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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"New York AG shuts down two crypto platforms and directed three others to immediately provide information about their activities and products."
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1450113240273412103?s=20
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"Chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, reportedly sold up to $5 million worth of stock right before the stock market suffered a significant drop"
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1450109722737233921?s=20
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MooN
Super protest in 💎 🇮🇹 Italy 🇮🇹 💎against medical tyranny passports and other delusional measures.
https://rumble.com/embed/vla21r/?pub=poe41
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JUST IN - Health Minister Spahn announces the end of the pandemic state of emergency in #Germany (BILD)
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> what should we do about government issue
Delete government next question
Delete government next question
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NEW - #Beijing records lowest mid-October temperature in half century amid stretched energy situation in China (Xinhua)
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"Boys more at risk from Pfizer jab side-effect than Covid"
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/10/boys-more-at-risk-from-pfizer-jab-side-effect-than-covid-suggests-study
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In Ghost in the Shell, connecting to an unknown cyberbrain is considered extremely dangerous. It may fry your brain or rewrite your mind. Even when the target is not actively malicious, sometimes merely exposing to intense ideas in that brain can be harmful. Nevertheless, if one wants to learn something, one often has to accept the risks.
Today I'm convinced it's not entirely fictional... Good blog posts are effectively braindumps. Just found a blog full of infohazards, but can't stop reading it... #cyberpunk
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NEW - Antarctica's last 6 months were the coldest on record (NSIDC)
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JUST IN - Former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell is dead. He died at the age of 84. According to his family, he died of #COVID19 despite being vaccinated twice.
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+bonifartius 𒂼𒄄
code of conducts are _always_ vaguely formulated because the real reason for their existence is to be used to throw people under the bus. you need enough wiggle room to be able to declare every behaviour as against the rules.
@worldsendless IIRC Debian still produces builds for some late 80s/early 90s Amigas.
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RT @OptiplexPrime
Microsoft says I'm not supported for major OS upgrades anymore. Linux says hold my beer and I got you for another 10+ years.
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@RudolvonStroheim
>AMD GPUS are socialist because red
Didn't even make the "open source drivers is communism joke." :/
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@MountainJay it's almost like people forget that we're in the middle of unprecedented loss of freedom. Nobody cares about the entire edifice of democracy crumbling around them and think this is the important issue.
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- 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
