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
swiley
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RT @worldsendless
RT @yhancik@octodon.social
I'm a firm believer of Hanlon's Razor, but over a week, Facebook has flagged a post and a comment of mine, both about Mastodon (and including a link to http://joinmastodon.org)
@worldsendless It's also slow. I've never had a windows install that doesn't eventually start saturating the disk I/O while idle.
@icedquinn Like git branches?
gaem
@icedquinn Menus are great for beginners because you can explore and see everything. Menus+keyboard means you have a nice learning curve going from beginner to pro that wants ergonomics.
covid
I strongly dislike posting about politics other than software related stuff here but this is starting to really freak me out.
I'm not getting vaccinated. I had good arguments against it, there's the lack of long term data, the fact that it's orders of magnitude more dangerous than other vaccines for a disease that quite frankly is not very deadly for people my age. There's the social issues surrounding it.
But now people are talking about forcing it on each other. For that reason alone I'll refuse it.
I'll die on this hill, don't push me.
@freemo Interesting.
swiley
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🇳🇱
My new Cosmo Communicator arrived yesterday. It is designed to be linux compatible and android. So after following the official instructions I now have both Debian Linux and Android running on it.
KDE isnt well suited for a device with somewhat limited mouse capabilities (there is a trackpad like device on the back that acts as a second display), also it is KDE, ew. so first thing I did was install i3-gaps which is a primarily keyboard based tiling window manager. It works like a charm!
Everything so far has pretty much worked out of the box (though updating the firmware I did think I bricked it for a moment, thankfully it is fixed).
My i3 configuration is the same as on my desktop, im happy!
swiley
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Who would have thought that a tech company would use a feature marketed as being for security to exert remote control on their customer's computers instead? https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/09/riot-games-anti-cheat-software-will-require-tpm-secure-boot-on-windows-11/
@jessica@mk.absturztau.be @icedquinn Almost no one is forced to carry a phone let alone a smartphone.
@lucifargundam @icedquinn It never connects to the cellular network. I use VOIP for phone stuff and there's municipal WiFi here so it's not a huge issue but kind of annoying.
@omniscion
Linux users tend to have telemetry and other means of detecting this disabled.
Plus it's 20%-30% when you look at software devs.
@bonifartius @valleyforge tbh I would feel uncomfortable giving the average laptop from bestbuy a public address.
@tohmas Welcome!
@jessica@mk.absturztau.be @icedquinn I don't think I ever misunderstood what they were doing.
Shipping malware with iOS is unacceptable period.
texas
@icedquinn Wow that's entirely reasonable.
swiley
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texas
reading this texas bill that MSM is losing its mind over
> ballot records must be guarded by a cop for the entire duration
> large counties must have video surveilance of the entire thing
> polling places are not allowed to be tents
> ballot records must be guarded by a cop for the entire duration
> large counties must have video surveilance of the entire thing
> polling places are not allowed to be tents
@icedquinn Did they back down? Last I heard they were "delaying" it.
swiley
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apple should be punished for even trying that shit, not let off the hook for backing down to pressure.
@icedquinn Pine64 has a history of delivering, you just have to be patient.
@icedquinn Still enjoying my Pinephone, although something has been wrong with modemmanager (I think) lately and I need to look into that.
- 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
