Dave's Blog

Combat bad drones? NL police have attack eagles. Better than JP police drones w big nets? http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/aerial-robots/dutch-police-training-eagles-to-take-down-drones …

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display: contents;It's new.https://rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2016/01/29/vanishing-boxes-with-display-contents/ …parent (disp flex) child (disp contents) grandchildgrandchild now flex item

These are getting really good. pic.twitter.com/mmsEcES9bx

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Identify coder from binary based on code style. https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/aylin/when-coding-style-survives-compilation-de-anonymizing-programmers-from-executable-binaries/ … Following company style guidelines is now a privacy issue.

FCC proposes replacing cable card with software based equivalent. Would be amazing if it could happen. http://arstechnica.com/business/2016/01/cable-lobby-is-really-mad-about-fccs-set-top-box-competition-plan/ …

#Firefox 46 Developer Edition is out! Non-HTTPS pages w/ login form are now marked insecure https://www.fxsitecompat.com/versions/46/  pic.twitter.com/o2WZ6K2KxN

Take any Facebook/Instagram photo URL. append `.txt` → ASCII art append `.html` → colored ASCII artE.g. https://scontent-ams3-1.cdninstagram.com/t51.2885-15/e35/11906246_1700002456899911_1391970345_n.jpg.html …

Whatever happened to sitcom couples? Conspiracy and death. https://medium.com/@iamchrisscott/whatever-happened-to-television-s-most-famous-couples-c9d569a892ea#.w2wijr6he … Had to recheck URL I wasn't on clickhole

@FakeUnicode also UNICODE CONSORTIUM FACE REVIEWING EMOJI CODEPOINT REQUESTS

OH COME ON. SERIOUSLY?? pic.twitter.com/EMdqGylC4L

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First time I see transparent LED being used. Feels science fictiony.

What computer users see in security warning boxes #enigma2016 Very, very true. pic.twitter.com/8V4SlGwKAV

ICYMI: “Weird Al” Yankovic joins Comedy Bang! Bang! as bandleader and co-host http://avc.lu/1nkaxWC 

UK film censors forced to watch a 2-day long movie of paint drying cc: @greatdismal http://boingboing.net/2016/01/25/uk-film-censors-forced-to-watc.html … pic.twitter.com/M8LWjiWUXe

.@alolita How Ancient Egypt fell. "But great Pharaoh, we need a snake playing croquet." "You have like 50 snake symbols." "But, croquet!"

I sure missed these guys. pic.twitter.com/eMFPs4fNUP

"This is a cool song but it was taken down by youtube so I fixed the audio." (thx, @sarahjeong) http://youtu.be/-5KnWfx_H-s