I genuinely want to thank each and every person who made this happen. It has been locked for years and finally I can make it the way I want.

THANK YOU.

I have two separate Jio plans, one for voice calls and one for data. So my voice calls plan expired last Sunday and I haven’t recharged it with a new plan yet.

Today I received a call from an unknown number threatening to recharge soon, else my sim will deactivate at 6 pm and someone else will be allocated my sim number.

How is this legal and how do such scammers even get our number and info about plan expiry?

Anyone else who has received such calls?

Edit: I have added the voicemail recording of this person's threat over call in the comments.

I want to bring to the attention of Indian users the behaviour of Icedrive’s founder and CEO, James Bressington.

Screenshots from Icedrive’s official community forum show him posting a caricature of an Indian customer who complained about Icedrive on Trustpilot. The illustration prominently features the Indian flag and uses exaggerated, stereotypical imagery, accompanied by the caption “Buy my mousemat”.

Publicly ridiculing a customer using imagery invoking their national identity is deeply disrespectful and raises serious concerns about the company’s attitude towards Indian customers.

I find this particularly disturbing coming from the founder and CEO of a company that serves customers internationally.

My advice to fellow Indians: Think carefully before trusting Icedrive with your money and personal data. Research the company’s leadership and customer-treatment practices before purchasing its services.

Sharing these screenshots so prospective Indian customers can make an informed decision.

Context : Icedrive recently cancelled several Lifetime accounts recently violating the terms. Those who were objecting/retaliating in the icedrive community were left with deleted accounts and empty refund promises. They are attacking Indians as they think Icedrive subred mod is an Indian. I purchased 10TB lifetime account with them in 2023 Black Friday sale for 749USD. In Nov 2026, Icedrive sent a vague mail implying Lifetime accounts will incur monthly charges. There was a huge backlash in the Icedrive community and I was a mere spectator until JimmyB (James Bressington CEO Founder) stated we could raise backdated refund requests. Trusting his words, I raised a support ticket and posted in the forum a ticket has been raised. Jimmy marked it "refunded" and deleted my account without any email or prior notification. Sad part is he falsely marked my account refunded. So I told him I had not received refund intimation or a refund. He simply suspended my account and several others'accounts. Tickets went unanswered. Mails to support unresponsive. Until we took to reddit subreds and Trustpilot seeking justice and he immediately resorted to bigotry. I have written to Gibralter Regularly Authority, OFT, Stripe, My credit card provider( pls note they will not entertain complaints from multiple accounts. Trustpilot to G2 they thoroughly verify who is reviewing. One cannot simpyl create multiple accounts here to review)

I don't want this BS, Play Protect!

This app is literally recommended by a famous YouTuber and I tried to download it, but Play Protect blocked without me being able to install it anyway.

https://keepandroidopen.org

People on LinkedIn and Reddit always talk about toxic managers and heartless team leads. For the first eight years of my career, I used to read those posts and nod along. Then I turned 34, bought a 2BHK in Pune on a 20-year floating home loan, had a baby daughter, and became the bad guy myself.

I’m not writing this to ask for sympathy. I just want to put it down somewhere because I certainly can't tell my wife or my friends at work.

Last year, I was leading a seven-member backend module for a UK retail banking client at a mid-tier IT firm in Hinjewadi. In my team, there was a 24-year-old junior developer named Saurabh. He had joined us from a tier-3 college in Amravati.

Saurabh wasn't the fastest coder in the team, and his spoken English on client calls was a bit hesitant, so the UK product owner barely knew his name. On paper, he looked average. But anyone who actually checked our Git repository knew he was the backbone of the maintenance queue. If a batch job failed at 10 PM on a Friday, I didn't have to follow up with him twice. He would quietly fix the script, update the tracker, and drop a message on WhatsApp saying, "Done bhaiya, you can log off."

He called me bhaiya when we weren't on official calls. Last Diwali, when he went home, he brought back homemade chivda in a plastic container for my desk because I had once mentioned I missed home snacks.

