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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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May update: order #pinephone anytime this year!; #pinedio #lora from RAKwireless project launches June; #pinetime w InfiniTime 1.0 in store June; #pinephone keyboard review units ship; #Quartz64 stock in June; #pinebookpro runs @fedora 34 & production hiatus:
https://www.pine64.org/2021/05/15/may-update-connection-established/
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Report: Facebook app downloads drop 30% amid TikTok growth and privacy concerns - 9to5Mac
https://9to5mac.com/2021/05/13/report-facebook-app-downloads-drop-30-amid-tiktok-growth-and-privacy-concerns/
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Actions we propose to take on PR #835 · Discussion #889 · audacity/audacity · GitHub
https://github.com/audacity/audacity/discussions/889
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Pentagon Surveilling Americans Without a Warrant, Senator Says
https://gizmodo.com/pentagon-is-surveilling-americans-without-a-warrant-se-1846889719
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reminder that virtue signaller is afraid of donating to RMS supporters while using Github owned by Microsoft which has been nothing but anti-trust violations and has treated their employees like shit with perma-temping for decades.
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I've heard that the oil pipeline company paid a ransom. Paying out ransomware should be illegal.
@MrSkweeze Man I'm glad I sold all my bitcoin by accident last week (I did a ton of transfers and didn't realize coinbase was using bitcoin to pay for them.)
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#TIL The YIG filter in high performance spectrum analyzers is literally a suspended crystal ball. I'm fully convinced that RF is magic. #electronics
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@garritfra Plan9 is pretty non-unix and has non-zero popularity.
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Far too many schools ignore legitimate student concerns about inadequate, or overbroad, anti-cheating software. The @nytimes reports on cheating allegations at Dartmouth, which are derailing student careers despite lack of concrete evidence. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/09/technology/dartmouth-geisel-medical-cheating.html
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Educators and administrators should not use the pandemic as an excuse to comb for evidence of cheating in places that are far outside their technical expertise. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/04/proctoring-tools-and-dragnet-investigations-rob-students-due-process
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musk: spends own capital to build ventilators for hospitals who claim they need them. gets shit on by press. shows receipts that he made exactly what was asked for and the hospitals received them.
gates: spends own capital to invest in commercial vaccines. lionized by press daily. insists vaccines must remain corposhit so he can get billions in government income and letting other countries make their own would be bad for his profits.
yeah i guess we only like elon because of his tweets.
gates: spends own capital to invest in commercial vaccines. lionized by press daily. insists vaccines must remain corposhit so he can get billions in government income and letting other countries make their own would be bad for his profits.
yeah i guess we only like elon because of his tweets.
@fluffy I wish my ISP actually supported it.
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@fluffy I think the corner store here actually accepts bitcoin via the paypal integration on the POS machine. The future isn't looking as bad as I expected.
- 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
