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helixten··on ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE sightings, goes viral
This is very American, The Green Book guided Black travelers to safe businesses during Jim Crow. The Underground Railroad was literally an information network to help enslaved people reach freedom. During WWII, communities helped hide Japanese Americans from internment. LGBTQ+ people created networks to find safe spaces during decades of criminalization. Native communities have long shared information about safe passage and resources.
helixten··on An origin trial for a new HTML <permission> element (2024)
This is part of the standards process. Incubation happened here https://github.com/WICG/PEPC now on to Origin Trials before Standardization
helixten··on A biased test kept Black people from getting a kidney transplant
Sickle cell disease is caused by a mutation in the HBB gene, not by belonging to a specific race. Race is a social construct, meaning it's defined by social factors rather than strictly biological ones. Since someone who is Black in the US often has about 20% European ancestry, how does this compare to someone who is directly from an African country? Where is the line?
helixten··on Charted: 50 Years of Music Industry Revenues, by Format
If I am not mistaken, over the air radio does not have to pay royalties.
helixten··on Microsoft Fast Design
Not quite, Ionic Stencil is library to helps build webcomponents. Since fast.design are webcomponents, they can be used in any with any framework, no wrapping required.
helixten··on TypeScript at Google
I hope the work they did with the Babel team with help with this.

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/typescript/2018/08/27/types...

helixten··on AWS Amplify now supports Angular 6 apps and Angular AOT compilation
Only 3 was skipped.
helixten··on U.S. Launches Attacks on Syria
Yeah they are attacking ISIL part of Operation Inherent Resolve https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Inherent_Resolve
helixten··on Electron is Harmful
I think pwa can replace many election app, MS thinks so too they are allowing them in the app store.
helixten··on Comcast uses MITM JavaScript injection to serve account related information
Use HTTPS when it is available