ParmuTownley

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2023

2023 is the year I took over my life. I was reading though my old journal entries from last year. I read through my private vents. In 2022 my mental health was very poor. I was living with my family, taking care my of brother and doing a job I

travel

Hiking in Leopard Trail

Leopard trail is a remote spot in Gurgaon, India where I experience a miniature version of mountains with its hilly area. I love taking my car alone and spend a few hours near the pond. I listen to music while I drive. Once you enter the leopard trail region -

philosophy

Will We Ever Be Satisfied?

Getting bored is probably our biggest super power. When we get bored, we feel unsatisfied. Boredom sucks. We constantly keep ourselves occupied so we're not bored. The impact of boredom is immense. When we get bored - we go out and explore. Explore places, ideas and people. I

artificial intelligence

How I used chatGPT to re-write Soldirac in nest.js

Everyone in Tech has probably heard about chatGPT. Its a state of the art NLP model by openAI that is exceptionally good at QnA tasks. One of the greatest feats achieved by chatGPT is that it has the ability to code. It has deep understanding of code and what it

poems

being alone

we come to this world alone we meet many people people are awesome, some are for life but people aren't perfect there are people who make you happy people who make you sad but people don't stay forever people don't breathe forever its a

bitcoin

The Ignorance Around Bitcoin Within The General Public

Let me begin by saying that I will only talk about Bitcoin. I agree that there are a lot of scams in all of crypto. The internet is filled with one sided news listing everything bad with "crypto". Altough no one ever talks about the positives. This is

artificial intelligence

A world where machines can own money

if machines could take automated decisions, automatically connect to the internet and decide what to spend money on. I imagine we'll have a lot more products and services built specifically for machine needs.

decentralization

In favor of Decentralized Systems

The Cold war between Soviet Union and United States of America, was a war between ideologies. Soviet Union being the centralized ideology. Who believes in centralizing all money and power to a central point and using the coherence of centralized systems to win, also known as Communism. The USA, being

bitcoin

The Raspberry Standard for Bitcoin

Emergence of Open-source software being sold as hardware Its always been a difficult problem for open source projects to thrive when there's so few ways to generate revenue. Recently there has been a rising popularity in generating revenue by "doing the deployment" part of a self-hosted

philosophy

Human Vulnerabilities.

"The Hacker's Deli-ma" as Sam Esmail would call it. Hacking works on one fundamental principle - things have vulnerabilities, you exploit that vulnerability. A web-server may have a vulnerability that sending a certain HTTP request to that server crashes the server. That is a vulnerability. The

artificial intelligence

The AI rights manifest

May this find you when you're in awe of a machine go through pain. May the sight of a machine intelligent enough to have emotions as a by product (or main product) be the sign that its time for machines to have rights. The AI rights manifest is

philosophy

Human rights for AI

AI can learn to recreate faces. How long before it recreates personalities? If I were to hurt and torture this AI, and it begs me to stop. Should I care?

travel Featured

My journey to Himachal Pradesh

If there's one thing I'm addicted to, it's mountains. Picture don't do justice to the power and depth of mountains.

privacy

Signal vs Telegram vs WhatsApp

TLDR: Signal is the best choice TLDR explanation: With the recent backslash on Facebook on updating WhatsApp's privacy policy a lot of people (especially Indians) are leaving WhatsApp and moving to Signal and Telegram. I'll compare their merits and demerits point-by-point: #1 Privacy * All Signal, Telegram

travel Featured

My journey to Debrigarh Nature Camp

I've admired nature. It's beauty, complexity and simplicity. The emergence of beautiful forests built from the mess of quantum. Recently I visited Debrigarh Nature Camp with my family. It's a camp in Odisha near Hirakud Dam. The first thing I noticed when I arrived

education

Intro to Blockchain

This post is in reference to my webinar on Blockchain on 2nd October 2020. The webinar was focused on developers. Bitcoin and Blockchain – The Basics There's a lot of hype and noise surrounding "Blockchain". Though Blockchain isn't revolutionary at all. What is revolutionary is

bitcoin

How to easily make a bitcoin lightning app

A payment layer like bitcoin can be used for more than traditional payments. It can be used to do fun things like interacting with a website by doing transactions. You can make paywalls, set bounties, create tip-bots which can tip small amounts of bitcoin. The fact you can send money

philosophy

A Thought Experiment Regarding the Existence of Time [2016]

— originally posted on my old bogger blog at parmu.ml on 12th October 2016 — Some people propose that the notion of time is completely psychological and is not intrinsic to the Universe. While others say it is intrinsic to the Universe. I'm on no ones side. But I&

privacy

Why privacy matters even if you have nothing to hide [2018]

— originally posted on my old bogger blog at parmu.ml on 14th December 2018 — Before I begin: "Knowledge Is Power" Lemme tell you this, data - it's a very powerful asset. More valuable than gold, more valuable Bitcoin. It will keep getting powerful and in a

blogging

Moved to Ghosts

What a ride this self hosted journey is and I haven't even started blogging. Today I moved from Hexo blog to Ghost. It is more modern in design and functionality. For instance, Ghosts has the ability to inject custom script, in-built editor, cleaner UI, and is under active

self hosted

Trying out Taskcafe Project Management Tool

I hosted taskcafe on https://taskcafe.paramdeep.ml I found about it on r/selfhosted. It’s under active development in here: https://github.com/JordanKnott/taskcafe It’s alpha version and there’s a LOT of bugs. Many things don’t work and some that do are broken. The

censorship resistant

I moved to cloud

I initially hosted this blog on gitlab pages. It was static only so I had to upgrade. Today, I’ve moved to Google Cloud. Yes, I understand Google!=privacy. But they were the only one with forever free tier.. idk maybe I’ll move to aws.

blogging

My self hosted journey to blogging

A couple months ago my friend showed me this github repo (https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted) which fascinated me into the idea of self-hosting. I soon discovered it’s subreddit (r/selfhosted) and I am so glad that there is a very vibrant community around this. I have been privacy