## Why calling out people is important when they behave inappropriately The following showed up in my feed and I thought it was important that I share it as this post highlights a good point about why it is important to call out people during […] [Original post on suramya.com]

## Is it worth Contributing to Open Source with AI Scrapers using your work for training materials I have quite a lot of work with Open Source Software (OSS) over the years which has resulted in two job offers and multiple opportunities to speak about OSS in […] [Original post on suramya.com]

## Programming: Unclear on the concept of code reviews There is an interesting disconnect in people about software engineering. They are unable to grasp that the industry/team exists to solve business problems, not to release changes as fast as possible (I mean […] [Original post on suramya.com]

## Wasted some more time thanks to Windows 10 auto upgrading to Windows 11 and disabling local accounts A friend of mine asked me if I had a spare laptop that they could borrow for a few days. Since I had a spare one that is used for my experiments I told them yes. To ensure that everything was […]

## Thanks for Comments on draft This made me laugh and I am thinking about using it as a slide in my next presentation. Thanks everyone for comments on the draft, here it is revised with all your edits – Suramya

## Prompt injection attacks for ‘AI’ automatically processing emails Was talking to a friend and he told this story about how he solved a problem he was facing with a company. Basically, he had submitted some documents to the company via email but had to send updated versions. He submitted the […]

## Braindump on Movies I watched In previous posts I talked about some of the movies I liked but since the post was about other things I didn’t go in much detail so this post is basically a brain dump of movies that I watched that I liked (or in some cases didn’t like) in no particular order […]

## Conscience of a Hacker aka The Hacker Manifesto turns 40 The Conscience of a Hacker, also known as The Hacker Manifesto, turned 40 yesterday. If there was a document that shaped entire generations of Hackers, the Hacker Manifesto would be this document. The manifesto was first published in […]

## Alert when Blood Donated is used This is so cool. It would be awesome if all hospitals did this and messaged you when your donated blood is used. I am sure it would increase the no of people donating blood. Dear Sanjeev ji, Your donated blood has been […] [Original post on suramya.com]

## AI food delivery hoax that fooled Reddit debunked after investigation Over the past few days an Anonymous post on Reddit (Archive.org link since the original has been deleted) that alleged significant fraud at an unnamed food delivery app. The post made some serious allegations and the […]

## KDE’s Full form: Kool Desktop Environment One of the cool things about Linux that also confuses a lot of people who are used to Windows is that it allows you to use different Desktop environments based on your choice. So if you like a minimalist setup or are on an old system with limited […]

## Wasted hours of my life due to Copilot and AI on Win 11 laptop Over the weekend Jani asked me to take a look at her laptop because it was heating up quite a bit and the CPU fan was almost constantly running on high speed. So I took the laptop ran a bunch of virus scans and malware removal […]

## Happy New Year! Earth has successfully completed one more revolution around the sun and to celebrate that here’s a Sanskrit verse (With a Hindi & English translation under it): _सूर्य संवेदना पुष्पे, दीप्ति कारुण्यगंधने। लब्ध्वा शुभं नववर्षेऽस्मिन […] [Original post on suramya.com]

## 82nd Anniversary of Netaji hoisting the Tricolour for the first time on the Indian Soil at Port Blair in Andaman and Nicobar Islands India owes a lot to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose because without his _Ajad Hind Fauj_ India would not have gotten its independence from the British. It was only […]

## Indian Railways Electrification at 99.2% complete as of 30th Nov 2025 The more we move away from Fossil fuels the better it is for the environment and as part of that effort the Indian Government has been aggressively pushing for electrification of the tracks […] [Original post on suramya.com]

## OpenVPN Not working for websites when connected over Airtel Xtreme Fibernet Over the past few weeks I have been having issues browsing websites when connected to OpenVPN connection on my Airtel Fibernet connection. The interesting thing was that the same settings/vpn worked fine when I […]

