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This was the Agentic payment I tried on Saturday. And it worked!
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This is a paid tweet, but in a different kind of way. I had to pay to try this out 😁
Very very cool implementation of agentic payments, something I would truly feel comfortable using and giving access to my payment credentials
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Hanging with the #Barcamp organizers @iitgn and yes, shoutout to my #Mumbai gang conducting barcamp in full force :) @Sengupta @KunalSheth @prolificd @oddtazz. – at Palaj, India
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I am launching GigInvoicer today 🚀. This is my first ever solo product launch. GigInvoicer is a tool for freelancers in the Netherlands.
I used this app for 5 months as a freelancer myself before launching. It’s built for the freelancers based in the Netherlands to help them with exactly 4 things:
- Tracking work hours
- Client management
- Invoice creation
- VAT reminders
That’s it. The app does nothing else. It works perfectly for those limited usecases.
The app has freemium pricing model so those who are not in the Netherlands can still check it out.
I did everything in this product, yes, including that logo 😀. I built this on Biscuit and my confidence to launch comes from the fact that there is an amazing team behind this product.
Try it out, let me know what you think -> giginvoicer.com/welcome
PS: Only people in the Netherlands will understand the 2nd picture 😀.
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Maharashtra's #Solar Tax Move: A Blow to Consumers
1. The Maharashtra government is preparing to levy an #electricity duty on solar consumers — a segment that chose clean energy to escape rising power costs.
2. Solar consumers are already burdened with Grid Support Charges (GSC), now collected across all categories with systems exceeding 10 KW.
3. GSC is being collected at ₹1.96 per unit from LT customers and ₹1.42 per unit from HT customers, adding directly to electricity bills.
4. A new percentage-based electricity duty structure is being formulated, which could further multiply the financial burden on rooftop solar users.
5. Electricity duty will be levied on both self-consumed (self-generation) and exported power under net-metering — leaving no relief for any solar usage.
6. Even 'Behind-the-Meter' consumers — those using solar power entirely for themselves without exporting anything — will not be spared.
7. Solar consumers' electricity bills have already risen substantially due to previous policy changes, and this new duty would be the final blow. Govt of Maharashtra have costliest rates for electricity in the country.
8. Amendments to Time-of-Day (ToD) regulations have changed peak hours, causing a significant increase in industrial electricity bills.
9. The state government previously hiked the tax on electricity sales by 9.90 paise per unit, further squeezing consumers financially.
10. This move discourages investment in rooftop solar, undermining India's broader renewable energy adoption goals.
11. Large-scale consumers and industries already face a significant financial burden due to the order to collect GSC charges.
12. The proposed duty could force ordinary citizens to abandon solar energy entirely — reversing years of green energy progress.
13. The cumulative effect of GSC + electricity duty + ToD changes creates a triple financial hit on solar consumers simultaneously.
14. By taxing exported #power under net-metering, the government effectively penalises consumers for contributing surplus clean energy to the grid.
15. These policy moves signal a systematic rollback of incentives that originally motivated consumers to invest in solar infrastructure.
16. Consumers who made long-term capital investments in solar panels based on earlier policy assurances now face a betrayal of those promises.
17. Industrial units using solar systems face disproportionate impact, as the combined duty burden may make solar economically unviable for them.
18. Energy expert Sudhir Budhe has raised serious concerns, pointing out that all members of the committee are government officials — raising clear conflict-of-interest issues, as those who stand to benefit from the outcome cannot be expected to make impartial decisions.
19. The government has refused to announce specific names, only vaguely referring to "inclusion of experts," and critics have strongly argued the committee should have comprised truly independent members — making it a body that lacks credibility, transparency, and public accountability from the very outset.
Source: Lokmat Times
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My WhatsApp account, a pro bono source for information about diverse meaningful opportunities, was banned on 11 March. The AI-driven appeals process was arbitrary and unfair.
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Please suggest leads at [email protected], if you have any.
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Our CI dropped from 37 minutes to 9 at 35% lower cost - but after the first round, the compute bill actually went up. We kept iterating until both numbers moved the right way.
90 days, 57 major changes across 1,303 files at @DiversioHQ while Optimo delivery continued in parallel. What we learned about the hidden queue, mixing Claude + Codex, and where the real multiplier came from.
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Just received a Profession Tax notice asking why we didn’t file returns from 2017 onwards. Slight problem: the org in question legally started in 2022. Now I’m drafting a formal clarification to explain that we were not non compliant, we simply did not exist. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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No we're not racist.
