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2018/03/30 #

  • 01:24:49 +07:00 The Dada Movement - 5 Lessons For Today’s Designers# trydesignlab.com

  • 02:38:42 +07:00 WildDuck is a scalable no-SPOF IMAP/POP3 stateless mail server with an HTTP api (node, mongo, redis)# github.com

  • 04:00:11 +07:00 This Is Why We Stop Liking Someone As Soon As They Start Liking Us Back# digg.com

  • 04:30:55 +07:00 The World's Fastest Growing Cities, Mapped# digg.com

  • 04:49:54 +07:00 Brexit brings Europe together as Britain starts packing its bags# www.theguardian.com

  • 04:57:36 +07:00 EU still unmoved by Spain's standoff with Catalan separatists# www.theguardian.com

  • 08:36:30 +07:00 Russian spy - How big is the Kremlin's diplomatic network?# www.bbc.com

2018/03/29 #

  • 01:07:22 +07:00 Taxi drivers block traffic in Brussels to protest 'Uberisation'# www.reuters.com

  • 01:07:58 +07:00 Cisco commits $50 million to end homelessness in Silicon Valley# techcrunch.com

  • 01:08:36 +07:00 Zuckerberg to Facebook users: you agreed to this# boingboing.net

  • 01:09:31 +07:00 Mozilla’s new Firefox extension keeps your Facebook data isolated to the social network itself# techcrunch.com

  • 01:10:27 +07:00 CodePen - Parallax Playground# codepen.io

  • 03:28:27 +07:00 Look At These Dumb Dogs Who Think They're Fenced In# digg.com

  • 04:01:00 +07:00 The time of the Internet giants is coming to an end# www.youtube.com

  • 04:06:32 +07:00 A smart city is an urban area that uses different types of electronic data collection sensors to supply information which is used to manage assets and resources efficiently# en.wikipedia.org

  • 09:15:09 +07:00 Jews and Arabs living side by side# www.bbc.com

  • 10:15:06 +07:00 Tim Cook Says Apple's Customers Are Not Its Product, Unlike Facebook# m.slashdot.org

  • 10:22:32 +07:00 Nasa's new parker probe will skim the sun's surface# www.wired.com

  • 10:34:55 +07:00 The next cold war is here, and it's all about data# www.wired.com

  • 11:40:23 +07:00 Russia will hit back against countries expelling diplomats, says Johnson# www.theguardian.com

  • 13:59:02 +07:00 Brexit - The EU perspective on the one-year countdown# www.bbc.com

2018/03/26 #

  • 02:01:03 +07:00 Switzerland’s invisible linguistic borders# www.bbc.com

  • 02:03:36 +07:00 'Orange snow' baffles eastern Europeans# www.bbc.com

  • 02:16:30 +07:00 EU-UK fisheries imbalance - If the UK was in west Africa, it would be considered to be a neocolonial relationship# www.theguardian.com

  • 03:32:08 +07:00 What is the problem with social media?# medium.com

  • 06:03:57 +07:00 This video is a beautiful reminder to look up at the Moon# www.theverge.com

  • 06:15:50 +07:00 SpaceX rocket carved giant hole in the ionosphere# www.engadget.com

2018/03/25 #

  • 01:51:16 +07:00 World of Ends - What the Internet Is and How to Stop Mistaking It for Something Else (2003)# worldofends.com

  • 02:46:37 +07:00 Meme star "Hide The Pain Harold" takes trip of lifetime to Manchester, England# boingboing.net

  • 04:30:49 +07:00 Australia-UK - First non-stop flight arrives in London from Perth (17 hours)# www.bbc.com

  • 09:44:58 +07:00 Russia blows up Soviet-era landmark in World Cup city# www.aljazeera.com

  • 12:06:46 +07:00 Congress passes FOSTA, Craigslist personals vanish - 'Casual encounters' & 'missed connections' gone# boingboing.net

2018/03/24 #

  • 00:07:01 +07:00 France shooting - Hostage swap officer 'fighting for life'# www.bbc.com

