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Monday 31st December, 2018 #

  • I was hoping to watch a few videos on youtube but it appears that my internet connection is being traffic shaped, no video sites will load even though I have plenty of bandwidth available - Oh well, happy new year to all, and all the best for 2019 :)
  • Winner of the Surveillance Award 2019 - The Chinese government is putting tracking chips into school uniforms to watch every move kids make - Well done you, we simply can't wait to discover what else you have planned for everyone!
  • The Unforgettable Works of 15 Artists Who Died in 2018
  • London boroughs join forces to alleviate homelessness crisis - Strange career working against homelessness, the better at your job you are the more likely you are to become homeless - how do they offset this conflict of interest? There has to be an offset or everyone would eventually get "captured" in the homeless bucket
  • No-deal Brexit ferry company owns no ships and has never run Channel service
  • Why do we celebrate New Year on 1 January?
  • Nasa's New Horizons - Final commands given to distant probe
  • Lawrence Roberts, Who Helped Design Internet’s Precursor, Dies at 81
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Sunday 30th December, 2018 #

  • Joe Rogan Experience #1216 - Sir Roger Penrose
  • The Dangers of Artificial Intelligence in 2019
  • Inside Facebook’s Secret Rulebook for Global Political Speech - As bad as it seems, at least it's moderated by people, the alternative of developing a worldwide AI moderation infrastructure doesn't sound like a particularly good idea to me
  • John Gruber - "Facebook is to privacy and civil discourse what Enron was to accounting"
  • Some Brexit article about something Brexit related with a picture of May and Juncker sharing a moment, isn't that nice?
  • ‘Completely Bizarre’ Stock Moves Leave Traders Scratching Heads
  • How Much Paid Leave And Holidays Workers Get In America Compared To The Rest Of The World, Charted
  • Bangladesh shuts down mobile internet in lead up to election day
  • A Guide to Deno Core
  • Doctor says 'selfie wrist' injuries are on the rise
  • FlixBus is testing VR on certain routes to Las Vegas - Is this the real world?
  • Cyberattack from outside the U.S. hits newspapers across the country, preventing distribution, source says - how long until we have AI malware, termites secretly burying into our systems? We'll wake up one day and get visibility and realise it's too late, that the AIs have taken over our brains over the cell phone networks
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Saturday 29th December, 2018 #

  • Mail Loop From Hell
  • Tech Trends Showdown - React vs Angular vs Vue
  • Writing memory efficient software applications in Node.js - Using streams to read and write data
  • Why I’m so “against” Ethereum - Worth skimming through to get the gist of what's going on there
  • EU nationals deride 'cheery' Home Office UK settlement video
  • Look to the Irish peace process for guidance on how to navigate Brexit - How the EU's existence helped to create a context were discussions became possible
  • Trump threatens to shut border 'entirely' unless Democrats fund wall
  • Today I have so far mainly been swimming in the infinity pool that is computer related problems (same as I do everyday, life appears to be full....again)
  • The "fundamental rule" of traffic - building new roads just makes people drive more
  • Twitter Hackers Hijack New Accounts After Company Claims It Fixed Bug - Would be good to if tweets could be edited / deleted via this method too
  • New Year Honours 2019 - Twiggy, Michael Palin and Gareth Southgate on list
  • Mark Zuckerberg reviews 2018
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Friday 28th December, 2018 #

  • Will PWAs Replace Native Mobile Apps?
  • Flying Nest - Minimalist Nomadic Container Hotel Travels the World in Style
  • SSH Examples, Tips & Tunnels (today's creepy synchronicity winner - just finished adding color highlight triggers to some iTerm screens, and oh look 2 mins later an interesting post about ssh that uses colors everywhere) :(
  • I'm experiencing very sketchy Internet connectivity today - blocking occurring in multiple places, then magically working again after I find the blockage
  • It would be nice if there was a tally of total number of exported people per country so we can track the world's biggest colonizer countries (from 1600AD until present day)
  • Everything we did before is bad, the new way is so much better, everything is actually really really awesome (yet again)
  • Just a kind reminder that AI is modern day mustard gas, that is all
  • ECMAScript modules in Node.js: the new plan - Why are they removing nice features: Importing a directory dir is not supported ?
  • Gatwick Airport sold to France’s Vinci for £2.9 billion, following drone chaos
  • The 250-year-old subscription library thriving in a digital world
  • Germany joins UK in recruiting foreigners into it's army
  • Film 2019 will never be, as BBC drops long-running movie show
  • Indonesia lifts ban on Tumblr
  • Foxconn to begin assembling top-end Apple iPhones in India in 2019
  • Instagram briefly switched to a horizontal feed and people freaked out
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Thursday 27th December, 2018 #

