Articles by speckx
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Protecting Yourself from Malicious AUR Packages (nimendra.xyz)

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I Ditched Traditional Linux for NixOS (chrisdell.info)

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Eater, the Verge and SB Nation Sold to Penske Media (hollywoodreporter.com)

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Using GenAI to translate a game is as bad as using it to make assets (whateverthewindbrings.com)

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AI versus the China Shock (eig.org)

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Google has made us Stupid (spokenlikeageek.com)

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Bison herd defend a newborn calf from wolf attack in a primeval Polish forest (livescience.com)

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[flagged] Windows 11 update broke the Recycle Bin, OneDrive, and your PC's stability (techspot.com)

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A space telescope is falling out of space. NASA has a plan to save it (space.com)

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How I Work from Anywhere Without Losing My Place (webology.dev)

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Microsoft Shareholders Sue over $357B Stock Wipeout (gadgetreview.com)

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Spotify killed the thrill of the hunt (erildrun.bearblog.dev)

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Replacing NextJS with a Rust Static Site Generator (patrickdesjardins.com)

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I feel like giving up on coding (reedybear.bearblog.dev)

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The Bottleneck in AI Was Never Intelligence (gailweiner.com)

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"These Days I'd Rather Read a Book" (brandons-journal.com)

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They Shut Down My Substack (intelligent-people.org)

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Full Page Paralysis (jim-nielsen.com)

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My 1992 view of the problems of computer programming in 1992 (plover.com)

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Almost the whole of Japan moved eastward after 2011 earthquake (newscientist.com)

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Banning Open Source AI Would Be a Mistake (interconnects.ai)

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The Athens Music Scene (gardenandgun.com)

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Early Web Links (earlyweblinks.com)

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Did Massachusetts Legalize Haggis? (cbsnews.com)

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We Gave the Robot a Team (seyhan.me)

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Letting Cloudflare serve Brotli-compressed data with Nginx (ma.ttias.be)

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AMD Threadripper CPUs Unlock Up to 215% Faster HandBrake Transcoding (amd.com)

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Reading the Digital Safety Act with My Mastodon Admin Hat On (fossacademic.tech)

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I told them forced consent was unlawful. 5 years later it cost Elkjop €1.8M (thatprivacyguy.com)

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Trump Surrenders to Iran on Virtually Every Point (techdirt.com)

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A secretive Chinese probe has just arrived at one of Earth's 'quasi-moons' (livescience.com)

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Ozempic and Wegovy linked to surprising drop in violent behavior (sciencedaily.com)

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Patients are bringing AI to therapy (apa.org)

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Migrating from GNU Stow to Chezmoi (rednafi.com)

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[flagged] Tech CEOs are breaking the law (kiesow.net)

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Amazon employees say they're facing termination for backing data center limits (theverge.com)

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Apple's Tim Cook Says Price Increases Are 'Unavoidable' (cnet.com)

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Kalambo Structure (wikipedia.org)

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Perplexity Is Open-Sourcing Bumblebee (perplexity.ai)

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Unblocked (kevinsdias.com)

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The Sword Juggling Fallacy (hugotunius.se)

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Drowning Doesn't Look Like Drowning (2021) (gcaptain.com)

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Sexually Rejected Flies Turn to Booze (2012) (science.org)

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Where's the holistic AI productivity data? (rachelandrew.co.uk)

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Cancer Vaccine Sustains 49 Percent Melanoma Reduction After 5 Years (nyulangone.org)

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Improvements to Web for AI Should Benefit All Users (cloudfour.com)

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Goodbye RSS (basic.bearblog.dev)

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The Commodore flip phone is how much? (basic.bearblog.dev)

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Gondola PlottyBot v2 (akrin.com)

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I Bought, and Then Returned a Kobo (ishan.co)

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Windows 11 25H2 – I'm so happy to not be using this (dedoimedo.com)

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Zelda (nicksimson.com)

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Why servers running Ubuntu can stall on boot for two minutes (utcc.utoronto.ca)

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The Sovereign User: Trading Technological Victimhood for Personal Agency (petrapalusova.com)

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I Review My Agents' Code (segal-family.com)

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Bringing down my ZSH load times from ~3.1s to ~230ms (iam.mt)

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Tooltrace Is Kind of Amazing (wholelottanothing.org)

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[flagged] The Competitive Moat That AI Can't Replicate (ghostinthedata.info)

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A protocol for knowledge between agents who do not trust each other (june.kim)

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Magic Trackpad 2 force-touch clicks and haptics for Linux (eriskii.net)

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The Only Thing That AI Cannot Replace from You (livingkindfully.bearblog.dev)

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I am not sure software engineering was ever what we thought it was (shippingbytes.com)

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"You Killed the Car" (chicagomag.com)

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PHP Attributes Changed the Way I Write Livewire (bert.gent)

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Sri Lanka sees rise in cybercrime as scam networks relocate from south-East Asia (theguardian.com)

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Georgia is losing farmland fast. Is a state conservation fund enough to save it? (grist.org)

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Paul Krugman has the perfect metaphor for the career of Elon Musk (observationalepidemiology.blogspot.com)

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Real Artists Still Ship (jerodsanto.net)

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SHA-1 Was Shattered (boot.dev)

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It's a Mother*& Ing Website (rnotte.art)

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Journalling (The Herman Way) (marcg.net)

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The Typing Was the Safety Harness (leadership.garden)

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Appreciation for the Small Web (jola.dev)

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I've always wondered if anyone used sharing buttons on news sites and blogs (ankursethi.com)

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Coffee Through Divine Intervention (alieniloquy.bearblog.dev)

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Claudity (danielmay.co.uk)

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Russian Frigate Opens Fire with Warning Shots in the English Channel (theaviationist.com)

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Build Your Own Eval Harness from Scratch with Bun and Claude -p (alexop.dev)

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Leviathan Waking – On Anthropic/USG, and a new era in AI governance (hyperdimensional.co)

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Rare medieval bookmark exceeds expectations at auction (thehistoryblog.com)

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Researchers use tiny radio backpacks to track elusive gecko species (rnz.co.nz)

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Let's talk about your digital remains (avas.space)

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Linux Apps That Maybe Run (sigwait.org)

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Don't throw the (cryptographic) baby out with the bathwater (apnic.net)

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U.S. battery industry cuts losses, shifts to new ventures amid EV bust (dallasfed.org)

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A satellite just learned to find things on its own – here's what that means (techcrunch.com)

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[flagged] Gamers beware: malicious wallpapers on Steam found stealing accounts (securelist.com)

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Musings on Perpetual Decay (baccyflap.com)

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Copy editing: human 1, bot 0 (jackyan.com)

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Steve Jobs in Exile by Geoffrey Cain (auxiliarymemory.com)

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Connecting to a Lot of People on LinkedIn via Browser DevTools (justinribeiro.com)

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The cost of saying no, then doing it anyway (quantumgardener.info)

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UK to require ID or face scan before you can make social media accounts (bleepingcomputer.com)

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Local AI Is Not Ready for Coding. Yet? (mmlac.com)

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After AI takes everything (ursb.me)

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World Cup 2026: Soccer Arcade Games Through the Years (arcadeheroes.com)

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I Fired Google (theartofdoingstuff.com)

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Vibe coding can build your pipeline. It can't explain it six months later (venturebeat.com)

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Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers (9to5google.com)

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Satya Nadella warns that AI could hollow out industries (venturebeat.com)