Category Archives: Computers

Attempts at Embedding News Discussion

Posted on 2013-05-22 by pappp

Following up my previous post, I’ve tried a couple configurations for replacing the news discussion features that Google has been slowly making worse for years, and am less than satisfied with all of them. The two most promising so far … Continue reading →

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Replicating Reader Sharing with TTRSS and WordPress

Posted on 2013-05-22 by pappp

I was shit-talking Google Plus’ utility as a replacement for Reader’s social features, and realized I think I actually can do at least as well with my existing infrastructure. I’m not immediately planning to switch, because Plus offers convenience and … Continue reading →

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Reader Refugees

Posted on 2013-03-17 by pappp

I’m getting a kick out of reading the stories from the Google Reader competitors reacting to the shutdown announcement. Google’s dwindling number of users appears to be counted in millions, which is a great many for almost any other entity. … Continue reading →

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Google is Getting Awfully Evil

Posted on 2013-03-16 by pappp

TLDR; I no longer consider google trustworthy, Tiny Tiny RSS is a suitable, self hosted, replacement for Reader. Until this week, Google had managed to convince me their services were trustworthy – more trustworthy than self-hosting – which is quite … Continue reading →

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Adventures in 3D Printing

Posted on 2013-02-15 by pappp

The MakerGear M2 3D printer the KAOS lab ordered arrived last week. I am thoroughly impressed with the machine and how little fussing has been required to get decent prints out of it. I’ve been pushing annotated pictures of our … Continue reading →

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Favorite Talks of 29C3

Posted on 2012-12-31 by pappp

I’ve been watching the talks out of 29c3 as they become available online for the last couple days, and these are my favorites with comments. I’ve never come up with an excuse to actually go, but always find that it … Continue reading →

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I want my UNIX groups back

Posted on 2012-12-26 by pappp

The breakage of permissions under recent PolKit/logind is flabbergasting. They have completely subverted UNIX groups/permissions in a difficult-to-unbreak way. And I get cheerful little update messages saying things like “You no longer need to be in the camera group to … Continue reading →

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Shapeoko: Part 4

Posted on 2012-12-08 by pappp

I got some more time to work on my Shapeoko over the last few days, and now have mostly correct 3-axis motion. As before, details under the fold.

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SC12: A Review in Schwag

Posted on 2012-12-07 by pappp

I’ve made a habit of these posts after SC every year, and took the pictures, so away we go.

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Shapeoko: Part 3

Posted on 2012-11-21 by pappp

Naturally, this post is a follow-on to Shapeoko: Part 1 and Shapeoko: Part 2. I’ve basically put the machine together now, and can move the X and Z axis around from the host computer, but still have to figure out … Continue reading →

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