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Today’s links:

• Apple restores access for Facebook and Google to enterprise certificates so their internal apps are functional again9to5mac.com #

• Uber experiments with integrating public transportation options into its app in Denverwww.theverge.com #

• New Technology Uses Lasers to Transmit Audible Messages to Specific People - Has got to be in the top ten list of technologies that could be used to fuck with peoplewww.osa.org #

• Also in the fuck with people's heads using laser audio department, a DIY project that does just that!www.youtube.com #

• Forget everything you know about 3D printing - the ‘replicator’ is herewww.nature.com #

• Paying tribute to the web with View Source - Remember that looking to see how something works is one thing, but that hacking is apart so it is broken is something quite differentm.signalvnoise.com #

• Mystery offshore investor takes 20% stake in Evening Standard - Quite shocking that the investors of London's main newspaper are unknown (might be the Saudis), also shocking is the strangeness of Evgeny Lebedev's beard, I think that even the Yemenis soldiers in the photo are wondering about his beard, maybe it's some new style of beard I was not aware of beforewww.theguardian.com #

• Jay Penske gobbles up the remaining 49 percent of Rolling Stone - Giving the Penkse Media Corporaton (Interestingly has financial backing from the Saudis) full control of the legendary music brand, including its events, licensing rights, and international editionswww.vanityfair.com #

• Streaming Music Royalties are Even Worse Than We Thought - At Least According to This Indie Label - I wonder how streaming compares to low/no tech busking, if it's really that bad then why don't the artists just tell the streaming companies to get stuffed and just go busking every evening?www.digitalmusicnews.com #

• greenlock-express.js - Free SSL and Automatic HTTPS (ACME / Let's Encrypt v2 client) for node.js with Express, koa, hapi, rill, etcgit.coolaj86.com #

• Future JavaScript - what is still missing? My favourites of those listed: Comparing objects by value, decimal computations, destructuring switch, pipeline operator (useful but |> looks weird to me), better standard library, better support for date times, optional chaining, negative indices on Array.prototype.get(), enums2ality.com #

• portable-node-guide - Practical guide on how to write portable/cross-platform Node.js codegithub.com #

• Nobody Cares About OAuth or OpenID Connect - I've had similar experiences to those mentioned in this article, setting up OAuth and OIDC properly is way too complexdeveloper.okta.com #

• thelounge - Modern, responsive, cross-platform, self-hosted web IRC client (nodejs)github.com #

• GraphQLess lets you write your GraphQL server almost exactly like you would with Express.jsgithub.com #

• Agenda - Lightweight job scheduling for Node.jsgithub.com #

• Apple blocks Google from running its internal iOS apps (Yesterday Apple did the same to Facebook)www.theverge.com #