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
@metalune@fosstodon.org Really? I can't stand it. No menu bars and forced thick window decorations plus tons of whitespace is awful IMO. I've never particularly liked gtk but gtk3 is definitely a downgrade.
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pronunciation flamebait
I think the gif vs gif debate is settled: The author of the term thinks it's jiff, and they're wrong.
Now, the regex vs regex debate:
Your regex, pronounced like the truncated words reg(ular) ex(pression), is your regular expression.
Your Reg ex, pronounced like Reg(gie) ex, is that guy you used to go out with.
Now, the regex vs regex debate:
Your regex, pronounced like the truncated words reg(ular) ex(pression), is your regular expression.
Your Reg ex, pronounced like Reg(gie) ex, is that guy you used to go out with.
For some reason even on an iPhone I was almost never given AMP pages from search results (maybe I wasn't using google) but I remember ending up on them a couple times. They were far slower, less usable, and less information dense than well designed sites. If Google truley cared about usability they would just measure that for the ranking.
Google AMP — A 70% drop in our conversion rate https://www.rockstarcoders.com/google-amp/ | https://lobste.rs/s/ttkvxi #web
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@linmob It uses a lot of power and is absolutely not a replacement for a physical keyboard.
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the server sent events enjoyer:
the poller:
the poller:
@icedquinn @kaia I'm pretty sure dating everywhere kinda sucks. That's just dating.
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"Police are warning students and universities not to access Sci-Hub, an "illegal website" that allows users to download scientific research papers normally locked behind expensive subscriptions."
Very bad indeed. That name again: Sci-Hub. Remember it so you can avoid it. Ahem.
@jeko @retroedgetech My wifi card isn't either but it's pretty easy to use the non-free kernel. You can just copy and paste it to the beginning of your system.scm and change the kernel.
I'm all for the libre thing but heh wifi blobs are wifi blobs and there aren't any truly blob free wifi cards that I'm aware of (although there are some that have a small arm processor with open source linux firmware between the blobbed wifi card and your main computer.)
@DeveloperMemes IMO the OSX keyboard shortcuts are the best (and I don't like Apple.) The Emacs style readline shortcuts work in all the text field. You would think GTK would at least have an option for that.
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#GNU #Guix is now available on #Grid5000, a federation of #HPC clusters in France:
https://www.grid5000.fr/w/News#Guix_package_manager_available_on_Grid.275000
Really happy and hopeful this will help ease the path to #ReproducibleResearch!
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Japan to probe messaging app #Line after reports it let Chinese engineers access user data
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Ford embracing remote work long-term means it is officially mainstream. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/03/17/ford-coronavirus-remote-work/
@icedquinn idk those don't sound opposing to me.
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p.s. Some simple step-by-step instructions for installing F-Droid:
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Your car is broadcasting data about where you go and what you do. And now a surveillance contractor wants to sell this data to the U.S. military, including "real-time locations of specific cars in nearly any country on Earth."
https://www.vice.com/en/article/k7adn9/car-location-data-telematics-us-military-ulysses-group
@purple @icedquinn A lot of people overlook this. There are tons of workers driving back and forth every day just to maintain this ( this means they're also getting fed, have housing maintained, wearing on roads etc.)
@xpil@fosstodon.org It's hardly surprising at this point.
@calculsoberic@mstdn.social The poll was biased because it used the normal spelling for the wrong answer.
I guess caching anything anywhere just creates vulnerabilities. Everything from the remote end needs to be held on tongs at arms length.
𝙉𝙚𝙬 𝘽𝙧𝙤𝙬𝙨𝙚𝙧 𝘼𝙩𝙩𝙖𝙘𝙠 𝘼𝙡𝙡𝙤𝙬𝙨 𝙏𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙐𝙨𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙊𝙣𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙚 𝙒𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙅𝙖𝙫𝙖𝙎𝙘𝙧𝙞𝙥𝙩 𝘿𝙞𝙨𝙖𝙗𝙡𝙚𝙙 "This is a side-channel attack which doesn't require any JavaScript to run...
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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
