



Lagrange Point
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@_lagrangepoint
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Excited to share “Poisoned Wells,” which presents the largest point-in-time study of website blocking in India to date. I tested the blocking of 294 million apex domains across six Indian ISPs, sending 1.76 billion DNS queries in total.




5/ Khushi Mittal @khushhhi_ is working to manufacture autonomous, medium-sized cargo aircraft in India, with the long-term goal of launching the world's first autonomous airline. observv.co Over the next six weeks, she will be developing the flight stack for a technical demonstrator, which involves retrofitting an existing aircraft with autonomous controls.




In India 🇮🇳, students in colleges prepare to enter the real world by doing fake things: - meaningless resume padding projects - endless interview prep - placement politics We can do better. Introducing @quest_sh: A set of hard but tractable *real world* problems you can solve to prove your mettle

if you're going to be in hyderabad this weekend, please dm me or @itsarnavb ! planning to host a small gathering of folks in high school and university to talk about education and deep tech



AQI has been a pressing issue in India but we only seemed to obssess over it after @bryan_johnson walked out of the podcast with @nikhilkamathcio @Nithin0dha talked about how AQI should be corelated to factors like real estate prices. We at @_lagrangepoint wanted to verify this.






Last week, I built a Faraday cage with friends We built this to unlock hearing aids mode on the AirPods for grandma, geoblocked in India for regulatory reasons This cage is in Koramangala, Bangalore 🇮🇳. But inside the cage, your phone thinks it's Menlo Park, California 🇺🇸

Apple released a hearing aids feature for the AirPods Pro a while ago. I bought a pair for grandma, but then realized that the feature was geoblocked in India So we at @_lagrangepoint decided to unblock it. It ended up involving a leaky microwave and building a Faraday cage:

Last week, I built a Faraday cage with friends We built this to unlock hearing aids mode on the AirPods for grandma, geoblocked in India for regulatory reasons This cage is in Koramangala, Bangalore 🇮🇳. But inside the cage, your phone thinks it's Menlo Park, California 🇺🇸