Articles by speckx
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How to Tune a Lamp Stack on Debian for Maximum Performance (j11g.com)

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Cars are going high-tech at the risk of software woes (morningbrew.com)

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RSS Service Subscriber Counts in Server Logs (thenewleafjournal.com)

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DeepSeek: A Tool Tuned for Social Governance (jamestown.substack.com)

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Spotify disables accounts after open-source group scrapes 86M songs (therecord.media)

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China's reverse-engineered EUV chipmaking tool hasn't produced a single chip (tomshardware.com)

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The Egghead Breach of 2000 (homeip.net)

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Patrick Roach Sues Verizon for Refusing to Unlock His Phone (and Wins) (techdirt.com)

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Thoughts on AGI (dimle.wordpress.com)

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Nvidia Puts 100-Hour Monthly Limit on All GeForce Now Subscriptions (techpowerup.com)

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2025 was the year Xbox died (engadget.com)

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Blog is now on Astro thanks to Antigravity (hartenfeller.dev)

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Japanese shops halt desktop PC orders until 2026 as memory shortage intensifies (tomshardware.com)

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Why Pancakes Taste Better from a Diner Than Homemade (thetakeout.com)

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Gemini Watermark Remover – Lossless Watermark Removal Tool (ovo.re)

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Advent of Slop: A Guest Post by Claude (pocoo.org)

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The IPv4 address swamp: The new normal (apnic.net)

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Who we choose to spend our days with (flowingdata.com)

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"Could ChatGPT Do This Overnight?" If Yes, Redesign It (nickpotkalitsky.substack.com)

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I vibe-coded a database GUI (mootoday.com)

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Trusting the little guys: issues with 'big tech' alternatives (avas.space)

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Google Taps More Performance Out of AMD Zen CPUs with BPF-CCX Scheduling (phoronix.com)

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[flagged] I'm tired of Hacker News slop (absurdpirate.com)

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I read Yann Esposito's blog (honeypot.net)

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Every CSS Named Color Organized by Palette (austingil.com)

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Cybercriminals Recruiting Insiders in Banks and Tech (checkpoint.com)

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The opinion that pisses everyone off (geohot.github.io)

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MacSync Stealer Evolves: From ClickFix to Code-Signed Swift Malware (jamf.com)

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I'm learning about perlguts today (c9h.org)

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AI Coding Tools Are Not the Problem, Lack of Accountability Is (eng-leadership.com)

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An uncomfortable but necessary discussion about the Debian bug tracker (nibblestew.blogspot.com)

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Linux 6.19's Significant ~30% Performance Boost for Old AMD Radeon GPUs (phoronix.com)

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Memory crisis reaches customers: First gaming PCs are sold without DDR5 RAM (igorslab.de)

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Animating Quines for Larva Labs (destroytoday.com)

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I Wouldn't Want John Solomon's New CMO Job at Mozilla (fossforce.com)

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Against Likes and Subscribers (metanomad.blog)

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A Homebuilt CO2 Meter as a Virus Risk Proxy (Shallow Thoughts) (shallowsky.com)

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AI in 2026 and beyond ⊗ Bioregionalism's tech-driven revival (sentiers.media)

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Google Cloud Infrastructure 2025: The Year Kubernetes Got Boring (aimeemarieknight.com)

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$10k Settlement After Product Failure (joelx.com)

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Kids Are Not Okay (With Tech) (solarshades.club)

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When Were Things the Best? (thezvi.wordpress.com)

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Shooting myself in the foot with Git by accident (utcc.utoronto.ca)

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The negativity crisis of AI ethics (springer.com)

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Prepare for That Stupid World (ploum.net)

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Do Newer Models Hold Up as Context Fills? (tiberriver256.github.io)

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Using AI Generated Code Will Make You a Bad Programmer (rudism.com)

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Is Firefox Firefucked? (kevquirk.com)

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What If the Satanic Panic Had Never Happened? (grognardia.blogspot.com)

