Control Structure

Control 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 [https://www.tomshardware.com/news/oracle-raspberry-pi-supercomputer,40412.html] * MARTINI: Real-Time RTIN Terrain Mesh / Vladimir Agafonkin / Observable [https://observablehq.com/@mourner/martin-real-time-rtin-terrain-mesh] * Aussie ISV buys ads to wake up Google support – Software – CRN Australia [https://www.crn.com.au/news/aussie-isv-buys-ads-to-wake-up-google-support-529698] * Aussie ISV buys ads to wake up Google support | Hacker News [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20711508] * I miss Microsoft Encarta – Scott Hanselman [https://www.hanselman.com/blog/IMissMicrosoftEncarta.aspx] * MindMaze (Game) – Giant Bomb [https://www.giantbomb.com/mindmaze/3030-25465/] * Big Blue Open Sources Power Chip Instruction Set [https://www.nextplatform.com/2019/08/20/big-blue-open-sources-power-chip-instruction-set/] * exFAT file system specification – Windows applications | Microsoft Docs [https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/win32/fileio/exfat-specification] * exFAT in the Linux kernel? Yes! – Open Source Blog [https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/opensource/2019/08/28/exfat-linux-kernel/] * Free software advocate Richard Stallman spoke at Microsoft Research this week | ZDNet [https://www.zdnet.com/article/free-software-advocate-richard-stallman-spoke-at-microsoft-research-this-week/] * Taking a while… [https://www.fsf.org/news/richard-m-stallman-resigns] * Caniuse and MDN compatibility data collaboration – Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog [https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/09/caniuse-and-mdn-compat-data-collaboration/] * Hackers Hit Twitter C.E.O. Jack Dorsey in a ‘SIM Swap.’ You’re at Risk, Too. – The New York Times [https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/05/technology/sim-swap-jack-dorsey-hack.html] * Imagecon 2019 – Jon Sneyers [https://www.slideshare.net/cloudinarymarketing/imagecon-2019-jon-sneyer] * Next-Gen Image Format- JPEG XL – YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqi5U6dxeZU] OLDS * Vinyl set to outsell CDs for first time since 1986 [https://www.nme.com/news/music/vinyl-set-outsell-cds-first-time-since-1986-2545781] * JPEG ‘files’ & Colour (JPEG Pt1)- Computerphile – YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_uNPbdenRs] DON’T FORGET * The Nexus TV [https://www.reddit.com/r/thenexustv/] * International Backup Awareness Day [http://blog.codinghorror.com/international-backup-awareness-day/] MUSIC * Bump Foot – Releases – foot132 [http://www.bumpfoot.net/foot132.html] * Music | Tryad [https://tryad.bandcamp.com/] * Music | Big Giant Circles [https://music.biggiantcircles.com/] * Big Giant Circles (@BigGiantCircles) | Twitter [https://twitter.com/biggiantcircles] This episode of Control Structure has a Fringe episode. You should really listen to The Fringe #561: CS #157 — Fake Ignorance Often [https://thenexus.tv/episode/tf561/]! Listen to more at The Nexus [https://thenexus.tv] and follow us on Twitter [http://twitter.com/thenexustv] and Google+ [https://plus.google.com/b/110459364915252571275/110459364915252571275/posts] for our latest episodes and news.