  • 01:03:12 +07:00 Pixies - Surfa Rosa album retrospective - “Even now, they exist somewhere outside of time”# www.theringer.com

  • 06:51:58 +07:00 Spain Catalonia - Clashes after separatist leaders detained# www.bbc.com

  • 06:54:51 +07:00 DR Congo to shun its own donor conference in Geneva# www.bbc.com

  • 06:59:15 +07:00 Sensor firm Velodyne 'baffled' by Uber self-driving death# www.bbc.com

  • 07:21:50 +07:00 Your code is RUBBISH, says GitHub - Good thing we're here to save you# www.theregister.co.uk

  • 07:45:52 +07:00 Trump announces tariffs on $60bn in Chinese imports# www.bbc.com

  • 08:00:12 +07:00 Protesters throw fish into Thames in Brexit deal protest# www.bbc.com

  • 08:11:28 +07:00 Facebook knows literally everything about you# techcrunch.com

  • 08:39:54 +07:00 Tumblr finally breaks its silence on russian propaganda# www.wired.com

  • 09:03:29 +07:00 Full Frontal - The History Of Women's Pain# videosift.com

  • 09:13:17 +07:00 Steve Jobs (2010) - ‘Privacy means people know what they’re signing up for’# daringfireball.net

  • 23:12:13 +07:00 Elon Musk deletes own, SpaceX and Tesla Facebook pages after #deletefacebook# techcrunch.com

  • 23:29:49 +07:00 Investigators raid offices of Cambridge Analytica after search warrant granted# www.theguardian.com

  • 23:55:12 +07:00 We’re taking on Cambridge Analytica in a legal fight for data rights# www.theguardian.com

2018/03/22 #

  • 03:31:44 +07:00 The surveillance paradigm - be the friction - our response to the new lords of the ring# m.faz.net

  • 03:42:51 +07:00 The evil genius of Cambridge Analytica was to exploit those we trust most# www.theguardian.com

  • 03:59:11 +07:00 When Putin won in 2012, Russians took to the streets - Why not this time?# www.theguardian.com

  • 04:19:23 +07:00 Facebook's casual treatment of consumer privacy is just the outer maw of a mammoth gullet of dysfunction - Your ISP is worse# boingboing.net

  • 04:54:11 +07:00 Sociologists examine hackathons and see exploitation# www.wired.com

  • 07:09:04 +07:00 Michael Jackson is alive, Hillary is boozing, and a Buckingham Palace Sex Ring, in this week’s fact-challenged tabloids# boingboing.net

2018/03/21 #

  • 02:11:14 +07:00 WhatsApp co-founder tells everyone to delete Facebook# www.theverge.com

  • 02:48:39 +07:00 Trump breaks ranks to congratulate Putin on landslide election victory# www.theguardian.com

  • 02:59:27 +07:00 The Rohingya children trafficked for sex# www.bbc.com

  • 03:11:20 +07:00 I’m a black academic – that doesn't mean I want to be an expert on race# www.theguardian.com

  • 07:25:50 +07:00 Cambridge Analytica - Facebook data row academic says he is 'scapegoat'# www.bbc.com

  • 07:32:07 +07:00 Ocean plastic could treble in decade# www.bbc.com

2018/03/20 #

  • 02:21:10 +07:00 Revealed - Trump’s election consultants filmed saying they use bribes and sex workers to entrap politicians# www.channel4.com

  • 02:26:48 +07:00 BlackBerry stock jumps after saying it will provide security for Microsoft Office phone apps# www.cnbc.com

  • 03:44:29 +07:00 One Way Facebook Can Stop the Next Cambridge Analytica# slate.com

  • 05:09:22 +07:00 How Facebook Groups Are Being Exploited To Spread Misinformation, Plan Harassment, And Radicalize People# www.buzzfeed.com

  • 09:37:35 +07:00 BBC rejects complaints over Jeremy Corbyn's 'Russian' hat# www.bbc.com

  • 15:19:39 +07:00 Alternation is the term in regular expression that is actually a simple “OR”# javascript.info

