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2018/02/28 #

  • Google Says It's Received 2.4 Million Takedown Requests Under EU's 'Right to Be Forgotten' Lawsgizmodo.com #

  • Hackers DDOS Cloudflare customers, Cloudflare officially forbids all developers worldwide (even those experiencing DDOS) from ever typing SOCK_DGRAM into their editorblog.cloudflare.com #

  • Palantir Has Secretly Been Using New Orleans to Test Its Predictive Policing Technology (Also used on Denmark)www.theverge.com #

  • A Shaolin Monk Throwing A Needle Through A Pane Of Glass Is One Of The Craziest Things We've Seen In A Whiledigg.com #

2018/02/24 #

2018/02/20 #

  • 'Automating Inequality' - Algorithms In Public Services Often Fail The Most Vulnerabletext.npr.org #

  • One refactoring a week - Series that extracts one principle a week from clean code books and translate them to Javascriptmedium.com #

  • Array.prototype.find() - returns the value of the first element in the array that satisfies the provided testing functiondeveloper.mozilla.org #

2018/02/19 #

  • Hacking - Russia is to the US as the UK was to Belgium?www.wired.com #

  • Robots compete in skiing challenge and other newswww.bbc.com #

  • Carbon Ads - The best way to reach designers and developers through a single, relevant, tasteful adcarbonads.net #

  • Watch this artisan make a gorgeous ring with walnut and crushed opalboingboing.net #

2018/02/18 #

2018/02/17 #

2018/02/15 #

2018/02/09 #

2018/02/08 #

  • John Perry Barlow, EFF Founder, Internet Pioneer, 1947-2018www.eff.org #

  • Microsoft tees up Windows 10 support of Progressive Web Appswww.zdnet.com #

  • Where to store a flash error message once you've destroyed the sessioncodedump.io #

  • Freemasons call for end to 'discrimination' of memberswww.bbc.com #

  • Ibiza's iconic Space nightclub shuts (Oct 2016)www.bbc.com #

  • Glastonbury 2013 The Orb feat Kakatsitsi Little Fluffy Cloudswww.youtube.com #

  • The Orb ~ Little Fluffy Clouds ~ Tokyo 02.07.1993 - Earth Timelapse from Spacewww.youtube.com #

  • 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 #

  • Model Citizens - SimCity is less template for urban planning than a way of seeing reality through a capitalist lensreallifemag.com #

  • Elon Musk's Falcon Heavy rocket launches successfullywww.bbc.com #

2018/02/04 #

2018/02/03 #

  • The Tractor Hackers Pushing For The Right To Repair Their Own Farm Equipmentdigg.com #

  • Boing Boing's former software engineer Dean Putney talks about some of his favorite toolsboingboing.net #

  • YouTube Takes Aim at Conspiracies, Propagandawww.wsj.com #

2018/02/01 #

  • I Was Looking for Africa’s Biggest Electronics Dump but Found a Community of Creators Insteadmedium.com #

  • Progressive Web Apps — The Next Step in Web App Developmenthackernoon.com #

  • Until these changes have been made, let’s quietly forget about native form validation - It’s more trouble than it’s worthmedium.com #

  • Two Universes Literally Collide In This Wonderfully Whimsical Sci-Fi Shortdigg.com #

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