Friday 10th May, 2019 #
- A Popular History Of Signs - Crawling 4 U (Jungle Records, UK) - I'm kind of fascinated by this bit of 80s synth-pop
- Facebook sends Nick Clegg to rebut co-founder Chris Hughes' call for breakup - "To rebut the claim I am too powerful, I will have the former UK Deputy Prime Minister publicly disavow his prior anti-monopoly stance (now that he is paid by me) and promise to meet with other world leaders to painstakingly tell them what regulation suits me best" - Zephyr Rain Teachout
- Facebook is not a monopoly, and breaking it up would defy logic and set a bad precedent
- US raises tariffs on $200bn of Chinese goods - If both sides are just adding tariffs then doesn't it eventually just become a new way for governments to raise money?
- Markets Are 10X Bigger Than Ever - Makes a case for the fact that the internet has grown the software market by 10x since it's introduction
- The Global Attention Span Is Getting Shorter - "Organizations need to invest more heavily in technology and human capital to filter and process information"
- It's time to replace GIFs with AV1 video! - Everyone loves a good gif but the figures speak for themselves, that's a lot of saved bandwidth
- Why open source firmware is important for security - I think this is an important topic, especially since I still have on-going kernel performance issues (slightly better since I stopped using Webstorm, but they still occur, and I have no way to diagnose or troubleshoot properly) - I'd like to know more about how kernels operate
- Singapore fake news law polices chats and online platforms
- Google’s New Privacy Features Put the Responsibility on Users