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
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
Unconference after conference
@ranjithsiji @bady @kannan @subins2000 @akshay @arkarjun @praveen @Muzirian
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!
We are here at India FOSS 3.0 in Bangalore, India. Day 1 went pretty well with interesting interactions with many attendees. We are ready to continue Day 2.
Here are some moments from Day 1.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/
Seems like this is the time to move to WordPress
All problems are simple if you have enough free time.
Cleared all emails in all inboxes. Now I can go back to procrastination.
In the last article of the series, Ravikant Kisana gives me the answer to the question that keeps unsettling me – 'How is it that people who speak radical words also do regressive things without blinking?'
Wordle 827 3/6*
Wordle 815 4/6*
Wanted tiling windows for some reason. And OMG! KDE has it built-in now!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D28yWWBkVkk
Wrote a quick guide to download administrative boundaries at ward level from OpenStreetMap
Some practical (?) suggestions on what to do about social media.
https://asd.learnlearn.in/understand-social-media-role-in-democratic-backslide/
After years of work DebConf23 Kochi starts today with DebCamp. Excited to see and meet everyone.
The Land of Spices Hosts the 24th Debian Conference, DebConf'23!
https://www.thedroptimes.com/34115/land-spices-hosts-24th-debian-conference-debconf23