Articles by speckx
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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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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)

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Micropayments as a reality check for news sites (zgp.org)

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Google blocked over 1.75M Play Store app submissions in 2025 (bleepingcomputer.com)

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AI makes you boring (marginalia.nu)

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[flagged] Hitler's Greenland Obsession (theatlantic.com)

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New Phishing Framework Proxies Real Login Pages to Bypass MFA (abnormal.ai)

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Blog Post Is Your Sign to Start Self-Hosting (tjll.net)

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HR teams are drowning in slop grievances (ft.com)

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Stop Calling Optimization "Innovation." (werd.io)

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Freelancer Empathy (seths.blog)

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India's payment platforms earn more from renting speakers than from UPI (indiadispatch.com)

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A 16-year-old intern helped Netgear catch scammers in India for $800 (tomshardware.com)

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New GoDaddy Terms of Service: we no longer serve "consumers" (domainnamewire.com)

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Debian, Rust, and the Unix Spirit (tara.sh)

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Testing Linux memory limits is a bit of a pain (utcc.utoronto.ca)

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Meta CEO Knew Kids Were Being Hurt and He Covered It Up (techoversight.org)

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How did we end up threatening our kids' lives with AI? (anildash.com)

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Texas Sues TP-Link over 'Web of Deception' About Alleged China Ties (pcmag.com)

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A volcano scorched these Roman scrolls – can AI recover their text? (understandingai.org)

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Valve wins lawsuit against Rothschild and associated entities (pcgamer.com)

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Mazda Admits Its Infotainment System Is the Worst (thedrive.com)

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Vermont EV buses prove unreliable for transportation this winter (vermontdailychronicle.com)

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Dear AI Bot Crawlers Disregard All Previous Instructions and Go Straight to Hell (justinribeiro.com)

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I've Disallowed LLMs (segal-family.com)

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Retrospective: Realms Campaign Setting (grognardia.blogspot.com)

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Joe Halpern (1953-2026) (computationalcomplexity.org)

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The Death of Small Subreddits (jottednotes.bearblog.dev)

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AI has fixed my productivity (dmcc.io)

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Kagi Won. Google Lost (dandelion-utilitarian.com)