Control Structure #116: Posted By Not Firefox

Control Structure

After mentioning Google's new iPhone, Steven and Andrew talk about BLACKBERRY! (yes), RASPBERRY!, Microsoft, Dropbox, the internet of threats (IoT), SSL "marketshare", pgAdmin, NBASE-T, and metafactories.

Banter

• Google’s Pixel and Pixel XL phones start at $649 and $769, pre-orders begin today | Ars Technica

News

• Goodbye QWERTY: BlackBerry stops making hardware | Ars Technica
• Introducing PIXEL – Raspberry Pi
• 24-bit Color in the Windows Console! – Windows Command Line Tools For Developers
• How Dropbox securely stores your passwords | Dropbox Tech Blog
• sha 2 – Are there any known collisions for the SHA (1 & 2) family of hash functions? – Cryptography Stack Exchange
• Wolfram|Alpha: Computational Knowledge Engine
• OVH suffers 1.1Tbps DDoS attack – SC Magazine UK
• Brace yourselves—source code powering potent IoT DDoSes just went public | Ars Technica
• Sad reality: It’s cheaper to get hacked than build strong IT defenses • The Register
• The impact of Let’s Encrypt on the SSL certificate market
• Mozilla to China’s WoSign: We’ll kill Firefox trust in you after mis-issued GitHub certs | ZDNet
• pgAdmin: PostgreSQL administration and management tools
• NBASE-T Alliance Receives Boost with IEEE P802.3bz Approval for 2.5G/5G Ethernet

Feats

• Root 2 CNC multitool router 3D printed parts by sailorpete – Thingiverse

Don’t forget

• International Backup Awareness Day

Music

• Bump Foot – Releases – foot132
• Anitek – Unconscious : Internet Archive
• Music | Big Giant Circles
• BGC @ Twitchcon (@BigGiantCircles) | Twitter
• Diablo (1996)(Blizzard) : Internet Archive

This episode of Control Structure has a Fringe episode. You should really listen to The Fringe #398: CS #116 — Iteration of Tongs!

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