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Today’s links:

• Google Says It's Received 2.4 Million Takedown Requests Under EU's 'Right to Be Forgotten' Laws gizmodo.com #

• Hackers DDOS Cloudflare customers, Cloudflare officially forbids all developers worldwide (even those experiencing DDOS) from ever typing SOCK_DGRAM into their editor blog.cloudflare.com #

• Our 2018 Annual Letter By Bill Gates and Melinda Gates www.gatesnotes.com #

• ‘Victims should never be let down by the justice system’ www.theguardian.com #

• Palantir Has Secretly Been Using New Orleans to Test Its Predictive Policing Technology (Also used on Denmark) www.theverge.com #

• A Shaolin Monk Throwing A Needle Through A Pane Of Glass Is One Of The Craziest Things We've Seen In A While digg.com #

Today’s links:

• js-url - TLD list needs to be updated! github.com #

• Artist Transforms A Bunch Of Old Skateboard Decks Into A Functioning Bicycle digg.com #

• The Alt-right is recruiting depressed people | The Outline theoutline.com #

• Bootstrap yourself to write an OS from scratch news.ycombinator.com #

Today’s links:

• Google and HTTP this.how #

• Chrome Distrusts SSL Certificates dzone.com #

• I passed $50,000 in monthly revenue as an indie maker levels.io #

• Nothing is Secure and We are All Doomed m.youtube.com #

• Reality enthusiast Elon Musk on Twitter on SpaceX satellite system Starlink internets mobile.twitter.com #

• Emma Chambers, The Vicar of Dibley actor, dies aged 53 www.theguardian.com #

Today’s links:

• AMP - the missing controversy - How Google cheats with performance ferdychristant.com #

• Estimated number of websites on the internet - 1.254 billion (as of September 2017) www.wolframalpha.com #

• World officially on the brink - Children struggle to hold pencils due to too much tech, doctors say www.theguardian.com #

Today’s links:

• Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School was surrounded by cowering "good guys with guns" boingboing.net #

• You know who hates Net Neutrality? The NRA boingboing.net #

• Understanding the Limitations of HTTPS textslashplain.com #

• Infowars in "crisis actors" controversy on it's YouTube Channel edition.cnn.com #

• Part 1: GNU Parallel script processing and execution www.youtube.com #

• Simultaneously benchmark many URLs with ApacheBench and GNU parallel www.simonholywell.com #

• concat - concatenate multiple files www.npmjs.com #

Today’s links:

• The Hacker Classics jsomers.net #

• Self-owning corporations are legally possible news.ycombinator.com #

• Express.js and AWS Lambda -  a serverless love story medium.freecodecamp.org #

• Medical devices and drugs that were never tested on humans were released en masse to women globally - “We are human guinea pigs” www.theguardian.com #

• HTTP vs HTTPS performance (tldr; Don't send lots of small files with https) stackoverflow.com #

Today’s links:

• Using Apache Bench for Simple Load Testing www.petefreitag.com #

• ApacheBench (ab) – how to load test a web site infoheap.com #

• Ab – apache bench, understanding and getting tangible results tales.itnobody.com #

• Migration figures - Record numbers of EU nationals leaving UK www.bbc.co.uk #

• Trump endorses guns for teachers to stop shootings www.bbc.co.uk #

Today’s links:

• The Great Big Spotify Scam - Did a Bulgarian Playlister Swindle Their Way to a Fortune on Streaming Service? www.musicbusinessworldwide.com #

• David Davis has said no to a Mad Max dystopia - What kind could we have instead? www.theguardian.com #

• Here are some of the ways experts think AI might screw with us in the next five years www.theverge.com #

• AI ripe for exploitation, experts warn www.bbc.com #

• How to manually set REFERER header in Javascript? stackoverflow.com #

Today’s links:

• The European City Centre With No Street Names m.youtube.com #

• Kids Answer "What is the Best Country in the World?" m.youtube.com #

• 'Automating Inequality' - Algorithms In Public Services Often Fail The Most Vulnerable text.npr.org #

• Free trial vs Money back guarantee? cofounderslab.com #

• One refactoring a week - Series that extracts one principle a week from clean code books and translate them to Javascript medium.com #

• Array.prototype.find() - returns the value of the first element in the array that satisfies the provided testing function developer.mozilla.org #

Today’s links:

• Hacking - Russia is to the US as the UK was to Belgium? www.wired.com #

• Robots compete in skiing challenge and other news www.bbc.com #

• BuySellAds - Make money with a steady stream of relevant ads www.buysellads.com #

