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DeepSeek-R1 is a breakthrough in many senses. What then, about the conversation of AI 'sovereignty' in the Indian context?

A conceptual and technical framework for resource discovery on the WWW using decentralised, open, machine-readable indexes as the building block.

Some long lingering thoughts, prompted by the CrowdStrike fiasco.

The AI breakthroughs in the past few months, unlike other technology hypes, feels different.

And if you are, then why don't you convert to web3?

Intent, skills, resources. Three mandatory ingredients for fulfilment of ideas.

Deeply biased, personal reflections on the IndiaFOSS 2.0 conference held in Bengaluru in July, 2022.

Fear of missing out on software? You ain't missing out.

FOSS is not broken and the log4j2 fiasco is not FOSS' fault. The system is broken.

Much of the "Powered by AI/ML" marketing is bogus.

I have a small Vue 2 project (an admin UI for dictmaker) that I created with vue cli six months ago. Today, I picked it up again to finish it, and started out by doing a yarn upgrade. Of course, blindly upgrading all dependencies is never a good idea, but this a tiny WIP project with just one dependency that I added, and there is a constant stream of GitHub dependabot alerts every month forcing to upgrade some dependency or other, so what is the worst that could happen? At least that is what I thought.

Indian startups need to stop pandering and talking and start acknowledging and contributing to FOSS

AI is a contentious term whose mainstream interpretation refers to not one particular thing, but to a broad category encompassing a wide variety of concepts, techniques, and technologies—all eventually working towards the common goal of eliciting “intelligent" behaviour in computers.

The Indian startup ecosystem has taken shape and exploded in the last few years, and so have the countless stories surrounding them. Unsurprisingly, lessons of unsuccessful ideas and attempts haven’t gotten as much precedence as successful counterparts.

Munic hurried along the dimly lit corridors of the C-wing of the Neutrino lab. It was past midnight, and Munic had received an alert on his phone sent by one of the monitoring terminals. His palms and brows were trickling sweat, despite it being an unusually cold night. His off-white Oxford shirt was unevenly buttoned and lazily tuck, but he didn't seem to notice, or for that matter, care

കഴിഞ്ഞ മൂന്നു വര്‍ഷങ്ങളില്‍ എണ്ണം 80-ശതമാനത്തിലധികം കുറഞ്ഞ അണ്ണാരക്കണ്ണന്‍മാര്‍ ഇപ്പോള്‍ വംശനാശ ഭീഷണി നേരിടുകയാണ് (മാതൃഭൂമി, 15 ഓഗസ്റ്റ്). കേരളത്തിലെമ്പാടും ഒരു കാലത്ത് പതിവ് കാഴ്ച്ചയായിരുന്ന അണ്ണാന്‍ ഇല്ലാതാകുന്നു എന്ന് കേള്‍ക്കുമ്പോള്‍ ആദ്യം നടുക്കം, പിന്നെ സങ്കടം :(