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Joe Daniel retweeted
Introducing CrownUI
While building CrownOS, we needed a UI framework designed for native Linux Wayland applications.
This is the foundation we are building on, and there is much more to come.
github.com/crown-os/crownui
cargo add crownui
It was a rare gathering on egocentric data capture, something I have experienced for the first time! Was fun
met some really cool folks at @humynlabs Indiranagar Office today. Cool initiative to bring people from the space together to discuss papers and ideas. @SRSabbella led the discussion today and took the time out to speak with everyone who had questions.
Joe Daniel retweeted
So for the people who dont wana 'type-type' here is a 'click-click' interface for customising the Kreo Hive 65 and the AULA F75 keyboards on linux.
github.com/PushkarDesai-06/K…
Checkout the new GUI, kept it minimal and no fuss :)
Made this a while ago, If you own a @kreosphere Hive 65, here something for you :
github.com/PushkarDesai-06/K…
Kreo didnt bother to make the audio mode on Linux, so I made it :
ps : Also works with @Aula_gear F75
Visit the repo for the video demo and more customization details :)
Joe Daniel retweeted
I can’t help but feel like mourning the loss of the “2020” Roadster revealed in 2017. @Tesla had 9 years to have been producing this version of the car and by the time the “new new one” comes out it’ll have been 11 years… that’d be a long-toothed refresh anyway. Bummer 😕
The sound engineering, the lighting, and finally the car/rocket itself - so peak! I will miss the original roadster 2 design tho :')
Joe Daniel retweeted
We started building @Scaler_SST now almost four years back, to build a space for 18 year old, who love to build and solve hard problems.
fast forward today, these kids inspire me! There are kids who played a key role in building some of the fastest billion dollar cos in India.
I'm confident this bunch of dreamers, square pegs in the round holes, will play a big role in making India an AI economy.
And this space is where a lot of impactful innovation and beautiful memories are being made!
Lucky to be surrounded by some of the most grounded, ambitious and hard working young people I know!
Ad Astra!
Joe Daniel retweeted
Food for thought
The Election Commission is an independent constitutional body.
Citizens are demanding the resignation of the Chief Election Commissioner.
Then why is the ruling dispensation-Executive intervening with police force, blockades, and intimidation?
The Executive has no locus standi in this matter beyond ensuring that protests remain peaceful.
So why this desperation?
Why the heavy-handed response?
Think hard. The answer is obvious.
Joe Daniel retweeted
Unfortunately, we are being blocked by certain oligarchs in order to maintain their monopolistic chokehold on the Indian people. You can guess who they are …
This is a crime against the people of India!
India needs @Starlink 🇮🇳
• 11,256 of India’s listed villages still lacked 4G coverage as of May 2026.
• India had 1.093 billion internet subscriptions in March 2026, but only 440.87 million were rural. Rural subscription density was 48.31 per 100 people, compared with 126.80 in urban India.
• BharatNet had laid over 850,000 route-km of fibre and made about 221,000 Gram Panchayats service-ready. However, its Points of Presence were reported operational at only 80,472 Gram Panchayats in June 2026.
• Only 4.26% of India’s internet subscriptions were wired connections in March 2026. Starlink could give underserved communities another route to high-speed broadband.
• Starlink has already built 20 gateway sites in India, according to SpaceX Vice President of Starlink Business Operations Lauren Dreyer, speaking at India Mobile Congress today.
• Starlink says it has developed India-specific security controls designed to keep Indian user data within India.
• Its satellite network could bring high-speed internet to remote villages, mountains and islands where extending fibre or mobile networks is difficult.
• Better connectivity could help rural schools access online learning, clinics offer remote consultations and small businesses reach more customers. Starlink already supports education and healthcare in remote communities internationally.
• Portable Starlink terminals have supported disaster response around the world. They could give Indian emergency teams backup connectivity when floods, earthquakes or storms damage ground networks.
• Direct to Cell could also help ordinary 4G phones connect beyond tower coverage, subject to Indian approvals and mobile operator partnerships.
• The government itself identifies difficult terrain, low commercial viability and infrastructure constraints as reasons for remaining coverage gaps. This is exactly where Starlink could help India reach more people.
• India should complete the remaining clearances and spectrum allocation so Starlink can begin commercial service.
