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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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My grandpa just had a weird problem with his phone. He was trying to change the birthyear of one of his contacts to 1945, but the spinner only lets him pick 1970-20xx.
Apparently, the stock OnePlus 5 contacts app thinks day 0 of the unix timestamp was the beginning of mankind.
@omnipotens *MRNA vaccines (sorry)
@omnipotens I'm pretty sure MRNA viruses don't "rewrite DNA" but I'm not a biology expert.
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In Pasco County, police assign crime scores to people, including minors, who they think might commit crimes—then harass them for years.
This predictive policing program is “the worst case scenario in our head, played out exactly,” says EFF's @mguariglia.
https://www.tampabay.com/investigations/2020/12/05/public-interest-groups-take-aim-at-pasco-sheriffs-data-driven-policing-programs/
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Poland plans to make censoring of social media accounts illegal
When you order BGA parts and QFN adapter boards
;-:
@ifixcoinops The solution to this is avoid using complex software.
Notice how people who understand these things tend to use minimalist window managers, this is why.
@garritfra External monitors on OSX bring out all kinds of bugs, especially if you have more than one. The power deliver software on my work mac pretty much stopped functioning correctly when I did that. It's all bad.
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Rosenzweig: Desktop OpenGL 3.1 on Mali GPUs with Panfrost
Alyssa Rosenzweig presents
a progress report on the Panfrost driver for Arm Mali Midgard and
Bifrost GPUs, which now provides non-conformant OpenGL ES 3.0 on Bifrost
and desktop OpenGL 3.1 on Midgard. "Architecturally, Bifrost shares most of its fixed-function data structures
@tripu Email is actually pretty nice if you have a decent client. Most mobile OSes don't let you run a decent client though so people who do everything on their phone seem to really hate it.
SMS is downright awful in just about every way but in the US everyone has it anyway.
IRC is nice if you have a bouncer, no one runs a bouncer though. Push notifications would be enough but without web push you can't really have individually maintained IRC clients on mobile phones.
If you're talking about editing old messages that's absolutely an anti feature that gets abused by some people.
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It is not a question of “what happens if face surveillance is used against you?” It is a question of how many times law enforcement has already done so. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/01/face-surveillance-and-capitol-attack
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Firefox rant
@inexcode There are no good mobile browsers.
@freemo @valleyforge Xorg is pronounced "zorg."
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bonifartius 𒂼𒄄
soooo.. the parler hack was essentially wget --mirror ?
- 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