  • MRI scan showing what happens inside our mouth when we speak
  • How to Be Futuristic - You are being watched, Bruce will tell you all about it
  • Democratize Publishing, Revisited
  • The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Serverless - What you should know about serverless, the universe and everything (This one made it through the synchronicity filter/blocker that is maxing out today)
  • HN Thread - Monster thread with discussions concerning Patreon trying to control the universe
  • Patreon Bars Anti-Feminist for Racist Speech, Inciting Revolt - Patreon continues to venture down the rabbit hole of being the internet's authorization layer
  • Why Exaggeration Jokes Work - They prey on a phenomenon that goes to the very heart of nature
  • More in "everything is fake" news - Artificial Intelligence Creates Realistic Photos of People, None of Whom Actually Exist
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Tuesday 25th December, 2018 #

  • Albert Einstein - “We may be in the universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.”
  • Apollo 8 - Around The Moon and Back
  • How to show process id and process name in tcpdump output on OSX
  • John Gruber - When someone draws a goddamn swastika on a “Happy Hanukkah” sign, “Fuck Nazis” is the appropriate response
  • json-server-auth - Authentication & Authorization flow for JSON Server (neat)
  • Why is almost almost everything now "install via npm by typing this in the command" ? Why is everything so depending on this ONE tech, what if npm went down ? Why is everybody is accepting this ?
  • The year social networks were no longer social
  • Happy Christmas to everyone (arseholes and non-arseholes) :)
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Monday 24th December, 2018 #

  • "Not another fucking drone" - Yep it's drone again, what a surprise
  • Quantum Quantum everything is Quantum
  • How to Be an Artist - A bunch of short bite-sized lessons that you can snack on over the holidays
  • 5 unicorns that will probably go public in 2019 (besides Uber and Lyft)
  • How US billionaires are fuelling the hard-right cause in Britain - Interesting piece that sheds some light on the strategies behind the cauldron of activities that surrounds the funding of alternative media and political groups - "Universities would produce the intellectual raw materials. Thinktanks would transform them into a more practical or usable form. Then “citizen activist” groups would press for the implementation of policy change."
  • There may have been no drones at Gatwick Airport at all, police say
  • E-cigarette maker Juul is giving each of it's 1500 employees $1.3 million dollars as part of an investment deal with Altria (the parent company of Philip Morris)
  • I quite like the design of the top part of the page to this Nieman Journalism Lab site, the bottom half feels kind of squashed to me, maybe this is a new style?
  • Node.js Fundamentals - Web Server Without Dependencies
  • Civil rights 'under serious attack' across the globe
  • Paddy Ashdown Dead
  • Sending astronauts to Mars would be stupid, astronaut says
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Sunday 23rd December, 2018 #

  • Working in computers is definitely not the 100 metres, it's the 110 metres hurdles - really wish someone had said that to me back in the 90s
  • Something Weird Is Going On as New Horizons Approaches Distant Asteroid - That's because it's not an asteroid... it's an Alien Space Probe! That's exactly where they would put it...right after Pluto
  • The Year in Visual Culture 2018 - I really wanted to get into this artsy piece, but everything on the page just feels squashed
  • The GPS wars have begun - Doesn't feel like a war is a good idea given the reality that a space debrit accident could permanently ground humanity to the planet
  • Very attractive and secure addition to Port Talbot's Banksy, residents are clearly all very into graffiti and visitors
  • President Trump commits the government to providing $1.2 billion to fund activities promoting quantum information science over an initial five-year period - Just when you through it couldn't get any more complicated...it's okay Quantum Tech is going to fix everything! We will have so much data for the AIs! Three cheers for Quantum! :(
  • Watch Network Traffic in Mac OS X via Command Line with nettop
  • TCP 3-Way Handshake (SYN,SYN-ACK,ACK)
  • Introduction to tcpdump
  • Inside Shenzhen’s race to outdo Silicon Valley - Sophisticated hardware, software and AI products from design to launch in under 3 months
  • Reprogramming Your Subconscious Mind
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Saturday 22nd December, 2018 #

