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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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The meme says that Mars is the planet with the highest ratio of Linux devices with working audio and that's a funny joke, but here's the Actually Patrol:
Perseverance, the rover, has a microphone and runs VxWorks.
Ingenuity, the helicopter, runs Linux.
Perseverance, the rover, has a microphone and runs VxWorks.
Ingenuity, the helicopter, runs Linux.
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EU_politics + encryption + privacy
The EU Council has approved a resolution to undermine encrypted communications for EU citicens:
https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-13084-2020-REV-1/en/pdf
A petition to declining this resolution and to keep citicens' privacy is online at the EU parliament:
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/petitions/en/petition/content/1222%252F2020/html/Keep+Encryption
As of today at 10:00 CET this petition has been signed by 19 supporters
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Help users in Iran reconnect to Signal February 04, 2021 (comments) A chat app based on a protocol that supports federation wants to borrow your computer instead of allowing federation. (n-gate)
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For the 2021 #Guile Potluck, Ricardo announces this web presence for the Picture Language:
https://elephly.net/guile-picture-language/ 👍
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“YouTube is intentionally making their policies seem terrifying.” - @cfiesler on ContentID and copyright policy. Learn more in our town hall: https://www.pscp.tv/w/1mrxmwgVMWVGy
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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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Omfg.. Windows 10 is such a piece of crap! 💩 I need to do 5 Google searched before I know how to turn off those idiotic tiles 
No wonder older people give up all hope with that shit software.. FFS Microsoft they just had figured out your crappy Windows XP/Vista/Other shit and now you come with this dumb ass action I never understand
I hate Windows so hard
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News site Stuff left Facebook. Seven months later, traffic is just fine and trust is higher | Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/risj-review/news-site-stuff-left-facebook-seven-months-later-traffic-just-fine-and-trust-higher
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RT @serenatinari@twitter.com
Limited access to legal counsel and a laptop with glued-down keys to prepare defense. No winter clothes. Up to 23 and half hours per day in isolation. That's how the UK is treating a publisher wanted by the US for revealing evidence of war crimes. #JournalistsSpeakUpForAssange
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Dear Mastodon, we're ~60 followers away from 12K! Can you help us get there?
Help by spreading the word that:
🔵 Privacy is a human right.
🔵 Tracking & surveillance are widespread on the internet.
🔵 Tor is a nonprofit that can help you take back your privacy online.
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RT @FordFischer@twitter.com
You can watch the video backed up here on @OdyseeTeam@twitter.com. As you'll see, the video itself (and I in it) make no claims to the legitimacy of the protesters' beliefs.
This doesn't remove disinfo; it only removes a recording of what led to January 6.
https://odysee.com/@news2share:f/maga-activists-assemble-for-stop-the:4
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/FordFischer/status/1364603010458992642
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- 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
