Michal Valasek @fuji@ruby.social

A quick thanks again to the very kind folks and companies who are sponsor the https://ruby.social instance and help keep the lights on here.

If you'd like to join them, it's super easy, and every little bit is appreciated: https://www.patreon.com/join/rubysocial

It's public now! Spritely (and myself) have been awarded a Samsung Stack Zero grant! I'm funded for the next two years to bring ActivityPub and the fediverse to the next level. Secure interactions, object capabilities, p2p content delivery, all that stuff! https://samsungnext.com/whats-next/category/podcasts/decentralization-samsung-next-stack-zero-grant-recipients/

Saudi Arabia runs online database of women to track them, stop them running away
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19055182
#hackernews #tech

Just come across this genius comic: Jousselin's Imbattable, a comic hero who's power is to break panels!

Google’s true origin partly lies in CIA and NSA research grants for mass surveillance. Their research aim was to track digital fingerprints inside the rapidly expanding global information network, which was then known as the World Wide Web. https://qz.com/1145669/googles-true-origin-partly-lies-in-cia-and-nsa-research-grants-for-mass-surveillance/

JS Changes Fast; CLJS Makes It Manageable

http://clojurescriptmadeeasy.com/blog/javascript-changes-fast.html

Algorithms book by Jeff Erickson available for free online http://jeffe.cs.illinois.edu/teaching/algorithms/#book

Movies set in 2019:
- Blade Runner
- The Running Man
- Akira

As well as the undeservedly less well known Italian movie, “2019 - Dopo la caduta di New York”.