<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xml:lang="en"><generator uri="https://jekyllrb.com/" version="4.4.1">Jekyll</generator><link href="https://praksharma.github.io/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="https://praksharma.github.io/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" hreflang="en"/><updated>2026-03-25T21:31:40+00:00</updated><id>https://praksharma.github.io/feed.xml</id><title type="html">Prakhar Sharma</title><subtitle>A simple, whitespace theme for academics. Based on [*folio](https://github.com/bogoli/-folio) design. </subtitle><entry><title type="html">All Call of Duty Games, Finally Cracked</title><link href="https://praksharma.github.io/blog/2025/all-call-of-duty-games-finally-cracked/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="All Call of Duty Games, Finally Cracked"/><published>2025-08-13T09:40:54+00:00</published><updated>2025-08-13T09:40:54+00:00</updated><id>https://praksharma.github.io/blog/2025/all-call-of-duty-games-finally-cracked</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://praksharma.github.io/blog/2025/all-call-of-duty-games-finally-cracked/"><![CDATA[]]></content><author><name></name></author><summary type="html"><![CDATA[For nearly 6 year Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2019 remained uncracked and naturally all subsequent title too. They couldn&#8217;t even crack the single-player because the game had an always-online DRM and streaming asset verification which downloads some assets that are needed to run the single player missions. This can be thought of as a &#8230; Continue reading All Call of Duty Games, Finally&#160;Cracked]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Fusion energy</title><link href="https://praksharma.github.io/blog/2025/fusion-energy/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Fusion energy"/><published>2025-07-23T01:00:57+00:00</published><updated>2025-07-23T01:00:57+00:00</updated><id>https://praksharma.github.io/blog/2025/fusion-energy</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://praksharma.github.io/blog/2025/fusion-energy/"><![CDATA[]]></content><author><name></name></author><summary type="html"><![CDATA[These days, I am working on computing related problems in nuclear fusion. So I thought why not write an introductory article on fusion energy. We all have learnt in schools, that there are two ways of developing nuclear energy, namely, fusion and fission. Both are non-renewable energy, but the amount of energy produced compared to &#8230; Continue reading Fusion energy]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">I am permanently banned on Reddit for promoting terro/*ism…</title><link href="https://praksharma.github.io/blog/2025/i-am-permanently-banned-on-reddit-for-promoting-terroism/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="I am permanently banned on Reddit for promoting terro/*ism…"/><published>2025-03-24T20:42:01+00:00</published><updated>2025-03-24T20:42:01+00:00</updated><id>https://praksharma.github.io/blog/2025/i-am-permanently-banned-on-reddit-for-promoting-terroism</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://praksharma.github.io/blog/2025/i-am-permanently-banned-on-reddit-for-promoting-terroism/"><![CDATA[]]></content><author><name></name></author><summary type="html"><![CDATA[So, my account got banned on reddit for promoting terro/*ism. Yup that is true. Sometimes you got the pay the cost of becoming an atheist. On 24th or March 2025, I got this ban message. I filed an appeal, but it didn&#8217;t chnage anyhting. This is the offending post on r/atheismindia. It was a crosspost &#8230; Continue reading I am permanently banned on Reddit for promoting terro/*ism&#8230;]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Brahma’s incestuous relationship with Saraswati</title><link href="https://praksharma.github.io/blog/2025/brahmas-incestuous-relationship-with-saraswati/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Brahma’s incestuous relationship with Saraswati"/><published>2025-01-18T10:53:50+00:00</published><updated>2025-01-18T10:53:50+00:00</updated><id>https://praksharma.github.io/blog/2025/brahmas-incestuous-relationship-with-saraswati</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://praksharma.github.io/blog/2025/brahmas-incestuous-relationship-with-saraswati/"><![CDATA[]]></content><author><name></name></author><summary type="html"><![CDATA[So Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.31.36 प्रजापति: स्वां दुहितरं दृष्ट्वा तद्रूपधर्षित: ।रोहिद्भूतां सोऽन्वधावद‍ृक्षरूपी हतत्रप: Here, दुहितरं means daughter. The translation goes like this. At the sight of his own daughter, Brahmā was bewildered by her charms and shamelessly ran up to her in the form of a stag when she took the form of a hind. In Birhadaranyaka &#8230; Continue reading Brahma&#8217;s incestuous relationship with&#160;Saraswati]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">People lied to me. Appimages are not truly portable.</title><link href="https://praksharma.github.io/blog/2025/people-lied-to-me-appimages-are-not-truly-portable/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="People lied to me. Appimages are not truly portable."/><published>2025-01-01T14:01:13+00:00</published><updated>2025-01-01T14:01:13+00:00</updated><id>https://praksharma.github.io/blog/2025/people-lied-to-me-appimages-are-not-truly-portable</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://praksharma.github.io/blog/2025/people-lied-to-me-appimages-are-not-truly-portable/"><![CDATA[]]></content><author><name></name></author><summary type="html"><![CDATA[So, appimages are advertised as portable containers that saves you from dependency issues with package managers. Package managers can sometimes outright deny installing your favourite software if they fail to resolve dependency and this is a known issue. Today, an appimage denied to launch even after installing the basic dependencies such as fuse and libfuse2. &#8230; Continue reading People lied to me. Appimages are not truly&#160;portable.