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What Did I Learn From Free Software Movement?

Back in 2010-2011, when I was a under-graduate student of computer science, I got introduced to GNU/Linux operating system and then gradually got introduced to the free software movement through FSFTN. Since then, I have been active with the free software movement by doing activism (i.e asking people …


Join Scuttleverse

People are already speaking and writing about what is Scuttlebot, Scuttleverse and Patchwork. If you have not read them or heard them or tried them already, you can explore the following links,


Learnings From Building Offline First Web App

I wrote a web app recently. The purpose of the web app is to map the cooperatives around us. I'll speak about the intentions behind it in another post, for now let us focus on the Offline First approach of this app. The application is hosted here live.

Initial Version …


Self Hosting Guide - Part 1

Quoting my own words from my very first post.

I can always move the site to other providers / host my own, if I at some point needed to abandon github (it's already a proprietary platform).

Here I am, self-hosting my blog and code as well. When I use the word …


கொரில்லா ஓப்பன் ஆக்சஸ் அறிக்கை

Aaron Swartz published Guerilla Open Access Manifesto back in 2008 when he was alive. This is my attempt to translate the english version to Tamil.

தகவல் அறியும் உரிமை என்பதும் ஒரு வித அதிகாரம். அனைத்து அதிகாரங்களைப் போலவ …


Marx, Wikipedia & Torrents

  • Karl Marx - 19th Century Philosopher, Economist, Sociologist, Journalist and an Revolutionary Socialist.
  • Wikipedia - An Internet encylopedia available in many languages built by people around the world.
  • BitTorrent - A Peer-to-Peer file sharing protocol / program that is used by most of the people around the world.

So why did I pick these …


The Internet As We Know

Note: Links for community initiatives, projects, discussion, articles on meshnet are listed at the end of this post.

Internet (இணையம்) as you know is defined as "network of networks". These networks are setup by users and communities. But inter-connecting these networks across street, cities, state, countries and the world …


Do You Have A URL?

1. Do I have a (web)site / blog?

Yes, I do. You are reading it and also I have some other blogs too.

2. Can you access it?

Answer 1: Yes, if you are connected to the global network called Internet.

Answer 2: No, if you are trying to access …


Uncensored - Circumventing Censorship

It's been 2 months since I have enrolled myself for the post graduate course in Networks & Internet Engineering (NIE) at Pondicherry University. The campus is a beautiful place to be and has rich bio-diversity preserved inside. It is also a Wi-Fi enabled campus scaling to various schools from engineering to …

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