Author: harishpillay
father, husband, son, hacker, friend, human
Prompt Injection is not solvable, yet.
Protected: Freedom Of The Press or Freedom From The Press?
New batteries in the crystal ball – the next AI Winter is upon us
Majulah Singapura!
As landmarks disappear, memories and histories remain.
Tearing down an old DBS Bank OTP
It is 2025 and “open source is insecure” myths continues
pwn2own success stories
Perculiar problem with boot up
Post-Election: Early Thoughts – by Dr Tan Cheng Bock
Good Morning Singapore and May The Fourth Be With You!
Thoughts on AI via my talks at FOSSAsia
Things are moving forward!
General Elections 2025
Breaking News: Relentless open washing continues
Can military leaders be national leaders? Maybe, mostly nope.
Running for a seat at the Open Source Initiative
Preserving contents
Notebooklm as a way to critically hear what you write
Chief Open Source Officer – You asked, I’m delivering!
GNOME Tip – changing the size of the mouse pointer
The Sputnik Moment
Wireless@SGx for Linux – 2025 update
Not everything is being censored (yet).
Curiosity is what life is all about
Use it or lose it!
Test, evaluate, adopt: Linux 2025 and beyond!
It is all about the CPU!
The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth
Clever tools for managing your video viewing time
Resolutions galore!
Twenty Years!
Unique Identifiers That Don’t Expire
Coming A Full Circle
Running a web-based bastion host
ERP2.0 and the Sunken Cost Fallacy
And the Fediverse link is UP
Why was the commentary removed?
Open source codebases are the bedrock of today’s enterprise systems
My very first computer lesson/usage – 1976!
As “AI” mushrooms, so does surveillance
Let’s Encrypt and self hosting at home
The vibrancy of open source projects/products
My ESP8266-01 Adventure
Being part of a tradition
“You need Internet banking?”
Holding up half the sky
The reality of standing up for my country – part 1
Hiding in plain sight
Of trust and obfuscation
Seriously? NRIC for TraceTogether?
Looking forward to a recyclable, open sourced, wearable, contact tracing device
A flawed idea. Zoom does not get it (or maybe they are pretending).
Curated playlist of videos
Working Remotely with FOSS tools
Jit.si if you care and Zoom if you don’t.
A tip to play audio (and video) in a browser
Mailed in ballots
No. Internet voting is still a No Go.
BuildTogether – data, code, people for the world
Goodbye Prep Chet and Nimi Chech
Of NUCs and Bastions
xrandr – note to self
The sale of PIR.org (and with it .ORG)
Handwaving. No surprises.
Two statements that I live by
Fa(r)cial Recognition + Parliament = Smart Parliament?
And Election Kakis gets underway
Majulah Singapura
Democracy is a participatory sport, not a spectator sport!
Standard C150 handheld – manual and schematic
The Enormous Empowering of Free and Open Source Software Ecosystem
Good bye and On on!
Start-ups and patents
Railway Records
Congratulations to the new SCS president and council
Why am I running for the presidency of the SCS?
“All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” – Blaise Pascal
2019 – Here we come
Electronic voting and trust
Defending my country
Simple life hack
Working around censorship
NASA Space Apps Challenge 2018 – Singapore
Not allowed to code? Really?
Happy 35th Birthday GNU!
A healthcare IT foundation built on gooey clay
What I’ve learned in 15 years at Red Hat
Why is 10 million people the target for Singapore?
You gotta love the UNIX way of doing things
The value of independence
My updated GPG keys: 0x61AFA27B
SingHealth, PDPA, Smart Nation, sigh!
About that data breach at SingHealth
ssh tunnel via userspace systemd service
So, you want to do computer science, huh?
And, they are online now
You can’t wake a person who is pretending to be asleep**
life one-dot-two degree north, one-o-three-dot-eight degrees east 