Articles by speckx
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I Like the Web They Want (vasilis.nl)

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We accepted surveillance as default (vivianvoss.net)

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Software Engineering Practices (Are Also) Useful for Token Reduction (robotpaper.ai)

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Our AI Onboards New Hires Better Than We Do (frankc.net)

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Agent is probably using Git worktrees (yasint.dev)

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App host Vercel says it was hacked and customer data stolen (techcrunch.com)

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Physical Media Is Pretty Cool (michaelenger.com)

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So What If They Have My Data? (cardcatalogforlife.substack.com)

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You Can Purchase Non-Smart TVs from Samsung (samsung.com)

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MNT Reform is an open hardware laptop, designed and assembled in Germany (stanleylieber.com)

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Things to say when you're losing a technical argument (sciops.net)

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Judge sides with ICE tracker creators in DHS/DOJ First Amendment lawsuit (engadget.com)

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Finding zombies in our systems: A real-world story of CPU bottlenecks (medium.com/pinterest-engineering)

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Self-Hosting (pcora.eu)

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Chinese car company patents voice-activated 'in-vehicle toilet' (upi.com)

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'Everything is coming down': ChatGPT ads are getting cheaper (digiday.com)

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You paid for it, you should be comfortable in it (idiallo.com)

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Iceland Just Got Its First Mosquitoes (gizmodo.com)

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Retro Is the Future (absurdpirate.com)

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Fuck Facebook, Again (visualgui.com)

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Analytics group: 40% of AI data center construction sites face possible delays (tomshardware.com)

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Good Software Doesn't Double Check (boristhebrave.com)

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Age verification is a mess but we're doing it anyway (theverge.com)

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American farmers bet on solar. Then Trump changed the rules (grist.org)

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Random musings: 80s hardware, cyberdecks (strangelyentangled.com)

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Congress extends controversial surveillance powers for 10 days (npr.org)

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Middle East Energy Infrastructure Damage Close to $60B (oilprice.com)

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Agents, Code Reviews, and the Bottleneck Shift, Oh My (ayende.com)

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CodeWeavers CrossOver for Mac – Works great, no miracles (dedoimedo.com)

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I Loved Computers Before the Internet Was a Thing (rldane.space)

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Middle schooler finds coin from Troy in Berlin (thehistoryblog.com)

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Know Your Harness (bythyag.bearblog.dev)

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Things AI Shouldn't Do (jsrn.net)

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Attention Decay (dzoba.com)

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Free Software Foundation Says OnlyOffice Cannot Use AGPL to Restrict Forks (linuxiac.com)

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Microsoft Ups FAT32 Size Limit from 32GB to 2TB (hackaday.com)

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Chinese fabs import US chipmaking equipment via Singapore and Malaysia (tomshardware.com)

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Who's paying for tokens and why? (The Anthropic 1000) (robinsloan.com)

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AI's New Training Data: Your Old Work Slacks and Emails (forbes.com/sites/annatong)

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Open Systems Are Healthy (chriskurdziel.com)

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College Graduates Are Losing the Clone War (charleshughsmith.blogspot.com)

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Crap is more memorable than your slop (rhyswynne.co.uk)

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Trying to Build Your Own Consumer-Grade Router in 2026 (hackaday.com)

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Code is not even close to half the battle (aleksei.dev)

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Android Auto users say Gemini won't stop talking, and it's not even right (androidauthority.com)

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The California town that just wants to be left alone (sfgate.com)

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Prt-Scan: AI-Powered GitHub Actions Supply Chain Attack (wiz.io)

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Solve by Default (theengineersetlist.substack.com)

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Uber Let AI Write the Code. It Blew the Budget (aimmediahouse.com)

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There's yet another study about how bad AI is for our brains (engadget.com)

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Rusting Rivers: Alarm Grows over Uptick in Acidic Arctic Waters (yale.edu)

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Apple's 'AI coding bootcamp' could help its engineers fix Siri (appleinsider.com)

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Game devs explain the tricks involved with letting you pause a game (kotaku.com)

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60% of Australian children still using social media despite ban for under 16s (mollyrosefoundation.org)

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I made a terminal pager (theleo.zone)

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Stop building agents, start harnessing Goose (maxamillion.sh)

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Ticketmaster is an illegal monopoly, jury rules (theverge.com)

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The Internet Is a Place (catskull.net)

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Taxpayers to spend $477B on tax season (thecentersquare.com)

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The Courage to Stop (zeldman.com)

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AI Is an Amplifier. What Are You Amplifying? (leadership.garden)

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YouTuber Jon Prosser broke Liquid Glass – and what happened in the fallout (theverge.com)

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Write stuff down and document things (thereabouts.bearblog.dev)

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What Do You Own? (seths.blog)

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Rescind Davis Bacon (marginalrevolution.com)

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Kerrygold Maker Ornua Sees Middle East War Driving Food Inflation (bloomberg.com)

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What's Happening to Beyond Meat? (foodpolitics.com)

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Human Error Is OK Machine Madness Is a No-No Why? (om.co)

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AI could mean the death of anonymity (not-ship.com)

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Sony Is Removing Many Popular Features from Its Free OTA TV Options (cordcuttersnews.com)

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Fedora 45 To Consider Building x86_64-v3 Packages (phoronix.com)

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You can control serial devices from Firefox (theregister.com)

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Behold, the only known working Aesthedes in the world. CAD/CAM system from 1985 (reddit.com)

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AI should elevate people, not eliminate them (simonroses.com)

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Designing the Transport Typeface (thamesandhudson.com)

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God sleeps in the minerals (wchambliss.wordpress.com)

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Linux and Fingerprint Readers: A Tough Combination (tedium.co)

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I wrote to Flock's privacy contact to opt out of their domestic spying program (honeypot.net)

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Open Apollo, UAD Apollo Drivers for Linux (librearts.org)

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Modifying FileZilla to Workaround Bambu 3D Printer's FTP Issue (lantian.pub)

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Chinese Reactions to Claude Mythos (chinatalk.media)

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I Discover New Blogs (kevquirk.com)

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Chicago Turns All Public School IDs into Library Cards to Boost Student Access (blockclubchicago.org)

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Addressing AI's Impact on Our Information Ecosystem (interface-eu.org)

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Is Anthropic 'nerfing' Claude? Users increasingly report performance degradation (venturebeat.com)

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Ozempic Dreams (daverupert.com)

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The Fediverse deserves a dumb graphical client (pages.casa)

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Finding My Way Back (jeddacp.com)

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Why Vim uses hjkl keys as arrow keys (catonmat.net)

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Google controls the most AI computing power, driven by its custom TPUs (epochai.substack.com)

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Ascending into the Realm of Japanese Charts (chartography.net)

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In Remembrance of John Martellaro (geektells.com)

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Why Rural Hospitals Close (reuters.com)

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Passkeys Are Too Hard (etodd.io)

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Verification Debt Is Your Next Headache (leadership.garden)

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Just Enough Chimera Linux (dwarmstrong.org)

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Sometimes I Don't Use AI at All (clintmcmahon.com)

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Anthropic's Mythos Preview and Project Glasswing (schneier.com)

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Cox vs. Sony Music Comes to Hollywood (copyrightlately.com)

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AI Agents for Economics Research (ai-mba.io)