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Well-done Pop OS. Deleting the desktop environment should not be allowed on a desktop OS even with sudo. There are other distros for tinkering.</title><link href="https://praksharma.github.io/blog/2024/well-done-pop-os-deleting-the-desktop-environment-should-not-be-allowed-on-a-desktop-os-even-with-sudo-there-are-other-distros-for-tinkering/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Well-done Pop OS. Deleting the desktop environment should not be allowed on a desktop OS even with sudo. There are other distros for tinkering."/><published>2024-12-23T18:24:31+00:00</published><updated>2024-12-23T18:24:31+00:00</updated><id>https://praksharma.github.io/blog/2024/well-done-pop-os-deleting-the-desktop-environment-should-not-be-allowed-on-a-desktop-os-even-with-sudo-there-are-other-distros-for-tinkering</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://praksharma.github.io/blog/2024/well-done-pop-os-deleting-the-desktop-environment-should-not-be-allowed-on-a-desktop-os-even-with-sudo-there-are-other-distros-for-tinkering/"><![CDATA[]]></content><author><name></name></author><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Finally somebody is implmenting security features in Linux similar to SIP on Mac OS and trusted installer on Windows. https://github.com/pop-os/apt/blob/312e7d7310e07757c59cd7ac0f20d0b416b43026/apt-private/private-install.cc#L307]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Tell me the difference between these three situations</title><link href="https://praksharma.github.io/blog/2024/tell-me-the-difference-between-these-three-situations/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Tell me the difference between these three situations"/><published>2024-09-16T15:37:34+00:00</published><updated>2024-09-16T15:37:34+00:00</updated><id>https://praksharma.github.io/blog/2024/tell-me-the-difference-between-these-three-situations</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://praksharma.github.io/blog/2024/tell-me-the-difference-between-these-three-situations/"><![CDATA[]]></content><author><name></name></author><summary type="html"><![CDATA[* pk-client-error-quark: Error while installing package: installed nvidia-dkms-545 package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 10 (313) 2. When you go to a doctor and he says: * Your dendrite in neuron number 502023 isn&#8217;t firing properly. Now, go read this medical textbook and figure out the solution yourself. 3. You see a notice &#8230; Continue reading Tell me the difference between these three&#160;situations]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Don’t upgrade to Ubuntu 24.04</title><link href="https://praksharma.github.io/blog/2024/dont-upgrade-to-ubuntu-2404/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Don’t upgrade to Ubuntu 24.04"/><published>2024-09-16T15:36:34+00:00</published><updated>2024-09-16T15:36:34+00:00</updated><id>https://praksharma.github.io/blog/2024/dont-upgrade-to-ubuntu-2404</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://praksharma.github.io/blog/2024/dont-upgrade-to-ubuntu-2404/"><![CDATA[]]></content><author><name></name></author><summary type="html"><![CDATA[I recently upgraded from Ubuntu 22.04.4 to 24.04.1 after I got an official notification through the GUI, meaning no forced upgrade. It just killed my internet. A bunch of websites started showing &#8220;connection refused&#8221;. I tried everything incognito, DNS flush, multiple browsers, clearing browser history. Nothing helped. Also, there is absolutely no help on Google &#8230; Continue reading Don&#8217;t upgrade to Ubuntu&#160;24.04]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">The Quranic earth is flat. There is no misinterpretation.</title><link href="https://praksharma.github.io/blog/2024/the-quranic-earth-is-flat-there-is-no-misinterpretation/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="The Quranic earth is flat. There is no misinterpretation."/><published>2024-09-16T15:34:16+00:00</published><updated>2024-09-16T15:34:16+00:00</updated><id>https://praksharma.github.io/blog/2024/the-quranic-earth-is-flat-there-is-no-misinterpretation</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://praksharma.github.io/blog/2024/the-quranic-earth-is-flat-there-is-no-misinterpretation/"><![CDATA[]]></content><author><name></name></author><summary type="html"><![CDATA[The Quran, tafsirs and the siya sittah confirms that they believed in a flat earth. I know the Greeks said otherwise at the same time, but almost all the Muslim scholars believed in flat earth before the start of 10th century. This is mentioned in Hannam, James (2023).&#160;The Globe: How the Earth Became Round. published &#8230; Continue reading The Quranic earth is flat. There is no misinterpretation.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">The most insane proposal in regard to the Linux kernel development</title><link href="https://praksharma.github.io/blog/2024/the-most-insane-proposal-in-regard-to-the-linux-kernel-development/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="The most insane proposal in regard to the Linux kernel development"/><published>2024-06-13T00:09:45+00:00</published><updated>2024-06-13T00:09:45+00:00</updated><id>https://praksharma.github.io/blog/2024/the-most-insane-proposal-in-regard-to-the-linux-kernel-development</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://praksharma.github.io/blog/2024/the-most-insane-proposal-in-regard-to-the-linux-kernel-development/"><![CDATA[]]></content><author><name></name></author><summary type="html"><![CDATA[In 2016, Artem S. Tashkinov made a proposal on lkml. The proposal: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/4/2/76 Basically, proposed a sane idea to get newer hardwares working on old kernel. Al Viro replies in a disgraceful manner. The reply: https://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1604.0/02006.html Greg Kroah-Hartman, a Linux kernel dev replies to control the situation. KH Greg reply: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/4/6/646 To which Artem replies &#8230; Continue reading The most insane proposal in regard to the Linux kernel&#160;development]]></summary></entry></feed>