NerdResa @NerdResa@witches.town
Queer feminist from Berlin. Fights for social justice, does research about the Internet. Network geek. Bisexual. She/her
Update on the C programming course: I'm getting better at patiently explaining what the difference between declaring, defining, and calling a function is, while chasing segfaults with some other students who are already playing around with pointers and memory management.
It's not easy adapting to the learning speed of 1000 first semester students, but I'm happy about everyone's progress.
@InspectorCaracal I'm sure you could, yes. :)
As an explanation, for me it makes sense to say that some people just really like or want something, while other people are like "Meh, I don't get what that hype is all about". And then for some people, it's just like that, but with sex. Makes a lot of sense to me (being allo myself).
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RT @AaronSwartzDay "Let’s try to figure out how we can mitigate our software systems from being misused." - @xychelsea https://www.aaronswartzday.org/technologists-please-pay-attention/ #Responsibility https://t.co/9yDZA37Q8Y
just say yes to legal sex work
@22Decembre "Socket Intents", which is my research about how to use multiple network interfaces on an end host, and the prototype that my colleague and I built for this research.
More: https://cfp.all-systems-go.io/en/ASG2017/public/events/138
Very good news from @nextcloud and @Purism : #Nextcloud partners with #Purism to provide a secure, open source and #privacy focused #mobile device
I'M A TERMINAL GIRL
IN A GRAPHICAL WORRRLLLD
WRAPPED IN BASH SCRIPTS
GNOME'S A TRASH PIT
Rather than instances and federation, which seem like such distant terms, why not think of neighbourhoods?
A town or city has lots of little neighbourhoods. They all have their own character. Some are big, some are small. Some are full of artists, others, blue-collar workers from the nearby factory.
There's a community notice board where the neighbourhood communicates, and a bigger one that a bunch of neighbourhoods get together on.
How's that sound for an accessible metaphor?
*idly wonders if there are people in the fediverse that talk about sustainable forestry and hobby tree farming of hardwoods*
Is there some kind of reasonably affordable Software Defined Radio out there that can sample and replay unknown 2.4 GHz signals? I've got a 2.4GHz smart light remote with a proprietary Chinese protocol that I need to sniff and spoof.
For those who haven't been at the conference, here's a recording of my talk: https://media.ccc.de/v/ASG2017-138-which_network_to_use_when_-_socket_intents
and here's my slides: http://theresa.someserver.de/socket-intents-2017.pdf
More resources are linked on the schedule page: https://cfp.all-systems-go.io/en/ASG2017/public/events/138
Just presented some of my research called #SocketIntents at the "All Systems Go" conference on #Linux User-Space technologies.
Mentioned my Mastodon account: "It's like Twitter, but cooler." :D
Hope some people find me here as well. ^^
@phryk I like that idea :) Thanks!
@afandian I sometimes write small things about my research (mostly getting some software to work properly) and sometimes write about research that I find interesting and that I would like people to see, like the IPv4 address exhaustion problem a few months ago. :)
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34. Chaos Communication Congress in Leipzig: Letzte Chance zum Einreichen - ...
@ng0 TU Berlin. There were reasons behind that choice, like I think the students need C for some other course in the first year.
@eribloodlust Good idea.
For variables maybe like drawers with some content in it?
For loops, mhh... there's probably songs or poems or something that repeats, but I'm not sure if that works.
You got more ideas?
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Teaching first semester students about C #programming is surprisingly hard. How do you explain the concepts of variables or loops when they didn't understand your first three attempts at it?