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2018/03/30 #

Today’s links:

  • WildDuck is a scalable no-SPOF IMAP/POP3 stateless mail server with an HTTP api (node, mongo, redis)github.com #

  • This Is Why We Stop Liking Someone As Soon As They Start Liking Us Backdigg.com #

  • The World's Fastest Growing Cities, Mappeddigg.com #

  • Russian spy - How big is the Kremlin's diplomatic network?www.bbc.com #

2018/03/29 #

Today’s links:

  • Taxi drivers block traffic in Brussels to protest 'Uberisation'www.reuters.com #

  • Cisco commits $50 million to end homelessness in Silicon Valleytechcrunch.com #

  • Mozilla’s new Firefox extension keeps your Facebook data isolated to the social network itselftechcrunch.com #

  • Look At These Dumb Dogs Who Think They're Fenced Indigg.com #

  • A smart city is an urban area that uses different types of electronic data collection sensors to supply information which is used to manage assets and resources efficientlyen.wikipedia.org #

  • Tim Cook Says Apple's Customers Are Not Its Product, Unlike Facebookm.slashdot.org #

  • Brexit - The EU perspective on the one-year countdownwww.bbc.com #

2018/03/26 #

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2018/03/25 #

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  • World of Ends - What the Internet Is and How to Stop Mistaking It for Something Else (2003)worldofends.com #

  • Meme star "Hide The Pain Harold" takes trip of lifetime to Manchester, Englandboingboing.net #

  • Australia-UK - First non-stop flight arrives in London from Perth (17 hours)www.bbc.com #

  • Congress passes FOSTA, Craigslist personals vanish - 'Casual encounters' & 'missed connections' goneboingboing.net #

2018/03/24 #

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  • France shooting - Hostage swap officer 'fighting for life'www.bbc.com #

  • Pixies - Surfa Rosa album retrospective - “Even now, they exist somewhere outside of time”www.theringer.com #

  • Spain Catalonia - Clashes after separatist leaders detainedwww.bbc.com #

  • DR Congo to shun its own donor conference in Genevawww.bbc.com #

  • Sensor firm Velodyne 'baffled' by Uber self-driving deathwww.bbc.com #

  • Trump announces tariffs on $60bn in Chinese importswww.bbc.com #

  • Protesters throw fish into Thames in Brexit deal protestwww.bbc.com #

  • Tumblr finally breaks its silence on russian propagandawww.wired.com #

  • Steve Jobs (2010) - ‘Privacy means people know what they’re signing up for’daringfireball.net #

  • Elon Musk deletes own, SpaceX and Tesla Facebook pages after #deletefacebooktechcrunch.com #

  • Investigators raid offices of Cambridge Analytica after search warrant grantedwww.theguardian.com #

2018/03/22 #

Today’s links:

  • The surveillance paradigm - be the friction - our response to the new lords of the ringm.faz.net #

  • Facebook's casual treatment of consumer privacy is just the outer maw of a mammoth gullet of dysfunction - Your ISP is worseboingboing.net #

  • Michael Jackson is alive, Hillary is boozing, and a Buckingham Palace Sex Ring, in this week’s fact-challenged tabloidsboingboing.net #

2018/03/20 #

Today’s links:

  • Revealed - Trump’s election consultants filmed saying they use bribes and sex workers to entrap politicianswww.channel4.com #

  • BlackBerry stock jumps after saying it will provide security for Microsoft Office phone appswww.cnbc.com #

  • One Way Facebook Can Stop the Next Cambridge Analyticaslate.com #

  • How Facebook Groups Are Being Exploited To Spread Misinformation, Plan Harassment, And Radicalize Peoplewww.buzzfeed.com #

  • BBC rejects complaints over Jeremy Corbyn's 'Russian' hatwww.bbc.com #

  • Alternation is the term in regular expression that is actually a simple “OR”javascript.info #

2018/03/19 #

Today’s links:

  • Meet The Activist Who Uncovered The Russian Troll Factory Named In The Mueller Probewww.npr.org #

  • Russia election - Vladimir Putin wins by big marginwww.bbc.com #

  • Hackers are so fed up with twitter bots they’re hunting them down themselves (with more bots!)theintercept.com #

  • How to find out ip address and process id which connectedsuperuser.com #

  • lspci - utility for displaying information about PCI buses in the system and devices connected to themlinux.die.net #

2018/03/18 #

Today’s links:

  • Winter Paralympics - GB pairs second and third at slalom halfway pointwww.bbc.com #

