Articles by walterbell
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Blue4est Paper – BPA-Free Thermal Print Camera Compendium (thermalprintcameras.wordpress.com)

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Long-Term Data Storage: ATA Write-Read-Verify on FreeBSD with Camcontrol (2023) (dapperdrake.neocities.org)

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A Reminder Why Digitising Old Printed Material Is Important (2025) (decryption.net.au)

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Memory supply shortfall will cause chip shortage to spread to other segments (tomshardware.com)

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PCB Gerber Merging – Why We Gave Up on KiCad Native Files (phaestus.app)

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Physical address issues with Mercury Bank (virtualpostmail.com)

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WebRTC VPN Tunnel (github.com/manav1011)

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Exploring the role Delaware plays as a domestic tax haven (2013) (sciencedirect.com)

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Legal Structures for Latin American Startups (2021) (latamlist.com)

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Can Highlighting Help GitHub Maintainers Track Security Fixes? (arxiv.org)

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Why Can't Your AI Agent Book a Flight? (aleximas.substack.com)

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Wireless Earbuds Can Be Hacked (nytimes.com)

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ESXi Exploit Breaks VM Isolation and Compromises Hypervisors (petri.com)

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Book Review: Ping by Andrew Brodsky (mattrutherford.co.uk)

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Germany's shut down of nuclear plants a 'huge mistake', says Merz (brusselssignal.eu)

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Scientists create sci-fi-like spray that heals wounds in seconds (dexerto.com)

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Within months, UK smartphones could be subjected to client scanning surveillance (telegraph.co.uk)

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Local File over Cloud App for Fast Context (2023) (stephango.com)

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Compare LLM Responses with OverallGPT (overallgpt.com)

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High RAM prices mean record-setting profits for Samsung and other memory makers (arstechnica.com)

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Supply Chain Games: What Have We Learned from the Semiconductor Shortage? (2021) (embeddedrelated.com)

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Jupyter Agents: training LLMs to reason with notebooks (huggingface.co)

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First 12 Minutes of MTV (1981) [video] (youtube.com)

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Amazon has big hopes for wearable AI – starting with this $50 gadget (seattletimes.com)

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How to Choose CD/DVD Archival Media (2013) (adterrasperaspera.com)

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In 2026, I Resolve to Friction-Maxx (thecut.com)

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Consumer electronics, the "Modular Middle", and production models of the future (a16z.news)

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Science at the Speed of Inference (a16z.news)

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The Monroe Doctrine After 200 Years: Strategic Hinge Period in US History (2023) (unc.edu)

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Ansible battle tested hardening for Linux, SSH, Nginx, MySQL (github.com/dev-sec)

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Pundits Talking Their Book (2015) (bankers-anonymous.com)

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My hope for Safari extensions in 2026 (lapcatsoftware.com)

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PostmarketOS (Phosh) on the PinePhone in 2024 (theprivacydad.com)

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Helping people write code again (simonwillison.net)

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AI agents are 2026's biggest insider threat: Palo Alto Networks security boss (theregister.com)

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A Study Is Retracted, Renewing Concerns About Glyphosate and Weedkiller Roundup (nytimes.com)

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Kioxia developing 100M IOPS SSD for Nvidia (blocksandfiles.com)

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China DRAM Maker CXMT Targets $4.2B IPO as It Takes on Samsung, SK Hynix, Micron (ic-pcb.com)

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Comparing benefits of every-third-day vs. daily low-dose aspirin therapy (2001) (nih.gov)

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Linux Runs on Raspberry Pi RP2350's Hazard3 RISC-V Cores (2024) (hackster.io)

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RP2350-PiZero board with RPi Zero form factor, mini HDMI, 16MB flash, microSD (cnx-software.com)

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iPad Raspberry Pi Zero Sidecar (schwarztech.net)

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Why AI Agents Won't Just "Do Stuff" – Permissions Are the Ultimate Barrier (davefriedman.substack.com)

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You Will Be OK (lesswrong.com)

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Ex-Samsung engineer accused of giving 10nm DRAM process data to China's CXMT (tomshardware.com)

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Chinese memory maker CXMT prepares $4.2B USD IPO as DRAM demand skyrockets (tomshardware.com)

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Flock Exposes Its AI-Enabled Surveillance Cameras (schneier.com)

