archlinux user comes to do a presentation, projector resolution doesn't work proper and the archlinux audience all comes on stage to help and fix it. awwwwwwwwwwww.
ArchLinux wiki/forums in real life.
@FOSSCell
#FOSSMeet
#FOSSMeet23
My CS engineering degree forced me to explore Assembly, Compiler Design and it blew my mind on the inner workings of a computer. I find most programmers working on the higher level abstractions fail to see the beauty of it or is blissfully ignorant.
I made a Malayalam Wordle game #മwordle.
Thanks to
@youyuxi
for his vue3 implementation of wordle. It's my first time working with vue3, I love it! Soooo simple & faaaast builds !
Varnam project is used for transliteration & dictionary
The misinformation will reach the masses more than the fact check, adding more petrol to the fire in the minds of many that Kerala is a terrible place, *sigh*
A video of Sabarimala rush where a kid is seen crying and seeking help to find his father and the police personnel consoling the kid is shared with misleading context.
Hello
@TheKeralaPolice
👋
These accounts are trying to incite people online by misrepresenting the video.
Thanks to my college, my Manglish app has been featured as a news article in today's Deepika newspaper.
Hope it reaches more people who'll find it useful.
I didn't tell appa & amma that it's gonna come. My my, the surprise on their faces ! 😁😊
My first Ubuntu version was 9.04.
I'm lowkey proud to say that Ubuntu 22.04 package repo will now have a software I made, Varnam :)
sudo apt install libgovarnam1
Introducing , an easy way to transfer files & messages across all your devices seamlessly.
It works entirely on your browser with
@WebTorrentApp
, no installation needed ! Plus all devices under the same WiFi auto join the same room!
Made
@MLHacks
#webrtc
Me and many others in Kerala got introduced to GNU/Linux because of that school curriculum, I was instantly amazed by the terminal.
Kids are very curious beings, give them things that makes them more curious and let em explore. GNU/Linux systems are perfect for that.
Did you know that the government of Kerala included free software in the school curriculum inspired by protests from free software enthusiasts and a favorable stance taken by a school teachers association? 1/2
@dhh
> Microsoft had an incredible 94% marketshare. It used this marketshare to seriously slow down the evolution of the internet
Apple does that today by forcing WebKit on iOS browser apps and lagging Safari on the desktop.
How similar!
Introducing , words & memes that you won't find in a "formal" dictionary.
Malayalam internet culture is growing fast that the language itself is evolving with new terms and phrases and we want to document it.
Inspired by Urban Dictionary & knowyourmeme.
Almost missed the train to Busan by 4 minutes if not for that appachan and ammachi who guided us all the way from Seoul airport to Seoul train station
We talked entirely via Google Translate. Adrenaline rush first experience
We thanked him for the help and this was his reply <3
Introducing Vett (പൂജ്യം വെട്ട്), the online multiplayer version of the Dots-and-Boxes game you played in school !
Unlimited number of players can play together ! Works P2P with WebRTC & WebTorrent trackers 🔥
Source:
Saw a random paper on brother's table 🤣
Asked him for more context: apparently KTU now has a communications subject and this was an online exam, teacher just want something, വായിച്ച് നോക്കില്ലാത്രേ 🤣
I have published a new app on Play Store. It's "Manglish", an app to convert Malayalam text to Manglish.
To help malayalees who understand
#Malayalam
, but can't read Malayalam.
Now you can understand your WhatsApp ammavavan forwards easily :D :P
Kerala state IT textbooks teach GIMP and I've seen students making some cool artworks with it using a mouse.
Here's this year's state IT Fair digital painting entries:
Finally took the leap and installed
@AsahiLinux
on the M1 macbook!
I installed it while having lunch. It was that easy.
രണ്ടു-വർഷത്തേ-കാത്തിരിപ്പാ.jpg 🥹
മഴയത്തും വെയിലത്തും ഒരുപോലെ ഉപയോഗിക്കാൻ "Made in Kerala" ദിനേശ് കുടകൾ!
@edwardbetts
and everyone else here at
#DebConf24
is making good use of the umbrella swag
#DebConf23
Kochi gifted last year :)
After a significant amount of debugging and development by
@mufeedvh
, he has finally finished a native Indic language typing tool for Windows!
Launching at
#WikiConferenceKerala23
this Saturday 🎉
I was traveling to my friend
@mujeebcpy
's wedding in Palakkad and I unfortunately sat at the wrong side of the bus with the sun. I tweeted this from inside the bus.
@amithv_
later built and it became an international hit!
A good domino effect eh :)
Happy to announce Malayalam, Tamil, Hindi keyboards are now available on GNU/Linux phones with GNOME Phosh ! Varnam is handling the transliteration.
