[smc-discuss] hack to learn, learn to hack session at mohandas college

[Pirate Praveen]

They were familiar with symmetric key encryption and I explain about
public key cryptography and web of trust.

Compared to my experience with GEC Thrissur and CET tvm, there was not
much awareness about privacy. No one had heard about Edward Snowden
and I was surpriced no one knew about Julian Assange or even
wikileaks.

I tried to bring their attention to being watched all the time and
people knowing everything they do on the internet. They were all
living in a happy world of milk, honey and roses. I don't know how to
explain privacy to them.

So I just talked about diaspora as a better way of providing social networking.

I told them about save poddery campaign and showed our video. Anish is
a superstar there as all girls recognized him on screen.

2014-03-01 20:39 GMT+05:30, Pirate Praveen <pravi.a at gmail.com>:
> I showed them ideas list of smc and explained about how spell checking
> is difficult for malayalam. I had to explain encodings, fonts and
> rendering when I mentioned complex rendering support for context. They
> were clear about ascii and some answered we need a bigger table to
> include malayalam. I introduced open type fonts and its tables
> (positioning and substitution) for conjuncts. As there was not much
> interests to contribute even after asking a few times (it is hard to
> sink the idea if building something not for making money) I switched
> to encryption and privacy.
>
> 2014-03-01 20:31 GMT+05:30, Pirate Praveen <pravi.a at gmail.com>:
>> Let me try my luck again. I will try to send multiple mails so its
>> better than typing things all over again. Sad part is the response of
>> firefox os devs, an email app that does not work at all is considered
>> a 'normal' bug for a smart phone os.
>>
>> I started with asking them how many of them know how to drive a car,
>> ride a bike or a bicycle. Some people raised their hands. Then I asked
>> them how many of them learned it by reading the manuals. Some answered
>> they need practice.
>>
>> Then I asked them what is needed to repair, they said they need the
>> manuals. Then they replied they need to know the design if they want
>> to make a better one.
>>
>> I had set the stage for them to realize what they need to make better
>> software. It is evident that only free software can provide it.
>>
>> Then some people had tried tinkering with devices and one person even
>> tried to modify the kernel. Kevin had put printks (printf for kernel)
>> to learn the execution flow
>> of the kernel but given up after getting stuck.
>>
>> Only few people were really interested to work on existing software.
>> Still I explained google summer of code to them.
>>
>>
>> 2014-03-01 11:57 GMT+05:30, Anush <anush at techstream.org>:
>>> That is bad :(.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 11:31 PM, Pirate Praveen <pravi.a at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I want to share my experience but gmail, firefox os, vodafone 2g combo
>>>> won't let. Almost an hour of typing lost, so giving up now. Maybe when
>>>> I get my laptop back I will share.
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>>
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>> പ്രവീണ്‍ അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില്‍
>> You have to keep reminding your government that you don't get your rights
>> from them; you give them permission to rule, only so long as they follow
>> the
>> rules: laws and constitution.
>>
>
>
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> പ്രവീണ്‍ അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില്‍
> You have to keep reminding your government that you don't get your rights
> from them; you give them permission to rule, only so long as they follow
> the
> rules: laws and constitution.
>


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പ്രവീണ്‍ അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില്‍
You have to keep reminding your government that you don't get your rights
from them; you give them permission to rule, only so long as they follow the
rules: laws and constitution.