Articles by speckx
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Should we care any more about Googlebot crawling our sites? (utcc.utoronto.ca)

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Why the $55B acquisition of Electronic Arts isn't your usual leveraged buyout (gamesindustry.biz)

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Humans in the LLM Loop (derickrethans.nl)

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Humans killed vultures. We're now living with the consequences (washingtonpost.com)

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The Great Agent Skills Land Grab (denodell.com)

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Smallweb Is Becoming an Archipelago (hypersubject.net)

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Speed Is a Signal: When Faster Replies Increase Hiring Likelihood (informs.org)

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Microsoft restricts Claude Fable for employees over data retention concerns (theverge.com)

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St. George fire district sues IT company over cyberattack (wafb.com)

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Hetzner S3 Is Not Good (eidel.io)

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Consumer prices rose 4.2% annually in May, highest in three years (cnbc.com)

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Cybersecurity researchers aren't happy about the guardrails on Anthropic's Fable (techcrunch.com)

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The Archivist in Me Turned This Blog into a Book (brainbaking.com)

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Siri AI Is a Malware Vector (loufranco.com)

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Monitoring my restic backups with Uptime Kuma (janlukas.blog)

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Readwise Reader as a Blogging Assistant (ruk.ca)

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The backup SSH daemon I run before every do-release-upgrade (ma.ttias.be)

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TheBrain on Linux (baty.net)

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I'm launching Tech Influence Watch as AI follows crypto into politics (citationneeded.news)

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Our workplace LLM mass delusion (avas.space)

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I Hate (Most) Keyboard 'Fn' Keys (danq.me)

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"I've lost sentences of text to this incompetent implementation." (aresluna.org)

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Let's Encrypt Certificate Rules Now Include U.S. Sanctions Warranties (linuxiac.com)

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My Prodigal Brainchild – By Neal Stephenson (nealstephenson.substack.com)

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Making extensions work on file: URLs in Firefox 153 (utcc.utoronto.ca)

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Why Audiobooks Are Now a Major Piracy Target (plagiarismtoday.com)

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Plex, the Slow Creep of Enshittification (unknown-universe.co.uk)

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The quiet push to shield pesticide makers from lawsuits (grist.org)

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Devs know AI code is riddled with holes, but ship it anyway (theregister.com)

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Fuck|Thank You (pawelgrzybek.com)

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Famed historian Gordon S. Wood struck, killed in East Providence (wpri.com)

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YouTuber Punishes Himself by Writing a First Person Shooter in COBOL (gizmodo.com)

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[flagged] Apple's AI Can Now Change Your Passwords. What Could Possibly Go Wrong? (kylereddoch.me)

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CEOs who think AI replaces their employees are just bad CEOs (techdirt.com)

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Asahi Linux warns users not to upgrade to macOS 27 beta (lwn.net)

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I Didn't Buy a New MacBook (Yet) (spasic.me)

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The Rise and (Potential) Fall of Letterboxd (statsignificant.com)

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How the Heck Do Traffic Lights Work? (An Interactive Exploration) (perthirtysix.com)

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Working-class areas resist data centers 5x more than wealthy ones (bloodinthemachine.com)

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Claude Desktop for Linux (github.com/aaddrick)

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The Data the CIA World Factbook Left Orphaned (bamwor.com)

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Moving data around still sucks (counting-stuff.com)

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I built a (small) long running agent (getdbt.com)

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What "done" means when you're shipping AI features (jeffgothelf.com)

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I replaced the backup camera in my 2016 Kia Soul EV (ruk.ca)

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Tracking the 2026 Ebola outbreak in maps and figures (nbcnews.com)

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Career Isn't Eroding – You're Just Holding the Wrong Moat (herlein.com)

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Discarding AI-Generated Code (dotnetperls.com)

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Installing and Running FreeBSD on a Steam Deck (linhpham.org)

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Mental Defrag (tracydurnell.com)

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LLM Are Universal Simulators (invertedpassion.com)

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Building Stuff I don't Want to (amxmln.com)

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Trying Out Vivaldi on Linux (taonaw.com)

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Turn a $3M AI bill into $1.9M (willhackett.com)

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Steven Spielberg Does 2001: A Space Odyssey on the Rewatchables (mattglassman.net)

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I Love F1 (gordonmclean.co.uk)

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Thunderbird Littering My Home (thefoggiest.dev)

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U.S. Cities Lost the Economic Development Plot (commonedge.org)

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France took the nuclear option to make Putin think twice (telegraph.co.uk)

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Verifying /Proc (bal-e.org)

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The 'Lost' Villages of Myanmar's Rakhine (bellingcat.com)

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Terrorpop, a Manifesto (maddisonstoff.neocities.org)

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Toxic Ground: Inside Oklahoma's Oil Field Wastewater Crisis (propublica.org)

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EVs are getting more affordable worldwide – except in the U.S. (restofworld.org)

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[flagged] The Butlerian Jihad Has Begun (syndekit.substack.com)

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Eating Out (futilitycloset.com)

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Some ancient microbes frozen with Ötzi the Iceman are still growing (arstechnica.com)

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Home alone: Remote work, isolation, and mental health (science.org)

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Recent Thoughts on AI Use (jsweeting.me)

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We Forget (quinnmaclay.com)

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Meta confirms 1000s of Instagram accounts were hacked by abusing its AI chatbot (weekinsecurity.com)

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A Roadmap to a Viking Funeral (brilliantcrank.com)

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AI didn't break the web. The dotcons did – AI just turned up the volume (hamishcampbell.com)

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Scale Kubernetes deployments to zero using KEDA (mijndertstuij.nl)

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The Legacy of Spam (siderite.dev)

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Aging and Eye Problems (ldstephens.net)

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Microsoft and OpenAI broke up – now they're ready to fight (theverge.com)

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Cloudflare CEO is lying to you about the bot traffic jump (flyingpenguin.com)

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Software security in 2026 – Practical tips for the mildly paranoid (dedoimedo.com)

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Fake Money Built America (blockworks.com)

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Profanity, a console based XMPP client (profanity-im.github.io)

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The company I work for is losing all of its humanity, I don't know where to go (superlemon.bearblog.dev)

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Designing with Mustard (annaecook.com)

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My thoughts on the "focusgroup" attribute proposal (stevefrenzel.dev)

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New method turns ocean water into drinking water, without waste (rochester.edu)

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AI Agents Enable Adaptive Computer Worms (cleverhans.io)

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The Web Is Being Made Accessible for AI, Not People (techpolicy.press)

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The Evil MSI Background Is Back (sans.edu)

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The oral tradition that built software may not survive AI (fastcompany.com)

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A Server Called Mercury (kennethreitz.org)

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I love Jellyfin but it has flaws. Let's talk about them (gardinerbryant.com)

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List of Blog Aggregators (bstn.info)

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How to interpret medieval marginalia 101 (weirdmedievalguys.substack.com)

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I built my own music collection and why you should too (rishabhps.com)

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Do we need billionaires? (bjhess.com)

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I Thought I Was Optimising for Speed (hoeijmakers.net)

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How I Use LLMs? (pauldambra.dev)

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Why Wildfire Experts Are So Worried About This Year's Fire Season (insideclimatenews.org)

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'Touchy-feely' dark matter is having a moment (scientificamerican.com)

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The excess of Computex feels a little more tone deaf than usual this year (pcgamer.com)