Re: [Silk] So, what do you think of passkeys?

I toyed with passkeys briefly, and then asked all my digisec friends in our vast signal group if I should bother when I have randomized 20 char passwords in bitwarden and a Titan key for all important logins and got so many differing opinions I decided I would wait till there was consensus. I still

Re: [Silk] AI in Indian Languages (was Re: An introduction and a plea)

a native language LLM is fantastic. That said, a lot can be done > just by unlocking the power of Gen AI for vernacular speakers. > > And rock on, Ameya and Global Voices. Will make a donation. > > Jo > > On Fri, Jul 18, 2025 at 1:57 PM Ameya Nagarajan via Silklist < >

Re: [Silk] AI in Indian Languages (was Re: An introduction and a plea)

e advantage of having many speakers. I'm thinking of efforts more like >> what Danielle Boyer has done: >> >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLRLyt5Ux7I >> >> Cheers. >> Radhika >> >> On Wed, Jul 16, 2025 at 9:33 PM Ameya Nagarajan via Silklist <

Re: [Silk] An introduction and a plea

om/watch?v=KLRLyt5Ux7I > > Cheers. > Radhika > > On Wed, Jul 16, 2025 at 9:33 PM Ameya Nagarajan via Silklist < > silklist@lists.digeratus.in> wrote: > >> Dear Silklisters (S-listers?) >> >> Some of you know me, some of you don't. I'll admit

[Silk] An introduction and a plea

Dear Silklisters (S-listers?) Some of you know me, some of you don't. I'll admit I'm really more a lurker here than a talker, but I am delurking to ask for help. I am the Managing Editor of Global Voices , a non profit that publishes news from the global south in many many languages. Most of our

Re: [Silk] Bangalore Silk Meetup?

We should not even attempt high attendance, everyone who can do the day do it and the next one is the next opportunity Cordially, Ameya Nagarajan (she/her) On Mon, 12 May 2025 at 19:45, Jo Pattabiraman via Silklist < silklist@lists.digeratus.in> wrote:

Re: [Silk] Bangalore Silk Meetup?

Yes, I can do before 23 May and after 15 June. Cordially, Ameya Nagarajan (she/her) On Sat, 10 May 2025 at 17:33, Udhay Shankar N via Silklist < silklist@lists.digeratus.in> wrote: > On Sat, May 10, 2025 at 5:22 PM Caitlin Marinelli via Silklist < > sil

Re: [Silk] Hello, and hello again

Hi John! Extra points for USian :) Welcome back Cordially, Ameya Nagarajan (she/her) On Mon, 24 Mar 2025 at 06:05, John Sundman via Silklist < silklist@lists.digeratus.in> wrote: > Thank you, Thaths. I very much appreciate your endorsement. > > Everyone

Re: [Silk] Splitting the bill

Seconding splitwise, it's really great but lately has begun to do some nonsense about limiting the number of expenses you can add in a day etc because it wants you to pay for premium Cordially, Ameya Nagarajan (she/her) On Wed, 15 Jan 2025 at 10:36, Udha

Re: [Silk] SIlkist's Annual Book Recommendations Thread (2024 edition)

I cannot believe how long this year feels, because my recommendation is a book that I thought I actually read last year, but it was in fact January 2024. It's Doppelganger by Naomi Klein , which has defied description, since it is apparent

Re: [Silk] Founding (and letting go / handing over) passion projects

I think one thing that happens esp with passion projects (used this as shorthand for this kind of thing) is that the founders struggle to let the project change. While others might share a large overlap of your passion behind the project, it's not full. and it's hard to let go while still at the he

Re: [Silk] Exploring pop-up villages: A hello from Berlin

, Cindy Gallop via Silklist wrote: > > https://thenetworkstate.com/ > > > > On Tue, Oct 29, 2024 at 3:16 AM Ameya Nagarajan via Silklist > > wrote: > > > > Hi Yesh! > > I am curious about this notion of networked states. What kind of >

Re: [Silk] Exploring pop-up villages: A hello from Berlin

Hi Yesh! I am curious about this notion of networked states. What kind of state? What kind of network? Sorry, I know this isn't what your email was about but since some of my work looks closely t the problems of networked authoritarianism, especially in the context of nation states, it piqued my cu

Re: [Silk] Splitting the bill

I guess an analog is tu in Hindi which I can never bring myself to use with domestic workers, sticking to the formal form. But we had one once who told me she felt I was alienating her by using the formal form (which I code as respect) and she wanted me to go with tu, which is the most familiar, an

Re: [Silk] Splitting the bill

Yeah I've been the one earning a fraction of the others for years so I would often just have to skip things because I couldn't afford it. Cordially, Ameya Nagarajan (she/her) On Wed, 29 May 2024 at 14:21, Alaric Snell-Pym via Silklist < silklist@lists.di

Re: [Silk] Our own Cory Doctorow features in this story

Yeah, I just ask for more information and some time. I got a call "from customs" saying there was a parcel stuck at customs and I would be fined 1 lakh or something, and they "transferred the call to a FedEx guy" and I said, ok give me the tracking number so I can look it up and get back to you. Im

