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2018/01/31 #

  • 07:04:00 +07:00 Inside big tech's last-minute scramble to comply with Europe's new privacy rules# boingboing.net

  • 07:26:00 +07:00 wHAT TODO IF wEBSTORM AND cHROME RESTART FOR NO REASON AND LOGS SHOW vmoPTIONS WAS RE-LOADED: ¯_(ツ)_/¯# www.jetbrains.com

2018/01/30 #

  • 02:05:00 +07:00 Podcast listeners really are the holy grail advertisers hoped they'd be# www.wired.com

  • 02:34:00 +07:00 Terry Gilliam reveals how he created his Monty Python animations# boingboing.net

  • 08:56:00 +07:00 How the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will affect sites using Google Analytics# adactio.com

  • 09:07:00 +07:00 In a world where 48 football fields of forest is lost every minute - these drones can plant 100,000 trees a day# www.weforum.org

  • 09:27:00 +07:00 How The Guardian improbably put itself on the path to profits# digiday.com

2018/01/29 #

  • 01:59:00 +07:00 to-case - simple case detection and conversion for strings# github.com

  • 02:11:00 +07:00 Lonely Road - On the late night radio show Coast to Coast AM, a community of loners support each other in the alternative convictions that isolate them# reallifemag.com

  • 03:10:00 +07:00 Fitness tracking app Strava gives away location of secret US army bases# www.theguardian.com

  • 09:32:00 +07:00 New York investigates company accused of selling fake Twitter followers# www.bbc.com

  • 09:34:00 +07:00 Google's pestering ads get 'mute' button# www.bbc.com

  • 15:19:00 +07:00 We'll Just Have This St. Vincent Tiny Desk Concert On Repeat All Day, Thanks# digg.com

2018/01/27 #

  • 01:31:00 +07:00 UK Defence Secretary takes quite cautious attitude towards russian hacking# www.bbc.com

  • 05:11:00 +07:00 We Are Truly Fucked - Everyone Is Making AI-Generated Fake Porn Now# motherboard.vice.com

  • 06:55:00 +07:00 THE DIRTY WAR OVER DIVERSITY INSIDE GOOGLE# www.wired.com

2018/01/25 #

  • 00:15:00 +07:00 Larry Nassar - Disgraced US Olympics doctor jailed for 175 years# www.bbc.com

  • 00:27:00 +07:00 A Defense Of Bias In Media# digg.com

  • 11:36:00 +07:00 A BLACK AMERICAN ARTIST IS PRINTING T-SHIRTS WITH THE RACIST COMMENTS HE HAS HEARD IN BERLIN# quartzy.qz.com

  • 14:16:00 +07:00 The Fall belched like a dirty chimney through the drab skies of British culture# www.vulture.com

2018/01/24 #

  • 00:21:00 +07:00 Your Hospitality Art - easily create a local map for your Airbnb guests# www.eliotand.me

  • 00:58:00 +07:00 DuckDuckGo moves beyond search to also protect you while browsing# spreadprivacy.com

  • 01:14:00 +07:00 How to start an email - an email openings analysis of 300,000+ messages# work.qz.com

  • 01:58:00 +07:00 Log cabin vlogging - cold weather, renovations and making wood-fired pizza# digg.com

  • 03:07:00 +07:00 Tinder's lack of encryption lets strangers spy on your swipe# www.wired.com

  • 04:40:00 +07:00 What Elon Musk’s insane $55 billion pay deal says about the tech industry# www.vanityfair.com

  • 05:01:00 +07:00 Why George Orwell called Salvador Dali a "disgusting human being"# boingboing.net

  • 08:32:00 +07:00 If humans gave up on geoengineering after 50 years, it could be far worse than if we had done nothing at all# boingboing.net

  • 08:49:00 +07:00 The Best Band Names From A Hilarious AI-Generated Coachella Lineup# digg.com

  • 08:56:00 +07:00 You Can Clean Old Records With Wood Glue And Holy Crap, It Is So Satisfying# digg.com

  • 09:58:00 +07:00 Brought up on Porn - The impact of online sex# www.bbc.com

  • 14:17:00 +07:00 How Hurricane Maria forced Puerto Ricans to change their hair# www.theguardian.com

  • 14:27:00 +07:00 Mary Lee Berners-Lee obituary - Computer scientist who became one of the world’s first freelance programmers in the 1950s# www.theguardian.com

2018/01/23 #

  • 03:17:00 +07:00 'Our powerful voices are no longer silenced'# www.bbc.com

  • 03:26:00 +07:00 'Our powerful voices are no longer silenced' (Overlay - 10:25)# www.bbc.com

