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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
@0 And both aren't on f-droid for at least that reason :p
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🐦This is a cross-post from Twitter, its contents might suck🐦
RT @VectorBelly
Raising minimum wage debate in America
@0 no reproducible builds.
@lucifargundam @PINE64 Or even just kexec with a chroot! That's what's great about the pinephone. No restrictions or commitment at all!
@martijnbraam I mean I bought a landline to deal with some of the modem issues but my only sim card is still in the pinephone.
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Poland, where hate speech against LGBTQ+ is prevalent, wants to make it illegal for platforms to ban people like they did Trump, and let the government dictate what speech should be allowed. It's bid for control over online content, says EFF's @cSchmon. https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7mpkj/poland-wants-to-ban-social-media-companies-from-banning-hate-speech
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PinePhone Mobian Edition Is Coming on January 18, Powered by Debian Linux
https://9to5linux.com/pinephone-mobian-edition-is-coming-on-january-18-powered-by-debian-linux
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January Update: announcing #PinePhone @MobianLinux CE; keyboard progress update; #PinebookPro and #PineTab production news; #PineTalk podcast in Feb; new #PINE64 website is now up; #PineTime software news; red #Pinecil & firmware update, and much more! pine64.org/2021/01/15/januar…
@icedquinn @eff Universities were never about gaining skills. The popular confusion around that is IMO the fundamental problem.
@icedquinn @eff Maybe one day though.
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Universities should strike any app mandates from their existing student commitments, and should pledge to not include them in future student commitments. https://act.eff.org/action/end-university-app-mandates
@omnipotens @matt Signiture validation is somewhere between meaningless and potentially a good excuse for throwing away votes.
I sign my credit card purchases with a PR Nonce for this reason.
@omnipotens @matt Maybe it's different where you live but that's essentially what they do here IIRC:
You're authenticated by the volunteers running the Poll and they issue you a serialized ballot.
@omnipotens @matt Regardless *I* don't want to deal with maintaining a national ID.
The problems caused by having an SSN are enough of an annoyance.
@matt @omnipotens 2fa is a whole separate issue. Now you're requiring people to run certain OSes or use specific private networks to authenticate.
People in Kentucky are just as dumb as people in virginia. Hopefully you see why even if we had a national ID you couldn't expect it to actually refer to individuals 100% of the time. Fraud happens and the world is messy and the cleanup is way too slow for whatever automation you'd want to build for it anyway.
@omnipotens @matt Right, but we don't have a unique identifier and I'm pretty sure most people would be against having one.
@omnipotens @matt You job needs your SSN so it can fill out tax forms (for social security.)
Same with the banks, they'll accept an ITN instead.
@omnipotens @matt That sounds extremely unpleasant and I'm sure you could still find ways to forge a correct scan with eg contacts.
If we really wanted a national ID than the federal government should be running a key server. No one reasonable wants this because it would create a huge mess and we absolutely should not be tying it to biometrics. Biometrics are worse than requiring a shared secret to authenticate because you can at least choose who you share the secrete with and change it if you think it's been compromised.
@omnipotens @matt Furthermore an SSN doesn't mean you have a right to vote anyway. Visa holders are given SSNs and still aren't allowed to vote.
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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
