Found/filed a bug on Mediawiki

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T356558

Just another way of saying "be patient" when it comes to change.

https://blog.learnlearn.in/2024/01/how-world-should-be-and-how-world-is.html

Recently discovered a nifty (and thrifty) video capturing setup. Stand back for more video contents

https://asd.learnlearn.in/scrcpy-magics/

Finding districts without Domino's Pizza

https://asd.learnlearn.in/districts-without-dominos/

After about 5 years of dormancy, migrated learnlearn.in to hugo. Going to create more wiki style content there.

They say you can't be a good doctor until you've killed five patients. Similarly, you cannot be a good sysadmin until you've ran an open relay mail server.

https://asd.learnlearn.in/hardening-mailu/

I'm not sure if I've said this here. I have been studying "leadership" for many years – unaffiliated to any university. I haven't put together my thesis yet. But it is gonna come soon. This article came up in a lit search today and it is very nice

https://hbr.org/2023/03/you-need-two-leadership-gears

Just explaining myself in another debate

https://mbbshacker.blogspot.com/2023/12/whats-most-important-scientific-research.html

In which I send a cease & desist notification to Vidhi

https://mbbshacker.blogspot.com/2023/12/what-ails-indias-approach-to-universal.html

Just documenting some know-how about #subtitles (automatic and manual)

https://asd.learnlearn.in/subtitling-experiments-2023/

In which I heavily quote Ravikant Kisana to state that our world is built on lies and that a radical commitment to truth is what we need to escape savarna mediocrity

https://blog.learnlearn.in/2023/11/radical-commitment-to-truth.html

Often I read ABC's writing and figure out certain problems in their politics. But seldom am I able to convince XYZ that these problems exist.

Spent a couple of hours boosting security of @prav@venera.social

https://codeberg.org/prav/prav/pulls/7

I've written a lot about intersectionality. I finally realize a lot of what I say when I talk about intersectionality is actually about the non-binary.

https://blog.learnlearn.in/2023/11/being-comfortable-with-non-binary.html

There's this functionality that I have done twenty times in vim but after searching stackoverflow every single time. And that is to edit the beginning of a bunch of lines. You've gotta switch to visual mode, select lines, then do some keys, all so difficult to remember.

I'm trying out helix today and it is the first thing I tried and it is so easy to remember.

Select all the lines you want (you can use x to select lines). Start substitution with s Enter regex (^ is what I want) Do what it is that you want? Change with c, insert with i. Esc

Done!

https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.2023.00459