Control Structure #131: Pi In The Sky

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 and Upgradeable Than Raspberry Pi – ExtremeTech
• USB/IP Project
• Jack the Ripper Bot – YouTube
• Now with added cucumbers – Raspberry Pi
• Bedroom Apollo mission – Raspberry Pi
• A battery and solar powered web server with Raspberry Pi Zero – Tutorial
• Context Menu Going Left not Right – Microsoft Community
• Ubuntu now available from the Windows Store! – Windows Command Line Tools For Developers
• Ask HN: Ubuntu Desktop Default Apps | Hacker News
• Experilous: Procedural Planet Generation
• Experilous: Planet Generator (Version 2, 2015/04/07)
• Star Citizen 3.0 – Reclaimer on Stanton 2B – Procedural Planet Breakdown – YouTube
• Troy Hunt: Life Is About to Get a Whole Lot Harder for Websites Without HTTPS
• How to defend your website with ZIP bombs
• AMD Threadripper 1920X and 1950X CPU Details: 12/16 Cores, 4 GHz Turbo, $799 and $999
• AMD’s Future in Servers: New 7000-Series CPUs Launched and EPYC Analysis
• 24-core CPU and I can’t move my mouse | Random ASCII
• The Cost of Hard Drives Over Time

Appreciate Deprecate

• Get eyes in the sky with your Raspberry Pi

Don’t forget

• International Backup Awareness Day

Music

• Bump Foot – Releases – foot132
• Podcast Fantastic
• little things | C418

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