Programmer interested in #literature, #feminism, languages, and culture. Chronic over-sharer and #FOSS enthusiast. I tend to go on rants about random things frequently.
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Why do we celebrate it when a fellow Indian gets to move abroad?
Oh right, because there are a lot of problems in India. Then why do we run from them, instead of standing and fighting?
I’m not a patriot. I don’t care about any one country over another, at least not because I was born or raised there. I’m not saying this because I want to “serve my motherland” or any such nonsense.
Rather, my motivation is simply an ethical one. If everyone responded to every sociopolitical issue by airily declaring, “Well, I can afford to escape to somewhere nicer, so I shall. As for those who can’t…too bad. Sucks to be them.”
If everyone keeps running this way from each issue, what kind of precedent does that set? Does it make the world a better place? Will you treat your new home with the same indifference?
The glorification of emigration among the Indian middle class reminds me of the worst ideology we practice in this country, that of “It doesn’t matter if it happens to someone else, as long as it doesn’t affect me.”
Stand your ground. Fight alongside the rest of us until we all win. Nobody’s free until all of us are free.
We invite people from all over #India to join the #OpenStreetMap India Monthly Online Mapathon!
Whether you're totally new to OSM or a veteran mapper, we've got something for everyone.
🗓️ Saturday, 4th of April
🕙 8 PM to 10 PM
🔗 https://osmcal.org/event/4115/
Visit the link and click Attend to participate.
The more the people, the greater our impact. Each mapper matters!
#PleaseBoost #OsmIndia #OSM
The goal is to make corporate data less profitable.
Even stuff as simple as setting your birthdate to 1970-01-01 everywhere, adding [TEST] or [DELETED] as your name or account notes anywhere you don't need them to know your name.
Using plugins like AdNauseam to poison ad trackers (and cost them marketing dollars).
Using VPNs set to different locations.
Signing into data broker sites to "correct" outdated info (they'll often let you do that with little-to-no proof of identity, but will require your passport or state ID in order to delete your info). Bonus points if you correct it to someone else's info on their site that's similar to yours.
Only fill in required fields when you sign up for anything, but only provide correct info if it matters for you to use the service, otherwise provide plausible, but incorrect, data.
If you use LLMs anywhere, use the free tier and always vote thumbs up for bad answers and down for good ones. It wastes their resources and drives up their costs while making their training data worse.
As part of a group (visually impaired people) that faces barriers to information access, I'm often met with sighted professionals who never thought about this before and ask "what if we use a QR code?"
Have you ever tried to scan a QR code you couldn't see? It's hard enough when you can!
Visually impaired people are also a group disproportionately likely to not have smartphones or to not get them out of our bag/pocket in public.
But also: this one used to work for me; now it's too degraded.
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