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…

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?

One might think that by the second half of 2024, bluetooth speakers would work on linux seamlessly.

Almost two years into the era of AI explosion, here’s how my life has completely changed

How do we know if a just world is the right thing to work towards?

When you discover a keyboard shortcut for what you’re about to do, cancel doing that and do it with the keyboard shortcut instead.

So, I just read https://simonwillison.net/2024/Sep/29/notebooklm-audio-overview/ and thought I'll try NotebookLM out. Just gave it one URL, my bio: https://asd.learnlearn.in/about/ and it generated this "podcast" which blew my mind (and made me very happy…

I migrated a popular health magazine from Next 13 to Next 14. Here’s what I learnt

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…

What is an interview? What to do in one?

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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My friend got scammed by a seller on Amazon named “No Doubt” who sold a very old, used Seagate hard disk as new.

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…

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…

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