2018/04/29 #

2018/04/26 #

  • Trump’s Fixer, Killer Clintons, and What Comey Didn’t Reveal, in this week’s fact-challenged tabloids boingboing.net #

  • Facebook’s quarterly earnings are a bright spot amid a sea of bad headlines www.theverge.com #

  • An unopinionated authentication library for building Node.js APIs github.com #

  • Ronny Jackson - Trump veterans nominee bows out amid allegations www.bbc.com #

  • Wanted at Chinese Start-Ups - Attractive Women to Ease Coders’ Stress - The New York Times mobile.nytimes.com #

2018/04/23 #

  • Google confirms some of its own services are now getting blocked in Russia over the Telegram ban techcrunch.com #

  • Verne Troyer’s tragic death underlines the harm Mini-Me caused people with dwarfism www.theguardian.com #

  • ReplyError: Ready check failed: NOAUTH Authentication required. (Another unanswered question) github.com #

2018/04/22 #

  • 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 #

  • Austin Powers actor Verne Troyer dies aged 49 www.bbc.com #

  • Nodejs TLS with self-signed Certificate Authority (Why is there no answer to this question?) stackoverflow.com #

  • The world is no longer willing to tolerate the plague of bullshit "agreements" boingboing.net #

2018/04/20 #

2018/04/18 #

  • Cyber security watchdog warns UK telcos against using equipment from Chinese supplier ZTE www.ft.com #

  • U.S. ban on sales to China's ZTE opens fresh front as tensions escalate www.reuters.com #

  • Iceland's Bitcoin heist suspect 'flees on PM's plane' www.bbc.com #

2018/04/16 #

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

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

  • redis-cli, the Redis command line interface (reference) redis.io #

2018/04/14 #

2018/04/12 #

2018/04/08 #

  • ‘Big Brother’ in India Requires Fingerprint Scans for Food, Phones and Finances mobile.nytimes.com #

  • HN - ‘Big Brother’ in India Requires Fingerprint Scans for Food, Phones and Finances news.ycombinator.com #

  • Bathroom hand-dryers suck in poo-particles and aerosolize them all over you and everything else boingboing.net #

  • 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 #

  • Introducing Network Error Logging (Early stage web platform W3C spec) dcreager.net #

2018/04/07 #

2018/04/04 #

  • Xmarks replacement - Xmarks is dead (2018-05-01), long live...??? arstechnica.com #

  • 'Being cash-free puts us at risk of attack' - Swedes turn against cashlessness www.theguardian.com #

  • Spotify relies on the big labels for most of its music - It thinks that will change www.recode.net #

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

2018/04/03 #

  • Mark Zuckerberg Rebuts Tim Cook - Companies That Charge You More Don't Necessarily Care About You More www.macrumors.com #

  • French president Emmanuel Macron talks AI strategy - overall interesting, but does he suggest AI should be training humans? www.wired.com #

  • One of Estonia's first "e-residents" explains what it means to have digital citizenship work.qz.com #

2018/04/02 #

  • Moscow official says West is trying to deny Russia World Cup www.bbc.com #

  • The Node.js Ecosystem Is Chaos - How a Single Person Could Wreck Havoc Across the Internet medium.com #

  • Watch countless American news anchors mindlessly intone the same propaganda script boingboing.net #

  • Why does an SSH remote command get fewer environment variables then when run manually? stackoverflow.com #

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