Articles by ColinWright
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'It May Be Worse'–No Fix for New Google Chrome Attacks (forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman)

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'Three norths' set to leave England for hundreds of years (ordnancesurvey.co.uk)

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Advent of Compiler Optimisations, 2025 (youtube.com)

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GCHQ Christmas card 2025 sets annual festive challenge (bbc.co.uk)

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Tai's model for the determination of total area under metabolic curves [pdf] (1994) (uconn.edu)

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Students' inventiveness at circumventing technical restrictions (hcommons.social)

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Obscuring P2P Nodes with Dandelion (johndcook.com)

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"Not Always Right": Funny and True Stories (notalwaysright.com)

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The best predictors of AI use across studies were aversive personality traits (nih.gov)

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Integers, fractions, and decimals are different things to kids (2015) (mikesmathpage.wordpress.com)

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The Thoughts of a Spiderweb (2017) (quantamagazine.org)

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Warning to lawyers helping LiP who submitted AI-generated authorities (lawgazette.co.uk)

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What little I know about Readily.news (cryptography.dog)

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The Performance Inequality Gap, 2026 (infrequently.org)

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The Earth–Moon problem is an unsolved graph coloring problem (wikipedia.org)

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Zero knowlege proof of compositeness (johndcook.com)

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The Performance Inequality Gap, 2026 (infrequently.org)

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There Is No Time for This (2015) (solipsys.co.uk)

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The Idiot Sandwich – On Embedding Alt Text (shkspr.mobi)

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Mean Time Between Failures (pelicancrossing.net)

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Web 0.1 (2006) (thedailywtf.com)

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Cryptology firm cancels elections after losing encryption key (bbc.com)

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How Slide Rules Work (amenzwa.github.io)

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The Subversive Hyperlink (2024) (jim-nielsen.com)

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Scientists Have Trained Bumblebees to Understand a Form of Morse Code (sciencealert.com)

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Simplification (pelicancrossing.net)

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Shader systems are ridiculously powerful if you're clever enough

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Downgrading Debian from testing to stable (trixie) (neilzone.co.uk)

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Consider a Burner Phone for Your Holiday Travel This Year (cnet.com)

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When AI Prophecy Fails (pluralistic.net)

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AI scrapers request commented scripts (cryptography.dog)

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US student handcuffed after AI system apparently mistook bag of chips for gun (theguardian.com)

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[flagged] Turns Out, Wikipedia Isn't That 'Woke' as Grokipedia Rips Off Most of Its Pages (pcmag.com)

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Their history is just erased: Google drops a key program boosting women in tech (cnn.com)

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Setting Up Anti Hot Linking Protections for ChatGPT (bentasker.co.uk)

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987654321 / 123456789 (johndcook.com)

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It's always DNS... (pelicancrossing.net)

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Steps to take in advance in case your phone gets stolen

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John Carlos Baez: An Introduction to the Standard Model (mathstodon.xyz)

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Look, Another AI Browser (manuelmoreale.com)

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Keanu Codes (keanu.codes)

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HTTP error codes illustrated with stills from Columbo

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A man building a starter kit for civilization (technologyreview.com)

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Improving PixelMelt's Kindle Web Deobfuscator (shkspr.mobi)

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Discord hack shows risks of online age checks (sky.com)

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Quick and dirty bar-charts using HTML's meter element (shkspr.mobi)

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Asking Claude how many "n"s are in the word "banana" ... thread. (mathstodon.xyz)

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Microsoft is making Word automatically save new documents to OneDrive by default (msn.com)

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Scammers are using AI to lure shoppers to fake businesses (bbc.co.uk)

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Notes on running PostmarketOS on a OnePlus 6 (neilzone.co.uk)

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How to *actually* test your readme (shkspr.mobi)

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Undue Process (pelicancrossing.net)

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Memorizing a List of Seed Words (johndcook.com)

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Getting started with Mastodon's Quote Posts – implementation details for servers (shkspr.mobi)

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Statement: Update on Imgur Investigation (ico.org.uk)

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What to know about encodings and character sets to work with text (2011) (kunststube.net)

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A century-old knot conjecture was wrong all along [video] (youtube.com)

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The first AI system in the world to hold a cabinet-level government role (wikipedia.org)

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Version Control by Example (2011) (ericsink.com)

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'Our worst day': The untold story of the Electoral Commission cyber attack (computerweekly.com)

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The Forklift Certified License (aria.dog)

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Everyone on LinkedIn: Make sure to turn this off (mathstodon.xyz)

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Dymaxion Map (wikipedia.org)

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Calculator Forensics (2002) (rskey.org)

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Taming Google-Scale Continuous Testing [pdf] (googleusercontent.com)

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AI Podcast Start Up Plans 5k Shows, 3k Episode a Week (hollywoodreporter.com)

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The Evolution of the Treble Clef (smithsonianmag.com)

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How Is This Teen Able to Revisit Every Day of Her Past? (popularmechanics.com)

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Urlref: Website Bookmarking for Handwritten Notes (benjaminhollon.com)

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Thoughts on running my own forgejo (hosted Git with web stuff) server (neilzone.co.uk)

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Some thoughts on personal Git hosting (shkspr.mobi)

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Plastics-to-syngas photocatalysed by Co–Ga2O3 nanosheets (nih.gov)

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We Built an Auto-Aiming Trash Can [video] (youtube.com)

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40 years later, are Bentley's "Programming Pearls" still relevant? (shkspr.mobi)

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Maths has discovered a self-righting tetrahedron [video] (youtube.com)

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How to Play Go: Absolute Beginner Tutorial [video] (youtube.com)

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The Tinkertoy Computer (retrothing.com)

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The Unfashionable Art of Learning Things (medium.com/rehmanmomin)

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Is it possible to allow sideloading and keep users safe? (shkspr.mobi)

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Owls in Towels (owlsintowels.org)

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Additions with unique digits: a tale of puzzling and AI (simia.net)

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Additions with unique digits: a tale of puzzling and AI (simia.net)

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Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff Sr (wikipedia.org)

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The benefits of doing nothing. Literally ... nothing. (nationalgeographic.com)

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Scientific and technological knowledge grows linearly over time (arxiv.org)

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UK's National Drought Group recommends deleting old emails to help save water (pelicancrossing.net)

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Google ending AI arms ban concerning, campaigners say (2025/02/05) (bbc.co.uk)

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It's sufficiently bad that I am grateful I still have regex (neilzone.co.uk)

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Would a Blockchain have prevented LIBOR fraud? (shkspr.mobi)

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How Wikipedia is fighting AI slop content (theverge.com)

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A Case of Bromism Influenced by Use of Artificial Intelligence (acpjournals.org)

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Making a Billion-Year Lego Clock [video] (youtube.com)

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Jim Lovell Has Died (wikipedia.org)

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Blueberry Hill -- A chat with ChatGPT-5 (kieranhealy.org)

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Here Come the AI Worms (wired.com)

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Be Positive – Strive for Balance (penzba.co.uk)

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No Comment (2010) (dadgum.com)

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Delta's AI-based price-gouging (pluralistic.net)

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Dark patterns (nsw.gov.au)

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Leaving LinkedIn (onepict.com)