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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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'Spy pixels in emails have become endemic'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-56071437
#privacy #pixels #spying #tech #email
I have seen links that go avia tracers rather than directly to the proper target, are we talking about individual pixels here or is this the url behind the normal links (which are pictures)
Some clearly target children who even legaly are
Paul
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The decision of LastPass shows us why is relevant the difference between using open source software and free (of charge) software.
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BREAKING: Through public records requests, EFF has uncovered documented proof that the LAPD requested and received Ring doorbell camera footage of last summer’s Black-led protests against police violence.
https://www.eff.org/press/releases/new-eff-report-shows-cops-used-ring-cameras-monitor-black-lives-matter-protests https://t.co/7UxDeW62pL
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Today is the tenth anniversary of #GNU #Guile 2.0! 🎉
https://gnu.org/software/guile/news/gnu-guile-200-released.html
It was the first milestone towards an implementation that would actually allow you to write all your application in #Scheme. Lots of good memories, personally. And it’s humbling to see just how much has been achieved since then!
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Your Smartphone Doesn't Have To Be Glued Shut!
The #librem5 was recently featured in a hardware tear-down video by @iFixit
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I don't really understand why people are talking about Clubhouse at all. Has their use case not already been long solved by Teamspeak, Mumble, Discord, Zoom, Skype, Jitsi and so on?
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🇬🇧 With #chatcontrol, the EU wants #masssurveillance of all your private online communications in real-time. What is it about, what will happen next and what can you do?
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My friend, Friday Kinoti is looking for her sister believed to have been locked in jail in Abu Dhabi, UAE. No information regarding her whereabouts....Kenyan embassy in UAE is not responding.
TFW your girlfriend won't snoop on your emails because she doesn't know the keyboard shortcuts for mutt and thinks no one sexts over email.
TFW your girlfriend calls you concerned about the Satina gifs she found on one of your computers.
>Oh we'll just fix it with ECMO
Half the stuff in "The Good Doctor"
I'm not a doctor but I'm pretty sure it doesn't work that way.
It turns out google is an even worse steward of the infrastructure many communities depend on than most of us thought.
https://groups.google.com/g/comp.lang.c
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Chinese #SupplyChain Attack on Computer Systems https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2021/02/chinese-supply-chain-attack-on-computer-systems.html
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#2424 Normal Conversation
"I think I'll pass. These days I have a hard time feeling comfortable in crowded bars with loud music and lots of shouting." --me, after the pandemic, but now for a second reason
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Learn how automated license plate readers threaten targeted communities and what we can do about it at a virtual event this Monday with @PasadenaPrivacy and EFF. https://www.eff.org/event/government-tracking-you-automatic-license-plate-readers-and-data-sharing-our-streets
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That's the third time this week I read an article talking about how Apple invented the smartphone and mobile applications. Who's spreading this nonsense?
Yes, Apple made smartphones popular (I guess?). But let's not rewrite history here: we had smartphones and apps several years before the first iPhone got released.
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Facebook has been helping law enforcement identify Capitol rioters | Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/02/facebook-has-been-helping-law-enforcement-identify-capitol-rioters/
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Whenever you make a Mastodon poll, there's this odd rounding error, never adds up to 100. Look for yourself, it's off by 1.
That's because Eugene is siphoning off the rounding error to an account in the Bahamas and in a couple of years he's going to make a run for it...
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The SICP animeme has been officially recognized by MIT CSAIL.
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"#Microsoft shares with #Canonical ... the contact details of developers launching #Ubuntu instances on #Azure"
https://www.theregister.com/2021/02/11/microsoft_azure_ubuntu_data_sharing/
- 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
