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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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Sharing-economy companies spy on restaurants and us, but the solution is not to force them to share their data—it’s to protect user rights. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/why-data-sharing-mandates-are-wrong-way-regulate-tech
I should make a mastodon account somewhere to speak my mind.
Where do TOR users go to scream into the void? Do they just host hidden services or are there textboards/mastodon instances they like?
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The Biden admin's executive order on antitrust is a quiet revolution, a profound change that gives enforcers scope to defend your privacy and rights to self-determination. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/party-its-1979-og-antitrust-back-baby
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The Open App Markets Act targets Google and Apple, but also online game stores like Steam, helping indie developers compete on price. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/new-bill-would-protect-indie-video-game-developers-and-app-developers
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Imagine an Internet of Snitches, each scanning whatever data they have access to for evidence of crime ⁉️ Invest in technology that gives you back the control and ownership you should have always had➡️ https://puri.sm/posts/internet-of-snitches/
https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/10/police_raid_man_for_downloading_google_search_docs/
Viewing the wrong things on Google Drive can result in a police raid. You're best off not using things like this.
Alternatives:
Syncthing
Git
scp
rsync
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government policymaker told he’s not allowed to upload videos to youtube that contradict government guidance
you know he’s one of the guys who writes that right
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Instructure provides online teaching tools that are increasingly being used by schools to fuel cheating accusations against students based on a gross misrepresentation of data. Meanwhile, the company denies students the data they need to defend themselves.https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/company-behind-online-learning-platform-canvas-should-commit-transparency-due
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Why You Should Stop Using iMessage After Shock iPhone Update
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2021/08/07/apple-iphone-users-shock-imessage-update-after-security-warning/
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You use more open source software than you think · GitHub
https://github.com/readme/featured/unseen-oss
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Apple's Plan to "Think Different" About Encryption Opens a Backdoor to Your Private Life | Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/apples-plan-think-different-about-encryption-opens-backdoor-your-private-life
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How to overclock (or underclock) the @PINE64 #PinePhone CPU
https://danct12.github.io/PinePhone-CPU-overclocking/ #100DaysToOffload
I finally took #sailing lessons a couple weeks ago after reading/dreaming about it for years (I'm not too sure why I waited so long.) It was exactly as much fun as I expected and I went out again last weekend, I would definitely recommend it.
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Why should you care about data brokers?
This story—about a Substack publication outing a priest with location data from Grindr—shows how easy it is for anyone to take advantage of data brokers’ stores to cause real harm. https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2021/07/20/bishop-misconduct-resign-burrill/
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EFF and Internet Archive amicus brief: Scraping is not hacking and doesn't violate the CFAA https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/07/eff-ninth-circuit-recent-supreme-court-decision-van-buren-does-not-criminalize-web
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if they want to take the guns because a couple hundred die a year in mass shootings why haven’t they taken the fructose corn syrup when thousands die of diabetes 
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"Anonymized" location data, isn't. Catholic priest resigns after legally-obtained Grindr app data from a broker correlated location data with his and relatives' homes, his place of work, and gay bars. #privacy https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/07/catholic-priest-quits-after-anonymized-data-revealed-alleged-use-of-grindr/
- 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
