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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@MissLane The solution to the copyright issue is simple: publish the source. I expect they'll do that since there's no good reason not to.
I think waiting to enable the thing and just presenting a billboard is probably more marketing/PR than anything else, I'm not sure what kind of sabotaging that can really prevent.
@NEETzsche @lichelordgodfrey @RoyalJohnny242 Yeah and that's part of why I didn't want poa.st blocked. It seems like we can still talk though, it's not clear to me what exactly happened.
@NEETzsche @lichelordgodfrey @RoyalJohnny242
>morally disgusting.
I think the only answers you'll accept involve reject absolute morality.
My answer is that life is difficult and unpleasant and sometimes there aren't nice answers. Sometimes the bad people win.
@lichelordgodfrey @NEETzsche Yeah it is gross, that's why I said I'm not really convinced it is legitimate.
@lichelordgodfrey @NEETzsche I'm not convinced it is. I certainly don't think we should be fighting for them.
@NEETzsche @lichelordgodfrey @RoyalJohnny242 I don't think there is a nice answer to any of that other than preventing mass migration.
@NEETzsche @lichelordgodfrey @RoyalJohnny242 Yeah, deporting illegal immigrants is a reasonable thing to do (I was under the impression that was the law as well.)
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Apple: 
come buy our proprietary chipset we cut a hole in the screen and everything
China:
so we open sourced the CPUs
come buy our proprietary chipset we cut a hole in the screen and everythingChina:
so we open sourced the CPUs
@RoyalJohnny242 @NEETzsche @lichelordgodfrey I'm not saying what the left is doing is right either.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmtphc3Gsoo
oh man who's surprised that the media puppet made the god of saving you from covid was the one who actually enabled its creation? not me, i am paying attention.
oh man who's surprised that the media puppet made the god of saving you from covid was the one who actually enabled its creation? not me, i am paying attention.
@lichelordgodfrey @NEETzsche Kicking people out of their own country is gross and that's what you're arguing for if you argue for this. Unless I'm misunderstanding something.
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Earth inhabitants continue to go down a level in openness of computers with Alibaba that opened it's server #RISCV cores #Verilog sources. They are now available on Github:
https://pandaily.com/alibaba-announces-open-source-risc-v-based-xuantie-series-processors/
https://pandaily.com/alibaba-announces-open-source-risc-v-based-xuantie-series-processors/
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Election was last week.
This week, new covid restrictions were anounced...
What a coincidence. 
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I mean, am I supposed to be surprised here?
Facebook's oversight board says company has repeatedly failed to be transparent -
https://www.cnet.com/tech/facebooks-oversight-board-says-company-has-repeatedly-failed-to-be-transparent/
@MissLane In most countries when you share something it's shared under a "license." Most software developers (including the mastodon devs) use one from the GPL family of licenses for a number of reasons (I use it because it prevents my employer from messing with my side projects.)
One of the rules in most GPL style licenses is that you must publish changes you make to the code and license it under a compatible license. This helps prevent companies from hijacking projects in various ways among other things.
It sounds like whoever is setting that up didn't understand this.
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🇳🇱
Well I bit the bullet and now officially blocked poa.st (account level not server). First ever domain I had to block.
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Judicial Watch - Critical Race Theory Roils Virginia Governor Race - https://www.judicialwatch.org/investigative-bulletin/critical-race-theory-roils-virginia-governor-race/
- 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
