Hacker News: ajyotirmay

New comment by ajyotirmay in "Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy"

ajyotirmay — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 04:28:13 +0000

I'm on S24, and the way my device has been setup, there are no ads

New comment by ajyotirmay in "Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy"

ajyotirmay — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 04:27:10 +0000

> Steve was The Apple iAds conveniently forgotten

New comment by ajyotirmay in "Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android"

ajyotirmay — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 19:45:24 +0000

Frankly, just switch the stock keyboard. It's 2026, this should be working on that ancient Egyptian joke of an OS.

If not, Apple users deserve this kind of behaviour where the user willingly signs off on their freedom

New comment by ajyotirmay in "India orders smartphone makers to preload state-owned cyber safety app"

ajyotirmay — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 08:17:25 +0000

All that couldn be as simple as educating people that there is no such thing as "digital arrest".

You are just telling the whole world about the average IQ of an Indian and how they believe in foolish things like "digital arrest".

And an app doesn't solve that. Digital literacy is a need for today, but the entire country is getting the latest smartphone, with dirt cheap data and zero knowledge of how to operate and own that technology.

New comment by ajyotirmay in "India orders smartphone makers to preload state-owned cyber safety app"

ajyotirmay — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 08:14:46 +0000

IRCTC is a private company. UPI isn't government either. Which e-filling portal is working nicely for you? My ITR was stuck for more than a year because some lame ass dev couldn't show proper error message other than suggesting that something needed to be done by my bank (which wasn't the case and only a year later did I decide to dig into th3 dev tools).

To praise Indian government is the most unlikely thing one should be doing for their mediocrity at developing things.

Same is the case with Aadhar, Digiyatra, etc. My government is hella incompetent at safeguarding data and privacy (unless it's their own data). And this app is 100% going to be a huge security hole on every device.

For me, ADB to the resuce.

New comment by ajyotirmay in "Google Workspace Updates: Send Gmail end-to-end encrypted emails to anyone"

ajyotirmay — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 09:28:29 +0000

Not a clue about what you're seeking. I'm using mailbox, and thunderbird as a client for my devices (android, windows, linux and macos).

It works. For E2EE, I have GPG setup on all of my devices. It costs me a little over €1/month for paid account as I use my own domain.

The experience has been good, and something I absolutely advocate for and promote.

New comment by ajyotirmay in "Google Workspace Updates: Send Gmail end-to-end encrypted emails to anyone"

ajyotirmay — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 09:25:16 +0000

Valid concern. I have been decoupling my dependency on Google for quite some time now

New comment by ajyotirmay in "Benchmark: SnapDOM may be a serious alternative to html2canvas"

ajyotirmay — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 08:38:52 +0000

Good job! This is very promising

New comment by ajyotirmay in "Microsoft removes documentation for switching to a local account in Windows 11"

ajyotirmay — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 12:28:34 +0000

I'm sorry, but today I don't recommend Ubuntu to event people who are very familiar with Linux Distros. I'm personally using Debian Testing on my daily driver, and Debian Stable on my home server.

I started with Linux Mint, then Ubuntu. I don't remember which Ubuntu it was, but it had Gnome 2 and then later had fun with the Unity Desktop versions. When they started being the bully, I started distro hopping and then finally settled with Debian (because of my personal values as well). I can't trust a for-profit company to care about its users. Today I try to use as many FOSS alternatives and projects supported by community.

Ubuntu is no better than Windows 11 at this point. It's just lesser evil of two. Try something else, Pop_OS!, Linux Mint, Manjaro Linux, Fedora, etc. Plenty of good options out there. Debian too, if you don't want a solid stable long term OS.

