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theatlantic.com

Congress May Declare the Forever War

A proposed law with bipartisan support would dramatically weaken the ability of legislators to extricate the United States from perpetual armed conflict.
Conor Friedersdorf

“A rising generation of Americans has never known peace.

Very soon, in Iraq or Afghanistan or Syria or Somalia or Libya or perhaps elsewhere, an 18-year-old man or woman will be deployed by the United States military to risk his or her life in a War on Terror that began before they were even born.

Already, every single spring, roughly 3.5 million high-school graduates reach adulthood with no memory of a time when their country wasn’t waging multiple wars.

This undemocratic Forever War is a civic disaster.

The United States is at war in so many places, against so many groups, that the majority of citizens would struggle to name half of them—and no reader can name all of them, unless an official with access to highly classified information is among us, because the identities of some of the groups the United States is fighting are state secrets…”

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Tumblr’s 4th Annual Security Capture the Flag

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We’ve hosted an internal Security Capture the Flag (CTF) event for four years in a row now, with each year getting better than the last!

The event

Previously, we were only open to Tumblr employees. This year we decided to extend an invite out to the other teams housed under our parent company, Oath.

All participants had a three hour window to hack, a buffet of tacos, beer, and wine to dive into, and a stack of prizes for the top four players (see Prizes below for details)!

Challenges were available Jeopardy-style, broken down by category. We had eight fun categories to select from:

We also sprinkled a few “inside joke” Easter eggs around the system that awarded bonus points to anyone that discovered them! For example, if they attempted to find a hole in the CTF system itself and navigated to /wp-admin, we’d give them a flag on a prank WordPress page; or perhaps testing to find XSS with a <marquee> tag — only the greatest of all XSS tags!

While the Security Team walked around and helped out, we also setup a mini lockpick village just because.

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Instant 3D Photography

Research from Peter Hedman of University College London and Johannes Kopf for Facebook can present images with depth from stitching together photos taken from dual-camera smartphones for viewing in VR (and can add extra effects):

We present an algorithm for constructing 3D panoramas from a sequence of aligned color-and-depth image pairs. Such sequences can be conveniently captured using dual lens cell phone cameras that reconstruct depth maps from synchronized stereo image capture. Due to the small baseline and resulting triangulation error the depth maps are considerably degraded and contain low-frequency error, which prevents alignment using simple global transformations. We propose a novel optimization that jointly estimates the camera poses as well as spatially-varying adjustment maps that are applied to deform the depth maps and bring them into good alignment. When fusing the aligned images into a seamless mosaic we utilize a carefully designed data term and the high quality of our depth alignment to achieve two orders of magnitude speedup w.r.t. previous solutions that rely on discrete optimization by removing the need for label smoothness optimization. Our algorithm processes about one input image per second, resulting in an endto- end runtime of about one minute for mid-sized panoramas. The final 3D panoramas are highly detailed and can be viewed with binocular and head motion parallax in VR. 

Our tech stitches bursts of depth images from dual-camera phones into 3D panoramas, which look great in VR. The capture and processing is so quick and fast that you can now easily take 3D vacation shots when traveling.

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mathani
This is one of the recent films by Japanese writer-director Hirokazu Koreeda, who you may know won Palme d'Or this year in Cannes. It fascinates me endlessly, so much so that I appended it to my list of all-time faves, which I’ve decided to share...

This is one of the recent films by Japanese writer-director Hirokazu Koreeda, who you may know won Palme d'Or this year in Cannes. It fascinates me endlessly, so much so that I appended it to my list of all-time faves, which I’ve decided to share below. I’d never say these films beat all others, but they mean the most to me. Do you have a personal list of your own? Does it intersect mine?

Notorious, 1946
The Heiress, 1949
The Duellists, 1977
Big Wednesday, 1978
A Perfect World, 1993
Contact, 1997
Love & Basketball, 2000
Sur mes lèvres, 2001
Million Dollar Baby, 2004
The Life Aquatic, 2004
Rocket Science, 2007
Two Lovers, 2008
Fish Tank, 2009
Another Year, 2010
Young Adult, 2011
La vie d'Adèle, 2013
Interstellar, 2014
Our Little Sister, 2015

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beemill nixcraft
theverge.com

Microsoft has reportedly acquired GitHub

Deal could be announced on Monday
Tom Warren
nixcraft

got an email from one my client who is Github private repo business customer. They want to move out of Github to a personal GIT server hosted either in AWS or Google Cloud. They fear that Microsoft might get insight into their codebase. Small startups/business do not trust MS. Why? Because Microsoft is going to acquire Github. If you host open source code move away from Github today. Do not use it. Microsoft has a history of stealing users code.

fuck microsoft fuck you microsoft
beemill
tp69.wordpress.com

Completely Silent Computer

I’ve been trying to make my computers quieter for nearly three decades. Custom liquid cooling loops, magnetically-stabilised fluid-dynamic bearings, acoustic dampeners, silicone shock absorb…

At the time I selected components for the system, there were only four mini-ITX motherboards for me to choose from:

  • ASUS ROG Strix B350-I Gaming
  • Gigabyte AB350N-Gaming-WiFi ITX
  • MSI B350I Pro AC
  • ASRock Fatal1ty AB350 Gaming-ITX/ac

(Astute readers will notice they are all AMD (Socket AM4) motherboards.  The whole Meltdown/Spectre debacle rendered my previous Intel system insecure and unsecurable so that was the final straw for me — no more Intel CPUs.)

I ended up getting the ASRock AB350 Gaming-ITX/ac motherboard …

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