Data Science
Some people who are self studying Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs have been using a discord server to assist each other as needed. I realize that there are a number of people using Lemmy whi are very opposed to using discord over other options, but I don’t know of any other sustained forums focused on this book.
That’s an entry point into programming that’s not for everyone. It seems like the poster is looking for something more hands on and pragmatic rather than technical and academic.
An author of the original book, Allen B. Downey, has released a third edition if his updates that is also available online at no cost and in Allen B. Downey’s words:
The book is now entirely in Jupyter notebooks, so you can read the text, run the code, and work on the exercises – all in one place. Using the links below, you can run the notebooks on Colab, so you don’t have to install anything to get started.
The text is substantially revised and a few chapters have been reordered. There are more exercises now, and I think a lot of them are better.
It’s interesting to see how the same source material has grown into two differently maintained and similar resources.
Or The Odin Project if you don’t want to cover Python in the curriculum and just stick to JavaScript.
https://www.theodinproject.com/
(The Odin Project also has an option for Ruby along with JavaScript)
A git commit is a snapshot. The node-based tree structure is an artifact of recording pointers to other snapshots and labeling snapshots with a branch name.
He made up hypothetical scenarios that nobody asked about, and then denigrated Rust by attacking the scenarios he came up with.
This seems to be the textbook description of a strawman argument.
https://www.baeldung.com/linux/ Also has very well written articles on specific topics and tutorials.
Follow up with what is sometimes called the Unix Bible: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/unix-and-linux/9780134278308/
That’s a nice addition for those that want security over convenience. I wonder why it took them 11 years after this was written to add it.
It provides for control over certain functions, but it is underutilized.
I like the diversity of sphincter options in unicode and encourage their use. Here are a few of my favorites:
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This is a web service that returns the ActivityPub data for any URL that returns an ActivityPub message. For instance this post (https://lemmy.ml/post/19589249) returns:
{
"@context": [
"https://join-lemmy.org/context.json",
"https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams"
],
"type": "Page",
"id": "https://lemmy.ml/post/19589249",
"attributedTo": "https://lemmy.ml/u/hongminhee",
"to": [
"https://lemmy.world/c/fediverse",
"https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public"
],
"name": "BrowserPub: A browser for debugging ActivityPub and the ⁂fediverse",
"cc": [],
"mediaType": "text/html",
"attachment": [
{
"href": "https://podcastindex.social/@js/113011966366461060",
"mediaType": "text/html; charset=utf-8",
"type": "Link"
}
],
"sensitive": false,
"published": "2024-08-26T11:43:09.033551Z",
"language": {
"identifier": "en",
"name": "English"
},
"audience": "https://lemmy.world/c/fediverse",
"tag": [
{
"href": "https://lemmy.ml/post/19589249",
"name": "#fediverse",
"type": "Hashtag"
}
]
}
Prepend https://browser.pub/ to the URL you want to check:
https://browser.pub/https://lemmy.ml/post/19589249
Some key quotes from the article:
It’s perfectly reasonable for a consumer cloud storage provider to design a system that emphasizes recoverability over security. Apple’s customers are far more likely to lose their password/iPhone than they are to be the subject of a National Security Letter or data breach (hopefully, anyway).
I wish that companies like Apple could just come right out and warn their users: ‘We have access to all your data, we do bulk-encrypt it, but it’s still available to us and to law enforcement whenever necessary’.
So what is the alternative?
Well, for a consumer-focused system, maybe there really isn’t one. Ultimately people back up their data because they’re afraid of losing their devices, which cuts against the idea of storing encryption keys inside of devices.
You could take the PGP approach and back up your decryption keys to some other location (your PC, for example, or a USB stick). But this hasn’t proven extremely popular with the general public, because it’s awkward — and sometimes insecure.
Alternatively, you could use a password to derive the encryption/decryption keys. This approach works fine if your users pick decent passwords (although they mostly won’t), and if they promise not to forget them. But of course, the convenience of Apple’s “iForgot” service indicates that Apple isn’t banking on users remembering their passwords. So that’s probably out too.
I’m going to give this a try. Thanks for working on it!
Or complete clients, doesn’t even need to be great but incorporating all features would be nice.