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2018/02/28 #

  • 02:46:27 +07:00 Google Says It's Received 2.4 Million Takedown Requests Under EU's 'Right to Be Forgotten' Laws# gizmodo.com

  • 02:59:29 +07:00 Hackers DDOS Cloudflare customers, Cloudflare officially forbids all developers worldwide (even those experiencing DDOS) from ever typing SOCK_DGRAM into their editor# blog.cloudflare.com

  • 11:35:16 +07:00 Palantir Has Secretly Been Using New Orleans to Test Its Predictive Policing Technology (Also used on Denmark)# www.theverge.com

  • 14:14:28 +07:00 A Shaolin Monk Throwing A Needle Through A Pane Of Glass Is One Of The Craziest Things We've Seen In A While# digg.com

2018/02/27 #

  • 04:29:50 +07:00 js-url - TLD list needs to be updated!# github.com

  • 12:24:35 +07:00 Artist Transforms A Bunch Of Old Skateboard Decks Into A Functioning Bicycle# digg.com

  • 12:41:18 +07:00 The Alt-right is recruiting depressed people | The Outline# theoutline.com

2018/02/26 #

  • 05:42:47 +07:00 Chrome Distrusts SSL Certificates# dzone.com

  • 13:44:02 +07:00 I passed $50,000 in monthly revenue as an indie maker# levels.io

  • 14:23:36 +07:00 Nothing is Secure and We are All Doomed# m.youtube.com

  • 14:41:05 +07:00 Reality enthusiast Elon Musk on Twitter on SpaceX satellite system Starlink internets# mobile.twitter.com

2018/02/25 #

  • 05:30:35 +07:00 AMP - the missing controversy - How Google cheats with performance# ferdychristant.com

  • 14:04:50 +07:00 Estimated number of websites on the internet - 1.254 billion (as of September 2017)# www.wolframalpha.com

  • 16:47:54 +07:00 World officially on the brink - Children struggle to hold pencils due to too much tech, doctors say# www.theguardian.com

2018/02/24 #

  • 11:58:17 +07:00 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School was surrounded by cowering "good guys with guns"# boingboing.net

  • 11:58:38 +07:00 You know who hates Net Neutrality? The NRA# boingboing.net

  • 14:23:01 +07:00 Infowars in "crisis actors" controversy on it's YouTube Channel# edition.cnn.com

  • 15:32:27 +07:00 Part 1: GNU Parallel script processing and execution# www.youtube.com

2018/02/23 #

  • 10:39:40 +07:00 Medical devices and drugs that were never tested on humans were released en masse to women globally - “We are human guinea pigs”# www.theguardian.com

  • 12:58:56 +07:00 HTTP vs HTTPS performance (tldr; Don't send lots of small files with https)# stackoverflow.com

2018/02/21 #

  • 01:05:36 +07:00 The Great Big Spotify Scam - Did a Bulgarian Playlister Swindle Their Way to a Fortune on Streaming Service?# www.musicbusinessworldwide.com

  • 02:31:51 +07:00 David Davis has said no to a Mad Max dystopia - What kind could we have instead?# www.theguardian.com

  • 03:22:23 +07:00 Here are some of the ways experts think AI might screw with us in the next five years# www.theverge.com

  • 04:58:16 +07:00 AI ripe for exploitation, experts warn# www.bbc.com

2018/02/20 #

  • 05:32:46 +07:00 The European City Centre With No Street Names# m.youtube.com

  • 05:42:12 +07:00 Kids Answer "What is the Best Country in the World?"# m.youtube.com

  • 05:52:13 +07:00 'Automating Inequality' - Algorithms In Public Services Often Fail The Most Vulnerable# text.npr.org

  • 11:47:54 +07:00 One refactoring a week - Series that extracts one principle a week from clean code books and translate them to Javascript# medium.com

  • 12:04:43 +07:00 Array.prototype.find() - returns the value of the first element in the array that satisfies the provided testing function# developer.mozilla.org

2018/02/19 #

  • 02:16:54 +07:00 Hacking - Russia is to the US as the UK was to Belgium?# www.wired.com

  • 02:26:10 +07:00 Robots compete in skiing challenge and other news# www.bbc.com

  • 02:40:36 +07:00 BuySellAds - Make money with a steady stream of relevant ads# www.buysellads.com

  • 02:45:43 +07:00 Carbon Ads - The best way to reach designers and developers through a single, relevant, tasteful ad# carbonads.net

  • 04:11:47 +07:00 How to Block Automated Scanners from Scanning your Site# www.acunetix.com

  • 14:32:31 +07:00 Watch this artisan make a gorgeous ring with walnut and crushed opal# boingboing.net

2018/02/18 #

2018/02/17 #

  • 05:47:21 +07:00 dUdE fReAkS tHe FuCk OuT wHeNeVeR hE sEeS tHe 'sHrEd It' tRuCk# digg.com

  • 05:55:22 +07:00 Facebook Must Stop Tracking Belgian Web Users, Court Rules# www.bloomberg.com

  • 06:02:36 +07:00 Russia’s troll identities were more sophisticated than anyone thought - How do you stop a troll with an entire fake identity?# www.theverge.com

  • 08:41:45 +07:00 ua-parser-js - a JavaScript-based User-Agent string parser# www.npmjs.com

  • 12:32:35 +07:00 Ever wonder what happens when you yank the pull cord on an aircraft emergency slide? Wonder no more# boingboing.net

