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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We know brokers continue to mine location data from our apps and sell it to military and law enforcement - we just don’t know which apps.
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Users can’t make educated choices without knowing where or how their data will be shared. And platforms shouldn’t wait on journalists to establish end-to-end data flows before taking steps to protect users. It’s too easy for data brokers to mask their behavior.
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Keyoxide is a FOSS decentralised online identity platform, you can follow it at:
➡️ @keyoxide
The project website is at https://keyoxide.org
It helps you prove who you are across multiple sites without storing any personal data about you.
#KeyOxide #FOSS #FreeSoftware #Libre #OpenSource #Privacy #KeyBase #Alternatives
I don't do #ruby much so I know I'm missing something.
Why is there Regexp.union and not a Regexp.concatenate?
It would be nice to have that list so I knew where to avoid.
Hacked Surveillance Camera Firm Shows Staggering Scale of #FacialRecognition https://www.vice.com/en/article/wx83bz/verkada-hacked-facial-recogniti...
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The Pentagon has finally overhauled its email systems to adopt basic email encryption via STARTTLS. EFF's @nappy_techie has just one message for them: “Welcome to the encryption party.” https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/09/pentagon-email-security-problem-474535
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#TIL Internet Archive's new service: Internet Archive Scholar. Search 25 million research articles preserved in the Internet Archive. https://scholar.archive.org/
This isn't really surprising but it's good to be aware that it's known for sure now.
Git: Malicious repositories can execute remote code while cloning https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/03/09/3 (submitted by todsacerd...
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How Amazon Assistant lets Amazon track your every move on the web | Almost Secure
https://palant.info/2021/03/08/how-amazon-assistant-lets-amazon-track-your-every-move-on-the-web/
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Military Unit That Conducts Drone Strikes Bought Location Data From Ordinary Apps
https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3g97x/location-data-apps-drone-strikes-iowa-national-guard
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best parts of synthwave
no rapper segments no screamers going AAAAUUUUAUAHAGHGHGGH every other syllable synthesizer noises
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@wolf480pl @quad @spiral @wowaname On the topic of destroying JS: already trying to do that https://github.com/w3c/webauthn/issues/1255
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It turns out that software is "curl | sh" all the way down: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/03/more-top-tier-companies-targeted-by-new-type-of-potentially-serious-attack/
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Second consecutive quarter of decline for Google Analytics! 🔻👀
I guess the lesson from all these is just: don't run other people's un-audited code on your machine, sandboxed or not.
Lord of the Ring(s): Side Channel Attacks on the CPU On-Chip Ring Interconnect https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.03443 (submitted by nixgeek)
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The legislation would still permit the government to implement wide-sweeping executive orders such as a mask mandate and forced business closures, but it also accentuates protections for religious liberty and the Second Amendment and addresses topics like property taxes and liability protections.
ah right because diseases are respectful enough that you can’t spread them while jewing and christianing but your sandwich shop that took you 20 years of your life to build sorry that spreads diseases.
- 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