  • I couldn't be bothered to read this article, however George Osborne does a really great Zuckerberg impression, don't you think?
  • Looks as though things could be turning for the worse in France, the police might join the protesters over unpaid overtime and difficult working conditions
  • The case for taking AI seriously as a threat to humanity - Makes some good points but fails to mention the biggest risk - humans using ai to build and/or customize humans, then we will enter a recursive ai-human training loop and with our human capacity to self justify, will we even know when we are causing suffering, or will we think that we are helping? Will we all always remember or know about the recursive loop? And with the surveillance/monitoring infrastructure that is being built in recent years by almost all nations around the world, and of course the internet off things, will it even matter if it's running open source, free software or proprietary software...
  • Here's What It Looks Like When An Astronaut Tries To Walk On Earth After 197 Days In Orbit
  • Bootstrap 4.2.1 Released - Spinners, Toasts to display push notifications and toggle Switches, plus various smaller updates and additions
  • Photography - Fog Waves Are The Most Beautiful Thing I Captured After 8 Years Of Experimenting
  • Seems like US companies are having to block users based on trade embargoes - slack is apologising for blocking the wrong users, it’s the first I’ve heard if such practices - if true it’s a massive blow to cloud software companies
  • React Today and Tomorrow and 90% Cleaner React With Hooks
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Friday 21st December, 2018 #

  • Interesting drone fact - Eagles have been trained to intercept and retrieve drones in the Netherlands
  • A review of the security on DigitalOcean's new Kubernetes Service - it doesn't fare too well, kind of worrying, and a bad sign if they are releasing half baked services which are vulnerable to being hacked
  • api2html - Using the data from your API, generate the HTML on the fly! Server-side rendering of the mustache templates (neat idea)
  • How That Magical Jack Dorsey – Alex Jones Photo Happened (America has it's own version of "surrealism")
  • Is this how parliament ends – not with a bang but a row about a whisper? (An interesting observation on the surrealism of parliament)
  • Orbital's Paul Hartnoll shows us how he keeps the classic sound of rave alive
  • Why I can’t stop looking at apartments I’ll never rent
  • Yeah sure, Decentralization and Crypto will solve everything (AI is about the only buzzworthy trope they forget to mention)
  • World’s First AI News Anchor Makes its Debut in China - First they came for the news anchors...
  • If copyrights in software worked the same as in film/movies, then you could write a closed source application once, and be the only one to make money from it for life time of the author + 50 years, then it could be open sourced - Feels like two very different dimensions, yet software is used to make films! Seems like there is quite a lot of incentive for software companies to find other ways to make up this glaringly big disparity
  • HNThread - interesting comment thread discussing the managed service providers exploit by chinese hackers
  • As part of a Chinese campaign known as Cloudhopper, managed service providers in industries including finance, electronics, medical equipment, biotechnology, automotive, mining, and oil and gas exploration were targeted with the aim of accessing client networks and stealing corporate secrets from companies around the globe
  • NHS.UK frontend library - Uses React and interestingly (if you have been following Brexit) also a library called BackstopJS
  • Analysis of 2018 Hacker News "Who is Hiring" Job Posts - html javascript, css, react, git, linux all Top Skills :), Software Engineers in high demand :), remote work in only 11% of jobs :(, visas provided in 5% of jobs :(
  • Great Pacific garbage patch $20m cleanup fails to collect plastic
  • Gatwick chaos - Police 'could shoot down drone' - Terrible situation made worse by conflicting actions and terrible use of double negatives in passenger information bulletins
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Thursday 20th December, 2018 #