Here's what: I love Zomato and Phonepe apps, which are built by Indian founders, and I have them on my phone, but I don't want #SancharSaathi .
I chose those apps. I should have the option of choosing which apps I want and which I don't. I trust Zomato and Phonepe. Zomato and Phonepe have earned my trust. When Zomato got hacked a decade ago, they owned up to it. I trusted Paytm once. I don't anymore. That's the way it is.
I do not trust a government that is constantly forcing me to give up my data, get Aadhaar for my baby, link it to an Apaar ID, makes disingenuous arguments, lies about aadhaar data leakage (remember Rachna Khaira's story in the Tribune?). That is why I don't want a government or government backed app permanently on my personal device. It's why I don't want digiyatra, ondc, bhim, aarogya setu, digilocker, sanchar saathi (as much as I respect Amit Ranjan who built digilocker).
The government has earned my distrust.
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More bad news for mobile phone users in India (after SIM binding): Our government is mandating a government app (sanchar saathi) on every new phone, permanently, Reuters reports.
Will be pushed to your phone via OTA. New smartphones need to have it. Users cannot delete it. This is a first. India has never before required an unremovable state app on every device. Russia does btw, with its MAX Messenger (started September 2025).
A few comments regarding this:
1. Sanchar Saathi is a lost phone tracker, but if it gets embedded with no possibility of removal, it becomes a government tracker on your device.
IF the government is allowed to get away with this, what’s next? A mandatory digital ID app? Digiyatra forcefully installed on each device? An app that disables VPNs or tracks your app and browser history? An app that sends copies of your messages to the government once a month?
Once the OS layer is opened to the state, it doesn’t close.
2. Legally, one can argue that your mobile phone is your personal space, and this is an invasion of your personal space.
It’s where we have our most private conversations. Exchange sensitive information with people we trust.
How do we know this app isn’t used to access files and messaging on our device, which is unencrypted on device? Or a future update won’t do that? This is clearly an invasion of our privacy.
3. Remember how the government exempt itself from much of the Data Protection Law. This explains why.
The Data Protection Law will make private companies more accountable and the Indian government less accountable.
4. Bloatware is already an issue with some phones (It’s why I don’t use Samsung). Now there’s more, and this time the government is forcing bloatware. I guess we’ll all have to root our phones now. When you buy a phone with bloatware, you're choosing to buy it with bloatware. This is different.
5. The way things work with India’s Department of Telecom, there was no public consultation, the order wasn’t disclosed. Just forced. This is dictatorial in nature. If they get away with this, more will follow.
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Please scrap the TIUE regulation @narendramodi . This SIM binding thing is a mess, and goes against what your government said when telecom act was passed.
Two things here:
1. When he was telecom minister and the telecom act was passed, @AshwiniVaishnaw had assured that OTTs were out of the ambit of the law. Despite this, DoT issued the TIUE regulation a few months ago which gave it regulatory power over online services that use mobile numbers.
2. This regressive SIM binding ditective has been issued without a public consultation or feedback. Just blanket directive. This goes against the governments policy of public consultations.
Supid policies get made when you don't incorporate feedback. We need better people at DoT.
SIM binding for WhatsApp, telegram, and other messaging and social media apps mandated by India's Department of Telecommunications.
Can't use your account if the SIM you registered with isn't in the device.
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cc @aseemmanchanda
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last time i was doing this depth of technical work was to figure out why my mutual fund SIP was failing even though i set up directly with the AMC without involving any upi autopay or nach mandate back in 2023.
after long knee-deep research from error logs in the console of AMC’s website, found the PAN was sent in lowercase and this mismatch which led the bank to reject the SIP request sent from AMC website.
nobody from both (bank & AMC) customer support said this issue and told the same template, “try again 3-5 business days later” and when i confronted them with console logs, they said “thanks for bringing to your notice” and it took 3 months to fix, by the time i switched to new fund!
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This is very interesting. And only someone like @Sengupta can go to such depths to figure out this issue
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Nicely caught @jnd We had a similar issue when this was enabled in the payment portal for NRIs making third party payments. Some genius went ahead and enable name match with data coming from other apis. If the other api failed they made rule to pass dummy values. And then made the rule that X% of the name matches allow payment as surname and name and all are jumbled sometimes. And in dummy values added AtoZ. So any name comes it would match a certain number of alphabet and allow payment. This got caught when we had to issue repat letter for money to go back to NRI account and saw source of payment was third party. Dug all and got this. Had to manually ask for proofs for all third party payments and add in system for audit purpose.
