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
Definitely not retro, my AMD Ryzen 5 machine I built last year has this installed.
QT: https://mastodon.social/@256/106274227598922084
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Apple's testimony today describes their future for computing. In the name of security, Apple wants to vet (and get a cut from) all software installed on all Macs, not just iPhones. This has always been the plan, but it takes time to boil the frog that is traditional computers.
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“How Apple screwed Facebook - Apple’s iOS 14.5 update has triggered an unstoppable collapse in Facebook’s ability to collect user data”
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/apple-ios14-facebook
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"We didn't tell McDonalds, 'You need to figure out how to feed schoolchildren'—we had schools do it. The way to fix the problem of connecting people is to focus on local orgs & governments with incentives to connect them, not by asking Comcast to solve it."https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rl8_F3TVwvk
@fluffy I really enjoyed that course. We looked at a bunch of the theory behind computing, the whole thing built up to turing machines. It was pretty cool.
The textbook could have used some work though. I think the forgot a bracket at one point and there was raw LaTeX for a few pages.
@fluffy Knowing about this got me an interview once.
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#Pine64 PineDio + FemtoStar Satellites: "PineDio gateway can service the neighbourhood with text messaging, while a FemtoStar gateway can service an entire continent with data speeds fast enough to make phone calls or browse the web"
https://www.pine64.org/2021/05/19/femtostar-taking-aim-for-the-stars/
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Last week the UK Govt published a new draft of their #OnlineSafetyBill, making UK corps liable for jail time unless they censor "harmful" content (without defining harmful). Targeted at Big Tech it instead directly threatens Matrix. Read https://matrix.org/blog/2021/05/19/how-the-u-ks-online-safety-bill-threatens-matrix & raise the alarm.
@freedompatriot Ok, I'm not a Microsoft fan but do you have a short list of sources or "this is why" to back that up.
I mean I build Linux OSes from scratch and feel like just about everything Microsoft publishes is a scam at best but Bill Gates being "very dangerous" feels at best an exaggeration of what he's capable of.
@jbauer Welp that was a flop but to the right of that distorted mess is an NA outlet with the ground plug on the top.
@jbauer That's how I felt! Even the Lab I worked in before I came here had them upside down!
It's a good building. Free hot chocolate on the roof, smack in the middle of a mall. cheap rent. I feel like I'm living in one of those weird vapor wave youtube videos.
@Jaymo They're already here?
Poke around a bit, people on the internet know what they're doing.
TFW you open your profile on hackernews in private mode and see your most recent comment gray and flagged.
@MrSkweeze Hodl?!?
God dammit it's time to buy!
If I knew what the password to my wallet from 2011 was I'd be sitting on a decent boat smoking a sager right now.
@jbauer Well convert is hanging but take my word for it :p
@jbauer Earth plug on top is right way.
If my phone behaves I'll send an image.
- 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
