Saturday, 15. April 12017
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How to Remove Duplicates & Customize the “Open With” Menu in Mac OS X.

We Need More Alternatives to Facebook.

(…) having many more niche alternatives to Facebook could be exactly what we need. Even if none stole a significant chunk of Facebook’s users, it might be enough to remind people that even as Facebook becomes more powerful than ever—rolling up massive profits and preparing to beam down Internet access to offline corners of the globe—other options are possible, and vital.

Relevant: Solid (derived from "social linked data") is a proposed set of conventions and tools for building decentralized Web applications based on Linked Data principles.

Could not imagine a better headline.

AMP: breaking news.

Google has made much of their Accelerated Mobile Pages project as a solution to bloated websites and frustrated users. But could AMP actually be bad news for the web, bad news for news, and part of a trend of news distribution that is bad for society in general?

Techno-Reue in der Hyperrealität.

Die Ernüchterung über das Internet ist eine Tatsache: Aufklärung bringt uns nicht Befreiung, sondern Depression. Die einst märchenhafte Aura, die unsere geliebten Apps, Blogs und so­zia­len Medien umgab, hat sich aufgelöst. Swipen, Teilen und Liken fühlt sich an wie seelenlose Routine.

Will the real Lisa Davis please stand up?

”For 18 years, I thought she was stealing my identity. Until I found her.”

A woman apparently using my name meant a nightmare of unpaid traffic fines and a criminal record. But when I tracked her down, a different story emerged.

Did Reddit’s April Fool’s gag solve the issue of online hate speech?

It definitely provides a lot of food for thought. Basically, the idea that you only can add your stuff to a site’s content if you already were registered before the very content went online sounds quite promising…

Although, I assume customizing an automated approach will never fail to game the system, no matter how elaborate it might appear.

Friday, 14. April 12017
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To the Cosmopolitan editors who offered cancer as diet advice.

This week, Cosmopolitan published a story about beating cancer. Their title: “How This Woman Lost 44 Pounds Without ANY Exercise.”

The United Story Isn’t About Customer Service. It’s About Class Warfare.

When you get down to it, like everything else in America today, this is about the haves and the have-nots. If you’re in first class, you don’t need to worry about shock troops coming and beating you until you get out of the seat that you bought. If you’re not in first class, you’re on your own. If you’re in the top one percent on Wall Street, you turn a tidy profit off the whole ordeal. This is what class warfare looks like.

Thursday, 13. April 12017
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Scientists Announce That The Great Barrier Reef is Officially “Terminal”.

The Great Barrier Reef in Australia is recognized as the biggest living structure on Earth. Unfortunately, it's dying—with many portions facing no hope for recovery—thanks to back to back mass bleaching events.

Mesmerizing.

Smoothly animate thousands of points with HTML5 Canvas and D3.