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The AI Purple Website Problem [video] (youtube.com)

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The Chicken Game and the Evolution of the DRAM Industry from 2006 to 2014 [pdf] (snu.ac.kr)

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Why did the PC memory chicken game keep repeating–and who ultimately survived? (semiconsam.com)

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DHH is immortal, and costs $200M (danieltenner.com)

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God Mode UX: Why AI Agent Interfaces Will Look More Like StarCraft Than Slack (medium.com/sadasant)

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Capital in the 22nd Century: Thomas Piketty is probably right about AI futures (philiptrammell.substack.com)

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Science fiction TV shows imagining our next future (2020) (polygon.com)

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Laptops are about to become a casualty of the AI grift (theblaze.com)

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Billionaire Superyachts in St. Barts for New Year's Eve (forbes.com/sites/jimdobson)

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Building Frontier Open Intelligence Accessible to All (reflection.ai)

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Return of wired headphones is restoring friction to our convenience-addled lives (theguardian.com)

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Sheet Metal Workshop on 4M² with XTool MetalFab Laser Welder and CNC Cutter [video] (youtube.com)

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New 'cloaking device' concept to shield sensitive tech from magnetic fields (eurekalert.org)

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Texas community votes no on incorporating to fight Bitcoin mine (texastribune.org)

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Signal users can now back up and restore messages safely (neowin.net)

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Large Causal Models from Large Language Models (arxiv.org)

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Instacart ends AI pricing tests that increased costs for some shoppers (cnbc.com)

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Sweden Steps Up Efforts to Reverse the Decline in Cash Usage (cashessentials.org)

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A Scalable Communication Protocol for Networks of Large Language Models (arxiv.org)

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Salesforce pulls back from large language models after reliability concerns (moneycontrol.com)

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AI's trillion-dollar opportunity: Context graphs (foundationcapital.com)

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People as Files (fakepixels.substack.com)

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Apple Clings to Samsung as RAM Prices Soar (macrumors.com)

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Context is all you need (fakepixels.substack.com)

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Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes movie review (2024) (rogerebert.com)

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macOS Extended Attributes: Case Study (dfir.ch)

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It's getting worse – Retail DDR5 memory prices continue to increase (overclock3d.net)

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Key Transparency for the Fediverse (soatok.blog)

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Handheld PC Community Forums (hpcfactor.com)

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The gift card accountability sink (bitsaboutmoney.com)

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Tacit: We Know More Than We Can Tell (stripe.press)

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Agent Flywheel – Agentic Coding Setup (agent-flywheel.com)

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Disc-shaped satellite design offers unmatched power-to-weight ratio (arstechnica.com)

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Stem Cells from Wisdom Teeth Can Be Transformed into Corneal Cells (2015) (upmc.com)

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To Catch a Predator: Leak exposes the internal operations of mercenary spyware (amnesty.org)

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Where Was My Generic Prescription Drug Made? (propublica.org)

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AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D sells for more than 9800X3D, enthusiasts flock to AM4 DDR4 (tomshardware.com)

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What Is Prompt Caching? Best Practices Explained (apidog.com)

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Micron outlines grim outlook for DRAM supply in earnings call (tomshardware.com)

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Modular: The Startup Taking Direct Aim at Nvidia CUDA's AI Iron Grip (businessinsider.com)

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Latent Collaboration in Multi-Agent Systems (arxiv.org)

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Cellhasher – Server Rack for Mobile Device Boards (cellhasher.com)

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Hardware Has Changed (buttondown.com/justincormack)

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Methaphone: free your hand and your mind will follow (methaphone.com)

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Laws of (New) Media – By Andrew McLuhan (a16z.news)

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SK hynix and Nvidia formalize joint SSD development to boost AI inference (chosun.com)

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Hardware Powers of 10 (buttondown.com/justincormack)

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Is Motion Sensing Gaming Back? (playthatmovesyou.com)

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When Machines Pay Machines: The Economics of Agentic AI (msuiche.com)

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Getting serial port output on modern Macs (gist.github.com)

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Connect a U.2 Server SSD to Your PC's USB Port with This Adapter (2021) (tomshardware.com)

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8x EDSFF E1.S NVMe SSD Mobile Rack for External 5.25" Drive Bay (icydock.com)

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China to regulate CEO romance micro dramas, warns against promoting materialism (globaltimes.cn)