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.
/me tried out NextJS 14 for a popular website. Just writing down the experience
Akshay S Dinesh shared a month ago
It's clear that in long term Open Source will fail to serve users and it will only serve corporates. For users its always going to be Free Software. It's the right of the user and not a favor by the creator.
It's proven again and again by Redis, ElasticSearch, and now WordPress.
There is always a problem with a single corporate funded software.
I fed NotebookLM my bio and this podcast came out about me
A small tip to make learning keyboard shortcuts faster
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
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.
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/
I hope the very stupid gemini protocol fad has died
I wanted to write a report. And was looking for a tutorial for scribus. And then found some dabba english tutorials. Then I remembered ibcomputing had one. And reached in this playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bja2mhbo9E&list=PL1Q3VHDJ6prbrVO47_jqOzc64NO0MIghs&index=9
OMG! It is an amazingly well made tutorial. The tips and tricks are what makes it sooooooo useful. I loved it.
It is interesting how many problems you can discover with the 5-why approach of root cause analysis and how easily?!
And it is frustrating how long it takes to work on them.
Akshay S Dinesh shared 5 months ago
I'm happy to implement web key directory support in #Mailvelope Keyserver software.
You can see the history of this work here https://github.com/mailvelope/keyserver/issues/121
I don't have a lot of experience coding software but I could visualize a solution.
Thanks to @akshay and @weepingclown for their continuous support which made this possible.
Hopefully this will motivate more people to setup #wkd for their domains and make end to end encrypted email as easy as WhatsApp or Signal.
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/
A quick run through on the spectrum of disagreements on social justice work
This subscriber only article from TNM is like a textbook chapter in modern India's political history. It talks a lot about the pragmatic politics of Ambedkar and gave me an entirely new perspective about pragmatism. Mallikarjun Kharge's Ism is a few lessons on its own. This article alone is worth a subscription, if you aren't already a subscriber.
In which I discuss some Freire without reading Freire
I have a few simple thumb-rules
If most people in our pro-people circles were right, we would have a fairer, equitable, and just society years ago. We don't have such a society precisely because there's a lot of cognitive lapses in the pro-people circles.
All human beings are animal brains with plenty of cognitive biases and other traps. All of us are struggling all the time with these. Questioning ourselves all the time is the one way to help ourselves out of our human condition.
There is no difference between an elite group of tech-bros stoned on weed and worrying about the state of the world, and a democratic group of health activists dreaming about an alternate social reality (except perhaps the weed). In either case, the material reality of the world doesn't change.
Let the only indicator of the right path be change in material reality. Either people coming out of ill health (ideal) or at least elite people coming out of their cocoons and calling out the system and actually making sacrifices (not a good proxy, but maybe useful)
There are at least two-three separate related skills that's lacking in this side of the world:
- The ability to stand up against a friend circle and say the unpopular thing (contrarian)
- The ability to hold an opposing viewpoint in mind, think sincerely about it, and find points of agreement/disagreement (as opposed to emotionally and viscerally opposing the opposing viewpoint, without even engaging with it "as if it were true") (rational thinking)
- The ability to cut through cruft and focus on the core point and politics being put forward by any particular person (reading between the lines)
I tested Indic Subtitler on a project I had earlier subtitled manually. There were some rough edges (missing lines and incorrect words) but these can be fixed easily from the in-built editor. It would have saved me hours of manual typing. The development of this project is at breakneck speed too!