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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The server's anti-virus wasn't up to date... https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/10/passengers-couldnt-fly-after-nhs-vaccine-passport-went-offline/
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Social Security benefits to increase by 5.9% in 2022 https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/finance/social-security-benefits-increase-59-2022?
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MooN
Vaccine pioneer (Dr Robert W Malone) says 'rules don’t apply’ to unaccountable, 'corrupt' Fauci, FDA
https://rumble.com/embed/vl3595/?pub=poe41
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From Sidney Powell:
DeSantis Celebrates Banning Zuckerberg's Election Meddling As A Win For Safe, Secure Voting https://thefederalist.com/2021/10/12/desantis-celebrates-banning-zuckerbergs-election-meddling-as-a-win-for-safe-secure-voting/?
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Q: Why are electronics engineers bad at cooking?
A: They use SPICE all the time.
Q: Why are infosec developers bad at cooking?
A: They use salt all the time.
Q: Why are post-quantum cryptographers bad at cooking?
A: They use an unbalanced amount of oil and vinegar.
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I'm fully vaxxed (until they change the definition of that -- it's coming)
It was a decision I made understanding that the vaccines are essentially experimental and could have acute and chronic side effects. I made the decision based on balancing the risks against the responsibility I have to maintain. It was my decision to make.
The fact that I made the decision a certain way doesn't mean I want to force my decision onto anyone else. I don't think I'm special, that my judgement is supreme. I just did what I thought was best and it was a gamble.
Regardless of the above, vaccine passports are simply evil. Asking people for their papers to participate in society is an icon for the worst regimes in history, an icon of repression, an icon of evil.
These people think they're the good guys. So did the Nazis. They're wrong, just like the Nazis. For people who seem to care so much about what history thinks of them, they are awfully ignorant of how history has judged people like them previously.
It was a decision I made understanding that the vaccines are essentially experimental and could have acute and chronic side effects. I made the decision based on balancing the risks against the responsibility I have to maintain. It was my decision to make.
The fact that I made the decision a certain way doesn't mean I want to force my decision onto anyone else. I don't think I'm special, that my judgement is supreme. I just did what I thought was best and it was a gamble.
Regardless of the above, vaccine passports are simply evil. Asking people for their papers to participate in society is an icon for the worst regimes in history, an icon of repression, an icon of evil.
These people think they're the good guys. So did the Nazis. They're wrong, just like the Nazis. For people who seem to care so much about what history thinks of them, they are awfully ignorant of how history has judged people like them previously.
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Do you realize that our country is turning into Nazi fucking Germany and the so-called human rights tribunal is busy charging people for misgendering others?
Clearly we as a society have our priorities on straight.
Clearly we as a society have our priorities on straight.
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President Biden Mandates Asbestos to be Installed in all Homes
In a move applauded by Democratic lawmakers, President Joe Biden announced Tuesday a new plan to mandate the installation of asbestos in all homes.
“Fire safety is very important, and we all know asbestos is fireproof.” Says Joe Biden, “Everyone must have asbestos installed in their home because if your house catches on fire, your neighbors house could catch on fire. Soon the entire city will be on fire!”
Some right-wing conspiracy theorists have expressed concerns about mesothelioma, which have been echoed by noted January 6th provocateurs such as Alex Jones. Joe Biden directly attacked these pro-fire individuals in his speech, saying “C’mon man! We installed asbestos in millions of homes last year, and we haven’t heard of a single person getting mesothelioma! Not one! Face it, asbestos is proven safe, we’re providing it for free, it’s going to protect your family from fire, and it’s going to protect your neighborhood. What are you waiting for?”
He had strong rhetoric for pro-fire individuals who were calling asbestos installers forcing their way into homes mean names: “Show some f---ing respect.”
In a move applauded by Democratic lawmakers, President Joe Biden announced Tuesday a new plan to mandate the installation of asbestos in all homes.
“Fire safety is very important, and we all know asbestos is fireproof.” Says Joe Biden, “Everyone must have asbestos installed in their home because if your house catches on fire, your neighbors house could catch on fire. Soon the entire city will be on fire!”
Some right-wing conspiracy theorists have expressed concerns about mesothelioma, which have been echoed by noted January 6th provocateurs such as Alex Jones. Joe Biden directly attacked these pro-fire individuals in his speech, saying “C’mon man! We installed asbestos in millions of homes last year, and we haven’t heard of a single person getting mesothelioma! Not one! Face it, asbestos is proven safe, we’re providing it for free, it’s going to protect your family from fire, and it’s going to protect your neighborhood. What are you waiting for?”
He had strong rhetoric for pro-fire individuals who were calling asbestos installers forcing their way into homes mean names: “Show some f---ing respect.”
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RT @ElectionWiz]
WATCH: Massive strike and demonstrations throughout Italy against the government’s vaccine passport, which will be compulsory for employment on October 15. At least one million workers have gone on strike, unions say.
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JUST IN - Schumer plans a full Senate vote to advance Democrats' bill to fundamentally change U.S. election laws for next Wednesday.
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#Guix now has its own infrastructure to build a #Disarchive database, which, coupled with #SoftwareHeritage, is our guarantee for long-term source code availability:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2021-10/msg00080.html
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We just overtook OANN. Now we are the second-largest news channel on the Telegram app.
Subscribe to us: https://t.me/disclosetv
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NEW - Chinese Communist Party-linked foreign influence group CUSEF reportedly sponsored a climate change conference seeking to mobilize youth advocates in America.
https://thenationalpulse.com/exclusive/ccp-influence-group-sponsors-climate-change-conference/
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NEW - State Department of Transportation maintenance crew left some parting words before Washington’s vaccine mandate for government workers takes effect Oct. 18
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We are testing out a new experimental feature in PureBoot to extend tamper detection past /boot into the root disk. I write about the feature and my thought process behind developing it here: https://puri.sm/posts/new-pureboot-feature-scanning-root-for-tampering/
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- 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
