Control Structure

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Control Structure is a podcast about computer science, IT news, stories, opinions, tips, and tricks for programmers, testers, administrators of all types and more, for fun or for profit hosted by Andr... more

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September 19, 2019Control Structure #157: Much Megabytes
RASPBERRIES! Andrew and Steve are back at it again with some news about Microsoft, Google, Mozilla, and... music formats?

News
Oracle’s New Supercomputer Has 1,060 Raspberry Pis
MARTINI: Real-Time RTIN Terrain Mesh / Vladimir Agafonkin / Observable
Aussie ISV buys ads to wake up Google support – Software – CRN Australia
Aussie ISV buys ads to wake up Google support | Hacker News
I miss Microsoft Encarta – Scott Hanselman
MindMaze (Game) – Giant Bomb
Big Blue Open Sources Power Chip Instruction Set
exFAT file system specification – Windows applications | Microsoft Docs
exFAT in the Linux kernel? Yes! – Open Source Blog
Free software advocate Richard Stallman spoke at Microsoft Research this week | ZDNet
Taking a while…
Caniuse and MDN compatibility data collaboration – Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog
Hackers Hit Twitter C.E.O. Jack Dorsey in a ‘SIM Swap.’ You’re at Risk, Too. – The New York Times
Imagecon 2019 – Jon Sneyers
Next-Gen Image Format- JPEG XL – YouTube
Olds
Vinyl set to outsell CDs for first time since 1986
JPEG ‘files’ & Colour (JPEG Pt1)- Computerphile – YouTube
Don’t forget
The Nexus TV
International Backup Awareness Day
Music
Bump Foot – Releases – foot132
Music | Tryad
Music | Big Giant Circles
Big Giant Circles (@BigGiantCircles) | Twitter
This episode of Control Structure has a Fringe episode. You should really listen to The Fringe #561: CS #157 — Fake Ignorance Often!
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29min
August 14, 2019Control Structure #156: Fringe Farm
After a long break, Steven and Andrew are back at it, talking about RASPBERRY!, Microsoft, Python, AMD, AVIF, and a few more things. It's been a long while.

News
Raspberry Pi 4 on sale now from $35 – Raspberry Pi
Raspberry Pi 4 B+ – PCI Express
macOS Catalina 10.15 Beta 5 Release Notes | Apple Developer Documentation
Has the Python GIL been slain? – By
Python consumes a lot of memory or how to reduce the size of objects? / Habr
Who put Python in the Windows 10 May 2019 Update? | Python
Statement on 32-bit i386 packages for Ubuntu 19.10 and 20.04 LTS | Ubuntu
VESA Publishes DisplayPort 2.0 Video Standard Enabling Support for Beyond-8K Resolutions, Higher Refresh Rates for 4K/HDR and Virtual Reality Applications – VESA – Interface Standards for The Display Industry
Details about MIDI 2.0, MIDI-CI, Profiles and Property Exchange –
PCI Express 5.0 Announced With 32GT/s Transfer Rates – Phoronix
Password expiration is dead, long live your passwords – TechCrunch
Microsoft Project Scarlett Xbox: 8K graphics, SSD, and ray-tracing in 2020 – The Verge
AMD Working on a Hybrid Ray Tracing Technology (Hardware X Software)
The AMD 3rd Gen Ryzen Deep Dive Review: 3700X and 3900X Raising The Bar
AMD Rome Second Generation EPYC Review: 2x 64-core Benchmarked
The AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT & RX 5700 Review: Navi Renews Competition in the Midrange Market
Migrating Dyn Services to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Rob Donoghue on Twitter: “Reminded that the Microsoft ebook store closes next week. The DRM’d books will stop working. I cannot believe that sentence. “The books will stop working.” I keep saying it and it sounds worse each time.”
What’s new in PostgreSQL 11: built-in web search – HabraHabr.Info
Google Chrome Hides WWW and HTTPS:// in the Address Bar Again
Olds
Why did moving the mouse cursor cause Windows 95 to run more quickly? – Retrocomputing Stack Exchange
Don’t forget
The Nexus TV
International Backup Awareness Day
Music
Freesound – “Crashing Ocean Waves (3 hours) To Relax, Sleep, or Meditate” by hansende
Bump Foot – Releases – foot132
This episode of Control Structure has a Fringe episode. You should really listen to The Fringe #554: CS #156 — Hippy Games!
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34min
May 08, 2019Control Structure #155: No One Can Play With Our Toys
No, Andrew and Steven have not sold out to Microsoft, but they sure do talk about it a lot! They also mention some games, and how Firefox totally broke over the weekend.

News
Windows gets a new terminal – TechCrunch
GitHub – microsoft/Terminal: The new Windows Terminal, and the original Windows console host — all in the same place!
Shipping a Linux Kernel with Windows | Windows Command Line Tools For Developers
Windows 10 Start Menu Gets Its Own Process in Build 1903
Python in Visual Studio Code – April 2019 Release | Python
Introducing .NET 5 | .NET Blog
Negotiations Failed: How Oracle killed Java EE. | Head Crashing Informatics
NoScript extension officially released for Google Chrome | ZDNet
NoScript – Chrome Web Store
Mozilla announces ban on Firefox extensions containing obfuscated code | ZDNet
Add-ons disabled or failing to install in Firefox | Mozilla Add-ons Blog
Firefox 66.0.4, See All New Features, Updates and Fixes
Firefox 43 Forcibly Disables Unsigned Extensions, Here’s How to Enable Them Back
A Conspiracy To Kill IE6
Microsoft Edge – All the news from Build 2019 – Microsoft Edge Blog
Psyonix is Joining the Epic Family! | Rocket League® – Official Site
Epic buys Rocket League developer Psyonix, strongly hints it will stop selling the game on Steam – The Verge
Epic Games, Inc. | Steam Search
Ubisoft and Genba to “kill the grey market” with silent key activation | GamesIndustry.biz
BlizzCon 2019 tickets revolve around invasive, poorly reviewed smartphone app | Ars Technica
Ticketing app AXS scrapes all the data it can get from your phone | The Outline
GitHub – mist64/c64rom: Commodore 64 BASIC and KERNAL Source
Tomorrow Corporation : World of Goo Update, 10 Years Later
Microsoft Solitaire | World Video Game Hall of Fame
Don’t forget
The Nexus TV
International Backup Awareness Day
Music
Bump Foot – Releases – foot132
Fuelship (Remix) | Feryl
Kyle Gabler’s Portfolio: World of Goo Soundtrack
This episode of Control Structure has a Fringe episode. You should really listen to The Fringe #537: CS #155 — rm ☺️!
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33min
April 11, 2019Control Structure #154: Fancy Web Browser Thingamajig
After a normal period, Steve and Andrew talk about RASPBERRY!, new GPUs, old GPUs, Microsoft, lazy loading, and maybe something else, but I forgot.

News
Give Your Raspberry Pi SD Card a Break: Log to RAM | Hackaday
10 projects to try on your Raspberry Pi using this unusual programming language – TechRepublic
Rumor: AMD May Add Ray Tracing Feature in Navi 20 GPU – Market Realist
The story of the Rendition Vérité 1000
The story of the 3dfx Voodoo1
From alert to driver vulnerability: Microsoft Defender ATP investigation unearths privilege escalation flaw – Microsoft Security
Microsoft’s eBook store: When this closes, your books disappear too – BBC News
Borderlands 3: Everything we know so far | PC Gamer
Google Groups
Don’t forget
The Nexus TV
International Backup Awareness Day
Music
Bump Foot – Releases – foot132
instrumentals | tryad
This episode of Control Structure has a Fringe episode. You should really listen to The Fringe #533: CS #154 — Hipster Mower!
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18min
March 28, 2019Control Structure #153: A Box Museum
After moving into a new place, Andrew and Steve talk about RASPBERRY!, content security, GANs, light web pages, USB, and some backup tales.

News
A Raspberry Pi Grimoire For The Command Line Wizard | Hackaday
Safari’s default media controls get blocked when applying a Content-Security-Policy – Ctrl blog
This Person Does Not Exist
Untitled: https://thiscatdoesnotexist.com/
GitHub – paubric/thisrepositorydoesnotexist: A curated list of awesome projects which use Machine Learning to generate synthetic content.
Bellor
Don’t Get Clever with Login Forms
A JavaScript-Free Frontend – DEV Community
Your Front-End Does Not Have To Be Rich
You probably don’t need a single-page application
Text-only news sites are slowly making a comeback. Here’s why. – Poynter
Some American Airlines In-Flight TVs Have Cameras In Them
USB 3.2 is going to make the current USB branding even worse | Ars Technica
Thunderbolt 3 becomes USB4, as Intel’s interconnect goes royalty-free | Ars Technica
‘Troll,’ Epic’s Stunning Ray-Tracing Demo, Wows GDC | NVIDIA Blog
Quake II RTX – GTC 2019 Demo Walkthrough with NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang (ultrawide) – YouTube
Announcing the Open Sourcing of Windows Calculator – Windows Developer Blog
GitHub – Microsoft/calculator: Windows Calculator: A simple yet powerful calculator that ships with Windows
JDK 12 Release Notes
Don’t forget
The Nexus TV
International Backup Awareness Day
So long, MSDN blog | Fabulous adventures in coding
Myspace lost all the music its users uploaded between 2003 and 2015 / Boing Boing
Music
Bump Foot – Releases – foot132
This episode of Control Structure has a Fringe episode. You should really listen to The Fringe #528: CS #153 — Welcome Home Steve!
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33min
February 13, 2019Control Structure #152: At Very Right Moment
Coming back again, Steve and Andrew talk about dial up, Firefox, Internet Explorer, RAID accidents, and a few other tidbits.

News
Dial up server – Doge Microsystems
Firefox 65.0, See All New Features, Updates and Fixes
A new image format for the Web | WebP | Google Developers
Mozilla Celebrates Release of Free, High-Quality Video Compression Technology AV1 in Firefox 65
How I lost my data trying to back it up | Hamy – The IT Guy
What is the space overhead of Base64 encoding? – Daniel Lemire’s blog
Mike Pan on Twitter: “”Why do I need a 4Ghz quadcore to run facebook?” This is why. A single word split up into 11 HTML DOM elements to avoid adblockers.… https://t.co/5AukD9O7ja”
Apple Is Removing ‘Do Not Track’ From Safari
W3C Tracking Protection Working Group
The perils of using Internet Explorer as your default browser – Microsoft Tech Community – 331732
Microsoft Edge: Making the web better through more open source collaboration | Windows Experience Blog
Google Fiber Blog: Saying Goodbye to Louisville
Don’t forget
The Nexus TV
International Backup Awareness Day
Music
Bump Foot – Releases – foot132
Younnat – Radiovision [kahvi256] : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
This episode of Control Structure has a Fringe episode. You should really listen to The Fringe #517: CS #152 — Modem That Broke The Camel’s Back!
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21min
January 30, 2019Control Structure #151: Bigger Coyotes Than Texas
After a long hiatus, Andrew and Steven return to tell you all about new RASPBERRY!, vulnerabilities, some gaming news, and some updates on Kickstarters.

News
Raspberry Pi 3 Model A+ – Raspberry Pi
Raspberry Pi made a cheaper version of its most powerful PC – The Verge
Compute Module 3 Launch! – Raspberry Pi
Post-mortem: MRI disables every iOS device in facility : sysadmin
Intel CPUs impacted by new PortSmash side-channel vulnerability | ZDNet
Flaws in self-encrypting SSDs let attackers bypass disk encryption | ZDNet
Remotely compromise devices by using bugs in Marvell Avastar Wi-Fi: from zero knowledge to zero-click RCE – Embedi
In Groundbreaking Decision, Feds Say Hacking DRM to Fix Your Electronics Is Legal – Motherboard
Athletes Don’t Own Their Tattoos. That’s a Problem for Video Game Developers. – The New York Times
Confirmed: Duck.com Transfers to DuckDuckGo | NamePros
AMD Ryzen 3rd Gen ‘Matisse’ Coming Mid 2019: Eight Core Zen 2 with PCIe 4.0 on Desktop
G Suite Updates Blog: Upcoming Hangouts service consolidation for all G Suite customers
Bungie takes back its Destiny and departs from Activision – TechCrunch
Cloud gaming firm: Unity must clarify its terms, reinstate our license [Updated] | Ars Technica
Google teams up with MMO cloud platform SpatialOS | Rock Paper Shotgun
Improbable and Epic Games establish $25M fund to help devs move to ‘more open engines’ after Unity debacle – TechCrunch
Our response to Improbable’s blog post (and why you can keep working on your SpatialOS game) – Unity Blog
Q2VKPT
The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe
Miscellaneous
Crowdfunding platform Patreon defends itself amid boycott
From the Composer of Skyrim – Soule Symphony No. 1 by Max Steiner Agency Inc. » Two New Albums for 2019 — Kickstarter
Planet X3 for MS-DOS by David Murray — Kickstarter
Music
Bump Foot – Releases – foot132
instrumentals | tryad
This episode of Control Structure has a Fringe episode. You should really listen to The Fringe #514: CS #151 — Adopt A Hobbit Door!
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46min
October 25, 2018Control Structure #150: Chaos Monkey Got Out
You've been upgraded! Andrew and Steven talk about YouTube being down, Winamp, Intel, TLS, Windows, Google, jQuery, and QuickTime. (The last one is not an upgrade!)

News
Ask HN: YouTube down? | Hacker News
Winamp 5.8 Beta, Build 3660 (official) – Winamp & SHOUTcast Forums
Winamp
Winamp returns in 2019 to whip the llama’s ass harder than ever – TechCrunch
GitHub – Chocobozzz/PeerTube: Federated (ActivityPub) video streaming platform using P2P (BitTorrent) directly in the web browser with WebTorrent and Angular.
Intel Announces 9th Gen Core CPUs: Core i9-9900K (8-Core), i7-9700K, & i5-9600K
Intel’s i9 9900K vs Ryzen 2700X Gaming Benchmarks Are Misleading, Period
The Illustrated TLS Connection: Every Byte Explained
Windows 10 October 2018 Update no longer deletes your data | Ars Technica
Making Windows Slower Part 2: Process Creation | Random ASCII
The Death of Google – Lauren Weinstein’s Blog
We Removed jQuery | Outside Online
Olds
Interface Hall of Shame – QuickTime 4.0
Don’t forget
Discuss this episode on our Subreddit
Support us on Patreon
International Backup Awareness Day
Music
Bump Foot – Releases – foot132
Anitek – Anitek Instrumentals Vol. 5 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
This episode of Control Structure has a Fringe episode. You should really listen to The Fringe #500: CS #150 — I’m Doing Permaculture!
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29min
October 11, 2018Control Structure #149: Google Minus
Andrew and Steve are back, talking about Raspberry!, Java, Telltale, Geocities, Wikipedia, Wifi, Chinese hardware, Windows, and Google Plus.

News
IoT LoRa Boards Launch on Kickstarter With Raspberry Pi, Micro:Bit, Arduino Support
Java 11 Released
This Dumb Industry: Telltale Autopsy – Twenty Sided
DuckDuckGo Traffic
Yahoo Japan is shutting down its website hosting service GeoCities — Quartz
Neocities: Create your own free website!
More than 9 million broken links on Wikipedia are now rescued | Internet Archive Blogs
Wi-Fi Alliance® introduces Wi-Fi 6 | Wi-Fi Alliance
Bloomberg – Are you a robot?
Apple tells Congress that it has found no sign of microchip tampering – The Verge
Bloomberg – Are you a robot?
Raptor Announces “Blackbird” Micro-ATX, Low-Cost POWER9 Motherboard – Phoronix
Project Strobe: Protecting your data, improving our third-party APIs, and sunsetting consumer Google+
Windows 10’s latest update is deleting some users’ documents – The Verge
Don’t forget
The Nexus TV
Support us on Patreon
International Backup Awareness Day
Music
Bump Foot – Releases – foot132
Music | Big Giant Circles
This episode of Control Structure has a Fringe episode. You should really listen to The Fringe #498: CS #149 — Mike Was Rather Shouty!
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31min
September 26, 2018Control Structure #148: Can’t Read Floppy
Steven finally joins Andrew face to face to talk about how everyone hates Chrome, improved TLS, PCs, GIMP, inefficient software, Microsoft, Newegg, and Linux.

News
An open governance model for the AMP Project – Accelerated Mobile Pages Project
881410 – Incorrect transforms when stripping subdomains – chromium – Monorail
Google Groups
Google Wants to Kill the URL | WIRED
Chrome 69 ties Google services with browser login – SlashGear
Troy Hunt: Extended Validation Certificates are Dead
Encrypting SNI: Fixing One of the Core Internet Bugs
draft-ietf-tls-esni-01 – Encrypted Server Name Indication for TLS 1.3
ESNI: A Privacy-Protecting Upgrade to HTTPS | Electronic Frontier Foundation
The ‘Post-PC Era’ Never Really Happened…and Likely Won’t – Tech.pinions
GIMP receives a $100K donation – GIMP
Software disenchantment @ tonsky.me
Internet of Shit (@internetofshit) | Twitter
Another Week with Bad Software
Microsoft tests ‘warning’ Windows 10 users not to install Chrome or Firefox – The Verge
Another Victim of the Magecart Assault Emerges: Newegg
Linux 4.19-rc4 released, an apology, and a maintainership note – Linus Torvalds
Linux adds a code of conduct for programmers | ZDNet
Don’t forget
The Nexus TV on Reddit
International Backup Awareness Day
Support us on Patreon
Music
Bump Foot – Releases – foot132
instrumentals | tryad
This episode of Control Structure has a Fringe episode. You should really listen to The Fringe #495: CS #148 — Bloody Mary Was That Bad!
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34min

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How many episodes does Control Structure have?

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