With GIJC25 coming up next month, re-sharing an old tipsheet that's still applicable today on how to find and investigate details on boats, events and projects in Malaysian waters and coastal regions kaeru.my/guides/dredg...
Dredging Boats, Yachts and Land Reclamation Projects
How to find and investigate details on boats, events and projects in Malaysian waters and coastal regions
kaeru.my
October 8, 2025 at 2:00 PM
With GIJC25 coming up next month, re-sharing an old tipsheet that's still applicable today on how to find and investigate details on boats, events and projects in Malaysian waters and coastal regions kaeru.my/guides/dredg...
Some notes for my first overnight #bikepacking trip in Malaysia. Been delaying it for some time due to work and health reasons, but sometimes they're just excuses. Now with first one done, I'm really looking forward to the next one!
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kaeru.my/notes/overni...
Overnight bikepacking Tanjung Malim / Sungai Bernam
Documenting experience of first overnight bikepacking trip to Sungai Bernam via KTM Commuter to Tanjung Malim
kaeru.my
October 7, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Some notes for my first overnight #bikepacking trip in Malaysia. Been delaying it for some time due to work and health reasons, but sometimes they're just excuses. Now with first one done, I'm really looking forward to the next one!
kaeru.my/notes/overni...
kaeru.my/notes/overni...
It might be a bit soft, but the cheap and old Sony SEL55210 is is a tiny 55-210mm telephoto lens for APS-C which makes it quite useful in situations where you need to be mobile and less conspicuous. It's good enough for documentation work.
October 5, 2025 at 3:46 AM
It might be a bit soft, but the cheap and old Sony SEL55210 is is a tiny 55-210mm telephoto lens for APS-C which makes it quite useful in situations where you need to be mobile and less conspicuous. It's good enough for documentation work.
Global Free Palestine movement exposes that existing systems of democracy is broken worldwide. Massive disconnect between elected representatives and national government policy and positions vs the general populace on black & white issues like starving and killing children, and genocide.
October 2, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Global Free Palestine movement exposes that existing systems of democracy is broken worldwide. Massive disconnect between elected representatives and national government policy and positions vs the general populace on black & white issues like starving and killing children, and genocide.
A decade ago, the introduction of the a6000 gave me a small versatile hybrid camera on me at all times for documentation. Working in civil society gives me an insider and behind the scenes view of the work of a lot of amazing and brave people. Will bring more of these online in coming months.
September 25, 2025 at 12:33 AM
A decade ago, the introduction of the a6000 gave me a small versatile hybrid camera on me at all times for documentation. Working in civil society gives me an insider and behind the scenes view of the work of a lot of amazing and brave people. Will bring more of these online in coming months.
Reposted by Khairil Yusof
Our research fellow - Melissa Lim Shi Hui joins other experts in an article by the Straits Times, warning that current Malaysian laws are inadequate for AI-generated content, suggesting updates to existing laws and that clearer recourse for victims is needed.
www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia...
www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia...
Malaysia grapples with AI legal grey zone as deepfake porn blackmail targets lawmakers
Calls to criminalise AI-generated sexually explicit content have risen after lawmakers were blackmailed with deepfake porn. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.
www.straitstimes.com
September 23, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Our research fellow - Melissa Lim Shi Hui joins other experts in an article by the Straits Times, warning that current Malaysian laws are inadequate for AI-generated content, suggesting updates to existing laws and that clearer recourse for victims is needed.
www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia...
www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia...
UNHRC Commission concludes on reasonable grounds that the Israeli authorities and Israeli security forces have committed and are continuing to commit the following actus reus of genocide against the Palestinians in the Gaza
Strip. Detailed report: www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...
Strip. Detailed report: www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...
www.ohchr.org
September 16, 2025 at 7:53 AM
UNHRC Commission concludes on reasonable grounds that the Israeli authorities and Israeli security forces have committed and are continuing to commit the following actus reus of genocide against the Palestinians in the Gaza
Strip. Detailed report: www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...
Strip. Detailed report: www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...
35mm focal length prime lens is my "fun" lens. Using balcony railings to frame landscape photo and remove unwanted foreground elements.
September 13, 2025 at 11:14 AM
35mm focal length prime lens is my "fun" lens. Using balcony railings to frame landscape photo and remove unwanted foreground elements.
