The need for privacy is always directly propotional to the suppression of free speech in a society

When you try to advocate for more privacy, most individuals come up with the following argument: If you have nothing to hide, why the need for privacy? Now as stupid as that may sound (for the exact reason as why would you even lock your homes when going out if you have nothing to hide there too), that's not the only reason for having privacy.

Systemd-homed is intrusive, glitchy and problematic, it is also not ready yet

Since last few years, there has been a lot of discussion ongoing about the latest incumbent candidate in the systemd family of services called homed. It was supposed to revolutionize the home directory on linux systems and also the way users are managed.

The Android situation yet again proves that Stallman was right

One is often awed and astonished by Richard Stallman's ability to accurately predict the future at such critical junctures when nobody would have even thought about it. In a way, Stallman is like a leading-by-decade stock-market indicator which says exactly what's going to happen in future, if only people care to listen.

Its high time Google starts penalizing bloated sites in order to save the Internet from clogging up

Almost everyone knows and feels nowadays that the wires carrying the bits and bytes that create our online experience are under high amount of stress, and its not just anecdotal anymore. As this NYT article states, ever since COVID-19 started a few months ago, the average internet speed has been gradually degrading all over the world.

Yesterday's Twitter hack may have been just a diversion to some larger hidden mission

When the twitter accounts were found to be compromised yesterday, the Hacker News forum was abuzz with theories but the major question bothering everyone was: Despite having access to some of the most influencial and world renowned people's accounts, all they did was pull a cheap bitcoin scam?

Let's talk about the biggest elephant in the room: Market and information barriers

I came across this interesting reddit thread today where people were discussing capitalism and billionaire monopolies passionately in response to Google's investment in India's Jio. Capitalism would never have been a problem today if the Adam Smith's version was followed instead of the inefficient crony version. People blame capitalism today for existence of inequality as if they both had a direct and causal relationship.

The Android generation needs its Richard Stallman too

We are at a point in history where we cannot take back our privacy or computing control without anything short of a revolution. And who is going to bring that revolution?

Opinion: The only way to end cancel culture is to cancel the cancel culturists

So yesterday, a bunch of prominent left wing influencers including the famous Harry Potter novelist J.K Rowling and the Canadian poet Margaret Atwood signed on something called Harper's open letter against cancel culture. This was already boiling since a very long time but the depth and magnitude of the problem became clear now.

Ghislaine Maxwell turns out to be a seasoned Redditor

This eye catching post was made in the /r/SubredditDrama sub today as a bunch of reddit sleuths suddenly realized that the partner in crimes of renowned sex offender and racketeer Jeffery Epstein may have been a former redditor since as early as 2005.

Analysing the Swift-Kardashian phenomenon and the madness of crowds

As a blogger who likes to keep up with what's trending in the minds of netizens and what's popular and trendy these days, I often head over to Google Trends. And since last several months, two names have almost permanently occupied the top positions on Google Trends: Kim Kardashian and Taylor Swift!

Opinion: Clipboard contents must be auto-encrypted and only the receiving app must be able to read them

We have received some disturbing news reports last week as two major apps namely TikTok and Reddit were caught discreetly peeking at the user's clipboard. This is a grave privacy and security concern because many a times the device's clipboard is used for quick copy-pasting of credentials between two apps.

When the fourth leg starts getting rotten

As the fourth pillar or leg of democracy, media is always given the well-deserved respect by most people. Unlike the businesses who must pass the test of markets or even the politicians who must pass the test of elections or peoples' mandate, we almost always take media for their word, on faith.