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2018/04/30 #

2018/04/29 #

  • 01:35:15 +07:00 Institutions Will Seek To Preserve The Problem For Which They Are The Solution# www.techdirt.com

  • 01:48:00 +07:00 The Only Privacy Policy That Matters# medium.com

  • 02:18:39 +07:00 Burning Man founder Larry Harvey dies aged 70# www.bbc.com

  • 02:42:49 +07:00 Brexit and music - How leaving the EU could change gigs for artists and fans# www.bbc.com

  • 05:18:59 +07:00 Are You Really the Product?# slate.com

  • 08:20:16 +07:00 Former PayPal CEO - Bitcoin is the greatest pump and dump scam in history# www.recode.net

2018/04/27 #

2018/04/26 #

  • 05:22:25 +07:00 Trump’s Fixer, Killer Clintons, and What Comey Didn’t Reveal, in this week’s fact-challenged tabloids# boingboing.net

  • 12:28:11 +07:00 Facebook’s quarterly earnings are a bright spot amid a sea of bad headlines# www.theverge.com

  • 15:25:32 +07:00 An unopinionated authentication library for building Node.js APIs# github.com

  • 15:27:16 +07:00 'Facebook is a morality-free zone’: tech chief lambasted by MP# www.theguardian.com

  • 15:27:45 +07:00 Ronny Jackson - Trump veterans nominee bows out amid allegations# www.bbc.com

  • 15:29:47 +07:00 Wanted at Chinese Start-Ups - Attractive Women to Ease Coders’ Stress - The New York Times# mobile.nytimes.com

2018/04/25 #

  • 03:31:17 +07:00 Hijack of Amazon’s internet domain service used to reroute web traffic for two hours unnoticed# doublepulsar.com

  • 03:40:06 +07:00 npoint.io - JSON storage bins that won't break your app# www.npoint.io

  • 06:06:19 +07:00 Amazon will now deliver packages to the trunk of your car# www.theverge.com

  • 08:26:44 +07:00 Iran Deal - Last Week Tonight with John Oliver# www.youtube.com

2018/04/24 #

  • 01:48:49 +07:00 Glitch Capitalism - How Cheating AIs Explain Our Glitchy Society# nymag.com

2018/04/23 #

  • 09:03:09 +07:00 Google confirms some of its own services are now getting blocked in Russia over the Telegram ban# techcrunch.com

  • 12:55:24 +07:00 Verne Troyer’s tragic death underlines the harm Mini-Me caused people with dwarfism# www.theguardian.com

  • 18:23:48 +07:00 ReplyError: Ready check failed: NOAUTH Authentication required. (Another unanswered question)# github.com

2018/04/22 #

  • 05:47:44 +07:00 UFW stands for Uncomplicated Firewall, and is program for managing a netfilter firewall (FYI - only writes logs when it feels like it, or on Thursdays)# launchpad.net

  • 05:51:31 +07:00 Austin Powers actor Verne Troyer dies aged 49# www.bbc.com

  • 05:55:08 +07:00 Nodejs TLS with self-signed Certificate Authority (Why is there no answer to this question?)# stackoverflow.com

  • 06:25:11 +07:00 The world is no longer willing to tolerate the plague of bullshit "agreements"# boingboing.net

2018/04/20 #

  • 02:33:49 +07:00 The music legend who drives a taxi# www.bbc.com

  • 18:14:35 +07:00 Russia blocks telegram app for not spying on it's users, then all the services it uses including Amazon Web services and Google# boingboing.net

  • 18:18:56 +07:00 Terms of Service; Didn't Read - a browser add-on that warns you about the terrible fine-print you're about to "agree" to# boingboing.net

2018/04/18 #

  • 01:06:58 +07:00 Cyber security watchdog warns UK telcos against using equipment from Chinese supplier ZTE# www.ft.com

  • 01:12:20 +07:00 U.S. ban on sales to China's ZTE opens fresh front as tensions escalate# www.reuters.com