• SpaceX’s Vice President of Starlink Business Operations, Lauren Dreyer, said that Starlink is ready to help achieve Prime Minister Modi’s vision of 100% connectivity across India. She highlighted its potential to connect remote classrooms, support telemedicine and restore connectivity after disasters, adding, “With Starlink, people can get connected within minutes, not years.”
India’s hardest-to-reach communities deserve reliable internet too.
Joe Daniel retweeted
Mark Zuckerberg's 7-year-old daughter told him she wanted to be Taylor Swift when she grew up. He looked at her and said you can't, that's not available to you.
Sounds brutal for a dad to say. But Zuckerberg built a $1.4 trillion company on the exact impulse he just shut down in his own kid, and he understands that impulse better than anyone alive.
There's a French philosopher buried in this story.
René Girard taught at Stanford, and his big idea was that desire is borrowed. You don't independently decide to want a Birkin bag or a corner office or a pop star's life. You see someone else wanting it, and you catch the wanting like a cold. He called it mimetic desire.
One of his students was Peter Thiel. In 2004, Thiel wrote Facebook's first outside check, $500K for about 10% of the company, and he has said Girard is a big part of why he saw the bet. A website where millions of people watch each other's lives is a machine for showing you what everyone else wants. The theory said it would be irresistible. That $500K turned into more than a billion dollars.
Every feature since runs on the same engine. Likes show you what others approve of. Followers show you who others watch. The feed is a 24/7 broadcast of other people's wants.
So when a 7 year old comes home from a concert saying she wants to be Taylor Swift, Zuckerberg isn't hearing a cute dream. He's hearing the force he's monetized for twenty years, pointed at his own kid.
And his answer was the one move Girard said actually breaks the loop. Stop copying the model. Become the model. His daughter thought about it and decided she wants people to want to be like August Chan Zuckerberg instead.
He sells the itch to be someone else to more than 3 billion people a day. The one person he coached out of it was his daughter.
Mark Zuckerberg’s daughter told him she wanted to be like Taylor Swift.
His answer: “You can’t. That’s not available to you.”
He had taken August to a Swift concert. Afterwards, she told him she wanted to be like the singer when she grew up. Most parents would probably smile and encourage the dream. Zuckerberg gave her that answer instead.
In the interview below, he tells the story himself. And his daughter’s response is the part worth hearing.
August thought about it, then decided she wanted to grow up into someone other people would want to be like. Someone called August Chan Zuckerberg.
Her father’s reaction: “Hell yeah.”
Coming from Zuckerberg, that exchange is easy to admire and just as easy to question. There is ambition in wanting to become someone others look up to. There is also a lot of pressure in turning a child’s excitement after a concert into a conversation about becoming exceptional.
She went to see her favorite singer. She came home talking about making her own name.
Would you have answered your daughter the same way?
Joe Daniel retweeted
Made this a while ago, If you own a @kreosphere Hive 65, here something for you :
github.com/PushkarDesai-06/K…
Kreo didnt bother to make the audio mode on Linux, so I made it :
ps : Also works with @Aula_gear F75
Visit the repo for the video demo and more customization details :)
If you haven't heard about theranos 🤣: youtu.be/3CccfnRpPtM?si=6Ovv…
Joe Daniel retweeted
I do hope professors across the IITs in India push back. While my sympathies are with the student and his family, you cannot go after someone for upholding the integrity of an exam. And then cry about brain drain.
Mumbai Police has booked Suryanarayan Dulla, an IIT Bombay faculty member, under multiple sections of the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, along with a charge of abetment of suicide.
thehindu.com/news/national/m…
Joe Daniel retweeted
✨🇨🇳A science teacher in China and their students built a water rocket together. The moment it launched, the kids lit up with joy.
Joe Daniel retweeted
Yaar, who at @WhatsApp is responsible for this shitty sidebar update on the Mac app... There's no way to collapse/hide it either. 🤦♂️🙄
Joe Daniel retweeted
Ayn Rand predicted this
Bernie Sanders, Ro Khanna, and most of hollywood (each worth 10s to 100s of millions) will rabidly insist that Elon is evil simply because he is a billionaire
Yet they are living in one of their 3-4 beautiful mansions and he is living in an airstream so he can work on building superintelligence and employing people
