For the past few days a high severity vulnerability impacting multiple GNU/Linux distributions is going around and as expected, this is from the CUPS printing stack. Details can be found here

Recently we did a trip to 2 locations inside the Nagarhole wild life sanctuary. This a trip to forests after a long long gap. Covid and various other reasons had put a hiatus to such trips. ​ During a

This is a brave new world !

bobinson just finished a 1.51km run, that lasted for 19 minutes. This run helped bobinson burn 162.0 calories. Description from Strava: Trying to stick to the plan ! If you would like to check out this

bobinson just finished a 1.59km run, that lasted for 20 minutes. This run helped bobinson burn 175.0 calories. Description from Strava: test If you would like to check out this activity on strava you can

For Linux power users, these are few tools that will help to get things done quickly: Synapse This is an outstanding tool which can be used to quickly launch programs in Linux. Once installed it can be

**Press release **: Peerplays RNG is a decentralized, software-driven random number generator. This unique approach provides tamper-resistance, fairness, transparency, and verifiability. The algorithm

This is a peculiar post about a nice little DNS service I came across few days ago. While reviewing a pull request I came across an address along the lines - I couldn't find an immediate clarification

Grafana is a a nifty tool and create dashboards based on various data sources. One of them is Loki which aggregates logs via various methods and Grafana can be used to display them. ​ [Back-end logs from

Thira is a ritual art common in the Kozhikode region in Kerala, India. Unlike Theyyam, this ritual's face painting is not highly details. The ritual includes fire "dance" like performances as

In recent days Passkeys are in news following announcements from Google, Apple and others. [Screen shot from ] Passkey’s are a new brand name for WebAuthn + CTAP2 from FIDO2 standards. The underlying

One of my nodes is now upgraded to 1.27.4. This time the upgrade was little troublesome due to various server configurations and outdated OS files. The huge size of the blockchain db is now a challenge

There could be this error regarding liburing-dev while attempting to build Hive on Ubuntu 22.04 E: Unable to locate package liburing-dev I had this weird problem which didn't get fixed by various things

APIs and applications When I first started working on software applications nearly 2 decades ago, the norm was a user interface connecting to a db and presenting the end user with means to interact with

Portrait of the Puthiya Bhagavathy theyyam This beautiful theyyam is from a small and serene kavu near Pariyaram, Kannur Kerala. The performer is dressed up in red and covers his body with tender coconut

Just thought of trying monochrome with the vibrant theyyam shots. Mostly the theyyam shots are loud and vibrant with all the action, music is sometimes the fire. What if we see everything in black and

Its now increasingly easy and convincing to auto generate content using various large scale language models. Earlier tools were pretty simple and limited with their knowledge to generate convincing content.

Thought of posting some sample commands and its responses from the GPT-3 Predictive text generator (branded as ChatGPT). **Me: ** Why is the code box saying Lua ? **Predictive text: ** I apologize for

Theyyam, the ritual is very close to my heart and I have been chasing these events for more than 15 years now. [For those who doesn't know, there are 100 of different characters/costumes and may be a 100+

The Northern districts of Kerala in India namely Kannur & Kasaragod is having the annual rituals at numerous houses and small worship places for local deities. In this series, I have "Kandanar