Articles by speckx
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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)

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Reviewing Code Requires Reading (hauleth.dev)

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Software Quality Is Not Goal Anymore (numericcitizen.me)

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PC shipments plunged in early 2026 and IDC warns the worst is still ahead (windowscentral.com)

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Migrating a Zola blog from Markdown to Org-mode (thecloudlet.github.io)

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admits AI token costs are becoming 'an issue' (tomshardware.com)

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Sagrada Família Lego set (lego.com)

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The blood cancer that became solvable (worksinprogress.co)

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Slop Forks (karldaniel.co.uk)

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Unix, Everything Is a File (vivianvoss.net)

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Removable batteries in smartphones will be mandatory in the EU starting in 2027 (benjaminoakes.com)

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User Interfaces and "Blandification" (jordanm.co.uk)

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Wind and solar generated more power than gas globally in April 2026 (electrek.co)

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Oregon gets its first California condor visit in 122 years (opb.org)

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Design and engineering solve different problems; AI is forgetting that (jeana.dev)

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Counterfactuals (colinmcginn.net)

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Cynicism is a luxury; hope is a necessity (chrbutler.com)

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Design from the Inside (mattstromawn.com)

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Systems for Making Systems (maxkapur.com)

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Why are there no good tablets at the moment? (neilzone.co.uk)

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The web is changing, and we are not going back (idiallo.com)

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Fedora 43 Upgrade revealed 20 years old Outlook Security Bug (fedoramagazine.org)

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Wander, a StumbleUpon-inspired tool for discovering the 'small web' (techcrunch.com)

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TIL the StayFocusd browser extension was purchased by an app analytics company (infosec.exchange)

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Marks and Spencer chief's pay slashed by £3M after cyberattack turmoil (cityam.com)

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Uber list of strangest lost-and-found items: Dentures, butterflies, dishwasher (abcnews.com)

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Fontastic Space – Find Mathematically Optimal Font Pairings (fontastic.space)

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Batching API Calls (mostlypython.com)

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Counterfeit G.Skill and V-Color DDR5 modules hit Chinese marketplaces (tomshardware.com)

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My Coding Setup (theoo.dev)

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Librarians on Horseback (oxfordamerican.org)

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How to make a website in 5 minutes: Almost No code version (stefanbohacek.com)

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27 Years Later (gordonmclean.co.uk)

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Android introduces fake call detection to stop deepfake scams (blog.google)

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The AI pricing conundrum – it started as a nightmare, now it's worse (computerworld.com)

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Three Good Interactive Explainers (aresluna.org)

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Russia Ships Most Oil Since 2022 as Drones Strike Refineries (bloomberg.com)

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My thoughts after using Clojure for about a month (acdw.net)

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The advertising cartel coming to your web browser (zgp.org)

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Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left (moddedbear.com)

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Vivaldi (Chrome) ruining website colors (yeechie.nl)

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The "ChangeNames.co.uk" Scam (danq.me)

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What happens when AI starts selling to AI? (computerworld.com)

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European Parliament ditches Google for French search firm over privacy concerns (politico.eu)

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Apple has released an update to XProtect for all macOS (eclecticlight.co)

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Goodbye Pi (s-config.com)

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Mathematicians sign declaration to rein in AI use (scientificamerican.com)

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Apple's foldable iPhone 'Ultra' said to feature advanced Liquidmetal hinge (macdailynews.com)

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Of Hammers and Nails: What AI Can and Cannot Do for a Data Analyst (adamwritesaboutdata.substack.com)

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Be a good cook when you use AI to edit your writing (avas.space)

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America's Driving Mandate: Don't Call It "Freedom" (mateosfo.substack.com)

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Why America Can't Have Robots and Other Nice Things (corememory.com)

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Google's Top DMCA Sender Plateaus at 70M Takedowns per Week (torrentfreak.com)

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John Deere Faces Second Class Action for Monopolizing Repair (techdirt.com)

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KDE Plasma 6.8 Planning to End X11 Support, 95% of Plasma 6.6 Users on Wayland (phoronix.com)

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Drones to protect undersea cables from Russian sabotage (tomshardware.com)

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SiteGround Faces Backlash After Installing AI Plugin on Customer Sites (wp-content.co)

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What's the Oldest Name in the U.S.? (erdavis.com)

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OpenAI's math breakthrough played to AI's strengths (understandingai.org)

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Our CSS isn't opinionated enough (craigabbott.co.uk)

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State of the Fossil-Free Internet Report (greenweb.org)

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I Got $4.84 from a Class Action and They Didn't Want Me to Have It (labnotes.org)

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A just wrapper for tmux and global recipes (eshlox.net)

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AI Data Centers Are Not the Railroads of Today (charleshughsmith.blogspot.com)

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The Server Seizure That Affects Also Iran's Cyber Operations (checkpoint.com)

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Distinguishing Technology from Technology (geoffgraham.me)

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Responsible Disclosure in the Age of AI: A Call for Urgent Action [pdf] (army.mil)

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AMD Wants You to Keep Using Your Old Hardware for a Lot Longer (gamespot.com)

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"No way to prevent this" say users of only package manager (xeiaso.net)

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Social media ban 'won't keep children safe', commissioner warns (bbc.com)

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Checking Assembly with Z3 (bernsteinbear.com)

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Opening Files Faster in Vim with Fzf (wjgilmore.com)

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The file I almost made twice (paulwelty.com)

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What appear to be biochemical processes may be a natural feature of geology (quantamagazine.org)

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Technology Still Feels Magical (robertbirming.com)

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Chilling Effects (schneier.com)

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The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid (torrentfreak.com)

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USDA canceled $300M in farm grants, citing fraud. Did it make up the evidence? (grist.org)

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PS1 Forge – Zsh/Bash, EzPrompt blocks, Light/Dark mode and local persistence (ps1-forge.vercel.app)

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What to Do as the World Falls Apart: A Framework for Action (natehagens.substack.com)

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I'm So Tired of Ads (absurdpirate.com)

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Sort Your Sites Out (gordonmclean.co.uk)

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Wikipedia doesn't need my cash (forkingmad.blog)

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Claude Talk Small. Code Still Big (spatie.be)

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SiteGround's Icky Approach to AI in WordPress 7.0 (rhyswynne.co.uk)

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Magnets Are Bad for Hardware Again (hackaday.com)

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Cyber scam victim who lost nearly $1M gets her money back – and then some (vermontpublic.org)

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My Life as a True Crime Spectacle – My Father Was the Infamous Rolex Killer (torontolife.com)

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Erofs – Enhanced Read-Only File System – The Linux Kernel Documentation (kernel.org)

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Celebrating the Launch of FOSS Wiki (fyralabs.com)

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Dropping Privileges in Go (0x21.biz)

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eBPF rootkits and the Volatility blind spot in Linux memory forensics (andreafortuna.org)

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Many Tokens Did You Burn Today (idiallo.com)

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From Losing the Web to Saving Us All (searls.com)

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Nitpicking the shell history scene in 'Tron: Legacy' (greenend.org.uk)

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Various LLM Smells (shvbsle.in)