Articles by mrzool
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Man dies of rabies after kidney transplant from donor who saved cat from skunk (theguardian.com)

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The Game Awards 2025 Nominations (thegameawards.com)

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The Smellscapes of Cities (hypotheses.org)

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iPhone Pocket (apple.com)

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Rockstar employee shares account of the company's union-busting efforts (gtaforums.com)

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72% of devs believe Steam has a monopoly on PC games, according to study (gamesindustry.biz)

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Where I write my Journal on my iPhone (phong.bearblog.dev)

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Visa and Mastercard are getting overwhelmed by gamer fury over censorship (polygon.com)

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The Evasive Evitability of Enshittification (apenwarr.ca)

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The Captain of Köpenick (wikipedia.org)

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Digital Emblems (Diem) (ietf.org)

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GT Standard (gt-standard.com)

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10k Drum Machines (10kdrummachines.com)

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Rotten for a While Now (morrick.me)

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Can We Use (canwe.dev)

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Go Away Green (wikipedia.org)

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Spotify and UMG enter partnership to restructure monetization and subscriptions (theneedledrop.com)

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Tell HN: Pinboard profiles now require login, even if public profile is enabled

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Half-Life 2 peaks at 50,914 concurrent players, 20 years after its release (steamdb.info)

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EU Commission calls on Apple to stop geo-blocking practices (europa.eu)

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Misguided Apple Intelligence ads (tidbits.com)

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How to Be Hopeless [video] (youtube.com)

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404 Media Is Partnering with Wired (404media.co)

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Gross Apple Marketing (jonathanbuys.com)

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Factorio has reached 110k concurrent players on Steam (steamdb.info)

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Keeping Teeth Healthy (kokorobot.ca)

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Microsoft plan to end kernel-level anti-cheat could be massive for Linux Gaming (notebookcheck.net)

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Shipping Tumblr and WordPress (automattic.com)

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Reddit CEO hints that subreddit paywalls are on the way (mashable.com)

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Billions of Google goo.gl URLs will no longer work (seroundtable.com)

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Goldman Sachs: AI Is overhyped, expensive, and unreliable (404media.co)

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Z-Library admins "escape house arrest" after judge approves U.S. extradition (torrentfreak.com)

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Enabling Software Longevity (frame.work)

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The Top of the DNS Hierarchy (computer.rip)

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Why Charging Your Gadgets over 80% Is Such a Bad Idea (ifixit.com)

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The Top of the DNS Hierarchy (computer.rip)

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Apple's malicious compliance: sideloading will remain impossible on your iPhone (tuta.com)

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EU approves ban on destruction of unsold clothing (dw.com)

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Valve Announces Steam Deck OLED (steamdb.info)

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The Future of RSS Is Textcasting (kottke.org)

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YouTube's Anti-Adblock and uBlock Origin (andadinosaur.com)

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Steam will switch Argentina and Turkey to USD pricing beginning November 20th (steamdb.info)

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A Man Who Thinks He Can Live Forever (time.com)

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What every software developer must know about Unicode in 2023 (tonsky.me)

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NeverSSL (neverssl.com)

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Mozilla's midlife crisis has taken it from pioneer to Google's weird neighbor (theregister.com)

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Epic Games Sells Bandcamp to Songtradr (ra.co)

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A New Heatwave is Forecast for Western Europe as we head into October 2023 (severe-weather.eu)

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Sew It Yourself [video] (youtube.com)

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We are not sustainable (frame.work)

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Apple Maps has gone from being the worst thing Apple have ever made to the best (twitter.com/sheherenow_)

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Worry More About Rusting Out Than Burning Out (artofmanliness.com)

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Fakespot – Analyze and identify fake reviews and counterfeits (fakespot.com)

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RFC 1925: The Twelve Networking Truths (rfc-editor.org)

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What's New in Asciinema Player (asciinema.org)

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Why Are Websites Embarrassing? (robinrendle.com)

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You Are Probably an NPC (gurwinder.substack.com)

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Backblaze Raises Prices, Makes Extended Version History Standard (tidbits.com)

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Every Construction Machine Explained in 15 Minutes (practical.engineering)

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Do not host podcast feeds behind Cloudfare (mastodon.social)

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Metro 2033 author Dmitry Glukhovsky sentenced to 8 years in prison in absentia (pcgamer.com)

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The Future of the Vim Project (groups.google.com)

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The Future of the Vim Project (groups.google.com)

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Food rations in communist Poland, early 1980s (rarehistoricalphotos.com)

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The Coming Enshittification of Public Libraries (karawynn.substack.com)

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Bicycles: An Antidote to Throw-Away Culture (ifixit.com)

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The Unbearable Ambiguity of Emoji (tidbits.com)

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Why is desalination so difficult? (practical.engineering)

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Insights from Global Conversations (openai.com)

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Atom feed format was born 20 years ago (rssboard.org)

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Every Mastodon user has an RSS feed (rssboard.org)

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We tried to book a train ticket and ended up with a 245k records data breach (zerforschung.org)

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‎Sink It for Reddit – Extension to make Reddit’s web version usable (apps.apple.com)

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Wonky – An exploration of rhythm and grooves that break the rules (pudding.cool)

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Researcher develops hands-free gaming controller reacting to brain waves (ieee.org)

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TidBITS Doesn’t Cover Rumors (tidbits.com)

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Classy and Bizarre Guns from History (rarehistoricalphotos.com)

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Memoirs from the old web: server-side image maps (devever.net)

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East Palestine Train Derailment Explained (practical.engineering)

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Weather Stations Have Revolutionized Meteorology (severe-weather.eu)

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The Worry Police (randsinrepose.com)

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Piracy Subreddit Avoided a Reddit Ban by Censoring Itself to Death (torrentfreak.com)

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The town of Fucking, Austria shows up as OwO in Apple weather on iOS 16.3.1 (reddit.com)

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Twitter Careers Page Redesign (careers.twitter.com)

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Microsoft and Nvidia Announce Expansive New Gaming Deal (nvidia.com)

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SSH Can Do That? Productivity Tips for Working with Remote Servers (2011) (perl.org)

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Clarkesworld, sci-fi magazine, overwhelmed by ChatGPT-generated submissions (twitter.com/clarkesworld)

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Technological Singularity (wikipedia.org)

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TikTok Is a New Kind of Superweapon (gurwinder.substack.com)

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Deepfakes Are Becoming a Cottage Industry (ieee.org)

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Fucking Goddamn Basics of Rationalist Discourse (lesswrong.com)

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Stop the proposal on mass surveillance of the EU (mullvad.net)

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Pornhub Risks Losing Its Domain Name in Bizarre Piracy Lawsuit (torrentfreak.com)

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Folders with high file counts (bombich.com)

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Introducing Twitterrific (2007) (iconfactory.com)

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Twitter API Page (developer.twitter.com)

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GitHub to roll out secret scanning program to all free public repositories (github.blog)

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I’m thrilled to announce that nothing is going on with me (newyorker.com)

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Z-Library's Tor Network Site Has Also Gone Offline (torrentfreak.com)

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U.S. opens antitrust probe into Ticketmaster (reuters.com)