Control Structure #148: Can’t Read Floppy

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 SNI: Fixing One of the Core Internet Bugs
• draft-ietf-tls-esni-01 – Encrypted Server Name Indication for TLS 1.3
• ESNI: A Privacy-Protecting Upgrade to HTTPS | Electronic Frontier Foundation
• The ‘Post-PC Era’ Never Really Happened…and Likely Won’t – Tech.pinions
• GIMP receives a $100K donation – GIMP
• Software disenchantment @ tonsky.me
• Internet of Shit (@internetofshit) | Twitter
• Another Week with Bad Software
• Microsoft tests ‘warning’ Windows 10 users not to install Chrome or Firefox – The Verge
• Another Victim of the Magecart Assault Emerges: Newegg
• Linux 4.19-rc4 released, an apology, and a maintainership note – Linus Torvalds
• ​Linux adds a code of conduct for programmers | ZDNet

Don’t forget

• The Nexus TV on Reddit
• International Backup Awareness Day
• Support us on Patreon

Music

• Bump Foot – Releases – foot132
• instrumentals | tryad

This episode of Control Structure has a Fringe episode. You should really listen to The Fringe #495: CS #148 — Bloody Mary Was That Bad!

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