Paul Reinheimer on security docs

This is a bit of a shaggy-dog story, but it was fun to think back on. It also lead me to dive back into some older hardware again, and even fix and upgrade some of it! This is part one on my series on the PlayStation 3, though it might take me a few posts to get there. I know, this surprises nobody. I arrived late to consoles. My parents believed...

Today’s Music Monday is something really special. 💙💚 I was saving this from last week, but my oshi Pavolia Reine from Hololive Indonesia did a send-off with Ceres Fauna in a cover of Invincible Rainbow Arrow, and it’s everything fans of both them could have hoped for! For context, Reine and Fauna bonded early over their love of AI: The Somnium...

Today we have a quote from Philip K. Dick, via the imitable Emil Oppeln-Bronikowski on Mastodon. Ubik has made the reading list! “The door refused to open. It said, “Five cents, please.” He searched his pockets. No more coins; nothing. “I’ll pay you tomorrow,” he told the door. Again he tried the knob. Again it remained locked tight. “What I pay...

Once again, I’ve written a title that somehow manages to conjure something completely different to what I intended. Or is the imagery of an alien eating a human a thinly-veiled critique of our economic system? I’ll let you decide. Where was I going with this? I have a complicated relationship with stuff. Stuff, and more specifically, things....

One of the low-effort “engagement” tricks people used to do on Twitter would be to come up with word searches to define specific times of the year. They’d put controversial or risqué words in to drum up anger and discussion, and the “engagement” would flow! Well this year I’ve finally decided to make my own. This is based on topics near and dear...