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In which I discuss some Freire without reading Freire https://youtu.be/Us5AbNpczc8
In which I discuss the debate on conscientization (is it needed or not), on how our idea of expertise is closely tied to banking model of education, how this itself is the biggest hurdle in conscientization, and how critical thinking is the answer
https://youtu.be/poByFZg9E4c
https://youtu.be/poByFZg9E4c
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Getting Rid of Banking Model Education
Dressing up smart: https://blog.learnlearn.in/2023/05/ambedkar-and-gandhi-they-couldnt-have.html
When to Agitate: https://www.roundtableindia.co.in/educate-organize-and-agitate-vs-educate-agitate-and-organize/
Truth and Integrity: https://blog.learnlea…
When to Agitate: https://www.roundtableindia.co.in/educate-organize-and-agitate-vs-educate-agitate-and-organize/
Truth and Integrity: https://blog.learnlea…
A quick run through on the spectrum of disagreements on social justice work
https://youtu.be/1DwjOz-yqRo?feature=shared
https://youtu.be/1DwjOz-yqRo?feature=shared
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4 Kinds of Opposition to Social Justice Work and How To Deal With Them
Please let me know where you agree and disagree in comments
Capitalism forces people to question the idea of shared ownership and collectives everywhere and all the time. In this post I examine whether open-source maintainers giving up open-source is actually an example of the tragedy of the commons as thought by some.
https://asd.learnlearn.in/solution-to-open-source-tragedy-of-commons/
https://asd.learnlearn.in/solution-to-open-source-tragedy-of-commons/
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Is Open-Source Maintainers Burnout an Example of the Tragedy of the Commons?
The tragedy of the commons is invoked every time something wrong happens with open-source development. Is that always correct?
Forwarded from FOSSMeet'25
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Why I can't say "I will only use libre/free CT scanner" | Talk by Dr. Akshay S Dinesh | FOSSMeet'24
Join us for an insightful talk by Dr. Someone, delivered at FOSSMeet'24, titled "Why I Can't Say I Will Only Use Libre/Free CT Scanner and Other Issues Bigger Than Software."
About the speaker: Known for his passion for free software, Dr. Akshay S Dinesh…
About the speaker: Known for his passion for free software, Dr. Akshay S Dinesh…
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Simple trick to block mails to certain addresses/domains on your mailu server (postfix users can read too)
https://asd.learnlearn.in/block-outgoing-mail-addresses-mailu-postfix/
https://asd.learnlearn.in/block-outgoing-mail-addresses-mailu-postfix/
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Block Specific Outgoing Mail Addresses in Mailu / Postfix
Have you ever had a mailu server keep retrying mails to email addresses that don’t exist? What if you didn’t want to or didn’t have access to stop emails to this address at the source?
If you use linux, you never connect to new devices without searching online for a few configuration parameters
https://asd.learnlearn.in/connecting-to-bluetooth-speaker-linux-2024/
https://asd.learnlearn.in/connecting-to-bluetooth-speaker-linux-2024/
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Connecting to Bluetooth Speaker in Linux in 2024
One might think that by the second half of 2024, bluetooth speakers would work on linux seamlessly.
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Just documenting the ways I use LLMs (and the ways it has replaced google for me in some ways). Do tell me what creative uses I'm missing.
https://asd.learnlearn.in/how-i-use-llm-2024/
https://asd.learnlearn.in/how-i-use-llm-2024/
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How I use LLM in September 2024
Almost two years into the era of AI explosion, here’s how my life has completely changed
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What's the logic behind fighting against discrimination / for social justice? I explore this question in this post. The answer will disappoint you.
https://blog.learnlearn.in/2024/09/the-logic-of-social-justice.html
https://blog.learnlearn.in/2024/09/the-logic-of-social-justice.html
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The Logic of Social Justice
How do we know if a just world is the right thing to work towards?
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A small tip to make learning keyboard shortcuts faster
https://asd.learnlearn.in/keyboard-shortcut-first-time/
https://asd.learnlearn.in/keyboard-shortcut-first-time/
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Cancel and do it with the keyboard shortcut
When you discover a keyboard shortcut for what you’re about to do, cancel doing that and do it with the keyboard shortcut instead.
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/me tried out NextJS 14 for a popular website. Just writing down the experience
https://asd.learnlearn.in/next-14-learnings/
https://asd.learnlearn.in/next-14-learnings/
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Next 14 learnings
I migrated a popular health magazine from Next 13 to Next 14. Here’s what I learnt
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The biggest problem I have in making this video is that I don't know what the audience doesn't know. So, can you please watch and comment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMLao_s4Po8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMLao_s4Po8
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Data Analysis Basics with Python: A Practical Guide for Journalists, Doctors & Professionals
Not fully mine, but I wish I had thought about doing work like this years ago
https://rthresources.in/conversations-on-health-policy/digitization-of-health-services-part-i-decoding-the-ayushman-bharat-digital-mission-abdm/
https://rthresources.in/conversations-on-health-policy/digitization-of-health-services-part-i-decoding-the-ayushman-bharat-digital-mission-abdm/
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Digitization of Health Services - Part I Decoding the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission ( ABDM)
The ABDM is India’s ambitious push for digitization in the health sector. In this conversation, four researchers who have been associated with the design and implementation of healthcare IT systems, take a closer look at the ABDM and strive to understand…
Maybe you do understand intersectionality but you don't stand up for it.
https://blog.learnlearn.in/no-you-dont-understand-intersectionality/
https://blog.learnlearn.in/no-you-dont-understand-intersectionality/
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No, You Don't Understand Intersectionality
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"
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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"
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Next time you buy hard disk on amazon, remember that there are scammers selling old failing hard disks repackaged.
https://asd.learnlearn.in/hard-disk-scam-amazon/
https://asd.learnlearn.in/hard-disk-scam-amazon/
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Anatomy of an Amazon Hard Disk Scam (GAZELLE)
My friend got scammed by a seller on Amazon named “No Doubt” who sold a very old, used Seagate hard disk as new.
Just some hypothesis on how reading everything (not just reading) is important
https://blog.learnlearn.in/read-everything/
https://blog.learnlearn.in/read-everything/
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Read Everything
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…
I followed it religiously for most of my life.
I used…
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If you think about what doing good means, you should watch 'The Good Place'
https://blog.learnlearn.in/the-good-place-is-good/
https://blog.learnlearn.in/the-good-place-is-good/
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'The Good Place' is Good
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…
There are 4 seasons and we finished it within a month!
It…
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