The Lippard Blog

 OpenBSD 5.9 (current as of this post is 7.5) introduced the "pledge" system call and 6.4 introduced the "unveil" system...

  Unlike ChatGPT , Bard pretty much nailed it on the initial prompt. (However, Bard refused to answer my questions about the Mars Effect lik...

Not much blogging going on here still, but here's my annual list of books read for 2020. Nicholson Baker, Baseless: My Search for Secre...

Not much blogging going on here still, but here's my annual list of books read for 2019. Graham T. Allison, Destined for War: Can Ame...

I've been using OpenBSD since way back at release 2.3 in 1998, so I've gone through upgrades that took a fair amount of work due to ...

I thought that Google Authenticator might be a quick and easy two-factor authentication solution for VPN access to my personal network, so I...

I recently had a few opportunities on a plane to catch up on some reading and podcasts.  A few of the more interesting things I came acros...

LulzSec breached the security of the Arizona Department of Public Service (DPS) at some point in the past, and on June 23 around 4 p.m. Ariz...

I've been a holdout on upgrading to a smart phone, in part because I haven't paid over $100 for a mobile phone since they were the s...

I've joined the team of Global Crossing bloggers--please check out my initial post at Global Crossing blogs, "Forget passwords!&quo...

Veteran software tester Abe Heward has started up a blog on software testing, which I'm sure will also include many items of epistemolog...

James Scott’s Seeing Like a State (about which I've blogged previously ) talks about how the state imposes standards in order to make f...

Chapter 3 of Langdon Winner’s The Whale and the Reactor (1988) is titled “ Techné and Politeia ,” a discussion of the relationship of tech...

Wikileaks is releasing over 500,000 U.S. national text pager intercepts from September 11, 2001, over the next two days : From 3AM on Wednes...

Numerous mass media outlets and blogs are reporting on the misdiagnosis of Rom Houben of being comatose for 23 years when he was really cons...

Yesterday I heard Joel Garreau speak again at ASU, as part of a workshop on Plausibility put on by the Consortium for Science, Policy, and O...