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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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We’re glad Apple is listening now. So let’s say it clearly: No mass surveillance on our devices. https://act.eff.org/action/tell-apple-don-t-scan-our-phones https://twitter.com/EFF/status/1433843230135631872
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If you are using #deltachat and want to help me test KDeltaChat (https://git.sr.ht/~link2xt/kdeltachat), please feel free to contact me at delta@linmob.net!
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We're winning.
Apple has announced delays to its intended phone scanning tools while it conducts more research. But the company must go further, and drop its plans to put a backdoor into its encryption entirely. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/09/delays-arent-good-enough-apple-must-abandon-its-surveillance-plans
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Popular NPM package "pac-resolver" has fixed a severe Remote Code Execution flaw
If you don't want to end up like the Australians you need to get rid of your smartphone *today.*
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BRAKTOOTH Bluetooth Exploit: "attacker is able to execute arbitrary functions implemented in the target ESP32’s firmware"
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The Enduring Midwestern Mystery of Blue Moon Ice Cream - Gastro Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-is-blue-moon-ice-cream
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Q: What does "End-to-End-Encryption" become when it has been weakened?
A: End Encryption.
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Weaponizing Censorship Middleboxes for TCP Reflected Traffic Amplification Attack
> Most of these nation-states are weak amplifiers (the Great Firewall of China only offers about 1.5x amplification, for example), but some of them offer more damaging amplifications, such as Saudi Arabia (~20x amplification)
And....
> We found a small number of infinite routing loops that traversed censorship infrastructure (notably in both China and Russia) that offered *infinite* amplification. 💣💥
https://geneva.cs.umd.edu/posts/usenix21-weaponizing-censors/
Many years ago, a friend of mine told me it may be possible to exploit the Great Firewall of China for reflected amplification DDoS. This attack is real! #censorship #infosec #ddos
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By breaking the privacy promise that your messages are secure, and ignoring the harm its notification scheme will cause, Apple is risking not only its privacy-protective image in the tech world, but also the safety of its young users.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/apples-plan-scan-photos-messages-turns-young-people-privacy-pawns
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Just like all my toots. Plagiarised. Not a single drop of originality 😂
All the most popular posts on Facebook are plagiarized...
https://www.platformer.news/p/all-the-most-popular-posts-on-facebook
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Facebook used facial recognition without consent 200,000 times, says South Korea's data watchdog • The Register
https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/26/facebook_fined_by_south_korea/
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"Getting GPLv2 Compliance From A Chinese Company - In Person!"
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Edward Snowden has spoken
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30 Years ago...
On August 25, 1991, Linus Torvalds posted his famous
message to the
comp.os.minix USENET group:
I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and
professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has been
brewing since april, and is starting to get ready.
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Law enforcement put an entire region under aerial surveillance after believing unvetted reports that an "Antifa bus" was headed to town. A pattern is emerging of social media-based disinformation serving as "intelligence" to justify real surveillance.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/aug/23/revealed-california-police-antifa-misinformation
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#2506 Projecting
This is something we all need to work on, but especially you all.
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"China now wants to tell influencers how to speak and dress when live-streaming"
https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/19/tech/china-live-streaming-regulations-intl-hnk/index.html
On a scale of 1-10 how much trouble are you in being up past 00:00 EDT with your GF?
Mine would be moderately pissed but she's probably negotiating with the Canadian government with their soy consumption and whatnot.
I would rather be homeless than comply with that. I didn't even give HR a non-tagged personal email address and put up with weeks of "database collided with garbage" crap.
- 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