  • 01:29:08 +07:00 How we need to remake the internet# www.ted.com

  • 05:36:21 +07:00 Environment variables of a running process on Unix?# serverfault.com

  • 09:33:45 +07:00 Facebook announces "privacy experiences" for everyone# newsroom.fb.com

  • 10:55:15 +07:00 Iceland's Bitcoin heist suspect 'flees on PM's plane'# www.bbc.com

  • 13:04:59 +07:00 Process all arguments except the first one (in a bash script)# stackoverflow.com

2018/04/17 #

  • 03:31:12 +07:00 France creates secure chat app to keep its president off Telegram# www.engadget.com

  • 14:22:37 +07:00 Aboriginal elders dye their hair blonde and the tribe gets a big kick out of it# boingboing.net

2018/04/16 #

  • 07:05:08 +07:00 Big blue penis painted legally on the side of building shocks Stockholm residents, who demand it be taken down# boingboing.net

  • 07:07:28 +07:00 A Comparison of Let's Encrypt, Commercial and Private Certificate Authorities, and Self-Signed SSL Certificates# www.digitalocean.com

  • 07:08:12 +07:00 OpenSSL Essentials: Working with SSL Certificates, Private Keys and CSRs# www.digitalocean.com

  • 07:22:21 +07:00 redis-cli, the Redis command line interface (reference)# redis.io

2018/04/15 #

  • 01:29:19 +07:00 Syria air strikes - US still 'locked and loaded' for new chemical attacks# www.bbc.com

  • 02:20:25 +07:00 Google cases are a battle between right to privacy and right to know# www.theguardian.com

  • 15:03:11 +07:00 tls.connect - setting up a TLS connection in nodejs# nodejs.org

2018/04/14 #

  • 02:10:39 +07:00 The US, UK and France have launched military strikes on Syria following the suspected chemical attack by the Assad regime# news.sky.com

  • 02:19:15 +07:00 A disused coal power station will reopen to solely power crypto# www.engadget.com

  • 02:52:22 +07:00 European Copyright Law Isn't Great - It Could Soon Get a Lot Worse# www.eff.org

  • 03:08:49 +07:00 Johnny Hallyday - Judge freezes assets in inheritance dispute# www.bbc.com

  • 09:29:45 +07:00 Watch this interface designer change a bad website design into a good one# boingboing.net

  • 09:30:37 +07:00 Fonts in use - An independent archive of typography# fontsinuse.com

2018/04/13 #

  • 01:08:57 +07:00 The search for intelligent life reaches farther than any NASA mission# medium.com

  • 12:34:22 +07:00 How do you prevent install of “devDependencies” NPM modules for Node.js (package.json)?# stackoverflow.com

2018/04/12 #

  • 01:31:09 +07:00 Tablet - Admin panel made simple - dashboard template with responsive and high quality UI# tabler.github.io

  • 09:56:36 +07:00 How To Configure DNS Round-Robin Load-Balancing For High-Availability# www.digitalocean.com

  • 10:03:42 +07:00 Configuring NGINX to Accept the PROXY Protocol# docs.nginx.com

  • 12:41:33 +07:00 TCP/UDP Load Balancing with NGINX - Overview, Tips, and Tricks# www.nginx.com

2018/04/09 #

  • 01:07:11 +07:00 US Homeland Security to create giant bloggers and social media influencers aggregator# www.engadget.com

  • 01:24:46 +07:00 Hide your girl - The 90’s were such a colourful decade# www.reddit.com

  • 06:07:02 +07:00 China’s global kidnapping campaign has gone on for years - It may now be reaching inside U.S. borders# foreignpolicy.com

2018/04/08 #

  • 02:48:33 +07:00 ‘Big Brother’ in India Requires Fingerprint Scans for Food, Phones and Finances# mobile.nytimes.com

  • 02:59:39 +07:00 HN - ‘Big Brother’ in India Requires Fingerprint Scans for Food, Phones and Finances# news.ycombinator.com

