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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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Google illegally tracking Android users, according to new complaint | Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/04/google-of-illegally-tracking-android-users-according-to-new-complaint/
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Yes, it's my fault you guys are a bag of dicks?
Facebook Says It’s Your Fault That Hackers Got Half a Billion User Phone Numbers
https://www.vice.com/en/article/88awzp/facebook-says-its-your-fault-that-hackers-got-half-a-billion-user-phone-numbers
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What do you call a broken embedded system?
An embed-dead system.
I'm very glad I never added mine and ignored all the 2fa nags back when I would check #facebook.
#Facebook Phone Numbers Are Now Searchable in "Have I Been Pwned" https://www.troyhunt.com/the-facebook-phone-numbers-are-now-searchable-in-have-i-...
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Amazon has made a cruel “take it or leave it” demand to its 75,000 delivery drivers: submit to face surveillance or lose your job. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/dystopia-prime-amazon-subjects-its-drivers-biometric-surveillance
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don't feel too bad if you're an incel too. it's just the times
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"Build Rot" ... Automated Builds need to be fixed every month or so ... Even though nothing has changed 🤔
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For people using the edge branch of #postmarketOS, please make sure you check https://postmarketos.org/edge if you notice any breakage. We report ways to fix known problems there, most recently PipeWire-pulse being installed and replacing PulseAudio, breaking audio.
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ancient beer hut: [celtic knots and various abstract geometries carved in to the outer surface of the walls]
modernity: look at this featureless aluminum cube
modernity: look at this featureless aluminum cube
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Facebook just doxxed a half-billion people: don’t let it use their plight to justify making it harder to leave Facebook! https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/04/553000000-reasons-not-let-facebook-make-decisions-about-your-privacy
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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
- 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
