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Sounds like an Indian wedding ... upper-middle class indians now spend around Rs. 50 lakhs (around USD 55,555) for a wedding here in South India.

You mean a Prime Minister, right? The President only came to the aid of the idiot ally who keeps opening multiple-fronts to a war just so that he can hold on to power and not go to jail, even as he ke…

The west believes "Data is the new oil". The west can't compete with China or India in the amount of data their citizens can generate because they are the world's most populous cou…

Do you lock your house or car and permanently handover the keys to some stranger, who you then have to depend on always to lock or unlock it for you?

What you say is insightful and true. The west, America in particular, has a genuine problem today with its politics of polarising people to extremes. It partly has to do with how politics is done onli…

While there are reports that Iran has been charging a toll on some ships from "hostile" countries, there is no such report suggesting that the French, Japanese and Omani ships cited in this …

Contrary to popular belief, Iran's most important arms supplier has been China, and not Russia, in the last decade. To preserve its ties with Israel and Saudi Arabia, Russia has sometimes comprom…

You are being downvoted for stating the truth - you are absolutely right that the Democrats too would have fully supported Israel's attack on Iran. Let us not forget that Biden played a major rol…

How is this any different from betting on when Israel or America would invade Iran? Wouldn't Iranians be dying in an invasion?

It isn't just about monopoly or unfair competition. This can also be covered under consumer rights - the Right to Repair. No OS provider should be allowed to dictate what software you can or not …

AV1 may also have patent issues - AV1’s open, royalty-free promise in question as Dolby sues Snapchat over codec - https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/03/av1s-open-ro…

I've read that NATO radars in Turkey were equally important to provide early warning to Israel. It's not far-fetched to assume that US radars in the middle-east did too. US THAAD in Israel w…

They can afford to. People are forgetting that unlike Russia, the US isn't in a wartime economy mode . Iran isn't a threat to world's most powerful military. And it's not as if Ir…

Here you go - https://docs.jami.net/en_US/user/jami-distributed-network.ht... . And you can also use it on a LAN without internet - https://docs.jami.net/en_…

There's always https://textpattern.com/ which is also as old as Wordpress (older?) and better coded. (See also t https://textpattern.org/ ).…

What a run of bad luck for Ukraine, starting with Trump's re-election! If their luck continues to run out like this, Orban could also get re-elected and the calculated and risky shit-storm Ukrain…

Is China really dependent on middle-east oil? I read that they had been diversifying in preparation for an energy resource fight for some time now. For example, they've massively invested in Sola…

Iran is also playing its own Uno card here by saying that it would consider allowing some oil and gas shipments through the Strait if they have been bought with Chinese Yuan, than the US dollar. ( Th…

You are right, I hadn't considered that aspect.

Yes, how notarisation works currently on the Apple platforms is designed more for Apple's benefits than an Apple developer's or user's interest. When notarization can only be done throu…

Only if they had a robots.txt for their site.

> they can’t be bothered to get a developer account and run a one line command I applaud that they didn't kowtow to Apple's attempt to exercise control over their app and extort money f…

In case anyone's wondering what "raw" cheese is, apparently it's cheese made from unpasteurised milk.

While I agree with you that Americans (on both sides) are increasingly getting frustrated with American politicians' near-blind devotion to Israel, it will not translate to public eschewing of Is…

Since you are knowledgable about this, do you have any idea what happened to Mirasol technology? I was fascinated by those colour e-paper like displays, and disappointed when plans to manufacture it w…