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 NewsApple’s ‘Move to iOS’ app is now available on AndroidAndroid fanboys are trolling Apple’s Move to iOS app with 1-star reviews9 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 24Totally not related: The ExpertBack 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 ScientistsThis 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)
How to Write an Error Message (h/t unwosu)Tiny fedora for your manbunHipster Barbie Is So Much Better at Instagram Than YouArtisanal FirewoodPunk stock photographyDirections to Schrödinger’s elevators in the Möbius buildingMan flying 54 propeller super drone1976 NASA Graphics Standards ManualInteractive Tor map15 Rules From the Hobo Ethical Code of 1889Gunnar’s new homepage until further noticeThis AWS in Plain English is the best, esp. Direct Connect.What DevOps needs to learn from USSOCOM (h/t matt.micene)OpenOffice is a disasterD&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
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