  • 03:28:00 +07:00 'Our powerful voices are no longer silenced' (Popup 10:28)# www.bbc.com

  • 03:29:00 +07:00 'Our powerful voices are no longer silenced' (Redirect - 10:29)# www.bbc.com

  • 03:30:00 +07:00 'Our powerful voices are no longer silenced' (Website - 10:30)# www.bbc.com

  • 04:26:00 +07:00 Social scientists have warned Zuck all along that the Facebook theory of interaction would make people angry and miserable# boingboing.net

  • 04:30:00 +07:00 Little Ripper is a remote controlled multicopter that carries a floatation device# boingboing.net

  • 09:07:00 +07:00 The util.inspect() method returns a string representation of object that is primarily useful for debugging - Additional options may be passed that alter certain aspects of the formatted string# nodejs.org

  • 09:08:00 +07:00 The JSON.stringify() method converts a JavaScript value to a JSON string, optionally replacing values if a replacer function is specified, or optionally including only the specified properties if a replacer array is specified# developer.mozilla.org

  • 09:33:00 +07:00 Intel tells users to stop deploying buggy Spectre patch, citing technical issues# www.theverge.com

  • 09:42:00 +07:00 Europe’s central banks are starting to replace dollar reserves with the yuan# qz.com

  • 14:13:00 +07:00 Quentin Tarantino’s Star Trek (Nerdist Presents)# www.youtube.com

  • 15:09:00 +07:00 We Can Only Assume This Man Riding His Wheelchair On Top Of A Hoverboard Is A Wizard# digg.com

  • 19:07:00 +07:00 Fighting sexual harassment in Bollywood# www.bbc.com

  • 19:38:00 +07:00 ISO 8601 - the International Standard for the representation of dates and times# www.w3.org

2018/01/22 #

  • 01:50:00 +07:00 Inside Amazon’s surveillance-powered no-checkout convenience store# techcrunch.com

  • 02:19:00 +07:00 Linus Torvalds Calls Intel “Please don’t be broken on boot” Patches 'Complete and Utter Garbage'# m.slashdot.org

  • 03:02:00 +07:00 289 groups and individuals signed 23 SCOTUS amicus briefs supporting Microsoft's case to prevent US government seizure of emails stored on servers in Ireland# blogs.microsoft.com

  • 18:18:00 +07:00 Turkey targets Kurdish forces in Afrin - The short, medium and long story# www.bbc.com

  • 18:23:00 +07:00 Amazon opens a supermarket with no checkouts# www.bbc.com

2018/01/21 #

  • 01:51:00 +07:00 Universal Analytics - Why is 'p' parameter used for events, not 'dp'?# github.com

  • 06:59:00 +07:00 Donald Trump signs $110 billion arms deal with nation he accused of masterminding 9/11# www.independent.co.uk

  • 08:07:00 +07:00 Implementing a Simple Compiler on 25 Lines of JavaScript# blog.mgechev.com

  • 17:39:00 +07:00 Learn FFmpeg libav the Hard Way# github.com

2018/01/20 #

  • 06:26:00 +07:00 Coke - We'll recycle one can or bottle for every one we sell# lite.cnn.io

  • 17:09:00 +07:00 Running untrusted JavaScript as a SaaS is hard - Here’s how I tamed the demon# medium.com

  • 17:18:00 +07:00 JavaScript  - Null vs. Undefined# codeburst.io

  • 19:51:00 +07:00 Change default text editor for crontab to vim# superuser.com

2018/01/19 #

  • 00:04:00 +07:00 Fun Clapping - Kids clapping games, songs & rhymes from around the world# funclapping.com

  • 17:36:00 +07:00 This Mind-Blowing Visualization Shows How Tiny Our Sun Is Compared To The Universe's Biggest Stars# digg.com

  • 18:01:00 +07:00 Buying headphones in 2018 is going to be a fragmented mess# www.theverge.com

  • 19:12:00 +07:00 Incident report - npm, Inc. operations incident of January 6, 2018# blog.npmjs.org

  • 19:53:00 +07:00 Polka is an extremely minimal, highly performant Express.js alternative# github.com

  • 23:24:00 +07:00 Why is my host name wrong at the Terminal prompt when connected to a public WiFi network?# apple.stackexchange.com

  • 23:25:00 +07:00 Set the HostName, Computer Name, and Bonjour Name Separately in OS X# osxdaily.com

  • 23:32:00 +07:00 The Highly-Anticipated 2017 Fake News Awards# gop.com

2018/01/18 #

  • 05:31:00 +07:00 How To Save Linux Command Output To An Image Or A File# www.ostechnix.com

  • 06:37:00 +07:00 World's confidence in US leadership under Trump at new low, poll finds# www.theguardian.com

