Huh, I had totally missed that Wire pivoted from personal messaging to business team chat platform: https://wire.com/

The timing of this concerted anti-Facebook campaign is rather interesting. FB recently changed the timeline algos to contain much more actual social content from friends and family, and I see hardly any propagandistic political links anymore. Twitter otoh is worse than ever.

If you tried to switch to Mastodon in the past, but found yourself lost in the fediverse, here's a great writeup for you: https://theoutline.com/post/2689/mastodon-makes-the-internet-feel-like-home-again?zd=1&zi=uiatp7...

GitHub wants you to: "Write to EU policymakers [...] and ask them to exclude “software repositories” from Article 13." https://blog.github.com/2018-03-14-eu-proposal-upload-filters-code/

How about protesting all upload filters, period? You don't care about freedom and privacy, you only care about your bottom line here.

Would anyone find it terribly weird for remoteStorage to allow "If-None-Match" headers on PUTs, and returning 304 Not Modified in case the document already exists with that ETag? HTTP specs only mention it for GET and HEAD requests.

And there goes all post Jay-Z hope for South Africa: http://www.hinnews.com/za/national-news/we-will-print-more-money-and-give-it-to-the-unemployed-to-en...

Here's an easy and completely free way to make your (un)conference more inclusive, as well as better for the environment: have people pay for their t-shirts. If you want *great* shirts that people will actually wear, you can then also charge the proper price for those.

CW: #cycling

Just realized that the UCI mountain bike (xco) world cup is happening around me in Stellenbosch this weekend. Already saw a national champ wizz past the coffee shop, and a BMC team van just pulled out of a parking lot on the other side.

http://worldcupstellenbosch.com/

Fun fact: btcd mainnet + btcd testnet + lnd testnet + ltcd mainnet + bitcoind mainnet = 419 GB current disk usage.

Vodafone and Nokia are going to set up a mini 4G network on the moon next year, to facilitate communication between autonomous vehicles. And if things work out, we'll get an HD video live stream from the moon: https://newatlas.com/vodafone-nokia-moon-4g/53591/

Good news for pair programming: GitHub now supports adding co-authors to Git commits. https://blog.github.com/2018-01-29-commit-together-with-co-authors/ 👏

The spider app on my main phone is getting a bit out of hand. However, I can't seem to find a decent new phone that's explicitly supported by LineageOS. Any tips?

Step 1: Create integration between two proprietary, closed-source platforms.
Step 2: Advertise "Open source, open platform" as a major benefit of your new integration.

https://github.com/blog/2506-slack-and-github-your-ultimate-productivity-pair