  • npm package permissions  - takes an in depth look at what could be done to make nodejs more secure (and scares the willies out of you on route)
  • Banksy's latest street art comments on town's steel industry, perspective, optimism, snow, self-censorship, propaganda, ai apocalypse, brexit
  • Windows Sandbox is a safer way to run programs you don't trust
  • From a design perspective, the first thing that springs to mind with Universal Credit is the problem of having "all of your eggs in one basket", I would have thought that spreading the system across several very separate government departments would be better, but then again I dunno in a future where AI is everywhere, could be the single point of failure approach might actually be better - if everyone could just trust everyone and stop locking people into things then maybe we wouldn't need a stupid system that everyone hates in the first place
  • Struggling with universal credit in Hartlepool - I just watched a lot of the BBC videos on Universal Credit, and it's very worrying, I worry even more when I think how AI is going to simultaneously make things better and worse at the same time - such an enormous waste of people's lives
  • Quick update on my continuing internet connectivity troubles - One piece of installed software has locked me to only be able to use one specific browser, the other piece of cloud software will not fully work in that browser making it unusable - just wanted to make a public note of the situation here
  • More humorous chicken ad campaigns - Popeyes is selling ‘Emotional Support Chicken’ for stressed holiday travelers
  • Bye bye Mongo, Hello Postgres - great write up of the Mongo to Postgres migration done recently by the Guardian newspaper development team
  • For the First Time in More Than 20 Years, Copyrighted Works Will Enter the Public Domain
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Wednesday 19th December, 2018 #

  • I Used The Web For A Day Using A Screen Reader
  • European Union diplomatic communications 'targeted by hackers' - "there is no doubt this campaign is connected to the Chinese government"
  • Brexit - EU launches emergency policies to 'limit damage' of no-deal Brexit
  • Happy 30th birthday to the engine that powered the CGI revolution - In the 30 years since RenderMan became available, 27 of the 30 films to win the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects used it
  • Royal Ballet's Nutcracker Is Simply Stunning
  • Elon Musk’s ‘vision for transport’ is a 3D network of tunnels for autonomous electric vehicles
  • Humorous ad about South African explorer discovering Europe in 1650
  • Belgium's PM Charles Michel submits resignation amid migration row
  • Twitter is relaunching the reverse-chronological feed as an option for all users starting today
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Tuesday 18th December, 2018 #

  • Hey Jeff Bezos - it would be great if you could tell your sales folks not to ignore people that aren't in a position to use a phone - fyi correspondence via email is quite a modern way to do business
  • Free PO boxes could help homeless people escape 'catch-22' keeping them on streets, report finds
  • Watch Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin launch a rocket stuffed with Nasa gear - Live in 10 hours
  • France to tax tech giants from 2019 as EU fails to act
  • Google’s secret China project “effectively ended” after internal confrontation - Actually looks to be because access to 265.com data was suspended
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Monday 17th December, 2018 #

  • Brexit - I am not a lawyer but this is what the proposed deal looks like to me: (1) Freedom of movement for EU citizens in the UK (2) No freedom of movement for UK citizens in the EU (3) UK is segregated into separate UK-EU customs territory (4) UK pays the EU a lot of money (5) peace in northern Ireland
  • Brexit - The conclusion document has a summary (p7) of what the backstop is - It covers a lot of things, notably the "Common Travel Area" still applies, freedom of movement for EU citizens, it's not 100% clear to me that UK citizens have the same privilege
  • Brexit - In case you are interested, the "Backstop" refers to a protocol section of the withdrawal agreement (p300-474, approx 1/3 of the entire document) that includes a series of annex sections (annexes 1-10) - these are the rules, apparently meant to be temporary, to be applied concerning NI after Brexit
  • Brexit - A link to a Brexit page now appears right at the very bottom right hand corner of the European Commission homepage - Has links to all the negotiation documents if you click through 3 levels deep
  • The future of web development is that HTML, CSS and javascript will be replaced with AI and you will have to train the AI to interact with the browser APIs, then when you are not looking they will put the AI in your head, and then they will train you :(
  • Why I no longer use D3.js
  • debucsser - CSS debugging tool with an unpronounceable name
  • Is there a cold war between Android and Chrome because of PWAs?
  • Huawei Hemorrhages Allies in Europe on Growing Security Concerns
  • "Anyone worried about having their device compromised with a fake head should perhaps consider not using facial recognition"
  • “Certain parts of American society now feel a sort of exhausted solidarity with the UK, a relief that they are not the only ones whose country is a raging dumpster fire. A new sort of special relationship has been forged between the UK and the US; we are united by the fact that we have become global jokes.”
  • In India 33 killed in 69 incidents of mob violence between January 2017 and July 2018 fueled by the introduction of mobile apps
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Sunday 16th December, 2018 #