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Thailand has experienced 13 coups in 90 years, leading to 20 versions of constitutions, each tailored to the power-holders of the time. Hear how WeVis shifted the dynamic by empowering citizens, in this #TICTeC session with Thanisara Ruangdej (GG):
TICTeC 25: Dream Con - how civic tech puts citizens at the centre of constitutional reform
Speaker: Thanisara Ruangdej (GG) (WeVis, Thailand)
Thailand has experienced 13 coups in 90 years, leading to 20 versions of constitutions, each tailored to the power-holders of the time.
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September 10, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Thailand has experienced 13 coups in 90 years, leading to 20 versions of constitutions, each tailored to the power-holders of the time. Hear how WeVis shifted the dynamic by empowering citizens, in this #TICTeC session with Thanisara Ruangdej (GG):
We're now living in a world where Investigating and documenting genocide for International Criminal Court can get you put on US sanctions list.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/...
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/...
US sanctions Palestinian rights groups for supporting ICC Israel probe
Al-Haq, Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) and Al-Mezan targeted for engaging with ICC, state department says.
www.aljazeera.com
September 5, 2025 at 4:38 AM
We're now living in a world where Investigating and documenting genocide for International Criminal Court can get you put on US sanctions list.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/...
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/...
ROCm 7.0 decouples the AMDGPU drivers from the rocm libraries and runtimes. Works just fine on Ubuntu 25.04 with the distro kernel, everything works as it should HIP, OpenCL and multimedia acceleration. rocm.docs.amd.com/en/docs-7.0-...
August 25, 2025 at 8:28 AM
ROCm 7.0 decouples the AMDGPU drivers from the rocm libraries and runtimes. Works just fine on Ubuntu 25.04 with the distro kernel, everything works as it should HIP, OpenCL and multimedia acceleration. rocm.docs.amd.com/en/docs-7.0-...
Processing documents for RAG still isn't exactly plug and play. Especially when the source documents are badly scanned or have been censored manually with a marker. Sharing some steps in cleaning and processing document with docling & VLMs while preserving as much text & structure as possible.
Processing Scanned Documents with AI
Older document processing methods still need to be used in conjunction with current AI Visual Language Models (VLMS) when dealing with badly scanned documents.
kaeru.my
August 14, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Processing documents for RAG still isn't exactly plug and play. Especially when the source documents are badly scanned or have been censored manually with a marker. Sharing some steps in cleaning and processing document with docling & VLMs while preserving as much text & structure as possible.
With RAG I can query info, from dull but dense document filings (legal, parliamentary, corporate), in any language. While processing each doc takes hours, once done I can query and verify related and specific info from thousands of pages in minutes, supplemented by own detailed notes and databases.
August 7, 2025 at 11:54 AM
With RAG I can query info, from dull but dense document filings (legal, parliamentary, corporate), in any language. While processing each doc takes hours, once done I can query and verify related and specific info from thousands of pages in minutes, supplemented by own detailed notes and databases.
Random tech updates. Monitoring CPU and GPU power usage on Linux and fixing suspend on Gigabyte motherboards.
Random Tech Updates #1
Random tech updates. Monitoring CPU and GPU power usage on Linux and fixing suspend on Gigabyte motherboards.
kaeru.my
July 29, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Random tech updates. Monitoring CPU and GPU power usage on Linux and fixing suspend on Gigabyte motherboards.
Some preliminary notes, from my exploration of setting up local open source stack AI on my personal computer to augment investigative journalism methods and techniques kaeru.my/notes/ai-aug...
AI Augmented Investigative Journalism
Initial explorations in using current AI tools and methods to supplement existing investigative journalism techniques
kaeru.my
July 20, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Some preliminary notes, from my exploration of setting up local open source stack AI on my personal computer to augment investigative journalism methods and techniques kaeru.my/notes/ai-aug...
Reason for recent workstation upgrades. Augmenting and building upon investigative journalism methods and tools with AI/ML. In this case testing RAG with a badly scanned but detailed court document. Entity extraction done with LightRAG.
July 20, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Reason for recent workstation upgrades. Augmenting and building upon investigative journalism methods and tools with AI/ML. In this case testing RAG with a badly scanned but detailed court document. Entity extraction done with LightRAG.
Packet. Quickshare from phone to and from Linux desktop via WiFi. flathub.org/apps/io.gith...
Install Packet on Linux | Flathub
Share files easily
flathub.org
July 18, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Packet. Quickshare from phone to and from Linux desktop via WiFi. flathub.org/apps/io.gith...