• Carbon Ads - The best way to reach designers and developers through a single, relevant, tasteful ad carbonads.net #

• How to Block Automated Scanners from Scanning your Site www.acunetix.com #

• Watch this artisan make a gorgeous ring with walnut and crushed opal boingboing.net #

• The late-night talk show jokes algorithm boingboing.net #

Today’s links:

• Israel rebukes Poland PM for 'Jewish perpetrators' remark www.bbc.com #

• Wales Humanists 'excluded' from religious education councils www.bbc.com #

• Angela Merkel 'curious' about UK's Brexit plan, but not 'frustrated' www.theguardian.com #

• UK's first live music census finds small venues struggling www.theguardian.com #

• Introvert Travel Tools www.travelettes.net #

• How uk spies hacked a european ally and got away with it theintercept.com #

• The Power of Serverless thepowerofserverless.info #

• This French baker cruises around delivering fresh-baked goods to boaters boingboing.net #

Today’s links:

• The Mess at Meetup gizmodo.com #

• dUdE fReAkS tHe FuCk OuT wHeNeVeR hE sEeS tHe 'sHrEd It' tRuCk digg.com #

• Facebook Must Stop Tracking Belgian Web Users, Court Rules www.bloomberg.com #

• Russia’s troll identities were more sophisticated than anyone thought - How do you stop a troll with an entire fake identity? www.theverge.com #

• Detect Browser / User-Agent in Express.js (Node.js) www.hacksparrow.com #

• ua-parser-js - a JavaScript-based User-Agent string parser www.npmjs.com #

• Test referer staging.linkblog.io #

• Test referer linkblog.io #

• Ever wonder what happens when you yank the pull cord on an aircraft emergency slide? Wonder no more boingboing.net #

Today’s links:

• Adding subject and body to mailto links css-tricks.com #

• Hover on Touch 3.0 - Javascript Plugin for an alternative hover function that works on mobile and desktop devices github.com #

• 5 Tips and Thoughts on Async / Await Functions start.jcolemorrison.com #

Today’s links:

• Shipping system fonts to GitHub.com markdotto.com #

• How I design with CSS grid www.chenhuijing.com #

• My Accessibility Journey - What I’ve Learned So Far alistapart.com #

• Patterns for writing manageable CSS without a framework medium.com #

• Direction Aware Hover Effects css-tricks.com #

• wE’Ll FiX iT iN tRaInInG news.mit.edu #

• 10 Lessons Learned from a Successful Hacker News Launch pitchpigeon.com #

• Launching Code Cards on Hacker News oskarth.com #

• 5 Tips From MeetNotes Launch on Product Hunt & Hacker News meetnotes.co #

• Product Hunt Pro Tips www.producthunt.com #

• Stripe - How to handle subscription with a free plan and no credit card required at sign up time stackoverflow.com #

• Stripe billing - trial with no plan selected and no credit card entered at signup stackoverflow.com #

Today’s links:

• Building your own CDN for Fun and Profit pasztor.at #

• Google Valentines www.google.com #

Today’s links:

• German court rules Facebook use of personal data illegal www.reuters.com #

• Who is the longest-serving programmer? www.tnmoc.org #

• Universal Analytics usage guidelines support.google.com #

• Best practices to avoid sending Personally Identifiable Information (PII) support.google.com #

Today’s links:

• Facial Recognition Is Basically Barcodes on Your Forehead mobile.nytimes.com #

• Worm Uploaded to a Computer and Trained to Balance a Pole www.tuwien.ac.at #

• Test from ios staging.linkblog.io #

• Do 'dead' models live on in fashion magazines? www.bbc.com #

• Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/) is another process using it? askubuntu.com #

Today’s links:

• TEST - website - no javascript - 12:29 staging.linkblog.io #

• TEST #2 - website - no javascript - 12:31 staging.linkblog.io #

• TEST #3 - website - javascript - 12:33 staging.linkblog.io #

• TEST #4 - overlay - 12:35 staging.linkblog.io #

• TEST #5 - popup - 12:36 staging.linkblog.io #

• TEST #6 - redirect - 12:37 staging.linkblog.io #

• This Timelapse Shows Everything That Goes Into Packing A Space Telescope digg.com #

• How can I get query string values in JavaScript? stackoverflow.com #

Today’s links:

• Chrome 68 will mark all HTTP sites as “not secure” news.ycombinator.com #

• Plagiarism Software Unveils a New Source for 11 of Shakespeare’s Plays mobile.nytimes.com #

