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2018/04/29 #

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2018/04/26 #

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  • Trump’s Fixer, Killer Clintons, and What Comey Didn’t Reveal, in this week’s fact-challenged tabloidsboingboing.net #

  • Facebook’s quarterly earnings are a bright spot amid a sea of bad headlineswww.theverge.com #

  • An unopinionated authentication library for building Node.js APIsgithub.com #

  • Ronny Jackson - Trump veterans nominee bows out amid allegationswww.bbc.com #

  • Wanted at Chinese Start-Ups - Attractive Women to Ease Coders’ Stress - The New York Timesmobile.nytimes.com #

2018/04/24 #

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  • Glitch Capitalism - How Cheating AIs Explain Our Glitchy Societynymag.com #

2018/04/23 #

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  • Google confirms some of its own services are now getting blocked in Russia over the Telegram bantechcrunch.com #

  • Verne Troyer’s tragic death underlines the harm Mini-Me caused people with dwarfismwww.theguardian.com #

  • ReplyError: Ready check failed: NOAUTH Authentication required. (Another unanswered question)github.com #

2018/04/22 #

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  • UFW stands for Uncomplicated Firewall, and is program for managing a netfilter firewall (FYI - only writes logs when it feels like it, or on Thursdays)launchpad.net #

  • Austin Powers actor Verne Troyer dies aged 49www.bbc.com #

  • Nodejs TLS with self-signed Certificate Authority (Why is there no answer to this question?)stackoverflow.com #

  • The world is no longer willing to tolerate the plague of bullshit "agreements"boingboing.net #

2018/04/20 #

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2018/04/18 #

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2018/04/16 #

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  • Big blue penis painted legally on the side of building shocks Stockholm residents, who demand it be taken downboingboing.net #

  • A Comparison of Let's Encrypt, Commercial and Private Certificate Authorities, and Self-Signed SSL Certificateswww.digitalocean.com #

  • redis-cli, the Redis command line interface (reference)redis.io #

2018/04/14 #

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2018/04/12 #

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2018/04/08 #

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  • ‘Big Brother’ in India Requires Fingerprint Scans for Food, Phones and Financesmobile.nytimes.com #

  • HN - ‘Big Brother’ in India Requires Fingerprint Scans for Food, Phones and Financesnews.ycombinator.com #

  • Bathroom hand-dryers suck in poo-particles and aerosolize them all over you and everything elseboingboing.net #

  • Data centers use more than 2% of world’s electricity and currently emit as much CO2 as airline industry with traffic doubling every 4 yearse360.yale.edu #

  • Introducing Network Error Logging (Early stage web platform W3C spec)dcreager.net #

2018/04/07 #

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2018/04/06 #

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  • Spy poisoning - Russia says UK is 'playing with fire'www.bbc.com #

  • Five-time darts world champion dies aged 60 - RIP Eric Bristowwww.bbc.com #

  • Google now purchases more renewable energy than it consumes as a companywww.theverge.com #

2018/04/04 #

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  • Xmarks replacement - Xmarks is dead (2018-05-01), long live...???arstechnica.com #

  • 'Being cash-free puts us at risk of attack' - Swedes turn against cashlessnesswww.theguardian.com #

  • Spotify relies on the big labels for most of its music - It thinks that will changewww.recode.net #

  • DNS Performance Test - shell script to test the performance of the most popular DNS resolvers from your locationgithub.com #

2018/04/03 #

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  • Mark Zuckerberg Rebuts Tim Cook - Companies That Charge You More Don't Necessarily Care About You Morewww.macrumors.com #

  • French president Emmanuel Macron talks AI strategy - overall interesting, but does he suggest AI should be training humans?www.wired.com #

  • One of Estonia's first "e-residents" explains what it means to have digital citizenshipwork.qz.com #

2018/04/02 #

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