Dave & Gunnar Show

Episode 20: #20: CommaFeed with a Bullet

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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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Welcome to Texas, Gunnar.
  • 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

      • The Alamo Drafthouse Ticketbot
      • 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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