## Bad Idea no 2323546: Chat with AI Version of Ex to ‘get over them’ I am making yet another post about AI and again not in a good way. The AI we want is something like Cortana from the Halo games, Chappie from Forbidden Planet or Data in Star Trek: The Next […] [Original post on suramya.com]

## Dhurandhar: A fantastic way to cap 2025 for the Indian Cinema Over the past few years its been a running joke between Jani and me that I don’t watch Indian movies. In fact even my friends used to ask why I didn’t go for Hindi movies (South-Indian movies came into picture after I moved to […]

## 30th anniversary of Warcraft II, One of my all time favorite games Warcraft II is one of my all time favorite games along with Diablo (I, II & III). Warcraft II was released on December 9, 1995 and I first played it in 1997/98. Even though I am not a gamer I spent way too many all-nighters […]

## Remotely accessible platform for biocomputing research using Lab-Grown Human Neurons Biocomputing is the term given to the effort to create a computer based on biological parts or biologically derived molecules such as DNA and/or proteins to function as a computer. It is an evolving field […]

## Security vs Accessibility: Thoughts on the problem and how it can be addressed Security is something that always comes at an expense of Usability and I wrote about this earlier as well. However, in this post I am going to talk about something slightly […] [Original post on suramya.com]

## Thoughts on the reasons people shared for rejecting candidates Over the past few years there have been multiple articles, posts and op-eds about how there is a lack of skilled resources and how people “just don’t want to work anymore”. If you only read these […] [Original post on suramya.com]

## 62 Years of Doctor Who Yesterday was Doctor Who day, because on 23 November 1963 the first episode of Doctor Who was broadcast by the BBC starting a saga that is still going strong 62 years later. I have been a Doctor Who fan since 1992/93 onwards which was when I read the first novelization […]

## Zork I, II, and III code officially released as Open Source under the MIT License Zork is one of the oldest text adventure games first released in 1977 that most of the old timers who worked with computers played at one time or another. Instead of a visual interface or graphics the game […]

## Garlic scented books In a desire to differentiate her novel from others (and create publicity) author Jennifer L. Armentrout along with Hellmann’s have released a collectable edition of her newest novel ‘The Primal of Blood and Bone’ which is printed with garlic-infused ink. At first when I […]

## Celebrating 21 Years of my Blog Today marks the 21st year since I made the first blog post on this site on 2nd Oct 2004. So it’s been 21 years that I have been posting random thoughts online and life is a lot different from when I started posting here. Since I first posted on the blog, I […]

## 9 Upcoming Astronomy Events to watch out for 9 Upcoming Astronomy Events to watch out for: 9 Upcoming Astronomy Events * Sep 21: Solar Eclipse (Not visible in India) * Sep 21: Saturn at Opposition * Saturn reaches opposition on Sunday, September […] [Original post on suramya.com]

## No pets for employees because it distracts them from customers If you listen to companies online you will hear this common refrain that people don’t want to work or that it is so hard to find good resources. Then you read posts from companies which will make […] [Original post on suramya.com]

## Swiss cheese font The Swiss cheese has a very unique look and from the first time I saw it in a Tom & Jerry cartoon, I have loved it. Designer Rob apparently loves it as well because he has created a font he calls Swiss Cheese Mono which is a typeface full of […] [Original post on suramya.com]

## Creating a Phishy URL Url shortners have been used for a while now to to reduce the length of a URL to something that can be easily shared online. It became extra popular at sites like Twitter which counted the URL length into the character count for the post (though that was later changed […]

## (Not a) Travel Hack: Spending on Credit card I am an avid traveler to the point where I have traveled to all seven continents and have a goal of traveling to every country in the world. Obviously this requires money and some of these countries can be […] [Original post on suramya.com]

## There is now a SQL port of Doom on CedarDB There is an ongoing joke that if a device can perform calculations and has a display it will be used to run Doom. The same way a programming language is considered successful if Doom has been ported to it. Lukas Vogel, has added one more language to […]

