Articles by Tomte
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Trump says US will blockade Strait of Hormuz (cnn.com)

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Knuth Reward Check (thomas-huehn.com)

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Protecting Copyright with AI (thomas-huehn.com)

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How to Solve SBoM Sprawl: From Static Files to Vex and Automation (anchore.com)

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Timothy Ray Brown: the accidental AIDS icon (2015) (fredhutch.org)

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The Vasa (psychsafety.com)

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RFC 9019 – A Firmware Update Architecture for Internet of Things (2021) (ietf.org)

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Library Might Do Less (martiansoftware.com)

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FIFA World Cup's best shirts are 30 years old (cnn.com)

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I write and publish blog posts from Glamorous Toolkit I (2023) (veitheller.de)

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OpenJDK Interim Policy on Generative AI (openjdk.org)

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WordPress Doesn't Need a Fork. It Needs a Spine (joostboer.com)

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Hong Kong Disneyland Speedrun Guide (geohot.github.io)

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Violating Copyright, Not the Planet (mumumelon.co)

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You've Been Writing Matplotlib Abstractions Wrong (dontusethiscode.com)

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The Limits of Integration (2021) (jhu.edu)

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The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess (aphyr.com)

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Is It Possible That the Oldest Stone Tools on Earth Were Not Made by Humans? (thecollector.com)

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Iran's supreme leader 'unconscious and receiving treatment in Qom' (thetimes.com)

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An Actual Alternative to Originalism (scotusblog.com)

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So You Think You Have a Power Law – Well Isn't That Special? (2007) (bactra.org)

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Non-Normal Distributions in the Real World (qualityamerica.com)

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Mourning for dinosaurs, 65M years too late (cnn.com)

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An Actual Alternative to Originalism (scotusblog.com)

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My (uninformed) theory about Jeff Bezos and the Washington Post (columbia.edu)

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What oral argument told us in the birthright citizenship case (scotusblog.com)

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Harmeet Dhillon is getting a Justice Department promotion (politico.com)

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What Happens on the Emergency Docket (scotusblog.com)

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When security matters: working with Qubes OS at the Guardian (2024) (theguardian.engineering)

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VOA's Legal Fight for Independence (cjr.org)

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Hell Is a World in Which Everybody Writes Like Axios (2022) (newrepublic.com)

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The end of password pain: building frictionless authentication at the Guardian (theguardian.engineering)

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The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security (2005) (ranum.com)

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The Dubious Wisdom of "Smart Brevity" (2022) (newyorker.com)

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NSA and IETF, Part 7 (cr.yp.to)

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The SimCity Planning Commission Handbook (2024) (thomas-huehn.com)

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Community of Practice (2025) (thomas-huehn.com)

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Tag Wrangling Committee (transformativeworks.org)

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Participatory Methods Toolkit: A practitioner's manual (2003) [pdf] (unu.edu)

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Participedia (participedia.net)

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A new Postcrossing stamp from the USA (postcrossing.com)

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Quadratic Method: Detailed Explanation (2021) (poshenloh.com)

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iOS 27 Rumored to Feature Keyboard Upgrade (macrumors.com)

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Astronaut's Condition That Led to Space Station Evacuation Remains a Mystery (nytimes.com)

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What I heard at OpenChain and Friends 2026 (thomas-huehn.com)

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Everybody's business is nobody's business, and nobody's business is my business (reckoningscience.org)

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GPL-compliant reasonable legal notices and author attributions (fsf.org)

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'I thought, what the hell have I done?': the people who moved abroad for love (theguardian.com)

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Twelve Dimensional Chess is Stupid (2018) (gilgamath.com)

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Narcissistic grandiosity predicts greater involvement in LGBTQ activism (psypost.org)

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Columbus-style pizza gains national recognition as a favorite food destination (foxnews.com)

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Euro-Office (github.com/euro-office)

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People's Choice Award – Wildlife Photographer of the Year (nhm.ac.uk)

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Stephen Colbert to write new Lord of the Rings film after talk show ends (bbc.com)

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Tom Scott Back on YouTube (variety.com)

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Hero koala detection dog, Bear, retires after a decade of service (ifaw.org)

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Base experiment at CERN succeeds in transporting antimatter (home.cern)

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Fair Principles (go-fair.org)

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Unified RISC-V IP Access Platform (openhwgroup.github.io)

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Long fingernails vs. touchscreens: This nail polish could help (arstechnica.com)

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Apple's John Ternus Profile: The Likely Successor to Tim Cook as CEO (bloomberg.com)

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Oxford Time (wikipedia.org)

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Britain Has Invaded All but 22 Countries (2012) (kottke.org)

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Quiche Browser (daringfireball.net)

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A Satisfied Customer Review of the Yogurtia (brainbaking.com)

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Project Hail Mary is in theaters–but do the linguistics work? (arstechnica.com)

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Initial thoughts about the ThinkPad E14: wow (rubenerd.com)

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Counter-Strike 2's new reload system could upend the game (arstechnica.com)

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"Malus": Is Copyleft Dead? (heathermeeker.com)

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Chinese Open Source: A Definitive History (interconnect.substack.com)

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Teardown of a 2026 Lego Smart Brick (hackaday.com)

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iOS 26.4 Fixes iPhone Keyboard Accuracy Bug (macrumors.com)

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Commission presents proposal for EU Inc (europa.eu)

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Parent-Managed Accounts on WhatsApp (whatsapp.com)

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What's Behind 'Alpine Divorce'? (theguardian.com)

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Book (Store) Banning (rhollick.wordpress.com)

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iPhone 17e Teardown Reveals an Upgrade 16e Owners Can Use (ifixit.com)

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About European Spreadsheet Risk Interest Group (eusprig.org)

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Data Organization in Spreadsheets (2018) (tandfonline.com)

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Enslaved potter David Drake's work still speaks for him today (csmonitor.com)

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Elbowing In (cjr.org)

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'It's sweet. It's bitter. It's ours.' The chocolate ritual that binds my family (csmonitor.com)

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Chinese Open Source: A Definitive History (interconnect.substack.com)

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FSFE supporters affected: Payment provider Nexi cancelled us (fsfe.org)

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"Malus": Is Copyleft Dead? (heathermeeker.com)

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Once (Again) (world.hey.com)

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Queensland town hopes dark sky certification attracts stargazers to the outback (abc.net.au)

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They won't listen to a word we say (2025) (bjr.org.uk)

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Putting my stamp on a lost art: Why I still send postcards (csmonitor.com)

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In This Cleveland Newsroom, AI Is Writing (But Not Reporting) the News (cjr.org)

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Standing Rock, Local News Is Teetering (cjr.org)

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The Official DR DOS Website (dr-dos.com)

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Estranged and Alone? How to Find Community After Going 'No Contact' with Family (teenvogue.com)

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Are Prediction Markets Good for Journalism? (cjr.org)

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Why libraries have a hold on me: A love letter (csmonitor.com)

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How Journalists Can Make AI Work for Them (cjr.org)

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Alysa Liu Won Olympic Gold, but She Would've Been Fine Either Way (teenvogue.com)

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What does it take for male friendship to thrive? (csmonitor.com)

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In search of Banksy, Reuters found the artist took on a new identity (reuters.com)

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Curation and Its Side Effects (autodidacts.io)