2018/02/16 #

  • 06:27:42 +07:00 Hover on Touch 3.0 - Javascript Plugin for an alternative hover function that works on mobile and desktop devices# github.com

2018/02/15 #

  • 02:01:53 +07:00 My Accessibility Journey - What I’ve Learned So Far# alistapart.com

  • 09:39:31 +07:00 Patterns for writing manageable CSS without a framework# medium.com

  • 12:45:18 +07:00 10 Lessons Learned from a Successful Hacker News Launch# pitchpigeon.com

  • 12:55:55 +07:00 Launching Code Cards on Hacker News# oskarth.com

  • 14:15:39 +07:00 5 Tips From MeetNotes Launch on Product Hunt & Hacker News# meetnotes.co

  • 15:22:26 +07:00 Stripe - How to handle subscription with a free plan and no credit card required at sign up time# stackoverflow.com

  • 15:22:57 +07:00 Stripe billing - trial with no plan selected and no credit card entered at signup# stackoverflow.com

2018/02/10 #

2018/02/09 #

2018/02/08 #

  • 09:21:00 +00:00 John Perry Barlow, EFF Founder, Internet Pioneer, 1947-2018# www.eff.org

  • 09:33:00 +00:00 Microsoft tees up Windows 10 support of Progressive Web Apps# www.zdnet.com

  • 09:36:00 +00:00 Pornhub Is Banning AI-Generated Fake Porn Videos, Says They're Nonconsensual# motherboard.vice.com

  • 09:51:00 +00:00 Reddit bans deepfake porn videos# www.bbc.com

  • 16:12:00 +00:00 Where to store a flash error message once you've destroyed the session# codedump.io

  • 21:01:00 +00:00 Freemasons call for end to 'discrimination' of members# www.bbc.com

  • 21:20:00 +00:00 Ibiza's iconic Space nightclub shuts (Oct 2016)# www.bbc.com

  • 21:55:00 +00:00 Glastonbury 2013 The Orb feat Kakatsitsi Little Fluffy Clouds# www.youtube.com

  • 22:10:00 +00:00 The Orb ~ Little Fluffy Clouds ~ Tokyo 02.07.1993 - Earth Timelapse from Space# www.youtube.com

  • 22:28:00 +00:00 Pale blue dot - "We succeeded in taking that picture [from deep space], and, if you look at it, you see a dot. That's here. That's home. That's us."# en.wikipedia.org

2018/02/07 #

  • 02:27:00 +07:00 Model Citizens - SimCity is less template for urban planning than a way of seeing reality through a capitalist lens# reallifemag.com

  • 03:12:00 +07:00 Elon Musk's Falcon Heavy rocket launches successfully# www.bbc.com

2018/02/05 #

  • 01:40:00 +07:00 Why BMI Is A Flawed Index For Obesity# digg.com

  • 11:44:00 +07:00 Malware that exploit Spectre and Meltdown are now circulating in the wild# boingboing.net

  • 11:48:00 +07:00 The coming EU privacy regulation will end up remaking the world's web# boingboing.net

2018/02/04 #

  • 01:34:00 +07:00 Cambridge tops the league … as Britain’s most unequal city# www.theguardian.com

  • 01:45:00 +07:00 Marx bicentenary to be marked by exhibitions, books – and pub crawls# www.theguardian.com

  • 03:05:00 +07:00 Uma Thurman breaks silence on Weinstein attack# www.bbc.com

  • 03:06:00 +07:00 'Fiction is outperforming reality' - how YouTube's algorithm distorts truth# www.theguardian.com

  • 03:44:00 +07:00 Cuba’s Sonic Attacks Show Us Just how Susceptible Our Brains Are to Mass Hysteria# slate.com

  • 03:52:00 +07:00 Node-RED - Flow-based programming for the Internet of Things# nodered.org

  • 14:48:00 +07:00 Open source turns 20 - Here’s how it all started# www.engadget.com

  • 15:50:00 +07:00 tHe SqUiShY eThIcS oF sEx WiTh RoBoTs# www.wired.com

2018/02/03 #

  • 00:49:00 +07:00 The Tractor Hackers Pushing For The Right To Repair Their Own Farm Equipment# digg.com

  • 15:02:00 +07:00 Boing Boing's former software engineer Dean Putney talks about some of his favorite tools# boingboing.net

  • 15:31:00 +07:00 YouTube Takes Aim at Conspiracies, Propaganda# www.wsj.com

2018/02/02 #

  • 03:02:00 +07:00 Three national corporations control nearly all of San Francisco's live music# boingboing.net

  • 03:45:00 +07:00 Instagram’s new ‘type mode’ lets you add text-only pages to your stories# www.theverge.com

  • 06:10:00 +07:00 For case insensitive search with Mongoose use a regex# stackoverflow.com

  • 06:54:00 +07:00 Preventing data leaks by stripping path information in HTTP Referrers# blog.mozilla.org

2018/02/01 #

  • 02:15:00 +07:00 I Was Looking for Africa’s Biggest Electronics Dump but Found a Community of Creators Instead# medium.com

  • 02:36:00 +07:00 Progressive Web Apps — The Next Step in Web App Development# hackernoon.com

  • 04:51:00 +07:00 Constraint Validation - Native Client Side Validation for Web Forms# www.html5rocks.com

  • 08:24:00 +07:00 Until these changes have been made, let’s quietly forget about native form validation - It’s more trouble than it’s worth# medium.com

  • 10:49:00 +07:00 Two Universes Literally Collide In This Wonderfully Whimsical Sci-Fi Short# digg.com

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