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Saturday 11th May, 2019 #

  • Across seven countries, the average price for paywalled news is about $15.75/month (Netflix subscription across countries is €7.77)
  • Joins In Steps - SQL joins explained visually
  • In tip of iceberg news - Tenants win as settlement orders landlords give physical keys over smart locks
  • WildDuck Mail Server - Open source email server that has a Nodejs/Mongo/Redis web interface, an API, pgp encrytption, this looks pretty interesting if you were thinking of self hosting your email
  • U.S. regulators approve new Silicon Valley stock exchange
  • Nearly all countries agree to stem flow of plastic waste into poor nations - This is a big win for the environment, but the plastics polution problem is massive and really needs to be solved worldwide, especially since plastic nano particles have now been proven to pass from blood into the human brain, so it's not just the environment that is suffereing it is our actual brains too, if we don't act now we might loose the ability to even think about the problem
  • 'Reconstruction' begins of stone age lands lost to North Sea
  • GitHub introduces GitHub Package Registry, a package management service - Support for npm, Maven, RubyGems, NuGet, and Docker
  • The Cure - "A Forest" @ Werchter Festival (Belgium), July 1981 - Sometimes the YouTube up next video suggestions are rather good