Vinod

A Nillionaire philanthropist who occasionally enjoys dividing by zero.

[Vinod @pxy]

A promise.

[Vinod @pxy]

@LiveLawIndia Apparently, Domicile Certificate is the valid one - I hear.

[Vinod @pxy]

🤔

[Prithvi R Patil / ಪೃಥ್ವಿ ಆರ್ ಪಾಟೀಲ @prithvipatil38]

@geekyranjit @atomberg_tech Atomberg and Urban Native M series purifiers are practically carbon copies of each other because they’re manufactured by the same company Ronch Polymers Pvt. Ltd
Atomberg and Urban are just clients who signed up for customized casings. Quoting 'IITian' is no brainer.

M2pro user!

[Vinod @pxy]

Next up - gorment babus to ban the non phone number UPI aliases as well 🤦‍♂️

[Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) @internetfreedom]

Statement on MeitY's notices widen an unconstitutional dragnet over privacy features

New Delhi, 2 July 2026

A day after its notice to WhatsApp on the usernames feature, as per press reports MeitY has today evening sent the same kind of notice to Telegram and Signal, asking each to explain a username feature and its safeguards against impersonation and misuse. In two days the Ministry has gone from one platform to three, and from acting on content to policing the design of products. This is a dragnet, it is widening, and it has no basis in law. As we warned in our first statement it is a digital license raj that is expanding arbitrary executive power.

We know of these notices only through press reports, and the notices themselves have not been published. Where that reporting is sourced from within the Government, MeitY is left free to shape the coverage by choosing what to hand out and to whom. Releasing a document selectively, is not the same as disclosing it to the public, and it is the opposite of transparency. The public is told that platforms are being made to answer for "misuse", while the notice that would show the demand has no basis in law stays out of sight.

We again highlight that the core defect is constitutional. The executive is restraining lawful features, and with them the private communication those features protect, without the authority of law. We agree there can be regulatory authority for such features however it requires a clear articulation of policy intent that is rooted in legislation. This simply does not exist at present. No provision of the IT Act permits it as we have explained in our statement yesterday. A restraint on how a platform may operate cuts into its freedom to carry on its work under Article 19(1)(g), and a restraint on private messaging cuts into the users' freedom of speech under Article 19(1)(a). A restriction on either must fall within Article 19(2) or 19(6) and must rest on a law, and here there is no law at all.

The sweep is also indiscriminate, which is a vice of its own. The three features are not the same. Here, the inclusion of Signal is the sharpest sign of what this is really about. Signal is a non-profit. It is encrypted by default, it collects almost no data, and its username feature exists for the single purpose of letting people communicate without handing over a phone number. Signal's is a private contact tokens with no public directory, which reduces what a user reveals rather than expose it. Signal in particular keeps almost nothing, has refused to build the searchable directory an identification order would need, and is the tool journalists, activists and many at risk people and their contacts rely on, so a notice aimed at it strikes straight at protected speech.

Beneath all three notices sits the demand for traceability under Rule 4(2) of the IT Rules, 2021, which cannot be met on an encrypted service without breaking the encryption that protects every user, and which is already under challenge before the Delhi High Court as exceeding the Act.

Each notice is a step here makes the next look ordinary and needs to clearly and unequivocally condemned for the widespread digital authoritarianism. First pieces of content are blocked in thousands, even entire accounts sometimes just for parody posts, then a whole platform is blocked for a week, and now companies are told to account for the features that keep their users safe. This is how executive power grows past the limits of our constitution.

We call on MeitY to withdraw the notices to WhatsApp, Telegram and Signal, to publish them, and to state the provision of law under which it claims to act. Privacy protective design is not a wrong to be explained away, and the Constitution does not permit a widening dragnet over the means by which people speak.

[Vinod @pxy]

accelerate where?

[Indian Tech & Infra @IndianTechGuide]

🚨 "Somebody is saying that fuel mileage is going to drop. It is now well established that ethanol is even used in racing cars. Acceleration improves. What is that called? Knocking? Knocking also improves. Mileage? Yes, it may drop a little. But it may drop slightly due to various factors."

- Petroleum minister Hardeep Singh on ethanol-blended fuel

[Vinod @pxy]

There are no punishments for adding stuff to cart.

[Mohammed Zubair @zoo_bear]

@instagram @telegram @divyaconnects @treatednickel @danielsilas @BBCAnshul @alishan_jafri Here's the painful article by the BBC on, @instagram running ads promoting child sexual abuse material in India. Thanks to @divyaconnects @treatednickel
@danielsilas, @BBCanshul and @alishan_jafri 🙏 https://t.co/mJEsNZOQDD

[Richard D. Bartlett @RichDecibels]

do you know about the mosquito bite deleter?

press it onto the bite. push button. beep. gets hot for a few seconds. boop. protein is cooked under the skin. itching stops immediately & permanently

[Vinod @pxy]

Our gorment’s turn now 🤦‍♂️

[Vinod @pxy]

so gorments are the latest release managers

[All men dream, but not equally. @thejayesh]

Read this carefully

If you support the govt on this. Know what you are supporting.

