Articles by speckx
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The Game Disc May Be Dying and I Think I'm Okay with It (zenofdesign.com)

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The oceans are full of heat, and it's coming ashore (grist.org)

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An OpenAI model crushed top human programmers at a world coding competition (understandingai.org)

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I Am Offgrid Now (freira.dev)

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Father fixes dead RTX 3070 with a jerry-rigged capacitor from an old radio (tomshardware.com)

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45% of Enthusiasts 'Seriously Considering' Leaving Sony for PC (pushsquare.com)

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Deep sea submersibles snap first photos of ship where Ernest Shackleton died (popsci.com)

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"Disk Not Ejected Properly": What It Means (bombich.com)

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The Joy of Old-School Coding After a Stupid Mistake (canro91.github.io)

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Migrating from GitLab to Forgejo (bentasker.co.uk)

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It will be as if it has always been this way (utf9k.net)

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An unusual way for your DHCP server to run out of dynamic IPs (utcc.utoronto.ca)

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LineageOS now has a web installer (manualdousuario.net)

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The Politics of Shrimp (thedial.world)

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Commit Messages (mataroa.blog)

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Steam sales reportedly topped $11B during H1 2026 due to shifting trends (tomshardware.com)

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QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall (jeffgeerling.com)

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Status Bars on Websites (futureperfect.bearblog.dev)

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Record ticket sales for Bayeux Tapestry exhibition (museumsassociation.org)

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Energy is AI's natural home – but, it's fumbling (weforum.org)

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Starbucks bets on AI to replace Microsoft and IBM software (latimes.com)

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OpenAI and Google sell AI models to blacklisted China groups (ft.com)

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Memories Can't Wait–Or, How I Learned to Keep Worrying About the Web (zeldman.com)

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Successful companies go blind (ianreppel.org)

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Gage Roads Beer Surfboard (toxel.com)

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Japan does not cut down centuries-old trees for development; they relocate them (indiatimes.com)

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Orbitiny Desktop Pilot X Released (orbitiny.com)

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FIFA World Cup 2026 · Data Portraits (bogachev.fr)

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Don't Get Sick in America (blogography.com)

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Open Sourcing Our Most Advanced Linux Security Engine: OwlSM (levelblue.com)

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Be a Gardener, Not a Tenant (lireo.com)

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Microsoft's patch Tuesdays are about to get bigger (theverge.com)

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What If We Accidentally Outsource the Real Work to AI? (insidehighered.com)

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1.5M Words (eveoganda.blogspot.com)

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You paid me, a long-time Linux user, to use Windows 11 exclusively for a month (osnews.com)

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How to Write an Email (dannycastonguay.com)

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Stop Using reCAPTCHA – It's Not a Real Captcha (na0341.bearblog.dev)

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Are Bug Bounties Cooked? (hakluke.com)

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First Impressions of Claude Fable (philipotoole.com)

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A software engineering interview question I like: computing the median (krisshamloo.com)

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PC Market Runs Low on RAM to Grow: Shipments Decline 4.9% as Memory Crunch Bites (idc.com)

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Linux Journey: Solving Hid Access Denied Errors for the Keychron Launcher (noisydeadlines.net)

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uBlock Origin Chrome extension now blocks known ClickFix sites (cyberinsider.com)

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Nothing at all like the bloated app that Dropbox's Mac client has grown into (aresluna.org)

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Offensive PowerShell for Red Teamer with Defense Evasion Techniques (screetsec.com)

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In Linux, things are often upside down (dedoimedo.com)

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Moving to FreeBSD from Linux (kuon.ch)

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Tail Scale (dehora.net)

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What Do We Know About the Microplastics Inside Us? (yale.edu)

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The web is dead, what's next? (ashk.au)

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Be Grateful to Own Nothing (mkultra.monster)

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Why the tech industry can't keep up with the AI backlash (platformer.news)

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I'm tired of the libertarian culture on the internet (relevant-information.com)

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[flagged] What Big Food Did to Ice Cream (medium.com/dapscience)

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Power company hikes data center bills by 30%, cuts residential costs by 1.3% (tomshardware.com)

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Should tests in codebase be tripwires (zohaib.me)

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Chatto is now open source (hmans.dev)

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Kids (With Phones) Are Alright (heatherburns.tech)

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America's Greatest Hot Dog (theringer.com)

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DuckDuckGo's Free Browser Now Blocks Most YouTube Video Ads (cnet.com)

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Felons, Fraudsters Flog Offensive Cybersecurity Startup (krebsonsecurity.com)

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Personal Software and BaremetalVMM (raesene.github.io)

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Valve's Gabe Newell continues spending his billions on an undersea armada (gamesradar.com)

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How tech workers are feeling in 2026: a workforce splitting in two (lennysnewsletter.com)

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Should we stop using the word "Responsive" for design? (andreaverlicchi.eu)

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Stop Writing Claude.md Rules. Write Linting Rules Instead (zernie.com)

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Catnip lotion as effective as Deet at repelling mosquitoes (theguardian.com)

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Humans Don't Work at GitHub (aleahim.com)

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Watch Out for Data Loss When Redirecting to a File in a Shell Script (nickjanetakis.com)

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1099 threshold 2026: now $2k, not $600 (taliivue.com)

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Never submit code you don't understand (dri.es)

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I use AI in creating my newsletter (petergasston.co.uk)

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Preparing My Vacation Laptop (j11g.com)

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Do I prefer Linux now? (baty.net)

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Viability of Local Models for Coding (martinfowler.com)

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Decrypting View State Messages (zeroed.tech)

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Local, CPU-Friendly, High-Quality TTS (Text-to-Speech) with Kokoro (ariya.io)

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Notes on Software Quality (anthonyhobday.com)

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We will happily disempower ourselves: Go edition (blog.jcx.au)

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The Many Casualties of Precision Warfare (jacobin.com)

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Rootless Docker and Its Hidden Security Trade-Offs (kenmuse.com)

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Life Without Google (untangled.bearblog.dev)

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The Only Two Things We Ever Say to Each Other (hardrefresh.life)

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Query Faster, Query Smarter: Our Move to DuckDB and What We Learned (medium.com/arcesium-engineering-blog)

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Most AI Work Can Wait (tomtunguz.com)

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The Perfect Cripple: A User Guide to Being Palatable (salient.org.nz)

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98% isn't much (whynothugo.nl)

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Air Con in a Warming Climate (criminallyvulgar.dev)

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Ditching Zotero for a Text File (atthis.link)

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AI Comes to the Ivy League (plagiarismtoday.com)

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I Bought a Sony Walkman (82mhz.net)

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What does Jeff Bezos think is going to happen? (reprog.wordpress.com)

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Setting up Webmentions on my Static Site (alexhyett.com)

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S3 is a better abstraction than NFS / networked block storage (kerkour.com)

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All Star Wars Games Ever Made – Released, Cancelled and Mod Archive (swtorstrategies.com)

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Mullvad funding the far-right and the problem with tech company ownership (kjz.im)

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You Don't Own Your .io or .ai. You Rent a Country's Politics (webhosting.today)

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External Blogs with WordPress (book.micro.blog)

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The Threat of Residential Proxies (feistyduck.com)

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What's slowing down the AI buildout (worksinprogress.news)