Siddhartha

software engineer

[Siddhartha @sidposting]

something similar happened with me in 2024. Just paid whatever he was asking and disputed the amount in the Uber app, raised a complaint about the driver too.

[Tanisha Sharma @tanishasharmax]

@Uber @Uber_India @UberIN_Support @Uber_Support
i landed at delhi airport today and had one of the most terrifying experiences of my life with an uber driver. i'm still shaken.

i booked an uber to gurgaon for a 20-minute ride. the fare shown on my uber app was around ₹625. after the trip, the driver showed me a screenshot from rapido quoting ₹1,479 and demanded that i pay that amount instead. when i pointed out that this was a rapido screenshot and not an uber screenshot, he said, “iss route ka itna hi hota hai.”
i paid the ₹625 that was shown on my uber app. what followed was genuinely frightening.

he locked the car and refused to let me take my luggage out unless i paid ₹1,479. when i tried retrieving my belongings, he held my arm and shut the front-seat window where my luggage was, trying to stop me from taking it out.

i somehow managed to get my luggage and tried to enter my house. he followed me, forced the gate, abused me horribly and wouldn't let me go inside peacefully. i finally managed to get inside and lock the door. he then started climbing the gate while hurling abuses and threatening my life.

all of this happened around 4:45 am in gurgaon, when i'd just landed and was simply trying to get home safely.
and it gets worse. i'm trying to reach uber's safety support, and the safety support option isn't available to me. i'm dealing with a terrifying situation involving physical aggression and life threats, and i can't even get through to the platform's safety team.

this wasn't a fare dispute anymore. this was intimidation, physical aggression and a terrifying violation of my safety at my own doorstep.

@Uber_Support @Uber_India @UberIN_Support @Uber, i need an urgent human response, a proper investigation and concrete action. please preserve the trip and driver records and tell me how this is being addressed.

i've used cabs to get around in different countries and never imagined i'd feel this unsafe trying to get home in my own country. how am i supposed to trust a service that i booked specifically to get home safely?

driver name: JAMIL JAHID KHAN

[Tanisha Sharma @tanishasharmax]

@Uber @Uber_India @UberIN_Support @Uber_Support
i landed at delhi airport today and had one of the most terrifying experiences of my life with an uber driver. i'm still shaken.

i booked an uber to gurgaon for a 20-minute ride. the fare shown on my uber app was around ₹625. after the trip, the driver showed me a screenshot from rapido quoting ₹1,479 and demanded that i pay that amount instead. when i pointed out that this was a rapido screenshot and not an uber screenshot, he said, “iss route ka itna hi hota hai.”
i paid the ₹625 that was shown on my uber app. what followed was genuinely frightening.

he locked the car and refused to let me take my luggage out unless i paid ₹1,479. when i tried retrieving my belongings, he held my arm and shut the front-seat window where my luggage was, trying to stop me from taking it out.

i somehow managed to get my luggage and tried to enter my house. he followed me, forced the gate, abused me horribly and wouldn't let me go inside peacefully. i finally managed to get inside and lock the door. he then started climbing the gate while hurling abuses and threatening my life.

all of this happened around 4:45 am in gurgaon, when i'd just landed and was simply trying to get home safely.
and it gets worse. i'm trying to reach uber's safety support, and the safety support option isn't available to me. i'm dealing with a terrifying situation involving physical aggression and life threats, and i can't even get through to the platform's safety team.

this wasn't a fare dispute anymore. this was intimidation, physical aggression and a terrifying violation of my safety at my own doorstep.

@Uber_Support @Uber_India @UberIN_Support @Uber, i need an urgent human response, a proper investigation and concrete action. please preserve the trip and driver records and tell me how this is being addressed.

i've used cabs to get around in different countries and never imagined i'd feel this unsafe trying to get home in my own country. how am i supposed to trust a service that i booked specifically to get home safely?

driver name: JAMIL JAHID KHAN

[Siddhartha @sidposting]

hell yeah

[Andhra Nexus @AndhraNexus]

Raymond Limited is now Raymond Aerospace, Defence & Engineering Limited!

What’s even more exciting is that its manufacturing base is in Andhra Pradesh! 🚀

[CultureCheck @culturecheckit]

When Japanese filmmaker Yugo Sako wanted to adapt Ramayana, he spent a decade studying multiple translations. He was so genuinely moved by the text that he decided only animation as a reverent art form was capable of depicting the story with purity.

Meanwhile Indian filmmakers:

[Gems @gemsofbabus_]

What the fuck is happening in this country?

@khurpenchh Instagram account, with 300K followers, has been withheld in India just for exposing babus and corruption.

[Lloyd Mathias @LloydMathias]

Boarding on AI 882 AMD-DEL is delayed by 20 minutes because Supreme Court Judge Vipul Pancholi & wife had to be VIP boarded first. They walk in with a posse of 6 guards + 3 AI staffers. Is this the VIP culture that India’s judiciary advocates? @MLJ_GoI ?
#VIPculture 🚨#lalbatti

[Akshay @akkiman]

Here's why the eMudhra screwup is of colossal proportions..
Any embedded/IoT device that trusts their compromised roots and never checks revocation accepts forged signatures forever.
A permanent hole in every device.

[Cola with coffee @Beyondsimplify]

The dehatification of Indian cinema needs to be studied. We went from dil chahta hai & zindagi na milegi dobara to absolute gutter level slop of gaali galoch and jhopad patti.

The decision to move on from well dressed well spoken characters to absolute gawars is haunting India.

