One of the most common things we hear today is: "Don't worry, it's all in the cloud." It almost sounds like our data is floating somewhere in the sky, ready to be accessed from anywhere, by anyone, at any time - like Magic. The Reality
Introduction: Hi, I am Divya Priya, EC member of Puduvai GLUG under FSHM but I am writing my experience of attending FSHM 3rd organizational conference on March 1, 2026 as a one of the general observers. I am gonna share about my views and opinion about the topics/issues along
A powerful conversation about technology and power and how the internet which once started as a decentralized system, has become highly controlled by just a few corporations. A session happened at Free Software and Hardware Movement (FSHM) in Pondicherry, Noordine guided a group of people through the topic decentralisation of
In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, privacy has become the concern of technological innovation. This RAG exploration dig into how open source Large Language Models (LLMs) are revolutionizing personalized AI interactions without compromising privacy : 1. Local LLM deployments ensure that sensitive information never leaves your controlled environment 2.
The Free Software Hardware Movement Puducherry proudly hosted the inaugural General Body Conference of Puduvai GLUG (GNU/Linux Users Group) — a momentous occasion celebrating the essence of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) and its growing community in Puducherry. About PuduvaiGLUG PuduvaiGLUG is a vibrant community of tech enthusiasts dedicated
Blog of shell scripting session at Maitri
Last week, we hosted a movie screening in our space where we showed the first three episodes of the 2014 series Silicon Valley. As the episodes began, the room filled with laughter and smiles of recognition from the audience, many of whom work in technology fields. As the series progressed,
Enabling consensual technologies for the masses
நான் ஒரு முப்பரிமான அச்சுப்பொறி(3D printer) செய்தேன். ஒரு தொழில்நுட்ப அனுபவப்பகிர்வு. முப்பரிமாண அச்சாக்கம்(3D printing) உற்பத்தி சகாப்தத்தின்
The Social Dilemma documentary examines how social media's design nurtures addiction to maximize profit, and its ability to manipulate people's views, emotions, and behaviour and spread conspiracy theories and disinformation. The film features interviews with many former employees of social media companies, along with academic researchers.
Most of our friends, family, loved ones, etc... let alone leave us - who works and keep hands dirty in the field of information, computation and mathematics – are still ignorant about the influence that technology creates in every day life. In the last post... Life, Labour, Tech - 1 of this series,
Reality through the eyes of Mass Media & Behaviour Psychology Understanding the Reality Information & Communications Technology have been both the cause and effect of several short term influential disruption that has the capacity to cross cut every individual in human species. Also they have heavily disrupted the existing progressive
IT Ministry ordered the blocking of 59 apps, RTIs have been filed, the validity of the order as per Sec 69 of the IT Act has been questioned.Why only these 59 apps, why not all apps that are harmful for the privacy of the users. What happens if people use them?
Learn how to use Regular Expressions with the Python programming language.
We were conducting machine learning classes for past 5 Weeks at maitri every Saturday 6:30 pm The topics we were covered so far : 1.Machine learning introduction; 2.Regression * Centrality- mean,mode,median, variance 3.Distributions *Gaussian distribution * Binomial distribution 4.Data prepocessing - consists of testing, validation,training. Here
FSHM – Technical Session 2020-3 We had previous sessions on the need for decentralised, federated network tools, their implications, and working. Last week, we conducted a hands-on technical session on flashing your router with custom FOSS firmware. As a follow-up event, this week, we held an introductory session
We conducted an experimental learning session for kids during the past three weeks on Basic Electronics and Programming. Six students from Kendriya Vidyalaya No.2(Pondicherry University Campus) has participated in this session. Emphasis was given for understanding the fundamentals of Electronics. Five sessions have been conducted over the past
We had a new guest this week from Swecha, Free Software Organization of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. Agenda Planned: Discussion on FOSS activities in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh - Sudhamsh Introduction to Statistics – CS perspective – Arunekumar. Sudhamsh, Hacktivist from Swecha shared his experience on his engagement with Swecha and the activities
This week we had Firfox Add-ons session given by Prasanna. He shared his experience creating Web Extension a.k.a Add-ons. Prasanna developed an Add-on named Take Diversion which is an alternative to web frontend for Youtube. Web extension (addon) for Firefox that diverts users to watch
It is all about starting to Think Like a Commoner and in-fact becoming a commoner by enriching, strengthening and protecting the Commons. In case of this movement, it is very specific to Digital Commons.