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
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No matter how bad things are right now,
no matter what happens to my job,
I'm happy to be alive right now.
Because before this, everyone my age complained that life is pointless, and we had no real challenges.
Well now we do,
and we have a choice to make:
Stand up for ourselves
or let totalitarianism win.
What could be more awesome than that?
The answer to this mess is to peacefully agree to disagree and split the country.
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Steve Bannon Is Not a Supervillain https://scribe.rip/p/steve-bannon-is-not-a-supervillain-2f2cee0caad5
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JUST IN - Federal judge halts United Airlines' vaccine mandate.
swiley
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Next Season Of 'Squid Game' Will Have Giant Fauci Robot Shoot Anyone Who Doesn't Get Their Mask On In Time
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Florida issues $3.5 million fine to county for violating vaccine passport law | Just The News https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/coronavirus/florida-issues-35-million-fine-leon-county-violating-vaccine-passport?
@johndolph No. ballot boxes always being publicly visible should be used to ensure security of votes.
Don't involve computers, even people that understand this would struggle to audit these systems.
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911 systems in danger of collapsing as first responder shortages further complicated by opposition to COVID vaccines https://www.newstarget.com/2021-10-12-911-systems-in-danger-of-collapsing-labor-shortages-covid-vaccines.html
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>"We do not allow our children to have their own computers to prevent the risk of them being radicalized by alt-right websites"
>gets radicalized to far-left instead
@solariz Just don't do it.
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search keyword "DMCA takedown"
> In response to a complaint that we received under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we have removed 1 result(s) from this page.
meta takedown...
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Three Detroit Women Charged With Voter Fraud in the 2020 Election
I want to see the hidden portion of the iceberg reported.
https://welovetrump.com/2021/10/12/three-detroit-women-charged-with-voter-fraud-in-the-2020-election/
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Federal Judge Restrains United Airlines From Enforcing Covid Vaccine Mandate on Employees Seeking Religious Exemption https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/10/federal-judge-halts-united-airlines-enforcing-covid-vaccine-mandate-employees-seeking-religious-exemption/?
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NEW - Australia's Northern Territory imposes the strictest vaccine mandate in the world. Those who don't comply by Nov. 13 will be fined $5,000.
@icedquinn
Also driving for hours to do *anything.*
- 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