[Siddhartha @sidposting]

@assthajha Banger Astha

[jack @jack]

We believe voice is the most natural way to interact with intelligence, so we created Dessa, the most authentic full-duplex speech model ever built. Talking with it feels like talking with a person…full of emotion, nuance, pauses, and a natural cadence.

https://t.co/r0qFLdvd6c

[Siddhartha @sidposting]

The P in PHI means public

[Andrew Curran @AndrewCurran_]

Quest Diagnostics has been hacked. Patient data was exposed. They serve roughly half of U.S. hospitals and physicians. Investigation ongoing.

[Siddhartha @sidposting]

What the f is happening

[Phoronix @phoronix]

Several Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities Accidentally Posted To Public Kernel Mailing List

As high as CVSS 9.0. Whoops.

https://t.co/opCRSE80Vq

[Siddhartha @sidposting]

@jarredsumner https://t.co/cykisltW5J

[Siddhartha @sidposting]

@jarredsumner There was this nice blog about being more ambitious with Claude / AI agents from someone at anthropic

[⁵⁄₉ @fiveoutofnine]

So basically, today PHP got two critical bugs that let anyone run code on your server without even logging in, which is bad, and then the details leaked before the patch was even out, which is worse, and it works on WordPress and MediaWiki and Magento and Joomla and Laravel, and Censys says like 1.5 million servers are running a version with no fix, so the NSA was like "take your system offline," and the FBI was like "take your system offline," and CISA and the UK and CERT-EU were all like "take your system offline," and then the Prime Minister of Japan, the actual Prime Minister, posted at 5:55 in the morning telling 48.8 million people to take their system offline, so everyone took their system offline, like the Dutch cybersecurity agency took its own website offline, and the Dutch parliament went offline, and the Port of Rotterdam went offline, and Finland and France and Denmark started pulling government sites, and Wikipedia went down, and https://t.co/QlOXb3COq3 went down, and Asana and GOG and Something Awful went down, and the University of Vienna's webmail went down for some reason, and that's just PHP. Because GitLab also dropped a CVSS 10.0, which is the highest score they give out, for a bug that's been there since 2014, so that's every self-hosted GitLab for twelve years, and then LiteLLM 1.107.0 got hijacked and shipped a credential stealer and a remote access trojan in every single wheel and the Docker images, including latest, and you didn't even have to import it, just installing it was enough, and it's the second time this year, and then Railway paused every deployment on the entire platform because someone got into the environment variables, so now everyone has to rotate every secret they've ever stored there, and TiDB Cloud said someone was walking around inside with stolen credentials for basically a month and an extortion group says they took 10.6 terabytes, and Zeabur got breached for the second time in two months and is just shutting down, like the whole company, and Node.js patched remote code execution and a TLS bypass, and CISA says Plex is being actively exploited, and someone took over 300 Tor exit relays to steal SSH passwords, and SafePay ransomware has hit over 600 critical infrastructure orgs, and India's biggest bank filed a data loss incident, and Japan has been in an official state of emergency in cyberspace since October 9, which honestly explains the 5:55 AM post. Oh, and eMudhra, a certificate authority that's issued over 60 million certificates, whose entire job is proving websites are who they say they are, was supposed to be using private keys that are random numbers over a hundred digits long, and one of them was 4. Just 4. And the others were like 66 and 237. Anyway, it's Wednesday.

[Siddhartha @sidposting]

AND RAILWAY

[Tony Ma @t1o6n3y]

🚨 Security vulnerabilities reported in a SINGLE day:

PHP — 2 CVEs
Node.js — 10 CVEs
NGINX — 5 CVEs
Go — 1 CVE
GitLab — 12 CVEs
eMudhra — CA certificate compromise

[Siddhartha @sidposting]

Took them 1500 working days

[Ministry of Electronics & IT @GoI_MeitY]

A security incident concerning eMudhra’s Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) was reported in the public domain.

Meity has taken serious note of the reported incident. A special team has been constituted to investigate the matter.

[Siddhartha @sidposting]

NOOOOOO YOU FUCKERSSS

[Apple Music @AppleMusic]

Introducing a new identity for Apple Music, physically shaped by an original composition from @fredagainagain1 and NEST Acoustics.

[ThePrimeagen @ThePrimeagen]

Hey, it is Wednesday

OpenCode hacked
eMudra had picked a private key value of 4, thus everything is now deemed unsafe.
PHP, running 70% of the internet, has an insane hack...

Happy getting internet getting humped day

[Siddhartha @sidposting]

excatly what I've been saying all this while. There's no fair token value yet

[Alexey Fateev @superalesha]

DeepSeek just published the price of a token, and it should make you angry.

From their own DeepInfer docs: 1 cluster serves 155 trillion tokens a day, at $38 of revenue per GPU-hour, and thats at off-peak prices. Their API is $0.30 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output at peak.

Yuchen Jin did the math: even if they rented B300s at $7 an hour, thats about 82% gross margin. Other estimates go higher.

So cheap AI is not charity and it is not "dumping". At these prices serving a frontier-class model is a very profitable business, if your inference stack is good enough.

Now remember every time a US lab told you that intelligence is expensive. That $200 a month is a fair price. That limits exist because compute is scarce.

Part of that is true. Part of it is a business model built on you not knowing what a token actually costs.

DeepSeek just showed everyone the numbers and gave away the engine. Every inference company can now compete on price with the same software. Thats how AI gets cheap for everyone.