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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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🐦This is a cross-post from Twitter, its contents might suck🐦
RT @towernter
And that's how machine learning works
If you haven't argued with your girlfriend about the difference between morality and pragmatism are you really dating?
@pbanks@fosstodon.org Absolutely genius.
@icedquinn I've been writing my own that just has one board and keeps the whole database in an s-expression file.
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@icedquinn What? The cap is concave if the seal is intact and it pops up when the seal is broken.
I have a jar of zeolite molecular sieves and when I leave it alone for long enough the vacuum created by them sucking moisture out of the air does this.
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RT @engadget@twitter.com
Google pulls Element's Android chat app over content it doesn't control https://engt.co/39yNaUE
@satur They can be for one on one conversations. Like most things in XMPP it seems to depend on whether or not the server and both clients implement a popular extension.
@quad @JonossaSeuraava @thor You can self host DNS though. That's not even hard. *and* if you do that you could keep the zones in a VCS which isn't something either of the DNS providers I've used have done.
@Lofenyy@mastodon.technology I mean, I've been using ffplay since I got a pmos pinephone in August so it's not like *none* worked. But that does look way nicer and fits with the PalmOS styled GUI better.
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Tackling the Monopoly Problem
There was a time when people who were exploring computational technology saw it as the path toward decentralization and freedom worldwide. What we have ended up with, instead, is a world that is increasingly centralized, subject to surveillance, and unfree. How did that come to be? In a keynote at the online 2021 linux.conf.au event, Cory Doctorow gave his view of this problem and named its source: monopoly.
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/844102/a23d1543b5a55cae/
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25960684
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#CoryDoctorow #Pluralistic #Monopoly #Decentralisation #Centralisation #Surveillance #SurveillanceCapitalism #SurveillanceState #LinuxConfAU #LWN
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I will have some of the lamb of god and pantera and a bit of megadeth on the side
@debacle @grainloom I have a pinephone and here is how it seems to work on postmarket OS anyway.
chatty just uses libpurple and there's a libpurple pluggin that handles SMS (which does work, the MMS patches (that is, pictures and group chats) haven't been merged yet.) This means you can use whichever libpurple chat app you want (I often use finch.)
I feel like I should point out that the more expensive version of the #pinephone costs less than #GME does right now.
Just saying: if you like sticking it to the people running everything then removing one of the most powerful tools of censorship and control in free countries from your life is something to think about.
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RT @element_hq@twitter.com
Google have suspended Element in the Play Store without notifying us; we're reaching out to find out what's going on. Apologies for the inconvenience; in the interim there's https://f-droid.org/en/packages/im.vector.app/ but it's a few versions behind. We'll post updates here.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/element_hq/status/1355290296947499013
Smartphones and smartphone apps are bad for your mental health. And it's rude to expose your friends to services run by organizations like Google and Apple for this reason and many others.
@icedquinn That's a pretty interesting idea, it sounds a lot like the way patents were originally intended to work.
(PS: I'm replying to the first message because I still haven't figured replies out on your server.)
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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
