I am Chaitanya. I am a designer and cultural worker interested in how the arts get made, funded, governed and sustained. On the side, I build small software projects, care about the open web, and am casually learning a few languages.
The Field Blog is my digital plot of land where technology, art, and the earth intersect.
Instagram will stop encrypting private messages between users from May, after enduring years of criticism from law enforcement and child safety groups over the feature.
They do anything in the name of child safety now except actually keeping children safe.
My biggest use of AI is creating bash and python scripts to generate new folder structures and empty files, so I can start working on tasks I need to do.
I was not a big fan of Brave because of the historical baggage and the need to sit and debloat it even if just once. But now with Brave Origin running as my daily browser I love it a lot! (It is free for Linux users.)
I am amazed at how inaccurate all but one exit poll organisation were in predicting the Tamil Nadu election results. And that one organisation celebrated more for the ‘victory of data science’ than the political party that won.
I think I have started ignoring days completely. I know what today’s date is, but I have no clue what day of the week it is. And honestly, I like that.
“A silent update, nonconsensually pushed by Google, will block every Android app whose developer hasn’t registered with Google, signed their contract, paid up, and handed over government ID.”
Sometimes I forget it is just May right now.
