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Things I love | Learn Learnin'

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The following things are what Ive used, enjoyed, and loved. Read the complete list of computer applications that I use, recommend, and love. Read the list of things I hate.

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Gandhianism | Learn Learnin'

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My Experiments with Truth. Was one among the first non-fiction books I read. Gandhi has certain ideas which are really practical, although counter-intuitive to many. Stating the truth requires courage. And such courage beats a lot of strength. There are unique ways to achieve any goal with no violence. Whatever is achieved through violence, stays only as long as the violences effect lasts.

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My favorite (preferred) applications | Learn Learnin'

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My favorite (preferred) applications. Arch Wiki has a huge list of applications. This is probably a subset of that. Transmission - for p2p. Kmail - for email. Pidgin - for IM (which I rarely do on computer). Gajim - for XMPP chat. Akregator - for feeds. GIMP - for photo editing. ImageMagick - for command line image manipulation (. Convert something.png something.jpg. Clementine - music player. VLC - video player. Audacity - audio editing. Kdenlive - for simple video editing. Vim - you know.

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Guerilla Open Access Manifesto | Learn Learnin'

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Guerilla Open Access Manifesto. Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves. The worlds entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations. Want to read the papers featuring the most famous results of the sciences? Youll need to send enormous amounts to publishers like Reed Elsevier. Its outrageous and unacceptable. Meanwhile, those who ...

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Mind | Learn Learnin'

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I think. Therefore I am.

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The Web | Learn Learnin'

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The internet is very simple. Connect computers together and allow communication between them. The web builds on this idea and allows humans to exchange ideas freely! When it is truly free, web is called the Open Web. So I put a bunch of files on my computer, you come and visit my computer, and tada! You can read my ideas! And vice versa. And so on. Putting files on a computer that is always on is called web hosting. Doing so requires you to register with a webhost, register a domain name, and so on.

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Telegram Messenger | Learn Learnin'

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I love Telegram Messenger. It is the best instant messaging application today, IMO. Open source client. That too GPL! Promotes development by third party. Has desktop clients, web clients, and even command line clients. Groups that does not give away phone number. Chat without giving away phone number.

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Quitting Google (and Facebook) | Learn Learnin'

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Quitting Google (and Facebook). I thought so too. Till about November 2014. Thats when I rejoined diaspora and found some awesome alternative services. Heres how I stopped being a Google fan boy and started living a life without Google. Network for email. You can choose something like yourname@onenetbeyond.org or yourname@autistici.org and so many other choices. Autistici/Inventati is a European network funded by users which provides privacy aware services - including email and hosting. While were at it,...

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Free/Libre and Open Source Software | Learn Learnin'

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Free/Libre and Open Source Software. I love free software. Free as in libre. Not as in gratis. Libre software is that which we can modify, share, copy, edit, dabble in, destroy, fork, spoon, fornicate, anything without restriction. Gratis is when you can download the software without paying money. Open Source is when softwares code is available for anyone to see. But just seeing, is sometimes of no use. If you use an Android phone, you should consider freeing it from Google.

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Learning | Learn Learnin'

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What does it mean to learn? Dr Shekar, my professor of Medicine used to say that there are a lot many levels of learning. Helps us talk about learning. Im interested in cognitive learning. It can be considered as having different levels. As you go down the above list you realize that the effectiveness of learning increases. So, our learning should always be about preparing us to synthesize knowledge. But two-three days before, if we are reading, we would also be comprehending. By its nature, the latter t...