Jack Recider

We have 17,000 members, but I can squeeze you in. So come on. Just go to discord.gg slash darknetdiaries and come say hi. This episode was created by me, the slow Loris Jack Reciter. It was assembled by the corpulent porpoise, Tristan Ledger. Mixing done by Proximity Sound. And our theme music is by the mysterious Breakmaster Cylinder.

We have 17,000 members, but I can squeeze you in. So come on. Just go to discord.gg slash darknetdiaries and come say hi. This episode was created by me, the slow Loris Jack Reciter. It was assembled by the corpulent porpoise, Tristan Ledger. Mixing done by Proximity Sound. And our theme music is by the mysterious Breakmaster Cylinder.

I tried teaching my mom how to build a PC, but all we did was make my mother bored. This is Darknet Diaries.

I tried teaching my mom how to build a PC, but all we did was make my mother bored. This is Darknet Diaries.

Okay, so I've got a good story for you today. But when I was researching this episode, I came across something that wasn't exactly hacker related, but it captured my curiosity for like a good 30 minutes. And maybe you'll find this interesting too. So apparently people in India like flying kites.

Okay, so I've got a good story for you today. But when I was researching this episode, I came across something that wasn't exactly hacker related, but it captured my curiosity for like a good 30 minutes. And maybe you'll find this interesting too. So apparently people in India like flying kites.

But when I think of flying kites, I think about doing it in a park or at some beach, someplace wide open, right? Yeah, well, that's not how kite flying happens in India. They like to fly kites on their rooftops in populated parts of the city, like on the tops of low-rise apartments. And you'll sometimes even see them hanging over their balcony or flying the kite right out the window.

But when I think of flying kites, I think about doing it in a park or at some beach, someplace wide open, right? Yeah, well, that's not how kite flying happens in India. They like to fly kites on their rooftops in populated parts of the city, like on the tops of low-rise apartments. And you'll sometimes even see them hanging over their balcony or flying the kite right out the window.

I never even knew you could fly a kite out a window three stories up, but yeah, they're doing it. And I saw videos of this on YouTube. And so on nice breezy days in India, you may look up and see some people on the rooftops flying kites right in the middle of a busy city. Anyway, kites alone aren't that exciting to me, but here's the part that surprised me.

I never even knew you could fly a kite out a window three stories up, but yeah, they're doing it. And I saw videos of this on YouTube. And so on nice breezy days in India, you may look up and see some people on the rooftops flying kites right in the middle of a busy city. Anyway, kites alone aren't that exciting to me, but here's the part that surprised me.

Apparently, there are kite fighters among these people. And this gets wild. They take kite flying to a whole new level, if you ask me. So the idea here is to knock someone else's kite out of the sky with your kite. So, like, if you're on the rooftop and you see a kite flying a couple rooftops over from you, the mission is to knock theirs down.

Apparently, there are kite fighters among these people. And this gets wild. They take kite flying to a whole new level, if you ask me. So the idea here is to knock someone else's kite out of the sky with your kite. So, like, if you're on the rooftop and you see a kite flying a couple rooftops over from you, the mission is to knock theirs down.

And so the first thing you have to do is to get your kite near theirs, or at least near their string. And that takes a bit of skill to get your kite close to the person's kite who's like three rooftops away from you. And I don't even understand how they do this. Like, how do you send your kite over to someone else's where you can't even move off your balcony?

And so the first thing you have to do is to get your kite near theirs, or at least near their string. And that takes a bit of skill to get your kite close to the person's kite who's like three rooftops away from you. And I don't even understand how they do this. Like, how do you send your kite over to someone else's where you can't even move off your balcony?

I thought the wind decided where your kite went, but apparently they're able to let out the string more or weight the kite down or something to get it to go where they want. Now, I've flown a kite too close to someone else's kite before. And what happened to me is that the kites got tangled up and both of our kites crashed to the ground.

I thought the wind decided where your kite went, but apparently they're able to let out the string more or weight the kite down or something to get it to go where they want. Now, I've flown a kite too close to someone else's kite before. And what happened to me is that the kites got tangled up and both of our kites crashed to the ground.

But the kite fighters don't want their own kite crashing to the ground. They want to win this battle. So what kite fighters do is they coat their strings with something sharp to turn it into a skyward saw. Some use wax, but I think a lot of people are buying strings that are coated in little pieces of glass, making it sharp and scratchy.

But the kite fighters don't want their own kite crashing to the ground. They want to win this battle. So what kite fighters do is they coat their strings with something sharp to turn it into a skyward saw. Some use wax, but I think a lot of people are buying strings that are coated in little pieces of glass, making it sharp and scratchy.

So if you can get your string to touch theirs, and then just at the right time, give it a quick tug, it'll scrape your string across theirs, and it may cut their kite string, sending their kite to float off freely and eventually crash to the ground, but like a block away, leaving yours in the air as the victor of the battle. It's wild.

So if you can get your string to touch theirs, and then just at the right time, give it a quick tug, it'll scrape your string across theirs, and it may cut their kite string, sending their kite to float off freely and eventually crash to the ground, but like a block away, leaving yours in the air as the victor of the battle. It's wild.