Sree

Software dev mostly uses Microsoft tech. Likes changes in software/technology and the improvements it brings to people's lives. c# f#

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[Hemant Mohapatra @MohapatraHemant]

Totally shocking moment from @SarvamAI - amazing voice quality, fully synthetic, cinematic expressiveness all the way to natural speech, amazing range. Total gosebumps moment seeing this live. Must watch.

[Sree @pashsridhar]

@DealsDhamaka Before installing, check what data the app collects. You will never install it. (You’ll find those details right below the app listing in the Play Store.)

[Sree @pashsridhar]

@DealsDhamaka color

[Brave @brave]

The security vulnerability we found in Perplexity’s Comet browser this summer is not an isolated issue.

Indirect prompt injections are a systemic problem facing Comet and other AI-powered browsers.

Today we’re publishing details on more security vulnerabilities we uncovered.

[Nic Cruz Patane @niccruzpatane]

This is the greatest argument I’ve heard for why electric vehicles are better than gasoline-powered cars.

[Tim Sweeney @TimSweeneyEpic]

Time to fork Android?

[Sree @pashsridhar]

@iamdasari @JioCare @reliancejio I've experienced the same with jio and moved to Hathway. Super fast response and resolution from them. Their customer support has good combination of AI and in person support.

[Damian Edwards @DamianEdwards]

Announcing `dotnet run app.cs`: A simpler way to start with C# and .NET 10

https://t.co/PLkiTsSGbR

[Sree @pashsridhar]

@mcbeniwal @VisualStudio I think next version of @VisualStudio is going be cross platform. That's why they are taking time.

[Sree @pashsridhar]

@drmssm Don't use DeepSeek app directly which is hosted in China and can apply filters on data being shown to user because of China rules. Instead use DeepSeek in Perplexity app and try comparing with ChatGpt

[Sree @pashsridhar]

@unusual_whales If you use DeepSeek app then your input data goes to China. If you use perplexity AI which also hosts DeepSeek AI models, then data goes to US or Europe not China.
@AravSrinivas
@perplexity_ai

[Sree @pashsridhar]

@swing_ka_sultan If you use DeepSeek app then your input data goes to China. If you use perplexity AI which also hosts DeepSeek AI models, then data goes to US or Europe not China. @AravSrinivas @perplexity_ai

[Aravind Srinivas @AravSrinivas]

Here you go:
DeepSeek R1 is an AI model. An AI model is a bunch of a matrices with floating point numbers (referred to as weights) where you feed in an input (a sequence of characters embedded as a vector of floating point numbers) and get an output sequence.
DeepSeek is a mobile app (same name as the company) that lets you interact with that AI model through a chat interface. When you use their app, your data (prompts) go to their servers.
The company has also open sourced (basically uploaded all those matrices) the weights of the AI model for free use by anyone.
When you download those weights and bring it up yourself on your own server, you get to control the inference of the AI model and that way any user request sent to this new server doesn’t go to China as long as the servers are hosted in US.
The weights are just a bunch of numbers organized as matrices executed with sequential matrix multiplies - so no computation needs to leave the server in order to compute the next word in a sequence.
That way, another company can download the weights, host it on their servers, and let users interact with them in a chat frontend, and customize the AI model further to do more things like searching the web or using tools like code execution, wolfram, etc

[Revant Himatsingka “Food Pharmer” @foodpharmer2]

We all know excess sugar is harmful, but there is one ingredient which Indians consume daily which is even worse than sugar!
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Maltodextrin.

The glycemic Index (GI) for table sugar is 65 whereas maltodextrin is 110. The glycemic index (GI) measures how fast a particular food/drink spikes your blood sugar. So the higher the glycemic index, the bigger the blood sugar spike.

The more shocking part is that maltodextrin isn’t technically counted as “added sugar” according to FSSAI. Many Indian packaged foods take advantage of this and claim to be “no added sugar” but they have maltodextrin in it.

In fact, even baby products like Nestle Cerelac have maltodextrin.

