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The article misses some more context.

1. The escalation intensified after tweets by prominent ministers and fucntionaries of the ruling government were marked as "manipulated media" 2. The IT Ministers and opposition partys accounts were locked for copyright infringement. 3. The govt wants twitter to comply on removing content and users critical of govt policies.

[1] https://indianexpress.com/article/india/manipulated-media-de...

[2] https://www.news18.com/news/india/copyright-infringement-twi...

[3] https://www.vice.com/en/article/jg8pzp/india-wants-more-cont... https://restofworld.org/2021/how-india-fell-in-then-out-of-l...

People use phones, phones have all the sensors required to 'sense' if the object/person is in motion. Depending on when it is in motion, the phone could partially disbale itself. this could be done by phone makers as a feature "Driving Mode". No need for extra hardware.
not speculation, note that these are just some of the cases that have surfaced and got to the media.

"In India's citizenship test, a spelling error can ruin a family" https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-natio...

"Ex-Soldier Declared "Foreigner" In Assam Released From Detention Centre" https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/mohammad-sanaullah-former-so...

This should be read with USCIRF Report, which recommends US Govt to designate India as 'country of particular concern' https://www.uscirf.gov/annual-reports?country=47
Re:Sketch: Proud to Build a Truly Native Mac App on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @02:10AM (#24915779)
What Sketch is doing in the post is marketing their constraint as their strength.

Some reasons on why Sketch is not a good design tool:

1. Exclusion: Sketch was never cross-platform. There by excluding people. Design is all about inclusion. There have been numerous requests to make sketch available on windows. 2. Apple only: Sketch was made to design stuff for Apple Ecosystem and that mostly remains that way. 3. Cost: Sketch exlcudes people to design basis cost. People measure the cost of sketch as USD 99. However, the real cost is cost of owning a Mac and then owning a Sketch license. Owning a Windows/Linux machine with Figma / Xd is way cheaper and makes the tools of trade accesible to the masses.

As i contrast these with Figma Or XD or even InvisionStudio, the tools of trade are far more accesible to the masses.

A feature based comparison is not helpful as Sketch can catchup to Figma (is already doing so with Sketch Cloud).

A designers take.

Re:Adobe unveils multi-year vision for PDF, introduces Liquid Mode on Thursday September 24, 2020 @02:19AM (#24575813)
This is a good step forward to improve the consumption of PDFs. https://www.nngroup.com/articles/pdf-unfit-for-human-consump...
I have known P2 since it was a theme. What i dislike is that now, WordPress has stopped development on the orignal p2 theme which could be self hosted. How much of the hosted p2 is different than the theme ? No idea. https://wordpress.org/themes/p2/

This is what i believe goes against the open principles evangelized by WordPress.

Re:iPhones are hard to use on Monday October 29, 2018 @11:23AM (#18328231)
Completely agree with the objective usability points mentioned in this.

This is what Bruce Tognazzini and Don Norman both of whom were first few interface designers are Apple, also wrote the Human Interface Guidelines. https://www.theverge.com/2015/11/16/9743996/apple-designer-i...

https://www.fastcompany.com/3053406/how-apple-is-giving-desi...

and also later Don Norman independently

I love it. I am a Designer and its on my list to re-design my portfolio site, which i want to look like a wireframe. I will definitely explore this.
Re:Measuring UX with Google HEART Framework on Friday November 10, 2017 @10:38AM (#15670524)
I would love to apply this simple yet effective framework for a Non-Enterprise application. The EAR of this hEARt has no significance in this equation. Engagement for Enterprise Application is Forced, Enterprise execs Buy Products and make the people under them live with it. Adoption: on similar lines to Engagement. Retention: Enterprise, the retention is not to be questions, users are locked-in till the time the application is paid for.
Re:The Booming Japanese Rent-A-Friend Business on Thursday November 09, 2017 @10:43AM (#15663309)
Familia 1996

'Santiago wakes up like any other morning. He goes down to the kitchen and his whole family is waiting for him: it's his birthday. They all sing "Happy Birthday to You" and give him presents. But when he opens the present of his youngest son, he gets angry and says he doesn't like it. The boy starts crying and saying that he loves him, but Santiago answers that he doesn't believe him and he tells the boy that he is fired and that he wants another son, who is thinner, who doesn't need glasses and who resembles him more.'

Re:YC’s Essential Startup Advice on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @03:21AM (#15336822)
Matches with a lot of practical thoughts shared by dhh and jason in "Re-work"
Interesting, they are basically Trains running vertically switching tracks.
Make sure you do a fivesecondtest.com for your landing page. Thats a make or break. Everything follows after whats the first impression.
All good... but as someone else said. The accessibility for the webpage needs a proper fix.
Re:Show HN: Online design feedback tool on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @05:00AM (#14846261)
Interesting solution, 1. How do you plan to work out with others providing the same solution ? (InVision, RedPen, etc) 2. Suggestion: Allow visitors to experiment quickly to know what tool does, ask for signup later (when user tries to leave)
Re:Still locked out of my AWS account on Friday July 07, 2017 @11:46AM (#14719301)
Expected from the earths most customer centric company. Here in India, my first order at Amazon was a fraud done by Amazon with its JV firm CloudTail. tl dr: Amazon Fulfilled product sold at fake discount and MRP mentioned on site was higher than printed MRP.

https://medium.com/@snaushads/my-first-order-at-amazon-in-5c...

Re:Xperia Touch makes any surface interactive on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @04:52AM (#14399830)
Nothing new here, POC concepts already done, concepts and code open sourced 5 years ago. Just new packaging with form. http://www.pranavmistry.com/projects/sixthsense/#ABOUT
How about using Squat Toilet and do the Grok Squat a part of daily routine than a conscious effort...

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