#105: DIY Dystopia

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about: DIY LPRs, Crowdsourced Panopticon, and Universal Key Escrow is a thing we’re talking about now.

• Proud Daddy: Lauren declared runner up in the National Center for Women in Technology 2016 National Award Competition
• It begins: FRC 2016 kickoff on January 9!
• Gunnar can strongly endorse helicopter rides for toddlers
• Endorsement: the Ring Doorbell
• DEADWOOD MOVIE
• Google Begins Testing Password-Free Logins

• Sad to lose Ian Murdoch (h/t uzoma)
• Review of N Korea’s operating system, Red Star (h/t emorisse)
• D&G Joke Kit of the Week: United Airlines Bringing 200 Comfort Dogs To Seven Airports For A Bit Of Holiday Travel Stress-Relief
• HT James Kirkland: OpenALPR is open source automatic license plate recognition
• Meanwhile: Boston PD stops using LPRs, implicitly admitting that stolen vehicles are not super interesting.
• Facewatch: A different kind of social network
• Create Your Favourite Actor From Nothing But Photos
• See How Disney Uses Software to Change an Actor’s Emotions
• Wanna Get Backstage? Just Add Yourself To The Band’s Wikipedia Page
• In Major Change, Army Removes Social Security Numbers from Dog Tags
• D&G This Week in Common Sense: Microsoft may have your encryption key; here’s how to take it back
• DevOps gone bad?  Facebook Secretly Tested Users’ Apps Addiction: New Report
• The Father of Online Anonymity Has a Plan to End the Crypto War
• Celebrating 15 Years of SELinux
• Dave and Gunnar talk DevOps with FedScoop

Cutting Room Floor

• Post-Apocalyptic Thomas the Tank Engine
• These Color Studio Portraits from the 1970s Are Almost Too Awkward
• R2-3PO: Attack of the Poorly Made Clones
• The 340-Page Tokyo Disaster Preparedness Guide is Packed with Great Design
• Woman Perfectly Adds Herself to Other People’s Old Photos
• ‘Hipster Santa’ makes appearance in Portland
• Here’s A Video Of Boston Dynamic’s Awesome Big Dog Robot Pulling Santa’s Sleigh
• Executive Coloring Book from 1961
• Complete your home security system with a fog cannon
• Proving complex arguments via crowdsourcing and explicit argument logic platform (h/t emorisse)
• OG cyberpunk games available online (h/t emorisse)
• Weirdest charts from 538 (h/t emorisse)
• This wasn’t @emorisse, he swears (h/t emorisse)
• Interactive, latitude adjusted proof that DST is garbage (h/t matt.micene)
• I was sent here for my security refresher, and I’m beginning to think it’s part of the test.

We Give Thanks

• The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
• James Kirkland for the ALPR tip!