2018/03/19 #

  • 02:00:48 +07:00 Meet The Activist Who Uncovered The Russian Troll Factory Named In The Mueller Probe# www.npr.org

  • 02:33:37 +07:00 Russia election - Vladimir Putin wins by big margin# www.bbc.com

  • 02:46:38 +07:00 Facebook employs psychologist whose firm sold data to Cambridge Analytica# www.theguardian.com

  • 04:31:07 +07:00 Hackers are so fed up with twitter bots they’re hunting them down themselves (with more bots!)# theintercept.com

  • 13:39:46 +07:00 How to find out ip address and process id which connected# superuser.com

  • 13:41:25 +07:00 lspci - utility for displaying information about PCI buses in the system and devices connected to them# linux.die.net

  • 13:47:41 +07:00 10 examples of Linux ss command to monitor network connections# www.binarytides.com

  • 13:48:28 +07:00 Where are the logs for ufw located on Ubuntu Server?# serverfault.com

2018/03/18 #

  • 03:08:02 +07:00 Winter Paralympics - GB pairs second and third at slalom halfway point# www.bbc.com

  • 03:08:56 +07:00 Secret leakage through URLs# medium.com

  • 03:10:11 +07:00 Don't ask wikipedia to cure the internet# www.wired.com

  • 05:02:22 +07:00 npmlog - the logger that npm uses# github.com

  • 05:32:39 +07:00 Mayotte unrest - French island residents round up 'foreigners'# www.bbc.com

  • 05:36:44 +07:00 GB Paralympic gold - Menna Fitzpatrick and Jen Kehoe win Winter Paralympic slalom gold# www.bbc.com

  • 05:49:35 +07:00 Newspaper headlines - 'Blackout threat' as UK 'stands up' to Putin# www.bbc.com

  • 06:53:54 +07:00 Mac: Accessibility - what permissions are granted for “allow the apps below to control your computer”?# superuser.com

  • 07:00:26 +07:00 Free Beer - An open source beer created in 2004 by students at the IT University in Copenhagen# en.wikipedia.org

2018/03/17 #

  • 02:37:28 +07:00 Express.js Tutorial: Building RESTful APIs with Node and Express# m.youtube.com

  • 02:52:54 +07:00 Suspending Cambridge Analytica and SCL Group from Facebook# newsroom.fb.com

  • 02:57:52 +07:00 The End of Digg Reader Is a Blow to the Chronological Internet# www.theringer.com

  • 03:04:58 +07:00 Facebook apologises for search suggestions of child abuse videos# www.theguardian.com

  • 03:15:51 +07:00 Runaway Ski Lift Goes Haywire, Flings People Out# digg.com

  • 03:45:11 +07:00 Terry Gilliam Says #MeToo Movement Has Transformed Into ‘Mob Rule’# variety.com

  • 08:03:10 +07:00 redis-utils-cli - node.js based command line interface (CLI) for performing pattern based Redis functions# www.npmjs.com

  • 17:58:39 +07:00 Quickly move and delete Redis keys by pattern# coderwall.com

2018/03/16 #

  • 00:53:47 +07:00 Microsoft offers $250,000 bounty to prevent the next Meltdown and Spectre CPU flaws# www.theverge.com

  • 01:02:34 +07:00 Google's Equal-Pay Claim for Women Comes With an Asterisk# www.bloomberg.com

  • 11:50:48 +07:00 An Explanation Of How Formation Flying Works Told From Inside The Cockpit# digg.com

2018/03/15 #

  • 01:50:52 +07:00 Spoiler - Movie Theaters Are Dying Because They Mostly Suck# 500ish.com

  • 02:32:21 +07:00 Decentralized Governance Matters# medium.com

  • 02:36:13 +07:00 Wikimedia to YouTube - It’s not polite to treat Wikipedia like an endlessly renewable resource with infinite free labor; what’s the impact?# www.theverge.com

  • 02:48:56 +07:00 Microsoft reaches a historic milestone, using AI to match human performance in translating news from Chinese to English# blogs.microsoft.com

  • 09:08:44 +07:00 Which regular expression operator means 'Don't' match this character?# stackoverflow.com

