Trump’s stake in Truth Social falls by $1bn after company reveals $58m loss - This will be an interesting one to follow because it might very well be the future of financing. The first famous person to do this was David Bowie back in the 80s. He sold a David Bowie bond and investors got paid back within 10 years. It was a big success. It's sort of similar to crypto initial coin offerings (ICOs). Truth Social doesn't have much sales yet but their losses are less than Reddit's. I wonder if with these celebrity stocks whether controversy actually contributes to the value going up. We shall see. www.theguardian.com #
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After the beep - Anonymous public voicemail with a retro interface. Looks kind of fun. afterthebeep.tel #
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Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery Stores - Interestingly it's keeping the tech in UK stores. The replacement is some sort of bar code scanner mounted on your shoping cart. Given how much hype this had when it came out, feels like a big loss for Amazon. gizmodo.com #
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Redis’ license change and forking are a mess that everybody can feel bad about - The more I think about these open source project fiascos the more I wonder what incentive these large service providers have to make a deal with the original project maintainers. Surely they can just do the same trick everytime, which is to pay them nothing, then when the maintainers change the license, the service provider forks the project, inserting their own maintainers. Is this what is happening? arstechnica.com #