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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
@icedquinn I actually recently signed up for a bunch of the mailing lists the maintainers of software I use.
It has that productive IRC feeling but with nearly zero shitposting, it's super nice.
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garbage take: e-mail is dead not because of facebook but because nobody talks anymore other than to shitpost.
@icedquinn I haven't used most things from gnome since gnome3 came to debian but lately I've realized just how incredibly worse it's gotten. The big surprise was the heavy use of JavaScript.
Also, I think epiphany might be harder to build than Firefox at this point.
@valleyforge Honestly flashlights that non flashlight nerds buy have regressed back to the 1970s.
You either have super cheap unreliable crap or stuff with weird features no one asked for.
@icedquinn I spent a year in college with a laptop that had a browser/compiler/xserver in the initrafms statically linked into the kernel. So there was a 100mb or so EFI partition and I could just do whatever I wanted with the rest of the disk. I used chroots when I needed package managers for big thins.
IMO: rootfs from ramdisks is underrated, especially with how cheap ram has gotten.
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thinking about this:
>If a factory is torn down but the rationality which produced it is left standing, then that rationality will simply produce another factory. If a revolution destroys a government, but the systematic patterns of thought that produced that government are left intact, then those patterns will repeat themselves. . . . There’s so much talk about the system. And so little understanding.
ROBERT PIRSIG, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
@icedquinn No, Android is almost as bad as iOS.
Get you a phone that can run GNU/Linux.
I couldn't function if I had to live with a normal smartphone but this stuff is why I have a landline.
@icedquinn 10/100 would recommend!
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The first postmarketOS service pack release brings major PinePhone improvements linuxsmartphones.com/the-fir…
Me: PostmarketOS moved some of the new stuff to stable, so my #pinephone should be more reliable.
Gilfriend: OOOOoooh yeah sure....
@icedquinn Just kill the iphone and do everything on your pinephone.
@icedquinn You've got to escape iOS. It's bad for your network, it's bad for you mind, it's bad for your body, it's bad for your soul.
@bazurk@mastodon.online oof, if I had let the federated timeline get to me when I first came to mastodon I would have never came back.
@dankmaximus You need to define the question precisely.
WordPress on it's own is probably fine, but that's not at all as it's used. IRL WordPress is a NodeJS style security disaster.
@icedquinn "not on wayland if you don't have root and can't modify the user's profile."
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bonifartius 𒂼𒄄
haha, webshit weekly is glorious again:
> Signal is having technical difficulties
> Signal (business model: "Uber for texting") falls over. Most communications protocols are federated, and would survive one company's servers eating dirt, but Signal's owner/operator has decided this would degrade the user experience, presumably worse than the entire service shitting the bed out loud. Hackernews assumes that Signal is incapable of paying its hosting fees, and comes to the rescue by sending their money to a company that can't spin up cloud nodes fast enough to serve text messages. Other Hackernews bemoan the fact that once again they look like idiots, since they just conned half their friends and family into signing up for this mess.
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Our first service pack, v20.05.1, has been released! You can read more about it on our blog: https://postmarketos.org/blog/2021/01/22/v20.05.1-is-released/
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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