  • 16:07:47 +07:00 Linux command to inspect TXT records of a domain# serverfault.com

2018/03/14 #

  • 00:56:22 +07:00 Researchers say they've found 13 flaws in AMD's Ryzen and EPYC chips, which could let attackers install malware on highly guarded parts of the processor# www.cnet.com

  • 01:04:05 +07:00 Firefox 59 arrives with faster page load times, better private browsing, and Android Assist# venturebeat.com

  • 01:26:29 +07:00 I Think About This a Lot - Kanye West at the Katrina Telethon# www.thecut.com

  • 08:52:59 +07:00 MongoDB - aggregate $project add field with static value# stackoverflow.com

  • 09:17:57 +07:00 Newspaper headlines - Sanctions and 'chilling warning'# www.bbc.com

  • 09:28:59 +07:00 White working class girls traded for sex, says Telford MP# www.bbc.com

  • 09:37:14 +07:00 Russian boffins blow up teeny asteroids with tiny laser... to work out how to nuke the real thing# www.theregister.co.uk

  • 12:12:59 +07:00 Google will ban all cryptocurrency-related advertising# www.cnbc.com

  • 16:20:02 +07:00 The Clash - London Calling (1979) [FULL ALBUM]# www.youtube.com

2018/03/13 #

  • 02:02:41 +07:00 Trump Blocks Broadcom Takeover of Qualcomm on Security Risks# www.bloomberg.com

  • 02:14:08 +07:00 Synode: understanding and automatically preventing injection attacks on Node.js# blog.acolyer.org

  • 03:34:16 +07:00 Pretty fascinating behind the scenes look at Reddit’s Ministry of Free Speech & Censorship, Cooperation & Conspiracy# www.newyorker.com

  • 05:19:46 +07:00 The web is under threat - Join us and fight for it# medium.com

  • 12:35:08 +07:00 An Illustrator Turns Kids' Ideas About Feminism Into Wonderful Drawings# digg.com

  • 13:08:30 +07:00 Watch This In-Depth History Of The World Speedrun Record Progression For 'Metroid'# digg.com

2018/03/12 #

  • 01:39:15 +07:00 Why Film Critics Were Blind to The Big Lebowski’s Brilliance# newrepublic.com

  • 01:45:32 +07:00 A Parable About The Dangers Of Sharing The Things You Love With The World# digg.com

  • 01:54:59 +07:00 A Curious Documentary About A Woman Who Has Ridden The Carousel Every Day For The Last Six Years# digg.com

  • 02:05:04 +07:00 'National Rally' - Le Pen proposes new party name for National Front# www.bbc.com

  • 02:13:49 +07:00 John McDonnell urges Labour MPs to stop appearing on Russia Today# www.bbc.com

  • 02:29:54 +07:00 Npmcompare - Lookup the npm packages you want to compare# npmcompare.com

  • 13:44:07 +07:00 Here's A Hot Tub Made Of Ice# digg.com

2018/03/11 #

2018/03/10 #

  • 02:17:52 +07:00 10 Tips for Javascript Debugging Like a PRO with Console# medium.com

  • 16:29:19 +07:00 Learn how to use the Linux performance analysis tool to diagnose problems, debugging or performance optimization.# dzone.com

  • 17:38:43 +07:00 Scaling Your Node.JS API Like a Boss (Part One)# www.youtube.com

2018/03/09 #

  • 02:27:14 +07:00 Inside Google’s plan to turn the whole web into a massive AMP waffle, with ice scream# www.theverge.com

  • 06:31:14 +07:00 Florida lawmakers just approved to keep Daylight Savings Time all year long# boingboing.net

  • 08:27:11 +07:00 Tourist Places His GoPro On A Sushi Conveyor Belt And Captures Charming Vignettes Of Japanese People Eating# digg.com

2018/03/08 #

  • 01:30:54 +07:00 Tendon.io - accessibility testing tool with an API# tenon.io

  • 01:52:06 +07:00 Front-end case studies - curated list of technical talks and articles about real-world enterprise frontend development# github.com