This is an outcome from
#DebConf23
Kochi.
Source code of the keyboard:
Saw this at the GitHub constellation event, how many such critical dependencies are there from India though?
I find it to be very very very less, on product level yes, on dependency level no.
But I know Debian package maintainers from India who does that thankless job
അഞ്ച് കൊല്ലം കഴിഞ്ഞാൽ നാട്ടിൽ മൊത്തം ബിറ്റ്കോയിൻ ആയിരിക്കുമെന്നും ചായ വാങ്ങിക്കൽ ഒക്കെ ഇനി blockchain വഴിയാവും എന്ന് MLM കൂട്ടുകാരൻ 2018 ൽ പറഞ്ഞത് സത്യമായി, ദേ ബിറ്റ്കോയിൻ ചോക്ക്ലേറ്റ് ഫ്രം കുന്നംകുളം, ചായയിൽ മുക്കി കഴിക്കാം 😋
ബണ്ണും തേങ്ങയും വെച്ചൊക്കെ പുതിയ software ഉണ്ടാക്കൽ is easy. ഒരു 3 വർഷത്തെ codebase ഭംഗിയായി ഭാവിയിലേക്ക് മേയ്ക്കാനാണ് പാട്.
കോളേജിൽ നിന്നിറങ്ങി ജോലിക്ക് കയറുമ്പോഴേ അത് മനസ്സിലാവൂ. അപ്പോൾ നമ്മൾ പുത്തൻ ഫാഷൻ വിട്ട്, എങ്ങനെ കാര്യങ്ങൾ നടത്തിക്കും എന്ന് ചിന്തിക്കും.
Couple of us on the side in
#FOSSMeet
is archiving the first IT
@School
ISOs and having some nostalgia on the OS we grew up with in schools.
I've brought the IT
@School
Ubuntu 10.04 CD I have. It is difficult to find a CD reader these days haha!
#Kerala_Retrocomputing
@AsianetNewsML
കേരള ചരിത്രത്തിൽ തന്നെ ഏറ്റവും വലിയ ഭൂരിപക്ഷം കൊടുത്ത് ജയിപ്പിച്ച ജനത്തെ കളിയാക്കൽ അല്ലേ ഇത്. പുതുമുഖമാണ് ലക്ഷ്യമെങ്കിൽ മുഖ്യമന്ത്രിയും മാറട്ടെ.
"What is the difference between free software and open source" I asked Pirate Praveen.
"Open source emphasizes on improving the software while not saying much about user freedom, free software is primarily about the user freedom and the community".
I made a simple tool to encode/decode Hindu-Arabic numerals to/from Malayalam numerals :
It's written in Thengascript i.e the source code is in Malayalam !
It's my first program written in Malayalam :)
My uncle passed away last week. He was an advocate, a rational in its true sense. ഒരു കാലത്ത് രാഷ്ട്രീയപ്രവർത്തനങ്ങളിൽ സജീവമായിരുന്നു.
I'll terribly miss having talks with him on law and politics. He wrote a poem last month which feels like a foreshadowing now.
See how this critical Bill was introduced, amid chaos, in about 1 minute, and one MP who had submitted a motion to oppose it was not allowed to move or speak on it!
I made a Malayalam Wordle game #മwordle.
Thanks to
@youyuxi
for his vue3 implementation of wordle. It's my first time working with vue3, I love it! Soooo simple & faaaast builds !
Varnam project is used for transliteration & dictionary
Pothys Ernakulam using Ubuntu for billing. By the looks of it, Ubuntu 14.04, or 16.04. Looks like a Java app, couldn't confirm it.
I wonder if they have a contract with Canonical for extended security support.
Curiously or maybe even weirdly, the library is 5+ times faster on a Ubuntu ARM in VM in M1 than native M1.
Anyone know why this is happening ? Can a VM be faster than native ?!
Announcing the first release of Varnam Webpage Embed Plugin:
Enable Malayalam typing in any website easily!
Built this in the last 2 days at
#enfoss
, a FOSS conference at MACE college Kothamangalam.
ഞാൻ വെള്ളമടിക്കാറില്ലെങ്കിലും വെള്ളമടി ഗാങ്ങിൽ ഇരുന്ന് മനുഷ്യ സ്വഭാവം analyse ചെയ്യുന്നത് എന്റെ ഒരു വിനോദമാണ്. curl ൽ നിന്ന് top level abstracted functions ഉപയോഗിക്കാതെ raw socket functions ഉപയോഗിക്കുന്ന അവസ്ഥയാണ് വെള്ളമടിച്ച് മത്തായ ഒരു മനുഷ്യൻ. Unexpected ആയ പല കാര്യങ്ങൾ വരും.
Teaching amma Malayalam keyboard. Circle of life eh. Manglish won't work for her, because the spelling millenials use is very different from their assumption of words.