Re: [Silk] How to write

As someone who writes well when I can bring myself to do it but struggles TERRIBLY to do it heh, I feel the pain of writer's block, and insist on being called an editor not a writer. That said, I do genuinely believe everything is interesting, if you're willing to learn how things work and what mak

Re: [Silk] Visiting India

Seconding the book recommendation. I highly recommend the bombay canteen in mumbai, but i have no idea where it is vis a vis the terminal or how wheelchair accessible it is :( In India accessibility sometimes feels like a facto we actively avoid... Cordially, Ameya Nagarajan (she/her)

Re: [Silk] Splitting the bill

em, because I'm not forcing it on them heh but also that it was better for me and my friendships to assume goodwill and that they would assume goodwill too On Wed, Jan 31, 2024, 03:02 Pranesh Prakash wrote: > On Tue, 30 Jan 2024 at 17:56, Ameya Nagarajan via Silklist < > silklist@l

Re: [Silk] Splitting the bill

I've greatly enjoyed this tangent! Back to payment things, as someone who made a fraction of what her peers did for many many years (until 2023), I've always tried to pay it forward because many of my friends have bought me drinks and dinners and whatnot. As a vegetarian I've been shafted in India

Re: [Silk] Chaotic Politics

OMG love that quote! Gramsci no less hahaha Cordially, Ameya Nagarajan (she/her) On Wed, 17 Jan 2024 at 14:18, Venkatesh H R via Silklist < silklist@lists.digeratus.in> wrote: > Enjoyed this piece. In the last two years or so, I've been steeped in > int

Re: [Silk] A religion for atheists

Love that framing Tomasz Cordially, Ameya Nagarajan (she/her) On Tue, 16 Jan 2024 at 06:17, Tomasz Rola via Silklist < silklist@lists.digeratus.in> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 10:19:58AM -0500, Bob Frankston via Silklist wrote: > [...] > > > > The

Re: [Silk] A religion for atheists

I tend to think of it as a way to fight our demons, most of which are internal in my case, so I call myself a smug Buddhist, which my jokey term for the way I have understood and use Jungian analysis to deal with life and demons. I think that science is pretty clear in that what it proves is true,

Re: [Silk] 2022 Silklist Book Recommendations thread

oh that's on my TBR, i love her other stuff Cordially, Ameya Nagarajan (she/her) On Mon, 18 Dec 2023 at 08:55, Thaths via Silklist < silklist@lists.digeratus.in> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 17, 2023 at 6:44 PM Sharat Satyanarayana via Silklist < > silklist@lis

Re: [Silk] 2022 Silklist Book Recommendations thread

OMG you might be my hero because there just aren't enough Murderbot books. So now I can check out Sarah King! Cordially, Ameya Nagarajan (she/her) On Mon, 4 Dec 2023 at 16:32, Huda Masood via Silklist < silklist@lists.digeratus.in> wrote: > I started re

Re: [Silk] 2022 Silklist Book Recommendations thread

Thank you! I will tell the author, who is a dear friend. And yes, the form is a reverse of cloud atlas :) Cordially, Ameya Nagarajan (she/her) <http://www.linkedin.com/in/ameyann> On Wed, 29 Nov 2023 at 06:56, Thaths wrote: > On Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 10:27 PM Ameya Nagarajan via

Re: [Silk] 2023 Silklist Book Recommendations Thread

Murderbot is AMAZING the 7th book just came out and I almost took a day off work to read it :D They're mostly novellas so you'll breeze through them. I also second Smoke and Ashes which I managed to disappear into while on holiday in Goa, and is also one of the few non fiction books I've been abl

Re: [Silk] One day in Senegal

What a great story! I have always envied people who grew up in the US for having things like the Peace Corps as options :) Cordially, Ameya Nagarajan (she/her) On Sun, 5 Mar 2023 at 19:13, John Sundman via Silklist < silklist@lists.digeratus.in> wrote:

Re: [Silk] Introduction

Hiii Mahima!!! :) Cordially, Ameya Nagarajan (she/her) On Mon, 27 Feb 2023 at 09:22, Mahima Vashisht via Silklist < silklist@lists.digeratus.in> wrote: > Thank you so much for reading and sharing this kind message, Huda. May I > ask which piece you

Re: [Silk] Creatures of our times

h yeah Gaurav that makes a lot of sense I hope that it will be the worship of productivity? I desperately want to say that we treated men and women differently, but sadly even 100 years will not be enough to smash the patriarchy. Cordially, Ameya Nagarajan (she/her)

Re: [Silk] Looking back …

Moving to Bangalore! Cordially, Ameya Nagarajan (she/her) On Sun, 1 Jan 2023 at 17:41, Jim Grisanzio via Silklist < silklist@lists.digeratus.in> wrote: > On 2023/01/01 8:49 PM, Karen Fernandes via Silklist wrote: > > Being non-negotiable about getting 8