  • 01:53:52 +07:00 Accessibility for developers - building a frontend that everyone can use# frontendne.co.uk

  • 02:16:50 +07:00 We Write CSS Like We Did in the 90s, and Yes, It’s Silly# alistapart.com

  • 02:18:34 +07:00 Fontanello - browser extension that lets you display the basic typographic styles of a text by right-clicking it# fontanello.oktavilla.se

  • 08:29:54 +07:00 Watch This Machine Solve A Rubik's Cube In 0.38 Seconds# digg.com

  • 08:40:12 +07:00 Florida legislature backs new gun restrictions after Parkland school shooting# www.washingtonpost.com

  • 09:05:08 +07:00 Amazon echoes are laughing spontaneously and it's freaking people out# digg.com

2018/03/07 #

  • 01:34:05 +07:00 Bentham finally gets some new clothes, a facial and a long needed holiday# www.atlasobscura.com

  • 01:41:06 +07:00 Apple HomePod Advert Directed By Spike Jonze# digg.com

  • 02:24:56 +07:00 The story of the internet, as told by Know Your Meme# www.theverge.com

  • 06:20:29 +07:00 How to setup global load balancing using Digital Ocean DNS and Nginx?# stackoverflow.com

  • 10:43:27 +07:00 "With SSL Termination the traffic between the Load Balancer and the backend is unencrypted, which means it is visible to any neighbors on that network segment"# www.digitalocean.com

  • 11:01:47 +07:00 Guy Is Just Supremely Excited About His Custom-Made Leather Glove# digg.com

  • 11:23:07 +07:00 Everything At The White House Is Peachy# digg.com

  • 13:25:43 +07:00 North Korea willing to 'denuclearize,' says South# boingboing.net

  • 14:00:55 +07:00 James Dyson on why not every device needs to be connected# techcrunch.com

2018/03/06 #

  • 03:30:06 +07:00 Reddit says Russian propaganda was shared by ‘thousands’ ahead of the 2016 election# www.recode.net

  • 03:39:42 +07:00 Skateboarding Dubai's Empty Water Park Looks So, So Rad# digg.com

  • 04:49:58 +07:00 Performance Difference in Mongoose vs MongoDB Native Driver# medium.com

  • 05:12:20 +07:00 Browser-based supercomputers - the evil and the good# medium.com

  • 10:47:14 +07:00 How to trigger Node inspector by code# medium.com

  • 13:57:51 +07:00 American regulators don’t think British airlines are so special without the EU# qz.com

2018/03/05 #

  • 01:10:47 +07:00 FIFA rulemakers approve the use of video referees# www.engadget.com

  • 01:39:17 +07:00 Inquiry urges payouts for victims of postwar UK child migration scheme# www.theguardian.com

  • 03:30:49 +07:00 Facebook’s tracking of non-users ruled illegal again# techcrunch.com

  • 03:47:17 +07:00 Ban on discussing Poland's complicity in Holocaust draws worldwide attention to Poland's complicity in Holocaust# boingboing.net

2018/03/03 #

  • 00:53:43 +07:00 China Presses Its Internet Censorship Efforts Across the Globe# mobile.nytimes.com

  • 07:17:52 +07:00 Video game companies unaware of Trump’s summit on video game violence# www.theverge.com

  • 07:47:57 +07:00 We Dare You To Explain Luke’s Plan To Rescue Han In ‘Return of the Jedi’# uproxx.com

  • 08:48:27 +07:00 Free speech more popular than ever; only racists are less tolerated# boingboing.net

  • 09:30:38 +07:00 AI Cheats at Old Atari Games By Finding Unknown Bugs in the Code# games.slashdot.org

2018/03/02 #

  • 12:48:00 +07:00 Chimpanzees, bonobos, and even humans may share ancient body language# www.sciencemag.org

  • 12:56:19 +07:00 Github survived the biggest ddos attack ever recorded# www.wired.com

  • 13:18:39 +07:00 A Conversation With David Byrne About His First Solo Album In 14 Years, ‘American Utopia’# uproxx.com

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