@smcproject
's Indic Keyboard is super useful for all generations.
Keep up the awesome work
@jishnu7
!
Met
@_stultus
after like 5 years. Last time we met in Kunnamkulam, this time in Ernakulam :p
I was in college 2nd year last time we met, goshdarn time flies!
Talks were all about
@smcproject
and hacker culture :) And thanks for giving a tour around Entri office
There is a very big difference between learning
coding for fun/problem solving
&
coding for a job.
I started it when I was 11 out of my own personal curiosity.
It shouldn't be forced on kids and no, 12 year olds shouldn't have the pressure to become the next big millionaire.
My first hardware project ! Piano Stairs
Made with Raspberry Pi and ultrasonic sensors. It's not perfect(sync), but works alright (if you're lucky enough).
Here's me stress testing it :P
@Outoftune
@aana
.site
I studied engineering for free and not much stress with competitive exams by targeting private engineering colleges with alright KEAM ranks.
AICTE has a full fee waiver scholarship for top 6 ranks in a college, I studied to get into that 6 ranks, KEAM rank: 11,500 something.
കേരളത്തിന്റെ ഒരു പ്രമുഖ ടെക്നിക്കൽ യൂണിവേഴ്സിറ്റിയിൽ നിന്നും ഞാൻ രക്ഷപ്പെട്ടിരിക്കുകയാണ് സുഹൃത്തുക്കളേ ! ഇപ്പോൾ മനസ്സിന് നല്ല സ്വസ്ഥതയുണ്ട്. ഇനി എക്സാമൊന്നും എഴുതേണ്ടല്ലോ !
ജൂണിയേഴ്സിന്റെ എക്സാം രോധനങ്ങൾ കാണുമ്പോൾ വിഷമം തോന്നുന്നു. ഒന്നോർക്കുക, ഈ സമയവും കടന്ന് പോകും.
That "IP address tracing" news in the Kollam child abduction case reached Hacker News.
After a loooong while, I had to do a debate in the family whatsapp group as well :p
I'll be doing a talk on how I built Varnam for macOS at
#FOSSHack
next week.
Varnam for macOS was built in FOSSHack 2022 and won the hackathon. This talk will be about that story and general tips on hackathons.
ഇത് എഴുതിയിരിക്കുന്നത് വർണ്ണം വെച്ചാണ് :D
@SubinSiby
will be talking on "Making Varnam macOS" at
#FOSSHack
3.0.
He is a Software Engineer and tech lead at BigBinary. This man is the perfect Gen Z speaker to interact with all the curious hackers!
@sourav_bz
There is
@LibreTaxiOrg
But the main problem is not technical but a human problem. Who will validate the behavior of driver, passengers. With enough accounts, people can rig the ratings. You'd eventually need customer support and a dedicated team.
ഡാഡ്ഡി റിച്ച് ആർന്നെങ്കിൽ ജോലിയൊക്കെ രാജിവെച്ച് ഇപ്പോ തന്നെ full time FOSS contributor ആവാൻ പറ്റിയേനേ.
പക്ഷേ റിച്ച് ഡാഡ്ഡി ഉള്ളവർ ഇങ്ങനെയുള്ള പരിപാടികൾ ചെയ്യുന്നതും കാണാനില്ലാ. ജനിക്കുമ്പോഴേ റിച്ച് ആർന്നെങ്കിൽ പ്രയോരിറ്റികൾ വേറെ ആയിരിക്കും.
I did a simple analysis of late trains at Thrissur railway station in the last month.
Among daily* running trains, Vande bharat is the least late and Mangala express the most late.
Interactive table:
Data and repo:
കഴിഞ്ഞ മാസം ഞങ്ങടെ ബിഗ്ബൈനറി ഓഫീസിൽ വെച്ച് FOSS Meetup Kochi കൊച്ചി നടന്നു.
എല്ലാ മാസം നാലാം ശനിയാഴ്ച ഇങ്ങനെ ഒരു മീറ്റപ്പ് നടത്താൻ ആണ് പ്ലാൻ. ഈ വരുന്ന 24-ാംതീയതി അടുത്ത മീറ്റപ്പ് നടക്കുന്നുണ്ട്.
So how's life at GitLab, a completely remote company with no office at all ?
@balasankarc
: നാട്ടുകാരുടെ ഒക്കെ വിചാരം ഈ പയ്യൻ പണിയൊന്നുമില്ലാതെ ചുമ്മാ വീട്ടിൽ കുത്തി ഇരിക്കാന്നാ. Remote ആണെന്ന് പറഞ്ഞാലൊന്നും അവന്മാർക്ക് മനസ്സിലാവൂലാ.
