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Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-07-31:/2501295] "Google plans to exempt sanctioned nations from Android developer verification"
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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"
Some reading and writing that started as thoughts from going shooting a few times with some firearm enthusiast friends has evolved into something of a Writing Project about various exploratory examples looking at human competency, polarization in politics, statistics and sampling in human populations, and other things healthy normal people like myself like think about in our spare time. I’m enjoying writing it, I’m enjoying researching it, I’m really enjoying thinking about it; I’m going to put up at least three parts of it as I finish and polish them (which might be a while, y’all know how back burner projects go). Hopefully someone will enjoy reading it. I even have clever titles for some parts, like “Dangerous Hobbies, Competent Humans”, and “(Gun) Politics: Loud Liars From the Fringes.” …Yeah, I’m such an academic that when I get intrigued by something I go off and write what is effectively a research paper about it… for fun. I figure other people might find it interesting, and maybe, just maybe, I’ll manage to start some fun arguments.
