Episode Links

• Signal and Telegram are down for many users — You might want to move your private chats to WhatsApp or Telegram for the time being: it appears popular encrypted messenger Signal is currently down globally, according to numerous reports from users.
• Alexa has literally lost her voice as users report outages and unresponsiveness | TechCrunch — Amazon’s Alexa smart assistant seems to be down this morning. We’ve been hearing reports over the last hour of either delayed responses or just total loss of connection.
• Google Chrome: Flash Usage Declines from 80% in 2014 to Under 8% Today — The percentage of daily Chrome users who’ve loaded at least one page containing Flash content per day has gone down from around 80% in 2014 to under 8% in early 2018.
• SpaceX Fired A Rifle Into A Tank Of Helium To See If Someone Sabotaged Their Rocket | IFLScience — “We literally thought someone had shot the rocket,” CEO Elon Musk said in summer 2017, according to an excerpt from the book on The Washington Post. “We found things that looked like bullet holes, and we calculated that someone with a high-powered rifle, if they had shot the rocket in the right location, the exact same thing would have happened.”

The post Parking Lot Podcaster | T3 264 first appeared on Jupiter Broadcasting.

Our road trip to SCALE14x in Pasadena gets a bit exciting when we move into our new home, a 37 foot Class A RV while on the road. Plus a behind the scenes look at attending SCALE, and thoughts on Cory Doctorow’s DRM talk.

Technical challenges, new lessons, and good friends.

Note: Footage is from January 2016.

The post DRM Shame and New Rig Troubles | Rover Log 16 first appeared on Jupiter Broadcasting.