Maltodextrin is present in many ultra-processed foods (UPFs) and a diet high in ultra-processed foods is linked to weight-gain, insulin resistance, and type 2 diabetes.

In this video, I have highlighted some products that have maltodextrin and how to avoid these products!

Share if you found this useful.

[M. Nageswara Rao IPS (Retired) @MNageswarRaoIPS]

Buddhism survived because of Hindutva, and perished due to Islam

It is a truism that whenever a new religion is founded, its founder and followers not only draw upon the resources of the pre-existing religion but also usurp, nay destroy and convert, the followers and places of worship of the latter. What the Christianity and the Islam did to the pre-existing religions in Europe, Middle East, and elsewhere, the Jainism and the Buddhism did to the pre-existing Hindutva (aka Hinduism) earlier.

After conversion to Buddhism, Ashoka used political power and state resources to spread Buddhism far and wide. With the huge state patronage the Buddhists converted many pre-existing Hindu temples into Buddhist stupas, viharas and temples, just like the Muslims have been doing. They used enormous resources of the state to convert poor Hindus to Buddhism just like the Christians have been doing.

Take any major Buddhist stupa, vihara or temple, it is either a pre-existing Hindu Temple, or the Buddhists built them in the vicinity of popular Hindu Temples or Tirtha to take a religious piggy ride on Hindutva (aka Hinduism). To avoid cluttering, I cite hereunder only 3 representative examples of this standard Buddhist template.

GAYA, a Hindu tirtha:

Gaya is a Hindu tirtha since time immemorial. It is named after Gayasura who dwelt the area during the Treta Yuga. It is a major Hindu pilgrimage site especially for the piṇḍadāna ritual. The Ramayana and the Mahabharata mention about it. Prabhu Rama along with Mata Sita offered piṇḍadāna for his father Dasharatha.

The wandering Siddharth Gautama chose Gaya, the Hindu tirtha seeking spiritual enlightenment. Aśvattha or peepal is a sacred tree for Hindus and often referred to as Akshaya Vata. The peepal tree in the premises of Shiva Temple in Gaya blessed to be immortal by Mata Sita came to be known as Bodhi Tree after Buddha's enlightenment under it. After Ashoka embraced Buddhism, the ancient Shiva Temple in Gaya became Maha Bodhi temple and the ancient Gaya Tirtha became Bodh Gaya.

In the 12th century CE many temples of Gaya were destroyed by Mohammed Bhakhtiyar Khilji. While Hindus valiantly fought against the barbarians, the Buddhists either became Muslims or fled away.

SARNATH, a Hindu sacred place:

Sarnath is located about 10 kms northeast of Kashi Vishwanath Temple in Varanasi. The name ‘Sarnath’ is linguistic corruption of the word ‘Sarangnath’. Here, Bhagwan Shiva is known as ‘Lord of Deer’ or ‘Sarang Nath’ with an ancient Temple dedicated to him. Saranga in Sanskrit means deer. It is deer’s nature to jump and run in zig zag motion all over the place which is compared with mind's chanchalatva. In Hindu iconography Bhagwan Shiva holds the deer symbolising that he stabilises the mind of his devotees to attain yoga or union with the divine. There is a huge pond called ‘Sarangnath Kund’ adjoining the ancient the Sarangnath Mahadev Temple. It is a popular destination for pilgrims visiting Kashi.

Gautam Buddha chose this hugely popular and spiritual place visited by Hindus in droves from all over the world, to deliver his sermon and lure converts. The Buddhist structures built in Sarangnath aka Sarnath were patronised by Hindus and they survived till the advent of Islamic invasions.

Islamic invasions brought massive genocidal plunder and destruction of India. According to the 13th-century Persian historian Hasan Nizami, nearly 1000 Temples in Ganga belt including Kashi and Sarnath were destroyed and mosques were raised on their foundations. Unlike Hindus, Buddhists could not fight back the Islamic marauders, and they either converted to Islam or fled away.

