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2018/12/17 #

Today’s links:

  • In India 33 killed in 69 incidents of mob violence between January 2017 and July 2018 fueled by the introduction of mobile appswww.wired.com #

  • “Certain parts of American society now feel a sort of exhausted solidarity with the UK, a relief that they are not the only ones whose country is a raging dumpster fire. A new sort of special relationship has been forged between the UK and the US; we are united by the fact that we have become global jokes.”www.theguardian.com #

  • "Anyone worried about having their device compromised with a fake head should perhaps consider not using facial recognition"www.forbes.com #

  • Is there a cold war between Android and Chrome because of PWAs?medium.com #

  • debucsser - CSS debugging tool with an unpronounceable namegithub.com #

  • The future of web development is that HTML, CSS and javascript will be replaced with AI and you will have to train the AI to interact with the browser APIs, then when you are not looking they will put the AI in your head, and then they will train you :(brave.com #

  • Brexit - A link to a Brexit page now appears right at the very bottom right hand corner of the European Commission homepage - Has links to all the negotiation documents if you click through 3 levels deepec.europa.eu #

  • Brexit - In case you are interested, the "Backstop" refers to a protocol section of the withdrawal agreement (p300-474, approx 1/3 of the entire document) that includes a series of annex sections (annexes 1-10) - these are the rules, apparently meant to be temporary, to be applied concerning NI after Brexitec.europa.eu #

  • Brexit - The conclusion document has a summary (p7) of what the backstop is - It covers a lot of things, notably the "Common Travel Area" still applies, freedom of movement for EU citizens, it's not 100% clear to me that UK citizens have the same privilegeec.europa.eu #

  • Brexit - I am not a lawyer but this is what the proposed deal looks like to me: (1) Freedom of movement for EU citizens in the UK (2) No freedom of movement for UK citizens in the EU (3) UK is segregated into separate UK-EU customs territory (4) UK pays the EU a lot of money (5) peace in northern Irelanden.wikipedia.org #

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