Articles by speckx
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SynkLoader: When you throw in everything but the kitchen sink (expel.com)

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Longtime Linux CIFS/SMB3 Maintainer Steps Down (phoronix.com)

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Figmimic – A bookmarklet to copy any webpage into Figma as editable layers (marcua.net)

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Motorola's GrapheneOS phones will launch in 2027 priced higher than Pixels (arstechnica.com)

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Apple is laying off staffers working on the Vision Pro and Siri (theverge.com)

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Quick impressions: A week of using Codex more than Claude (ghinda.com)

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Waiter, there's a watermark in my slop (zgp.org)

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[flagged] Death to the Self-Playing Game (jank.cool)

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The Death of the Job: How AI and Robots Will Rewrite Work in the Next 10 Years (simonroses.com)

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KDE Linux Experiences (akselmo.dev)

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When the shortage is the strategy (nooneshappy.com)

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What Everyone Should Know About Australia (zacharykai.net)

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People sick, 57 hospitalized in 32 states courtesy of contaminated jalapeñOS (efoodalert.com)

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Rising CO2 Speeds the Growth of Grasses on the African Savanna (yale.edu)

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Walmart to Start Accepting Apple Pay and Google Pay (techcrunch.com)

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NATO's Operations Continue as Russia Escalates in Romania (olgalautman.substack.com)

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DRC Ebola outbreak 'growing exponentially,' UN says (dw.com)

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The Rise of AI and Its Implications for Entrepreneurs (incolumitas.com)

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Haiku OS Logo: The Untold Story Behind the Iconic Design (desktoponfire.com)

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Mid-90s E3 and CES Trade Show Tapes (brianpeek.com)

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Longer meal intervals linked to faster disease accumulation in older adults (ki.se)

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DDR5 scalper bots outnumber shoppers 10 to 1, scraping hits every 6.5 seconds (tomshardware.com)

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What we lost when search stopped making us think (8ball.space)

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Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results (kagi.com)

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Zoomers don't know what Usenet is (tchotchke.substack.com)

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New Worlds: We are living in the future of J.G. Ballard or William Gibson (precastreinforced.co.uk)

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Isopolis – Behind the Scenes (isopolis.city)

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No IP? No Problem (ersei.net)

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Loss of Cultural Heritage in the Digital Age (cerebralrift.cc)

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AI;DR or Don't be a meat proxy (theaspiringnerd.com)

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If Your New People Are on X, Maybe Your New People Suck (coyotetracks.org)

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AI-Driven Development Means Test-Driven Development (meiert.com)

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Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence (curiousquail.com)

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Where Vandals Can't Reach? Flock Safety's Future Is Full of Spying Drones (cnet.com)

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5-8x Coding Improvement that Could be Doubled (patrickdesjardins.com)

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Where's The Beef? – The lab-grown-meat revolution that wasn't (harpers.org)

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Tab Completion After Colon (nwalsh.com)

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Subscriber Rot (birchtree.me)

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Slopbait (writingball.blogspot.com)

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Reading Together, Unsupervised (abelson.live)

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Taylor Farms 2009 to 2026: Outbreaks and the Recalls That Did and Did Not Follow (marlerblog.com)

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The Modern Tech Career: A Survival Guide (jeremyckahn.github.io)

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Those Who Removed Code Review Are Right (f2r.github.io)

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Why can't you combine .tar.gz files with cat? (alexwlchan.net)

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Firefox Extensions Linked to Crypto Wallet and Credential Theft (socket.dev)

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GTA VI Leaks Seemingly Cost Take-Two $2B in Value (techpowerup.com)

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Writing Tickets for Software Engineers (nickhayden.com)

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What a dead salmon reminds us about fMRI analysis (2009) (stanford.edu)

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A Practical Guide to Reducing Token Spend (adamhjk.com)

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How to fix Claude 5's token vomit (zachahn.com)

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Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful (yaros.ae)

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Silencing the Second Hand of a Second-Hand Bird Clock (kyleniewiada.org)

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Hacking with Claude on a $27 smart watch (mikekasberg.com)

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Don't Check Out (simeongriggs.dev)

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I spent twenty years becoming good at the wrong game (savvynormie.com)

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Perth medical researchers working on artificial placentas for premature babies (abc.net.au)

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Giant whales move into Greenland waters as ice disappears (bbc.com)

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I recently sat down for coffee with one of my oldest friends in the industry (jordanscales.com)

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Putting a Bunny.net CDN in Front of My Static Blog (hmmr.online)

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Police officer used Flock cameras to track estranged wife 717 times (wsbtv.com)

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Best Buy 'Repaired' a 64GB Laptop by Making It 32GB (extremetech.com)

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GOG Preservation Program Adds Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (gamingonlinux.com)

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US Government is pushing to gain unprecedented access to your medical records (theconversation.com)

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Offloading Rust to GPUs Proves Capable of High Performance with Memory Safety (phoronix.com)

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Mathematicians Address Artificial Intelligence (mathscholar.org)

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Acceleration of the arms race between fraudsters and honest researchers (deevybee.blogspot.com)

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Nuking an Asteroid on Short Notice Could Save Us (universetoday.com)

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AI is transforming politics–-and how we understand it (freesystems.substack.com)

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Ubuntu Is Growing Faster on Windows Than on Linux (itsfoss.com)

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Present and future of safe biological AI (brianhie.com)

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How Did Poland Get Left Off the Windows XP Map? (brilliantmaps.com)

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What You Leave Behind (2023) (makoism.com)

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Geekom admits to shipping malware-laced network drivers for AMD mini PCs (tomshardware.com)

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My HTML Boilerplate in 2026 (matuzo.at)

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Apple's statements about its developer program in the Epic trial (lapcatsoftware.com)

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King Tut was buried with more than a hundred pairs of underwear (popsci.com)

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AI scrapers use bogus URL tracking tags to make website visits seem legit (disassociated.com)

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Well done AI, that's the end of the honest boxes (benfrain.com)

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The Great Lock in of 2026 (punctr.art)

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Why AI agents need verified identity (chrisbergeron.com)

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US hires over 2k 'best and brightest' video gamers as air traffic controllers (the-express.com)

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Magnus Carlsen Retains Chess Esports World Cup Title (chess.com)

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Maybe the "Webmaster" Isn't Dead After All (meiert.com)

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ActivityPub Won by Being Boring (o.ee)

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U.S. retail sales unexpectedly post largest drop in more than a year (pbs.org)

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Taylor Farms faces recalls, six lawsuits, and a congressional inquiry (inc.com)

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Zooming Out (michaelbromley.co.uk)

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Desktop Calendar: A Design Journey – The Thunderbird Blog (thunderbird.net)

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Systemd-Networkd as a Router (apalrd.net)

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Guilt-Driven Development (markuseliasson.se)

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AI: The Devil on My Shoulder (myrkvi.no)

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Why Claude's Watermarking Won't Fix Anything (plagiarismtoday.com)

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Explain to Me in Simple Technical English (ghinda.com)

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In South Korea, some savour last season of legal dog meat (reuters.com)

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Private prisons announce $1.4B in revenue as immigration detentions climb (npr.org)

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I turned my RSS feeds into an e-ink newspaper to stop reading on my phone (heyjonny.dev)

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In Australia, a home battery boom has helped cut wholesale power prices (yale.edu)

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Court Rejects Fair Use Claim, Orders YouTube to Unmask Anime Recap Channels (torrentfreak.com)

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Curl Performance Tests (curl.se)

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Free of GitHub (carette.xyz)