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Tech in Asia – Connecting Asia’s startup ecosystem (techinasia.com) -
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Cloudflare goes InterPlanetary – Introducing Cloudflare’s IPFS Gateway (The Cloudflare Blog) Today we’re excited to introduce Cloudflare’s IPFS Gateway, an easy way to access content from the the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) that doesn’t require installing and running any special software on your computer.
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What is ActivityPub, and how will it change the internet? by (Jeremy Dormitzer) A new kind of social network
There’s a new social network in town. It’s called Mastodon. You might have even heard of it. On the surface, Mastodon feels a lot like Twitter: you post “toots” up to 500 characters; you follow other users who say interesting things; you can favorite a toot or re… -
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The weather here in Suzhou has been much cooler and more humid these past days, so I’m thinking warmer, drier thoughts of our California road trip earlier this year that took us through Joshua Tree.
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Today, Europe Lost The Internet. Now, We Fight Back. by (Electronic Frontier Foundation) Today, in a vote that split almost every major EU party, Members of the European Parliament adopted every terrible proposal in the new Copyright Directive and rejected every good one, setting the stage for mass, automated surveillance and arbitrary censorship of the internet: text messages like…
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Taking back control of my digital life – Timo Zimmermann by (screamingatmyscreen.com) -
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Google Is Handing the Future of the Internet to China by (Foreign Policy) The company has been quietly collaborating with the Chinese government on a new, censored search engine—and abandoning its own ideals in the process.
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EU approves controversial Copyright Directive, including internet ‘link tax’ and ‘upload filter’ by (The Verge) Those in favor say they’re fighting for content creators, but critics say the new laws will be ‘catastrophic’
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Why we’re building a social network supported by people, not advertisers by (Fast Company) The designers behind Are.na explain the thinking that led to their nascent social platform, winner of the 2018 Innovation By Design General Excellence award.
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The top four web performance challenges | Clearleft by (Clearleft) Counting down the charts—what will be in the number one spot?
Scott Mallinson
Software development engineer