## Flashmob of over 30 artists performing Bohemian Rhapsody in Paris Over 30 artists got together as a flash mob in the streets of Paris 😍to perform Bohemian Rhapsody and it is awesome! Check it out below: The most INSANE Bohemian Rhapsody Flashmob you will ever see!! Thanks @Privacymatters […]

## Thinking about SciFi Voice command Interfaces from a usability perspective Saw the following post by @tante where they talk about how voice commands have been embedded in our consciousness for years as a really advanced user interface but practically speaking […] [Original post on suramya.com]

## AI Darwin Awards nominations are now open The original Darwin Awards celebrated those who “improved the gene pool by removing themselves from it” through spectacularly stupid acts and reading through the candidate list would make you seriously doubt the ability of humans to survive. Now […]

## Surveilling Your Children with hidden AirTags Skechers is making a line of kid’s shoes with a hidden compartment for an AirTag. The idea being that the parents should monitor their movement 24×7. I really don’t get this mindset where instead of talking to the kids and setting boundaries […]

## Using WiFi signals to measure heart rate without wearable’s is now possible Currently WiFi is one of those technologies that is pretty much prevalent across the world, you go to the smallest (inhabited) island in the middle of nowhere and you will get a WiFi signal. Which is why folks have […]

## The future of web development is AI. Get on or get left behind. Saw this article The future of web development is AI. Get on or get left behind while surfing the web and I was initially annoyed because I thought it was yet another article on how AI is solving […] [Original post on suramya.com]

## Tell me you don’t read books without telling me Reading books allows you to explore and experience life from a different perspective. Some of it can be fun other times not so much but it does make you grow as a person. But that is not for everyone, so it is […] [Original post on suramya.com]

## Finland inaugurates world’s largest sand battery delivering 1 MW of thermal power When I first read that Finland has inaugurated world’s largest sand battery, the fist question I had was _“ What is a sand battery?”_. Is it a new battery that uses Sand somehow […] [Original post on suramya.com]

## ISRO completes the first Integrated Air Drop Test for Gaganyaan Missions successfully India’s space program has been very active over the past few years and following the success of Chandrayaan-3 & Aditya missions, India became the 4th nation to dock two satellites in space earlier this […]

## By extrapolating statements by prominent AI proponents it looks like the AI bubble might be nearing its end We are in the middle of an almost unprecedented tech-bubble for AI and now it looks like the bubble is nearing it end. The reason I say that is now instead of companies trying to sell […]

## Building an app that no one uses is useless A quote that all of us have heard multiple times is _If You Build It, They Will Come_. This has launched countless applications/websites/solutions over the past few decades and very few of them actually had people come and use it. But due to […]

## Japan opens its first osmotic power plant As the world is trying to move away from fossil fuels more research is being done on other sources of power generation. Osmotic power generation is one of new latest technologies on the block and Japan has launched its first osmotic power plant […]

## Frankenstein No. 5 Saw this screenshot and now the song is stuck in my head… Help! > [footage of Victor Frankenstein sewing together female body parts to make a mate for the Creature while Lou Bega’s Mambo no.5 plays] > > #a little bit of monica for the eyes […] [Original post on suramya.com]

## Try an Email quiz to see if you can identify valid email addresses Most people don’t really think about email addresses and how to validate if they are correct or not but developers have to do that frequently so that their applications can ensure people don’t input invalid data into the […]

## Abusing or harassing George R.R. Martin is not going to get his next book published faster Fans of George R.R Martin have been waiting for the final two books in the ‘A Song of Ice and Fire’ series for over 13 years now and are understandingly eager to have the author finish the books. That […]

## Tik-Tok Dances to fight Tariffs: Idiocracy in action Yes, you read the title correctly and yes that was my reaction as well when I saw the screenshot below that someone had shared (Click on the image to view the video): Here’s 4 Tik-Tok dances that you can […] [Original post on suramya.com]

## Indian Railways Pilots Solar power generation using removable Solar Panels on railway tracks India is pushing hard on renewable energy and is already 3rd in the world for Solar power production reducing our reliance on Fossil fuels. Now Indian railways has […] [Original post on suramya.com]