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Sat, 11 Mar 2017 14:37:25 GMT

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Politics:

• Türkei schafft vor Referendum das Wort "Nein" ab

Popular Culture:

• Cruise Ship Smashes Into One of the World’s Most Beautiful Coral Reefs
• 3 Möglichkeiten gegen die Filterblase und warum Du sie nie anwenden wirst – weil es Webservices sind die in Deutschland nicht verfügbar sind und davon ausgehen dass ich meine Nachrichten über Twitter bekomme statt über einen gescheiten Feedreader.
• Anne Frank: her life after the diary ended – it is good to have at least one story that didn't end well. Most stories about the holocaust are, naturally, about survivers. This one is not.
• This is what Germans really think about being naked in the sauna – Speaking of it, I wonder why it is allowed to wear a Burquini at most swimming pools, but FKK is not allowed.
• Freiwillig Kinderlose werden oft stigmatisiert – weil es nicht sowieso schon viel zu viele Menschen gibt.
• An Alarming Number of Kids Are Getting Sick From Drinking Hand Sanitizers – prohibition at work.

Nerd Culture:

• Skipping Windows 8 Activation
• There’s a 1,200-year-old Phone in the Smithsonian Collections
• Is Your Child A Hacker?
• Origin of Wireless Security: the Marconi Radio Hack of 1903

Science:

• Textilomas, Gossypibomas, Gauzomas, or Muslinomas are Not Tumors
• A “proof by contradiction” is not a proof that ends with a contradiction – well, basically it's the difference between proving A→⊥ and (A→⊥)→⊥.

Software, Hardware:

• Password Rules Are Bullshit – and users are, too, apparently.
• SeaMonkey, Thunderbird to join forces after Firexit? – the best chance of SeaMonkey to get lots of users is to try to support as many of the old extensions as possible, as Firefox drops their support. I am currently getting used to Vivaldi, but I would prefer something entirely open source.
• Even Cybercriminals Get Spammed – I am not (yet (?)) a cybercriminal (I hope), but I still get spammed via XMPP. Why? Why would anyone send spam messages through XMPP? Most XMPP users should usually be sufficiently intelligent to not fall for it.
• Your post advocates an approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. – Specifically, your plan fails to account for ( ) Outlook.
• Browser-Update.org – "Eine Initiative von Webdesignern, um Benutzer über Updates für ihren Webbrowser zu informieren" … die eine aktuelle Version von Vivaldi nicht erkennt, und meckert, wenn JavaScript deaktiviert ist. Naja. Es passt zu dem Bild, das ich von Webdesignern habe.
• Government of Indian State Fully Adopts FOSS in Schools; Saves $45M – meanwhile Munich returns to Microsoft.
• A modern, browser-based frontend to gdb (via)
• Interactive cli tool for HTTP inspection (via)
• History of the browser user-agent string
• Run color blindness tests on your websites
• Smaller Windows updates thanks to differential packages – Microsoft invents patches. Wow. They should file a patent for this idea.
• CrossOver Android Preview – Released August 25, 2016 the CrossOver Android preview will let you run Windows software on Intel-based Chromebooks and Android tablets.

WTF:

• Video: A selective python breeder spent 8 years making an Emoji snake
• Danish schoolboy finds buried German WW2 aircraft and pilot
• Portable dog-washer cleans your canine like it's a rug

Zeroth World:

• Justin Bieber impersonator charged with more than 900 child sex offenses – aus der Kategorie "Die Evolution funktioniert"
• WISSENSCHAFTLER HABEN OHREN AUS APFELSCHEIBEN GEZÜCHTET – und die Galileo-Redaktion kennt das CSS-Property font-variant nicht.
• Tinder für Menschenaffen

Comics/Images/Audios/Videos/Games/Art:

• Frauenrechte – weil das Thema ja viel zu selten angesprochen wird.
• What Students See When They Look at Algebra – we should let Apple design user-friendly math!
• Poor
• Go To Work
• Fruit vs Art
• Decay
• Escape Velocities.
• Cloudy
• Ein harter Job.