Episode 20: #20: CommaFeed with a Bullet

This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about Le PRISM, Slashdot Gunnarbait, OpenStack Security Guide, the Indie Web, a petabyte of tax data, and an interview with the creator of CommaFeed.

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• Le PRISM: France Has A PRISM-Like Program With Millions Of Trillions Of Metadata Elements
• PRISM & Big Data: Big Data and Analytics: The Hero or the Villain?
• PRISM Break: EFF’s list of free, open, secure alternatives to proprietary software
• Gunnarbait: NSA Backdoors In Open Source and Open Standards: What Are the Odds?
• The OpenStack Security Guide is up!
• When almost every networking vendor works togeter on the OpenDaylight project, they have to tell the DOJ
• Why Automakers Should Stop the Infotainment Arms Race
• LibreOffice Accelerates Open Source Spreadsheets, Thanks to AMD
• El Reg encounters mObi: R2-D2 for retailers
• Microsoft to shut down TechNet subscription service
  • Red Hat Developer Tools & Services are available
  • Red Hat is Developer Wonderland



• Young Coders at PyOhio 2013


• Akron LUG August 1: Teaching your kids to code with Scratch on Raspberry Pi by Lauren Egts


• Intuit runs RH Storage, could his 1PB this year


• Linux Journal white paper: Using an Open Source Framework to Catch the Bad Guy by Red Hat superstar Mark St. Laurent

• An Open Source Project We Like: CommaFeed from Jérémie Panzer
  • PC Magazine 4 out of 5 star review!
• Eric Mill’s definitive guide to owning your online identity
• Why you should look at IndieWebCamp
• PermitRootLogin forced-commands-only is basically magic
• Term of the week: The Purdie Shuffle
  • Made famous by Bernard “Pretty” Purdie
  • Dave wants to learn whatever he’s teaching:
• Led Zeppelin’s “Fool in the Rain” from the 1979 album In Through the Out Door
  • John Bonham’s isolated drum track and awesome article discussing other Purdie Shuffle variations by Steely Dan and Death Cab for Cutie
  • Toto’s “Rosanna” from the 1982 album Toto IV
    • Toto drummer Jeff Porcaro (RIP) on the Rosanna shuffle
• Bonus link: Mother of All Funk Chords featuring Bernard “Pretty” Purdie and a dude with a mullet playing the theremin at 2:43

Cutting Room Floor

• A Citizen’s Guide to Open Government, E-Government, and Government 2.0
• Avira says farewell to Linux
  • German antivirus company Avira is discontinuing its Linux products in order to focus more on developing its Mac OS X and Windows lines. The company says small businesses and consumer systems “almost exclusively rely upon Windows or Mac operating systems” and that “Linux installations have been declining steadily for years.”
  • Sign that the Linux desktop is declining, or that the Linux desktop doesn’t need commercial antivirus since it has AIDE, Tripwire, and ClamAV?



• Pi-Rex – Bark Activated Door Opening System with Raspberry Pi


• New Breed of Banking Malware Hijacks Text Messages
  • Tricks people to install a 3rd party app on their phones to intercept SMS messages and forward them
  • LinkedIn, Twitter, and banks use SMS for 2 factor authentication



• SMS transmission alternatives which may aid in two factor authentication
  • A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers
  • 256 milligram MTU!
  • Lauren asked Dave if it mattered if you used an African or European swallow
  • IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service
  • Adaptation of RFC 1149 for IPv6



• Doubling down on Markdown for science


• Prior art: Superman intvented 3D printing in 1964


• A New Way to Heal Broken Bones: 3D-Printed Casts


• MindMup: Open source browser based mind mapping


• Where the Egts family went on vacation two years ago: The National Museum of Computing History (TNMOC) in Bletchley Park

We Give Thanks

• The authors of the OpenStack Security Guide
• Jérémie Panzer for all his work on CommaFeed and taking the time to let us interview him
• Jason Hibbets for the Citizen’s Guide tip
• Adam Clater for the IP over Avian Carrier tips