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…

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…

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.…

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…

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

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…

What if there are domains you care about but the expiry alerts don’t necessarily come to your email address?

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"…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…