Articles by speckx
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Catnip lotion as effective as Deet at repelling mosquitoes (theguardian.com)

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Humans Don't Work at GitHub (aleahim.com)

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Watch Out for Data Loss When Redirecting to a File in a Shell Script (nickjanetakis.com)

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1099 threshold 2026: now $2k, not $600 (taliivue.com)

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Never submit code you don't understand (dri.es)

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I use AI in creating my newsletter (petergasston.co.uk)

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Preparing My Vacation Laptop (j11g.com)

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Do I prefer Linux now? (baty.net)

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Viability of Local Models for Coding (martinfowler.com)

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Decrypting View State Messages (zeroed.tech)

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Local, CPU-Friendly, High-Quality TTS (Text-to-Speech) with Kokoro (ariya.io)

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Notes on Software Quality (anthonyhobday.com)

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We will happily disempower ourselves: Go edition (blog.jcx.au)

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The Many Casualties of Precision Warfare (jacobin.com)

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Rootless Docker and Its Hidden Security Trade-Offs (kenmuse.com)

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Life Without Google (untangled.bearblog.dev)

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The Only Two Things We Ever Say to Each Other (hardrefresh.life)

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Query Faster, Query Smarter: Our Move to DuckDB and What We Learned (medium.com/arcesium-engineering-blog)

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Most AI Work Can Wait (tomtunguz.com)

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The Perfect Cripple: A User Guide to Being Palatable (salient.org.nz)

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98% isn't much (whynothugo.nl)

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Air Con in a Warming Climate (criminallyvulgar.dev)

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Ditching Zotero for a Text File (atthis.link)

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AI Comes to the Ivy League (plagiarismtoday.com)

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I Bought a Sony Walkman (82mhz.net)

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What does Jeff Bezos think is going to happen? (reprog.wordpress.com)

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Setting up Webmentions on my Static Site (alexhyett.com)

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S3 is a better abstraction than NFS / networked block storage (kerkour.com)

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All Star Wars Games Ever Made – Released, Cancelled and Mod Archive (swtorstrategies.com)

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Mullvad funding the far-right and the problem with tech company ownership (kjz.im)

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You Don't Own Your .io or .ai. You Rent a Country's Politics (webhosting.today)

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External Blogs with WordPress (book.micro.blog)

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The Threat of Residential Proxies (feistyduck.com)

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What's slowing down the AI buildout (worksinprogress.news)

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Schools are closed, records are broken. Let's talk heatwaves (not-ship.com)

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'News' Site Keeps Hallucinating EFF Staffers (eff.org)

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A.I. 'Employees' Might Disrupt Work in Unexpected Ways (nytimes.com)

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Let's Go Hunting for Exocomets (astrobites.org)

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.garden TLD's change to a bad neighborhood (ifin.network)

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We Don't Need Facebook (rnotte.art)

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[flagged] The 80% Problem: The Last 20% Is Where the Engineer Used to Live (jonathanbeard.io)

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IDE Doesn't Belong in my .gitignore File (proactiveops.io)

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Client-Side Load Balancing at a Million Requests per Second (zalando.com)

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What LLMs are doing to conference programs (nmfay.com)

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Apple seeks Trump admin approval to buy memory from blacklisted Chinese company (macdailynews.com)

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Everything in Git? No Way (legoraft.com)

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We took away psychological safety and then told everyone to be more productive (medium.com/design-bootcamp)

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Low-cost Chinese AI models like DeepSeek gain traction in the U.S. (restofworld.org)

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Eyes Do Not Work the Way They Appear To (ishan.co)

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AI Is Dogshit at Design (tomcreighton.com)

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You Can Detect If Code Is Being Run Inside a Terminal (nelson.cloud)

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Saturating 10 Gigabit on Linux (thoughts.greyh.at)

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Once, cyber-attacks required great skill. AI is changing that (theguardian.com)

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The No-Human Future (aeon.co)

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Why Spreading Yourself Thin Feels Like Winning (alifeengineered.substack.com)

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Cloudflare Defeats Lawsuit over Nonconsensual Intimate Imagery (ericgoldman.org)

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Incus 7.2 has been released – News – Linux Containers Forum (linuxcontainers.org)

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A pan that won't let me rush dinner (jimgrey.net)

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I Understand Nostalgia (yordi.me)

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AI-Enhanced Writing (enocc.com)

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[dupe] Ford hired AI and sacked humans. It backfired badly (the-independent.com)

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Even the Secret Service won't use company-issued phones (theregister.com)

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Why LLMs Will Not Have Your Next Big Idea (albertsikkema.com)

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Streaming services' obnoxiously loud ads become illegal on July 1 in California (arstechnica.com)

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Lufthansa Asked for My Credit Card (yashgarg.dev)

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Open Letter to Compassionate, Left-Leaning, AI-Hating, Animal-Loving Meat Eaters (brennan.day)

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The Illusion of Ownership – It's yours until it isn't (yashgarg.dev)

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Richard Scolyer, Cancer Expert Who 'Became His Own Subject,' Dies at 59 (nytimes.com)

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The Industry Mourns the Loss of Bruce Clay – The Father of SEO (seroundtable.com)

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[dupe] Long Wave radio era set to end with switch-off (bbc.com)

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Europe's largest datacentre hub leaves town sweltering (theguardian.com)

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If your blog doesn't have an RSS feed, then it's not a blog (martinschuhmann.com)

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Expect RAM prices to stay high with Micron locking in deals for 5 years (gamingonlinux.com)

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Malware Insights: macOS Phexia Campaign (cookie.engineer)

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Wildfires Are Getting Worse. Patrick Moore Says Otherwise (notesfromtheroad.com)

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Please don't use an LLM to communicate with other human beings (florio.dev)

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Hate "The Algorithm?" RSS Is One of the Tools You've Been Looking For (eff.org)

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Rising RAM prices are taking a toll on PCs, tablets, game consoles, and more (liliputing.com)

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All Roads Lead to Om (ma.tt)

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Oracle promises to open up MySQL governance, but the community wants guarantees (theregister.com)

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Memory Price Hikes Will Become a New Norm, Claims Lenovo (techpowerup.com)

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My memories of what life was like before the Internet (vintagecomputing.com)

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The AI industry is pouring millions into US elections (bloodinthemachine.com)

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Why the Café Gratitude Family Left Veganism (altaonline.com)

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Portland reps query $600M gift to Blazers owner; he says be glad he pays taxes (fieldofschemes.com)

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The Data-Center Divide (harpers.org)

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Intervention No. 1 "Quantum" performed by a cello that's played by two robots [video] (youtube.com)

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Why a Good Idea Takes 13 Years to Arrive (2022) (medium.com/medium-handbook)

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Ultrasound may boost survival after a stroke by clearing brain debris (newscientist.com)

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Tom Stoppard's Arcadia saved lives (lithub.com)

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Notion Mail shuts down amid agent takeover (techcrunch.com)

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Microsoft extends free Windows 10 ESU support to October 2027 (bleepingcomputer.com)

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Em Dash Counter: A browser extension that counts em dashes (mattnite.net)

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Using Claude Code makes you a worse developer, but a slightly better manager (evgeniipendragon.com)

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Getting Back into Blogging (alexhyett.com)

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Fried Chicken Street Vendors in Boston (passionatefoodie.blogspot.com)

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"Your role has been made redundant" (aayushsahu.com)

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The Dumb House: In Praise of an Analog Home (architecturaldigest.com)

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Frankenstein Was a Warning, Not a Blueprint for AI (ideatrash.net)

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Why iPhones Prices Don't Change (asymco.com)