The Weekly Weird - 2017-05-26
- Creepy thing about AIs, they can get a lot of data from a single sensor.
- An interesting combination of static analysis with TLA+ and Rust.
- "Virtual rabbits across Second Life will fall asleep on Saturday then never wake up, now that the their digital food supply has been shut down by a legal battle.". Oh 2017.
- A surprisingly level-headed take on what happens when an Airbus computer goes nuts.
- Worst part of singlehandedly killing a botnet? Humanity.
- Turns out the Svalbard seed vault is probably fine.
- Another distributed consensus system, in rust, from VMware: Haret.
- Incremental automation in garbage collection.
- Is "Allostasis" The Brain's Essential Function?
- You should read Brendan Gregg telling you why you're measuring CPU utilization wrong.
- How much energy does it take to communicate between our solar system and Alpha Centauri? Less than a milliwatt if you can put transmitters at the right place to use the Sun's gravity as a lens.
- Ever try to read selinux audit logs? Yeah. Well they're getting a lot better. CSV format too! From the author of fapolicyd which has the best warning "Stracing the daemon can deadlock the system."
- I'm not convinced this isn't a buzzword-bingo entry but ""Hello, Retail!" is an open-source, mobile-first, 100% serverless, and event-driven functional proof-of-concept showcasing a central unified log approach as applied to the retail platform space."
- Ever wonder how the special forces buy their toys? Listen to James Geurts explain it all.