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I have this weird issue. I tend to be non-conformist. I notice the performance of societal roles. I am more painfully conscious when I have to perform societal roles myself. The first time it became a real problem was when I started practicing medicine. You just can't be yourself in the consultat
on Feb 16
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Ajay (AN) introduced to me the above words at Kozhikode during the mid-annual mfc meet last year. It means without fear, without hate, with love. The last one was added to the Sikh saying by AN themself. When I met AN at the meet, I was brimming with negative energy (likely hatred) at the institu
on Feb 16
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Postfix to Loomio on Same Server
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Loomio has a container that listens on port 25 to accept incoming emails (for post via mail). How do we then run an MTA on the same server? On FSCI’s loomio instance there’s been a situation I noticed since a few months. To make the wiki (mediawiki) send emails out, it needs a local sendmail...
on Tue, 3PM
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In and around free software circles there are several activists who fight tooth and nail for privacy. They frequently take extreme measures to protect their privacy, like avoiding all kinds of conveniences, and sticking to workflows and tools that majority of people do not use. I am quite uncomfo
on Jul 11
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After years of struggling with jekyll’s limitations and idiosyncracies, today I moved to hugo. It took several hours. Importing content The Migrate to Hugo page suggests a few tools. First I tried the jekyll import command built-in. It moved the posts correctly. But the filename retained the...
on Jun 20
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21st Century Humans Are Incredibly Easy to Fool
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The 18th century chess machine called The Mechanical Turk fooled humans for almost 84 years. It was a human secretly sitting inside the machine who was playing chess — no machine, no artificial intelligence. If something like that came up today, would we find out the secret sooner? Absolutely not
on Jun 12
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A Bigger Microscope Won't Solve The Problem
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In the article titled Johann Gregor Mendel: the victory of statistics over human imagination, the authors argue that big data analysis using machine learning, deep learning, et al can identify patterns that human beings can't and hence these become "an important tool for developing more effective th
on Jun 4
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Creepy 'Savarna Liberals' as Portrayed in Sinners (2025)
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Spoiler alert: This is an interpretation of the 2025 movie Sinners which includes descriptions that reveal the plot of the movie. So, if you still haven't watched the movie, you come back and read this later. This movie gets described as "musical horror" by many Western reviewers. While it certai
on May 25
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Script to Check Domain Expiry and Alert
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What if there are domains you care about but the expiry alerts don’t necessarily come to your email address?
on May 20
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Caste-Capitalism Nexus - An Overview
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In this post, I'll describe how caste and capitalism exist as closely related structures that reinforce each other in modern India. I begin by defining caste and capitalism. Then I describe how caste forms the bedrock for capitalism in India. And finally I talk about ways that capitalism reinforces
on Apr 9
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Firefox: Copy from urlbar without encoding
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Firefox somehow changed its behaviour of what it does when I paste multiline strings from pdf into the titlebar. Here’s how I undid that for me
on Apr 5
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Democracy is a word that's vague and has multiple meanings. It is often used as an excuse for not doing anything. The use of the word should raise suspicion about the intentions of the speaker. Most people when explaining democracy start with an even worse definition of the word: "government of t
on Mar 22
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Swathi and I started watching 'The Good Place' after we finished watching 'A Man on the Inside' (thanks to Pooja's recommendation in the South Central podcast) and craving for more Ted Danson. There are 4 seasons and we finished it within a month! It was a whirlwind ride on philosophy. Althoug
on Jan 26
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Who's the Default Cook in your Home?
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There's plenty written by women about how unfair division of household chores is the classic symptom of patriarchy. They've written about how it is not just about cooking, but also about the mental burden of thinking about the house — about grocery shopping, about making a list for grocery shoppi
on Jan 25
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In hindsight, this was the most important advice I got as a child. Read everything. Newspaper. Books. Textbook. Children's magazines. Even the paper which the shopkeeper uses to wrap vegetables in. I followed it religiously for most of my life. I used to wake up and read the whole newspaper fr
on Jan 25
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Anatomy of an Amazon Hard Disk Scam (GAZELLE)
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My friend got scammed by a seller on Amazon named “No Doubt” who sold a very old, used Seagate hard disk as new.
on Jan 20
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No, You Don't Understand Intersectionality
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Most people who use the word intersectionality understand it as "sum of various identities". Ask them to explain what intersectionality means and they'll go "Oh, so think about a Dalit woman, she's doubly oppressed — through caste and through gender" This is a crude and problematic understandi
on Jan 16
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I migrated a popular health magazine from Next 13 to Next 14. Here’s what I learnt
on Oct 21
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Cancel and do it with the keyboard shortcut
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When you discover a keyboard shortcut for what you’re about to do, cancel doing that and do it with the keyboard shortcut instead.
on Oct 3
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How I use LLM in September 2024
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Almost two years into the era of AI explosion, here’s how my life has completely changed
on Sep 25
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Connecting to Bluetooth Speaker in Linux in 2024
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One might think that by the second half of 2024, bluetooth speakers would work on linux seamlessly.
on Sep 12
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Is Open-Source Maintainers Burnout an Example of the Tragedy of the Commons?
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The tragedy of the commons is invoked every time something wrong happens with open-source development. Is that always correct?
on May 4, 2024