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• Free Software Camp Opening
  Wed, Oct 21 '20
  Free Software Camp 2020 opened last week and it has been a pretty nice experience till now [...]
• Book Review: How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism by Cory Doctorow
  Mon, Oct 05 '20
  The book might look like it is about big tech, but it is actually about capitalism and monopoly. And the how-to part of it is about policy reforms which might be a put off for some. [...]
• Debugging Without Logs? Use strace
  Fri, Sep 25 '20
  You have a process/service running in what seems to be an infinite loop. The log is turned off or is empty. How do you debug this? [...]
• How Not to Update Ubuntu
  Sun, Sep 20 '20
  tl;dr - backups matter [...]
• Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software And Ruins the Moral Fabric of the Tech Community
  Mon, Sep 14 '20
  Using “open source” and ignoring the philosophy of free software is convenient for corporate entities, but not beneficial to the society. [...]
• Care For Mozilla's Mission, Not Mozilla
  Sat, Aug 15 '20
  Mozilla might fail as a company or an organization. But Mozilla’s mission is too important to fail [...]
• Gotchas in setting up pom.xml (Maven)
  Fri, Jul 31 '20
  These are certain things that maven does which confuses new Java programmers [...]
• Remove MySQL/MariaDB binary logs when binary logging not enabled
  Wed, Jul 29 '20
  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 [...]
• Modern Web Development in Java - The (Never) Complete Guide
  Thu, Jul 09 '20
  Coming to Java from nodejs, web development seemed extremely and unnecessarily complicated to me. After navigating the standards and specs and implementations and javadocs (and countless stackoverflow posts) here is what I know. [...]
• Privilege to Innovate
  Wed, Jul 01 '20
  They say Indians aren’t innovative in the tech space. Ever wondered why? [...]
• The Big Brother Will Now Tell You Which Apps You Can and Can't use On Your Phone
  Mon, Jun 29 '20
  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.” This is dangerous. [...]
• Choosing Between Home Server and Cloud Server
  Tue, Jun 23 '20
  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. Here is how to go about it [...]
• List of Times Vegetarian was Used as a Word on the Internet
  Tue, Jun 23 '20
  Some people think that using the word “vegetarian” and “non-vegetarian” is sensationalistic. So I compiled a list of either word being used in language. [...]
• Where does a program start at?
  Sun, Jun 21 '20
  This is live notes from a talk about how programs are executed [...]
• My Idea Of an Ideal Decentralized Social Network built with blogs, RSS feeds (and some existing messaging system)
  Fri, Jun 19 '20
  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. [...]
• Does GPL apply to the output of an API that is released under the GPL license?
  Fri, Jun 19 '20
  Imagine an API software is written in GPL. Would the data that comes out of the API be under GPL? [...]
• Why I Won't Write Tweets Any More
  Tue, Jun 16 '20
  Twitter forces users to cut words, sometimes at the expense of losing meaning. This creates confusion and polarization. This is bad. [...]
• Converting PDF with transparency to PNG
  Mon, Jun 15 '20
  I keep forgetting how to convert a PDF with transparency to PNG and keep a white background [...]
• Checking if Aarogya Setu's Source Code Produces the App from Play Store
  Mon, Jun 01 '20
  Aarogya Setu’s Android source code is supposedly on github. How do we know if it is the real app? [...]
• Going Dark Theme in Gnome Shell, Firefox, and all sites that support it
  Tue, Apr 28 '20
  Did you know there is a CSS media query called prefers-color-scheme that websites can use to switch to dark mode automatically? How about going fully dark in Gnome Shell and Firefox? [...]

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