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nemo @nemo.tatooine.club.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2025

@Edent “When We Cease to Understand the World” does this well.

nemo @nemo.tatooine.club.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2025

Finally got a bot setup working against bookmyshow. Going as-safe as I can: fetch (and respect) robots.txt, cache strongly, and crawl _very slowly_ (10 requests in a minute or so). I'm still having to scrape far more than I need (since I can't easily filter for Bangalore with their sitemap) […]

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FOSS United @fossunited.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2025

🚀 Excited to announce an invited talk at #IndiaFOSS2025! Join Yatindra Singh, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court, as he shares insights on the Adoption of FOSS by Indian Courts. ⚖️🐧 Discover how the Allahabad High Court’s early 2004 shift to Linux and LibreOffice […] [Original post on mas.to]

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nemo @nemo.tatooine.club.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2025

Updated the travel calendar on my website. Planning to be in Paris for Diwali + wedding season is here as well.

Catch me on

17 Aug - Samay Raina - Still Alive & Unfiltered
26-27 Aug - In Goa for a wedding
30-2 Sep - [Tentative] Puducherry
19 Sep - [Planning] a Maintainer Summit at IndiaFOSS
20-21 Sep - IndiaFOSS 2025. I am hosting an Open Data Devroom with a few opendata geeks.
1-3 Oct - Haldwani, Uttarakhand for a wedding
7 Oct - Transiting in Delhi
8-15 Oct - Travelling through Barcelona
18-24 Oct - In Paris for a conference
13-14 Dec - In Gurgaon for a wedding

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nemo @nemo.tatooine.club.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2025

GitHub now supports a much larger variety of files as attachments in issues etc: - Code and data (.py, .yaml, .yml, .css, .xml, .html, .htm, .js, .sql, .java, .c, .cpp, .sh, .php, .ts, .tsx, .cs, .ipynb, .pdb, .xlsm, .tsv, .drawio, .bin) - Documents (.rtf, .doc) - Text and email (.debug, .msg […]

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FOSS United @fossunited.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2025

🚀Announcing the first talk at #IndiaFOSS2025! Join Chad Whitacre, Head of Open Source @ Sentry, to explore how Open Source thrives as a gift economy & how to fund it sustainably. 🎟 Get tickets: fossunited.org/dashboard/buy-ticket… […] [Original post on mas.to]

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nemo @nemo.tatooine.club.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2025

I am hosting a Maintainer Summit at IndiaFOSS this year. 19th September. Bangalore (venue should be finalized in a few days). Open to all Open-Commons and Open-Source maintainers. Unconference. Come meet your fellow maintainers, share your learnings and take that energy forward to #IndiaFOSS […]

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nemo @nemo.tatooine.club.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2025

Puzzled Pint Bangalore is happening tomorrow night! We'll be at Secret Story Bar & Kitchen in Indiranagar from 6:30pm onwards. You can register at www.district.in/events/puzzled-pint… We've also updated the previous month's leaderboards. Last month has […]

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nemo @nemo.tatooine.club.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2025

@badrihippo Congratulations 🎉. I might just get a KaiOS phone to try this out.

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nemo @nemo.tatooine.club.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2025

My homeserver went down yesterday, because a HDD cable disconnected. I use internal disks, but the server is kept behind my fridge where my cat often hides. Not a big deal, caught in time - btrfs RAID1 switched to readonly after disk went missing. Brought it up online, and triggered a scrub […]

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nemo @nemo.tatooine.club.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2025

Finally cleared the first 5 decks in #Balatro and unlocked the challenges - they look neat, will try one tomorrow.

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nemo @nemo.tatooine.club.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2025

Won a Quiz last night, mostly thanks to my teammates. But was quite fun! Also, finally got to visit the “Workplace of Wonders” building at Double Road. I’ve been seeing it under construction for the last year, and was curious who occupies it. VC Firm it is (Lightspeed). Cool office, though - […]

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nemo @nemo.tatooine.club.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2025

I cannot signup for #puttingscene still because it only allows WhatsApp OTP (which needs me to accept the new ToS).