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Saturday 15th December, 2018 #

  • Jack Kerouac on the Steve Allen show 1959
  • What happens when packages go bad?
  • Minimal Google Analytics Snippet
  • Is there a css-tricks type website for computer networking? That would be amazing
  • Working with the new CSS Typed Object Model - Once you know about and appreciate the value in the CSSOM, the new Typed CSSOM is much more accessible
  • An Introduction and Guide to the CSS Object Model (CSSOM) - By Louis Lazaris - One of those articles that demonstrates why css-tricks is one of the best web development websites out there
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Friday 14th December, 2018 #

  • Uri Hasson - This is your brain on communication - I liked this talk but I'm not sure I buy the theory that similar brain activity signifies similar understanding of meaning, and even if it is the case, it might be better for people to have somewhat different brain responses to the same story so that there are a diversity of views
  • Nita Farahany - When technology can read minds, how will we protect our privacy? (But isn't her proposed law just a technology validation in disguise?)
  • If the EU still won't negotiate people need to be made aware that the EU is forcing the UK and Ireland to fight against each other - the EU doesn't appear to see that real people with families live in northern Ireland and have been suffering for many decades - Stop the annexation of northern Ireland just so you can add a tiny bit of land to your continent sized territory
  • Brexit - "Our UK friends need to say what they want" - List the current rule set, delete the rules you don't want (unsure - delete it), add rules you want, send to Brussels - It does not need to be complicated
  • Just another kick in the teeth - today the navbar and support ticket system has stopped rendering in Chrome for a hosting provider website I use, renders fine in Firefox but Firefox is being secretly blocked by dodgy firewall software that earlier overwrote firewall rules with an old set of rules corrupting the backups in the process - Hey world, you must immediately cease kicking this independent software developer in the teeth! Sometimes the only action left is to wag your finger at everyone :)
  • Trump cancels White House Christmas party for the press
  • Brexit - What it sounds like to me is "EU rules apply in northern Ireland until a deal is struck between the UK and the EU" which means there is literally no incentive for the EU to negotiate anything since they are already happy with "the EU rules"
  • I'm surprised at how optimistic bitcoin scammers are of regular people's ability to make bitcoin transfers
  • Sometimes things fail, and it's especially terrible when your backups are corrupt too - in those situations there isn't much else you can do apart from rebuild from memory, the good news is that building something you already did usually takes much less time, but you have to do it as soon as possible while you still remember
  • A reminder of how the world is right now - logged into my laptop a few minutes ago and all my Firewall configuration has been reset to rules from several years ago - wanted to make a public note of that here
  • The State of Web Browsers - A no bullshit review of the state of play (also is the open web a bit like the freedom of movement or have I finally gone Brexit mad?)
  • Zero Gravity Corporation - they do those zero g flights that people go on, expensive but does look like a lot of fun
  • Branson's Virgin Galactic reaches edge of space
  • Node.js API and Web Frameworks for 2019
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Thursday 13th December, 2018 #

  • Maybe it’s some sort of haircut? or perhaps a new dance that’s hot in the clubs these days?
  • Post-Brexit there is real danger that the UK turns into a sort of rubbish bin as it negotiates trade deals, and bigger entities try to off load lower quality products - the UK will have to become less reliant on imports
  • Wireless sensors attached to bumble bees using small backpack - Sounds cool but why are the bees developing Tourette syndrome and weird twitches?
  • Who's spending what in Europe's Copyright Directive battle - A look into the lobbying happening around the EUs proposed link tax and copyright laws
  • Internet search tips - a description of tips and tricks for effective internet search of papers/books for research
  • An Intel Breakthrough Rethinks How Chips Are Made - 3D stacking to create high density customizable chips
  • Insert variable text after another variable text on a specific line using awk
  • Google transfers ownership of duck.com domain to DuckDuckGo
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Wednesday 12th December, 2018 #