Control 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 [https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-4-on-sale-now-from-35/] * Raspberry Pi 4 B+ – PCI Express [http://mloduchowski.com/en/blog/raspberry-pi-4-b-pci-express/] * macOS Catalina 10.15 Beta 5 Release Notes | Apple Developer Documentation [https://developer.apple.com/documentation/macos_release_notes/macos_catalina_10_15_beta_3_release_notes#3318257] * Has the Python GIL been slain? – By [https://hackernoon.com/has-the-python-gil-been-slain-9440d28fa93d?gi=cd2b954616be] * Python consumes a lot of memory or how to reduce the size of objects? / Habr [https://habr.com/en/post/458518/] * Who put Python in the Windows 10 May 2019 Update? | Python [https://devblogs.microsoft.com/python/python-in-the-windows-10-may-2019-update/] * Statement on 32-bit i386 packages for Ubuntu 19.10 and 20.04 LTS | Ubuntu [https://ubuntu.com/blog/statement-on-32-bit-i386-packages-for-ubuntu-19-10-and-20-04-lts] * VESA Publishes DisplayPort™ [https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/13.1.0/72x72/2122.png] 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 [https://vesa.org/press/vesa-publishes-displayport-2-0-video-standard-enabling-support-for-beyond-8k-resolutions-higher-refresh-rates-for-4k-hdr-and-virtual-reality-applications/] * Details about MIDI 2.0, MIDI-CI, Profiles and Property Exchange – [https://www.midi.org/articles-old/details-about-midi-2-0-midi-ci-profiles-and-property-exchange] * PCI Express 5.0 Announced With 32GT/s Transfer Rates – Phoronix [https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=PCIe-5.0-Announced] * Password expiration is dead, long live your passwords – TechCrunch [https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/02/password-expiration-is-dead-long-live-your-passwords/] * Microsoft Project Scarlett Xbox: 8K graphics, SSD, and ray-tracing in 2020 – The Verge [https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/9/18656608/microsoft-new-xbox-hardware-specs-price-release-date-e3-2019] * AMD Working on a Hybrid Ray Tracing Technology (Hardware X Software) [https://www.techquila.co.in/amd-hybrid-ray-tracing/] * The AMD 3rd Gen Ryzen Deep Dive Review: 3700X and 3900X Raising The Bar [https://www.anandtech.com/show/14605/the-and-ryzen-3700x-3900x-review-raising-the-bar] * AMD Rome Second Generation EPYC Review: 2x 64-core Benchmarked [https://www.anandtech.com/show/14694/amd-rome-epyc-2nd-gen] * The AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT & RX 5700 Review: Navi Renews Competition in the Midrange Market [https://www.anandtech.com/show/14618/the-amd-radeon-rx-5700-xt-rx-5700-review] * Migrating Dyn Services to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure [https://www.oracle.com/corporate/acquisitions/dyn/technologies/migrate-your-services/] * 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.” [https://twitter.com/rdonoghue/status/1144011630197522432] * What’s new in PostgreSQL 11: built-in web search – HabraHabr.Info [https://habrahabr.info/development/postgresql/1310-whats-new-in-postgresql-11-built-in-web-search.html] * Google Chrome Hides WWW and HTTPS:// in the Address Bar Again [https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/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 [https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/11533/why-did-moving-the-mouse-cursor-cause-windows-95-to-run-more-quickly] DON’T FORGET * The Nexus TV [https://www.reddit.com/r/thenexustv/] * International Backup Awareness Day [http://blog.codinghorror.com/international-backup-awareness-day/] MUSIC * Freesound – “Crashing Ocean Waves (3 hours) To Relax, Sleep, or Meditate” by hansende [https://freesound.org/people/hansende/sounds/263995/] * Bump Foot – Releases – foot132 [http://www.bumpfoot.net/foot132.html] This episode of Control Structure has a Fringe episode. You should really listen to The Fringe #554: CS #156 — Hippy Games [https://thenexus.tv/episode/tf554/]! Listen to more at The Nexus [https://thenexus.tv] and follow us on Twitter [http://twitter.com/thenexustv] and Google+ [https://plus.google.com/b/110459364915252571275/110459364915252571275/posts] for our latest episodes and news.

Control 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 [https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/06/windows-gets-a-new-terminal/] * GitHub – microsoft/Terminal: The new Windows Terminal, and the original Windows console host — all in the same place! [https://github.com/Microsoft/Terminal] * Shipping a Linux Kernel with Windows | Windows Command Line Tools For Developers [https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/shipping-a-linux-kernel-with-windows/] * Windows 10 Start Menu Gets Its Own Process in Build 1903 [https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/windows-10-start-menu-gets-its-own-process-in-build-1903/] * Python in Visual Studio Code – April 2019 Release | Python [https://devblogs.microsoft.com/python/python-in-visual-studio-code-april-2019-release/] * Introducing .NET 5 | .NET Blog [https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/introducing-net-5/] * Negotiations Failed: How Oracle killed Java EE. | Head Crashing Informatics [https://headcrashing.wordpress.com/2019/05/03/negotiations-failed-how-oracle-killed-java-ee/] * NoScript extension officially released for Google Chrome | ZDNet [https://www.zdnet.com/article/noscript-extension-officially-released-for-google-chrome/] * NoScript – Chrome Web Store [https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/noscript/doojmbjmlfjjnbmnoijecmcbfeoakpjm] * Mozilla announces ban on Firefox extensions containing obfuscated code | ZDNet [https://www.zdnet.com/article/mozilla-announces-ban-on-firefox-extensions-containing-obfuscated-code/] * Add-ons disabled or failing to install in Firefox | Mozilla Add-ons Blog [https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2019/05/04/update-regarding-add-ons-in-firefox/] * Firefox 66.0.4, See All New Features, Updates and Fixes [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/66.0.4/releasenotes/] * Firefox 43 Forcibly Disables Unsigned Extensions, Here’s How to Enable Them Back [https://news.softpedia.com/news/firefox-43-forcibly-disables-unsigned-extensions-here-s-how-to-enable-them-back-497715.shtml] * A Conspiracy To Kill IE6 [http://blog.chriszacharias.com/a-conspiracy-to-kill-ie6] * Microsoft Edge – All the news from Build 2019 – Microsoft Edge Blog [https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2019/05/06/edge-chromium-build-2019-pwa-ie-mode-devtools/] * Psyonix is Joining the Epic Family! | Rocket League® – Official Site [https://www.rocketleague.com/news/psyonix-is-joining-the-epic-family-/] * Epic buys Rocket League developer Psyonix, strongly hints it will stop selling the game on Steam – The Verge [https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/1/18525842/epic-games-psyonix-acquisition-rocket-league-fortnite-unreal-deal] * Epic Games, Inc. | Steam Search [https://store.steampowered.com/search/?publisher=Epic%20Games%2C%20Inc.] * Ubisoft and Genba to “kill the grey market” with silent key activation | GamesIndustry.biz [https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2019-05-02-ubisoft-and-genba-to-kill-the-grey-market-with-silent-key-activation] * BlizzCon 2019 tickets revolve around invasive, poorly reviewed smartphone app | Ars Technica [https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/05/blizzcon-2019-tickets-revolve-around-invasive-poorly-reviewed-smartphone-app/] * Ticketing app AXS scrapes all the data it can get from your phone | The Outline [https://theoutline.com/post/5628/how-a-concert-ticket-steals-your-personal-data] * GitHub – mist64/c64rom: Commodore 64 BASIC and KERNAL Source [https://github.com/mist64/c64rom] * Tomorrow Corporation : World of Goo Update, 10 Years Later [https://tomorrowcorporation.com/posts/world-of-goo-update-10-years-later] * Microsoft Solitaire | World Video Game Hall of Fame [https://www.worldvideogamehalloffame.org/games/microsoft-solitaire] DON’T FORGET * The Nexus TV [https://www.reddit.com/r/thenexustv/] * International Backup Awareness Day [http://blog.codinghorror.com/international-backup-awareness-day/] MUSIC * Bump Foot – Releases – foot132 [http://www.bumpfoot.net/foot132.html] * Fuelship (Remix) | Feryl [https://feryl.bandcamp.com/track/fuelship-remix] * Kyle Gabler’s Portfolio: World of Goo Soundtrack [https://kylegabler.com/WorldOfGooSoundtrack/] This episode of Control Structure has a Fringe episode. You should really listen to The Fringe #537: CS #155 — rm ☺️ [https://thenexus.tv/episode/tf537/]! Listen to more at The Nexus [https://thenexus.tv] and follow us on Twitter [http://twitter.com/thenexustv] and Google+ [https://plus.google.com/b/110459364915252571275/110459364915252571275/posts] for our latest episodes and news.

Control 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 [https://hackaday.com/2019/04/08/give-your-raspberry-pi-sd-card-a-break-log-to-ram/] * 10 projects to try on your Raspberry Pi using this unusual programming language – TechRepublic [https://www.techrepublic.com/article/10-projects-to-try-on-your-raspberry-pi-using-this-unusual-programming-language/] * Rumor: AMD May Add Ray Tracing Feature in Navi 20 GPU – Market Realist [https://articles.marketrealist.com/2019/04/rumor-amd-may-add-ray-tracing-feature-in-navi-20-gpu/] * The story of the Rendition Vérité 1000 [http://fabiensanglard.net/vquake/index.html] * The story of the 3dfx Voodoo1 [http://fabiensanglard.net/3dfx_sst1/index.html] * From alert to driver vulnerability: Microsoft Defender ATP investigation unearths privilege escalation flaw – Microsoft Security [https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/2019/03/25/from-alert-to-driver-vulnerability-microsoft-defender-atp-investigation-unearths-privilege-escalation-flaw/] * Microsoft’s eBook store: When this closes, your books disappear too – BBC News [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-47810367] * Borderlands 3: Everything we know so far | PC Gamer [https://www.pcgamer.com/borderlands-3-everything-we-know/] * Google Groups [https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/blink-dev/jxiJvQc-gVg] DON’T FORGET * The Nexus TV [https://www.reddit.com/r/thenexustv/] * International Backup Awareness Day [http://blog.codinghorror.com/international-backup-awareness-day/] MUSIC * Bump Foot – Releases – foot132 [http://www.bumpfoot.net/foot132.html] * instrumentals | tryad [https://tryad.bandcamp.com/album/instrumentals] This episode of Control Structure has a Fringe episode. You should really listen to The Fringe #533: CS #154 — Hipster Mower [https://thenexus.tv/episode/tf533/]! Listen to more at The Nexus [https://thenexus.tv] and follow us on Twitter [http://twitter.com/thenexustv] and Google+ [https://plus.google.com/b/110459364915252571275/110459364915252571275/posts] for our latest episodes and news.

