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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what if being a "functioning, productive member of society" isn't necessarily a great thing if you live in an unproductive, dysfunctional society
@rupagulab @saliltripathi Is Russia worse than China? Or have we decided that China blocks so much they've effectively partitioned the network.
This is Mur 
@yogthos@mastodon.social @clacke @RavensAmbition@mastodon.social That might be the first time I've heard people dislike Noam Chomsky because he's too far to the right. I only heard about him because of his work on linguistics though.
@metalune@fosstodon.org I've owned Phones without them. Times were better then.
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Schools Are Abandoning Invasive Proctoring Software After Student Backlash
https://www.vice.com/en/article/7k9ag4/schools-are-abandoning-invasive-proctoring-software-after-student-backlash
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PSA: To everyone receiving your #PinePhone, please read the included documentation and consult our Wiki (https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/PinePhone) prior to use.
Make sure to place your SD and SIM cards in the correct slots; see attached illustration.
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The meme says that Mars is the planet with the highest ratio of Linux devices with working audio and that's a funny joke, but here's the Actually Patrol:
Perseverance, the rover, has a microphone and runs VxWorks.
Ingenuity, the helicopter, runs Linux.
Perseverance, the rover, has a microphone and runs VxWorks.
Ingenuity, the helicopter, runs Linux.
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EU_politics + encryption + privacy
The EU Council has approved a resolution to undermine encrypted communications for EU citicens:
https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-13084-2020-REV-1/en/pdf
A petition to declining this resolution and to keep citicens' privacy is online at the EU parliament:
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/petitions/en/petition/content/1222%252F2020/html/Keep+Encryption
As of today at 10:00 CET this petition has been signed by 19 supporters
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@icedquinn I'd definitely prefer fiberglass.
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Help users in Iran reconnect to Signal February 04, 2021 (comments) A chat app based on a protocol that supports federation wants to borrow your computer instead of allowing federation. (n-gate)
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For the 2021 #Guile Potluck, Ricardo announces this web presence for the Picture Language:
https://elephly.net/guile-picture-language/ 👍
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“YouTube is intentionally making their policies seem terrifying.” - @cfiesler on ContentID and copyright policy. Learn more in our town hall: https://www.pscp.tv/w/1mrxmwgVMWVGy
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Your Smartphone Doesn't Have To Be Glued Shut!
The #librem5 was recently featured in a hardware tear-down video by @iFixit
@niconiconi I feel like "unwinding" could be misinterpreted.
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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
