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RustDesk beats AnyDesk and TeamViewer to unattended remote access on Wayland
RustDesk has shipped a preview build that enables unattended remote control of Linux machines running Wayland, a milestone that has eluded most of the remote-de
Satire site nails the interchangeable clutter of every modern website
A tongue-in-cheek single-page site distills the web circa 2020 into its most universal annoyances, presenting them as the generic template every site now seems
SparrowMap turns idle phones into a privacy-first camera net that logs only govt cars
SparrowMap is a volunteer surveillance network aimed at the state rather than the public. Contributors prop up a spare phone, old laptop webcam, or USB camera p
systemd-journald turns one log line into 49KB–110KB of disk writes
A newly filed systemd issue (#40262) argues that journald's on-disk logging is wildly inefficient. The reporter, running systemd 257.9 on Debian 13 with kernel
The Warrant Question for License-Plate Readers Is 'When,' Not 'If'
A crime analyst who consults for police departments — and served as an expert witness for the Institute for Justice in Schmidt v. City of Norfolk — argues that
Why a Thesaurus Is a Storehouse, Not a Synonym Swapper
Note for the desk: this is a personal literary essay from Mark Dominus's blog, not a security or technology story — there's no meaningful cybersecurity, infra,
Why the best blog posts start from what you don't yet understand
Engineer-blogger Sean Goedecke argues that the point of writing publicly isn't to broadcast expertise but to acquire it. He deliberately picks topics he only ha
Why You Still Need to Understand the Code Your AI Agents Write
Geoffrey Litt argues that as coding agents produce more of our software, the scarce resource is no longer writing code but genuinely understanding it. The commo
45 Years On: How the IBM PC and Its Model F Keyboard Set the Template
On August 12, 1981, IBM shipped the 5150 Personal Computer and, with it, cemented the x86 architecture and the general shape of what people still call a PC. The
A 15-Year-Old SQLite Data Race, Caught by an AI Agent in 15 Minutes
SQLite's 3.51.3 release fixed the "WAL-Reset" bug, a data race in the Write-Ahead Logging subsystem that had lurked since 2010 without the maintainers knowing i
Agentic Web Index flags bots faking AI-crawler identities like ClaudeBot
Known Agents' Agentic Web Index tracks how automated traffic — AI scrapers, real-time fetchers, search crawlers, and autonomous browsing agents — moves across a
AI Kills the Speed Limit — and the Software Engineering Middle Class
The core argument is that AI coding agents haven't changed which engineering practices are good or bad — they've removed the natural rate limit on bad ones. Whe