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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🐦This is a cross-post from Twitter, its contents might suck🐦
RT @0xabad1dea
it’s kind of fucked that a basic element of zillennial manners is rating service workers five stars no matter how many issues there actually were because you don’t want to be the one responsible for ruining their life over a slip-up
I'm normally pro free speech but I doubt most normal people would ne too mad if we banned the "oh no" song for a few months.
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Calling smartphone equipped teenagers 'digital natives' is a mistake because a smartphone makes you a consumer rather than a native of anything.
If you want a child to become a digital native give them an actual computer instead of a corporate controlled and curated consumer device.
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📣 OnionShare 2.3 adds tabs, anonymous chat, better command line support, and quite a bit more.
https://micahflee.com/2021/02/onionshare-tabs-anonymous-chat-cli/
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Google Lifts Ban On Political Advertising
https://gizmodo.com/google-lifts-ban-on-political-advertising-as-america-se-1846326281
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I always suspected that something was rotten.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/court-docs-show-fbi-can-intercept-encrypted-messages-signal-app
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I've started publishing example config files for my Mastodon-authenticated #XMPP messaging service, using #ejabberd.
https://git.chinwag.org/chinwag/mastodon-xmpp-setup
This is intended for use in conjunction with the ejabberd external auth script provided here:
https://git.chinwag.org/chinwag/ejabberd-auth-mastodon
If anyone wants to add this to their instance setup, feel free to hit me up. After talking @M0YNG through the https://mastodon.radio deployment recently I think I've got a good start on putting together a proper guide.
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and people wonder why we dont trust the government...
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It's illegal to enter buildings in the zone as most of them are completely unstable, and due to a new zone administration there's typically no bribing your way out of a situation. Sometimes in the most unsuspecting places you may find street art left behind by a Stalker who risked arrest for something many will never see. Somewhat of a real life Easter egg, or a subtle nod to defiance: "You're not suppose to be here."
Location: Chernobyl Exclusion-zone, Ukraine. 2019.
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QR reading support is now added to Megapixels :D
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This github skyline thing is neat because you can spot when I moved to something better than github
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🐦This is a cross-post from Twitter, its contents might suck🐦
RT @aszabla
We bought this pillow and it’s perfect
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I just confirmed that yes, @brave browser's Tor mode appears to leak all the .onion addresses you visit to your DNS provider
https://twitter.com/albinowax/status/1362737949872431108Brave had one fucking job to do.
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🇬🇧 The EU is planning #masssurveillance of all your private messages online with the #chatcontrol. Time is running out. Fight back now and protect the #digitalsecrecyofcorrespondence !
More info https://www.patrick-breyer.de/?page_id=594160&lang=en
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It's funny: everyone who wants "fact checking" wants it for someone else.
Ask someone, do you want Mark Zuckerberg to decide what you are allowed to see? Are you worried you'll be convinced by "misinformation"?
They always say no but are worried about their neighbor.
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In an effort to promote the use of open and FOSS platforms rather than proprietary and locked down ones, as postmarketOS we created our own community on Lemmy!
Please join us in making it an awesome FOSS and federated alternative to our subreddit!
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Police use face recognition, drones, automated license plate readers, and an arsenal of other invasive tech. Atlas of Surveillance is a searchable map containing thousands of datapoints that allows you to see what is deployed in your area. https://www.atlasofsurveillance.org
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Don T3rr0rz0n3 
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Why are people using Facebook to access government, health, and other information‽ A web company messing up should not be an issue national governments have to be concerned about… https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/feb/18/facebook-blocks-health-departments-charities-and-its-own-pages-in-botched-australia-news-ban
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> It seems [the Police] think playing copyrighted and licensed music will keep the word from getting out. And turns out.. they are right! I sent this video to multiple news agencies who covered the story. Most said they can’t share it... why??? Because it’s playing Beatles music.
www.instagram.com/tv/CLKaLPiDw…/via www.vice.com/en/article/bvxa7q…
- 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
