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A Timeline of Events That Led to the 2020 'Fed Up'-rising.

August 1619: The White Lion, a 160-ton Dutch privateer ship flying a British flag landed at Comfort Point in Virginia loaded with “20. and odd negroes” to be exchanged for food and the “best and easiest rates...”

TIL about LibreSSL (via lobste.rs).

LibreSSL is a version of the TLS/crypto stack forked from OpenSSL in 2014, with goals of modernizing the codebase, improving security, and applying best practice development processes.

AudioMass is a free full-featured web-based audio & waveform editing tool.

Source: audiomass.co

Company for AlpineJS et al.

htmx allows you to access AJAX, WebSockets and Server Sent Events directly in HTML, using attributes, so you can build modern user interfaces with the simplicity and power of hypertext.

Online Design Archives From Around The World.

Source: pbs.twimg.com

RSS for Hackers (via disq.us).

Patterns for processing and producing RSS feeds.

Relevant: Which Atom/RSS Reader do you use?

Gurken Gurken Gurken Gurken.

The Price is (Not) Right: Comparing Privacy in Free and Paid Apps.

(…) there is no clear evidence that paying for an app will actually guarantee protection from extensive data collection in practice. Given that the free version had at least one third-party library or dangerous permission, respectively, we discovered that 45% of the paid versions reused all of the same third-party libraries as their free versions, and 74% of the paid versions had all of the dangerous permissions held by the free app.

Tango by Zbigniew Rybczynski.

After winning an Academy Award for Best Animated Short, Rybczynski stepped outside for a smoke and was denied re-entry from security, despite holding his newly-won Oscar. An altercation ensued and the director was arrested. His takeaway of the eventful evening: "success and defeat are quite intertwined."

ad drawn.ca: “Every day, as best as I am able, I will share an animated short from around the web—old shorts, new shorts, and many personal favourites, all from public domain or freely available sources. No ads, no Like buttons, no noise.”