| Co-founder | Hasgeek |
| Co-author | Dissent on Aadhaar |
| Previously | Internet Freedom Foundation |
If all KYC is just SMS OTP, then even government-controlled identity systems like Aadhaar are just another OTT, available only through the benevolence of a telecom provider giving you network coverage.
The state also is just a telco OTT. That's where SIM binding is taking us.
That's my vehicle number and I've driven 400 km in the past week, more than my average quarter, so this got my attention – but really? With an APK attachment? We've normalised sideloading this much?
Govt innovation in coercion 🤝 Fraudsters
@artfulsodger Primary discontent: for any tricky requirement, the solution is to use templates, which implicitly assumes all config is handwritten and edited directly, and that tools maintaining their own config are some fringe idea.
For something as simple as config paths varying between Linux, macOS and Windows, Chezmoi adds to the problem instead of solving it.
Soldier of FORTRAN 
