Articles by zdw
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Can I use HTTPS RRs? (netmeister.org)

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Using secondary school maths to demystify AI (raspberrypi.org)

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What was typography like in the Soviet Union? (bsky.app)

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Why Intel and AMD couldn't play LittleBigPlanet together [video] (youtube.com)

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Every hundred South Koreans today will have only six great-grandchildren (worksinprogress.co)

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Whatever Happened to NFTs? (ritholtz.com)

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Speed Reading (The Meaning of Language) (computer.rip)

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Relish: A New Serialization Format (alexgaynor.net)

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It's not you–Betty Crocker's directions are wrong (boredzo.org)

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Toaplan v2 and the Birth of Raizing: Sorcer Striker (nicole.express)

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Pdsink: USB Power Delivery Sink library for embedded devices (github.com/pdsink)

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Kilauea erupts, destroying webcam [video] (youtube.com)

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Apex: Universal Markdown Processor (brettterpstra.com)

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Comparing a Xbox Prototype recreation to the original at Microsoft [video] (youtube.com)

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Home Assistant 2025.12 Released (home-assistant.io)

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'Hobby dogging': Germany's viral trend of pretending to walk a dog (uniondemocrat.com)

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8086 Microcode Browser (nand2mario.github.io)

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Meta's Child Sex-Trafficking Problem (afterbabel.com)

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How Should We Peer Review Software? (mirawelner.com)

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Sending DMARC reports is somewhat hazardous (utcc.utoronto.ca)

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Japanese game devs face font dilemma as license increases from $380 to $20k (gamesindustry.biz)

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Vibe coding: Empowering and imprisoning (anildash.com)

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Running Linux on a RiscPC – why is it so hard? (thejpster.org.uk)

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Exploring Large HTML Documents on the Web (perfplanet.com)

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Backlash at AI Dubbing of Anime on Amazon Prime Video (aftermath.site)

4

Give Us One Manual for Normies, Another for Hackers (hackaday.com)

4

Optimize for momentum (muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)

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After Windows Update, Password icon invisible, click where it used to be (support.microsoft.com)

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Git Your Freedom Back: A Beginner's Guide to Sourcehut (btxx.org)

2

A Bus Ride and the (At Least) 3x UX FAILs (bsdly.blogspot.com)

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Retrobright Damages Plastics – 10 Year Test [video] (youtube.com)

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Japan's human washing machines will go on sale to general public (soranews24.com)

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My car charger can boil water really fast [video] (youtube.com)

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Evaluating Uniform Memory Access Mode on AMD's Turin (chipsandcheese.com)

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Scientists Unearth 15-Meter Snake Fossil in India, as Large as a T. Rex (dailygalaxy.com)

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Stop Hacklore – An Open Letter (hacklore.org)

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BSD PF versus Linux nftables for firewalls for us (utcc.utoronto.ca)

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Wakayama senior uses AI to identify wild mushrooms, gets poisoned shortly after (soranews24.com)

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Ironwood, our latest TPU (blog.google)

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NVMe driver for Windows 2000, targeting both x86 and Alpha AXP platforms (github.com/techomancer)

3

Mind-altering 'brain weapons' no longer only science fiction, say researchers (theguardian.com)

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Mitigating Application Resource Overload with Targeted Task Cancellation (muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)

1

What I Meant When I Said Substack Isn't Cool (gq.com)

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The Unexpected Joys of Hacking an Old Kindle (hackaday.com)

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Open Source Has Too Many Parasocial Relationships (pivotnine.com)

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Napster Raised $3B from Mystery Investor. Now 'Investor' and 'Money' Are Gone (forbes.com/sites/phoebeliu)

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When will quantum break crypto? the answer will shock you (bfswa.substack.com)

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How many valid JSON byte sequences are there? (qntm.org)

3

NSA and IETF, Part 2 (cr.yp.to)

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Markdown is holding you back (bphogan.com)

