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://
Good news for pair programming: GitHub now supports adding co-authors to Git commits. https://
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.
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Also TIL: Roscosmos delivered a pizza to the ISS once. And Russian kosmonauts used to pack heat on their space missions, so they could defend against wild animals in Siberia when they came back. https://
TIL: An Apollo 14 astronaut smuggled a makeshift golf club head to the Moon, mounted it on a sample-taking instrument and shot some balls up there. https://
Hey Microsoft: renaming Windows Hosted Apps to PWAs doesn't magically make them so. Having to use a proprietary tool to package the app in a proprietary format is the antithesis of open Web standards. https://
"I'm not sure how many people commute at 40 kph." "Depends on the traffic really." https://
You think cryptos are crashing hard, because the bitcoin bubble is bursting? Perhaps consider the bloodbath in international stock markets over the last days, losing $4 trillion in about a week: https://
Wow, beer prices at Delirium are basically NYC level now. https://
Not sure if some joker at TUIfly is playing a prank or not:
"You are expected at the check-in desk 120 minutes before departure at the latest (180 minutes for long distance flights). You should take into account the fact that your booking may be cancelled and you may be refused access to the aeroplane, without reimbursement of the price of your flight, if you fail to check in on time."
Decided to go back to cold Brussels from Gambia next week, attending FOSDEM for the first time in 6 years or so. See you there? https://
The Road Movie is a feature film made entirely from Russian dashcam footage: https://
"The news industry needs to wake up and join the web": https://
Should've started daily #hackerbeach open-source updates two weeks ago, but wth.
Today I worked on a little learning bot that my mates @bumi, @slvrbckt and I have been using on and off to learn some Spanish in the past. I added subscription management for courses, as well as the first Wolof phrases.
Couldn't find one either. Went with an Android One phone (Mi A1) instead. It's too big for my taste but a great phone apart from that.
Philipp Strube, Feb 28 2018 on twitter.com