New comment by ajyotirmay in "In loving memory of square checkbox"

ajyotirmay — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 10:38:41 +0000

I guess such interactive elements always show the current state of the system, and when they are interacted with, it changes the state it was in, examples: 1. Social media buttons for upvotes/likes/dislikes 2. on/off toggle switches for features 3. microphone/speaker buttons on desktop OSes

New comment by ajyotirmay in "SumatraPDF Reader"

ajyotirmay — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 08:57:58 +0000

Okular. Okular offers digital pdf signing

New comment by ajyotirmay in "CNET is deleting old articles to try to improve its Google Search ranking"

ajyotirmay — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 08:48:26 +0000

Can't believe how many morons are at the helm and making decisions. This simple exercise should tell us how much trustworthy CNET is with their technical knowledge LOL

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ajyotirmay — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 12:33:56 +0000

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New comment by ajyotirmay in "Every time you click this link, it will send you to a random Web 1.0 website"

ajyotirmay — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 11:07:29 +0000

https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/23/75

Found this KML email from Linus. Damn! That was a good read though haha

New comment by ajyotirmay in "The hidden cost of air quality monitoring"

ajyotirmay — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 17:44:52 +0000

Hi, I get your point. Thus, whenever I'm looking for a product on amazon, I go to the website of manufacturer and try to get the intended product from there.

It can be a bit of hassle sometime, like having to pay for shipping or the delay in receiving it compared to amazon prime, or the option for return.

But apart from covering the shipping (which sometimes is okay for a product with higher value), I prefer to use the original website instead of Amazon. Few reasons being:

1. Genuine product 2. I don't want to help Amazon grow its huge empire 3. I want to support independent companies

So, hearing your comment, I'm glad I'm doing the right thing

New comment by ajyotirmay in "The EARN IT bill is back, seeking to scan our messages and photos"

ajyotirmay — Tue, 25 Apr 2023 09:46:41 +0000

Also, "you have nothing to hide" is so wrong, that people fail to understand that privacy isn't about hiding your private life, but having the power to sharing those details with consent and when you're comfortable sharing them. Just because you don't have nothing to hide, doesn't mean anyone can walk in your private life and peek into all corners.

And as you mentioned, power will be abused. Unchecked power will be abused unchecked. This is ethically, morally and humanely wrong.

There's so much wrong with this bill and the thought behind it. It should never see the day of light.

New comment by ajyotirmay in "ARM64 Linux Workstation"

ajyotirmay — Sun, 05 Mar 2023 05:04:59 +0000

Difficult debating a fan's love with logic, right? This person is so aggressively justifying the MacOS decisions

New comment by ajyotirmay in "ARM64 Linux Workstation"

ajyotirmay — Sun, 05 Mar 2023 05:03:15 +0000

Why are you so aggressively defending a trashy product? I can't reliably alt+tab on a MacOS to switch between windows and apps, there are hidden shortcuts, 3 modifier keys make it a nightmare to wrap my head around shortcuts, window tiling is trash (thanks for the save Rectangle), iTunes randomly popping up when I use my BT headset, applications need to be "quit", closing just isn't enough, but some apps quit when their last window is closed, weird! Stage manager, virtual desktop, a broken dock. It's a nightmare. MS Windows have invented such a cool way of switching between multiple windows of the same app, doesn't matter if those are minimised or not.

Oh, and Macs have a hide and minimise feature, wow! Just a cluster fuck entirely. Gazillion different ways of installing applications and then managing all those updates separately (a lot like Windows in that regard). These are all issues I face on a regular basis, haven't even dived into developer experience.

New comment by ajyotirmay in "Ask HN: If I get locked out of everything, please try to help me"

ajyotirmay — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 09:20:56 +0000

I love 2FA, but only the TOTP based ones. No codes on my phone, emails or already authorized devices please

New comment by ajyotirmay in "India lifted 415M out of poverty in 15 years, says UN"

ajyotirmay — Thu, 10 Nov 2022 07:30:59 +0000

> As for the being a nation state part, sometimes I think we would have been better off in an EU type situation rather than being one large entity.

I have the same idea. But I'm not very sure about it, specially because our divide has been the main cause of Britishers colonizing us. An united single state gives us much more resources to function properly and defend our interest against neighbors like Pakistan & China.

I could be wrong though, as EU seems to be a good example of governance