Articles by ohjeez
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An off-grid, flat-packable washing machine (positive.news)

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How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot (consumerreports.org)

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Arizona city rejects data center after AI lobbying push (politico.com)

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The Jim Sharman Diaries: Behind the Scenes on the Rocky Horror Show, 1970s (flashbak.com)

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Buzzword Bingo (petdance.com)

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Is OpenAI Today's Netscape? Or Is It AOL? (battellemedia.com)

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Science-Backed Rules for Proper Router Placement (wi-fiplanet.com)

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Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalism's AI Era (thelocal.to)

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You're probably using the wrong dictionary (jsomers.net)

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Thieves take €90k of snails meant for Michelin-starred restaurants (thetimes.com)

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'Extraordinary Discovery' at Orkney's Ness of Brodgar Neolithic Site (bbc.com)

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Inspired by Spider-Man, scientists recreate web-slinging technology (scienceclock.com)

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Screenshots from Developers: 2002 vs. 2015 (unix.se)

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AI Models Outperform Frontier Models in Software Testing (functionize.com)

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Feedback doesn't scale (another.rodeo)

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Elon Musk Drove ~1/3 of Women Off Twitter (kevinmunger.substack.com)

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Windows Digital Signage mode hides BSoDs after 15 seconds (theregister.com)

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How the Atomic Tests Looked Like from Los Angeles (amusingplanet.com)

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NASA does software testing and QA (2020) (functionize.com)

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Could We Launch a Supervillain into the Sun? (gizmodo.com)

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The Final Straw: Why Companies Replace Once-Beloved Technology Brands (functionize.com)

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Pulp (Non)Fiction: A Conversation with Pulp Magazine Collector Dr. Richard Meli (intelligentcollector.com)

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Why don't people return their shopping carts? (behavioralscientist.org)

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People are using AI to talk to Jesus. Why it's controversial (today.com)

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Breaking the Humanoid Robot Delusion (computerworld.com)

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NYC Council pushes to legalize bodega cats, giving them 'purr-fect' legal status (amny.com)

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A century ago, an all-Black team beat the KKK on a baseball diamond (contrarian.substack.com)

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The short, happy reign of CD-ROM (2024) (fastcompany.com)

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WINDOWS93 (windows93.net)

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The Scope Creep: An interactive narrative nightmare (scope-creep.xyz)

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Hogwarts School of Software Engineering (embedded.com)

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Insects on the Space Menu (esa.int)

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Mission-Critical in the Context of the API Manifesto and Move Fast/Break Things (aptiv.com)

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Sound familiar? Matching voices boost trust in self-driving cars (umich.edu)

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What Makes 'Mission Critical' Different? Some Real World Examples (windriver.com)

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How AWS is losing the younger generation with complexity (theregister.com)

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Hermann and Albert Göring: Two different brothers (dw.com)

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Can Your Chatbot Logs Be Used Against You in Court? (news.northeastern.edu)

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Companies seeking new ways to grow cocoa to keep up with demand (apnews.com)

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Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity (electrek.co)

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Microsoft and Google overstate job creation at Chile data centers (restofworld.org)

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The Death of Traditional QA (Or: "AI Everywhere " Reaches SQA) (functionize.com)

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The Democratic Creation of the Field Jacket (combatthreads.substack.com)

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Recycling lithium from old EV batteries could be done cheaply with new process (wisc.edu)

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Going a Step Beyond Ultrasonic Sensors (aptiv.com)

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History's first public hack: rats, rats, rats (rigb.org)

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Animals with Teeth (saturdayeveningpost.com)

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Building a BudgetBrailler (budgetbrailler.wordpress.com)

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The Agentic Loop in software testing (functionize.com)

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A programmer got Doom to run on a space satellite and what happened next (zdnet.com)

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Aldi unveils jacket potato jacket complete with silver foil poncho (dezeen.com)

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NASA Reopens Lunar Lander Contract, and Elon Musk Is Big Mad (pcmag.com)

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What Is a Leo Satellite? An Explainer (aptiv.com)

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The Slack-O-lantern says back to woooOOOoooOOOrk [video] (youtube.com)

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Could This Be the Year of Algol? (hackaday.com)

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Proximity Networking Tech Explainer: Essential Wireless Standards (aptiv.com)

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Rotating Sandwiches (rotatingsandwiches.com)

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Post office in France rolls out croissant-scented stamp (ctvnews.ca)

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Doctorow: American tech cartels use apps to break the law (lithub.com)

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NextGen Acela rides on old-gen infrastructure (fastcompany.com)

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Bringing the museum into your living room (ynetnews.com)

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Playball – Watch MLB games from a terminal (github.com/paaatrick)

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Elon Musk Plans to Take on Wikipedia with 'Grokipedia' (pcmag.com)

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Berkeley engineers develop customizable, 3D-printed robot for tech newbies (engineering.berkeley.edu)

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NJ theme park puts animatronic dinosaurs on Facebook Marketplace (gizmodo.com)

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TV's USB port has hidden superpowers (zdnet.com)

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Code reviews as a tool to build capability (fffej.substack.com)

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Suggestions for Increasing Trust in Automated Driving (aptiv.com)

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Gene Weingarten – Down with the Caps Lock Key (2009) (washingtonpost.com)

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H-1B visa flight fares surge India->US as 4Chan blocks bookings post Trump order (indiatoday.in)

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DocumentDB and the Future of Open Source – Tecosystems (redmonk.com)

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Ray Bradbury in 1984, interviewed about Fahrenheit 451 becoming a computer game (books.google.com)

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RIP John H. Wolfe, the inventor of model-based clustering for continuous data (dignitymemorial.com)

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Gazing into the Future of Eye Contact (computerworld.com)

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Why IKEA's Pencil Is the Most Stolen Object (thisthat3.substack.com)

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What We Talk About When We Talk About Alt-Weeklies (coyotemedia.org)

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2025 Fall Foliage Map and Nationwide Peak Leaf Forecast (smokymountains.com)

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Music Tech Startups Focused on Fans, Artists, and the Future of Music (emwhitenoise.substack.com)

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Destroy data on old laptops or face major liability (theregister.com)

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Microsoft mandates return to office by 2026 (windowscentral.com)

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The Internet Archive's microfiche digitization livestream (youtube.com)

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Real-Time Solutions at the "Cosmic Edge" (windriver.com)

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I Don't Have Spotify (sjdonado.com)

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Plants you wear: LivingLoom weaves seeds into textiles (cornell.edu)

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A review of 19B passwords reveals people are still bad at them (mashable.com)

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A forgotten medieval fruit with a vulgar name (2021) (bbc.com)

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Doors to Europe: 5 Visa Paths You Might Not Know About (internationalliving.com)

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Afghan women turn to online courses as Taliban bans education (apnews.com)

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At the top of the market, EV hypercars are a disappearing breed (arstechnica.com)

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Why do we collect? U of A study shows it's about seeking structure (arizona.edu)

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Changing Lanes (thebaffler.com)

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Bury Me with My Money (burymewithmymoney.com)

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Peacock feathers can be lasers (science.org)

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New DNA Map of the Pistachio Could Create Better Varieties (ucdavis.edu)

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Basic Computer Terms (1976) [video] (youtube.com)

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[dupe] The long, knotty, world-spanning story of string (2018) (hakaimagazine.com)

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I Gave Every iPhone USB-C [video] (youtube.com)

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How to survive as an indie developer for 20 years (pcgamer.com)

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Intel Simics 6 Transitioning to Legacy State (windriver.com)

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Seashell Architecture (lumafield.com)