swiley @swiley@qoto.org
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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
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This Lightning Cable Will Leak Everything You Type
https://www.vice.com/en/article/k789me/omg-cables-keylogger-usbc-lightning
@MrSkweeze Are there distributed options contracts yet?
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vaccines, ACLU
Why the ACLU Flip-Flopped on Vaccine Mandates
The organization endorsed vaccine requirements, adopting the argument that mandatory inoculations against COVID-19 “further civil liberties” by protecting the most vulnerable.
To the ACLU’s critics, its support of vaccine mandates is another sign that an organization that was often willing to take unpopular stances in the name of liberty has abandoned its roots to fall in line with progressivism.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/09/why-aclu-supports-vaccine-mandates/619984/
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RT @eff: Your computer system is uniquely configured—and thus identifiable—even if you are using privacy-protective software. Learn more wi…
@ivanrancic@mastodon.social eh. I'm not sure about these "x industry" statements, they're even worse than making statements about the behavior of corporations or social networks. There are probably some handful of organizations involved in film making that are terrible but not every one is.
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ProtonMail deletes 'we don't log your IP' boast from website after French climate activist reportedly arrested
https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/07/protonmail_hands_user_ip_address_police/
@lupyuen That sort of thing is going to be successful one day.
@MrSkweeze Nothing interesting. He's unprincipled and conservative.
@fatboy @protonmail If it's on other people's computers you don't own it.
@icedquinn @ademan Every new generation of internet chat software just gets worse and worse.
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i have nothing against gay people but you have to admit cook is a huge step down from jobs.
let’s take a look at steve-o:
CHA 10 reality distortion field
Gets heckled during own speeches, spends five minutes destroying the heckler
Sells phone phreaking tools out of a van to start company (cyberpunk as fuck)
Half the people he works with hates him but they still work together because it’s like 
this guys a jerk but we make phone real smol
ok guys we only have like 4 models of product because it’s real simple we have Smol Mac, Big Mag, Chonky Mac and MP3 Player Mac.
the tim cook
only new product is a fucking smartwatch ipad big, ipad bigger, ipad biggest, iphone smol, iphone biggest, iphone big old edition, soldered mac, soldered hard drive mac, mac with slightly white monitor, mac with off center apple logo fires everyone who disagrees with him no charisma just some salaryman who got a promotion; no cyberpunk-ass backstory
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We’re glad Apple is listening now. So let’s say it clearly: No mass surveillance on our devices. https://act.eff.org/action/tell-apple-don-t-scan-our-phones https://twitter.com/EFF/status/1433843230135631872
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If you are using #deltachat and want to help me test KDeltaChat (https://git.sr.ht/~link2xt/kdeltachat), please feel free to contact me at delta@linmob.net!
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We're winning.
Apple has announced delays to its intended phone scanning tools while it conducts more research. But the company must go further, and drop its plans to put a backdoor into its encryption entirely. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/09/delays-arent-good-enough-apple-must-abandon-its-surveillance-plans
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Popular NPM package "pac-resolver" has fixed a severe Remote Code Execution flaw
@bonifartius Smartphones are surveillance/manipulation devices.
@collectedoverspread You're probably best off ignoring Twitter entirely.
@bonifartius Either stop carrying a cell phone, or use a fliphone or something that runs PMOS.
- 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
