Articles by robin_reala
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Ensuring fairness and safety: €3 customs duty for low-value parcels (europa.eu)

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Developers React to AI-Scented Blog Posts (writethatblog.substack.com)

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Stop handwaving away nearly every petition that gains traction on this website (petition.parliament.uk)

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Vera C. Rubin Observatory Begins Capturing the Greatest Cosmic Movie Ever Made (rubinobservatory.org)

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Il-Verse, a spatial writing tool (aalto.fi)

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These are real, actual slides from a SoftBank presentation (discuss.systems)

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ESA's Euclid captures the Milky Way's crowded heart (esa.int)

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Big Tech's $2.7T AI bill comes due: Chart of the Day (yahoo.com)

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Curl 8.21.0 (haxx.se)

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Designing services for people who've lost trust online (designnotes.blog.gov.uk)

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EU Member States (and Google) suddenly want to keep cookie banners (noyb.eu)

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy – The Game – 30th Anniversary Edition (bbc.co.uk)

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The Web Is for People (torgo.com)

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Web Browsers on PDAS (vale.rocks)

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Outlaw Billionaires (ddesignlab.org)

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Sankey diagram of the Democratic gubernatorial primary ranked choice tabulation (reddit.com)

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Zen, Zed, and Zits (matuzo.at)

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Performance Has Layers (oxide.computer)

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LLM biased against accessible code (Claude Code issue #56079) (aaron-gustafson.com)

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A Tale of Two Browsers (adactio.com)

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Savearoundtrip: Publish an HTTPS DNS record, skip a round trip (savearoundtrip.com)

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Libexpat will not accept vulnerability reports before 2026-08-01 (github.com/libexpat)

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Russia appears set to address long-term, serious space station cracks (arstechnica.com)

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AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less (charitydotwtf.substack.com)

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Norway to deploy largest fleet of 'flying' electric ferries (candela.com)

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Lovable's AI built a 100% accessible site – or did it? (axesslab.com)

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Web Browsers on Video Game Consoles (vale.rocks)

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A small, self-hosted HTTP API that turns HTML, URLs and JSON into PDF/A-3a (bambamboole.com)

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Productivity Effects Across Generations of AI Coding Tools [pdf] (nber.org)

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An easter egg in the new Lego Batman (panic.com)

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Guardian 100 best novels (stats and errors) (mpaldridge.github.io)

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International Space Station astronauts under evacuation orders (theguardian.com)

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AI's PR Problem (dshr.org)

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The EU Open Source Strategy (europa.eu)

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W3C Leadership Transition (w3.org)

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Searching for Birds (visualcinnamon.com)

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Cool new stuff coming in ARIA 1.3 (afixt.com)

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Ad Infinitum (matthiasott.com)

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Map of Metal (mapofmetal.com)

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Tiny Basic feels like a dead albatross around my neck (1975) (archive.org)

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[dupe] UK Government Kicks Out Palantir (shkspr.mobi)

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Why Was the Discovery of the Jet Stream Mostly Ignored? (2018) (smithsonianmag.com)

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Young people explicitly banned from openSUSE – urgent call for reversal (opensuse.org)

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First tunnel element of the Fehmarnbelt Tunnel immersed (arup.com)

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LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says Noyb (theregister.com)

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[flagged] Tip: Web requests should not be measured in Hz [Hertz] (catgirl.cloud)

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Write reviews for the apps you like (shanehudson.net)

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Delivering a dynamic hexagonal world map in just 10kb (calibreapp.com)

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DateBoy (2024) (tupperwarefan.itch.io)

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KeePassChi (codeberg.org/keepasschi)

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ZFS Helped to Remove Code (rubenerd.au)

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A New Wakamai Fondue (pixelambacht.nl)

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The Music of the Spheres (smbc-comics.com)

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He Learned the Gestures (sightlessscribbles.com)

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Did WordPress VIP leak my phone number? (shkspr.mobi)

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Docker Escape: Breaking Out of Containers (2025) (kayssel.substack.com)

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CSS or BS? (keithcirkel.co.uk)

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Beyond Bestsellers: How We're Teaching IKEA's Recommender to Think Differently (medium.com/flat-pack-tech)

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JetStream 3: A modern benchmark for high-performance, compute-intensive Web apps (chromium.org)

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The 'paperwork flood': How I drowned a bureaucrat before dinner (sightlessscribbles.com)

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Gnome 50, "Tokyo" (gnome.org)

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Use a Sun Mouse Systems Optical Mouse on a PC (2009) (telltronics.org)

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March, 19-21: God is a comedian (no01.substack.com)

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10 Years Today (mastodon.social)

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How Can Governments Pay Open Source Maintainers? (shkspr.mobi)

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Conseil d'État upholds Criteo's €40M GDPR fine (noyb.eu)

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Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it (gamingonlinux.com)

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The deaf blacksmith who married in 1576 (theconversation.com)

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'Demand Management' is doomed (loosemore.com)

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Ireland shuts last coal plant, becomes 15th coal-free country in Europe (2025) (pv-magazine.com)

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The Privacy 'Zealots' Were Right: Ad Tech's Infrastructure Was Always a Risk (adexchanger.com)

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No right to relicense this project (github.com/chardet)

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What I Like About WCAG 3.0 (afixt.com)

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VoxCSS – CSS voxel engine for the DOM (voxcss.com)

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A New Share Button (joinmastodon.org)

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Curl Security Moves Again (haxx.se)

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Meta could end up owning 10% of AMD in new chip deal (arstechnica.com)

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Graph Theory Using Modern CSS (css-tip.com)

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Roads to Rome (2015) (benedikt-gross.de)

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Ars Technica makes up quotes from Matplotlib maintainer; pulls story (infosec.exchange)

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The Power of 'No' in Internet Standards (mnot.net)

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The Role of Gas in Powering AI-Driven Energy Demand (igu.org)

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NetNewsWire Turns 23 (netnewswire.blog)

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Mastodon.social can now display Mongolian script posts vertically (github.com/mastodon)

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Why the Internet Is Terrified of London (youtube.com)

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Shattered Pixel Dungeon in 2026 (shatteredpixel.com)

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The Super Sharp Blade (netzhansa.com)

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Demo Effect Explained: How to Make a 3D Tunnel on the C64 [video] (youtube.com)

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[flagged] QuitGPT – OpenAI Execs Are Trump's Biggest Donors (quitgpt.org)

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FBI couldn't get into WaPo reporter's iPhone because Lockdown Mode enabled (404media.co)

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Thatcher Effect – Optical Illusion and Explanation (optical.toys)

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JavaScript Bin Down in 2026 (remysharp.com)

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Incident CVE-2024-Yikes (nesbitt.io)

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A11yJSON: A standard to describe the accessibility of the physical world (sozialhelden.github.io)

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HarfBuzz at 20 (docs.google.com)

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New in Calibre 9.0 (calibre-ebook.com)

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GregKH Awarded the Prize for Excellence in Open Source 2026 (haxx.se)

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unfuck-microwave.sh (cofe.rocks)

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XKCD Color Survey Tokens (hatspace.net)

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Response time in man-computer conversational transactions (1968) (acm.org)