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  • 31: Black Energy
    The evening before Christmas Eve in 2015 saw a widespread blackout of the power grid across the Ukraine. We look at how a cyber-attack on electric utility companies in Europe, changed how cyber-security is regarded in control systems, forever.
    With John Chidgey.

    Links of potential interest:

    • December 2015 Ukraine Power Grid Cyber-attack
    • Analysis of the Cyber Attack on the Ukrainian Power Grid [PDF]
    • Ukraine Report: When The Lights Went Out [PDF]
    • Inside the Cunning, Unprecedented Hack of Ukraine’s Power Grid
    • Cyber-Attack Against Ukrainian Critical Infrastructure
    • Everything We Know About Ukraine’s Power Plant Hack
    • BlackEnergy
    • BlackEnergy, Grid-Disrupting Malware, Has a Successor, Researchers Warn
    • Scary Questions in Ukraine Energy Grid Hack
    • Ukraine Cyber Induced Power Outage: Analysis And Practical Mitigation Strategies [PDF]
    • New Clues Show How Russia’s Grid Hackers Aimed for Physical Destruction
    • Industroyer: An in-depth Look At The Culprit Behind Ukraine’s Power Grid Blackout
    • Ukrainian Power Grids Cyber-attack
    • Russian Translation: Obelnergo Message to Consumers
    • MOXA UC-7408-LX Plus
    • MOXA UC-7408-LX Plus Firmware Overwrite Vulnerability
    • iRZ RUH2
    • IRZ RUH2 3G Firmware Overwrite Vulnerability
    • NCCIC: Ukrainian Power Attack
    • US Wants To Isolate Power Grids With ‘Retro’ Technology To Limit Cyber-attacks
    • LinkedIn Is A Hacker’s Dream Tool

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      Episode Gold Producer:
      'r'.
      Episode Silver Producers:
      Carsten Hansen, John Whitlow, Joseph Antonio and Kevin Koch.
      27 min
    • 95: FOSS Social
      Free Open Source Software is at the heart of the Federated Social revolution that's gathering momentum. David Chartier joins John to walk through where we are in that journey so far, the current players, the current challenges and value of having multiple social-network options.
      With David Chartier and John Chidgey.

      Related Article Links:

      • TechDistortion: Engineered Space Take 2
      • TechDistortion Fediverse Series: Own Your Social Graph

        • Related Episode Links:

        • Pragmatic Episode 89: The Problem Is Us
        • Pragmatic Episode 80: Mastodon

          • Fediverse Apps:

          • Whalebird
          • Hyperspace
          • The Desk
          • Mastonaut
          • Tusky for Mastodon
          • Subway Tooter
          • Fedilab
          • Tootle for Linux
          • Mast
          • Mast on GitHub
          • Toot!
          • Amaroq

            • Miscellaneous Links:

            • Free and Open-Source Software
            • The Free Software Definition
            • Introducing MissKey
            • An Interview with Eugen Rochko
            • Pleroma ‘Compliant’ List of Applications
            • Mastodon ‘Compliant’ List of Applications
            • Best way to move instances on Mastodon
            • How to migrate from one server to another
            • Gab Explained

              • Message Threads of Potential Interest:

              • Toot! FlakeIDs Message Thread
              • Pleroma Free App Message Thread
              • Gab Forking Mast as Well Message Thread
              • ‘Why are there so many people for hate speech?’ Message Thread

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                Episode Gold Producer:
                'r'.
                Episode Silver Producers:
                Carsten Hansen, John Whitlow, Joseph Antonio and Kevin Koch.
                1 hr 48 min
              • 30: Tim Maia
                As part of Rio's preparations for the Olympics in 2016 a cycling pathway was built adjacent to a narrow, congested roadway along a picturesque shoreline. When a section collapsed only months before the opening ceremony killing two people, the world looked on with growing concerns about the imminent Olympics.
                With John Chidgey.

                Links of potential interest:

                • Deaths on Collapsed Rio de Janeiro Bike Path Deal Safety Blow to Olympic Host
                • Anger Grows Over Rio Bike Path Failure - WSJ
                • Questions Continue After the Collapse of Rio’s Cycle Path
                • Faulty Planning Blamed for Deadly Collapse
                • Padlocked and Falling Apart: Rio’s Olympic Legacy
                • Bike Lane Collapse Kills People on Beach
                • Are Brazil’s Corruption Scandals Finally Hitting the Olympics?
                • Rio, the Olympics, and Broken Promises
                • Architects Say Rio’s Olympic Bike Path Was Destined to Collapse
                • Petition Calls for Complete Demolition of Cycle-path
                • Judge Orders Closure of Rio Cycleway

