Articles by speckx
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How Safe Are Our RSS Feeds from AI Data Scrapers? (stephvee.ca)

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Rare Roman lead ingots found by metal detectorists in Ceredigion (bbc.com)

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LLMs killed the privacy star, we can't rewind, we've gone too far (theregister.com)

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Please do not use auto-scrolling content on the web and in applications (cerovac.com)

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Hyperion author Dan Simmons dies from stroke at 77 (arstechnica.com)

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Agentic Wars (rodolphoarruda.pro.br)

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Leaving Google has actively improved my life (pseudosingleton.com)

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"Simultaneously old-fashioned and futuristic at the same time" (aresluna.org)

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Kinesis Advantage 360: 2 Years In (luten.dev)

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1 in 10 teens seeking headspace cite social media ban as an issue (crikey.com.au)

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[flagged] Tech people keep falling for the same scam (explodingcomma.com)

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South Korea set to get a functioning Google Maps (reuters.com)

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A new backup strategy using restic (rousette.org.uk)

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Don't Cite Unsold eBay Listing Prices (danlew.net)

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I used Claude Code to migrate my WordPress blog in an afternoon (pawlean.com)

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Pakistan's defense minister says that there is an 'open war' with Afghanistan (apnews.com)

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Software Quality (and Reliability, and Frugality) (morrick.me)

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Media Diet (macwright.com)

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The Pentagon is making a mistake by threatening Anthropic (understandingai.org)

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I Rent My Life (gregmorris.co.uk)

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I shipped 1000 PRs in a year, AMA (pauldambra.dev)

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Automating the syncing of files between repos with Renovate and Vendir (jvt.me)

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Leaker Says Apple's Lower-Cost MacBook Will Have These 8 Limitations (macrumors.com)

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Storing Food (jefftk.com)

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France honors last newspaper hawker in Paris with knighthood (npr.org)

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Hanging with news-free friends preserves my sanity in a chaotic world (theishything.bearblog.dev)

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The age of flat pack code (ilearnt.com)

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Smartphones, Online Music Streaming, and Traffic Fatalities (nber.org)

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Dissecting CrashFix: KongTuke's New Toy (huntress.com)

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(AI) Bots Ate My Map Tiles (vicchi.org)

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Kansas Sends Letters to Trans People Demanding the Surrender of Drivers Licenses (erininthemorning.com)

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Messaging Encryption Has Come a Long Way, but Falls Short (feistyduck.com)

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Americans are leaving the US in record numbers (msn.com)

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This time is different (shkspr.mobi)

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Software Engineering Is Becoming Position-Less (eng-leadership.com)

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I Priced My Dotfiles Syncing App Wrong (and Other Lessons) (david.coffee)

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Internet routing as supply chain risk (apnic.net)

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Google API Keys Weren't Secrets. But Then Gemini Changed the Rules (simonwillison.net)

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Rejecting Reality in the Age of AI (little-flying-robots.ghost.io)

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Lose Myself (eod.com)

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How Not to Measure the ROI from AI in Your Software Organization (fightforthehuman.com)

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Tech Companies Shouldn't Be Bullied into Doing Surveillance (techdirt.com)

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Transnormalism (gleech.org)

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Disabled woman put in nursing home against her will says she feels 'betrayed' (bbc.com)

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Creating "Edit" Links That Open Plain-Text Source Files in a Native App (jim-nielsen.com)

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Fixing Slow AWS Uploads (pierce.dev)

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Six Months of Rust (kittygiraudel.com)

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Trump's Dollar (phenomenalworld.org)

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Why isn't LA repaving streets? (lapublicpress.org)

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LibreOffice resumes work on its self-hosted Google Docs alternative (xda-developers.com)

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Why Email Spam Looks Better Than Usual These Days (tedium.co)

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Electric buses are passing a brutal cold-weather test in Wisconsin (grist.org)

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Trump made tax day more complicated. ChatGPT and Claude can make it easier (vox.com)

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The world is still so full of dinosaurs (robinrendle.com)

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Hosting an IRC Server with Traefik and Coolify (melkat.blog)

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A clean API for reading PHP attributes (freek.dev)

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Notes on Setting Up Forgejo on Coolify with SSH (rknight.me)

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Nvidia still hasn't sold a single H200 to China (tomshardware.com)

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Facebook designed an app for teens called Bell but never launched it (nbcnews.com)

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Big Tech still dreams of mass surveillance – now people are pushing back (salon.com)

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Typographic Scales in CSS with:heading(), sibling-index(), and pow() (alwaystwisted.com)

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Chip Away (damato.design)

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Hosting the Olympics: the most expensive participation trophy (not-ship.com)

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Discord delay global rollout of age verification to improve transparency (gamingonlinux.com)

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When newspapers cut book coverage, communities lose more than reviews (poynter.org)

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Revisiting the Steam Controller (callmeo.live)

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Asteroids that didn't hit Earth (datawrapper.de)

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CrossOver Preview is our thank YOU (codeweavers.com)

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Be Careful with LLM "Agents" (maurycyz.com)

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Is AI Good for Democracy? (schneier.com)

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AI Taxonomy – An Operational Framework for Precision in AI Discourse (dropleaf.app)

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The Time Travel Book Found in Time (lws.io)

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Antitrust Filing Says Google Cannibalizes Publisher Traffic (searchenginejournal.com)

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So I've Been Thinking About Static Site Generators (wolfgirl.dev)

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The Text Message That Almost Ended My Business (zevvdaily.bearblog.dev)

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Infosec Exchange Mastodon server downsizing due to Hetzner price increase (infosec.exchange)

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Querying 3B Vectors (vickiboykis.com)

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A simple web we own (rsdoiel.github.io)

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A More Time Zone Tolerant Datetime Class (shallowsky.com)

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Consider mentioning your little personal scripts to your co-workers (utcc.utoronto.ca)

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OpenAI Stargate AI data centers reportedly delayed by squabbles between partners (tomshardware.com)

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How the LA Review of Books destroyed itself (nobaddaysinla.substack.com)

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Hackers Expose Age-Verification Software Powering Surveillance Web (therage.co)

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How to optimize the CD command to go back multiple folders at once (terminalroot.com)

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Blocking XMPP Spam (cweiske.de)

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Smart pocketwatch made with custom UI in Arduino. Inspired by The Diamond Age (reddit.com)

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Comparison of cloud storage encryption software (dataswamp.org)

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Artisanal Code, AI, and the Right to Repair the Future (geekyschmidt.com)

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Nothing works without internet anymore (ginoz.bearblog.dev)

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Gen AI: Time to Focus on Logic Quality and Not Code Quality (balanarayan.com)

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Moving Away from Cloudflare (hacdias.com)

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Do You Care? (torh.net)

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Amazon's AI bots have been behind multiple AWS outages (sherwood.news)

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You May Be Canadian (jefftk.com)

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Breaking free from GitHub Discussions' limitations (jvt.me)

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My side project got banned from the internet (trysound.io)

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GPT 5.3 Codex wiped my F: drive with a single character escaping bug (reddit.com)

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Atlassian Founders Lose $7.2B as Software Stocks Slump on AI Fears (bloomberg.com)

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ChatGPT ads are appearing on the first prompt, not after conversations (searchengineland.com)

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I'm Not Reading That (karldaniel.co.uk)