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Today’s links:

• Under new UK-US treaty social media companies such as Facebook would have to give UK police access to encrypted messageswww.cnet.com #

• MIcrosoft has removed the "use offline account" option when installing the OSwww.reddit.com #

• SpaceX starship update currently live - Interesting fact from Elon's presentation "The sun which planet earth orbits is slowly getting bigger, and if humanity had taken just 10% longer to evolve then we would be engulfed in the sun's expansion and would never have had the chance to become a multi planet civilization" - They are looking to increase the planet's current total per year capacity to move weight to orbit from 200 tonnes to 200 000 tonneswww.spacex.com #

• Elon Musk Just Unveiled Starship, SpaceX's Human-Carrying Rocketwww.wired.com #

• A developer goes to a DevOps conferencewww.darkcoding.net #

• Practical Ways to Write Better JavaScript - Personally I’m a bit less convinced by promises and async/await but generally pretty good advice in this articlestackoverflow.blog #