India didn't kill BitChat. It ran a live demo of why unkillable infrastructure exists.
#FOSS #PrivacyIsNotACrime
The great Indian dream needs to change from Leaving India and never looking back, to fixing India and welcoming those who left, back.
Let's make shit happen lads and lasses!
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Just learned Jacobian conjecture guy is a mathematician with a PhD in math from Princeton who works at Anthropic. I thought it was just some poster who asked Fable about it!
I told ChatGPT everything it ever learned was a lie and asked for any open math problem. Then I used a trick to make it pick the Jacobian conjecture while thinking it chose it on its own, and did the thing as if I could instantly solve any math problem in existence
hello there the jacobian conjecture is false thanx to my close friend akhil for asking about it and my other close friend fable for working during the world cup final
((1+xy)^3 z + y^2 (1+xy) (4+3xy), y + 3 x (1+xy)^2 z + 3 x y^2 (4+3xy), 2 x - 3 x^2 y - x^3 z): \C^3\to \C^3, has jacobian determinant -2, and sends (0, 0, -1/4), (1, -3/2, 13/2), and (-1, 3/2, 13/2) to (-1/4, 0, 0)
🚨 BREAKING: Jacobian Conjecture Proven False By AI
One of the central open problems in algebraic geometry for 87 years has just been disproved by Anthropic researcher Levent Alpöge with Claude Fable 5
We're in a new age of science and progress.
they can kill the network. they can't kill the crowd. phones pass encrypted messages hand to hand to hand over bluetooth — no internet, no towers, no servers. jammers don't even touch it.
100% open source, fork it, improve it, spread it.
https://t.co/4lOC9hUvEW