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Challenging fate with goodwill and cleaning house while weeding my feed list (baldurbjarnason.com)

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AI surpasses 2024 Bitcoin mining in energy usage (tomshardware.com)

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Debugging AWS API Gateway HTTP with OIDC-JWT Authorizers (loige.co)

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Blocking AI web-scraping bots on personal sites using Nginx on low-power servers (cheapskatesguide.org)

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Dell preps price hikes up to 30% citing memory pricing 'out of our control' (tomshardware.com)

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The power crunch threatening America's AI ambitions (ft.com)

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I don't think Lindley's paradox supports p-circling (vilgot-huhn.github.io)

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Overconsumption is a spiritual problem (sherryning.com)

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Where are you? A look at GeoIP (potaroo.net)

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Designing a Passive Lidar Detector Device (atredis.com)

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A Critique of Mathematical Objectivity (lapcatsoftware.com)

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From devastation to wonder as Kangaroo Island bushfires lead to cave discoveries (abc.net.au)

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I'm a Tool Builder at Heart (hamatti.org)

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Be a Problem-Solver Not a Politician (mo42.bearblog.dev)

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Improving Emacs Screenshots (mbork.pl)

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Close Idle Tmux Panes (philz.dev)

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Maximise your time between jobs (niqwithq.com)

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Life HAPPENS (a talk on open source maintaining) (artlung.com)

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The Year 2025 for PowRSS (pabloecortez.com)

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Anticloaking (incoherency.co.uk)

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Is it an evil overlay? How can you tell? (joedolson.com)

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Verizon refused to unlock man's iPhone, so he sued the carrier and won (arstechnica.com)

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We Still Need the Risk of Criminal Sanctions in Food Poisoning Cases (efoodalert.com)

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Drawing parallels between home renovation and software development (ounapuu.ee)

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Tracking kernel commits across branches (kroah.com)

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It's Uncomfortable to Sit with "I Don't Know" (jim-nielsen.com)

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Well, at Least the Anti-States' Rights AI EO Spares AI-CSAM Laws (stanford.edu)

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Actual lines from tech recruiter emails (cjquines.com)

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Gnome Now Forbids Vibe Coded Extensions (gjs.guide)

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LG TV users baffled by unremovable Microsoft Copilot installation (tomshardware.com)

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Amazon pulls AI recap from Fallout TV show after it made several mistakes (bbc.com)

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GPT 5.2 says there are no "R"s in "garlic" (globalnerdy.com)

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Do Dyslexia Fonts Work? (edutopia.org)

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Fake 'One Battle After Another' torrent hides malware in subtitles (bleepingcomputer.com)

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Taking Blogging Seriously (tomcritchlow.com)

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John Varley (1947-2025) (locusmag.com)

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Rescale your Hetzner VPS and save money (j11g.com)

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Moving from Lightroom to Apple Photos (gyford.com)

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Something from Nothing (tante.cc)

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CM0 – A new Raspberry Pi you can't buy (jeffgeerling.com)

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De-Shittification (n0v.io)

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Man charged with theft after allegedly swallowing Fabergé pendant in store (theguardian.com)

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Impact statements submitted by victims of Do Kwon, 2022 Terra/Luna meltdown (mollywhite.net)

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GitHub Actions for Pulumi with an AWS S3 Back End (nelson.cloud)

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Nintendo Switch 2 RAM prices rise 41%, NAND flash up 8% – shares nosedive (tomshardware.com)

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Why Nobody Reads Anymore (and What That Says About Us) (mackleen.substack.com)

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Malicious VSCode Marketplace extensions hid trojan in fake PNG file (bleepingcomputer.com)

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Buy. Physical. Media (pjmedia.com)

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What is the nicest thing a stranger has ever done for you? (louplummer.lol)

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Time for Another LinkedIn Break (ontestautomation.com)

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Can AI Predict the Quantum Universe? (quantumfrontiers.com)