Re: [Silk] Silver Anniversary Meet - Preferences

I can do 14 and 21! I think next time the form should allow us to check multiple options, we might see more convergence Cordially, Ameya Nagarajan (she/her) On Thu, 22 Dec 2022 at 15:26, gabin kattukaran via Silklist < silklist@lists.digeratus.in> wrote:

Re: [Silk] 2022 Silklist Book Recommendations thread

Prisoners of Geography is a really great book Ashwin :) I read a LOT of genre fiction, but I also managed to finally (I think) shake my inability to read non genre fiction. I second Alok's recommendation of the Dawn of Everything, and to it I will add Four Seasons in Rome

Re: [Silk] Burnout &c WAS Silklist is back

> > >> and with my youngest child now at a >> school she can walk to so I don't need to do school runs > > > In the US a statement like this would get you jailed, very likely. What a > strange society that has evolved into. > Little niece who is NINE insists on walking to school even in the snow.

Re: [Silk] Silklist is back

Alaric, I'm sorry for your loss <3 I do want to say one thing about burnout: we're all so excited to get over it and start doing the stuff we *want* to do, but in actual fact, burnout is your body and your brain telling you to literally not do anything at all. So don't sweat it if you can't do the

Re: [Silk] Silklist is back

YAS! Cordially, Ameya Nagarajan (she/her) On Tue, 13 Dec 2022 at 09:22, Narayanan Hariharan via Silklist < silklist@lists.digeratus.in> wrote: > Yes! > > On Tue, Dec 13, 2022 at 8:53 AM Udhay Shankar N via Silklist < > silklist@lists.digeratus.in> wrote

[Silk] Re: Silver!

A retreat where we ritually smash the patriarchy? Cordially, Ameya Nagarajan (she/her) On Tue, 16 Aug 2022 at 12:09, Venkat Mangudi - Silk via Silklist < silklist@lists.digeratus.in> wrote: > Yes to all of rhe above. > > On Tue, 16 Aug 2022, 9:39 am Su

[Silk] Re: Too many needles. How do you cope?

My main system is, life is too short, if i'm not engaged, move on. with tabs, every so often i review and close--if I can't remember why it's open, and honestly these days if it's a longread that doesn't need to be a longread i.e. 90% of longreads :D Cordially, Ameya Nagarajan (she/her)

[Silk] Re: how many batteries do you charge daily?

Phone... Kindle every 2 weeks Laptop mostly plugged in, drains maybe once a week? fitbit thingy once a week Don't really own anything else rechargeable Cordially, Ameya Nagarajan (she/her) On Thu, 16 Jun 2022 at 18:37, Ingrid via Silklist < silklist@lis

[Silk] Re: Reading the world

Going to second Trevor Noah and Allende for sure, and recommend Death in the Andes by Mario Vargas Llosa as well, where he writes about his home country of Peru and the sendero luminoso movement. How we survived communism and even laug

[Silk] Re: Reading the world

Please read How we survived communism and even laughed! it's so lovely. Will send some more reccos in some time. Cordially, Ameya Nagarajan (she/her) On Sat, 26 Feb 2022 at 08:42, Nisha Susan via Silklist < silklist@lists.digeratus.in> wrote: > What a f

[Silk] Re: What have you gotten better (or worse) at?

Better at knitting, worse at being at peace with things and keeping in touch with people Cordially, Ameya Nagarajan (she/her) On Thu, 6 Jan 2022 at 17:47, Alok Prasanna Kumar via Silklist < silklist@lists.digeratus.in> wrote: > Better - the New York Tim

[Silk] Re: Things that are going well

What an excellent question Udhay! *I* got better. Honestly, the amount of work I have done on myself with my therapist, the demons I have tamed, and the strength and anchoring it has given me is something that has completely transformed how I will live the rest of my life. I made some friends I pr

[Silk] Re: Things that are going well

Heh my sister used to swear by Mylapore! Was the scheduled stop driving back from Tahoe Cordially, Ameya Nagarajan (she/her) On Tue, 2 Nov 2021 at 17:41, Thaths via Silklist < silklist@lists.digeratus.in> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 2, 2021 at 1:40 PM Mark Sei

[Silk] Re: Best Indian fiction list 2021

My fav (and possibly only?) Indian book this year was Club You to Death by the delightful Anuja Chauhan. My greatest discovery--thanks to Udhay--this year was the Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold, which then sent me off on an Odyssey of space opera! Highly recommend Clean by James Hamblin

[Silk] Re: A new beginning

Hero! Cordially, Ameya Nagarajan (she/her) On Mon, 6 Sept 2021 at 17:13, Venkat Mangudi - Silk via Silklist < silklist@lists.digeratus.in> wrote: > It works. > > On Mon, 6 Sep, 2021, 4:49 pm Udhay Shankar N via Silklist, < > silklist@lists.digeratus.in>

[Silk] Re: A new beginning

I will definitely be doing that... Cordially, Ameya Nagarajan (she/her) On Sat, 4 Sept 2021 at 07:52, Udhay Shankar N via Silklist < silklist@lists.digeratus.in> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 3, 2021 at 10:38 PM Madhu Menon wrote: > > b. Due to various antispam