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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August 31, 2018Control Structure #147: A Wolfram Alpha Thing
After having some Microsoft issues (both varieties), Andrew joins Steven and talk about Windows bugs, SMS, Valve, licenses, some feedback, and some chit-chat.

News
24-core CPU and I can’t type an email (part one) | Random ASCII
24-core CPU and I can’t type an email (part two) | Random ASCII
U.S. Investor Sues AT&T for $224 Million Over Loss of Cryptocurrency
Valve’s “Steam Play” uses Vulkan to bring more Windows games to Linux | Ars Technica
GitHub – ValveSoftware/Proton: Compatibility tool for Steam Play based on Wine and additional components
Intel Publishes Microcode Security Patches, No Benchmarking Or Comparison Allowed! – Bruce Perens
Dear Ad Networks
MCU path license 2018 | 01.org
Licenses | Redis Labs
Podcast Feedback
Podcast Episode: Control Structure #146: Most Episodic Show : thenexustv
Don’t forget
Discuss this episode on our Subreddit
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International Backup Awareness Day
Music
Bump Foot – Releases – foot132
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August 16, 2018Control Structure #146: Most Episodic Show
Time for a celebration! Control Structure now has more episodes than any other (real) show on the The Nexus!
Steven and Andrew talk about RASPBERRY!, Windows, Chrome, processors, Java, Firefox, and Let's Encrypt. Then both talk about what they've been up to.
Apologies for the poor audio quality, and occasional Steven dropouts.

News
Oil-Immersed Raspberry Pi Keeps Its Cool Under Heavy Loads | Hackaday
Microsoft is making the Windows command line a lot better | Ars Technica
Chrome Releases: Stable Channel Update for Desktop
Why No HTTPS? The World’s Largest Websites Not Redirecting Insecure Requests to HTTPS
Analysis and mitigation of L1 Terminal Fault (L1TF) – Security Research & Defense
The AMD Threadripper 2990WX 32-Core and 2950X 16-Core Review
A Look At The Windows 10 vs. Linux Performance On AMD Threadripper 2990WX – Phoronix
Nvidia Unveils Quadro RTX
Join NVIDIA GeForce To Celebrate Gaming Ahead Of Gamescom 2018
NVIDIA Teases GeForce RTX 2080 Graphics Card Launching At Gamescom [Updated]
Do I need to pay for Java now? | Karakun Developer Hub
Finding a CPU Design Bug in the Xbox 360 | Random ASCII
c++ – Can a local variable’s memory be accessed outside its scope? – Stack Overflow
Mozilla to Remove Support for Built-In Feed Reader From Firefox
Let’s Encrypt Root Trusted By All Major Root Programs – Let’s Encrypt – Free SSL/TLS Certificates
Feats
Multithreaded Rockstar AMP | the Andrew Bailey
Music
Bump Foot – Releases – foot132
Connect With The Nexus
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This episode of Control Structure has a Fringe episode. You should really listen to The Fringe #487: CS #146 — USB Microsoft!
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July 18, 2018Control Structure #145: I’m a Ghost, It Happens
After a long hiatus, Andrew gets Steven to tell what he's been up to, RASPBERRY!, Microsoft, GPUs, domains at gunpoint, Linux, Firefox, CPUs, and Python.

News
Programming Minecraft on the Raspberry Pi—Wolfram Blog
Microsoft + GitHub = Empowering Developers – The Official Microsoft Blog
Terms of Service Violation
GitHub – martenbjork/github-xp: Give Github some XP flair
Nikita on Twitter: “So I heard $MSFT is buying @github… “
Intel to Release Discrete Graphics Card In 2020, GPUs For Desktop Gaming Coming Too
The Guy Who Robbed Someone at Gunpoint for a Domain Name Is Getting 20 Years in Jail – Motherboard
Nvidia Appears To Have A GPU Inventory Problem
There might be a big drop in graphics card prices next month | PC Gamer
Nvidia CEO says it will be ‘a long time’ before next-gen GeForce GPUs | PC Gamer
Tech giant Tencent has joined The Linux Foundation as a Platinum member – Neowin
Google ups its Linux Foundation membership to the $500,000/year Platinum level – TechCrunch
Firefox 61.0, See All New Features, Updates and Fixes
Thermanator Attack Steals Passwords by Reading Thermal Residue on Keyboards
New Spectre 1.1 and Spectre 1.2 CPU Flaws Disclosed
Microsoft is updating the Windows Notepad app for the first time in years – The Verge
Appreciate
[python-committers] Transfer of power
Music
Bump Foot – Releases – foot132
Gas Powered EP | Kubbi
Connect With The Nexus
Discuss this episode on our Subreddit
Support us on Patreon
This episode of Control Structure has a Fringe episode. You should really listen to The Fringe #483: CS #145 — Sound Travels Slow Over The Internet!
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33min
May 25, 2018Control Structure #144: The Old Screensaver
Andrew joins Steven on his "last" show to talk RASPBERRY!, Ubuntu, TCP flow control, Microsoft, Magento, POWER, and Cisco.

News
PiGI – Raspberry Pi Geiger Counter – Hackster.io
Ubuntu 18.04: Unity is gone, GNOME is back—and Ubuntu has never been better | Ars Technica
PDF: 10-2018-05-15-bbr.pdf
Say hello to Google One – TechCrunch
Adobe to Acquire Magento | Magento
Adobe to Acquire Magento Commerce | Adobe Newsroom
Adobe Systems – Wikipedia
Raptor Computing Systems::TL1BC1 Intro
Hardcoded Password Found in Cisco Enterprise Software, Again
What is the correct pronunciation of Kubernetes in English? · Issue #44308 · kubernetes/kubernetes · GitHub
Miscellaneous
Fermat’s Library on Twitter: “The fifth hyperfactorial: 5⁵ × 4⁴ × 3³ × 2² × 1¹ = 86400000 milliseconds is exactly 1 day!… “
Mount Tambora – Wikipedia
Year Without a Summer – Wikipedia
Don’t forget
International Backup Awareness Day
Music
Bump Foot – Releases – foot132
Gas Powered EP | Kubbi
This episode of Control Structure has a Fringe episode. You should really listen to The Fringe #476: CS #144 — From The Future!
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May 11, 2018Control Structure #143: Genetically Modified Cats
After a hiatus, Andrew and Steve return to talk about AMD, Python, Java, SSDs, hard drives, and responsive images. Neat!

News
The AMD 2nd Gen Ryzen Deep Dive: The 2700X, 2700, 2600X, and 2600 Tested
AMD’s Stock Price Jumps On News Of Stellar Earnings Spurred By Ryzen | HotHardware
[UPDATE] AMD CPU Market Share Jumps 43% in April Alone, Steam Survey Shows – But Did it Really?
Steam Hardware & Software Survey
The Mainstream Phoenix Rises: Samsung’s 970 EVO (500GB & 1TB) SSDs Reviewed
Python 3.7: Introducing Data Classes | PyCharm Blog
PEP 557 — Data Classes | Python.org
xkcd: Python Environment
Radioactive Cats and Nuclear Priests: How to Warn the Future About Toxic Waste – Motherboard
Oracle: Java SE 8 business users must buy a licence from January next year | V3
Do Helium-Filled Hard Drives Perform Better Than Air-Filled Drives?
AT&T explains why it blocked Cloudflare DNS: It was just an accident | Ars Technica
Tesla starts brutal review of contractors, firing everyone that is not vouched for by an employee | Electrek
Feats
Responsive Images & Remote Debugging | the Andrew Bailey
Don’t forget
International Backup Awareness Day
Music
Bump Foot – Releases – foot132
Gas Powered EP | Kubbi
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38min
April 19, 2018Control Structure #142: Massive Data Maw
Steven and Andrew return to talk RASPBERRY!, operating systems, vulnerabilities (as usual), warranties, shady URLs, PDFs, Payara, and a smartphone (with a blast from the past).

