Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-10-27:/2523263] "Code-execution flaw in UEFI firmware affects most servers on planet Earth"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-10-28:/2523398] "The Grid, a factory-scale robot in Massachusetts that builds PCBs on demand"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-10-22:/2521919] "Jailbreaking the Switch 2"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-10-20:/2521468] "The Internet goes on high alert after discovery of 8 compromised TLS certs"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-10-16:/2520337] "BeBox is a Haiku application that emulates Be Inc.'s BeBox"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-10-15:/2520307] "Targeted ads delivered 0-click exploits to install mercenary malware"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-10-15:/2520056] "Overdose Offsets: Why Every Bag of Fentanyl I Sell Is Net Life-Positive"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-10-13:/2519583] "A Book That Will Never Be Read"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-10-12:/2519359] "Classic real-time strategy game Total Annihilation is 30 years old—and everyone is remixing it"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-10-12:/2519319] "French supermarkets suffer fridge shutdown after 'unprecedented' cyberattack"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-10-05:/2517548] "OpenAI "rogue" agent activities found on Wikimedia projects"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-09-30:/2516232] "I can't tell who's teaching who anymore"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-09-29:/2516056] "Memory Companies Have Destroyed the Consumer Market"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-09-27:/2515458] "PostmarketOS is rebranding as Nura"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-09-21:/2514055] "Apple Copland D11E4 Booting in the Browser"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-09-18:/2513478] "Photon-Emission-Guided Laser Fault Injection Enables RP2350 Secure Debug"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-09-15:/2512755] "Artificial Intelligence, Quote Unquote"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-09-15:/2512572] "25 Years of Mass Surveillance Is Enough"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-09-14:/2512363] "Blizzard Revives 'StarCraft' Franchise with Open-World Sci-Fi Shooter"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-09-02:/2509493] "CERN Transitioning To Debian After Being A Longtime RHEL Institution - Phoronix"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-08-31:/2508844] "German Konrad Zuse Museum shutting down due to lack of funding"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-08-31:/2508801] "Omarchy: 1Password and 37signals become Distinguished Corporate Patrons"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-08-27:/2507930] "IBM announces dual-ISA processor: ARM and IBM Z code running natively on the same cores"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-08-27:/2507891] "Haiku R1/beta6 released"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-08-26:/2507579] "Ring says its new encryption limits what it can give police"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-08-26:/2507588] "Digg v4 and lessons not learned"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-08-26:/2507576] "Bill Gates: The turbulent AI era is here"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-08-24:/2507079] "Adafruit USB Type C CC Resistor Fixer"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-08-16:/2505165] "Laser Layers for (Almost) Isotropicly Strong Prints"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-08-16:/2505129] "Access to telemetry data: Automotive industry criticizes intelligence reform"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-08-12:/2504187] "License plate reader searches should require a warrant"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-08-07:/2502960] "2027 memory capacity is reportedly sold out"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-08-05:/2502506] "Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence (2025)"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-08-04:/2502146] "All of Winona Police Department's Flock cameras cut down and stolen"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-08-03:/2501883] "Celebrating 45 Years of Kermit with the First New C-Kermit Release in 15 Years"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-08-02:/2501525] "MkLinux and the pimped-out Apple Workgroup Server 9150"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-08-02:/2501516] "ASRock BC-250: Building the Budget Steam Machine"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-07-31:/2501295] "Google plans to exempt sanctioned nations from Android developer verification"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-07-28:/2500259] "College prof hides prompt to catch AI cheaters, finds human nature is pretty much as we thought"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-07-28:/2500268] "Now is the time to give LLMs access to the ACM digital library"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-07-22:/2498801] "John C. Dvorak has died"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-07-22:/2498669] "Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-07-19:/2497943] "Automated Pressure Advance Using a Bed-Leveling Sensor"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-07-19:/2497945] "Building an Arch Linux Aarch64 Port for Holo Core"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-07-15:/2496852] "Plasma 6.7.3 Complete Changelog"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-07-15:/2496709] "Google and Epic give up fighting — third-party Android app stores are coming next week"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-07-14:/2496649] "Microsoft’s Secure Boot has been broken for a decade and no one noticed until now"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-07-12:/2496061] "Since Chromium 148, Math.tanh is now fingerprintable to link underlying OS"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-07-09:/2495416] "Distributed System Is Slower Than a Laptop"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-07-06:/2494320] "Secure Unix ancestor KSOS did type safety before Rust made it cool"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-07-06:/2494298] "Zombie ‘who owns Unix?’ lawsuit comes alive again"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-07-05:/2494194] "Installing A/UX 1.1 like it's the 90s"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-07-01:/2493155] "Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-06-30:/2492846] "Supreme Court Lifts Spending Limits on Political Parties and Candidates"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-06-29:/2492593] "US Supreme Court rules geofence warrants require constitutional protections"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-06-28:/2492371] "Boffins build a better pixel capable of emitting and receiving light"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-06-25:/2490585] "Windows 10 quietly gets one more year of support and updates"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-06-24:/2490339] "GitHub shouldn't be a dependency for publishing Rust on crates.io"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-06-24:/2490244] "Boffin claims Microsoft’s “quantum leap” is invalid due to “basic Python errors”"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-06-24:/2490124] "LineShine Debuts at No. 1 as the TOP500 Enters a New Global Exascale Era"
Shame – PAPPP's Rambling https://pappp.net Hacking, Geekery, and life in Academia. Tue, 26 Apr 2011 19:16:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 Wikileaks in action https://pappp.net/?p=663 https://pappp.net/?p=663#respond Mon, 25 Apr 2011 17:03:11 +0000 http://pappp.net/?p=663 Continue reading →]]> Wikileaks: Still confirming bad things every reasonable person suspected anyway.

