Control Structure #77: Freezing is a Preservative

Andrew and Steve find a whole bunch of DOS games, then talk about crap, MozJPEG, Microsoft, encryption methods, the NSA, and answer listener feedback.

Banter

• Nexus Special #36: New Year’s Eve 2014 › The Nexus
• Oregon Trail Deluxe, The : Free Streaming : Internet Archive
• Great Naval Battles Vol II – Guadalcanal 1942-43 : IO Design Group Inc. : Free Streaming : Internet Archive
• Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego : Bro/derbund Software, