####Read

• How to bring up a baby in the Finnish way - special project by Yle
• Pi day flyer
• Exploiting the DRAM rowhammer bug to gain kernel privileges. Curious way of hacking software through the physical hardware of the RAM chip

Bit flipping works when a hacker-developed app or process accesses two carefully selected rows of memory hundreds of thousands of times in a tiny fraction of a second. By hammering the two "aggressor" memory regions, the exploit can reverse one or more bits in a third "victim" location.

####Watch

• Flying a drone through Crossrail tunnels in London. Crossrail is a next generation underground transport system that should be released to public in 2018.
• Unreal Engine 4 tech demo - Kite

####Listen

• Radio Badger fresh episode on web dev, tech stack used by engineers at Red Badger, VR gadgets and testing strategies of No Man's Sky upcoming game
• Story of Double Dick Dude - Upvoted podcast by Reddit

####Personal notes

• Processed a fresh batch of stereoscopic pictures, this time from Stratford-upon-Avon town. Do have red-cyan 3D glasses?

####Read

• Notes on watching Aliens for the first time with a bunch of kids. A grown up dude describes his childhood memories of watching Aliens on a big screen for the very first time. And then later on he suggests this very movie for a slumber party of kids in his house.

Guys at the urinals were peeing as fast as they could because they didn't want to miss another minute of "Aliens." You'd have thought somebody was timing them. Like this was the Olympic qualifying round for the bladder evacuation team. But they weren't going fast enough to suit a guy standing near the front door of the men's room. He yelled, "Goddammit! All of you, piss faster!"

• The man who posted himself to Australia in mid-1960s

####Watch

• The Value of Values with Rich Hickey. Talk by the creator of Clojure programming language on things that are obvious, make total sense, but nobody talks about.

####Learn

• How browsers work
• React Native – The Killer Feature that Nobody Talks About. @robbiemccorkell long read on how you can soon make native iOS apps with Javascript and the upcoming React Native thing.

####Personal notes

• Managed to jump start my skydiving season yesterday at Headcorn dropzone. It was sunny but windy, and fields were full of sheep with little sheep. I remember jumping in March in Finland - strong winds, -20 in the sky, but lots of soft snow for landing (and consequent shaking of the canopy to get all that snow out before packing).
• Recorded fresh new episode of Radio Badger podcast with Robbie. Expect it out this week with insights to tech stack we use and love at Red Badger.

####Read

• Understanding the Enigma machine with 30 lines of Ruby. Practical implementation of the algorithm that was exploited and (cleverly) brootforced by GCHQ and Alan Turing during WWII.
• How crazy am I to think I actually know where that Malaysia Airlines plane is? Long read by Jeff Wise, revisiting mistery of MH370 flight, tracking airplane with Inmarsat satellites, and a theory how thing could end up.
• Proof That Oscar Voters Are Clueless About Animation (and many other things).

In this world, a voter would identify the Irish film Song of the Sea and the Japanese film The Tale of The Princess Kaguya as “Chinese fuckin’ things,” not watch either film, and still cast a vote for the best animated feature of the year.

• How an industrial designer became Apple’s greatest product - (very) long read on Jony Ive's side of story.

I asked Ive about the slightly protruding camera lens that prevents the iPhone 6 from resting comfortably on its back. Ive referred to that decision — without which the phone would be slightly thicker — as “a really very pragmatic optimization.” One had to guess at the drama behind the phrase. “And, yeah...” he said.

####Watch

• Analog alternatives of Photoshop tools like gradient exposure, dodge and burn when processing film in darkroom
• Composing music in VR with Ableton Live, Oculus Rift and Hydra gloves
• Citizenfour - Oscar winning documentary available for few more days on 4OD

####Listen

• Fresh episode of Tim Ferriss show with Justin Boreta of Glitch Mob electronic band. I got hooked to Glitch Mob after this fan made teaser of Tron: Legacy (which quickly became official teaser later).
• Special version of the latest Glitch Mob album Love Death Immortality with commentaries for each track.

####Personal notes

• Last year UK approved a new revision of law where it is now ok to rip CD:s, DVD:s, Bluray:s for your personal use, as long as you own the actual media. Afaik this is still illegal in most EU countries including Finland. We have a projector at home, which I usually hook to Macbook for streaming films to the wall. Problem is that Apple no longer considers Blurays a worthy media to support, while at the same time you can get boxsets from Amazon with huge discounts. Solution? Buy a disc, rip it on PC, copy it to Macbook and watch it on a big screen in full quality. And own a disc.

Let's assume for a second that it is perfectly fine to care about your privacy on Internet, filter out ads and in general have full control over the look of webpages. Here is a (short) list of my favorite browser extensions that help concentrate on a content, save on traffic, stay slightly more hidden from trackers and remove annoying things on webpages.

I'll provide links to the Chrome Store, but some extensions are also available for Safari and Firefox.

####Stylish

When there is annoying sticky header, huge footer or some overlay that you can't get rid on the webpage, it is important to remember that you have full access to the page's source code. Open developer tools of your browser, select annoying element and add display: none; to the styles. Magic. However, when you reload the page, that particular annoyance will be back. Solution? Extension that keeps track of your CSS modifications for a particular webpage (or domain).

Meet Stylish. In addition to remembering your mods, it also contains a fully fledged community with lots of available hacks. Did you ever wanted Yahoo bar to disappear forever from Flickr? Here is a (very popular) preset.

####Clearly

At Red Badger we're taking typography on Web very seriously. Fonts must be of a proper size and color, with appropriate background. This is however not the case with most web pages. Readability of text almost always far from perfect - columns are too wide, too narrow, text size or color are wrong, and riddled with extra elements that have little to do with text itself. If you're on Safari, there is built-in Reader View. It is perfect in 95% (sometimes browser gets confused and unable to detect that single chunk of text that you're most interested in).

On Chrome I found Clearly from Evernote the best. Works even better that Reader View on Safari, fully customizable, with 4 built-in ready to use themes. Do you remember that feeling when reading paper book, and there is nothing in the book but the story you're interested in? That's the feeling you get after using Clearly.

####Disconnect.me

If you're ever opened browser settings and were curious enough to check how much cookies your browser stored over the ages, you might have a fair idea how much sites are interested in tracking all of your activities. Even more so - advertising networks and various social services (which are again aimed on reselling behavioural data of you to the 3rd parties).

Disconnect.me is a small harmless extension that by default blacklists most of the tracking activities on webpages. Chrome only, and apparently developed by former Google employees, so you can assume that they were a) a little pissed at their former employer, and b) knew exactly what to do.

This nifty extension will provide you with breakdown of all tracking attempts, and will let you whitelist whatever you think is appropriate. Do you want to allow Google Analytics to track you? Fine, one easy click.

Here is another blogpost by Roisi on this helpful extension.

####Adblock+

I'll just say it - it's ok to filter out ads. Internet without Adblock extensions is a very hostile place. Recently Adblock started promoting concept of acceptable ads. By default Adblock will let through ads that are following guidelines of being acceptable and non-disturbing. You are free to switch them off too.

Using Adblock is a bit of a heated debate at the moment - it's obviously legal, the debate is largely revolving around the fact that you're consuming content without supporting producer of that content (by not watching ads). This topic deserves a separate blogpost.

####Conclusion

Unlike TV, Internet browser gives you power to filter content in any way you want. It seems that safety and privacy on Internet are getting more traction, browsers become more safe and able to warn you when there is something evil is about to happen. There is still a large grey area of what is ethical, acceptable or simply legal. Concept of privacy is under constant review, some people go all the way to claim that there is no privacy on Internet. In any case, you have full control over your machine and browser.

Use it.

####Read

• Marco Arment defends high-speed way of listening to podcasts
• Fair review of Hello Fresh box delivery service by Roisi. Something we got hooked on as well.

####Watch

• Helsinki from above photo post
• Fresh React JS meetup video, organized by Red Badger and this time hosted at Facebook London office. Expect talks and live coding on React Native iOS, Flux and some impressive show-n-tell presentations.

####Listen

• Episode of our podcast titled Badger Don't Care About Exploding Diplodocuses in Kensington now available with shownotes and blogpost (and on iTunes as well).

####Personal notes

• Went to the Warner Bros studios at Leavesden to celebrate my birthday and check out Harry Potter props. Place itself is a bit in the middle of nowhere - a former war aerodrome where they used to construct bomber planes in WWII. Later WB turned airplane hangars into huge sound stages where they filmed all 8 movies. To get there you either get overground line to Watford Junction, or a train from Euston. Watford is still in Oyster zone, but that zone isn't even numbered - it is simply marked as 'special fares apply' on the very edge of tube map. From Watford there is shuttle bus service to the studios - proper Routemaster, of course. If you take a train it's not that bad actually - 15-20 min from Euston. Place itself is pretty remarkable, a must go for any movie geek - even if you're like myself not a huge fun of Harry Potter moviesation. It's pretty surreal to be there. And the way they get you inside the studio is very unexpected and simply magical. No spoilers here.