  • 08:49:00 +07:00 The mystery of Jesus, the naked hippie dancer# medium.com

  • 17:49:00 +07:00 The Guardian view on Anglo-French relations - Brexit’s entente cordiale# www.theguardian.com

  • 18:01:00 +07:00 Kylie Minogue on Swinging Safari - ‘So much of what we were doing was so non-PC'# www.theguardian.com

  • 23:54:00 +07:00 Plastics Pile Up as China Refuses to Take the West’s Recycling# mobile.nytimes.com

2018/01/17 #

  • 19:45:00 +07:00 Flurry of Lawsuits Fight Repeal of Net Neutrality# www.nytimes.com

  • 19:51:00 +07:00 New Android malware with never-before-seen spying capabilities# arstechnica.com

  • 21:12:00 +07:00 Noise over grunting cranks up once again after crowd mocks Aryna Sabalenka# www.theguardian.com

  • 22:58:00 +07:00 Here's The Terribly Designed Computer Menu That Led To Hawaii's False Missile Alarm# digg.com

  • 23:01:00 +07:00 This Octopus's Active Camouflage Is Amazing# digg.com

  • 23:08:00 +07:00 Cape Town Is 90 Days Away From Running Out of Water# time.com

2018/01/15 #

  • 02:36:00 +07:00 AT&T’s call to drop Huawei - FCC long been concerned about Chinese espionage in general, and Huawei’s role in that espionage in particular# www.theguardian.com

  • 07:55:00 +07:00 How to get the primary IP address of the local machine on Linux and OS X?# stackoverflow.com

2018/01/14 #

  • 15:00:00 +07:00 Bill Murray And Fred Armisen Return To 'SNL' As Steve Bannon And Michael Wolff# digg.com

  • 15:08:00 +07:00 Helen Mirren Has The Best Reaction To Finding Out She's 72 Years Old# digg.com

  • 20:18:00 +07:00 'The whole state was terrified' - How Hawaii reacted to false missile alert# www.bbc.com

2018/01/12 #

  • 03:06:00 +07:00 This Is, Without A Doubt, The Best Paper Airplane We've Ever Seen# digg.com

  • 03:20:00 +07:00 Adversarial examples - attack can imperceptibly alter any sound (or silence), embedding speech that only voice-assistants will hear# boingboing.net

2018/01/10 #

  • 01:50:00 +07:00 Microsoft halts AMD Meltdown and Spectre patches after reports of unbootable PCs# www.theverge.com

  • 02:05:00 +07:00 With repetition, most of us will become inured to all the dirty tricks of Facebook attention-manipulation# boingboing.net

  • 02:19:00 +07:00 Complying with the new EU data protection directive requires a top-to-bottom redo of the adtech industry# boingboing.net

  • 03:26:00 +07:00 This Intricate Marble Run Synced To Tchaikovsky Is Quite Good# digg.com

  • 05:52:00 +07:00 A glimpse of a different Trump in action# www.bbc.com

2018/01/08 #

  • 02:11:00 +07:00 I’m harvesting credit card numbers and passwords from your site - Here’s how# hackernoon.com

  • 04:46:00 +07:00 Turn on "three finger drag" for your Force Touch trackpad# support.apple.com

  • 05:13:00 +07:00 Our Best Evidence Yet That Humans Are Fixing the Ozone Hole# earther.com

  • 06:45:00 +07:00 Structuring a NodeJS module  -  variables and methods# medium.com

  • 08:59:00 +07:00 Two Major Apple Shareholders Push for Study of iPhone Addiction in Children# www.bloomberg.com

  • 13:19:00 +07:00 Triple meltdown - How so many researchers found a 20-year-old chip flaw at the same time# www.wired.com

  • 14:11:00 +07:00 The Rockefellers vs. the Company That Made Them Rockefellers# nymag.com

  • 14:23:00 +07:00 SpaceX successfully delivers government secret satellite into space then lands rocket back on earth, more really critical space stuff in 2018# www.cnbc.com

2018/01/07 #

  • 01:29:00 +07:00 What would really happen if russia attacked undersea internet cables# www.wired.com

  • 01:52:00 +07:00 Gitub, npm users freak out over many packages suddenly disappearing# news.ycombinator.com

  • 07:56:00 +07:00 A Record-Setting Number Of Women Will Play Coachella This Year, But Is That Enough?# www.refinery29.com

  • 08:37:00 +07:00 Interactive map of every Quantum Leap series jump# boingboing.net

  • 11:53:00 +07:00 This Kid Turns Popping Wheelies Into An Art Form# digg.com

  • 12:11:00 +07:00 Some more new punk and nice video from Bat Boy with “Giantess”# www.punknews.org

