Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-10-29:/2427478] "New physical attacks are quickly diluting secure enclave defenses from Nvidia, AMD, and Intel"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-10-29:/2427473] "Israel demanded Google and Amazon use secret 'wink' to sidestep legal orders"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-10-29:/2427432] "Say it with me: Windows is the problem with Windows handhelds"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-10-26:/2426753] "The Apple Network Server Mac OS ROMs have resurfaced"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-10-28:/2427141] "Front-Panel Booting an ATmega88 Microcontroller"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-10-22:/2425759] "AWS outage reminds us why $2,449 Internet-dependent beds are a bad idea"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-10-20:/2425146] "Amazon brain drain finally sent AWS down the spout"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-10-20:/2425166] "Microsoft breaks USB input in Windows Recovery Environment"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-10-15:/2423906] "Thousands of customers imperiled after nation-state ransacks F5’s network"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-10-15:/2423828] "Recreating the Canon Cat document interface"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-10-13:/2423200] "The Peach meme: On CRTs, pixels and signal quality (again)"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-10-10:/2422560] "Bringing Desktop Linux GUIs to Android: The Next Step in Graphical App Support"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-10-09:/2422303] "Show HN: I've built a tiny hand-held keyboard"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-10-09:/2422102] "Discord says 70k users may have had their government IDs leaked in breach"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-10-09:/2422107] "OpenAI, Nvidia fuel $1T AI market with web of circular deals"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-09-03:/2412311] "The worst possible antitrust outcome"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-09-03:/2412267] "Mis-issued certificates for 1.1.1.1 DNS service pose a threat to the Internet"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-09-02:/2412032] "Judge: Google can keep Chrome, must share search data with “qualified competitors”"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-09-02:/2411957] "This ultra-rare ’90s LaserDisc game console can finally be emulated on a PC"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-09-02:/2411847] "Imgur's community was in revolt"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-09-01:/2411633] "Intel Patents 'Software Defined Supercore'"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-08-26:/2410252] "Doge uploaded live copy of Social Security database to 'vulnerable' cloud server"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-08-26:/2410211] "We regret but have to temporary suspend the shipments to USA"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-08-26:/2410193] "Troubled USB Device? This Tool Can Help"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-08-26:/2410135] "The size of Adobe Reader installers through the years"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-08-25:/2409944] "Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-08-24:/2409578] "Picking an Old Operating System"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-08-22:/2409290] "US government takes 10 percent stake in Intel in exchange for money it was already on the hook for"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-08-22:/2409328] "Nitro: A tiny but flexible init system and process supervisor"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-08-21:/2408908] "James Dobson, Influential Leader of the Religious Right, Dies at 89"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-08-15:/2407469] "HTTP/1.1 must die: the desync endgame"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-08-15:/2407392] "Open hardware desktop 3D printing is dead – you just don’t know it yet"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-08-15:/2407386] "What kids told us about how to get them off their phones"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-08-14:/2407170] ""Privacy preserving age verification" is bullshit"
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Now that the end-of semester panic is over, time to get to other important* things. Like sorting out my schwag haul from SC09. The food products were previously removed and consumed and/or disposed of, based on how likely they were to poison me. Some superlatives:
* Best T-Shirt: Silicon Mechanics (this one was close, Cisco has better fabric, Platform Computing has a clever slogan, and Green500.org is a XXXL made of the most garish jersey fabric I’ve ever seen)
* Best Tool-Thing: Juniper Networks screwdriver/light/level thing
– Runner up: CHREC lighted eyeglass screwdriver
– Runner up: Arctic Region Supercomputing Center rechargeable chemical hand warmer
* Best Toy: NCHC Solar Powered Car
* Best Bag: SC09 Conference bag (nice padded laptop affair)
– Runner up: Giant LexisNexis tote (that I should probably put in the microwave to get rid of the tracking devices in…)
* Best Electronic Gadget: ??? (possibly Sure Star computer) powered USB Hub/Cardreader (seriously, this thing is nicer than the one I’ve been using.)
– Runner up: YMI 2GB flash drive
* Most Hackable Schwag: PIONIER button (button with a USB cable; emulates a keyboard and types their URL when pressed. Want to hack and replace the action.)
* Best Lanyard: Cray (this thing is seriously slick, all the other lanyards sucked)
* Best Pun: OpenGear Aluminum bottle opener
* Best Pen – BlueArc blue LED pen(was going to go to FusionIO with it’s light-up gel grip, but it broke the first time I fiddled with it)
* Best LED Object – Instrumental conductivity-sensitive LED “Ice” Cube
– Runner up: NASA flashing LED badge
I wasn’t really actively schwag collecting; these are just what I got making a loose circuit of the show floor.
*This is totally unimportant.
