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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close June 25 – July 2, 2020 189 stories · Vol. 20 · Catalogue 27 · Issue 184 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

The End of the Redis Adventure

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1Articles

Business 7 stories

  1. The End of the Redis Adventure

  2. Blackballed by PayPal, Sci-Hub switches to Bitcoin

  3. Olympus quits camera business after 84 years

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  1. How we got our AWS bill to around 2% of revenue

  2. Has GitHub been down more since its acquisition by Microsoft?

  3. Tim O’Reilly makes a case for why venture capital is starting to do more harm

  4. The largest unknown Bitcoin wallet moved nearly $1B for $0.48 in fees

Sports 8 stories

  1. Why the US military usually punishes misconduct but police often close ranks

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  1. Verizon suspends advertising on Facebook, joins growing boycott

  2. Microsoft to permanently close its retail stores

  3. Windows98 Running in the Browser

Technology 154 stories

  1. Oppose the Earn IT Act

  2. India bans TikTok, WeChat, and dozens of other Chinese apps

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  1. Forget Google, time to end the Visa-MasterCard duopoly

  2. Why we won’t be supporting Sign in with Apple

  3. When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to realtor.com

  4. Santa Cruz, California bans predictive policing in U.S. first

  5. DuckDuckGo browser seemingly sends domains a user visits to DDG servers

Entertainment 16 stories

  1. Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets funding for development

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  1. Show HN: Hacker News front page in the style of a print newspaper

  2. YouTube TV sharply increases monthly subscription to $64.99

  3. Show HN: Promnesia – an attempt to fix broken web history

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