askchapo @hexbear.net qocu @hexbear.net 1 mo. ago

What have you been reading/learning/deepening into lately?

For example, I've been reading in depth about reverse engineering lately and improving my web h4ck1ng skills by playing CTFs. And every night before bed, I read philosophy to stay sane. I'm currently reading "Negative Dialectics" by Theodor W. Adorno.

What about you? ancom-heart

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Been slowly making my way through the TCP/IP Guide. Some of it is pretty outdated, but it's helping me understand a bit more how the Internet works as I continue to teach myself computer science fundamentals and web development.
- Do you want to pursue web development professionally or just as a hobby?
  
  I love this site, it has valuable resources.
  
  Professionally. I've been teaching myself Web Dev for the past 4 years and have actually worked at a small start up briefly, but want to work at a small/medium size company at some point.
  
  I can't afford to go back to school, but am familiar with the classic CS curriculum, in part thanks to the resources listed on that website you referenced. Thank you for that.
  
  It's just taking me a long time as while I have a college degree, I have never had a strong background in mathematics, let alone the discrete mathematics generally required by most robust CS curriculum.
  
  That said, I have a great support structure, with many mentors and a solid local and online community. I've even hung out with a few Linux kernel devs, who have graciously given me various pieces of advice on how to proceed learning the basics.
  
  This TCP/IP book is sort of a detour, as I don't see myself utilizing the concepts directly (save for a bit of packet analysis), but I've noticed web developers, at least at the Jr level, tend to only have a surface level knowledge of how HTTP fits into the broader TCP/IP model, and I'd rather that not be the case for myself.
  
  Thanks again for that resource. I've yet to dive deep into a lot of the books on that site, but it's been in my bookmarks for a while now, and I definitely will be getting around to inspecting them more deeply in the near future.
Trying to read capital to improve my German. I’ve been getting back into making music again. Being forced to learn electronics.
- What kind of music? One of my interests/goals is to create an one-person DSBM project.
  
  Maybe this site will help, I've had it bookmarked for a while, it's amazing: There's no place like home (residence of electronics enthusiasts)
  
  What’s DBSM? I generally make weird techno with the synths I have, atm I’m mostly using software though because I can’t really find a cool way to plug in everything so that I can be creative as well. I kind of wish I had some one to help me organise and plan my space with me because I’m fucking terrible at doing that. I can DM you my SoundCloud if you want to hear some of it. It’s nothing special and I don’t really like advertising it.
  
  That website does look cool, but I don’t have money for equipment or components at the moment so I’m sticking to the theory for now. I only started a month ago and I’ve been out of school for a long time and I’m struggling with passing tests and the language barrier a little bit. Thanks for the website though I’ll definitely check it out.
  
  I need to do a final project in two years I’ll probably try make a synthesiser. I’d really like to make a groove box but let’s see how far I get through this school and if I have what it takes.
  
  Also a random thing that pisses me off about electronics, there are obviously three different notations for logic gates a British an American and a European.
Manifolds, tangent spaces, conditional extrema.

Also, Putonghua.
- conditional extrema, differential geometry
  
  calculus of variations on manifolds? physics detected
  
  Nah, just want to remember the topic for when I get back to dealing with more interesting stuff like Lie groups and algebras.
  
  The end goal is to get into algebraic topology (and topological algebra).
  
  I don't tolerate how impure physicists are.
  Imagine the atrocity of actually applying math. /jk
Reading: alongside the Gender Accelerationists Manifesto (go to c/womenby!), I have been reading this person's essays on Marxism. Also getting back into espresso making and making fermented hot sauce!
- I also read it when it was posted here!
  
  And thanks for the link to the blog, I've already bookmarked it.
  
  Nice! There's some funky stuff in there like Dialectical Materialism and Quantum Mechanics.
Turbomachinery. Turbines are cool.
every day I learn more about the depths of human depravity and the complete fraudulence of American society
- Every day I wake up and say death to U.S
I'm taking a Chinese class at the local community college. It's 101 so I'm kinda way way ahead having already learned a bit, but the practice has been very good being the big fish in a small pond rather than the other way around.

Also I have to learn to write characters by hand which is a big change when I'm used to typing like "whxhwyx" for "我很喜欢玩游戏"
- 你好! I'm doing the same. Are ya'll using a textbook? We're using Integrated Chinese.
  
  I feel like I'm way behind though and barely keeping up with speech. Character memorization, recognition, and writing is way easier. I think its helping improve my handwriting because mine kinda sucks in English.
  
  I'm sticking it through since I am learning for sure but I don't think I've ever spent so much time studying in a uni class before. It was like 5 hours a day last week.
  
  Yeah, same textbook! I had gotten pretty far on HelloChinese app and independent study (mostly just listening to music and reading all the business signs in my neighborhood) so there's a lot of words and grammar and all that that I know, but my speaking is very not great and I the writing practice means I'm finally learning the radicals.
Im getting into radical housing alternatives (like types of communal organisation etc.)
- My dream: to live in a horizontal community, as self-sustaining as possible, with several comrades.
For reasons beyond my control I've spent the last few weeks learning all about the Android Storage Access Framework. I do not know Java. I got through it and figured out how to do what I needed, but it was an absolute nightmare and much of it makes no sense.

This weekend I read Cuckoo by Gretchen Felker-Martin. I enjoyed it quite a bit, big IT energy.
- Reject Java because it has classes, inheritance and hierarchies.
I've picked up Greek because i love declensions i guess - that's fun. I took to the alphabet faster than i t hought i would - most of it makes sense, and where it doesn't it's easy enough to adapt.

I've been reading more stuff that advances my knowledge, if not practically at least it's something new? deprecrating games and media, a lot. Been trying to level up my guitar playing - i have some material that's collectively almost three songs - but they're not done. Figuring out what "done" is is the driving force behind a lot of my exploration creatively though.
Urban design!!

Btw anyone else hate zoning laws that require certain amounts of empty space between buildings. Nah bruv. Stick those shits together, wall-to-wall.
Today it’s the 2021 international fuel gas code because I’m sizing a gas distribution system for a multi family dwelling, and I have a bad memory so I’m referring to my charts before I send the plans off for review.

Last week it was technical manuals for hydrionic pumps because I took over a top out on a job and someone sized the system with the wrong pumps and now I’m trying to make it work without replacing over 12k worth of good pumps in an incorrect install.

The last time I opened a book of any sort because it was what I wanted to read and not what I had to read was about two weeks ago when I found a US Government field repair manual for a 30 year old Cummins motorb I’m rebuilding on weekends because I’m bored.
I'be been trying to inderstand the user facing side of Amdroid nd failing misersblyzm

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