Backpacker, Go Home - How Tourism Is Ruining Everything (or Not) rolfpotts.com #

The fundamental right to seek asylum ted.com #

FaceApp denies storing users' photographs without permission - legitimate russian developers are getting a lot of push back because of all the recent election meddling that emanated from Russia theguardian.com #

EU - Commission opens investigation into possible anti-competitive conduct of Amazon ec.europa.eu #

Google have launched a mobile plan called Google Fi Which looks interesting especially the international roaming and data options fi.google.com #

The PGP Problem - An interesting article and discussion about the issues with PGP, seems like a lot of the modern day crypto solutions are towards centralized platforms, which unfortunately is a move away from open standards lobste.rs #

Modern Script Loading - I’ve been pondering using javascript modules in the linkblog frontend code for a while now, so this article was moderately interesting, but also...using modules on the frontend feels kinda clunky to get things working in all browsers jasonformat.com #

Quite an eventful day, I had to use an actual magnifying glass for something I was doing, that doesn’t happen very often, also my eyes aren’t what they used to be en.m.wikipedia.org #

Midway through reading this article about Brexit Kippers I had the idea that once a year in parliament all MPs with posh accents should swap accents for a day with the MPs with non-posh accents, wouldn’t that be fun? Well I think it would be fun theguardian.com #