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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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In case you’re wondering if Google or Facebook, etc., will keep you secure, yes, they will try. In the same way a farmer tries to keep their sheep secure from everything else but their own knife.
Security does not imply safety.
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“A number of accounts that Tweeted the word “Memphis” were temporarily limited due to a bug. It’s been fixed and the accounts have now been restored. We’re sorry this happened.” https://twitter.com/TwitterSupport/status/1371235587718582274
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> Oil companies in Russia flare an estimated 25 billion cubic meters of gas every year https://www.arctictoday.com/way-stop-burning-money-russian-arctic/
25bn m3 gas --> 257 Twh
Bitcoin uses 78 Twh
So bitcoin uses less than 1/3 as much energy as literally burning off gas at the wellhead. Bet you see that in Bloomberg.
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Anyway if you're wondering what you've been missing on Twitter, today Twitter started instantly autobanning anyone who said the word "Memphis" and did not figure out what had happened and fix it for like six hours
The entire time people were experimentally tweeting "Wait, do you really get banned if you say 'Memphis'?" and getting banned
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GNU Mes 0.23 released!
Mes now supports ARM! For development it also builds with @gnutools' gcc-10 and @guilelang 3.0
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2021-03/msg00002.html
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RT @Idcrafter2
anbox is working on #plasmamobile on the #pinephone thanks to Funeral from the @thepine64 discord server
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Encryption is what protects our privacy & security. The @fbi doesn’t need a new way to evade it. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/fbi-should-stop-attacking-encryption-and-tell-congress-about-all-encrypted-phones
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decide to skip suffering through social time this afternoon
read book instead
ah yes i should come practice with my grid
> windows is in a dead-alive state where microsoft forced an update but it couldn't reboot so half the shit is in suspended animation with no desktop and just a few programs jammed open
> haha gotta reboot multiple times to finish goy
i fucking hate microsoft. why does god burn down the nice frenchman's datacenter and not gatescrap.
read book instead
ah yes i should come practice with my grid
> windows is in a dead-alive state where microsoft forced an update but it couldn't reboot so half the shit is in suspended animation with no desktop and just a few programs jammed open
> haha gotta reboot multiple times to finish goy
i fucking hate microsoft. why does god burn down the nice frenchman's datacenter and not gatescrap.
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Copyright is named wrong
It's actually a Right of Copying Prevention
E.g. when it expires, everyone suddenly has more "copy right", not less
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In the process of compiling data for the Atlas of Surveillance, we noticed a peculiar trend: college campuses are acquiring a surprising number of surveillance technologies. Here’s what we’ve found so far: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/scholars-under-surveillance-how-campus-police-use-high-tech-spy-students
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Some Schools Are Blocking Replit to Prevent Kids from Coding
https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1369938698494697476
(submitted by amasad)
As of today we've been working remotely for the next two weeks for a year. And we now have another year to go.
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Signal Appears To Have Abandoned Their AGPL-licensed Server Sourcecode
https://linuxreviews.org/Signal_Appears_To_Have_Abandoned_Their_AGPL-licensed_Server_Sourcecode #signal
I never recommend Signal to anyone. And I regret I used to recommend it to other people before.
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If anyone wants to try sxmo on Arch Arm then grab yourself a barebones image and setup your wifi with nmtui then grab this file github.com/justinesmithies/s… The code is a tad rough but it works for me. 😉 #pinephone
No call/sms forwarding, bad coverage, now this. I'd leave if I had them.
𝙏-𝙈𝙤𝙗𝙞𝙡𝙚 𝙬𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙨𝙤𝙤𝙣 𝙖𝙪𝙩𝙤𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙚𝙣𝙧𝙤𝙡𝙡 𝙘𝙪𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙖 𝙣𝙚𝙬 𝙖𝙙 𝙩𝙖𝙧𝙜𝙚𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙜𝙧𝙖𝙢 "The US telecom T-Mobile has revealed that it will soon start autom...
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#2435 Geothmetic Meandian
Pythagorean means are nice and all, but throwing the median in the pot is really what turns this into random forest statistics: applying every function you can think of, and then gradually dropping the ones that make the result worse.
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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/
- 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
