In a world where technology can mean the difference between life and death, can we afford the restrictions proprietary software places on progress? Watch and share "Rewind" (Spoiler alert: the answer is no.) https://u.fsf.org/rewind
RT @cemerick
"fun" is finding a tiny snippet of a script that will cause nodejs to dump core 🙃🙃🙃 https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/40999
@Hyolobrika @swiley It's not. If you get sick it's your fault for neglecting your body.
Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights
Article 3 – Human dignity and human rights
1. Human dignity, human rights and fundamental freedoms are to be fully respected.
2. The interests and welfare of the individual should have priority over the sole interest of science or society.
JUST IN - EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen: It's time to "think about mandatory vaccination" against #COVID19 across the entire European Union.
Can anyone tell me why Chinese authorities need a mobile #incinerator and, more importantly, why they are #cremating someone under a bridge?
NEW - Database now contains 2,618 flights made by #Epstein's private jets after FAA accidentally disclosed hundreds of previously unknown flights.
https://www.businessinsider.com/faa-accidentally-released-jeffrey-epsteins-flight-records-2021-10
Biden weaponized the federal government against conservatives but Republicans are still treating him with kid gloves.
Shut down the government to stop the tyrannical mandates. Shut down the government to stop it from drafting women. Stop the government to save your voters, @GOP.
https://twitter.com/ColumbiaBugle/status/1465542012866760712
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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