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The least you can do is to refrain from adding to the noise.

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How to Be A Good Armchair Activist
I do not see armchair activism as a pejorative. It can be a valuable form of activism.
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November 11, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Wrote this towards a meeting of medico friends circle

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Why India Misunderstands Violence
The room was cold and lit by artificial lights. It was in a large building in a corner of the city unknown to 10 year old Manu. He has tried everything — resisting, pleading, crying, shouting — to no ...
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November 10, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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A little how-to guide on HTTPS RR in OctoDNS (+Bind)

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HTTPS SVCB Record in OctoDNS with Bind
Heard about HTTPS record and want to set it in OctoDNS. You can now! SVCB is a new type of DNS record that’s like CNAME but with more powers. It is defined in the Service Binding and Parameter Specifi...
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November 5, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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@finnigja.bsky.social On ready.chair6.net?url=learnlea... I get "Hostname learnlearn.in does not have IPv6-addressed DNS servers."
I think it is only checking the authoritative DNS server.

(Not sure whether to report this or whether bsky is the way. But just thought I'll let you know.)
Is your site IPv6 ready?
Test whether a web address, site, URL, or domain is IPv6 accessible. Tests for DNS AAAA records, IPv6-addressable nameservers, glue, IPv6 connectivity (port 80), and several other elements.
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November 5, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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Came across terrastories.app via web.archive.org/web/20250801...
Home - Terrastories
Terrastories is a geostorytelling application built to enable indigenous and other local communities to locate and map their oral storytelling traditions.
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November 3, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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Do you have beginner level programming questions? Feel free to join this community that I am curating.

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(Re-)Introducing Purposeful Programming Community
An invitation to join a safe space for learning programming (hopefully towards a social purpose) Programming (coding, software engineering, or development, whatever you call it) is a very useful skill...
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November 2, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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How to be a Hacker (with less resources) — Hippo
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November 1, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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What do you do when you find data is corrupted on a wiki you maintain? You debug. And then you write about it.

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[FIXED] Mediawiki: There Is Currently No Text in This Page
On the FSCI wiki there were some old pages which were erroring out even though it had page history entries. This is how I fixed it. In the last couple of days, I’ve been doing some maintenance work on...
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October 30, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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Urging CCI to prevent Google's takeover of app distribution

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My Email to CCI against Android Developer Verification
Google recently announced that it’ll be forcing developers to register with government identity cards on their platform to be able to distribute Android applications anywhere. I came across keepandroi...
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October 30, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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A beginner's guide to self-hosting

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Self-hosting
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October 30, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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This article was very much relatable for me. I've never understood how many doctors do 5-10 minute consultations. I spend all night worrying after late night teleconsultations. And I have often felt judged negatively for offering uncertainty as a response.
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Medicine is uncertain: embracing that makes doctors better | Aeon Essays
From late-night calls to unsolved symptoms, uncertainty is woven into every doctor’s day. They should learn to embrace it
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October 27, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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tries to theorize how populist politics works out, and why it works despite it being bad for people. doesn't lead to practical answers straightaway, but does probably help.

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Populism fast and slow
It is natural that a person who is both concerned by the rise of right-wing populism and possessed of a bookish disposition might turn to the academic political science literature in search of a bette...
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October 20, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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Why do people keep saying "don't host your own email"? It's supposed to be interoperable. If you stop hosting your own email, they'll make it a closed network soon.
October 16, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Reposted by Akshay S Dinesh
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How We Are Losing Our Public Health System
A booklet on privatisation and its effects on the public health system (English & Kannada)
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October 8, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Fighting trolls by the day and tending to services in the night

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Doing 5 Years of Sysadmin Work in 5 Hours (Without LLMs)
Clickbait aside, this is a description of how I upgraded an old Peertube instance multiple versions Free Software Community of India has a peertube instance at videos.fsci.in. It was set up originally...
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October 2, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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Fighting the misuse of "science" to do caste aggression

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The Science of Seeing Caste in Everything
There are topics where caste is traditionally invisibilized/erased. Thanks to social change, people are able to stand up and assert and call out caste in many such topics these days. When that happens...
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September 19, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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In which I argue how public health, as it is practised today, is bullshit

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Public Health is Bullshit
If a clinician treats tuberculosis with Paracetamol alone, they would be labeled an idiot. Tuberculosis is a disease caused by microorganisms. But also tuberculosis disproportionately affects people w...
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September 19, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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A long overdue travelogue

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Where Time Takes a Break
Swathi and I went to Puducherry this weekend. Just to take a break. Day 0 We left on Thursday night in KSRTC's AC sleeper from Bengaluru's Shanthinagar bus stand. It was the old white Ambari Dre...
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September 17, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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What if there was a shop which sold organizational values?

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1kg Equity Please
When there is a power-cut and kids are annoyed, we tell them "Here's 10 rupees, go to the shop and buy 1kg current (electricity)" The kids immediately get it. You can't purchase electricity like th...
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September 10, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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On agency.

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The World is Malleable
TW: Mentions a techbro There is a 90 second video of Steve Jobs on the internet from the time SJ had a beard and lots of hair. In that, in less than 2 minutes, Steve Jobs makes an elevator pitch for a...
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September 9, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Documenting how much we pay domestic worker

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Paying Domestic Worker
In my previous post I wrote about how much capital I know I have. In this I tackle another question that might be interesting to people to compare their situations — how much we pay the domestic worke...
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September 7, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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A rough sense of how much capital I have as of now

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Capital
It was three years ago in November 2022 that I last wrote about my financial situation. That post ended with my bank balance at around 11 lakhs. I left Kinara capital in June 2023, and then I perhaps ...
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September 7, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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The scientific method is not an 18th century European creation. It's what human beings (and brainy animals) are born with since before history.
September 6, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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The behind-the-scenes story of Kaanu's online version.

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Visualizing Annotated Bibliographies — Story of Kaanu
https://www.instagram.com/p/DNPdaE8pzuH/ Last year in August, Kaanu was launched in BR Hills. Kaanu is a South Indian Adivasi Knowledge Centre. The people behind Kaanu has been collecting and annotati...
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August 29, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Notes/links on protecting mediawiki from crawlers

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Mediawiki Crawler Spam (DDoS!)
These days everyone wants to crawl the internet. And if you’re a sysadmin of a mediawiki instance, that means hundreds of thousands of requests to the links on your site The problem is especially both...
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August 28, 2025 at 12:07 PM