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• InGenius and girlGeeks hack, 2019
  Tue, Nov 26 '19
  inGenius is a hackathon by PES Engineering College in Bangalore. I had attended it as a mentor from Mozilla community and this is an event log [...]
• Why Will Devices Accept ARP Broadcast Messages when the destination MAC doesn't match theirs?
  Tue, Nov 26 '19
  In ARP, broadcast messages are sent to the destination mac of FF:FF……FF, why will devices accept that packet then? [...]
• Traceability as a Mandatory Requirement (Intermediary Liability)
  Fri, Nov 22 '19
  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. Is it really the right way? [...]
• What is GirlScript?
  Wed, Nov 13 '19
  I had a short call with the founder of GirlScript today. This is when I first heard about the organization. [...]
• Building an Open Health Dashboard for the Country
  Wed, Oct 30 '19
  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. Imagine being able to engage with and contribute to that dataset. Imagine how powerful our public health professionals would be with that kind of a tool. [...]
• Programmer Skills: Syntax vs Concepts
  Tue, Oct 29 '19
  What should a programming interview test? Whether the programmer can write correct syntax or whether they have the concepts right? [...]
• Intermediary Liability and the Duty of Care Approach in Software
  Sun, Oct 27 '19
  Should online services like Facebook be held responsible for the content that is distributed through them? What about free speech? [...]
• Fake Liberal/Progressive Twitter Accounts (IT Cell Caught in Action)
  Fri, Oct 25 '19
  On the internet you could be talking to a dog and not know the difference. This post is the story of one such incident that I personally faced. [...]
• Migrating Wordpress to Jekyll
  Fri, Oct 11 '19
  Mozilla India blog has been on wordpress for almost 9 years. The community felt that it had to be migrated to a modern framework. As a dutiful admin, I did it. This is how. [...]
• Addon Distributor (for self-hosted web extensions) in Rust
  Sun, Oct 06 '19
  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 [...]
• Simple Self-hosted Newsletter
  Sat, Aug 17 '19
  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. This is a note of what I am building [...]
• Reverse Sexism - Possible?
  Wed, Aug 14 '19
  What is reverse sexism? Can it exist? Can it not exist? [...]
• Collaborative data exploration (in R)
  Mon, Jul 08 '19
  You have collected a lot of data (whatever be your field). You have done your own exploratory analyses on this and perhaps even published a few papers. What next? [...]
• Anarchic Conferences
  Sat, May 11 '19
  Are there limits to what anarchic systems can do? Can an anarchic system organize an offline conference? [...]
• Understanding Certbot
  Mon, Mar 25 '19
  Ever wished you did not have to struggle with certbot and could just understand how it works? This guide is for you. [...]
• bspwm
  Mon, Mar 25 '19
  I have been a fan of i3 for a couple of years now. But today I heard about bspwm, took the plunge and has been extremely happy about the switch [...]
• Intro to Live Coding
  Fri, Mar 22 '19
  Report on a live coding workshop I attended today [...]
• Inserting ZWJ in LyX
  Mon, Mar 18 '19
  Zero-Width Joiner is a character used in languages like Malayalam and Persian to connect characters and form a complex character. LyX was giving me trouble in inserting those characters. This is how deep the rabbit hole goes [...]
• Spreadhseet pro-tip: Using countifs over multiple columns
  Wed, Mar 13 '19
  Countifs is a extremely versatile formula that can be used in Google Sheets to generate frequency tables and proportions of complex interrelated data. This is a short introduction to the formula and the autofill properties that are required to make it work magic [...]
• Getting Malayalam Support in LyX (XeTeX/LaTeX)
  Mon, Mar 11 '19
  How to type Malayalam in LaTeX using LyX [...]

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