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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I have recently uncovered a user who seems to be opening temporary accounts at QOTO, blocking all the moderators so we dont see their posts and then posting high offensive material (nazi imagery, transphobic and hateful derogatory content, etc) and then proceeding to announce to block list moderators and possibly on the #Fediblock list in general in an attempt to get us banned.
The issue of users being able to block moderators and do **exactly** this is something I have brought up to @Gargron before probably over a year ago but he has never acted on fixing this issue and does not see it as needing fixing from what I could gather (he can interject here if he would like).
It is something we as moderators are powerless to detect or act against unless someone actually reports the content first, that is the only way we will even see it. Thankfully none of the block lists have actually acted on this and no damage to QOTO has been done. But seeing as this may continue I want to make others aware of the problem, press gargron to fix the issue once more, and also encourage **anyone** who sees such content on QOTO to please report it so we can act on it.
I can not personally confirm this but according to the block-list operator they seem to have reason to think it is @snow behind the attacks. This would be in line with the behaviors from snow I have witnessed in the past.
For the attempt by snow to spam and falsely accuse instances see here:
https://likeable.space/notice/A21ux0IbhoDJIkNxzc
For more information see these attempted block requests on QOTO that were made in this fashion:
https://schlomp.space/FediBlock/data/pulls/255/files
Welp, the only popular chat app that I knew of that did E2EE and had reproducible builds is apparently open to censorship.
S/MIME and GPG over email is the only other popular messaging system that works on your iphone and doesn't have this problem (unless XEP-0384 is widely supported)
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> united arab emeriates BTFO that israel keeps hacking their phones
well maybe if you weren't dumbfucks who banned encryption
well maybe if you weren't dumbfucks who banned encryption
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‘Skynet Is A Private Company, They Can Do What They Want,’ Says Man Getting Curb-Stomped By Terminator
https://babylonbee.com/news/skynet-is-a-private-company-they-can-do-what-they-want-says-man-getting-curb-stomped-by-terminator
https://babylonbee.com/news/skynet-is-a-private-company-they-can-do-what-they-want-says-man-getting-curb-stomped-by-terminator
Has anyone else been getting captchas from YouTube on the PinePhone?
It says they're getting "too many requests from my network" but I don't get them on my desktop which shares a public IP.
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YouTube’s Content ID is one of the best-funded and most-used filters online. It’s not just removing legal speech from the internet, it’s dictating it. https://gizmodo.com/youtube-s-copyright-filter-is-crushing-video-critique-a-1845934339
Desktops are very much unlike laptops (except #wfh laptops which are pretty much desktops with built in UPS/display.)
All the peripherals just accumulate and you forget what's plugged in (and where it's plugged in.)
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Maybe I'll hook it up to an accurate user count bot at some point, but anyway: There are 2,728 Mastodon servers online today and on them, there are 252,893 monthly active users, a number that increased by 45,517 since Jan 11th.
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The top 20 most publicly popular words are:
fediverse
tbh
app
idk
lmao
webm
xmpp
wtf
fse
tfw
uwu
fulllist
spc
gf
reddit
iirc
whatsapp
activitypub
sjw
peertube
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## How to Avoid Criticism: Say Nothing, Do Nothing, Be Nothing
(Note: This is usually cited as a quote by Aristotle but its really just a common phrase that at best is a bastardization of a quote from a modern day Elbert Hubbard, but I like the more common version).
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glad i’m not a zoomer going to school these days 
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who knew a civil war would be such a boon for #QOTO user count :)
13,943 accounts +30 in the last day +297 in the last week
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🐦This is a cross-post from Twitter, its contents might suck🐦
RT @VectorBelly
Raising minimum wage debate in America
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Poland, where hate speech against LGBTQ+ is prevalent, wants to make it illegal for platforms to ban people like they did Trump, and let the government dictate what speech should be allowed. It's bid for control over online content, says EFF's @cSchmon. https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7mpkj/poland-wants-to-ban-social-media-companies-from-banning-hate-speech
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PinePhone Mobian Edition Is Coming on January 18, Powered by Debian Linux
https://9to5linux.com/pinephone-mobian-edition-is-coming-on-january-18-powered-by-debian-linux
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January Update: announcing #PinePhone @MobianLinux CE; keyboard progress update; #PinebookPro and #PineTab production news; #PineTalk podcast in Feb; new #PINE64 website is now up; #PineTime software news; red #Pinecil & firmware update, and much more! pine64.org/2021/01/15/januar…
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Universities should strike any app mandates from their existing student commitments, and should pledge to not include them in future student commitments. https://act.eff.org/action/end-university-app-mandates
- 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