2018/01/06 #

  • 00:57:00 +07:00 Mitigations landing for new class of timing attack# blog.mozilla.org

  • 01:20:00 +07:00 Await and Async Explained with Diagrams and Examples# nikgrozev.com

  • 02:18:00 +07:00 We’ve been told that facts have lost their power, that debunking lies only makes them stronger, and that the internet divides us - Don’t believe any of it# slate.com

  • 03:40:00 +07:00 I turned off javascript for a whole week and it was glorious# www.wired.com

  • 11:04:00 +07:00 The Paradox of Tolerance - should intolerance be tolerated?# boingboing.net

2018/01/05 #

  • 01:39:00 +07:00 Chrome is turning into the new Internet Explorer 6# www.theverge.com

  • 02:08:00 +07:00 We asked seven transhumanists what they hope to look like when they transcend their flesh-covered bodies# www.topic.com

  • 03:47:00 +07:00 Mongoose remove hook not triggered when removing documents# github.com

  • 06:32:00 +07:00 How and why we teach non-engineers to use GitHub at Thread# thread.engineering

  • 10:15:00 +07:00 How ‘Not in My Backyard’ Became ‘Not in My Neighborhood’# mobile.nytimes.com

  • 14:04:00 +07:00 A Saigon-based blogger and rail enthusiast has released an updated map of the city's long-dreamed of metro system# saigoneer.com

  • 14:38:00 +07:00 A New Silk Road - China is investing billions in building pathways to Europe, Central Asia, and the Middle East# www.newyorker.com

2018/01/04 #

  • 10:49:00 +07:00 Real trump news - Trump Angrily Throws Steve Bannon’s Signed Copy of “Mein Kampf” in Trash# www.newyorker.com

  • 12:04:00 +07:00 Critical flaws revealed to affect most Intel chips since 1995# www.zdnet.com

  • 12:39:00 +07:00 Comedian Karl Pilkington Beat 'Black Mirror' To The Punch On Two Ideas# digg.com

  • 12:58:00 +07:00 Monty pythons, Mr creosote, Full version# m.youtube.com

  • 13:39:00 +07:00 According to the researchers, the Meltdown flaw affects virtually every microprocessor made by Intel, which makes chips used in more than 90 percent of the computer servers that underpin the internet and private business operations# mobile.nytimes.com

  • 13:58:00 +07:00 I’ve re-recorded Alan Turing’s “Can Computers Think?” radio broadcasts# aperiodical.com

  • 14:36:00 +07:00 Notes from the Intelpocalypse# lwn.net

  • 14:52:00 +07:00 We translated Intel's crap attempt to spin its way out of CPU security bug PR nightmare# www.theregister.co.uk

2018/01/02 #

  • 01:31:00 +07:00 On the internet, 2018 is the year the pendulum swings back# words.werd.io

  • 03:09:00 +07:00 The lost tradition of new year’s day calling# daily.jstor.org

  • 03:12:00 +07:00 1980s Teenagers and Their Bedroom Walls# flashbak.com

  • 03:58:00 +07:00 Iran Moves to Block Social Media Apps, Mobile Networks as Protests Spread# gizmodo.com

  • 04:41:00 +07:00 Even More Of 2017's Best News Bloopers# digg.com

  • 04:54:00 +07:00 How The First Subway System Was Developed# digg.com

  • 05:06:00 +07:00 clang runs in the browser and compiles C++ to WebAssembly, which the browser then runs# tbfleming.github.io

  • 05:55:00 +07:00 Hollywood A-Listers Launch Time’s Up Initiative to Fight Sexual Harassment Across the U.S. Workforce# variety.com

  • 05:57:00 +07:00 Arms trafficking, also known as gunrunning, is the trafficking of contraband weapons and ammunition# en.wikipedia.org

  • 06:06:00 +07:00 Treacle tart - A smallish treacle tart when you can't trust yourself with the leftovers# www.bbc.co.uk

  • 17:51:00 +07:00 Show your work - The new terms for trust in journalism# pressthink.org

2018/01/01 #

  • 09:32:00 +07:00 Call for tech giants to face taxes over extremist content# www.bbc.com

  • 09:47:00 +07:00 Happy Public Domain day! Here are the works entering the public domain in Canada and the EU, but not the USA, where the public domain is stagnant# boingboing.net

  • 09:59:00 +07:00 North Korea's Kim Jong-un issues threats and olive branch# www.bbc.com

  • 14:47:00 +07:00 The catastrophic consequences of the non-Neutral Net will be very hard to spot, until it's too late# boingboing.net

  • 16:20:00 +07:00 Newspaper headlines - Britons 'upbeat' as hospitals face flu crisis# www.bbc.com

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