Episode 108: #108: A Commitment to Your Privacy

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about: iPhones, politics, politics with iPhones; glibc, containers, containers with glibc; Azure, Red Hat, Azure with Red Hat.

• Freeblade rules everything around Gunnar
• The new Remember The Milk is here!
• Speaking of bad product management, Twitter’s algorithmic timeline an object lesson in the relationship between marketing and product management
• Instructable: Control a Cockroach with Arduino for under $30
• Raspberry Pi repurposed into automated complaining machine
  • FCC speed test app



• Local police wrestle with success of license plate camera system


• D&G This Week in Security Through Obscurity
  • Ashley Madison Offering Profile Photo Masks, Rendering Users Completely Unrecognizable To Their Loved Ones
  • HT Mrs. Egts: Stick shift foils would-be Cleveland carjackers



• Don’t time travel with iOS devices


• Apple Encryption “Debate”


• Apple Admits Mistake for ‘Error 53’ iPhone Bricking, Offers Fix


• D&G Mailbag: Jim Wildman asks for our opinion on Amazon Dash
  • Hackable: Build your own poop database with Amazon Dash
  • Install your own code: Dash Hacking: Bare-Metal STM32 Programming



• Internet of Things to be used as spy tool by governments: US intel chief
  • Ghost Fleet



• Hacked Toy Company VTech’s TOS Now Says It’s Not Liable for Hacks


• Husband learns wife is pregnant from her Fitbit data


• HT Kevin Chin and Erich Morisse: The new frontier of voter tracking


• He Said He Was An Undecided Iowan Until He Received This Controversial Mailer From Ted Cruz.


• 4USXUS Is Your One-Stop Shop For Keeping Up With Your Congressional Representatives


• Not cool: Hackers demand $3m bitcoin ransom from hospital to unlock vital files


• Dave on #OpenOrgChat on February 18 and later this year!


• glibc will destroy your containers from the inside


• RHEL on Azure


• Google and Red Hat announce cloud-based scalable file servers


• White House publishes 2016 and 2017 budget on Github and Medium (h/t matt.micene)


• Online No One Knows You’re Dead


• What’s the Stuff Between the Wafers of a Kit Kat?

Cutting Room Floor

• Build your own Arduino-powered virtual reality cycling experience for $40
• These LED Lamps Run on Candle Power
• Subtitled R2-D2 is Bitterly Sarcastic
• Run DOS-era viruses in your web browser with the Internet Archive’s Malware Museum
• Internet Archive Does Windows: Hundreds of Windows 3.1 Programs Join the Collection
• 24 Things You’ll Find In Every Hipster Restaurant
• For Sale: Nuclear bunker in Northern Ireland
• Epic ‘Frinkiac’ Search Engine Matches Any Simpsons Quote With Its Still
• This Boulder Has a Hidden Wi-Fi Router That Needs Fire to Turn On
• Snoop Dogg Stars in Burger King Training Video
• Robotic limb turns drummer into three-armed musical cyborg
• Watch 540 Robots Perform a Synchronized Dance Routine
• Poison’s “Every Rose Has Its Thorn” Played By An Actual Rose Bush
• Scratch-And-Sniff Posters Help Mask the Smells of NYC Subways
• How to Spam People via Telegram, According to a 1928 Handbook
• Nigerian astronaut lost in space needs $3m to get home – could be a scam
• Space travel posters from JPL
• The National Archives Has Released a Coloring Book of Retro Patents
• So, Dutch Cops Are Teaching Majestic Eagles to Hunt Drones
• Man’s best friend for conference calls
• Scalia wordplay is fun. (h/t ghelleks)
• now I’m fascinated by the idea of machine pareidolia (h/t matt.micene)
• How am I just now learning about the Falkirk Wheel? (h/t ghelleks)
• To solve my OPM grievances, I’m securing the services of this attorney. (h/t ghelleks)
• 5 Ways Companies Manufacture Happiness (h/t davidegts)
• Are these the permissions that you would expect from a emoji keyboard? (h/t uzoma)
• “We can safely assume that people sharing an Ubuntu docker based container know and trust one another, and their use of Ubuntu is explicitly covered as personal use in our policy.” (h/t matt.micene)

We Give Thanks

• The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
• Jim Wildman, Kevin Chin, Mrs. Egts and  for the mailbag items!