  • 03:27:27 +07:00 Bathroom hand-dryers suck in poo-particles and aerosolize them all over you and everything else# boingboing.net

  • 05:08:49 +07:00 Data centers use more than 2% of world’s electricity and currently emit as much CO2 as airline industry with traffic doubling every 4 years# e360.yale.edu

  • 05:19:25 +07:00 Introducing Network Error Logging (Early stage web platform W3C spec)# dcreager.net

2018/04/07 #

  • 02:07:46 +07:00 Dozen black holes found at galactic centre# www.bbc.com

  • 02:16:16 +07:00 1.1.1.1: Cloudflare's new DNS attracting 'gigabits per second' of rubbish# www.zdnet.com

  • 02:34:41 +07:00 Git 2.17 is now available - new features available# blog.github.com

  • 02:51:54 +07:00 Molly Ringwald - The Breakfast Club star 'troubled' by hit film# www.bbc.com

  • 03:59:52 +07:00 Backpage Has Been Taken Down By The US Government And Sex Workers Aren’t Happy# www.buzzfeed.com

  • 05:16:34 +07:00 Blockchain technology may be fundamentally incompatible with Europe’s new GDPR privacy rules# www.theverge.com

  • 15:40:46 +07:00 Progressive Web Apps on iOS are here 🚀# medium.com

2018/04/06 #

  • 04:14:27 +07:00 Spy poisoning - Russia says UK is 'playing with fire'# www.bbc.com

  • 04:25:45 +07:00 Five-time darts world champion dies aged 60 - RIP Eric Bristow# www.bbc.com

  • 04:49:55 +07:00 Google now purchases more renewable energy than it consumes as a company# www.theverge.com

2018/04/04 #

  • 03:16:06 +07:00 Xmarks replacement - Xmarks is dead (2018-05-01), long live...???# arstechnica.com

  • 03:27:34 +07:00 'Being cash-free puts us at risk of attack' - Swedes turn against cashlessness# www.theguardian.com

  • 03:29:52 +07:00 Spotify relies on the big labels for most of its music - It thinks that will change# www.recode.net

  • 07:04:07 +07:00 DNS Performance Test - shell script to test the performance of the most popular DNS resolvers from your location# github.com

  • 09:34:56 +07:00 'Active shooter' at YouTube headquarters# www.bbc.com

2018/04/03 #

  • 01:52:36 +07:00 The inside story of reddit's redesign# www.wired.com

  • 02:40:18 +07:00 Mark Zuckerberg Rebuts Tim Cook - Companies That Charge You More Don't Necessarily Care About You More# www.macrumors.com

  • 03:12:20 +07:00 French president Emmanuel Macron talks AI strategy - overall interesting, but does he suggest AI should be training humans?# www.wired.com

  • 16:03:36 +07:00 Mozilla Brings Firefox to Augmented and Virtual Reality# blog.mozilla.org

  • 16:04:05 +07:00 Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs From 2020, Replacing Intel# www.bloomberg.com

  • 16:05:34 +07:00 One of Estonia's first "e-residents" explains what it means to have digital citizenship# work.qz.com

2018/04/02 #

  • 03:37:10 +07:00 Moscow official says West is trying to deny Russia World Cup# www.bbc.com

  • 03:38:08 +07:00 Netflix is reportedly close to buying Luc Besson's movie studio# www.engadget.com

  • 03:39:00 +07:00 The Node.js Ecosystem Is Chaos - How a Single Person Could Wreck Havoc Across the Internet# medium.com

  • 03:39:56 +07:00 Brexit - Netflix 'passport' not yet decided# www.bbc.com

  • 03:58:46 +07:00 London murder rate overtakes New York's# www.bbc.com

  • 04:40:10 +07:00 Watch countless American news anchors mindlessly intone the same propaganda script# boingboing.net

  • 10:56:43 +07:00 Why does an SSH remote command get fewer environment variables then when run manually?# stackoverflow.com

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