  • Freelancer v0.0.2 release - Introduces vhost support
  • Marriott Data Breach Is Traced to Chinese Hackers as U.S. Readies Crackdown on Beijing
  • Let's check in with those time travelling pirates at the houses of parliament shall we? Some sort of rebellion is happening
  • Aesop Rock - Lotta Years - Live from the Hill
  • Great article that investigates and illustrates the differences between static, servers-side and single page applications sites (Interesting fact - When I was learning about websites I had to piece together the information in her article over many years like a jigsaw with the pieces scattered around the world, and while I was doing it I didn't even know that the jigsaw even existed!)
  • Introducing the new GitHub Status Site
  • Firefox 64 Released - multiple tab selection, text contrast devtools infobar, new media queries, Full Screen API, WebVR support, context menu enhancements for extensions, add-ons can display custom content in devtools sidebar (Lots of really cool features!)
  • Instagram Testing Creator Accounts With Direct Message Filters, Growth Insights
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Tuesday 11th December, 2018 #

  • Brexit - EU president Juncker to UK - We are Apollo 13'ing you, and you're going to like it - got it?
  • Watch how a delivery man reacts when a squirrel jumps on him and climbs up to his head
  • Third Eye Data - TV News Archive chyrons
  • The largest vocabulary in Hip Hop
  • Brexit - As bad as Brexit seems right now, it appears to be less bad than the EU Copyright Proposal, that appears to be the shambles of all shambles
  • Gizmodo wants you to know that Jack Dorsey has a nose ring, but remember the number of things he has that they fail to mention, and the number of things he doesn't have that they also failed to mention is simply staggering
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Monday 10th December, 2018 #

  • Brexit - How has the EU dealt with other renegotiations in the past?
  • UK Digital minister Margot James is very pro ID cards, a fake freedom of movement lover
  • Your apps know where you were last night, and they’re not keeping it secret
  • Workaround for Bootstrap v4 navbar menu toggler CSP error
  • Keith Haring on How to Be an Artist
  • I wonder which type of freedom of movement the time traveling pirates would prefer? Their priority is probably getting into the country, then they can blend in relatively easily, so maybe the EU freedom of movement, but then again they are time traveling pirates playing fancy dress, they can blend in anywhere right, so why not just prefer the UK version of freedom of movement? Then all peoples (time traveling pirates & regular peoples) have more equal freedom of movement
  • Guide to Advertising Technology (aka synchronicity or creepy advertising industrial complex?) - Very thorough and well written look into the digital advertising industry, the technologies and systems used to power much of today's web
  • Is the Internet to Blame for the Rise of Authoritarianism?
  • Where is the boundary between your phone and your mind?
  • We should be shouting “True freedom of movement” not the EUs fake freedom of movement - all this weird Brexit contortions the UK is having to do is a result of years of politely refusing the EU oppression
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Sunday 9th December, 2018 #

  • Evil Superstars - It's a sad sad planet
  • Just discovered that Google (Jigsaw) Outline VPN server does not support ping, and no plans to support it :( - after a week of configuring I got it fully working a few hours ago and was just thinking yay google)
  • The internet is pretty great sometimes
  • This artist uses jigsaw puzzles, with the same die cut pattern, to make these terrific mashups
  • Facebook joins Tumblr's war on adults
  • Microsoft Putting Edge on Chromium Will Fundamentally Change the Web
  • In my opinion May should go back to Brussels with a proposal - Norway Plus with true freedom of movement throughout the EU (abolition of all national id cards) or no deal Brexit - sounds a little outrageous, but really it's outrageous that the EU is demanding restriction of movement and calling it freedom
  • List of national identity card policies by country - This is essentially the freedom of movement world map, note that a lot of the EU is red and hardly any of it is grey
  • The reality about the EU freedom of movement is that it isn't in practice free movement, you have to register everytime you move, everyone is tracked
  • If the EU is really serious about freedom of movement then it shouldn't be a big deal to insist on the abolition of id cards in all member countries
  • Brexit - What is the Norway model? (In practice, how even is the freedom of movement throughout the EU? For example in the UK there are no ID cards, straight away that's an enormous difference)
  • Post-It Notes Annual Gallery Art Show
  • What Happens When A Founder Is Fully Vested?
  • HN Thread - Australia’s vague anti-encryption law sets a dangerous new precedent
  • Australia’s vague anti-encryption law sets a dangerous new precedent
  • The All Powerful Front End Developer - Chris Coyier takes us on a journey through jamstack and serverless
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Saturday 8th December, 2018 #

