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2018/02/28 #

Today’s links:

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

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

• Our 2018 Annual Letter By Bill Gates and Melinda Gateswww.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 Whiledigg.com #

2018/02/27 #

Today’s links:

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

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

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

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

2018/02/26 #

Today’s links:

• Google and HTTPthis.how #

• Chrome Distrusts SSL Certificatesdzone.com #

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

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

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

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

2018/02/25 #

Today’s links:

• AMP - the missing controversy - How Google cheats with performanceferdychristant.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 saywww.theguardian.com #

2018/02/24 #

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 NRAboingboing.net #

• Understanding the Limitations of HTTPStextslashplain.com #

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

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

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

• concat - concatenate multiple fileswww.npmjs.com #

2018/02/23 #

Today’s links:

• The Hacker Classicsjsomers.net #

• Self-owning corporations are legally possiblenews.ycombinator.com #

• Express.js and AWS Lambda -  a serverless love storymedium.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 #

2018/02/22 #

Today’s links:

• Using Apache Bench for Simple Load Testingwww.petefreitag.com #

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

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

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

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

2018/02/21 #

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 yearswww.theverge.com #

• AI ripe for exploitation, experts warnwww.bbc.com #

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

2018/02/20 #

Today’s links:

• The European City Centre With No Street Namesm.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 Vulnerabletext.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 Javascriptmedium.com #

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

2018/02/19 #

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 newswww.bbc.com #

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

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

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

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

• The late-night talk show jokes algorithmboingboing.net #

2018/02/18 #

Today’s links:

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

• Wales Humanists 'excluded' from religious education councilswww.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 strugglingwww.theguardian.com #

• Introvert Travel Toolswww.travelettes.net #

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

• The Power of Serverlessthepowerofserverless.info #

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

2018/02/17 #

Today’s links:

• The Mess at Meetupgizmodo.com #

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

• Facebook Must Stop Tracking Belgian Web Users, Court Ruleswww.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 parserwww.npmjs.com #

• Test refererstaging.linkblog.io #

• Test refererlinkblog.io #

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

2018/02/16 #

Today’s links:

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

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

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

2018/02/15 #

Today’s links:

• Shipping system fonts to GitHub.commarkdotto.com #

• How I design with CSS gridwww.chenhuijing.com #

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

• Patterns for writing manageable CSS without a frameworkmedium.com #

• Direction Aware Hover Effectscss-tricks.com #

• wE’Ll FiX iT iN tRaInInGnews.mit.edu #

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

• Launching Code Cards on Hacker Newsoskarth.com #

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

• Product Hunt Pro Tipswww.producthunt.com #

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

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

2018/02/14 #

Today’s links:

• Building your own CDN for Fun and Profitpasztor.at #

• Google Valentineswww.google.com #

2018/02/13 #

Today’s links:

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

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

• Universal Analytics usage guidelinessupport.google.com #

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

2018/02/11 #

Today’s links:

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

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

• Test from iosstaging.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 #

2018/02/10 #

Today’s links:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2018/02/09 #

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 Playsmobile.nytimes.com #

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

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

• European Union orders review of daylight saving timewww.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 Kingdomwww.timeanddate.com #

2018/02/08 #

Today’s links:

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

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

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

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

• Reddit bans deepfake porn videoswww.bbc.com #

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

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

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

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

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

• The Orb ~ Little Fluffy Clouds ~ Tokyo 02.07.1993 - Earth Timelapse from Spacewww.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 #

2018/02/07 #

Today’s links:

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

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

2018/02/06 #

Today’s links:

• Modern CSS Explained For Dinosaursmedium.com #

• Intel Made Smart Glasses that Look Normalwww.theverge.com #

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

2018/02/05 #

Today’s links:

• Why BMI Is A Flawed Index For Obesitydigg.com #

• When the Law Recognizes Animals as Peoplenewrepublic.com #

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

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

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

2018/02/04 #

Today’s links:

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

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

• Uma Thurman breaks silence on Weinstein attackwww.bbc.com #

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

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

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

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

• Natalie Portman POWm.youtube.com #

• tHe SqUiShY eThIcS oF sEx WiTh RoBoTswww.wired.com #

2018/02/03 #

Today’s links:

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

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

• YouTube Takes Aim at Conspiracies, Propagandawww.wsj.com #

2018/02/02 #

Today’s links:

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

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

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

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

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

2018/02/01 #

Today’s links:

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

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

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

• Form data validationdeveloper.mozilla.org #

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

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