Articles by speckx
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Lessons learned from building my first 3D Video Game (maxpou.fr)

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Valve Clamps Down on Counter-Strike 2 Bots with 960k VAC Bans in One Day (techpowerup.com)

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Make macOS consistently bad (unironically) (lr0.org)

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"All files are numbers" (billpg.com)

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Windows 11 Will No Longer Trust Old Drivers by Default Under New Kernel Policy (techpowerup.com)

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More AI-Generated Slop (2026) (dotnetperls.com)

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Tapes: transparent AI agent telemetry (johncodes.com)

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I am leaving the AI party after one drink (lara-aigmueller.at)

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Small Programming Tricks (will-keleher.com)

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The End of Privacy (sigkill.sh)

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Data Model Isn't Broken, Part I: Why Refactoring Beats Rebuilding (ghostinthedata.info)

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If You Aren't Using AI, You Are Legacy (gambilldataengineering.substack.com)

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Wall Street Bankers in the Office with Their Cars in the 1980s (flashbak.com)

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The reports of age verification in Linux are greatly exaggerated, for now (osnews.com)

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Google-Agent user agent identifies AI agent traffic in server logs (searchengineland.com)

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We Get Radicalized in America (idiallo.com)

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'Empathetic' Salesforce bots to help those fired by uncaring humans (theregister.com)

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Time Estimates in Software (natemeyvis.com)

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My AI Agent Said 'Done.' It Skipped an Acceptance Criterion (ctxt.dev)

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The first A-Corp law is here (ystrickler.com)

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What happens when you clone mice for 20 years straight? (denovo.substack.com)

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All code is sorcery, until it isn't (andreafortuna.org)

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An LLM's not going to tell you no (2024) (derekkedziora.com)

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Fedora 45 Aims for IPv6-Mostly Support Out-of-the-Box (phoronix.com)

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As US Midterms Approach, AI Is Going to Emerge as a Key Issue Concerning Voters (schneier.com)

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CISA's chief warns shutdown is increasing cyber risks, causing resignations (therecord.media)

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BPFdoor in Telecom Networks: Sleeper Cells in the Backbone (rapid7.com)

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Canadian Court elevates thumbs-up emoji to signature status (2023) (mccabes.com.au)

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The Old Internet Is Still Here (tylergaw.com)

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Some People's Brains Can Sense Earth's Magnetic Field (smithsonianmag.com)

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Marco Arment did something awesome (natemeyvis.com)

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Somebody's watching me – Adventures in Cellular Location services (nickvsnetworking.com)

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Crocker's Rules (blainsmith.com)

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Claude picks the first idea that works. Make it pick the best one (photostructure.com)

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Jury finds Meta and Google liable in social addiction case (sherwood.news)

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Fedora Project Leader Suggests Linux Could Adopt Apple's Age Verification API (itsfoss.com)

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AI Might Be Our Best Shot at Taking Back the Open Web (techdirt.com)

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The AI Depression (charleshughsmith.blogspot.com)

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Spiral of AI Selling (balanarayan.com)

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2M Notes and No Dictionary: Learning from Semyon Vengerov's Cautionary Tale (writingslowly.com)

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16 months with Loop Switch 2 earplugs (alistairshepherd.uk)

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One Hundred Weirdo Emails (haxx.se)

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European Stoves Leaking Cancer-Causing Benzene (yale.edu)

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One man used 10k bots to steal $8M from music artists (bitdefender.com)

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What If the Browser Could Just Ask for Markdown? (d34dl0ck.me)

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Maybe making is about mattering (sharif.io)

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A man who coined Metaverse now says Meta's glasses are creepy (theverge.com)

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Front end devs need to have design skills (sarahgebauer.com)

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Things Are Getting Weird (manton.org)

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Fork You (humancode.us)

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The optimized self and the life that got away (joanwestenberg.com)

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What I mean when I say that I hate GenAI (michal.sapka.pl)

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LLMs don't think outside the box (zeyrie.blog)

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Age-Verification and the World Before Social Media (hackaday.com)

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My 2c on the AI/GenAI/LLM bubble (riffraff.info)

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Who Makes What, and Where with the US ISP CPE Supply Chain (senki.org)

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Software for Myself (quanttype.net)

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Auto-balancing and load-testing Ridiculous Space Battles (positech.co.uk)

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America is officially spending more on building data centers than offices (sherwood.news)

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When "One in a Billion" Happens Every Day: Scaling Redis at Report URI (scotthelme.co.uk)

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US regulator bans imports of new foreign-made routers, citing security concerns (reuters.com)

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Cloudflare Details Upgrade to EPYC Turin for 2x Throughput, 50% Better Perf/Watt (phoronix.com)

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I Email Complete Strangers (goodinternetmagazine.com)

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$100 gift card could be legit. $1000 is a Scam. What should scammers do? (computationalcomplexity.org)

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Pipe to Bash (gaganpreet.in)

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Microsoft's "Fix" for Windows 11: Flowers After the Beating (sambent.com)

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Canvas Unrolls AI Teaching Agent (insidehighered.com)

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The OpenBSD init system and boot process (overeducated-redneck.net)

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Why Gas in California Is Almost $6 a Gallon – and Could Go Higher (heatmap.news)

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Tinderbox City (lrb.co.uk)

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Strait of Hormuz closure hits America's generic drug prescriptions (cnbc.com)

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Hating on AI Writing (tiramisu.bearblog.dev)

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21,864 Yugoslavian .yu Domains (jacobfilipp.com)

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Little Piggy Went to Trial (and Got Just $200 and No Fees) (copyrightlately.com)

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Wizards of Leroy and Wrico Lettering (kleinletters.com)

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The Em Dash Conununundrum (skryblans.com)

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Internet and Email Policy and Practice (jl.ly)

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Cyberattack on vehicle breathalyzer company leaves drivers stranded in the US (techcrunch.com)

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Medieval manuscripts you can look at online (weirdmedievalguys.substack.com)

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Bypassing deep packet inspection with socat and HTTPS tunnels (bofh.it)

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OpenAI preps for IPO in 2026, says ChatGPT must be 'productivity tool' (cnbc.com)

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Cybersecurity Changes I Expect in 2026 (danielmiessler.com)

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Microsoft's Year 2000 Resource Center CD (huguesjohnson.com)

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Modernizing a Visual Basic 6 application using Google Gemini (huguesjohnson.com)

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Meltdown (faduda.ie)

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Stadia Maps Privacy Fail (grepular.com)

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Grammarly cloned me for free; another AI company offered $2k to do the same (pcgamer.com)

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Welcome to the Stockyard of Unaffordability (charleshughsmith.blogspot.com)

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Defense workers' morale has plunged under Trump, survey finds (defenseone.com)

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The Ends of AI (disjunctionsmag.com)

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Why Is Everyone Supposed to Die If Machines Can Think? (idiallo.com)

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Turn Left at the Robot (pelicancrossing.net)

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Merging GitHub Repositories (kittygiraudel.com)

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China's Technology Long Game (chinatalk.media)

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You and Your Spinner Can Go to Hell (catskull.net)

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Software in the AI Era (philipithomas.com)

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I quit editing photos (jamesbaker.uk)

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Overthinking: AI wasn't the first to break my heart (ohhelloana.blog)

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Tooling Is the New Model (herlein.com)

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Where is your digital home? (bstn.info)