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.
- 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
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