Prateek (प्रतीक)

Senior Rust Engineer | prev - ByteDance, @Apple , @AQRCapital | @IITHyderabad Alumnus | ♥️ Rust and JavaScript 🇮🇳

[Prateek (प्रतीक) @prateekkumarweb]

@sortedcord yeah never purchase a .in domain. i regret it.

[Prateek (प्रतीक) @prateekkumarweb]

How is he a whistleblower? For that he has be to working inside CBSE. Indian journalists don’t understand basic terms. 👏

[Hindustan Times @htTweets]

Sarthak Sidhant (@sidhant_sarthak), one of the three known CBSE-OSM whistleblowers, has advised "Cockroach Janta Party" founder Abhijeet Dipke to ensure the movement is driven by a genuine cause rather than what he described as “internet attention”.

In an exclusive interview with HT's @MeSanjayy, he said student-led campaigns must translate outrage into meaningful action.

Read here: https://t.co/HCLEefoIva

[Prateek (प्रतीक) @prateekkumarweb]

Research skills are way different from solving MCQs in JEE and plus not all of them even would want to do research.
Olympiads might be better suited for such identification.

[Rohit Awasthi @rohitawasthi]

Top 20 rankers in JEE should be given lifetime endowments and should be just allowed to focus on research and innovation.
That set is God gifted. Operates at different leven than us mortals.

[Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) @internetfreedom]

Statement : Two transfers and a closed inquiry are not a fix

Yesterday, on June 2, 2026 the Centre transferred CBSE's Chairman and Secretary and named a one-member committee under S. Radha Chauhan to examine On-Screen Marking procurement. These actions confirm the problem is real but what it ordered falls short of any meaningful remedy. Here, transferring two officials does not repair a broken system and a limited inquiry held in private, limited to how the contract was awarded, cannot deliver the structural change required due to the coercive, irrational and insecure digitalisation of education in India.

Here, we reiterate our earlier requests on May 30, 2026 when we asked for an independent, published security audit of every institution of learning’s digital examination stack that may be implemented in a phased manner, encouraging trust and accountability in digital systems. This is not a CBSE problem alone and Srikanth of Cashless Consumer has shown the same code runs at least thirty evaluation portals.

We also asked for the full tender file to be made public, not handed to a closed committee. Here, Sarthak Sidhant, who analysed the tender, has shown how it was rewritten to qualify a firm that earlier operated as Globarena. We asked for an IT Act amendment to protect good-faith security research, so ethical security researchers such as Nisarga Adhikary and Tirth Parmark, who found and reported these flaws, are not the one facing prosecution. None of it has been done. The government answered the narrowest of demands in the narrowest way open to it.

The constitution of the inquiry also stops short of the real question. This is not the accident of one bad vendor. It reflects how education in India is being digitised as a dogma and made compulsory, turned into a market for private contractors, and adopted without evidence that it works. It was imposed over teachers who asked for a pause. It was procured as a contract in haste, with the contract's terms, not students' needs or their data's safety, driving its design. Further, it has clearly not delivered on its promises of efficiency and scale to an extent that a record four lakh students sought re-evaluation, four times last year's figure.

IFF reiterates and extends its requests given this is a structural problem not limited to execution of one portal, or the award of one tender alone:

1. An independent, published security audit of every board/educational institution on the platform, and immediate fixes.

2. Public disclosure of the full tender file and the decisions that cleared this vendor with an investigation into the role of CERT-In.

3. An amendment to the IT Act that protects good-faith security researchers.

4. A Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) to examine the wider issue of digitalisation of the education sector.

May 3, 2026
New Delhi

[Manish @ManishEarth]

"electrons are monogamous"

"what do you mean?"

"you can only have two of them in a given orbital"

"why does that happen?"

"because of the poly exclusion principle"

[Prateek (प्रतीक) @prateekkumarweb]

@sumanthraman yes, thats the better way. saves the time of the candidate and the employer.

[Arpit Bhayani @arpit_bhayani]

The industry has gone completely nuts.

Use tokens to generate AI code and documentation slop. Then use even more tokens to understand and review that slop.

Then judge engineers by token usage instead of how empathetic and clear their docs and code actually are, and completely neglect human comprehension.

Utter nonsense.

[Prateek (प्रतीक) @prateekkumarweb]

Everything is just PR for this government.

