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
https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/10/police_raid_man_for_downloading_google_search_docs/
Viewing the wrong things on Google Drive can result in a police raid. You're best off not using things like this.
Alternatives:
Syncthing
Git
scp
rsync
@thor Even the birds are watched by big tech.
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government policymaker told he’s not allowed to upload videos to youtube that contradict government guidance
you know he’s one of the guys who writes that right
@rune Also facial recognition
@thor Be careful with that, I've woken up with a hangover and things on my feed I wish weren't there and Mastodon can be slow to delete stuff.
@thor Logic/math/science aren't oracles. You can never really be certain about anything.
@thor The only circular part is "it's defined this way because it's defined this way" and you have to have axioms somewhere. That's part of the whole mortality thing.
@thor By definition; It depends on what "physics" you're using.
@thor basis vectors who's mutual projections are null.
@thor Distance is easy, just take the norm of the dot product between two position vectors.
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Instructure provides online teaching tools that are increasingly being used by schools to fuel cheating accusations against students based on a gross misrepresentation of data. Meanwhile, the company denies students the data they need to defend themselves.https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/company-behind-online-learning-platform-canvas-should-commit-transparency-due
@yngmar I have the brother HL2310D and the FOSS driver for it (brlazer or so) is pretty unreliable IME. Kind of disappointing since the brother laser printers I've had in the past worked really well.
@wolf480pl Commodore Business Machines.
@a1batross Yeah. Alpine is the only sane one at this point but you have to give up non-free video games.
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Why You Should Stop Using iMessage After Shock iPhone Update
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2021/08/07/apple-iphone-users-shock-imessage-update-after-security-warning/
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You use more open source software than you think · GitHub
https://github.com/readme/featured/unseen-oss
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Apple's Plan to "Think Different" About Encryption Opens a Backdoor to Your Private Life | Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/apples-plan-think-different-about-encryption-opens-backdoor-your-private-life
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How to overclock (or underclock) the @PINE64 #PinePhone CPU
https://danct12.github.io/PinePhone-CPU-overclocking/ #100DaysToOffload
- 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
