Ranganath Kini

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Nobody elected them. Nobody appointed them. But somewhere after 1947, a small class of people decided they were in charge of your conscience. The arrangement they made was simple. They sit at the top. You sit below. They speak English and write op-eds. You speak your mother tongue and are always wrong. Their job is to explain you to yourself. Your job is to accept the explanation. The tools are familiar. Caste guilt. The backwardness narrative. The constant suggestion that Hindu majoritarian violence is always one election away, perpetually imminent. Each 'concern' is framed as a uniquely Hindu disease. It's never a residue of centuries of colonial extraction. The blame is Yours alone. There is one rule that never changes. Hindu pride is fascism. Hindu confidence is dangerous. Hindu civilizational memory is extremism. You are permitted to exist but you are not permitted to feel good about it. A Hindu majority that felt no guilt about existing would have no need for moral tutors. Thus this whole structure — the secular Lutyens elite and their the prime-time sermons — rests on your uncertainty. The moment that uncertainty lifts their foundations shake. A class that profits from your shame has no incentive to tell you the shame was manufactured. Your misplaced guilt keeps them employed. Your recovery would put them out of business. They need you on your knees. Apologizing. Explaining yourself. Grateful for the permission to exist. The moment you stand up the whole arrangement falls apart. Will you stand up?

Software horror: litellm PyPI supply chain attack. Simple `pip install litellm` was enough to exfiltrate SSH keys, AWS/GCP/Azure creds, Kubernetes configs, git credentials, env vars (all your API keys), shell history, crypto wallets, SSL private keys, CI/CD secrets, database passwords. LiteLLM itself has 97 million downloads per month which is already terrible, but much worse, the contagion spreads to any project that depends on litellm. For example, if you did `pip install dspy` (which depended on litellm>=1.64.0), you'd also be pwnd. Same for any other large project that depended on litellm. Afaict the poisoned version was up for only less than ~1 hour. The attack had a bug which led to its discovery - Callum McMahon was using an MCP plugin inside Cursor that pulled in litellm as a transitive dependency. When litellm 1.82.8 installed, their machine ran out of RAM and crashed. So if the attacker didn't vibe code this attack it could have been undetected for many days or weeks. Supply chain attacks like this are basically the scariest thing imaginable in modern software. Every time you install any depedency you could be pulling in a poisoned package anywhere deep inside its entire depedency tree. This is especially risky with large projects that might have lots and lots of dependencies. The credentials that do get stolen in each attack can then be used to take over more accounts and compromise more packages. Classical software engineering would have you believe that dependencies are good (we're building pyramids from bricks), but imo this has to be re-evaluated, and it's why I've been so growingly averse to them, preferring to use LLMs to "yoink" functionality when it's simple enough and possible.

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