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Saturday 23rd March, 2019 #

  • Italy joins China's New Silk Road project - Pretty interesting development, there is a long history of trade with the East from cities like Pisa, Genoa and Venice since around 1000 years, but I think those trade routes have not been as active in recent years, it makes sense that Italy would lead here, they have a lot of experience in this region
  • US removes North Korea sanctions - “President Trump likes Chairman Kim Jong Un and he doesn’t think these sanctions will be necessary”
  • For the past 3 days, Webstorm has been maxing out all my processor cores the UI becomes unusable, then when I check after a few seconds the processors stop being utilised, it's like the drones at the airport in the UK a few months back - I note that this started happening right after I posted about free software devils and the KJU army
  • 'Fromage not Farage' - the best placards on the People's Vote march
  • Maybe You Don't Need Kubernetes
  • Wakaliwood Film Ramon Film Productions - AHHHH! BAD BLACK Cooming May 14, 2019 !!
  • Uganda’s Tarantino and his $200 action movies
  • The social bookmarking platform Pinterest files for its IPO
  • How Twitter's algorithm is amplifying extreme political rhetoric - It's an interesting feature that Twitter is trying out, it has the potential of being beneficial to users, but jamming in stuff into the main timeline is quite offensive and distracting, if it was more like the news ticker info that scrolls past on TV news that would be better, and a way to notify the Twitter algorithm that it's selection sucks would also be good