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nemo @nemo.tatooine.club.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2025

endoflife.date is 6yrs old now (started ~May 2019). We crossed 17M impressions on Google Search this month. Works without Javascript, no ads served, no money spent advertising, no fancy SEO. Just trying to be helpful.

Your July performance on Google Search

https://endofife.date/

180K Clicks (web)
17.6M Impressions (web)

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nemo @nemo.tatooine.club.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2025

@medianama is covering NIXI's new stupid KYC policy for the .in TLD: > NIXI is seeking to enforce KYC via for domain registration , and disallowing [..] foreign citizens without a crazy amount of paperwork [..] . This is a regressive move [..] and goes against the spirit of the way the internet […]

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nemo @nemo.tatooine.club.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2025

NIXI is the dumbest registry operator there could be. It’s now forcing a trifecta of silly changes: - You need a mobile + email auth. - Foreign entities need to demonstrate Indian business connection. - KYC for everyone, including foreign nationals […]

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nemo @nemo.tatooine.club.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2025

PSA: If you are using an LLM to write most of a contribution (Code, Documentation, Wiki, ...), please disclose it. It hurts to guess.

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nemo @nemo.tatooine.club.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2025

Created a new page on my website to track various security reports I send out. I don't often follow up on my reports, since these aren't for bounties. This is just to keep track of some of my "invisible" work. Since this is just a tracker, there's very little details […]

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nemo @nemo.tatooine.club.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2025

Ref: Recent #CoinDCX breach. Was going through my emails, and I remembered I'd reached out to them in 2021 asking for clarifications on their Insurance, Audits, and Certifications. In particular, their Certification (ISO 9001:2015) was meaningless, their Insurance was very limited in scope […]

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nemo @nemo.tatooine.club.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2025

[creepy, horror-adjacent] @badrihippo You're spoiling the ending :)

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nemo @nemo.tatooine.club.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2025

Apple is giving me Apple Arcade free for 2 months, only subscribing to try out #Balatro.

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nemo @nemo.tatooine.club.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2025

Creepy story idea: Disney keeps their next blockbuster director alive forever so that the Copyright becomes eternal.

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nemo @nemo.tatooine.club.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2025

The "subscribe" button at blr.today finally works properly on all devices, not just iOS/Linux. I also added a pretty changelog: blr.today/changelog Last week's update was the "Screensaver" button which is meant to be used at display monitors.

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Curated 🍉

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nemo @nemo.tatooine.club.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2025

It is 2025, and I am still reporting vulnerabilities for admin dashboards behind a admin=true cookie. Sigh.

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nemo @nemo.tatooine.club.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2025

The Pebble Core 2 Duo is now called the Pebble 2 Duo, ericmigi.com/blog/july-pebble-update I will still call it the Core 2 Duo. Estimated delivery is in August. Can’t wait!

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nemo @nemo.tatooine.club.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2025

And it’s fixed. Classic XML entity confusion stuff. Good job Movim team 🙌🏼.

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nemo @nemo.tatooine.club.ap.brid.gy · 21/07/2025

Managed to pinpoint it to Movim: github.com/movim/movim/issues/1452 Also, xmpp.earth upgraded their Movim version to the latest, which is great. But this just reduces my confidence in XMPP as a whole - out-of-band-verified-password-change should be a bare requirement for every IM service.

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Change password breaks if password includes `&` · Issue #1452 · movim/movim

Tested against prosody on yax.im as well as xmpp.earth. If you login and change your password from Movim to &&&&&&&& - Movim sets password incorrectly, and you cannot login further. I tested the sa...

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nemo @nemo.tatooine.club.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2025

Gets even weirder: Movim seems to break with a password that contains an `&`. xmpp.earth is running an older Movim version, and I'm losing confidence in my host this time as well. I picked xmpp.earth based on the rating at providers.xmpp.net/provider/xmpp.ea… (which is a community […]

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nemo @nemo.tatooine.club.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2025

Of course I get hit by a bug and get locked out of the account as soon as I change my password. Probably issues.prosody.im/1784, but need to validate.