  • A Choreographer's Creative Process in Real Time
  • Brexit vote - What could happen next? 6 possible scenarios (Brexit is so complicated even the russian election hackers are too baffled to try and influence the outcome)
  • Deviate Podcast - An outsider’s inside history of the Beat Generation, as told by Charles Plymell
  • Scientists teach Google AlphaZero AI the basic rules of chess, shogi and go, a few hours later it had beaten the AI world-champions in each category (How can people not be worried that AI is going to pawn human brains?)
  • Presidency Without Humor - Another relatively well painted picture in the only style the NYT knows how to paint (they would probably say I was directing my comment at someone else, but what if I really wasn’t?)
  • Modern JavaScript Explained For Dinosaurs, Prisoners and Hostages
  • Microsoft adds a set of AI-assisted development capabilities to it’s popular VSCode IDE for TypeScript/JavaScript (probably nothing to worry about, Clippy was a long time ago)
  • Europe should be wary of Huawei, says EU Commision Vice President Andrus Ansip
  • Inside China's audacious global propaganda campaign (worth reading)
  • Leave Gmail in 10 steps
  • Japan Is Giving Away Abandoned Houses for Free
  • Microsoft wants to stop AI's 'race to the bottom'
  • Rather than figure out Brexit MPs are plotting and scheming to ensure they still have jobs after the vote
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Thursday 6th December, 2018 #

  • Audiobooks - Dance Your Life Away (Official Video)
  • RMS has an interesting point of view about the planned EU "Lie Detector" app
  • 50 not 500 - Om Malik reflects on his decision to jettison his Facebook account
  • RIP, George HW Bush - a mass-murderer and war-criminal
  • I watched most of the President Bush funeral, it was a really nice service, funny how different people view things - it hadn't even occurred to me, as the New Yorker tries to point out, that saying nice things about Bush was a way to snub the current president - as far as I'm concerned it wasn't about the current president at all, the funeral was about the Bushes
  • Everything I Wish I knew About Stock Options 15 Years Ago
  • Googlers Write to CEO Demanding Equal Treatment for Contractors
  • Tensions At Facebook Are Boiling Over
  • Facebook Wielded Data to Reward, Punish Rivals, Emails Show
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Monday 3rd December, 2018 #

  • I noticed today that the flag of China and flag of the EU are very similar - strange that I hadn't noticed this before
  • Sex workers in India are being "rescued" then held prisoner under forced labour - These are the types of stories that make me very worried about a future when anyone can build unimaginably powerful AI - there could be a holocaust/labour camps type situation happening right under our noses without us knowing about it
  • Putin - Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman high fives at the G20 is of course an instant classic
  • Some ways to get into the habit of writing posts every day - Running a linkblog is also a great way :)
  • DevTools for Designers - round up of the various design tools available in browser dev tools
  • The Gordon Gekko 'Wall Street' Haircut Is Back
  • Neil DeGrasse Tyson Rejects Claims Of Sexual Misconduct
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Saturday 1st December, 2018 #

  • The faster you unlearn OOP, the better for you and your software
  • This man bought a Google home and really, really ran with it
  • What Would It Take to Shoot a Cannonball Into Orbit?
  • MP resigns over Brexit repercussions to UK's involvement in the EU's Galileo satellite-navigation system - "Galileo is a clarion call that it will be 'EU first'"
  • Microsoft becomes worlds most valuable company ($850B+) surpassing Apple - Maybe it could help it's company LinkedIn to get a customer support team with some of that money?
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