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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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Android vs Java: Supreme Court hands #Google a victory in a multibillion-dollar case against #Oracle
https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/05/tech/google-oracle-supreme-court-ruling/index.html
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Just a reminder to #Democrats in the USA... You are supporting the party that fought for slavery and even after loosing the civil war enacted the Jim Crow laws and supported segregation for decades...
Now years later you have elected the first president in modern history who started his career on the platform of resisting desegregation efforts and doing everything in his power to keep schools segregated. In Biden's own words he didnt want to see the schools turn into "a racial jungle"
Might want to rethink your life choices and if you are really on the side of good...
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Leaked phone number of Mark Zuckerberg reveals he is on Signal
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/other/leaked-phone-number-of-mark-zuckerberg-reveals-he-is-on-signal/ar-BB1fjNfL
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Mark Zuckerberg's Phone Number Is Among Leaked Facebook User Data
https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-phone-number-facebook-leak-data-reports-2021-4?IR=T
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<https://electricliterature.com/whats-keeping-stephen-king-up-at-night/>
> _“We live in a society where many believe that libraries and other cultural endeavours… are of minor importance. As if learning to think is a thing that just happens naturally, like learning to walk. Believe me, it’s not. **Learning to think is the result of hard work and steady effort**.”_
> -- Stephen King/from a speech Stephen King at 2016 National Book Festival: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRD7JJLPeIM.> He says it at 34:00+
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Personal data for 533 million #Facebook users leaks on the web
https://www.engadget.com/facebook-533-million-user-personal-data-leak-180156777.html
+bonifartius 𒂼𒄄
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#PeerTube has a #live feature now btw! Try it out some time 
https://PeerTube.TV
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YouTube Channel Deletion – Luke Smith
https://lukesmith.xyz/articles/deletion
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computers are wonderful things.
and you should use less of them.
stop putting computers in things.
and you should use less of them.
stop putting computers in things.
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Schools that punish students for social media comments posted on their own time, outside of school, need a lesson in the First Amendment, we told the Supreme Court. https://www.eff.org/press/releases/schools-cant-punish-students-campus-speech-including-social-media-posts-eff-tells
I kinda wanna ditch YouTube since the ads are just insane
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Apple just sent me a marketing e-mail regarding apple pay. I rechecked my subscriptions, and all my e-mail preferences are turned off.
Pretty sure that's some weird trickery, since they briefly mention that some law has changed, but I didn't ask for this.
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Waiting for the upcoming new April 1st RFC.
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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