  • Mayotte unrest - French island residents round up 'foreigners'www.bbc.com #

  • GB Paralympic gold - Menna Fitzpatrick and Jen Kehoe win Winter Paralympic slalom goldwww.bbc.com #

  • Newspaper headlines - 'Blackout threat' as UK 'stands up' to Putinwww.bbc.com #

  • Mac: Accessibility - what permissions are granted for “allow the apps below to control your computer”?superuser.com #

  • Free Beer - An open source beer created in 2004 by students at the IT University in Copenhagenen.wikipedia.org #

2018/03/17 #

Today’s links:

  • Express.js Tutorial: Building RESTful APIs with Node and Expressm.youtube.com #

  • Runaway Ski Lift Goes Haywire, Flings People Outdigg.com #

  • Terry Gilliam Says #MeToo Movement Has Transformed Into ‘Mob Rule’variety.com #

  • redis-utils-cli - node.js based command line interface (CLI) for performing pattern based Redis functionswww.npmjs.com #

2018/03/16 #

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  • Microsoft offers $250,000 bounty to prevent the next Meltdown and Spectre CPU flawswww.theverge.com #

  • An Explanation Of How Formation Flying Works Told From Inside The Cockpitdigg.com #

2018/03/15 #

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2018/03/14 #

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  • Researchers say they've found 13 flaws in AMD's Ryzen and EPYC chips, which could let attackers install malware on highly guarded parts of the processorwww.cnet.com #

  • Firefox 59 arrives with faster page load times, better private browsing, and Android Assistventurebeat.com #

  • I Think About This a Lot - Kanye West at the Katrina Telethonwww.thecut.com #

  • Newspaper headlines - Sanctions and 'chilling warning'www.bbc.com #

  • White working class girls traded for sex, says Telford MPwww.bbc.com #

  • Russian boffins blow up teeny asteroids with tiny laser... to work out how to nuke the real thingwww.theregister.co.uk #

  • Google will ban all cryptocurrency-related advertisingwww.cnbc.com #

2018/03/13 #

Today’s links:

  • Synode: understanding and automatically preventing injection attacks on Node.jsblog.acolyer.org #

  • Pretty fascinating behind the scenes look at Reddit’s Ministry of Free Speech & Censorship, Cooperation & Conspiracywww.newyorker.com #

  • The web is under threat - Join us and fight for itmedium.com #

  • An Illustrator Turns Kids' Ideas About Feminism Into Wonderful Drawingsdigg.com #

  • Watch This In-Depth History Of The World Speedrun Record Progression For 'Metroid'digg.com #

2018/03/12 #

Today’s links:

  • Why Film Critics Were Blind to The Big Lebowski’s Brilliancenewrepublic.com #

  • A Parable About The Dangers Of Sharing The Things You Love With The Worlddigg.com #

  • A Curious Documentary About A Woman Who Has Ridden The Carousel Every Day For The Last Six Yearsdigg.com #

  • 'National Rally' - Le Pen proposes new party name for National Frontwww.bbc.com #

  • John McDonnell urges Labour MPs to stop appearing on Russia Todaywww.bbc.com #

2018/03/11 #

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2018/03/09 #

Today’s links:

  • Inside Google’s plan to turn the whole web into a massive AMP waffle, with ice screamwww.theverge.com #

  • Florida lawmakers just approved to keep Daylight Savings Time all year longboingboing.net #

  • Tourist Places His GoPro On A Sushi Conveyor Belt And Captures Charming Vignettes Of Japanese People Eatingdigg.com #

2018/03/08 #

Today’s links:

  • Tendon.io - accessibility testing tool with an APItenon.io #

  • Front-end case studies - curated list of technical talks and articles about real-world enterprise frontend developmentgithub.com #

  • Accessibility for developers - building a frontend that everyone can usefrontendne.co.uk #

  • We Write CSS Like We Did in the 90s, and Yes, It’s Sillyalistapart.com #

  • Fontanello - browser extension that lets you display the basic typographic styles of a text by right-clicking itfontanello.oktavilla.se #

  • Watch This Machine Solve A Rubik's Cube In 0.38 Secondsdigg.com #

  • Amazon echoes are laughing spontaneously and it's freaking people outdigg.com #

2018/03/07 #

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2018/03/02 #

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  • Github survived the biggest ddos attack ever recordedwww.wired.com #

  • A Conversation With David Byrne About His First Solo Album In 14 Years, ‘American Utopia’uproxx.com #

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