In November, our UK client lost a major regional contract and decided to cut the offshore vendor budget by 30% before the end of Q4.

My Delivery Manager, Rakesh, called me into a small meeting room on the fourth floor on a Tuesday afternoon. He closed the door, didn't even open his laptop, and told me straight up: our seven-member pod was being cut down to five from January 1st. One person from QA was already moving to another account. I had to give him one developer's name from my team to be moved to the central bench by Friday.

In our company at that time, everyone knew what "moving to the central bench in Q4" meant. If you weren't mapped to a billable project within 30 days, HR called you in and asked you to put down your papers voluntarily in exchange for two months' basic pay.

There were only two junior developers in my pod within that billing bracket: Saurabh and Nikhil.

Nikhil had joined eight months ago. He was sharp in client meetings, spoke confidently, and more importantly, his maternal uncle was a Vice President in the healthcare vertical of our same company. Technically, Nikhil logged off at 6:00 PM sharp every day and left his buggy unit tests for Saurabh to clean up.

When I told Rakesh that Nikhil had the lowest commit history and the highest bug reopen rate, Rakesh just looked at me over his glasses. He didn't mention Nikhil's uncle. He didn't have to.

He just said, "The client remembers Nikhil from the demo calls. And look, they are also questioning why a five-member pod needs a dedicated non-coding Team Lead at your billing rate. I am fighting to keep your role billable in the new SOW. Don't make this difficult for me. Send me the performance matrix by Thursday evening with Saurabh in the bottom quartile."

I walked back to my desk feeling sick to my stomach.

That night, I sat at my dining table till 2 AM after my wife and daughter went to sleep. I opened my banking app. My SBI home loan EMI was ₹46,500 a month. My daughter had had minor breathing issues when she was born, so our savings were barely ₹1.8 lakhs. The job market for 10+ years of experience in legacy Java was completely frozen. If Rakesh pushed me to the bench instead, I had no backup.

For two days, I tried to convince myself that maybe I could get Saurabh absorbed into a friend's project in another tower. I called three other leads I knew. All of them had hiring freezes.

On Thursday at 5:30 PM, Rakesh pinged me on Teams: Send the sheet. Need to lock the ramp-down list with HR.

I opened the Excel file. To put someone in the bottom quartile for a client ramp-down, you can't just write their name; you have to write a justification in the remarks column so HR has documentation if the employee disputes it.

My hands were literally cold on the mouse. Against Saurabh’s name, under the "Communication & Client Visibility" and "Proactive Ownership" columns, I changed his ratings from 4 to 2. In the remarks column, I typed: Requires frequent hand-holding on complex business logic and lacks independent client-facing skills.

Every single word of that sentence was a lie. And I hit send.

Five minutes later, Saurabh came to my desk carrying his coffee mug and asked if I could help him check an API timeout issue before he left for the day. I couldn't even look at his face. I kept my eyes glued to my monitor, pointed at a line of code, and told him I was busy with a management deck.

When the release mail went out the next week, HR told him it was a routine client budget cut. Because managers don't share the internal Excel sheet with the employee, Saurabh had no idea what I had written.

On his last day in our project bay before moving to the bench area on the ground floor, he actually came to my cubicle to thank me. He was genuinely worried about how he would pay his sister's college fees in Amravati if he didn't find another project in a month, and he still asked me for advice.

"Bhaiya, you gave me good ratings in mid-year, right?" he asked quietly, standing beside my chair. "So RMG should pick up my profile quickly for internal interviews, na?"

I swallowed hard, looked at my keyboard, and lied to his face again. "Yes, Saurabh. Don't worry. Just keep upskilling on Spring Boot, I'll also talk to RMG."

I didn't talk to RMG. You can't recommend someone to Resource Management after officially marking them as a low performer on the release portal.

Thirty-five days later, his Teams status permanently turned to "Offline." A colleague told me at tea break that HR had asked him to resign. I didn't call him. What was I supposed to say? I muted his status updates on WhatsApp because I didn't have the guts to see if he was struggling.