ഇനി മറ്റേ കൃഷി ആണോന്ന് ചിന്ത ഇല്ലാതില്ല 😁
Some questions were asked in the Varnam telegram group last week and I didn't have to reply anything, the people who use Varnam solved the queries.
And I got to know Varnam is now being used in some Kerala police stations/HQs, all with Ubuntu 🎉
We love computers, we love to play/tinker with it, we are curious about what's happening underneath, we like to share and learn knowledge with others because this is all out of pure passion.
Naturally FOSS is the way because it guarantees the freedom to do all these.
At DebConf I met a person from UK who retired early at 40 and now volunteers for Debian, Wikipedia, OSM and other FOSS projects. He travels around the world by attending conferences of such FOSS projects, sponsored. His website is a list of confs attending
എനക്ക് ഇത് വേണം 😭😭😭
There a dude in my gym who sold his IT security company last year, and made a very sizeable fortune. Saw him do a new startup last month, and asked him why. He said:
"Bro I tried everything. Picked up new hobbies, passions, bought cars, even did 6 month travel of South America.
libgovarnam, the shared library of Varnam is now in Debian testing repo! Which means this will be part of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS official repos as well!
Thanks to Guido Günther for taking the effort to package it! This all started from a Indian Language BoF at
#DebConf23
Kochi.
Kerala Saint IGNUcius
@asdofindia
gracing us with a wonderful talk on intersectionality in Free Software.
I'd give a +1 recommendation to see this talk.
KunnamkulamFOSS meetup at Kalasamala. A very calm, serene place to do a meetup.
@/famubu traveled to here all the way from Palakkad just to see Ubuntu phone :D
There are only 300 trees of this species (Syzygium travancoricum) left on earth. 100 of them is here in Kunnamkulam.
Me &
@asdofindia
have been working on the technical side of making this Dravidian language dictionary online at , my talk at
#FOSSMeet
was on this.
There is a launch event of samam in Bengaluru this Sunday.
@smcproject
our Mission ഞാറ്റ്യേല ശ്രീധരൻ atlast its ends at
@moolekkari
@SubinSiby
@asdofindia
@smcproject
Mission Samam started for Indic Digital Archive Foundation. Anyone with bilingual language skills in south Indian languages pls feel free to contribute.
Introducing Indic-En, a browser extension to (auto) convert Malayalam, Hindi, Kannada webpages to Manglish, Hinglish and Kanglish respectively.
Available now in Firefox :
Blog -
Thanks to
@AkshayTG3
for this beautiful logo :)
IMO the best talk at
#PyConIndia2023
. It had everything: Career growth, FOSS beginner problems, FOSS contributor problems, tech FOMO. It's relatable to a diverse section of people. Highly recommend watching this talk when the recording is up.
My talk on evolution of Malayalam script in computers is up now. (Okay, so the abbreviation of this talk can be a lot of things really, evolution is one way to describe it)
Wrote a blog after a looooong while, the tech stuff
@smcproject
did to bring dictionary online from a book, launching today in Bengaluru.
samam is a good application of SMC's Malayalam infrastructure built from many years ago.
We need more Malayalam games! കുറേ ഡെവലപ്പർമാർ നമ്മുടെ നാട്ടിൽ ഉണ്ടല്ലോ. കൂടുതൽ കളികൾ വരട്ടേ ! കളിക്കാൻ ആൾക്കാരുണ്ട്.
3 മാസം കഴിഞ്ഞിട്ടും മ്വേർഡിൾ ആയിരത്തിൽ കൂടുതൽ പേർ ഇപ്പോഴും ദിനവും കളിക്കിണ്ട്. കൂടുതൽ മാർക്കറ്റിങ്ങ് ഉണ്ടേൽ അതിനേക്കാൾ പേർ കളിക്കും.
Implemented a "Play with Random People" feature to Vett, The Dots & Boxes online game :
What started as a hackathon project from
@MLHacks
Hack-at-Home comes to a finished end 23 days later 🎉
Learnt
@vuejs
,
@WebTorrentApp
& more along with
@athulcajay
Thrissur - Guruvayur railway line is underrated 💫. It's the straightest railway track in Thrissur, so trains go well above 70kmph here
There was a plan to extend this track to Thirunaavaya so that it would help trains to skip Shornur if going to North Kerala, that didn't happen
Did a volunteering of camera work at
#DebConf24
. It's just like the livestream setup you see in a sports match stadium. When camera is on live, red light blinks.
The livestream video setup stack is all FOSS, the red light is controlled by ethernet. Voctomix is the software
I'm working on making a shared library in Go. A shared library (In Linux, they end with .so) can be used in any language by dynamic linking. Every language will have a mechanism to interact with C libraries. This means I have to write C code to convert between Go-C types 🥲