swiley @swiley@qoto.org
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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
No this isnt retro yet! dammit!
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AT&T hid an arbitration clause in a mountain of dense legalese that it forces its customers to sign. So a judge dismissed our lawsuit against AT&T’s invasion of location privacy. We need a legislative fix. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/04/forced-arbitration-thwarts-legal-challenge-atts-disclosure-customer-location-data
@civodul Wait GNU wasn't inclusive and transparent before?
@fluffy meh, my mail server would still be up.
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reminder: you are not immune to propaganda
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The Tor Project is hiring a Junior Systems Administrator! Please retweet and share this opportunity with your networks.
https://www.torproject.org/about/jobs/junior-system-administrator/
@icedquinn Or the FBI giving LSD to random people. Or Terry Davis actually being followed by government agents. Or anything related to Edward Snowden.
Conspiracy theories are made because actual conspiracies happen
@freemo I'm glad I was stupid enough to buy some earlier. It's fun to watch.
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Google is making another attempt at personal health records - The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/12/22379846/google-health-record-data-app-android
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Under the U.S. copyright laws, reverse engineering software or hardware you legitimately obtained is perfectly legal, UNLESS the software EULA says "no RE", which is legally enforceable and overrides your fair-use rights, as the courts has repeatedly ruled.
Then what prevents a hardware vendor or a chipmaker from doing the same thing? Why hasn't every chipmaker started to sell chips with EULA attached at this point? "Take a photo and we'll sue you out of existence..."
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The ad industry is moving away from the anonymous profiling that cookies enabled, and is planning to demand email addresses and other personally-identifiable information instead. This would be a step backward for users.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/04/after-cookies-ad-tech-wants-use-your-email-track-you-everywhere
@icedquinn Maybe they're assuming it gets recycled somehow?
@finlaydag33k At least here in the US residential ISPs are all blocked from sending email.
@icedquinn Your body doesn't consume nitrogen though
@freemo My parent's house got struck once. It welded the weather vane to point one direction and we had to replace half the electronics.
@djsumdog @icedquinn It really makes more sense if you look at it as just another credit market.
@icedquinn The US isn't the first place where people in power robbed everyone else by changing the rules and it's also not the first place where something changing on paper made everything more expensive.
@freemo Etherium has been pretty disappointing lately. My biggest gains were in BAT. I'm kind of embarrassed to admit that I own some.
@icedquinn We survived hundreds of years without understanding the *theory* of the complex contracts everyone made, but we've had things like credit, options, futures, and insurance for a long time.
- 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