That was eleven months ago. My job stayed safe. My EMIs went through on the 5th of every month without a single bounce. I even got an 8% hike in the April cycle for "smoothly managing the team transition."

Last Saturday, I went to Phoenix Marketcity with my wife and daughter to buy winter clothes for the baby. While my wife was in a store, I went to the food court to grab a bottle of water.

Saurabh was standing near the McDonald's counter in a blue polo t-shirt, waiting for an order with two other guys his age. He was wearing a lanyard from a smaller analytics company in Kharadi.

Before I could turn around and walk away, he spotted me. His face actually lit up. He walked right over and touched my shoulder.

"Arre, Amit bhaiya! How are you?"

He looked thinner, a little tired, like someone who had been through a rough few months, but he was smiling. He told me he had been unemployed for four months after leaving our company, had to borrow money from a cousin to survive in Pune, and finally joined this Kharadi firm at a slightly lower salary than what he was making with us.

Then he looked at my daughter in the stroller, smiled, and said, "Honestly bhaiya, if you hadn't supported me in that first year and taught me how the production scripts worked, I wouldn't have cleared the technical round here. Thank you."

My wife joined us a minute later, and I introduced him as "a very bright junior from my old team." We stood there making polite small talk for three minutes. When he left, my wife said, "What a sweet boy. It's nice that juniors still respect you so much."

I sat in the basement parking lot inside my car for ten minutes before starting the engine, telling my wife I was replying to an urgent office mail.

I didn't ruin his life completely—he found another job, and he's surviving. And I protected my family when my back was against the wall. That’s the excuse I tell myself every time I think about that Excel sheet.

The truth is, the system doesn't force you to become a monster overnight. It just puts your ₹46,000 EMI on one side of the scale and a 24-year-old boy's career on the other, and lets you discover how cheaply you'll sell your own decency.

Source - TCS confessions FB page

I was thinking about how much our payment habits have changed in India. From small tea shops to street vendors, almost everyone accepts UPI now.

I barely carry cash these days. But sometimes when UPI or banking services are down, you suddenly realise how dependent we've become on them.

Curious how others feel about this. Do you still carry some cash as a backup, or have you completely switched to digital payments?

https://x.com/alanrmacleod/status/2121411818341978417?a

Which mobile network has the most users in your state? 📱

From Jio and Airtel to Vi, every telecom operator has a different level of popularity across India.

Source :-TRAI

https://www.trai.gov.in/node/18830

What We Are Covering :

• Transformer Architecture: Deep diving into the foundational mechanics.

• KV Cache: Understanding memory bottlenecks and retention.

• PagedAttention: How virtual memory principles apply to LLM hosting.

• Continuous Batching: Optimizing throughput and reducing iteration-level latency.

• vLLM Architecture: A complete overview of state-of-the-art serving frameworks.

> more about foundation visit once: https://before-gpu-engineering[dot]github[dot]io/BEFORE-GPU-ENGINEERING/toc [dot] html

It’s a first principles study group aimed at beginner to intermediate levels, focused on deeply understanding how LLM inference and GPU optimization work under the hood.

I plan to wait until we have at least 10 participants before setting up the WhatsApp group and coordinating meeting times across time zones. I will keep you updated as more people join in DM!

PS: This all free and No, there's no paid course after this, this is not an edtech not a promotion or any other possibilities that fantasies can fetch. I as in the OP isn't the mentor here exactly, I am simply a junior asked to look out and post.

So, just out of curiosity I bought this book to understand more about chips and how it's impacting the world around us. As I started delving deeper into the book, I felt that it would help a lot more if I understand what a chip is on fundamental level.

How does it exactly function? Why smaller chip is more efficient? Why are there different kinds of chips for different tasks? What is transistors? How does transistors work? So many more questions.

Any videos/books/article recommendation would work, that would help a non tech layman like me understand easily.

