swiley @swiley@social.cleverlibre.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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"In China, #Apple Compromises on Censorship and Surveillance"
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/17/technology/apple-china-censorship-data.html
@kyle Apple already abuses it by making volunteer maintenance of chat applications significantly more difficult.
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Many people turn a blind eye to Apple's absolute control over products and how they restrict a customer's freedom, because they trust Apple won't abuse that power.
That control takes on a new significance when it's handed over to the Chinese government.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/17/technology/apple-china-censorship-data.html
@brad What's wrong with remapping it? It looks like very few keys have an FN char.
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The Maine legislature is now considering a bill that would defund the state’s intelligence fusion center. This could become a national model for rolling back the mass surveillance apparatus that’s been growing since 2001. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/eff-calls-maine-support-bill-defunds-local-intelligence-fusion-center
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Zoomers this zoomers that.
Maybe you're just become old and grumpy?
Maybe you're just become old and grumpy?
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The City of Fullerton was pushing a dangerous and flawed interpretation of California’s computer crime law. We’re relieved that the city has dropped its lawsuit against journalists and admitted that they did nothing illegal. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/05/victory-california-city-drops-lawsuit-accusing-journalists-violating-computer
@fluffy At least you didn't post a bunch of garbage to mastodon. That's usually what I do drunk.
@fluffy College in a nutshell.
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"this escalator is currently not running":
- boring
- defeatist
- negative
"this escalator is currently used as a staircase":
+ unexpected
+ creative
+ forward-thinking
- I like my PSAs boring and honest
- boring
- defeatist
- negative
"this escalator is currently used as a staircase":
+ unexpected
+ creative
+ forward-thinking
- I like my PSAs boring and honest
And the reminder that all my options expired OTM is pretty sad.
Man I remember being annoyed I had to fill out a 1040 EZ in college. Now I have to do the whole 1040 and attach these long 8949 forms and crap and takes forever.
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#PinePhone can now be purchased year round, wireless charging and #LoRa cases coming in June, keyboard case coming this summer
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A patent on a “camera + computer stuff” has been used to file more than 200 lawsuits. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/05/how-camera-patent-was-used-sue-non-profits-cities-and-public-schools
@fluffy It's all the way at the foot and it's low enough to the ground that I really have to sit up when I'm using it actively. It's more for watching TV in bed since my GF likes that. Really I should swap it for the projector but there's a door and a bookshelf behind it so I'd need to get a screen to point it at.
@fluffy Yeah but I have two large ones, plus a projector pointed into the living room, plus a large one at the foot of my bed (via a ~20ft extension cable) plus an extra one that's not super large but is in a really convenient spot for relaxing.
It's more about having screens in different parts of the house with a bluetooth keyboard/mouse so I don't have to deal with a laptop.
@fluffy idk, I was able to buy one when I was building my current PC, I was worried about PD/heat dissipation though with so much in one spot so I went with a discrete GPU. I kind of wish I had though since I never come near maxing out either and being able to plug 5 monitors in would be nice (I currently have two extra ones sitting on my desk that I switch cables to manually when I need them. Maybe I'll buy one of those USB framebuffer adapter things.)
@fluffy This is almost as bad as the people putting gas in the PE grocery bags and totes.
- 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