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Why you don't want to get tuberculosis on your (arstechnica.com)

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No Key, Mo Problems (bfswa.substack.com)

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Is DWPD Still a Useful SSD Spec? (klarasystems.com)

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Make product worse, get money (dynomight.net)

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XBMC 4.0 for the Original Xbox (xbox-scene.info)

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The Most Dangerous Halo LAN Party – High Speed Highway Halo (2002) [video] (youtube.com)

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Brownouts Reveal System Boundaries (jyn.dev)

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Moving Beyond the NPM Elliptic Package (soatok.blog)

4

Why Does Development Slow? (tidyfirst.substack.com)

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Radical CS (2023) [pdf] (nist.gov)

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The only GM EV1 ever publicly sold (theautopian.com)

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Legal Restrictions on Vulnerability Disclosure (schneier.com)

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Moving from OpenBSD to FreeBSD for firewalls (utcc.utoronto.ca)

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Verification Is Not the Silver Bullet (alperenkeles.com)

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We are replacing OOP with something worse (jsbarretto.com)

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People are sending HTTP requests with X-Forwarded-For across the Internet (utcc.utoronto.ca)

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Digital echoes: open bus behavior on the compact Macintosh (thomasw.dev)

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Hyundai Paywalls Brake Pads replacement on Ioniq 5 N (thedrive.com)

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How to tolerate annoying things (psyche.co)

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Boomers Are Passing Down Way, Way Too Much Stuff (bloomberg.com)

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Writing for AIs is a good way to reach more humans (seangoedecke.com)

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Starlight Spotlight: A Hospital Wii in a New Light (dolphin-emu.org)

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FPGA Based IBM-PC-XT (bit-hack.net)

3

Time to Migrate (To Mastadon) (tbray.org)

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Firefox's sudden weird font choice and fixing it (utcc.utoronto.ca)

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Ansible Release 12: The Windows Vista Moment (ipspace.net)

1

Meet the 2025 US National Book Award Finalists (lithub.com)

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Erase All Content and Settings does what it says (eclecticlight.co)

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The Uselessness of "Fast" and "Slow" in Programming (jerf.org)

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PS5 Has Now Officially Outsold Every Xbox Console Ever Released (ign.com)

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Apple Messages app violates tracking number privacy (lapcatsoftware.com)

1

Can conservation be effective through video games? A case study on Jack Barau (jgeekstudies.org)

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Is Fast Charging Killing the Battery? A 2-Year Test on 40 Phones [video] (youtube.com)

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Virginia Teen Narrowly Defeats His Former Civics Teacher in County Election (nytimes.com)

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"Why are my stakeholders so unreasonable?" (thoughtfuleng.substack.com)

2

The 'Toy Story' You Remember (animationobsessive.substack.com)

1

Composite Mod on the Coco 2: The UVD Board (nicole.express)

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Running a 68060 CPU in Quadra 650 (github.com/zigzagjoe)

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How Press Photos Were Transmitted Back in the 1970s (2015) (petapixel.com)

1

Managing Diabetes in Software Freedom (ebb.org)

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Apple is crossing a Steve Jobs red line (kensegall.com)

1

The Desperation of Windows (sysadmin1138.net)

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NetNewsWire 6.2 for Mac and iOS – RSS Plus Markdown (netnewswire.blog)

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Bluetooth 6.2 – more responsive, improves security, USB comms, and testing (cnx-software.com)

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Scientists Need a Positive Vision for AI (ieee.org)

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Why aren't smart people happier? (theseedsofscience.pub)

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Australia Introduces Streaming Content Quotas (deadline.com)

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The Microsoft SoftCard for the Apple II: Getting two processors to share memory (microsoft.com)

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Cleaning an orange iPhone 17 Pro with hydrogen peroxide turns it pink (pcmag.com)

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Is it worrying that 95% of AI enterprise projects fail? (seangoedecke.com)