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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
Man I remember being annoyed I had to fill out a 1040 EZ in college. Now I have to do the whole 1040 and attach these long 8949 forms and crap and takes forever.
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#PinePhone can now be purchased year round, wireless charging and #LoRa cases coming in June, keyboard case coming this summer
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A patent on a “camera + computer stuff” has been used to file more than 200 lawsuits. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/05/how-camera-patent-was-used-sue-non-profits-cities-and-public-schools
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Victory! The National Capital Region Facial Recognition System (NCR-FRILS) will be shut down by July 1. https://epic.org/2021/05/after-epic-led-coalition-lette.html
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While Venmo offers a setting to make your payments and transactions private, there is no option to hide your friend list. It’s clearly time for that to change. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/we-found-joe-bidens-secret-venmo
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At 16:00 CEST @martijnbraam will demo #postmarketOS and our various interfaces on #AlpineConf, and at 16:30 CEST @proycon will demo SXMO!
Head on over to https://alpinelinux.org/conf and come watch!
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May update: order #pinephone anytime this year!; #pinedio #lora from RAKwireless project launches June; #pinetime w InfiniTime 1.0 in store June; #pinephone keyboard review units ship; #Quartz64 stock in June; #pinebookpro runs @fedora 34 & production hiatus:
https://www.pine64.org/2021/05/15/may-update-connection-established/
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Report: Facebook app downloads drop 30% amid TikTok growth and privacy concerns - 9to5Mac
https://9to5mac.com/2021/05/13/report-facebook-app-downloads-drop-30-amid-tiktok-growth-and-privacy-concerns/
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Actions we propose to take on PR #835 · Discussion #889 · audacity/audacity · GitHub
https://github.com/audacity/audacity/discussions/889
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Pentagon Surveilling Americans Without a Warrant, Senator Says
https://gizmodo.com/pentagon-is-surveilling-americans-without-a-warrant-se-1846889719
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reminder that virtue signaller is afraid of donating to RMS supporters while using Github owned by Microsoft which has been nothing but anti-trust violations and has treated their employees like shit with perma-temping for decades.
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I've heard that the oil pipeline company paid a ransom. Paying out ransomware should be illegal.
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#TIL The YIG filter in high performance spectrum analyzers is literally a suspended crystal ball. I'm fully convinced that RF is magic. #electronics
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Far too many schools ignore legitimate student concerns about inadequate, or overbroad, anti-cheating software. The @nytimes reports on cheating allegations at Dartmouth, which are derailing student careers despite lack of concrete evidence. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/09/technology/dartmouth-geisel-medical-cheating.html
- 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
