Monday, 29 April 2019

190429


Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2019/04/190428.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

Shoddy Software Is Eating The World, And People Are Dying As A Result - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190424/06571442075/shoddy-software-is-eating-world-people-are-dying-as-result.shtml this is a big problem as software moves to the heart of modern society

An actual real-life hero ran the London Marathon dressed as Big Ben - https://mashable.com/article/london-marathon-big-ben-runner-charity/ amazing; bonkers, but amazing…

Exodus Forks Show That Open Source Kodi Add-ons Are Hard to Eradicate - https://torrentfreak.com/exodus-forks-show-that-open-source-kodi-add-ons-are-hard-to-eradicate-190428/ you can’t kill #opensource code; shutting it down in one place just spreads to several others, and can lead to more-vigorous forks

Here’s how Internet of Things malware is undermining privacy - https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2019/04/heres-how-internet-of-things-malware-is-undermining-privacy/ already a problem, it’s going to get much worse #iot

How to use a FreedomBox running #opensource software to regain control of your online #privacy - https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2019/04/how-to-use-a-freedombox-to-regain-control-of-your-online-privacy/ important proof of concept for the distributed Internet

Million Cool Roofs Challenge - https://www.coolroofschallenge.org/home interesting; not something I’d ever thought about (bad me…) #ClimateCatastrophe

UK Open Source Awards 2019 - https://opensourceawards.org/ “We are looking for nominations in the following five categories…” Nominations Close at 5pm on Monday 29th April 2019. hurry hurry hurry

.@sainsburys: ditch pointless plastic packaging - https://secure.greenpeace.org.uk/page/content/tweet-sainsburys/ “Sainsbury’s has the worst plastic policies of all UK supermarkets, even though they’re one of the biggest and most popular.” do you really want this reputation? so fix it.

Jaguar Land Rover will pay you cryptocurrency to hand over driving data - https://mashable.com/article/jaguar-land-rover-iota-crypto/ “redeemable for things such as coffees, parking tickets and electric car charging”; you’d have to be pretty stupid to accept this deal… #privacy

Facebook never delivered its “Clear History” feature - https://boingboing.net/2019/04/29/no-good-facebooks.html “Facebook should, at the bare minimum, be broken up. It should be forced to divest itself of Instagram and Whatsapp”. Also broken up by geography, moving to federated system…

“EarthBi plastic can be used without having to change existing production lines and it is possible to print complex and detailed plastic products, such as bottle caps.” - https://earthbi.io/en/project/ no idea about this one, but we do need to move to biodegradable plastics quickly

Amazon investigates after anti-vaxxer leaflet found hidden in children’s book - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/apr/29/amazon-investigates-after-anti-vaxxer-leaflet-found-hidden-in-childrens-book bad development

Man unclogs culvert drain - https://boingboing.net/2019/04/29/man-unclogs-culvert-drain.html strangely satisfying

Drop Huawei or we could cut intelligence ties, US warns UK - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/apr/29/drop-huawaei-or-we-could-cut-intelligence-ties-us-warns-uk US tells its poodle to come to heel…#brexit

Nigel Farage refuses to reveal ‘one big donation’ to Brexit Party and people are suspicious - https://www.indy100.com/article/nigel-farage-brexit-party-donation-funding-bannon-banks-8891131 I’m guessing it’s not George Soros…

Burger King will roll out the Impossible Burger nationwide by the end of the year - https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/29/burger-king-will-roll-out-the-impossible-burger-nationwide-by-the-end-of-the-year/ excellent news

Content Moderation At Scale Is Impossible: Some Republican Politicians Are Indistinguishable From Neo Nazis - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190425/23531642091/content-moderation-scale-is-impossible-some-republican-politicians-are-indistinguishable-neo-nazis.shtml





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