Sorry for the poor audio on this show. Skype, yo.
News
Raspberry Pi microSD card performance comparison – 2018 | Jeff Geerling
Apple starting to alert users that it will end 32-bit app support on the Mac – TechCrunch
Microsoft built its own custom Linux kernel for its new IoT service – TechCrunch
7-Zip / Discussion / Open Discussion:Windows 10 works incorrectly with Large Memory Pages (2 MB)
As predicted, more branch prediction processor attacks are discovered | Ars Technica
FTC Says ‘Warranty Void If Removed’ Stickers Are Bullshit, Warns Manufacturers They’re Breaking the Law – Motherboard
AMD Ryzen 7 2700X User Publishes Benchmarks & Overclocking Results Ahead of Launch
Announcing 1.1.1.1: the fastest, privacy-first consumer DNS service
AT&T gateway (5268ac, maybe others) misrouting 1.1.1.0/24? – AT&T U-verse | DSLReports Forums
Hashes.org – Leak ‘Have I been Pwned V2’
Don’t Give Away Historic Details About Yourself — Krebs on Security
Dylan McKay on Twitter: “a historical record of every single contact on my phone, including ones I no longer have… “
ShadyURL – Don’t just shorten your URL, make it suspicious and frightening.
theAndrewBailey
Olds
Can I change default display width in built-in PDF Viewer? | Firefox Support Forum | Mozilla Support
Appreciate Deprecate
What’s New in Payara Server & Payara Micro 5?
Miscellaneous
Myst 25th Anniversary Collection by Cyan Worlds, Inc. — Kickstarter
Don’t forget
International Backup Awareness Day
Music
Bump Foot – Releases – foot132
This episode of Control Structure has a Fringe episode. You should really listen to The Fringe #472: CS #142 — I’m Steven I Killed A Deer!
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38min
March 24, 2018Control Structure #141: Sounds Cooler With Enterprise
Andrew and Steve are back with some RASPBERRY!, Google lawsuits, Java (or is it Jakarta?), BluRay, AMD, Let's Encrypt, passwords, and TOTP.

News
Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ on sale now at $35 – Raspberry Pi
Smartphone sales fall for first time ever, says Gartner – CNET
Ex-Google recruiter: I was fired because I resisted “illegal” diversity efforts | Ars Technica
Java EE renamed ‘Jakarta EE’ after Big Red brand spat • The Register
Jakarta – Wikipedia
JDK 10: General Availability
VLC 3.0 Vetinari – VideoLAN
Memory Stick – Wikipedia
Compact disc – Wikipedia
Sony SMC-70 – Wikipedia
Marrying Vega and Zen: The AMD Ryzen 5 2400G Review – Print View
AMD Corporate: Initial AMD Technical Assessment… | Community
Assassination Attempt on AMD by Viceroy Research & CTS Labs, AMD ‘Should Be $0’ | GamersNexus – Gaming PC Builds & Hardware Benchmarks
Google Online Security Blog: A secure web is here to stay
ACME v2 and Wildcard Certificate Support is Live – Issuance Policy – Let’s Encrypt Community Support
MPEG2 Patent List | MPEG LA
Troy Hunt: I’ve Just Launched “Pwned Passwords” V2 With Half a Billion Passwords for Download
GitHub – maxchehab/CSS-Keylogging: Chrome extension and Express server that exploits keylogging abilities of CSS.
Compiler bug? Linker bug? Windows Kernel bug. | Random ASCII
Appreciate Deprecate
How Google Authenticator Works
Don’t forget
International Backup Awareness Day
Music
Bump Foot – Releases – foot132
This episode of Control Structure has a Fringe episode. You should really listen to The Fringe #469: CS #141 — You Burned Your Pi!
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36min
February 08, 2018Control Structure #140: Not my Cloud
Steve and Andrew are excited to talk about RASPBERRY! hosted IoT, fake real missiles, Libreoffice, AMD, Mozilla, MPEG, Xerox, and threats of being a barista.

News
How to build your own private smart home with a Raspberry Pi and Mozilla’s Things Gateway – Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog
Block ads on your network with Raspberry Pi and pi-hole | Opensource.com
Hawaii missile alert: Troubled worker sent alert believing attack was imminent, reports say – The Washington Post
Ending Bitcoin Support | Stripe
Bitcoin dropping alongside global stock markets, discrediting theory it would be a safe haven
The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 6.0: power, simplicity, security and interoperability from desktop to cloud – The Document Foundation Blog
AMD Triumphantly Returns to Full-Year Profitability, Forecasts Strong 2018 – ExtremeTech
Japan’s Fujifilm to take over Xerox in $6.1 billion deal, create JV | Reuters
Preventing data leaks by stripping path information in HTTP Referrers | Mozilla Security Blog
A crisis, the causes and a solution – Leonardo Chiariglione | Blog
Olds
// If this happens, I am going to quit and become a barista – The Old New Thing
Don’t forget
International Backup Awareness Day
Music
Bump Foot – Releases – foot132
Sleet | Kubbi
This episode of Control Structure has a Fringe episode. You should really listen to The Fringe #464: CS #140 — Make a Smart Shack!
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22min
January 25, 2018Control Structure #139: People Don’t Read Anything
Andrew and Steven talk about RASPBERRY!, false alarms, Ubuntu, Firefox, encryption standards, and old mainframes.

