Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-06-18:/2392274] "Senate passes GENIUS Act—criticized as gifting Trump ample opportunity to grift"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-06-18:/2392074] "Scientists once hoarded pre-nuclear steel; now we’re hoarding pre-AI content"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-06-18:/2392100] "Keeping Snap and Crackle under Control with Prunt Printer Firmware"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-06-17:/2391828] "KiCad and Wayland Support"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-06-16:/2391596] "Retrobootstrapping Rust for some reason"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-06-16:/2391591] "Reddit user surprised when 1960s computer panel emerged from collapsed family garage"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-06-12:/2390501] "CP/M 2.2, CP/M 3.0, CP/M-86, Concurrent CP/M-86 listings by Digital Research"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-06-08:/2389388] "Windows 7: a 2025 perspective (rose-tinted or not)"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-06-07:/2389179] "Bill Atkinson has died"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-06-06:/2388900] "Dystopian tales of that time when I sold out to Google"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-06-06:/2388826] "Switch 2 rooted on day 1"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-06-05:/2388731] "New book uncovers radical networks that existed before the internet"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-06-04:/2388405] "Endangered classic Mac plastic color returns as 3D-printer filament"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-06-04:/2388311] "The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-06-03:/2388022] "Ask HN: Options for One-Handed Typing"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-05-29:/2386728] "New Guide! USB Chording Keyset #3D Printing #AdafruitLearningSystem"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-05-27:/2386129] "Ransomware attack on MATLAB dev MathWorks – licensing center still locked down"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-05-26:/2386011] "Trying to teach in the age of the AI homework machine"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-05-23:/2385466] "College Board keeps apologizing for screwing up digital SAT and AP tests"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-05-22:/2385014] "Deadlocked Supreme Court Rejects Bid for Religious Charter School in Oklahoma"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-05-22:/2385087] "Nvidia’s RTX 5060 review debacle should be a wake-up call for gamers and reviewers"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-05-22:/2385080] "Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-05-21:/2384758] "By default, Signal doesn't recall"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-05-20:/2384477] "Under RFK Jr., COVID shots will only be available to people 65+, high-risk groups"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-05-18:/2383916] "KDE is finally getting a native virtual machine manager called “Karton”"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-05-12:/2382103] "US, China agree to roll back tariffs – but only for 90 days"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-05-12:/2382021] "US Copyright Office found AI companies sometimes breach copyright. Next day its boss was fired"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-05-06:/2380536] "Testing different temperature sensors for a DIY thermostat"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-05-05:/2380199] "Signal clone used by Trump official stops operations after report it was hacked"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-05-05:/2379948] "Matrix-vector multiplication implemented in off-the-shelf DRAM for Low-Bit LLMs"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-05-04:/2379884] "Design for 3D-Printing"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-05-04:/2379773] "Vygotsky's Zone of Proximal Development"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-05-02:/2379300] "New US tariffs are now hitting cheap imports from China"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-05-01:/2379066] "Trump Moves Waltz to U.N. and Names Rubio Interim National Security Adviser"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-04-30:/2378860] "A judge just blew up Apple’s control of the App Store"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-04-30:/2378815] "Raspberry Pi cuts product returns by 50% by changing up its pin soldering"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-04-30:/2378854] "Layout A PCB with Tscircuit"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-04-29:/2378380] "Recreating Joey's Gibson Virus on a Vintage PowerBook - Simone's Blog"
Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2025-04-29:/2378455] "I use zip bombs to protect my server"
My Touchpad (AKA “The Mobile Platform Test Device”) has had both its OSes updated in the last couple days. WebOS bumped from 3.0.4 to 3.0.5, and I updated the Android install from Cyanogenmod 7 Alpha 3.5 (Gingerbread based) to Cyanogenmod9 Alpha0 (Ice Cream Sandwich based). tl;dr version: Cyanogenmod9 is, by virtue of speed and features, at rough pairty with WebOS, even though its interactions are uniformly worse.
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I’ve always lived cheaply. I live like a student, basically. And I like that because it means that money is not telling me what to do. I can do what I think is important for me to do. It freed me to do what seemed worth doing. So make a real effort to avoid getting sucked into all of the expensive lifestyle habits of typical Americans … because, if you do that, then the people with the money will dictate what you do with your life. You won’t be able to do what’s really important to you.
