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Nonilex<p>The <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/IRS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IRS</span></a> is building a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ComputerProgram" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ComputerProgram</span></a> that would give <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/deportation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>deportation</span></a> officers unprecedented access to confidential <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/tax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tax</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/data" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>data</span></a>.</p><p>ProPublica has obtained a blueprint of the system, which would create an “on demand” process allowing <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ICE</span></a> to obtain the home addresses of people it’s seeking to deport.</p><p>Last month, in a previously undisclosed dispute, the acting general counsel at the IRS, Andrew De Mello, refused to turn over the addresses of 7.3M <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/taxpayers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>taxpayers</span></a> sought by ICE.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a></p>
George A. Thorn<p>To shine a spotlight, a college student from Tennessee is currently creating an app to help people understand sign language easier and I want him to succeed before Duolingo get their paws on the idea. </p><p>Support indie developers! 💪🏻</p><p><a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/deaflingo/deaflingo-sign-language-learning-using-computer-vision" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">kickstarter.com/projects/deafl</span><span class="invisible">ingo/deaflingo-sign-language-learning-using-computer-vision</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/kickstarter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>kickstarter</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/indiedev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>indiedev</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/computerprogram" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>computerprogram</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/signlanguage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>signlanguage</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/duolingo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>duolingo</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>language</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/learning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>learning</span></a></p>
Tanquist<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@anatudor" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>anatudor</span></a></span> <br>This reminds me of the first <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ComputerProgram" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ComputerProgram</span></a> I wrote on my <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Atari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Atari</span></a> 400 (and stored on an audio cassette). I discovered that if I want to plot a circle with evenly spaced points, I have to define them in polar coordinates and then transform them into Cartesian before plotting.</p>
Pete<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@soxfaninsd" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>soxfaninsd</span></a></span> </p><p>Funnily enough, I have a vivid memory of one of my teachers, Mrs Skelton, a bully, taking the school assembly, and, reading from a copy of <a href="https://mas.to/tags/ReadersDigest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ReadersDigest</span></a>, telling us about a <a href="https://mas.to/tags/space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>space</span></a> mission where a <a href="https://mas.to/tags/ComputerProgram" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ComputerProgram</span></a> had a single hyphen in the wrong place and caused a rocket to rapidly disassemble.</p><p>This story filled my 9 year old mind with <a href="https://mas.to/tags/awe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>awe</span></a>, <a href="https://mas.to/tags/wonder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wonder</span></a>, and <a href="https://mas.to/tags/terror" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>terror</span></a>. I'm not sure what the moral of the story was, but I am now a programmer, who has worked on <a href="https://mas.to/tags/SafetyCriticalSystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SafetyCriticalSystems</span></a>.</p>