The Digital Rights in Asia-Pacific Assembly (DRAPAC) 2026 is an important gathering of digital rights advocates, policymakers, activists, and technologists dedicated to discussing and addressing pressing digital rights issues in the Asia-Pacific region. I'm very much excited for this year's DRAPAC, and I am...

How I turned a rarely used gaming laptop into an AI agentic infrastructure.The AI agentic platform is widely talked about, and that sparked my interest in the possibilities it could give. My laptop has been lying around without much use, so I had to make it useful. Considering the extent of possibilities and making...

I passed and am now certified as a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA). Now what?I got the opportunity to go through the CISA course and pass ISACA's CISA certification. It was quite a long journey, and I carefully prepared before I took the exam and finally passed it in the first try. Nevertheless, I still...

Signal is an instant messaging application widely used by human rights defenders, activists, and other high-risk subjects. As of January 24, 2026, it seems Signal's phone number verification is broken. This means those who rely on secure communication can't use Signal.The issue seems to have persisted since Jan 19,...

Sedikit mengoceh (ranting) di malam hari. Di saat berselancar media sosial lalu menemukan tautan Medium menarik, ketika membukanya malah dipaksa untuk mendaftar di platform. Kala waktu, mencari sesuatu melalui mesin pencari yang menunjukkan informasi tertaut di forum Reddit, pas dubuka, dipaksa kembali untuk...

When you can't wait for a shiny new stuff, so you straight up upgrading to a fresh release update, and it broke the system. It is always a goo d idea to give it some time for a newly released software, but I did not hesitate. And yep, some users report few bugs and the application launcher being broken is one of...

I have known internet archiving initiative by archive.org long ago, I thought they do it all by themselves. Turns out, they do also open contributor to join the archiving efforts– I should have known better that it does indeed require massive collective effortOne thing that caught my interest is about ArchiveTeam...

Beberapa waktu lalu, akun Tokopedia saya tiba-tiba terblokir. Informasi ketika saya masuk ke akun Tokopedia menampilkan bahwasanya akun saya melanggar syarat dan ketentuan tanpa ada penjelasan secara spesifik.Setelah mengirim laporan pada layanan konsumen untuk mempertanyakan alasan mengapa akun saya terblokir,...

Ever since I started this website, I have been wondering how should i categorize my own site. Initially, the reason I started my site is that I just want to share thoughts regarding things that interest me on the platform where I fully control. I did not want to strictly categorize it as a blog, I once deemed it...

A couple of months ago I bought a brand new device, a laptop to be precise. It also changed my old main device, MacBook, into this new device, Lenovo, where I installed Linux. After years of not touching Linux, it has been a fun ride to distro hopping again, but now is the time to finalize what distro I'm going to...

I might be late to the recent AI hype, specifically about Large Language Models and Generative Art. Those subjects are the ones I heard about the most, the utility and use case are pretty much resonated with a lot of people. That's what I'm going try to play around with.Furthermore, browsing around the ecosystem I...

Ketika kalian mendapatkan notifikasi "push" aplikasi di ponsel kalian, tepatnya ketika kalian tidak sedang membuka aplikasi terkait, notifikasi tersebut didapatkan melalui perantara. Interaksi itu tidak terjadi antara pihak aplikasi dan pengguna secara langsung. Pengecualiannya adalah ketika pengguna sedang membuka...