News
Now there’s an Alexa skill to help out Raspberry Pi tinkerers | TechRadar
Take a former NSA head hacker, a Raspberry Pi, weird Kiwi radios and what do you get? • The Register
Hawaii missile mix-up: That was no ‘wrong button.’ Take a look. – The Washington Post
Amazon announces candidate cities for HQ2
WineHQ – News – Wine 3.0 Released
USN-3531-2: Intel Microcode regression | Ubuntu
Making WebAssembly even faster: Firefox’s new streaming and tiering compiler – Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog
Firefox — Notes (58.0) — Mozilla
With WPA3, Wi-Fi security is about to get a lot tougher | ZDNet
NSA Switches To Quantum-Resistant Cryptography – Deep Dot Web
Olds
The Eternal Mainframe
Don’t forget
International Backup Awareness Day
Music
Bump Foot – Releases – foot132
little things | C418
This episode of Control Structure has a Fringe episode. You should really listen to The Fringe #463: CS #139 — False Alarm KABOOM!
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January 12, 2018Control Structure #138: Steal Your Private Key
Steve wakes Andrew up to have a podcast in 2008. After sorting things out, they talk about Spectre, Meltdown, iPhone batteries, blockchains, Chrome, ADSL, Amazon, Crytek, Excel, and a few other things, because it's been a while.

Banter
Talking about each other has been moved to The Fringe. Please see The Fringe, episode 460, at about 20 minutes in.
News
Meltdown and Spectre
Kernel-memory-leaking Intel processor design flaw forces Linux, Windows redesign • The Register
AMD Processor Security | AMD
AMD Looks Poised To Gain At Intel’s Expense
Untitled: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4073707/windows-os-security-update-block-for-some-amd-based-devices
Notes from the Intelpocalypse [LWN.net]
Why Raspberry Pi isn’t vulnerable to Spectre or Meltdown – Raspberry Pi
Intel with Radeon RX Vega Graphics: Core i7-8809G with 3.1 GHz Base, 100W Target TDP, Overclockable
AMD Reportedly Allows Disabling PSP Secure Processor With Latest AGESA – Phoronix
Full Disclosure: AMD-PSP: fTPM Remote Code Execution via crafted EK certificate
iPhone Performance and Battery Age – Geekbench
Long Island Iced Tea Soars After Changing Its Name to Long Blockchain – Bloomberg
KODAKONE – KODAKONE
Hang onto your graphics cards, as cryptocurrency mining spikes GPUs prices | PC Gamer
Chrome Apps are dead, as Google shuts down the Chrome Web Store section | Ars Technica
RevK’s rants: It’s official, ADSL works over wet string
Yes, Your Amazon Echo Is an Ad Machine
ScummVM :: Home
Crytek v. CIG | Damages | Copyright Infringement
Crytek sues Star Citizen studio over breach of contract and copyright infringement | PC Gamer
2_2017cv08937_Crytek_v_CIG_(20180105)_Memorandum of Points in Support of Motion to Dismiss.pdf – Google Drive
Cloud Imperium responds to Crytek’s Star Citizen lawsuit | PC Gamer
Python as an Excel scripting language – Welcome to Excel’s Suggestion Box!
Automakers: Don’t Ask Customers What They Want
The Homer – The Car Built for Homer – YouTube
Download NVIDIA, GeForce, Quadro, and Tesla Drivers
Announcing the OpenWrt/LEDE merge – Installing and Using LEDE – LEDE Project Forum
Qualcomm Fast Path For LEDE – Community Builds, Projects & Packages – LEDE Project Forum
Miscellaneous
Google fired James Damore for a controversial gender memo—now he’s suing | Ars Technica
The Northerner Diaries – Symphonic Sketches by Jeremy Soule (with included message) – YouTube
Star Citizen Alpha 3.0.0 – Roberts Space Industries
Don’t forget
International Backup Awareness Day
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43min

FAQs about Control Structure:

How many episodes does Control Structure have?

The podcast currently has 158 episodes available.