Episode 97: #97: Less than Lethal Manbun

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about: smartphone messes, flying messes, policy messes, Uber messes.

Image courtesy Capitol Hill Seattle.

Apple Is Taunting Publishers With Ad-Blocking and Apple News

Apple’s ‘Move to iOS’ app is now available on Android
Android fanboys are trolling Apple’s Move to iOS app with 1-star reviews

9 year old with a Muslim name arrested for making bomb. Or clock. Whatever.

There’s a guy collecting offers on how to help the kid. (h/t emorisse)

Cheap Smartphones Quietly Becoming Popular In the US
20+ Chinese Android Smartphones Models Come With Pre-Installed Malware
Remember all those app permissions you blindly agreed to?  Android ransomware lures with porno, takes your picture and then ‘fines’ you
D&G Quote of the Week: “From a gov­ern­ment side, our re­spons­ib­il­ity is to talk to folks and ex­plain to them: We’re not ma­ni­acs. The FBI is not an ali­en force im­posed on the Amer­ic­an people,” said FBI Dir­ect­or James Comey

Coincidence? The X-Files returns on January 24
Totally not related: The Expert

Back doors, like TSA luggage lock master keys (which are now self 3D printable and on github), don’t work
Uber ride data publicly accessible through Google

Meanwhile… Uber Gives $5.5M To Make Amends For Stealing Carnegie Mellon’s Self-Driving Car Scientists

This week in “Airlines are garbage”: American Airlines flies uncertified plane to Hawaii
Weaponized police drones are now legal in North Dakota
California wants to enhance your driver’s license experience
DoD looking to replicate the successes of 18F/USDS in Force of the Future plan (h/t matt.micene)
Silicon Valley is more biased against women than USN (h/t matt.micene)
Congressional polarization, visualized. (h/t emorisse)

Cutting Room Floor

How to Write an Error Message (h/t unwosu)
Tiny fedora for your manbun
Hipster Barbie Is So Much Better at Instagram Than You
Artisanal Firewood
Punk stock photography
Directions to Schrödinger’s elevators in the Möbius building
Man flying 54 propeller super drone
1976 NASA Graphics Standards Manual
Interactive Tor map
15 Rules From the Hobo Ethical Code of 1889
Gunnar’s new homepage until further notice
This AWS in Plain English is the best, esp. Direct Connect.
What DevOps needs to learn from USSOCOM (h/t matt.micene)
OpenOffice is a disaster

We Give Thanks

D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about: smartphone messes, flying messes, policy messes, Uber messes.

Image courtesy Capitol Hill Seattle.

Apple Is Taunting Publishers With Ad-Blocking and Apple News

Apple’s ‘Move to iOS’ app is now available on Android
Android fanboys are trolling Apple’s Move to iOS app with 1-star reviews

9 year old with a Muslim name arrested for making bomb. Or clock. Whatever.

There’s a guy collecting offers on how to help the kid. (h/t emorisse)

Cheap Smartphones Quietly Becoming Popular In the US

20+ Chinese Android Smartphones Models Come With Pre-Installed Malware

Remember all those app permissions you blindly agreed to?  Android ransomware lures with porno, takes your picture and then ‘fines’ you

D&G Quote of the Week: “From a gov­ern­ment side, our re­spons­ib­il­ity is to talk to folks and ex­plain to them: We’re not ma­ni­acs. The FBI is not an ali­en force im­posed on the Amer­ic­an people,” said FBI Dir­ect­or James Comey

Coincidence? The X-Files returns on January 24
Totally not related: The Expert

Back doors, like TSA luggage lock master keys (which are now self 3D printable and on github), don’t work

Uber ride data publicly accessible through Google

Meanwhile… Uber Gives $5.5M To Make Amends For Stealing Carnegie Mellon’s Self-Driving Car Scientists

This week in “Airlines are garbage”: American Airlines flies uncertified plane to Hawaii

Weaponized police drones are now legal in North Dakota

California wants to enhance your driver’s license experience

DoD looking to replicate the successes of 18F/USDS in Force of the Future plan (h/t matt.micene)

Silicon Valley is more biased against women than USN (h/t matt.micene)

Congressional polarization, visualized. (h/t emorisse)

Cutting Room Floor

How to Write an Error Message (h/t unwosu)
Tiny fedora for your manbun
Hipster Barbie Is So Much Better at Instagram Than You
Artisanal Firewood
Punk stock photography
Directions to Schrödinger’s elevators in the Möbius building
Man flying 54 propeller super drone
1976 NASA Graphics Standards Manual
Interactive Tor map
15 Rules From the Hobo Ethical Code of 1889
Gunnar’s new homepage until further notice
This AWS in Plain English is the best, esp. Direct Connect.
What DevOps needs to learn from USSOCOM (h/t matt.micene)
OpenOffice is a disaster

We Give Thanks

D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!