Control 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 [https://hackaday.com/2019/02/25/a-raspberry-pi-grimoire-for-the-command-line-wizard/] * Safari’s default media controls get blocked when applying a Content-Security-Policy – Ctrl blog [https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/safari-csp-media-controls] * This Person Does Not Exist [https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/] * Untitled: https://thiscatdoesnotexist.com/ [https://thiscatdoesnotexist.com/] * GitHub – paubric/thisrepositorydoesnotexist: A curated list of awesome projects which use Machine Learning to generate synthetic content. [https://github.com/paubric/thisrepositorydoesnotexist] * Bellor [https://thisstartupdoesnotexist.com/] * Don’t Get Clever with Login Forms [http://bradfrost.com/blog/post/dont-get-clever-with-login-forms/] * A JavaScript-Free Frontend – DEV Community 👩‍💻 [https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/13.1.0/72x72/1f469-200d-1f4bb.png]👨‍💻 [https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/13.1.0/72x72/1f468-200d-1f4bb.png] [https://dev.to/winduptoy/a-javascript-free-frontend-2d3e] * Your Front-End Does Not Have To Be Rich [https://www.apress.com/us/blog/all-blog-posts/your-front-end-does-not-have-to-be-rich/16537718] * You probably don’t need a single-page application [https://journal.plausible.io/you-probably-dont-need-a-single-page-app] * Text-only news sites are slowly making a comeback. Here’s why. – Poynter [https://www.poynter.org/tech-tools/2017/text-only-news-sites-are-slowly-making-a-comeback-heres-why/] * Some American Airlines In-Flight TVs Have Cameras In Them [https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/nicolenguyen/american-airlines-planes-entertainment-system-cameras] * USB 3.2 is going to make the current USB branding even worse | Ars Technica [https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/02/usb-3-2-is-going-to-make-the-current-usb-branding-even-worse/] * Thunderbolt 3 becomes USB4, as Intel’s interconnect goes royalty-free | Ars Technica [https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/03/thunderbolt-3-becomes-usb4-as-intels-interconnect-goes-royalty-free/] * ‘Troll,’ Epic’s Stunning Ray-Tracing Demo, Wows GDC | NVIDIA Blog [https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2019/03/20/epic-rtx-ray-tracing-gdc/] * Quake II RTX – GTC 2019 Demo Walkthrough with NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang (ultrawide) – YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vY0W3MkZFs4] * Announcing the Open Sourcing of Windows Calculator – Windows Developer Blog [https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2019/03/06/announcing-the-open-sourcing-of-windows-calculator/] * GitHub – Microsoft/calculator: Windows Calculator: A simple yet powerful calculator that ships with Windows [https://github.com/Microsoft/calculator] * JDK 12 Release Notes [https://jdk.java.net/12/release-notes] DON’T FORGET * The Nexus TV [https://www.reddit.com/r/thenexustv/comments/b6eh94/podcast_episode_control_structure_153_a_box_museum/] * International Backup Awareness Day [http://blog.codinghorror.com/international-backup-awareness-day/] * So long, MSDN blog | Fabulous adventures in coding [https://ericlippert.com/2019/03/21/so-long-msdn-blog/] * Myspace lost all the music its users uploaded between 2003 and 2015 / Boing Boing [https://boingboing.net/2019/03/17/facebook-is-next.html] MUSIC * Bump Foot – Releases – foot132 [http://www.bumpfoot.net/foot132.html] This episode of Control Structure has a Fringe episode. You should really listen to The Fringe #528: CS #153 — Welcome Home Steve [https://thenexus.tv/episode/tf528/]! Listen to more at The Nexus [https://thenexus.tv] and follow us on Twitter [http://twitter.com/thenexustv] and Google+ [https://plus.google.com/b/110459364915252571275/110459364915252571275/posts] for our latest episodes and news.