Hacker News: stultus

New comment by stultus in "Human"

stultus — Thu, 15 May 2025 12:20:09 +0000

Report overlooked mentioning the malicious machines that could potentially create harmful humans, corrupt societies, incite conflicts, and disrupt harmony.

New comment by stultus in "Janayugom, a Indian daily newspaper, has migrated completely to Free Software"

stultus — Tue, 12 Nov 2019 06:30:23 +0000

They weren't using Unicode at all. Instead they were using 'prehistoric' fonts patched by changing the glyphs in ASCII fonts(100s of them). This too without proper conventions. They way to convert these to Unicode is by creating character maps in a font-by-font fashion.

New comment by stultus in "Ask HN: Personal Library Manager?"

stultus — Wed, 08 May 2019 07:33:45 +0000

Happy Calibre user here. works like a charm.

DON'T PUT ALL Your EGGS IN ONE WIKIPEDIA

stultus — Sun, 20 May 2018 10:49:41 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.learnlearn.in/2015/08/dont-put-all-your-eggs-in-one-wikipedia.html?m=1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17112178

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by stultus in "Ascii art – dead or alive?"

stultus — Mon, 19 Feb 2018 11:21:58 +0000

I think it is time for more unicode art. ASCII is so old generation.

The story of a critical information disclosure villain

stultus — Sun, 10 Apr 2016 13:49:07 +0000

Article URL: https://secvibe.com/let-s-agree-that-everything-is-doomed-5d32f8b8c44e#.oza0h4u4l

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11466067

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Information note to the Press on differential pricing- TRAI [pdf]

stultus — Mon, 08 Feb 2016 12:01:31 +0000

Article URL: http://trai.gov.in/WriteReadData/PressRealease/Document/Press_Release_No_13%20.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11057626

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

A toolkit to implement Lean Data Practices at your company

stultus — Fri, 29 Jan 2016 06:32:05 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/mozilla/lean-data-practices

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10993835

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

India's net regulator called FB's FreeBasics campaign 'crude' and 'dangerous'

stultus — Tue, 19 Jan 2016 17:46:02 +0000

Article URL: http://scroll.in/article/802128/indias-internet-regulator-just-called-facebooks-free-basics-campaign-crude-and-dangerous

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10932352

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

The Day I Decided to Travel

stultus — Fri, 15 Jan 2016 06:47:37 +0000

Article URL: http://gemiam.in/the-day-i-decided-to-travel/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10907664

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by stultus in "Telecom Regulatory Authority of India: Letter to Facebook [pdf]"

stultus — Wed, 13 Jan 2016 13:49:51 +0000

common, it is not even a decision. it is merely a remark that TRAI has observed the misleading campaign by fb.

//The goverment intervention was absolutely unnecessary. They should have left it to market to judge. // Regulation is necessary, we cannot let the giants pollute the open internet

New comment by stultus in "Telecom Regulatory Authority of India: Letter to Facebook [pdf]"

stultus — Wed, 13 Jan 2016 06:34:19 +0000

Main Points -----

• First, Facebook tried to mislead it's users into sending emails to TRAI which just said "We support Free Basics".

• After receiving hordes of such emails, TRAI picked on Facebook to communicate with the senders in order to advise them to send emails that contained answers to the consultation. Accordingly, TRAI extended the consultation period by 7 days.

• Facebook responded towards the end of the period that they were unable to reach users. Apparently, they claimed in their letter to TRAI that peoples' support for Free Basics in the emails (somehow) translated to answers to TRAI's questions.

• Facebook claimed that 11 million emails were sent to TRAI through their platform. TRAI says it only received 1.89 million.

• TRAI has declared that it has not received any revised responses.

Telecom Regulatory Authority of India: Letter to Facebook [pdf]

stultus — Wed, 13 Jan 2016 06:33:42 +0000

Article URL: http://trai.gov.in/WriteReadData/PressRealease/Document/PR-12012016.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10892654

Points: 36

# Comments: 13

New comment by stultus in "BitTorrent file system"

stultus — Fri, 08 Jan 2016 06:03:14 +0000

Does it seed the torrent?

State Entrance Exam preparations made easier for india

stultus — Mon, 30 Nov 2015 07:35:47 +0000

Article URL: http://entri.me

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10648265

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Indic Keyboard version 2.0 is out

stultus — Thu, 28 May 2015 09:40:55 +0000

Article URL: http://blog.smc.org.in/indic-keyboard-version-2-0-is-out/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9616969

Points: 10

# Comments: 6

New comment by stultus in "Ask HN: Who are your favorite poets?"

stultus — Tue, 31 Mar 2015 08:15:32 +0000

I think he himself wrote that :) Caleb Madriga. and it is indeed fantastic :)

Mapping efforts in an unsurveyed land

stultus — Tue, 24 Mar 2015 07:06:15 +0000

Article URL: http://blog.smc.org.in/mapping-efforts-in-an-unsurveyed-land-koorachundu/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9255227

Points: 32

# Comments: 3

New comment by stultus in "Was your Gmail compromised in yesterday's attack?"

stultus — Fri, 12 Sep 2014 07:10:37 +0000

for me it shows first two letters of the email itself. I might have used the username itself as a password in some random site, but this is/was not my gmail password :)

New comment by stultus in "Client-side full text search in CSS"

stultus — Wed, 11 Sep 2013 06:41:38 +0000

off - the site is not mobile friendly and I hate that.