swiley @swiley@qoto.org
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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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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.
>Apple merging work and personal and work accounts
#nope
That would be a "you can keep me or force me to do this" line.
Man today was rough, I promise until 7:00 EDT no more puts or complex gets from me.
inb4 following #IETF standards is considered right wing.
I swear to God.
I will continue using mutt to read your shitty emails until the end of time and If I have to type `|elinks --dump | less` that's on you.
If I'm less likely to read your crap that's on you.
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More than 90 organizations, including EFF, have sent a letter to @tim_cook asking him to stop plans to scan Apple's iPhones. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/eff-joins-global-coalition-asking-apple-ceo-tim-cook-stop-phone-scanning
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The former @FCC chief technologist built a scanning system like Apple's. But then: "We warned against our own system design." https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/08/19/apple-csam-abuse-encryption-security-privacy-dangerous/
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We've joined a coalition of more than 90 organizations calling on Apple to halt its plans to scan the files and iMessages of iPhone users.
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#postmarketOS now boots on Samsung Galaxy J6+! #Linux
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It’s been eighteen months that people became so scared of dying that they gave up on living.
- 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
