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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ST USBLC6-2 ESD protection chip, 4 diodes and 1 Zener to protect your USB port. Dieshot by Zeptobars (Mikhail Svarichevsky). https://zeptobars.com/en/read/ST-USBLC6-2-USB-protection-diode-zener
Ah, I used countless units of this chip on my boards. Finally know what does it look like. #electronics
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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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the server sent events enjoyer:
the poller:
the poller:
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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.
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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/
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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
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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Tusky: Censoring people
Me: Please don’t do this, censorship harms marginalized people the most
Tusky: Yeah right, Nazi
Google: Censors Tusky
Tusky: NOOOO I DON’T UNDERSTAND WHY IS THIS HAPPENING???
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Thousands of Enterprise Surveillance Cameras #Hacked - #ThreatWire
Thousands of surveillance cameras were hacked, Molson Coors breweries were attacked, and we’ve got a bunch of updates to the #Windows Exchange vulnerabilities!
Why does the #osx VTE even have separate "new window" and "new tab" commands when activating either always just opens a new tab in your current window?
Yet another reason we should just put RHEL on all the desktops too.
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A prejudiced AI is not prejudiced if everyone else was prejudiced first and it just learned from them. Got it.
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Abstracted Indulgences
Automated Inculpability
Absolved Injustice
Assigned Incrimination
App Innocence
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Abstracted Indulgences
Automated Inculpability
Absolved Injustice
Assigned Incrimination
App Innocence
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every time someone says "unused RAM is wasted RAM therefore it's fine for programs to use tons of RAM" a file in the disk cache dies inside
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Data Double Dipping: When Companies Mine Paying Customers
"While companies should protect their customer’s privacy by default whether their product is free or not, it’s particularly discouraging to see that many companies out there are double dipping on their customers."
https://puri.sm/posts/data-double-dipping-when-companies-mine-paying-customers/
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This is what some of you sound like, you know who you are...
- 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
