Schools Are Abandoning Invasive Proctoring Software After Student Backlash
https://www.vice.com/en/article/7k9ag4/schools-are-abandoning-invasive-proctoring-software-after-student-backlash
PSA: To everyone receiving your #PinePhone, please read the included documentation and consult our Wiki (https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/PinePhone) prior to use.
Make sure to place your SD and SIM cards in the correct slots; see attached illustration.
EU_politics + encryption + privacy
The EU Council has approved a resolution to undermine encrypted communications for EU citicens:
https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-13084-2020-REV-1/en/pdf
A petition to declining this resolution and to keep citicens' privacy is online at the EU parliament:
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/petitions/en/petition/content/1222%252F2020/html/Keep+Encryption
As of today at 10:00 CET this petition has been signed by 19 supporters
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For the 2021 #Guile Potluck, Ricardo announces this web presence for the Picture Language:
https://elephly.net/guile-picture-language/ 👍
“YouTube is intentionally making their policies seem terrifying.” - @cfiesler on ContentID and copyright policy. Learn more in our town hall: https://www.pscp.tv/w/1mrxmwgVMWVGy
Your Smartphone Doesn't Have To Be Glued Shut!
The #librem5 was recently featured in a hardware tear-down video by @iFixit
Omfg.. Windows 10 is such a piece of crap! 💩 I need to do 5 Google searched before I know how to turn off those idiotic tiles
No wonder older people give up all hope with that shit software.. FFS Microsoft they just had figured out your crappy Windows XP/Vista/Other shit and now you come with this dumb ass action I never understand
I hate Windows so hard
News site Stuff left Facebook. Seven months later, traffic is just fine and trust is higher | Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/risj-review/news-site-stuff-left-facebook-seven-months-later-traffic-just-fine-and-trust-higher
RT @serenatinari@twitter.com
Limited access to legal counsel and a laptop with glued-down keys to prepare defense. No winter clothes. Up to 23 and half hours per day in isolation. That's how the UK is treating a publisher wanted by the US for revealing evidence of war crimes. #JournalistsSpeakUpForAssange
RT @FordFischer@twitter.com
You can watch the video backed up here on @OdyseeTeam@twitter.com. As you'll see, the video itself (and I in it) make no claims to the legitimacy of the protesters' beliefs.
This doesn't remove disinfo; it only removes a recording of what led to January 6.
https://odysee.com/@news2share:f/maga-activists-assemble-for-stop-the:4
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/FordFischer/status/1364603010458992642
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