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 S...
Sep 19, 2019•29 min
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...
Aug 14, 2019•33 min
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...
May 08, 2019•33 min
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 Defe...
Apr 11, 2019•18 min
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 synthet...
Mar 28, 2019•33 min
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 bl...
Feb 13, 2019•21 min
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 di...
Jan 30, 2019•46 min
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 WebT...
Oct 25, 2018•29 min
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 | I...
Oct 11, 2018•31 min
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 S...
Sep 26, 2018•34 min
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 ...
Aug 31, 2018•32 min
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...
Aug 16, 2018•45 min
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 Gami...
Jul 18, 2018•33 min
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 Passwor...
May 25, 2018•24 min
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 Pytho...
May 11, 2018•38 min
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...
Apr 19, 2018•38 min
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 – Vi...
Mar 24, 2018•35 min
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 Supp...
Feb 08, 2018•22 min
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 | Ubu...
Jan 25, 2018•21 min
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 | AM...
Jan 12, 2018•43 min
After commenting on Steven's shack, Andrew and him talk about abandoned IoT, Firefox, Chrome, Vegas, Intel, AMD, Python, Linux, and the dangers of leaving computers unlocked. Links Firefox — Notes (57.0) — Mozilla Entering the Quantum Era—How Firefox got fast again and where it’s going to get faster – Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog Fearless Concurrency in Firefox Quantum – The Rust Programming Language Blog How Level 3’s Tiny Error Shut Off the Internet for Parts of the US | WIRED Micros...
Nov 22, 2017•37 min
Steve talks about his new place, Andrew talks about pizza, then they talk about RASPBERRY!, Apple, WPA2 WiFi, lots of updates for pretty much everything, Kinect, Humble Bundle, Microwave Assisted Magnetic Recording, MDN, and go down some rabbit holes. News LAME MP3 Encoder :: Software Downloads Active cooling your Raspberry Pi 3 – Embedded Learning Library (ELL) Try quickly typing 1 + 2 + 3 into the iOS 11 Calculator. I bet you won’t get 6. : apple Calculator Bug in iOS 11.0 due to Input-blockin...
Oct 27, 2017•1 hr 1 min
Steven returns and joins Andrew to talk about 64 gigs of RAM, cars, CCleaner, Apache, DNS, Adblock, Firefox, Java, Equifax (again), refresh buttons, and some love and hate. Banter Salvaging Your Way to a Working Tesla Model S for $6500 | Hackaday News Cisco’s Talos Intelligence Group Blog: CCleanup: A Vast Number of Machines at Risk Optionsbleed – HTTP OPTIONS method can leak Apache’s server memory | The Fuzzing Project Google Online Security Blog: Behind the Masq: Yet more DNS, and DHCP, vulner...
Oct 12, 2017•47 min
ARRR! Andrew wants you to know he'll be observin' International Talk Like A Pirate Day! Steven gets in on the fun. Then they talk boring stuff, like space probes, RASPBERRY!, Google, C, NGINX, Linux, Oracle, Java, and Equifax. Banter International Talk Like A Pirate Day – Sept. 19, every year since 2002 Talk like a Pirate – YouTube Cassini: The Grand Finale: NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft Ends Its Historic Exploration of Saturn *”Nevertheless, this moon might have the right stuff to provide the compl...
Sep 19, 2017•44 min
After a summer eclipse vacation, Andrew and Steve return to talk some RASPBERRY!, Windows, BSD, old school game hacks, and talk a lot about Google. Banter Amazon eclipse glasses recall creates panic for buyers, sellers | KGW.com Google Maps 201708 – apenwarr Epistle 3 – Marc Laidlaw News Use Raspberry Pi for a Modern Day Telegraph | Make: Raspberry Pi: Google plans more AI projects to follow DIY voice recognition kit | ZDNet Microsoft announces Windows 10 Pro for Workstations – Windows For Your...
Sep 04, 2017•1 hr 9 min
Andrew talks about his brother leaving, his car getting fixed, then joins Steven to talk about Microsoft, Flash, AMD, Talos 2, GNOME, passwords, and a few other things. Banter Eclipse2017 | Total Solar Eclipse 2017 An unfortunate misunderstanding – Conclusion – All of Garden – One man’s quest to eat all the pasta News MS Paint is here to stay – Windows Experience BlogWindows Experience Blog Microsoft Is Killing MS Paint After 32 Years – RankRed History of Microsoft Paint 1985 – 2017 [LGR Retrosp...
Aug 10, 2017•52 min
After a hiatus, Andrew explains why his new computer has been crashing, Steve has lots of RASPBERRY!, then they both talk about Windows, procedural planets, HTTPS, decompression bombs, the trials of multicore, and hard drives. Banter the Andrew Bailey An unfortunate misunderstanding – All of Garden – One man’s quest to eat all the pasta News Weekend Projects – Raspberry Pirate Radio – YouTube David Bryan’s Blog | Raspberry Pi Power Cat Feeder – Updates Gigabyte Announces Tiny PC More Powerful an...
Jul 24, 2017•53 min
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...
Jun 29, 2017•53 min
In light of massive living arrangement changes, Steven explains to Andrew how to use vim, while Andrew pontificates on CPU manufacturers, then both talk about patents, Windows, Wikipedia, Linux utility fun (not vim), t-time, and flint strikers. News Stack Overflow: Helping One Million Developers Exit Vim – Stack Overflow Blog Trapped | CommitStrip AMD Announces Ryzen AGESA 1.0.0.6 Update: Enables Memory Clocks Up To DDR4-4000 DDR4 Memory Scaling on AMD AM4 Platform – The Best Memory Kit For AMD ...
Jun 01, 2017•55 min
Andrew talks about the story behind last week's podcast, Steven talks RASPBERRY!, then they talk about lots of exploits, Python, Linux, SQL, and viewer feedback! Banter Control Structure #127: Hold The Light Still – YouTube Google shuts down Burger King’s cunning TV ad – The Verge News How to use Google Assistant on the Raspberry Pi Get a Dell Optiplex FX160 instead of a Raspberry Pi – The Sizzle Intel® Product Security Center Intel x86s hide another CPU that can take over your machine (you can’...
May 19, 2017•1 hr 5 min
