Mozilla, the organization behind Firefox actually does more than just build software. In its advocacy efforts, they roped in Veronica Belmont to make IRL: Online Life Is Real Life, a podcast that explores various aspects of privacy in everyday life explained in a way that can be understood by everyone. It is into the third season and the current episode takes a look at the dilemma of sharing data with companies for free services and privacy.
Raison d’être When I first installed this system, I was oblivious to disk encryption and didn’t factor it in. This resulted in a non-LVM system with some haphazard partitions from subsequent resizing and nuking of Windows in the past few years. One good decision I took when installing was to separate / and /home so this turned out to be easier than I thought.
Preparation I was apprehensive of ending up with a dead system before today’s DGPLUG session, so I managed to get weechat up and running inside tmux in a virtual console.
Today’s session of summer training in #dgplug on freenode is a follow up on writing and its importance. I wanted to share an answer to one of my doubts given by Jason.
It is established that one has to write regardless of its quality to kick start the habit. The major roadblock is mostly on topic and specificity since there are times when you are in no man’s land. With this laid out, lets get to the answer.
Fractals are never ending patterns found in nature that are impossible to describe in classical geometry. I was intrigued by this topic after a long time since I had programmed some koch curves for an exercise in the Think Python book.
Some pictures, and the code can be found on github.
The post on how to generate trees1 made me realise that the topic was very general not just related to the curves I had done earlier.
I did not realize that I had an article and a draft stuck in Medium and I thought how difficult would it be to yank it from there and import it to Hugo. This post documents a short version of how to do it.
First, export all your data from Medium. This contains posts as well as other content that you have contributed to the site: claps, bookmarks, topics etc. Since I wanted to export just one post I went in to posts directory and found an HTML file corresponding to that article.
After a lot of thinking and trying out various static site generators I have settled on using hugo. To be honest there was no particular preference other than it being available in the Arch repository and migration was made easier since I was able to use a WordPress exporter, exitwp.
The post, https://samaxes.com/2016/02/static-site-from-wordpress-to-hugo/ was helpful in nudging me to hugo as well. I did not bother with comments and other complexities mentioned in that post although it can be useful for some.
After getting an admit I was elated and frankly never thought of the arduous journey ahead. The process can be grouped into these steps:
Getting the required documents Legalisation Submitting the application Getting the required documents If you have a degree certificate, then great. Most often, students completing their studies in the same year don’t get it. Don’t wait for the university convocation, instead get a provisional certificate after the results have been announced.
After hours and hours of getting a simple low pass filter to work, I couldn’t help but share this. With a host of FOSS EDA tools in linux, I really couldn’t resist start using it. I got to credit Ashwith, for the wonderful SPICE tutorials without which my life would have been more miserable.
I wouldn’t like to repeat what Ashwith has already written, but I would like to show the schema and results that you can obtain with ngspice as well as matplotlib which are as good as any commercial software that you would use.
I am going with git-bash since it doesn’t mess up my Windows installation. Also it is more than enough for standard tasks. Get git from http://git-scm.com/download/win. Install git-bash, its a straight forward process. We need to generate ssh keys for communicating with either http://github.com or http://bitbucket.org. If you already have keys from a Linux or Mac, you can use that. Just copy your ~/.ssh to your home directory in Windows. To generate new keys, open git-bash and do
I had an urge to write this post since setting up a dial-up connection took me quite an effort. First of all you should have bluez and wvdial installed.
sudo pacman -S bluez sudo pacman -S wvdial First scan for bluetooth-enabled devices by
hcitool scan If there are any devices, its address and name would be displayed. Copy the required address. Now, create rfcomm device to connect to your phone via bluetooth.