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Email mastodon+swiley@swiley.net (this makes all of my computers beep and turn on an indicator light and is always the fastest way to reach me.) I was on octodon a while ago but abandoned my account. I've never been a member of gab or parlor.
If you’d like to learn to program I would consider the SICP [1] more or less the peak of American CS pedagogy (at least as far as beginners go) along with “The Practice of Programming” once you get through that.
I play ukulele, I’m ok at reading music and decent at improv. I learned from Walter Piston’s “Harmony” and some of Adam Neely’s videos.
My main phone is a pine phone so if I don’t pick up when you call the battery is probably dead, the modem is probably dead, or I’m currently swearing at calls/pulseaudio/alsa. I’d strongly recommend sending an email instead.
Dispite what my web page says I’ve stopped uploading my scratch projects to GitHub once I started to understand the basics of collaboration with git. I was using the flamegraph as gamification/motivation but it doesn’t work as well with feature branch/squash merge workflows so I just keep most things on my VPS until I’m happy with publishing updates.
[1] https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/sicp/full-text/book/book.html
Joined Jan 2021
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RT @MIA_mea_@twitter.com
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Tell HN: Dropbox now requires access to contacts for Google login
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25789603
#hackernews #tech
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Uh, my standing desk just stopped mid-way and said "E12".
I guess it's time for the weekend.
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About the only thing that I wish Mastodon would allow us to do, is to be able to Boost with or without a comment. About the only thing the birdsite has done better. If you agree please boost. Thanks!
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I've been running my own email for years and spent more than four years in engineering school but I still can't figure #encrypted email out.
Does anyone have advice for using s/mime with #selfhosted email?
Is the only option for distributing public keys ldap?
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PeerTube v3, an alternative to centralized video platforms like YouTube, is now live! Read more about the new release from our friends at @framasoft, https://u.fsf.org/38y, and subscribe to our PeerTube channel at https://u.fsf.org/36m !
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Seriously, fuck Google...
Google completes purchase of Fitbit - The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/14/22188428/google-fitbit-acquisition-completed-approved
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If anyone's interested… The Intel mesa team is hiring.
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Nor was FB forced to spend vast fortunes lobbying against privacy rules that would limit its targeting ability.
People who want to kill CDA230, take note. Facebook agrees with you: they want a rule that forces its rivals to spend money they don't have on moderation.
If you want to hurt FB, look for the things that it lobbies AGAINST: privacy regulations and antitrust enforcement.
9/
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My grandpa just had a weird problem with his phone. He was trying to change the birthyear of one of his contacts to 1945, but the spinner only lets him pick 1970-20xx.
Apparently, the stock OnePlus 5 contacts app thinks day 0 of the unix timestamp was the beginning of mankind.
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In Pasco County, police assign crime scores to people, including minors, who they think might commit crimes—then harass them for years.
This predictive policing program is “the worst case scenario in our head, played out exactly,” says EFF's @mguariglia.
https://www.tampabay.com/investigations/2020/12/05/public-interest-groups-take-aim-at-pasco-sheriffs-data-driven-policing-programs/
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Poland plans to make censoring of social media accounts illegal
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- mastodon+swiley@swiley.net
swiley.net
Email mastodon+swiley@swiley.net (this makes all of my computers beep and turn on an indicator light and is always the fastest way to reach me.) I was on octodon a while ago but abandoned my account. I've never been a member of gab or parlor.
If you’d like to learn to program I would consider the SICP [1] more or less the peak of American CS pedagogy (at least as far as beginners go) along with “The Practice of Programming” once you get through that.
I play ukulele, I’m ok at reading music and decent at improv. I learned from Walter Piston’s “Harmony” and some of Adam Neely’s videos.
My main phone is a pine phone so if I don’t pick up when you call the battery is probably dead, the modem is probably dead, or I’m currently swearing at calls/pulseaudio/alsa. I’d strongly recommend sending an email instead.
Dispite what my web page says I’ve stopped uploading my scratch projects to GitHub once I started to understand the basics of collaboration with git. I was using the flamegraph as gamification/motivation but it doesn’t work as well with feature branch/squash merge workflows so I just keep most things on my VPS until I’m happy with publishing updates.
[1] https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/sicp/full-text/book/book.html
Joined Jan 2021
