Control Structure #132: Paid My AMD Tax

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 Retrospective] – YouTube
• Flash & The Future of Interactive Content | Adobe
• Firefox Roadmap for Flash End-of-Life | Future Releases
• AMD Threadripper Delidded, With a Multi-Core Surprise Under the Hood – ExtremeTech
• [base] Revision 321899
• Continuing To Stress Ryzen – Phoronix
• Raptor Engineering::Talos II Secure Workstation
• PDF: A-Brief-History-of-GNOME-1.pdf
• Groupon backs down from GNOME over trademark, will change product name | Ars Technica
• Troy Hunt: Passwords Evolved: Authentication Guidance for the Modern Era
• Troy Hunt: Introducing 306 Million Freely Downloadable Pwned Passwords
• The slow currentTimeMillis()

Don’t forget

• International Backup Awareness Day

Music

• Bump Foot – Releases – foot132
• instrumentals | tryad

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