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
Does anyone have .muttrc snippets they'd like to share where #autocrypt is working in #mutt?
I want to recommend #deltachat to my friends but I also want to make sure people won't be tied to particular apps.
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Why can't Russia have free and fair elections like America? American elections are so free and fair that you get banned from the internet for doubting if they're free and fair.
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garbage take: e-mail is dead not because of facebook but because nobody talks anymore other than to shitpost.
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thinking about this:
>If a factory is torn down but the rationality which produced it is left standing, then that rationality will simply produce another factory. If a revolution destroys a government, but the systematic patterns of thought that produced that government are left intact, then those patterns will repeat themselves. . . . There’s so much talk about the system. And so little understanding.
ROBERT PIRSIG, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
I couldn't function if I had to live with a normal smartphone but this stuff is why I have a landline.
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The first postmarketOS service pack release brings major PinePhone improvements linuxsmartphones.com/the-fir…
Me: PostmarketOS moved some of the new stuff to stable, so my #pinephone should be more reliable.
Gilfriend: OOOOoooh yeah sure....
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bonifartius 𒂼𒄄
haha, webshit weekly is glorious again:
> Signal is having technical difficulties
> Signal (business model: "Uber for texting") falls over. Most communications protocols are federated, and would survive one company's servers eating dirt, but Signal's owner/operator has decided this would degrade the user experience, presumably worse than the entire service shitting the bed out loud. Hackernews assumes that Signal is incapable of paying its hosting fees, and comes to the rescue by sending their money to a company that can't spin up cloud nodes fast enough to serve text messages. Other Hackernews bemoan the fact that once again they look like idiots, since they just conned half their friends and family into signing up for this mess.
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Our first service pack, v20.05.1, has been released! You can read more about it on our blog: https://postmarketos.org/blog/2021/01/22/v20.05.1-is-released/
I feel like github page's load balancer changes IP address more often than my VPS does. Maybe I should give up on it? I don't like having one machine running all my stuff though.
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So many updates happening with with the @opensuse images for the @thepine64 #PinePhone. Check out the latest status update sent to the mailing list. https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/factory@lists.opensuse.org/thread/U6SKQJFFRAXKP7CEEHXSYTPBCNPGXSL2/
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Predictive policing and biometric surveillance technologies disparately harm Black, immigrant, and other vulnerable communities. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/01/oaklands-progressive-fight-protect-residents-government-surveillance
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We need to talk about Firefox Lite...
1) Firefox Lite uses Android Webview, i.e. Chromium.
2) it pings home to app-measurement.com, which is a Google domain.
So no, do not use this wolf in sheep's clothing.
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IPFS is 6 years old and major browsers still refusing to support it.
Imagine if the WWW was six years old (1997) and all the major browsers were like
> nah, just gonna continue supporting FTP and gopher, not this newfangled WWW thing
> but hey, we did, in collaboration with AOL, implement special support for their dialup site in our browser
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🐦This is a cross-post from Twitter, its contents might suck🐦
RT @zachsilberberg
no way. no fucking way
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If your favorite messaging service has its own smartphone app then chances are you really shouldn't use it.
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Consent Matters: When Tech Takes Remote Control Without Your Permission
"The irony is that, decades ago, when your average person had minimal experience with computers, those inexperienced users had much more control and autonomy over them."
https://puri.sm/posts/consent-matters-when-tech-takes-remote-control-without-your-permission/
- 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
