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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We're winning.
Apple has announced delays to its intended phone scanning tools while it conducts more research. But the company must go further, and drop its plans to put a backdoor into its encryption entirely. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/09/delays-arent-good-enough-apple-must-abandon-its-surveillance-plans
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Popular NPM package "pac-resolver" has fixed a severe Remote Code Execution flaw
@bonifartius Smartphones are surveillance/manipulation devices.
@collectedoverspread You're probably best off ignoring Twitter entirely.
@bonifartius Either stop carrying a cell phone, or use a fliphone or something that runs PMOS.
If you don't want to end up like the Australians you need to get rid of your smartphone *today.*
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BRAKTOOTH Bluetooth Exploit: "attacker is able to execute arbitrary functions implemented in the target ESP32’s firmware"
@valleyforge The OSX WM drives me nuts. I wish I could use my X11 WMs with OSX apps.
@icedquinn What happened after the 90s that "unix people" are missing?
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@rune What happened in Texas?
@Ged @metalune@fosstodon.org I don't have an iPhone, I just know my gf seemed to be ok with siskin. I'll have her try Monal if she complains.
@metalune@fosstodon.org Sisken works really well on iOS. Just create accounts for them either on your server or someone else's and give them the credentials.
Signal has serious problems and it's probably not a great idea to use it.
@enkiv2 I remember getting Blue Moon Ice Cream when I visited my grandparents in Wisconsin and being frustrated later because I couldn't figure out where to find it in the south.
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The Enduring Midwestern Mystery of Blue Moon Ice Cream - Gastro Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-is-blue-moon-ice-cream
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Q: What does "End-to-End-Encryption" become when it has been weakened?
A: End Encryption.
@tripu PostmarketOS is free and doesn't have these issues.
@TetraspaceGrouping I learned about scihub/libgen from the /sci/ sticky, that's a pretty good guide.
@stux Youtube has been pushing a lot of "pop" stuff lately. At some point you're going to have to give up on the site for finding new videos.
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Weaponizing Censorship Middleboxes for TCP Reflected Traffic Amplification Attack
> Most of these nation-states are weak amplifiers (the Great Firewall of China only offers about 1.5x amplification, for example), but some of them offer more damaging amplifications, such as Saudi Arabia (~20x amplification)
And....
> We found a small number of infinite routing loops that traversed censorship infrastructure (notably in both China and Russia) that offered *infinite* amplification. 💣💥
https://geneva.cs.umd.edu/posts/usenix21-weaponizing-censors/
Many years ago, a friend of mine told me it may be possible to exploit the Great Firewall of China for reflected amplification DDoS. This attack is real! #censorship #infosec #ddos
@clacke qoto.org seems to really dislike the image, but like all linked files clicking on the "not available" preview just opens it in a new tab.
- 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
