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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
@wolf480pl I think it also checks if you're running on something exceptionally weird like OSes from CBM.
I finally took #sailing lessons a couple weeks ago after reading/dreaming about it for years (I'm not too sure why I waited so long.) It was exactly as much fun as I expected and I went out again last weekend, I would definitely recommend it.
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Why should you care about data brokers?
This story—about a Substack publication outing a priest with location data from Grindr—shows how easy it is for anyone to take advantage of data brokers’ stores to cause real harm. https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2021/07/20/bishop-misconduct-resign-burrill/
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EFF and Internet Archive amicus brief: Scraping is not hacking and doesn't violate the CFAA https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/07/eff-ninth-circuit-recent-supreme-court-decision-van-buren-does-not-criminalize-web
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if they want to take the guns because a couple hundred die a year in mass shootings why haven’t they taken the fructose corn syrup when thousands die of diabetes 
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"Anonymized" location data, isn't. Catholic priest resigns after legally-obtained Grindr app data from a broker correlated location data with his and relatives' homes, his place of work, and gay bars. #privacy https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/07/catholic-priest-quits-after-anonymized-data-revealed-alleged-use-of-grindr/
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What are the alternatives to the walled garden of big tech? Have your own castle where you and your rights are respected. Read why Purism is built with security, privacy and freedom in mind 🌎 https://puri.sm/posts/defending-against-spyware-like-pegasus/
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I dislike when companies capitalize on incidents, so I usually publish my thoughts months later to avoid even the appearance. But folks asked us how @purism products fare against a Pegasus-like attack so I wrote about our overall spyware defense. https://puri.sm/posts/defending-against-spyware-like-pegasus/
@0 Probably the best advice you can give people is to absolutely stay away from cell phones (especially smartphones) and any closed software.
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Facebook Is Designed to Spread Covid Misinformation | The New Republic
https://newrepublic.com/article/163002/facebook-designed-spread-covid-misinformation
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We are upstreaming our software development for the wider community. Calls will become a part of the @gnome project. Having a dialer application available shows that mobile is an important use case for GNOME. Read more: https://puri.sm/posts/how-calls-became-a-part-of-gnome/
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How much COVID misinformation is on Facebook? Its execs don’t want to know | Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/07/facebook-willfully-ignored-its-covid-misinformation-problem-report-says/
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"worst facet of Muse Group's attempt to take down musescore-downloader is its discussion of Xmader's status as a Chinese expat and warnings of the possible draconian consequences for him"
@brad I think there is software that handles this. I know xvkbd will do english word complete for you although I always leave it off.
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Edward Snowden calls for spyware trade ban amid Pegasus revelations | Edward Snowden | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/jul/19/edward-snowden-calls-spyware-trade-ban-pegasus-revelations
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one of the most common questions about the LBRY vs SEC case is: why LBRY? why go after a small company trying so hard to do the right thing?
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Surgeon general just called for an expansion of AI censorship, including real-time streams.
Strengthen the monitoring of misinformation. Platforms should increase staffing of multilingual content moderation teams and improve the effectiveness of machine learning algorithms in languages other than English since non- English-language misinformation continues to proliferate. Platforms should also address misinformation in live streams, which are more difficult to moderate due to their temporary nature and use of audio and video.
https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/surgeon-general-misinformation-advisory.pdf
cc @freemo
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#postmarketOS now boots on Microsoft Surface RT! #Linux
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#Pegasus: #Spyware sold to #governments 'targets activists'
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Considering that even one of those rockets cost more than the income of a middle class worker in 2 or even 3 years is fucking ridiculous
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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