Pleasantly surprised that all common services and tools for Local AI works for AMD 9070XT and ROCm on unsupported Ubuntu Linux 25.04. Glad to be able to get work done on an open source stack for AI and compute.
Local AI with AMD Radeon 9070 XT on Ubuntu Linux 25.04 with ROCm 6.4.1
Everything seems to be working so far
kaeru.my
July 7, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Pleasantly surprised that all common services and tools for Local AI works for AMD 9070XT and ROCm on unsupported Ubuntu Linux 25.04. Glad to be able to get work done on an open source stack for AI and compute.
Recovering from sickness is a good opportunity to reset. Restarting some good short daily habits, taking time for some photos each day. Reviewing past progress is also a good confidence builder. Set of photos from Timor-Leste 35mm focal length creatorscloud.sony.net/discover/det...
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June 26, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Recovering from sickness is a good opportunity to reset. Restarting some good short daily habits, taking time for some photos each day. Reviewing past progress is also a good confidence builder. Set of photos from Timor-Leste 35mm focal length creatorscloud.sony.net/discover/det...
Technology from just 20 years ago seems like an age long forgotten. Slowly archiving old CD-Rs and noticed that some were VCD format. VCD Imager allows extraction of these 240p videos, but wonder how much longer drivers will be maintained for optical drives.
www.gnu.org/software/vcd...
www.gnu.org/software/vcd...
GNU VCDImager - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)
GNU VCDImager is the complete solution for authoring (Super) Video CD images and reversing the process
www.gnu.org
June 9, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Technology from just 20 years ago seems like an age long forgotten. Slowly archiving old CD-Rs and noticed that some were VCD format. VCD Imager allows extraction of these 240p videos, but wonder how much longer drivers will be maintained for optical drives.
www.gnu.org/software/vcd...
www.gnu.org/software/vcd...
Questions on whether PEPs public data should have expiry. For grand corruption cases they should never expire. Only 10 years has past, people directly involved in Malaysian 1MDB corruption cases, are still holding positions in policy think tanks. That level of influence and impunity is problematic.
June 8, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Questions on whether PEPs public data should have expiry. For grand corruption cases they should never expire. Only 10 years has past, people directly involved in Malaysian 1MDB corruption cases, are still holding positions in policy think tanks. That level of influence and impunity is problematic.
Reposted by Khairil Yusof
@opentechfund.bsky.social’s #FOSS Sustainability Fund helps to ensure that free and open source software projects, and the communities that sustain them, have the resources they need.
Learn more about this Fund and other key results from our internet freedom work:
Learn more about this Fund and other key results from our internet freedom work:
Impacts and Outcomes
We have supported pioneering open source internet freedom technologies that counter authoritarian information controls and enhance digital security and privacy so that all people can exercise their fundamental...
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June 5, 2025 at 6:04 PM
@opentechfund.bsky.social’s #FOSS Sustainability Fund helps to ensure that free and open source software projects, and the communities that sustain them, have the resources they need.
Learn more about this Fund and other key results from our internet freedom work:
Learn more about this Fund and other key results from our internet freedom work:
500GB now fits in a MicroSD card smaller than your fingernail for less than 70 Euros. Can bring along your entire music audio collection, and not be subject to any subscription services, ads for lossless music. The open source tools and apps I use to manage my music library.
Updates to Managing Personal Digital Music Library
Tools and apps used to manage and listen to my offline music library
kaeru.my
May 30, 2025 at 3:43 AM
500GB now fits in a MicroSD card smaller than your fingernail for less than 70 Euros. Can bring along your entire music audio collection, and not be subject to any subscription services, ads for lossless music. The open source tools and apps I use to manage my music library.
When your Garmin fitness age is 40 and you play a pick up 🏀 game with 20 year olds. How does Lebron James do it?
May 21, 2025 at 11:23 AM
When your Garmin fitness age is 40 and you play a pick up 🏀 game with 20 year olds. How does Lebron James do it?
Reminded of Robin William's speech on Good Will Hunting, when someone shares AI generated summary or images, or citing a report or video they've watched as input to policy discussions. Have you ever been in a data centre? Or a rural community without clean water? It's important to touch grass.
May 21, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Reminded of Robin William's speech on Good Will Hunting, when someone shares AI generated summary or images, or citing a report or video they've watched as input to policy discussions. Have you ever been in a data centre? Or a rural community without clean water? It's important to touch grass.