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…

These days everyone wants to crawl the internet. And if you’re a sysadmin of a mediawiki instance, that means hundreds of thousands of requests to the links on your site The problem is especially bothersome for mediawiki because each page in wikis built with…

https://www.instagram.com/p/DNPdaE8pzuH/ Last year in August, Kaanu was launched in BR Hills. Kaanu is a South Indian Adivasi Knowledge Centre. The people behind Kaanu has been collecting and annotating relevant publications for many years now. This had to…

It was three years ago in November 2022 that I last wrote about my financial situation.



That post ended with my bank balance at around 11 lakhs.



I left Kinara capital in June 2023, and then I perhaps had around 20 lakhs if I put everything together.…

In my previous post I wrote about how much capital I know I have. In this I tackle another question that might be interesting to people to compare their situations — how much we pay the domestic worker who works in our home and how did we reach that number.…

TW: Mentions a techbro



There is a 90 second video of Steve Jobs on the internet from the time SJ had a beard and lots of hair. In that, in less than 2 minutes, Steve Jobs makes an elevator pitch for a life that's full of agency. I'm embedding it here so…

When there is a power-cut and kids are annoyed, we tell them "Here's 10 rupees, go to the shop and buy 1kg current (electricity)"



The kids immediately get it. You can't purchase electricity like that. It is not an off-the-shelf good.



But when it comes…

Swathi and I went to Puducherry this weekend. Just to take a break. Day 0 We left on Thursday night in KSRTC's AC sleeper from Bengaluru's Shanthinagar bus stand. It was the old white Ambari Dream Class bus. (Earlier this month when we went to Kerala, we…

If a clinician treats tuberculosis with Paracetamol alone, they would be labeled an idiot. Tuberculosis is a disease caused by microorganisms. But also tuberculosis disproportionately affects people who live in poverty and undernutrition. Thus treating TB…

There are topics where caste is traditionally invisibilized/erased. Thanks to social change, people are able to stand up and assert and call out caste in many such topics these days. When that happens, the typical savarna response is to call it "unscientific".…

Clickbait aside, this is a description of how I upgraded an old Peertube instance multiple versions Free Software Community of India has a peertube instance at videos.fsci.in. It was set up originally in 2018 and upgraded last in 2021. It was not just a tech…

Google recently announced that it’ll be forcing developers to register with government identity cards on their platform to be able to distribute Android applications anywhere. I came across keepandroidopen.org in FSMK’s chat group today. So I quickly composed…