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Wednesday 19th June, 2019 #

  • Send Outgoing Webmentions - Remi Sharp has written some tools to send webmentions, which are the evolution to pingbacks - It's good to see some decentralized indieweb stuff hapening amongst the torrents of dystopia is the norm these days
  • Douglas Rushkoff - "Humans are no longer valued for our creativity, in a world dominated by digital technology, we’re now just valued for our data"
  • Matt Green walked along every street of New York City’s five boroughs
  • Man guilty of making a gun using a 3D printer
  • Understanding Nginx Server and Location Block Selection Algorithms
  • Chennai, India - water crisis: City's reservoirs run dry
  • Oxford to receive biggest single donation 'since the Renaissance' - £150m to fund AI ethics research
  • The UK conservative party elections get under way with a televised debate - The thing that I noticed most is how thin Rory Steward is, his legs look like toothpicks, serious question why is he so thin? Is it normal to be that thin? Perhaps it is time to have a leader that has been malnourished in charge
  • Two potentially life-friendly planets found orbiting a nearby star - The earth sized planets are orbiting a star named Teegarden’s star 12 light years away
  • Quite a confusing article about Facebook's new crypto currency, first it says the blockchain network is proprietary, then it says the software is being released as open source, well is Libra proprietary or is it open source?
  • MongoDB moves beyond the database with new cloud services - A lot of new features and cloud services
  • Facebook Token Runs Into Instant Political Opposition in Europe