[Joshi JI @JoshiJi_]

Instructions have been issued by the Ed ministry and CBSE to schools to record videos of students praising the on screen marking system and post them on school social media handles. After completely mismanaging the entire system, CBSE has now shifted into shameless PR damage control mode, as if manufactured appreciation can erase public anger, confusion, and institutional failure.

Forcing schools and students into staged praise campaigns after such widespread criticism is honestly pathetic. Instead of answering serious questions, fixing loopholes, and taking accountability, they are busy manufacturing positive optics for social media. This is not how an education system behaves. This is how insecure institutions try to bury failure under propaganda.

[Prateek (प्रतीक) @prateekkumarweb]

@nixxin The PM who doesn’t even take questions from the press would have ignored it?

[The Linux Foundation @linuxfoundation]

🚨 A huge moment for the open source community in India.

For years, Linus Torvalds and Dirk Hohndel have taken the keynote stage together at Open Source Summits around the globe - and next month this must-see conversation is coming to Open Source Summit India!

You can’t miss this. Join us 16-17 June in Mumbai at the Jio World Convention Centre.

Register today! https://t.co/esOg8WNA98

#OSSummit

[Prateek (प्रतीक) @prateekkumarweb]

This is embarrassing. 🤦

[Hindustan Times @htTweets]

Uttar Pradesh has notified an exhaustive district-wise culinary map under its ‘One District-One Cuisine’ (ODOC) scheme, assigning each of the state’s 75 districts a set of signature dishes for branding, marketing and export. Every item on the list is vegetarian.

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[Prateek (प्रतीक) @prateekkumarweb]

This feels like an alien concept in today’s India.

[ritwik @IndieKnopfler]

"no questions will be taken"

Meanwhile the kind of questions our previous PM used to take:

[Prateek (प्रतीक) @prateekkumarweb]

Welcome to North Korea!

[Kapil @kapsology]

It seems that interns from BJP IT Cell are sitting at MEIT and issuing orders to block accounts and posts which are slightly critical of the government.

.@AshwiniVaishnaw is India no more a democracy?

Even a slight opposition to the government is unbearable now?

[Prateek (प्रतीक) @prateekkumarweb]

@RahulUkr Agree! Also everyone’s experience can be different.
On a related note, there’s also too much moral policing in the community. “If you don’t do or behave a certain way, then you are not queer enough”

[Nikhil Pahwa @nixxin]

Now that the AI Summit is over we should brace for the impact of bad regulation in India: SIM binding, govt mandated fast censorship of social media, block of Supabase, and censorship of AI content are the beginning.

Our clueless IT and Telecom ministries think there's only big tech on the Internet, and use broad blunt instruments to restrict internet usage and break established structural practices.

There was a time when ministries took feedback from Civil Society. I've sat in those meetings.

Now they talk only to lobbyists, including law firms, who speak for their clients, often to the detriment of their competition or the detriment of the Internet. I see lobbyists on TV and writing opeds without giving disclosures, and our media enables this. Founders offload policy work to lawyers and policywonks who don't get it. Like our ministries, most of these people don't truly understand the web and the impact on how we build and use things.

Like bureaucrats, all they know is law and policy. Almost none of them build and play with tech. There are some, but tech and business are largely missing from the conversation.

There's lots of room for posturing, agendas, MoUs and photo ops.

Very little room for understanding all sides, and hard conversations.

That's how bad decisions get taken.

[Prateek (प्रतीक) @prateekkumarweb]

If this is what is published in the NCERT book, then I don’t see anything wrong that can be taken as contempt of court.

[Prateek (प्रतीक) @prateekkumarweb]

@SecularTrainee Once you travel outside India, you will realise UPI is not even that revolutionary. Sure, it solves India’s problems but the rest of the world uses NFC payments and cards and wallets which are equally good if not better.

[Prateek (प्रतीक) @prateekkumarweb]

@Flighty

[Abhijit Majumder @abhijit_MLab]

An OpEd is viral in X comparing 🇮🇳 Univs against Asian Univs such as Tsinghua.

The 🎯 that the author missed is, Tsinghua's budget (5B) alone surpasses the combined budgets of 23 IITs (1.37B).

And, IITs r the best funded in 🇮🇳. Think of other Univs!

Y do ppl shy to talk 💰?