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The book might look like it is about big tech, but it is actually about capitalism and monopoly.

You have a process/service running in what seems to be an infinite loop.

tl;dr - backups matter I wanted to install Material Shell.

Using “open source” and ignoring the philosophy of free software is convenient for corporate entities, but not beneficial to the society.

Mozilla might fail as a company or an organization.

These are certain things that maven does which confuses new Java programmers Maven is a tool in the Java ecosystem that allows dependency management, build automation, etc.

What happens when you get a “You are not using binary logging” error when you try to delete the binary logs that are taking up too much space in /var/lib/mysql On my server recently I ran out of space. ncdu told me that it is mysql-bin.xxxx files on /var/…

Coming to Java from nodejs, web development seemed extremely and unnecessarily complicated to me.

They say Indians aren’t innovative in the tech space.

India government “banned” some 59 apps today because they are “they are engaged in activities which is prejudicial to sovereignty and integrity of India, defence of India, security of state and public order.”

Some people think that using the word “vegetarian” and “non-vegetarian” is sensationalistic.

Running a server and accessing it from a different computer on a different network is one of the happiest things in learning to be a web developer.

This is live notes from a talk about how programs are executed Different programming projects have programs that start execution in different places.

RSS and static sites can act just as good as a centralized social network (or even better, considering how the latter are turning out to be universally bad) when combined with a messaging system for comments.

Imagine an API software is written in GPL.

Twitter forces users to cut words, sometimes at the expense of losing meaning.

I keep forgetting how to convert a PDF with transparency to PNG and keep a white background convert -density 110 input.pdf -background white -alpha remove output.png

Aarogya Setu’s Android source code is supposedly on github.

Did you know there is a CSS media query called prefers-color-scheme that websites can use to switch to dark mode automatically?

A well-written software is a textbook in itself.

Zettlr is a beautiful markdown editor that I discovered just today (and I’m already writing about it) I saw zettlr through Jaseem’s tweet .

A failed attempt at proving that Telegram’s apkdiff.py is broken I was looking at Telegram for android’s source code today to learn how they handle creating the chat UI.

Is it worth going to a different country for a “better” life?

I had been a mozilla fan-boy for years.

IndiaOS is an open-source conference organized by ERPNext and Zerodha.

As is usual, new year is an opportunity to restart things and start fresh things.

In this post on learning Java (and OOP) as a functional programming person, I look at the builder pattern, what problem it solves, and why it may be that way Certain design decisions in Java are very hard to understand.

Netbeans won’t start in ArchLinux if you are using xdm or xdm-archlinux because of xdm messing up with the PATH variable.

In ARP, broadcast messages are sent to the destination mac of FF:FF……FF, why will devices accept that packet then?

inGenius is a hackathon by PES Engineering College in Bangalore.

The government of India is going to make traceability mandatory in social media in order to combat the various harms various social media bring on in real world.

I had a short call with the founder of GirlScript today.

Imagine if you had granular data about health at your fingerprints the way you can look up a movie info on IMDB or a fact on wikipedia.

What should a programming interview test?

Should online services like Facebook be held responsible for the content that is distributed through them?

On the internet you could be talking to a dog and not know the difference.

Mozilla India blog has been on wordpress for almost 9 years.

How Mozilla’s decision to ban my add-on made me build a simple tool to maintain an update_link for keeping my extensions self-hosted and updateable, and using rust I was distributing my addon Porn Unban through Firefox’s addons.mozilla.org service.

I have been trying really hard to get a simple, small, non-scalable, flat-file based mailing list going on for a long time now.

What is reverse sexism?

You have collected a lot of data (whatever be your field).

Are there limits to what anarchic systems can do?

Ever wished you did not have to struggle with certbot and could just understand how it works?

I have been a fan of i3 for a couple of years now.

Report on a live coding workshop I attended today As I’m writing this I’m attending a workshop on live coding.

Zero-Width Joiner is a character used in languages like Malayalam and Persian to connect characters and form a complex character.

Countifs is a extremely versatile formula that can be used in Google Sheets to generate frequency tables and proportions of complex interrelated data.

How to type Malayalam in LaTeX using LyX Last month I wrote about LyX requiring Malayalam language support.

i3 is my favourite window manager (and desktop environment).

Adding Malayalam language support to Lyx.