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#1784 Prosody authenitcation failure after changing password (open) - Prosody IM Issue Tracker

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nemo @nemo.tatooine.club.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2025

Inspired by the latest Matrix HN rant, setup a new XMPP account (the last instance I picked died without a note) - xmpp:nemo@xmpp.earth. Will update my contact page in a bit.

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nemo @nemo.tatooine.club.ap.brid.gy · 12/07/2025

Kite News by Kagi is so close to my vision of what I was trying to build with kite.kagi.com Their core principles (kite.kagi.com) closely match the curation notes that I'd written: news.tatooine.club/about I feel that relying on crowd-sourced RSS feeds results in a […]

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nemo @nemo.tatooine.club.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2025

Two interesting blog posts about districts in India, and how it impacts #opendata work: scroll.in/article/672665/how-many-d… (2014, originally published on QZ which broke now shows an incorrect date of 2022) […]

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nemo @nemo.tatooine.club.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2025

> DGCA [is] mandating that window shades for passenger seats remain closed for flights arriving into and departing from defence airfields [..] How is DGCA allow to issue an order that knowingly increases flight risk, that too a month after the largest Civil Aviation disaster in decades. DGCA […]

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nemo @nemo.tatooine.club.ap.brid.gy · 07/07/2025

@Edent Worked! +1 for the "2nd Hand" label.

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nemo @nemo.tatooine.club.ap.brid.gy · 07/07/2025

@Edent Is it a UK-only link? I don't see it, and curious how you're dropping it.

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nemo @nemo.tatooine.club.ap.brid.gy · 02/07/2025

The Highest Billed innovation in the last eCourts Project report from 2019 is use of #OpenSource software. Estimated savings are 340 crore (Pg 22) ecourts.gov.in/ecourts_home/static/…

1. Use of Open Source Technology in eCourts Project The eCourts project is built on the foundation of Open Source Technology. FOSS, without any licensing subscription charges, has been adopted for deploying ICT solutions in the Courts. Use of FOSS, has not only reduced the cost on purchase of system software but has also provided freedom to customize, modify and distribute the software to the courts. FOSS software technology stack customized by eCommittee and NIC (OTG) Chennai, is implemented in all the courts of the country. Ubuntu Server operating System is customized as per the requirements of the eCourts Project and developed as auto-installation product by NIC (OTG) Chennai. Ubuntu Desktop with all the necessary tools required by the courts staff and Judicial Officers ‘was customized and distributed by the e-Committee 7,500 Servers, 1,45,000 Desktops are provided in 3000 District and Taluka Court Complexes across the Country. Around 19,000 Laptops are procured for Judicial Officers. National Data Centre houses NJDG and citizen centric applications, like ecourts.gov.in, NJDG using ELK, Mobile Apps, e-Filing, with more than 250 VMs of

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which 70 are used as database VMs and remaining as application and Elastic search VM.

Open Source Technology Stack used in the Courts: A table showing software various open source software compared to their proprietary equivalents. Includes Linux/Windows, Postgres/Oracle, Cordova, LibreOffice, Elastic, D3.js, and Kibana

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nemo @nemo.tatooine.club.ap.brid.gy · 02/07/2025

Quite ironically, I've been unable to read the NYTimes article on Cloudflare's anti-bot / AI-scraper stuff because the Datadome bot protection service that NYTimes uses keeps thinking that I am a bot.

You have been blocked from The New York Times because we suspect that you're a robot.

Why am I seeing this? There are a few possibilities: « You are browsing and clicking much faster than is typical of a human being « Something is preventing Javascript from working on your computer There is a bot with the same IP address as you Having trouble? Contact support. ID: 6deb26b8-19a5-741a-0e90-1e0be62f96d0

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