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I block all online ads
https://troubled.engineer/posts/no-ads/

Bag of words, have mercy on us
https://www.experimental-history.com/p/bag-of-words-have-mercy-on-us

WebGPU Comes to Android (Alpha)
https://developer.android.com/jetpack/androidx/releases/webgpu

Tensor 1.5 is out and it's matching Claude 4.5 Opus
https://movementlabs.ai

Mechanical power generation using Earth's ambient radiation
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adw6833

FBI Making List of American "Extremists," Leaked Memo Reveals
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leak-fbi-list-of-extremists-is-coming

Proxmox delivers its software-defined datacenter contender and VMware escape
https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/05/proxmox_datacenter_manager_1_stable/

F-35 Fighter Jet's C++ Coding Standards [pdf]
https://www.stroustrup.com/JSF-AV-rules.pdf

iced 0.14 has been released (Rust GUI library)
https://github.com/iced-rs/iced/releases/tag/0.14.0

XKeyscore
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XKeyscore

Characters? In This Economy?
https://www.bitecode.dev/p/80-characters-in-this-economy

Pouring Packages with Homebrew
https://lwn.net/Articles/1046236/

UK tax system steers anyone living off capital to becoming an eccentric laird
https://thetontineengine.substack.com/p/gilts-dividends-and-a-shed-full-of

My Thoughts on Claude Opus 4.5
https://www.mckaywrigley.com/posts/opus-4.5

The Game Industry of Poland: Report 2025 [pdf]
https://www.parp.gov.pl/storage/publications/pdf/EBOOK-GAM-WCAG_27112025.pdf

China's scientific clout is growing as US influence wanes: the data show how
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03956-y

What HBO's "Chernobyl" Got Right, and What It Got Terribly Wrong (2019)
https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/what-hbos-chernobyl-got-right-and-what-it-got-terribly-wrong

Russia's Africa Corps fights in Mali, witnesses describe beheadings, rapes
https://apnews.com/article/mali-russia-africa-corps-mauritania-refugees-abuses-2935dd1b50397242a968f69e1dde61f2

Internet Archive is experiencing service disruptions
https://twitter.com/internetarchive/status/1997563217124663714

Alan Dye Was in Tim Cook's Blind Spot
https://daringfireball.net/2025/12/dye_cook_blind_spot

BMW PHEV: Safety fuse replacement is extremely expensive
https://evclinic.eu/2025/12/04/2021-phev-bmw-ibmucp-21f37e-post-crash-recovery-when-eu-engineering-becomes-a-synonym-for-unrepairable-generating-waste/

Netflix’s AV1 Journey: From Android to TVs and Beyond
https://netflixtechblog.com/av1-now-powering-30-of-netflix-streaming-02f592242d80

Gemini 3 Pro: the frontier of vision AI
https://blog.google/technology/developers/gemini-3-pro-vision/

GrapheneOS is the only Android OS providing full security patches
https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/115647408229616018

Self-hosting my photos with Immich
https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2025-11-29-self-hosting-photos-with-immich/

Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025
https://blog.cloudflare.com/5-december-2025-outage/

Valve reveals it’s the architect behind a push to bring Windows games to Arm
https://www.theverge.com/report/820656/valve-interview-arm-gaming-steamos-pierre-loup-griffais

Ghostty is now non-profit
https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-non-profit

Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros
https://about.netflix.com/en/news/netflix-to-acquire-warner-bros

The Wired Guide to Digital Opsec for Teens
https://www.wired.com/story/digital-opsec-for-teens/