Control Structure #130: Jump On Our Own Bandwagon

Control Structure

After a month, Steve and Andrew talk about smelly voicemails, RASPBERRY!, Windows, Debian, AMD, Firefox, Opus, indie gaming, Firewire, SSH, and other neat tidbits.

Banter

• Ringless voicemail spam won’t be exempt from anti-robocall rules | Ars Technica
• Smell PGH lets you report weird smells in Pittsburgh | TechCrunch

News

• PolarCloud (Beta)
• GreenPiThumb: A Raspberry Pi Gardening Bot – Silly Bits
• Microsoft says ‘no known ransomware’ runs on Windows 10 S — so we tried to hack it | ZDNet
• Debian — News — Debian 9 “Stretch” released
• Ask HN: What do you want to see in Debian 10 (“buster”)? | Hacker News
• [WARNING] Intel Skylake/Kaby Lake processors: broken hyper-threading
• AMD’s Future in Servers: New 7000-Series CPUs Launched and EPYC Analysis
• Firefox 54: E10S-Multi, WebExtension APIs, CSS clip-path ★ Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog
• The search for the Goldilocks browser and why Firefox may be “just right” for you
• WebExtension (Firefox) compatibility for chromeIPass by projectgus · Pull Request #595 · pfn/passifox · GitHub
• Opus 1.2 Released
• Welcome to Steam
• Cliffski’s Blog | YOUR INDIE GAME WILL FLOP AND YOU WILL LOSE MONEY
• The tragedy of FireWire: Collaborative tech torpedoed by corporations | Ars Technica
• Rebex SSH Check
• Security/Guidelines/OpenSSH – MozillaWiki
• SSL Server Test (Powered by Qualys SSL Labs)
• Qualys Security Advisory The Stack Clash
• 16 commands to check hardware information on Linux

Music

• Bump Foot – Releases – foot132
• Free Music Archive: Jahzzar – Blinded by Dust
• Music | Big Giant Circles
• big giant circles (@BigGiantCircles) on Twitter

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