(While the old adage about arguing politics on the internet being akin to running in the Special Olympics is generally true, sometimes it is fun. Proceed with whargarbl.)

Also amusing: headline juxtaposed with “US goes after some game-changing energy projects” talking about a $130m investment in infrastructure and alternative generation projects… not quite enough to cover six hours of the ongoing clusterfuck in Iraq.
As much as the idea depresses me, because of what it implies about the intellect of the average American, we need some genuine teabagger-grade extreme leftist ideologues in the government. Not because they would make good policy, but to balance the showboating and re-frame public debate. If the “conservatives” can make insane public policy look reasonable by having their wackjobs propose feeding our parents into meat grinders in the opening round (cf. Ryan budget plan), the “liberals” (sadly) need to start opening with “Slash the defense budget to the bone, they can refit all our supercarriers for sale to the shipping industry if they want to keep spending” to make reasonable defense cuts seem palatable.

]]> https://pappp.net/?feed=rss2&p=663 0 Cruel Intentions https://pappp.net/?p=102 https://pappp.net/?p=102#respond Sat, 19 Dec 2009 07:21:55 +0000 Continue reading →]]> Cruel Intentions is, after Hackers, probably my favorite shitty movie. I ran across some stills (not there, but that is a good example) online a while ago, remembered how awesome it is (look at the still, you’ll understand), and had to track a copy down. Ernest Hardy of the LA Weekly’s review “In truth, the only reason this film was made was to allow viewers to ogle pretty young things behaving badly.” pretty much sums the whole thing up. I’m reasonably certain that review was intended as criticism, but that is totally missing the point. Sarah Michelle Gellar, Reese Witherspoon and Selma Blair while they were young and cute in leading roles, and I’m told Ryan Phillippe is there as eye candy as well, but thats not my thing.

It’s apparently one of several movies based off a French novel, Les Liaisons dangereuses, but the terrible writing, terrible acting, and implausible teenage east coast upper crust setting annihilate any sense of class that might imply. The plot is fun and honestly sort of cute, but you could watch it with the sound off and it would probably seem like a better movie. The problem with the “sound off” approach is that you would miss out on the angsty 14-year-old fanfic grade writing and shitty wooden delivery that elevate it from “attractive but dumb” to “attractive and hilarious“. Turning the sound off also wouldn’t save you from the glaring plot holes: how did the journal get wrapped? Why does he still have it in some scenes after passing it off, and most importantly HOW DID SHE GET HIS DAMN CAR at the end, did she go through her dying lover’s pockets?

Also, I love Sebastian’s style. His black duster-thing is the shit, and I want his half-frame glasses… the sunglasses (Vuarnet PX 3000 Wayfarer or knockoff thereof) are a plot element, so they are easy to look up, but I can’t find (and probably wouldn’t actually want to pay for/wear even if I could) the half frames.

For those familiar with UK’s schedule; this is indeed how I celebrated being done with the semester; some friends, a double of Woodford Reserve, and a movie that underflows it’s way to awesome.

]]> https://pappp.net/?feed=rss2&p=102 0 Passing Obsessions https://pappp.net/?p=171 https://pappp.net/?p=171#respond Mon, 04 May 2009 00:09:39 +0000 Continue reading →]]> I INTENSELY wanted to hear female-voice country/pop this weekend while studying. I’m not really sure why, I’ve been noticing that I did in fact grow up in the south lately, and it’s clearly a related phenomenon, but I only have nebulous suspicions as to what triggered it. Therefore, a playlist full of The Wreckers and Taylor Swift to assuage the urge. I need to go out and talk to (flirt with) a “Look at me, I’m a peach” sort of girl to remind me how irritating they are so I can put an end to this.

In a related note, listen to the melody of “Tears on my Guitar” (current single) then the melody of “Dear Lie” (single about a decade ago)… recycling plastics is good for the environment, what is recycling pop hooks good for? I’m pretty sure the same hook is in something else that was on the radio, maybe one of SR71’s singles?

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