It's been long so some details maybe idhar udhar so don't hold me k not possible and blah blah. Just reminded me of such a incident :)
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We will release a detailed video on Gandhi Jayanti, October 2, 2025, addressing our issues with Customs from January to now.
We met top authorities from August to September; harassment increased afterward, as they aim to silence us.
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We faced something very disturbing in #Bengaluru yesterday. @peakbengaluru @siddaramaiah @narendramodi @BlrCityPolice @CPBlr
Our right to practice our religion #hinduism was disturbed. #DurgaPuja site was vandalized by few drunkard hooligans because it's not "kannada culture".
Before I continue with the details, let me be clear, I'm not part of the committee, and they've not requested me to post anything. They're dealing with it in their own peaceful way, I'm here just sharing my experience. And I'm going to delete this post, if my family's safety and well-being is challenged (which I very much fear at the moment).
This is going to be long, so brace it.
Some background to start. So, in the gated township I stay in, there's a Bengali Association, which organises Durga Puja, this is their 3rd year.
They do it, in an open ground within the township. There's few stalls around the ground, most by locals, and there's one Main Puja mandapa and one stage for cultural events (no big celebrities, just by people who live around), just as happens in any community Durga Puja.
Yesterday was Sasthi (6th day of #Navratri / Durga Puja), when most of the Bengali Mother's are on fast.
Another thing to note before we start is, all the stalls, posters, banners, music performance and everything was according to Karnataka legal requirements & guidelines, and the organisers had all the permissions.
Now, yesterday evening, Puja was going on in the mandapa, and in the stage, directly opposite the mandapa, a local #Blr band was playing some music (a mix of Bengali, Hindi, Kannada & even Tamil). The band performed a song from #KGF just before the vandalism.
In between all the music and puja and celebration, suddenly few hooligans led by a completely drunk woman (who was reeking with the foul smell of liquor), came went on the stage and started tearing off wires and throwing mics etc towards the audience. Now something important to note here: the front few rows were occupied only by kids and elderly. When someone said kids will get hurt, that woman shouted that's their intention (in kannada, someone translated for me).
A few good samaritan locals went and tried to talk to them to understand their point and to discuss. They said, Durga Puja is not their culture, and no other songs except kannada songs are allowed to be played in Karnataka. Then they started tearing off sponsor posters, and vandalising stalls (these stalls had banners written in kannada, menu/pricing in english). A lot of the stall owners were local kannada people only, and they tried to communicate with these hooligans to make them stop and discuss their demand, in retaliation, these hooligans destroyed their items and tore off their banner/poster which was majorly in Kannada language (as you can see in the pictures below).
They then started marching towards the mandapa where Puja was being performed. The good Samaritan kannadigas and the vendors then blocked their way, and the organisers requested them not to touch the devasthana. Thankfully, good sense finally prevailed, meanwhile the Police finally arrived and took them out, not before them threatening the organisers to stop doing Durga Puja.
Now my question, are we in some country where we are not allowed to practice our religion?
Can't we speak and celebrate our own language and culture, in our own country, while respecting and celebrating the local language as well?
Is this the inclusivity in the diversity, the idea of India we celebrate?
Tomorrow, will we be attacked if we speak in our mother tongue within the family on the roads?
Will they demand not to celebrate garwa, Ganesh Chaturthi etc next?
If they can attack kids and elderly & even local kannadigas, in the festival of inclusivity and joy, celebrating #GoddessDurga, and then walk off scott free, then what's next?
#WhoIsSafe?
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Even industry flagged concerns, mafia won though
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NEVER renew a policy from @ICICILombard
Their system will NOT pick correct details from their OWN policy about to expire, and then ask for an endorsement fee for correcting their mistake.
"policy was self-transacted by the customer through our website"
Up your arse
Now you're asking me to pay DOUBLE the *endorsement premium* for mistake at your end to copy the correct RTO details from a policy previously issued by yourself?
How fucking shameless, greedy, unethical you have to be @ICICILombard ?
See you at higher level of escalations.
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Even by @StarHealthIns 's exacting standards, this is pretty extreme
Dear smart people of the internet, pray advise me on how I can bring clarity to the good folks at @StarHealthIns?
I seem to have asked them a question so perplexing and unique that they have spent the past month putting together such an inspiring response.
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It's not a bug, but a feature.
1300 challan per day and authorities were happily collecting same w/o wondering what leads to such abnormally high numbers.
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