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
@fluffy Here's the PMOS wiki for the SoC: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Qualcomm_Snapdragon_835_(MSM8998)
@fluffy Non-free Android only drivers so it's an Android with some gimmicks, not a Pinephone or Librem5. Nice keyboard though.
@freemo Wasn't foreign policy one of the things Trump was supposedly so terrible at?
@freemo And that new chemical is an explosive apparently.
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Legislators around the country have proposed laws that would require tech companies to share sensitive personal information with governments and small businesses. Here’s why that’s misguided: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/why-data-sharing-mandates-are-wrong-way-regulate-tech
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#postmarketOS now boots on Samsung Galaxy Tab A 8.0 2015 (SM-T355Y)! #Linux
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#postmarketOS now boots on HTC Sensation! #Linux
@lucifargundam Matrix isn't really anonymous but I'll join if there's an XMPP or IRC bridge.
@zleap They've been behaving pathologically for quite a while. None of this surprising.
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Sharing-economy companies spy on restaurants and us, but the solution is not to force them to share their data—it’s to protect user rights. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/why-data-sharing-mandates-are-wrong-way-regulate-tech
@freemo I use the same pseudonym everywhere. I guess that's fundamentally where I messed up.
@lucifargundam They creeped me out a bit but I guess that makes sense.
I should make a mastodon account somewhere to speak my mind.
Where do TOR users go to scream into the void? Do they just host hidden services or are there textboards/mastodon instances they like?
@fluffy This is the most effective solution I've found:
[swiley@stfrancis ~]$ cat /etc/hosts
# Static table lookup for hostnames.
# See hosts(5) for details.
127.0.0.1 localhost
::1 localhost
192.168.1.22 localhost stfrancis stfrancis.swiley.net vpn.swiley.net
127.0.0.1 4channel.org
127.0.0.1 boards.4channel.org
127.0.0.1 4chan.org
127.0.0.1 boards.4chan.org
127.0.0.1 twitter.com
127.0.0.1 news.ycombinator.com
127.0.0.1 youtube.com
127.0.0.1 reddit.com
127.0.0.1 www.reddit.com
127.0.0.1 old.reddit.com
127.0.0.1 m.reddit.com
127.0.0.1 i.reddit.com
@fluffy They did this in my parent's home town. They cover it with some kind of sticky oil based cement so you car gets absolutely pelted with rocks for months (It's different from a normal dirt road like the one I grew up on.)
Some places are built entirely for cars and then don't bother to maintain car infrastructure.
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The Biden admin's executive order on antitrust is a quiet revolution, a profound change that gives enforcers scope to defend your privacy and rights to self-determination. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/party-its-1979-og-antitrust-back-baby
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The Open App Markets Act targets Google and Apple, but also online game stores like Steam, helping indie developers compete on price. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/new-bill-would-protect-indie-video-game-developers-and-app-developers
@trinsec I don't normally remember NextCloud because it's *way* more resource intensive than I would like but I'd imagine many Google drive fans would like it.
I think this [1] service gives you free accounts that include a nexcloud instance if you don't want to self host (although that kind of defeats the point.)
[1] https://disroot.org/en
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Imagine an Internet of Snitches, each scanning whatever data they have access to for evidence of crime ⁉️ Invest in technology that gives you back the control and ownership you should have always had➡️ https://puri.sm/posts/internet-of-snitches/
- 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