[Vinod @pxy]

Same

[राम राम सा @DLasod53320]

@DChaurasia2312 मेरी₹58000 किलोमीटर चली हुई कंपनी सर्विस प्राप्त alto 800 21 से 22 का माइलेज हाईवे पर निकल रही थी
अब 16 का निकल रही है
पेट्रोल का दाम मुझे पूरा देना पड़ रहा है

[Vinod @pxy]

For anyone interested - @ pmcarefunds is still available 😅

[WhatsApp @WhatsApp]

Username reservations are here, as more and more people claim theirs, here’s answers to the top questions you’re asking ⬇️

Q: Are usernames mandatory?

A: Nope, they are optional.

Q: What if the username I want isn’t available?

A: There’s a few reasons you might not be able to reserve the username you want:

1) It’s an existing Instagram or Facebook username; these are reserved for their owners.

2) We’ve held well-known names and some variations of them - like public figures, celebrities, government entities and Meta-verified accounts - so they can only be claimed by their legitimate owners. If you try to reserve those, the system will say it’s not available.

3) Someone already claimed a common name, in that case use the username generator.

Q: What if someone creates a username similar to mine to impersonate me or run a scam, how do you stop someone from pretending to be me?

A: Usernames are not available for messaging yet. When they are, and you get a message from someone new, we’ll let you know the country origin, and a warning for first time outreach. Well-known public-figure names and their variations are held for verified owners. We’re also keeping a close eye on blocks and reports to take action against scammers.

Q: Can random people message me if they know or guess my username?

A: Just like you can’t search for a phone number in WhatsApp, you can’t search for a username. The best way to prevent someone from contacting you is to add a username key and to choose a username that is unique to WhatsApp.

All the current measures remain in place to prevent unwanted contact, including warnings with details about unknown senders (whether they're a new account, if you share groups, what country they're in) and the ability to block and report.

Q: What is a username key?

A: An extra layer of protection you can enable with your username, so that another user will have to know both your username and your username key to contact you. You can reset your key at any time to stop new inbound contact through your username.

Q: Do I have to link my other Meta accounts?

A: If you want the same username as your Instagram or Facebook account, you’ll have to link them. This one of the ways to reduce impersonation and to make sure you’re the legitimate owner of the account. But after that, you can unlink the account if you want, or you can choose a username unique to WhatsApp.

Q: Can I change my username later?

A: Yes, as long as the new one you want is available.

A few more things to keep in mind...

People are making false claims about reserving popular or well-known usernames - this isn't true, only the legitimate account owners are able to reserve well-known public-figure names.

We enabled reservations before usernames launch later this year because we think people will feel strongly about what username they want on WhatsApp. We’re taking our time and listening to feedback so that when it rolls out later this year we get it right.

[Z.ai @Zai_org]

Introducing ZCode, the official development environment for GLM-5.2

- GLM Coding Plan subscribers: now 1.5x usage quota in ZCode
- BYOK supported: works with your existing subscriptions and APIs
- Available on macOS, Windows, and Linux

Download now: https://t.co/Peepqv4XSx

[phani.xyz @prkvs]

Explore Internship roles at Deep-tech companies in India https://t.co/XJKaBTn4Ij

[Mohammed Zubair @zoo_bear]

AI171 crash: One year on.

The cockpit chat at the heart of the investigation mentioned neither fuel nor switches. Speakers were not named. Yet it shaped the narrative that a pilot caused the crash through fuel-switch cutoff. How? @rachelchitra digs deep.

https://t.co/T0l2INhWX4

[Vinod @pxy]

@shantanugoel @ujjawalasthana Make it 26, sofasogood noAC

[Vinod @pxy]

Pls support one-time-use throwaway usernames / alias

[WhatsApp @WhatsApp]

your phone number is personal and sometimes you want to connect without handing it over. that's why we're introducing usernames for WhatsApp.

starting this week, you can reserve a username to use later this year when we launch the feature. It takes just a few seconds, make sure you have the latest version of WhatsApp and then go to Settings > Account > Username.

[churumuri @churumuri]

At least one Indian newspaper has an obituary of Om Malik, albeit from 'The New York Times'. @bsindia

[Ornith @ornith_]

Aloha! 🌺 Meet Ornith-1.0, a family of open-source LLMs specialized for agentic coding.

Ornith-1.0 spans the full parameter sizes including 9B Dense, 31B Dense, 35B MoE, and 397B MoE. It achieves state-of-the-art performance among open-source models of comparable size on coding benchmarks including:
✅Terminal-Bench 2.1(77.5)
✅SWE-Bench(82.4 on verified, 62.2 on pro, 78.9 on Multilingual)
✅NL2Repo(48.2)
✅SWE Atlas(41.2 on QnA, 42.6 RF, 39.1 TW)
✅ClawEval(77.1)

Post-trained on top of gemma4 and qwen3.5, Ornith-1.0 employs a novel self-improving training strategy in which reinforcement learning is used to generate not only solution rollouts, but also the task-specific scaffolds that drive those rollouts. By jointly optimizing the scaffold and the resulting solution, the model generate higher-quality solutions in agentic coding.😎

All models are released under the MIT license, enabling full commercial and research use.

📖Tech Blog: https://t.co/qT9N2HYWFn
🤗Huggingface: https://t.co/PRrwqjeBtM

[Vinod @pxy]

so gorments are the latest release managers

[NIK @ns123abc]

Source:
https://t.co/ud9b9XnZ2T

[Kevin Rose @kevinrose]

goodbye @om - i love you. i will miss you my friend.