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2021/03/29 #

  • A16z Podcast Ep #630 - All about NFTs - Lots of good NFT related info, including a general discussion of crypto and NFTs, what is an NFT and what is not an NFT, NFTs for digital and physical goods, social tokens, converting a non-fungible token to a fungible tokens by fractualinizing it, owning parts of tv shows, social value correlated with the amount of times digital item is shared / replicated, the ability to prove that you were an early adopter / supportera16z.simplecast.com #

  • Jack Dorsey is just trolling Congress with Twitter polls now - The inner web developer in me is trying to imagine the wow-that-poll-feature-sure-was-a-good-idea feeling that no doubt ensuedwww.theverge.com #

  • Linus Torvalds worries kernel 5.12 might be ‘one of those releases’ that lands a tad late - “io_uring continues to have noise in it, this time mainly due to some signal handling fixes, that removed a fair amount of problematic special casing, but the timing certainly isn't great.”www.theregister.com #

  • Nigel Farage joins advisory board of green firm to act as a lobbyist and spokesmaninews.co.uk #

  • This Microsoft Flight Simulator mod features the cargo ship stuck in the Suez Canalwww.theverge.com #

  • Intel 2. 0’s customer dilemma - Some analysis and predictions about the Intel Foundry Service strategy, there are lots of internal communication issues to overcomedigitstodollars.com #

  • Amazon's private labels - Everyone is totally up in arms about Amazon private labels, what’s going on?www.ben-evans.com #

  • The Boat in the Suez Canal Is Still Stuck, But You Can Now Stick It Anywhere You Want With This Appgizmodo.com #

  • PHP repository moved to GitHub after malicious code inserted under creator Rasmus Lerdorf's name - The http backdoor was inserted twice at a seven hour interval between both attackswww.theregister.com #

  • Announcing the Deno Company - “We have raised 4.9 million dollars of seed capital”, “Deno will remain MIT licensed [...] We don’t believe the open core business model is right for a programming platform like Deno”, “Our business will build on the open source project, not attempt to monetize it directly”deno.com #

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