The Weekly Weird - 2015-10-09
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- Ubuntu is getting ZFS!!!!!1 I run ZFS on any machine I'm in charge of about whose data I care. Side note: Slashdot still exists?
- If you're interested in the relative strengths and weaknesses of hurricane prediction models (and, by extension, the organizational structures that create them), you should be reading Dr. Jeff Masters' WunderBlog. If you're not interested in that, what are you doing with your life?
- One of the biggest bugs in OpenSSL is the API. LibreSSL has taken the bait and created a replacement (libtls) that needs "30-40 lines of code ... to do TLS1.2 with the client validating a pinned server certificate" instead of god-knows-what in OpenSSL.
- What actually happens when a DNSSEC key rotates? It's complicated.
- Looks like SHA-1 attacks are progressing faster than anticipated.
- Can you imageine one day reading about Silk Road in a history textbook? It's ok though, this guy is breaking bitcoin on the regular so maybe the Winkelvii Exchange will have to switch to FCOJ futures or something.
- If anything, "Senate candidate admits to sacrificing goat, drinking its blood" is burying the lede on this one.
- Further proof that ocotpi are Cthulthonian bioweapons of epistemic-threat proportions.
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Amazon released all the things:
- A big old fuck you to Oracle
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Snowball is straight out of Snow Crash. Sneakernet! Encryption! E-ink shipping label!
- Once you've accepted eventual consistency it seems natural to just treat the browser as just another node in the ring. Bonus CRDT!
- Speaking of, here's a pair of Cassandra links: some lessons learned and an example 'scalable' system
- Model Check All The Things.
- Werner von Braun wasn't the only german rocket scientist.
- Don't forget, KVM is not Qemu.
- SolarCity announced a 22.04% efficient pv panel for mass production. That's a lot of percents though, as it's a press release, who knows if it's actually going to make a difference in real life.
- More IEX microstructure geekery. The tl;dr is that markets are complicated and that proverb about good intentions should not be forgotten..
- And some HFT geekery.
- 0%! USA! USA!
- How much data can you hide in a a referee's whistle? A surprising amount!
- How the KGB nabbed so many CIA agents (via Schneier, of course)
- Sometimes it's safe to launch a rocket through clouds, sometimes it's not. Or, in which we learn the word 'graupel'.
- I have no words.
- 3D print your teeth.
- From the "actually-not-surprising-in-retrospect" department: Twitter behavior predicts income.
- Blood Rave.