Dec 7, 2016

When you are out on the road and don't have access to water, you can identify punctures by putting them on sandy ground and look for the dust being blown away by the air leaking out.

Tags: cycling

Nov 1, 2016

This is a graph I made for contributing to Wikipedia. It shows the energy of a black body as the sum of energies from oscillators with 1 photon, 2 photons, 3 photons, etc.

Tags: physics, gnuplot, software

Oct 26, 2016

Two weeks ago, on October 15, in one of Concern's reading sessions, we read the first chapter of Manufacturing Consent by Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky. The book describes a propaganda model that describes how the mass media are not objective but rather publish news favourable to the government and the ruling elite. This is a short summary of the five filters of the propaganda model developed in the book.

Tags: politics

Oct 10, 2016

I attended the FSFTN Camp held from September 30 to October 2. This is an account of my experience there.

Tags: freesoftware, fsftn, tiruchi

Aug 30, 2016

A greasemonkey user script that removes the noscript mask on ebay and lets the user browse ebay without enabling javascript…

Tags: javascript, software, greasemonkey

Jul 27, 2016

An elegant bash one liner to generate a passphrase – shuf from coreutils is the secret ingredient.

Tags: software, bash

Jul 25, 2016

IISc has made Aadhaar mandatory for new admissions this term. This comes as yet another violation of the Supreme Court ruling making Aadhaar purely voluntary – only this time so close to home.

Tags: aadhaar, privacy, iisc

Jul 20, 2016

Yet another passphrase generator, this time one in bash…

Tags: project, software, bash

Jun 11, 2016

A bash script, run periodically by a cron job, to post the day's NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day to GNU Social. The script uses GNU Social's Twitter compatible API to publish notices.

Tags: gnusocial, astronomy, project, software, bash

Mar 24, 2016

SRFI-1 fold and SRFI-41 stream-fold pass arguments to proc in different orders. Violating the principle of least astonishment, this comes as a rather inconvenient surprise to the programmer.

Tags: lisp, scheme, functionalprogramming, software

Jan 20, 2016

My troubles with self hosting a mail server. In the name of countering spam, mail has become such a quagmire of blacklisting, whitelisting, etc. – in other words – censorship. email is in danger of becoming gmail. email is such an elegant set of protocols with decentralization built into its heart. We must not let it become a victim to centralization.

Tags: selfhosting, internet

Jan 18, 2016

This is a republication of an introductory article I wrote for the

Tags: freesoftware

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