ANGKOR WAT, a Hindu Temple:

Angkor Wat in Cambodia is the biggest Hindu temple ever constructed, and the largest religious structure in the world, dedicated Bhagwan Vishnu. It was constructed by Khmer king Suryavarman-II in the 12th century CE on a site measuring 402 acres within the ancient Khmer capital city of Angkor. Buddhists usurped and transformed it into a Buddhist temple.

Why Buddhism disappeared from India?

Islamic invasions on India began around 700 CE. For 1300 years the Hindus fought heroically and were able to retard the Islamic aggressions and tame their religious misrule. Due to such heroic Hindu resistance for 1300 years, the invaders could not convert all Hindus to Islam though Hindus suffered massive losses in terms of demography, territory, and religious places. We must remember that we are all Hindus because of the heroic struggle of our forefathers and their supreme sacrifices to protect and preserve Hindu dharma.

While such is the gallant history of Hindus, the Buddhists of Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan and those surrounding areas could not fight against the Islamic invasions and became quickly Muslim in less than century. Why so?

Buddhism is a pacific religion. It emasculates its converts by extinguishing their fighting spirit which is essential for individual and collective survival. While Hindus continued to fight back the Islamic invaders, the Buddhists who are emasculated due to indoctrination in half-truths such as “अहिंसा परमो धर्मः” leaving out its crucial other part “धर्महिंसा तदैव च:”, could not resist. So, they were either butchered, or converted to Islam, or they fled away. As a result of Islamic onslaught, as in other erstwhile Buddhist countries mentioned above, by the end of 12th century CE Buddhism had largely disappeared from India with the exception of the Himalayan region and isolated remnants in parts of India.

The post-independence official patronage to Buddhism, even though we are a secular polity, is entirely due to the Anti-Hindu mindset of the establishment which strangely is almost entirely populated by Hindus. Our national emblem, national flag, national calendar are all adopted from Buddhism in spite of the fact that India is the cradle of the great Hindu civilisation, which is the only surviving ancient religion and civilisation. With the official patronage and using public funds so many Buddhist religious structures are being constructed, old ruins rebuilt, and places named or renamed after Buddhist icons. The RSS-BJP government continues the same policies with more vigour and rigour.

It goes to the credit of Hindus that since its founding Buddhism flourished in India for several centuries during Hindu rule, but it could not survive even for a hundred years under Islam. Further, even after disappearance of Buddhists, the Hindus magnanimously protected and maintained the ruins of Buddhist stupas, viharas and temples for centuries and continue to do so. The benevolence of Hindus is unparalleled. Hindus respect Buddha by including him in their pantheon by according him the status of an avatar of Vishnu. मत्स्य कूर्मो वराहश्च नारसिंहोऽथ वामनः। रामो रामश्च कृष्णश्च बुद्धः कल्किश्च ते दशा:॥

Yet, so many Buddhists abuse Hindus and Hindutva (aka Hinduism) to camouflage their own shortcomings. They have no courage to call a spade a spade by holding Islam for destruction of their religion. They find the accommodative Hindus and Hindutva (aka Hinduism) benefactors as the soft target to vent out their frustrations by sparing their malefactors. That is the biggest tragedy.

स्वस्ति🙏

[sid @immasiddx]

600 MB for an email app is insane.

[Christian Findlay @CFDevelop]

GitHub Copilot vs Cursor. Let's compare:

Copilot: just drop a python script in the middle of your website and run it

Cursor: I tracked down all the images, analyzed them and provided the alt text

Copilot gets further behind every day

[Swapnil Kommawar @KommawarSwapnil]

Praveen TAMBE!

[Sree @pashsridhar]

@santhoo9 @ajupublications Naa timeline lo chala mandi book fair gurinchi discuss chesthunnaru kaani.. Okkaru kuda adi ekkada jaruguthundo location cheppaledu 🙁
Aa place ekkado cheppandayya 🙏

[.NET Foundation @dotnetfdn]

Dramatically faster package restores with .NET 9's new NuGet resolver - .NET Blog https://t.co/ert5T39e1m #dotnet