Thankyou :)

Hello, I got a sudden increase in sc@m or fr@ud calls from sp@m nos on my no, since last few days. Imagine one every half an hour. I keep blocking them, only to get calls from other sp@m nos. Idk what I did to warrant this? I recently initiated contact with NoBr0ker and then when they started pestering on calls with unwarranted info, I blocked them. And I had requested for a Sc@pia c@rd and then did not complete the applic@tion because the trav€l plan fell through. Do these c0mpanies sell out data? I'm not sure why I'm getting so many fr@ud loan, p0licy, c@rd calls all of a sudden.

I made this air purifier for my bedroom in mumbai. Been testing it and it does a huge difference especially for my sleep.
I don’t have a aqi meter yet but this is the first step :)

I wish to make a nice body may be 3d print so if anyone has done a nice body share the file id like to 3d print it

Link to fan https://amzn.in/d/0bTL5d00
Link to hepa filter https://amzn.in/d/0daoB4Ab

Because of this AI driven chip shortage... The prices of smartphones have increased at least 30% in the last 6 to 9 months. Anything that goes up drastically has to come down. It's a question of when.

I bought it from a reseller but the adapter I got is not working properly. Its rating is 12V 5A. So If I use this adapter, after switching on the main supply, i need to press the power button on the enclosure within 2 sec. Beyond that the enclosure doesn't power up. Also, if it turns on within those 2sec, then it keeps working normally without any issue.

So I need to buy a replacement and I wanted to know the exact rating on the one that officially comes with this enclosure. Please help if someone is using this device.

...

Is tech improving in India? Are more people getting tech careers?

Thanks for the time.

So I finally got IPv6 working on my Airtel fibre connection with my own router, and without bridge mode. Posting the steps in case it helps someone stuck in the same spot.

Some background: I had a TP-Link router behind the Airtel box, but it was running as an access point, so my whole network was IPv4 only. Bridge mode seemed like the obvious fix, but from what I had read, Airtel does not make that easy anymore. One person on TechEnclave says Airtel asked him to get a static IP to have bridge mode back: https://techenclave.com/t/431427

Heads up: my Airtel router is the DZS H660GM-A (also sold as Dasan H660GM-A). That is the only one I have tried this on, so yours might look different.

What I changed on the Airtel router (just one thing)

• Went to Advanced Setup > WAN Connections > WAN0

• Switched PPPoE Pass-through from Deactivated to Activated and hit Save

• Left everything else alone (IP Version on IPv4, VLAN 100, MTU 1492)

• Copied the PPPoE username (it ends in airtelbroadband.in) and the password from that same page

What I did on my TP-Link

• Plugged Airtel's LAN1 into the TP-Link's WAN port

• Switched it from Access Point to Wireless Router mode

• Set the internet connection to PPPoE with the same username and password

• Turned on IPv6, picked PPPoE, ticked "Share the same PPPoE session with IPv4", and set the LAN side to SLAAC+RDNSS

That was it. test-ipv6.com now gives me 10/10.

Stuff that did not work, so you do not waste time on it

• Bridge mode: WAN0's connection type is greyed out, and when I tried making a bridge on WAN2 it just said "Fail to create WAN - WAN internet is already existed". There is a Delete button on WAN0, but I was not brave enough to try it and risk being offline until Airtel fixed it.

• IPv6 on the Airtel router alone: I set WAN0 to Dual and it did hand out IPv6 addresses, but a PC plugged straight into it still got 0/10. Ping said "Destination net unreachable" and tracert died at the router itself, so I think the Airtel box just has no IPv6 route out. Letting my own router dial its own session gets around that.

One more thing: since your router is now facing the internet directly, double-check that Remote Management is off.

If you have a different Airtel router, I would like to hear whether the same setting exists on yours.

I was literally suggesting a watch to someone in a sub and the next moment I opened insta, I literally got suggested few watches through ads even though I didn't search for any watch anywhere except reddit