                  • Photo Gallery Links:

                  • Gallery of A Stretch of Rio de Janeiro’s Tim Maia Bike Path Collapses
                  • The Collapsed Area of the new Cycle Lane

                    • Links of Interest (Portuguese):

                    • Queda da Ciclovia: Doações à campanhas feitas pela CONCREMAT e os Grandes Jogos
                    • Tweet: “‘Podre, tem que fazer tudo outra vez’, diz vice-prefeito sobre ciclovia Tim Maia, no Rio”
                    • PETIÇÃO PARA A DEMOLIÇÃO DA CICLOVIA DA AVENIDA NIEMEYER

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                      Episode Gold Producer:
                      'r'.
                      Episode Silver Producers:
                      Carsten Hansen, John Whitlow and Joseph Antonio.
                      20 min
                    • 94: Photography
                      If you want to take the best possible picture, far better than a smartphone will ever be able to, where do you begin? John is joined by Clay Daly to walk through the details of modern digital photography, the pitfalls, the misconceptions and the reasons you should consider it if you haven't.
                      With Clay Daly and John Chidgey.

                      Related Episode Links:

                      • Pragmatic Episode 12: Pages Blocks Planes Die Bank Device
                      • Pragmatic Episode 14: The Worlds Most Popular Camera

                        • Our Photography:

                        • John’s PixelFed Instance
                        • Clay’s Website and Portfolio

                          • Our Preferred Kit:

                          • Nikon D500
                          • Fujifilm X100S
                          • Canon P Rangefinder Cameras 1959-1961
                          • Sony α7

                            • Other Mentioned Kit:

                            • Nikon D5
                            • Nikon D5500
                            • Metabones

                              • Miscellaneous Links:

                              • History of Photography
                              • History of the Camera
                              • Nikon FX & DX Format Lenses Explained
                              • Nikon Lens Abbreviations
                              • Light Pollution Map SE Qld
                              • How to Photograph the Milky Way
                              • Nikon DX Format
                              • APS-C
                              • The Exposure Triangle
                              • Understanding ISO
                              • Photographic Dynamic Range versus ISO Setting

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                                Episode Gold Producer:
                                'r'.
                                Episode Silver Producers:
                                Carsten Hansen, John Whitlow and Joseph Antonio.
                                2 hr 27 min
                              • 29: Flight 1549
                                In 2009 an AirBus A320 departing LaGuardia Airport in New York suffered a dual engine failure due to a bird strike during takeoff. In a highly improbable event an equally highly improbable landing in the Hudson River shocked and amazed the world. We look at what went right on Flight 1549.
                                With John Chidgey.

                                Links of potential interest:

                                • US Airways Flight 1549
                                • The Miracle On The Hudson
                                • NTSB Official Report (PDF)
                                • 49 CFR 830.2 Definitions
                                • CFM International CFM56
                                • Chesley Sullenberger
                                • Jeff Skiles
                                • What the ‘Sully’ Movie Gets Wrong
                                • LaGuardia Airport Diagram
                                • Cold Water Survival
                                • Medium Flocking Bird Test at Climb Condition

                                  • Support Imperfect on Patreon

                                  Episode Gold Producer:
                                  'r'.
                                  Episode Silver Producers:
                                  Carsten Hansen, John Whitlow and Joseph Antonio.
                                  24 min
                                • 93: Optimal Interface
                                  With a growing number of device categories and devices within them, it can be hard to pick what devices from what category will meet your needs. Jason Snell joins John to try to determine what the optimal interface is for what use case you might need and where technology is heading.
                                  With Jason Snell and John Chidgey.

                                  Related Article Links:

                                  • Optimal Interface: Part 1 Input
                                  • Optimal Interface: Part 2 Output
                                  • Optimal Interface: Part 3 Devices

                                    • Referred During Show:

                                    • The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling by Ted Chiang
                                    • Robot or Not

                                      • Miscellaneous Links:

                                      • Speech recognition
                                      • Siri
                                      • Amazon Alexa
                                      • Google Assistant
                                      • Cortana
                                      • What is the Average Speaking Rate?
                                      • Brain Computer Interface
                                      • A Beginner’s Guide to Brain-Computer Interface and Convolutional Neural Networks
                                      • Speed of Speech vs Speed of Thought
                                      • About Braingate
                                      • Computer mouse
                                      • Pointing Stick aka Accupoint
                                      • Computer Keyboard
                                      • Trackball
                                      • Touchpad
                                      • Kinect
                                      • Light Pen
                                      • Touchscreen
                                      • Resistive Touchscreen
                                      • Capacitive Sensing
                                      • Average Typing Speed
                                      • Toshiba Satellite
                                      • Eye
                                      • Resolving the iPhone Resolution: Bad Astronomy
                                      • Pixel Density
                                      • Display Size, Resolution, and Ideal Viewing Distance
                                      • Refreshable Braille Display
                                      • Digital Scent Technology
                                      • Virtual Reality
                                      • VR Sickness Should Be Mostly Solved In 5 Years
                                      • Virtual Reality: Motion Sickness May Be Avoided With New Innovation | Fortune
                                      • Virtual Reality Sickness
                                      • Google Glass

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                                        Episode Gold Producer:
                                        'r'.
                                        Episode Silver Producers:
                                        Carsten Hansen, John Whitlow and Joseph Antonio.
                                        1 hr 42 min
                                      • 28: Hotel New World
                                        In 1986 an unremarkable building in Singapore collapsed killing dozens of people. We look at how the supervision of the construction and the design itself resulted in a structure that was at best critically stable, and ultimately one that could only ever fail.
                                        With John Chidgey.

                                        Prior Episode References:

                                        • Causality Episode 5: Maccabiah
                                        • Causality Episode 15: Sampoong Department Store

                                          • Links of potential interest:

                                          • Hotel New World Collapse
                                          • Collapse of Hotel New World
                                          • Structural Load
                                          • Report of the Inquiry into the Collapse of Hotel New World (Embedded PDF)

                                            • Support Imperfect on Patreon

                                            Episode Gold Producer:
                                            'r'.
                                            Episode Silver Producers:
                                            Carsten Hansen, John Whitlow and Joseph Antonio.
                                            26 min
                                          • 40: Pivot
                                            Whilst Pivot is a more recent terminology often used in the context of a startup, it applies equally to many aspects of our lives, our endeavours or our own groups within companies of all sizes. We look at when, how, why and importantly if you should pivot and what the cost might be if you do.
                                            With John Chidgey.

                                            Links of potential interest:

                                            • The Truth About A Startup Pivot

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                                              Episode sponsor:
                                              Clubhouse:

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                                              Visit clubhouse.io/TENto learn more.

                                              Episode Gold Producer:
                                              'r'.
                                              Episode Silver Producers:
                                              Carsten Hansen and John Whitlow.
                                              13 min
                                            • 27: Gare De Lyon
                                              On the 27th of June, 1988 in central Paris a runaway train collided with a stationary train in Gare De Lyon station, claiming 56 lives and injuring 60 more. Whilst the court found the driver guilty and sent him to jail, was he solely to blame? We look at how poor design decisions made Gare De Lyon inevitable.
                                              With John Chidgey.

                                              Prior Episode References:

                                              • Causality Episode 6: Amagasaki

                                                • Links of potential interest:

                                                • Gare de Lyon Rail Accident
                                                • SNCF
                                                • SNCF Class Z 5300
                                                • Gare de Lyon
                                                • Paris Gare de Lyon - A brief station guide
                                                • Réseau Express Régional
                                                • Brake Problems Discovered 40 Minutes Before Crash
                                                • French Rail Chief Quits After 2nd Fatal Crash in Paris - LA Times
                                                • Train Driver Jailed for Crash That Killed 56 People
                                                • PRISON FERME l’Humanite (French)

                                                  • Support Imperfect on Patreon

                                                  Episode Gold Producer:
                                                  'r'.
                                                  Episode Silver Producers:
                                                  Carsten Hansen and John Whitlow.
                                                  29 min
                                                • 39: Influence
                                                  When you're asked to direct a group of people sometimes you aren't their direct manager. In those cases you're expected to influence without authority. We look at how it's different, why it's hard and how you can go about it.
                                                  With John Chidgey.

                                                  Links of potential interest:

                                                  • 5 Ways To Influence Without Authority

                                                    • Support Imperfect on Patreon
                                                    Episode sponsor:
                                                    Clubhouse:

                                                    Looking for an easy to use software development project management solution that everyone in an organisation can use? Clubhouse was built with Agile Development in mind with an intense focus on intuitiveness and responsiveness, supporting seamless integrations with standard version control and messaging systems and an extensible REST API to integrate anything else you might need.

                                                    Visit clubhouse.io/TENto learn more.

                                                    Episode Gold Producer:
                                                    'r'.
                                                    Episode Silver Producers:
                                                    Carsten Hansen and John Whitlow.
                                                    13 min

                                                  About Imperfect

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                                                  Most people can look past the imperfections of everyday things in the world. For those that are unable to, this is for you.