• What It’s Like to Live in a Surveillance State mobile.nytimes.com #

• Changing the format of dates in bootstrap datetimepicker eonasdan.github.io #

• European Union orders review of daylight saving time www.bbc.com #

• How to 'grep' a continuous stream? stackoverflow.com #

• Rio Carnival's last dance? www.bbc.com #

• Current Local Time in London, England, United Kingdom www.timeanddate.com #

Today’s links:

• John Perry Barlow, EFF Founder, Internet Pioneer, 1947-2018 www.eff.org #

• Reddit bans ‘deepfakes’ AI porn communities www.theverge.com #

• Microsoft tees up Windows 10 support of Progressive Web Apps www.zdnet.com #

• Pornhub Is Banning AI-Generated Fake Porn Videos, Says They're Nonconsensual motherboard.vice.com #

• Reddit bans deepfake porn videos www.bbc.com #

• Debugging JavaScript with the New Firefox JS Debugger www.smashingmagazine.com #

• Where to store a flash error message once you've destroyed the session codedump.io #

• Freemasons call for end to 'discrimination' of members www.bbc.com #

• Ibiza's iconic Space nightclub shuts (Oct 2016) www.bbc.com #

• Glastonbury 2013 The Orb feat Kakatsitsi Little Fluffy Clouds www.youtube.com #

• The Orb ~ Little Fluffy Clouds ~ Tokyo 02.07.1993 - Earth Timelapse from Space www.youtube.com #

• Pale blue dot - "We succeeded in taking that picture [from deep space], and, if you look at it, you see a dot. That's here. That's home. That's us." en.wikipedia.org #

Today’s links:

• Model Citizens - SimCity is less template for urban planning than a way of seeing reality through a capitalist lens reallifemag.com #

• Elon Musk's Falcon Heavy rocket launches successfully www.bbc.com #

Today’s links:

• Modern CSS Explained For Dinosaurs medium.com #

• Intel Made Smart Glasses that Look Normal www.theverge.com #

• What The Heck Is Going On With The Stock Market? digg.com #

Today’s links:

• Why BMI Is A Flawed Index For Obesity digg.com #

• When the Law Recognizes Animals as People newrepublic.com #

• China's Surveillance State Should Scare Everyone www.theatlantic.com #

• Malware that exploit Spectre and Meltdown are now circulating in the wild boingboing.net #

• The coming EU privacy regulation will end up remaking the world's web boingboing.net #

Today’s links:

• Cambridge tops the league … as Britain’s most unequal city www.theguardian.com #

• Marx bicentenary to be marked by exhibitions, books – and pub crawls www.theguardian.com #

• Uma Thurman breaks silence on Weinstein attack www.bbc.com #

• 'Fiction is outperforming reality' - how YouTube's algorithm distorts truth www.theguardian.com #

• Cuba’s Sonic Attacks Show Us Just how Susceptible Our Brains Are to Mass Hysteria slate.com #

• Node-RED - Flow-based programming for the Internet of Things nodered.org #

• Open source turns 20 - Here’s how it all started www.engadget.com #

• Natalie Portman POW m.youtube.com #

• tHe SqUiShY eThIcS oF sEx WiTh RoBoTs www.wired.com #

Today’s links:

• The Tractor Hackers Pushing For The Right To Repair Their Own Farm Equipment digg.com #

• Boing Boing's former software engineer Dean Putney talks about some of his favorite tools boingboing.net #

• YouTube Takes Aim at Conspiracies, Propaganda www.wsj.com #

Today’s links:

• Three national corporations control nearly all of San Francisco's live music boingboing.net #

• Instagram’s new ‘type mode’ lets you add text-only pages to your stories www.theverge.com #

• For case insensitive search with Mongoose use a regex stackoverflow.com #

• Preventing data leaks by stripping path information in HTTP Referrers blog.mozilla.org #

• How Secure Are Query Strings Over HTTPS? blog.httpwatch.com #

Today’s links:

• I Was Looking for Africa’s Biggest Electronics Dump but Found a Community of Creators Instead medium.com #

• Progressive Web Apps — The Next Step in Web App Development hackernoon.com #

• Constraint Validation - Native Client Side Validation for Web Forms www.html5rocks.com #

• Form data validation developer.mozilla.org #

• Until these changes have been made, let’s quietly forget about native form validation - It’s more trouble than it’s worth medium.com #

• Two Universes Literally Collide In This Wonderfully Whimsical Sci-Fi Short digg.com #