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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
@aspie4K Maybe consider contributing to TLDP.org too.
That was one of the most helpful sites when I was learning.
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Learn how automated license plate readers threaten targeted communities and what we can do about it at a virtual event this Monday with @PasadenaPrivacy and EFF. https://www.eff.org/event/government-tracking-you-automatic-license-plate-readers-and-data-sharing-our-streets
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That's the third time this week I read an article talking about how Apple invented the smartphone and mobile applications. Who's spreading this nonsense?
Yes, Apple made smartphones popular (I guess?). But let's not rewrite history here: we had smartphones and apps several years before the first iPhone got released.
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Facebook has been helping law enforcement identify Capitol rioters | Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/02/facebook-has-been-helping-law-enforcement-identify-capitol-rioters/
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Whenever you make a Mastodon poll, there's this odd rounding error, never adds up to 100. Look for yourself, it's off by 1.
That's because Eugene is siphoning off the rounding error to an account in the Bahamas and in a couple of years he's going to make a run for it...
@valleyforge That's a great movie haha.
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The SICP animeme has been officially recognized by MIT CSAIL.
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"#Microsoft shares with #Canonical ... the contact details of developers launching #Ubuntu instances on #Azure"
https://www.theregister.com/2021/02/11/microsoft_azure_ubuntu_data_sharing/
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🇬🇧 The EU plans for messaging and #chat control violate our fundamental rights. The EP Research Service @EP_ThinkTank@twitter.com also confirms this. I spoke on this in the LIBE Committee last week - dialled in on the way to the European Court of Justice.
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Singtel hit by third-party vendor's security breach, customer data may be leaked
@icedquinn Oh dear, I think I'm getting auth-rabithole-ptsd. I'm going to go to bed.
@icedquinn What would be easiest IMO would be users running mini CAs they could sign client keys with. So you trust the CA for that user identity.
@icedquinn This seems like something that should be done with email.
Being able to use mastadon for authentication would be absolutely amazing though.
@icedquinn I gave up on auth a long time ago.
I've heard ldap maybe makes it easier but I've decided that if I'm inviting someone onto something I self host then I probably trust them enough to just give them a shell account.
@jun TBH I've just been wearing pajama bottoms and a flannel.
But I guess since I wore Hawaiian shirts back when people saw each other I don't count.
@icedquinn format-patch?
@icedquinn TBH: surgery has been on my "to read about list" after watching some of these medical dramas.
@erik Disregard my last toot. I haven't tried with static IPs but my understanding is that you must be a business customer to qualify for those. (and I know they allow business customers to send email.)
@icedquinn That's not quite right. (at least that's not exactly what he says.) He argues it isn't so much about being wealthy as it is being capable and competent.
Also there's a lot of other advice he has in general that help a lot.
- 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
