Articles by speckx
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I wrote to Flock's privacy contact to opt out of their domestic spying program (honeypot.net)

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Open Apollo, UAD Apollo Drivers for Linux (librearts.org)

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Modifying FileZilla to Workaround Bambu 3D Printer's FTP Issue (lantian.pub)

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Chinese Reactions to Claude Mythos (chinatalk.media)

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I Discover New Blogs (kevquirk.com)

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Chicago Turns All Public School IDs into Library Cards to Boost Student Access (blockclubchicago.org)

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Addressing AI's Impact on Our Information Ecosystem (interface-eu.org)

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Is Anthropic 'nerfing' Claude? Users increasingly report performance degradation (venturebeat.com)

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Ozempic Dreams (daverupert.com)

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The Fediverse deserves a dumb graphical client (pages.casa)

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Finding My Way Back (jeddacp.com)

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Why Vim uses hjkl keys as arrow keys (catonmat.net)

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Google controls the most AI computing power, driven by its custom TPUs (epochai.substack.com)

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Ascending into the Realm of Japanese Charts (chartography.net)

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In Remembrance of John Martellaro (geektells.com)

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Why Rural Hospitals Close (reuters.com)

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Passkeys Are Too Hard (etodd.io)

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Verification Debt Is Your Next Headache (leadership.garden)

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Just Enough Chimera Linux (dwarmstrong.org)

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Sometimes I Don't Use AI at All (clintmcmahon.com)

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Anthropic's Mythos Preview and Project Glasswing (schneier.com)

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Cox vs. Sony Music Comes to Hollywood (copyrightlately.com)

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AI Agents for Economics Research (ai-mba.io)

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Someone bought 30 WordPress plugins and planted a backdoor in all of them (anchor.host)

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Billionaire signs up to be killed, have brain digitally preserved (thesun.co.uk)

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Apple Ramps Up MacBook Neo Production to 10M Units Amid Strong Demand (techpowerup.com)

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Dual national Londoner stranded in Spain by new border rule (bbc.com)

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I like to use Soviet control panels as a starting point (aresluna.org)

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Paris Court Issued Site Blocking Orders Against ISPs, DNS Resolvers and VPNs (torrentfreak.com)

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Make tmux pretty and usable (2024) (hamvocke.com)

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Jammed phone lines. Burned-out dispatchers. Can AI ease a strained 911 system? (begiant.ca)

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Bitten by snakes 200 times – on purpose: quest to help deliver new antivenom (theguardian.com)

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Solar power in Africa is heating up – thanks in part to chili peppers (cbc.ca)

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Montana tribes are using sovereignty to restore their waterways (hcn.org)

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'Our historical condition is a peculiar mixture of omniscience and impotence' (lemonde.fr)

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Closest Thing to Crazy (atvbt.com)

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HBO Obtains DMCA Subpoena to Unmask 'Euphoria' Spoiler Account on X (torrentfreak.com)

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Social Media Is the Opposite of Social Life (raptitude.com)

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Messing Around with Linux (disorientation.bearblog.dev)

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May be the first year of a million CVEs (liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org)

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The Global Wildlife Trade Is Fueling the Spread of Viruses (yale.edu)

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France Starts Plan to Replace Windows with Linux on Government Desktops (itsfoss.com)

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You're Looking at the Wrong Pretext Demo (denodell.com)

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Framework founder says that 'personal computing as we know it is dead' (tomshardware.com)

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Why are Philadelphians attacking Uber Eats delivery robots (billypenn.com)

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My Login Shell in Assembly (isene.org)

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Claude Mythos and misguided open-weight fearmongering (interconnects.ai)

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Installing Every* Firefox Extension (jack.cab)

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Jennifer Aniston and Friends Cost Us 377GB and Broke Ext4 Hardlinks (discourse.org)

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Travel writing's biggest myth (and why everyone is lying) (denisecullen.com.au)

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Analysis of Virtual.1 by Bagolymadar (farena.in)

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My Picture of the Present in AI (lesswrong.com)

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Price Page – Every Pricing Page Ever Made (pricepage.lol)

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BunnyCDN has been silently losing our production files for 15 months (reddit.com)

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Old habits die hard: Microsoft tries to limit our options, this time with AI (blog.mozilla.org)

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The grey market of podcast appearances (pierce.dev)

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Netflix Prices Went Up Again – I Bought a DVD Player Instead (aywren.com)

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Bitmap fonts make computers feel like computers again (korigamik.dev)

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You can have an RSS dependent website in 2026 (matduggan.com)

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Potential Markdown Data Loss When You Will Move Away from Obsidian (karl-voit.at)

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What game engines know about data that databases forgot (nockawa.github.io)

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Cached knowledge is not intelligence (olshansky.info)

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Solus and Age Verification (getsol.us)

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AI, Unemployment and Work (marginalrevolution.com)

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Number Usage in Passwords: Take Two (sans.edu)

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John Deere agrees $99M right-to-repair settlement (theregister.com)

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Valve Developer Improves the Linux Gaming Experience for Limited VRAM Hardware (phoronix.com)

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We let OpenClaw loose on an internal network. Here's what it found (sophos.com)

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How NASA built Artemis II’s fault-tolerant computer (acm.org)

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Using AI in Blogging (cagrimmett.com)

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AI Shrinks the Team, Not the Problem (codegood.co)

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Tech firms enter legal limbo over child abuse scanning (politico.eu)

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To Forecast AI's Impact on Biosecurity, We Asked: Why Are Attacks So Rare? (secondthoughts.ai)

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AI Code Is Hollowing Out Open Source, and Maintainers Are Looking the Other Way (quippd.com)

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Small Drone Attacks Are Killing More Civilians Than Ever Before: I Made a Map (little-flying-robots.ghost.io)

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Linux gamers didn't do anything wrong, but they might pay for Windows piracy (xda-developers.com)

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A Commentary on GenAI Inspected Through Different Lenses (brainbaking.com)

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One item purchased, ten emails (joshghent.com)

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You've got 41 days before chip prices skyrocket (globalnerdy.com)

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The Privilege of Doing Nothing (alterick.bearblog.dev)

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Write Not to Be Read (Yes, You Read That Right) (canro91.github.io)

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Coding Agents for Old People (tasuki.org)

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The Worst of Us (ianbetteridge.com)

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Akamai: AI bot traffic surged 300% in 2025, hitting publishers hardest (akamai.com)

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"New Sages Unrivalled" – On Mythos (hyperdimensional.co)

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Anthropic Just Handed Apache $1.5M to Secure the Open Source Stack AI Depends On (itsfoss.com)

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No more American Dream? Housing market strains buyers and owners (usatoday.com)

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"Bidding" for Jobs? (jackbmeyer.substack.com)

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Stuff You Gotta Do (calebjay.com)

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Northeastern presentation to junior engineers in the age of AI (marcua.net)

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Dario's Weird Race to the Top (davidbau.com)

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Tech industry lays off nearly 80k employees in the first quarter of 2026 (tomshardware.com)

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Thoughts on increasing SSH security using a hardware security key (neilzone.co.uk)

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It's Time to Move on from Harry Potter (otherstrangeness.com)

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What Holds (kevinsdias.com)

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Pro-Iran hackers have disrupted some industrial-control systems, US says (nextgov.com)

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Safe rm to restrict file removals to be under specified dir (fraggod.net)

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The Cognitive Costs of AI (johanneskleske.com)

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Roger Fenton's Valley of the Shadow of Death (1855) (publicdomainreview.org)

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Another Memory Corruption Case (trofi.github.io)