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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
@256 Remember back when google didn't badly suck at making UIs?
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For example, we know that @BabelKnowledge sells its secretive Locate X product, which comprises real-time location data about untold numbers of users, to @DHSgov, @deptofdefense, and the Secret Service. https://www.protocol.com/government-buying-location-data
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Another broker, @Predicio_Apps, collected data from hundreds of apps including Fu*** Weather and Salaat First. It then sold data to @GravyAnalytics, whose subsidiary Venntel has provided location data to the IRS, @CBP, and @ICEgov.
https://nrkbeta.no/2020/12/03/my-phone-was-spying-on-me-so-i-tracked-down-the-surveillants/
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We know brokers continue to mine location data from our apps and sell it to military and law enforcement - we just don’t know which apps.
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Users can’t make educated choices without knowing where or how their data will be shared. And platforms shouldn’t wait on journalists to establish end-to-end data flows before taking steps to protect users. It’s too easy for data brokers to mask their behavior.
@metalune@fosstodon.org Yeah I was hopping my feed would be all technical but it's turned out to be mostly politics.
@enkiv2 @dredmorbius Kind of odd seeing something like this on mastodon.
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Keyoxide is a FOSS decentralised online identity platform, you can follow it at:
➡️ @keyoxide
The project website is at https://keyoxide.org
It helps you prove who you are across multiple sites without storing any personal data about you.
#KeyOxide #FOSS #FreeSoftware #Libre #OpenSource #Privacy #KeyBase #Alternatives
@metalune@fosstodon.org You could try volunteering. The university I went to required 160 hours of volunteer work and I met a ton of people that way. I think Germany also has night classes that are pretty cheap (kind of like our community colleges here.) You could try those.
@metalune@fosstodon.org Oh wow that's strange haha. I always assumed you were American. I really don't know what people in Germany do. I know there at least used to be lots of demo parties in Europe but that's not really a recurring local thing.
@metalune@fosstodon.org You don't have to be religious to participate in most churches. Most decent ones will be more than happy to have you. IME unless you have a large family or went to the local high school, or live in a pretty urban place (and even then) it's very tough to socialize without one. I've gotten multiple dates, good friends and job offers form being part of one and would highly recommend it.
Plus you're missing out on a significant part of American culture by avoiding it.
@metalune@fosstodon.org Join a church then. When I lived in a rural place that was the easiest way to make friends my age.
@metalune@fosstodon.org Collge, makerspaces, IRC.
Many just play video games.
I don't do #ruby much so I know I'm missing something.
Why is there Regexp.union and not a Regexp.concatenate?
@ernie@fosstodon.org I think mine is an X201 and my only complaint is that the wireless stuff needs non-free blobs and the GPU isn't fast enough for openarena. I don't use wayland much though so YMMV.
@ocean there needs to be a Linux one with kconfig, xorg, gnome, and systemd configs.
@jauntywunderkind420 @publius @cadadr@mastodon.sdf.org Documents should be static. Most things worth reading on the web aren't really applications (at most the application is a "document editor.")
@cadadr@mastodon.sdf.org @publius web notifications are the *only* way to get PM notifications from discord without violating the ToS or installing their closed app.
It would be nice to have that list so I knew where to avoid.
Hacked Surveillance Camera Firm Shows Staggering Scale of #FacialRecognition https://www.vice.com/en/article/wx83bz/verkada-hacked-facial-recogniti...
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The Pentagon has finally overhauled its email systems to adopt basic email encryption via STARTTLS. EFF's @nappy_techie has just one message for them: “Welcome to the encryption party.” https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/09/pentagon-email-security-problem-474535
- 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
