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Posts by Akshay S Dinesh

Poshan Tracker Face Verification Decompiling Poshan Tracker app to inspect its face verification functionality A Decode investigation reported that “AI Facial Recognition Is Denying Food To Pregnant Women Across India” on March 19. T...

Looking into Poshan Tracker face verification system

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Giving Love A Chance There were 3 JCBs working on a single section of road in Indiranagar today. The section which contains metro entrance A. I exited the metro today via the same entrance. But I did not go to the road wh...

Diary entry of someone who's obviously in love

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The Search for Meaningful Work People who are stuck in a paradigm of work that they don't believe in will often have a vague feeling of discomfort and discontent within them. This can take the form of a frustration, or a question. ...

If you're happy with what you do in life, this post will make no sense. But if you're not, this might give you some comfort.

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Two Kinds of Frustrations with Progressive Spaces By "progressive", I mean what's popularly referred to as "progressive". The movements, the NGOs, the protest sites, and the like. It is easy to find people frustrated with progressive spaces. But ther...

tl;dr: the frustration with how work gets done and the frustration with what work gets done

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Buddhism And Scientific Temper | K. Ashok Vardhan Shetty, I.A.S (Retd.)
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Buddhism and Scientific Temper | K. Ashok Vardhan Shetty, I.A.S (Retd.)

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Towards Mapping and Defining Critical Hype Studies: Multidisciplinary Insights and Future Directions Hype is no longer a peripheral element of technoscientific discourse; it is a central force shaping how futures are imagined, circulated, and enacted within innovation cultures. This position paper in...

> Hype Studies is an emergent, transdisciplinary research arena aimed to investigate hype as a powerful and pervasive phenomenon that influences economic trends, political agendas, media narratives, and technological developments.

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Come at me 1) Some teachers don’t want to publish nor perish. They are thriving without any desire to scopus, scope them or scope anybody else for that matter. I am curious about the various kinds of unacknow…

I just found so much joy in reading this treatise on critical pedagogy.

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Irreverence is the Only Cure to Traditionalism All challenges to progressive change come from an unwillingness to question and rewrite traditions. Power — capitalism, caste, patriarchy, etc — is kept alive by traditions around who does what kind o...

I owe my life to irreverence. Fuck JNU professors, for example.

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No Matter How Rich You Are, You Won't Be Able to Afford a Hospital Visit in 2030 — Here's How It Will Play Out From 1947 till 2025, the government healthcare system has constantly been hollowed out, albeit slowly. But in the next 5 years, there is going to be a sudden shift towards extremely expensive, insuran...

Maybe you can't get a frog to stay in slowly boiling water, but you can definitely keep human beings scrolling reels when they are about to be cooked alive.

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The Diary of a Revolutionary Person Working Inside the System Day 1 of being a revolutionary person working inside the system I saw injustice being meted out by the system today. I decided to stand up against it. I was thrown out of the system.

Just a thought exercise

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Stop Fixing Problems I read the book "Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus" long ago. There's one chapter or so in the book that talks about how women talk about problems and how men try to "fix" them immediately, and ...

Stop fixing problems and start struggling with them

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Tired of Mental Health "Excuses"? Of late, I have started seeing a pattern around the responses people have to mental health issues. The first time someone talks about their mental health issue(s), people are incredibly supportive. Th...

I'm starting to get tired of people getting tired of mental health issues.

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God Has No Shoulders "People believe in god because there are things that frighten them beyond their control and the idea that someone is there to look after them gives them hope and stability". Growing up as an atheist, ...

I'm returning to atheism

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How To Do Nothing It was past 10 PM when Shubhangani, Swathi, and I stepped into Goobe's Book Republic in Church Street this Tuesday. We had met at 6:30 PM in Blossom Book House and had been chatting non-stop all of th...

In which I review a book which validates a lot of my political choices

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Resuscitating Old SMC Services How I migrated old services of Swathanthra Malayalam Computing to a new server saving software (and money) When web based software get old, people stop caring for them. Shiny new alternatives become c...

While the world was struggling with react2shell, I was moving old software to new servers

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Donate and support KDE Help us create software that gives you full freedom and protects your privacy, and be a part of a great community

Please donate to KDE if you can!
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MediaWiki Extension: BlocklistEmailDomains I built an extension for mediawiki to prevent spam sign-ups. This is the story I’ve been working on building a wiki for health (including its social determinants) in India. In that process I’ve been f...

Scratching the itch caused by spammers and learning php in that process

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Simple CI/CD Here’s how I do CI/CD without all the fuss You need only one thing for Continuous Integration - a working test suite. You need only one thing for Continuous Deployment - automatic database migrations....

Documenting a simple CI/CD setup I use for a web service.

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Cost of health: How Karnataka's PPP hospitals can shut out the poor from free treatment

Cost of health: How Karnataka's PPP hospitals can shut out the poor from free treatment

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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.

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

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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 ...

Wrote this towards a meeting of medico friends circle

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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...

A little how-to guide on HTTPS RR in OctoDNS (+Bind)

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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.

@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.)

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Home - Terrastories Terrastories is a geostorytelling application built to enable indigenous and other local communities to locate and map their oral storytelling traditions.

Came across terrastories.app via web.archive.org/web/20250801...

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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...

Do you have beginner level programming questions? Feel free to join this community that I am curating.

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How to be a Hacker (with less resources) — Hippo

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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...

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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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...

Urging CCI to prevent Google's takeover of app distribution

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Self-hosting

A beginner's guide to self-hosting

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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

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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