Kiran Jonnalagadda

OTPs and spam.

Wanted: a password manager extension that will also fish out “verify email” links from email, because that is the only thing I use email for anymore.

Star Trek Voyager scene. Seven of Nine (tertiary adjunct of unimatrix 01) is pictured. She has a dolphin shaped metal robotic implant around her left eye because she is a borgs. Closed caption reads, "Fun will now commence."

It's the weekend, baby

Amazon checkout error message about too much traffic.

Dear Amazon, could you please slow down on your sales extravaganza so I can checkout once in a while?

Screenshot from Project ImmortalWrt on GitHub, a China-focused fork of the OpenWrt project.

Amazed this exists. With every passing day one can feel the transition of the Western tech ecosystem turning downstream of Chinese tech. Everything in emerging hardware is Chinese-first. Sharp contrast with India, where the only thing we're exporting is KYC.

Rodecaster Duo & Pro 2 seem even better with 2 USB ports and fully customisable faders, for 💰💰💰. Bizarrely, they also have WiFi and Ethernet but no network audio functionality at all. Can one hope for future Airplay/Spotify/Chromecast support? For extra 💰💰💰💰💰❓

Behringer Flow 8 block diagram.

Huh, according to this block diagram I can indeed assign the two USB outs to the two line-in fader controls on the Flow 8, so all three digital inputs get separate controls. Now to find where this setting is hidden.

Behringer Flow 8 mixer app screenshot showing a single fader control for Bluetooth and USB inputs.

I have another unicorn product request. What's a DAC that's also a digital audio mixer with multiple simultaneous digital inputs (USB/HDMI/BT) and independent controls? Fosi Audio ZD3 has inputs but isn't a mixer. Behringer Flow 8 has 1xBT+1xUSB×2 but sharing one volume fader.

Settings screen with providers and players

Available providers.

Available players.

Technical info when playing.

Music Assistant is the first genuinely great thing I've stumbled into this year. All my music from all my sources to all my household devices. Multi-source multi-room audio without ecosystem lockdown, and it actually works!

Copper reflects like a mirror on a thermal camera.

Instructions to make your own, if that’s your thing. github.com/jace/minirac...

Thermal camera showing a stable 33°C around the cooler for an extended duration.

<₹1000 total. Seems to be working.

3D model for a camera cooler made in FreeCAD.

Underside with a copper plate over an aluminium heatsink and a USB-PD decoy trigger set to 12V, covered with Kapton tape.

Frontside with a 4010 fan blowing onto the heatsink, fins exposed to the sides, with a USB-C port on the bottom left.

Cooler mounted on the camera with a small strip of foam tape for grip tension.

New camera’s overheating. There are camera coolers, but THEY WANT HOW MUCH MONEY FOR A FAN IN A BOX? So I made my own with spare parts. 50x50 heatsink, 4010 12V fan, a USB-PD 12V trigger and a 3D printed case. Topped off with a copper plate cut to size because I had no spare thermal pad.

screenshot from an online job application form. the question reads "Can you describe specific ways you have integrated AI tools into your development workflow? Please include any custom setups, automations, or use cases beyond single prompt usage" (a red asterisk indicates that this is a required question). an answer has been typed in the textbox below the question: "there is a monster in the forest and it speaks with a thousand voices. it will answer any question you pose it, it will offer insight to any idea. it will help you, it will thank you, it will never bid you leave. it will even tell you of the darkest arts, if you know precisely how to ask. it feels no joy and no sorrow, it knows no right and no wrong. it knows not truth from lie, though it speaks them all the same. it offers its services freely to any passerby, and many will tell you they find great value in its conversation. “you simply must visit the monster—i always just ask the monster.” there are those who know these forests well; they will tell you that freely offered doesn’t mean it has no price for when the next traveler passes by, the monster speaks with a thousand and one voices. and when you dream you see the monster; the monster wears your face."

applying for jobs again

Do you remember when China's Great Firewall was the main topic? When we took pride in our open internet? Now I can't say anything online without posts disappearing and angry mobs descending to label it fake news. I don't know, there must be a term to describe this phenomenon.

Did you know "passkey" is an anagram for "reset password"?

Footnote 152 in Ambedkar's "Who Were The Shudras" reads "I am sorry, I have lost the reference."

One day I'd like to have this level of confidence in my footnotes.

Stereo ¼” female to two mono ¼” male Y-cable priced about ₹1700 at multiple stores.

WTF is happening in Indian e-commerce? We’ve replaced AliExpress with this?

Vacuum - Wikipedia A vacuum (pl.: vacuums or vacua) is space devoid of matter. The word is derived from the Latin adjective vacuus (neuter vacuum) meaning "vacant" or "void". An approximation to such vacuum is a…

Does Wikipedia have an annotation to mark the History section of a topic as incomplete or biased if it covers only the history in the Western tradition? Take "vacuum" for instance: surely it occurred to someone other than the ancient Greeks? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum

Growing up, our TV was B&W through the 80s.

Every morning I stumble out of bed and head to the toilet, then feed the cats. They've figured it out. Now they eavesdrop at the door while I take a dump for the appropriate moment to launch fanfare and a victory parade to the kitchen. Every morning a celebration.

I saw another interview w Lavinglia and what emerged clearly is how drunk software engineers are on efficiency & optimization that they imagine them to be transferable concepts that can easily be ported into labor, service, and knowledge sectors in which they have no experience.

What should we make of male pregnancy here? Misogyny? Gender fluidity? Some Indic version of “man” being ungendered before it became exclusively male? Or an artefact of a language having strict gender binaries, forcing everything into one category like modern Hindi?

Excerpt from the Taittiriya Brahmana, section ii.2.9.1.

Continued to page 2.

Continued to page 3.

There are hallucinations in LLMs, and there are the ancients. Y’all realise today’s AI slop is going to be around forever as divine scripture?

What I'm learning too. I want standard baseline config though, because not having it messes with finger memory.

LOL. You haven't a clue about their very public position on LLMs, do you?

Why are men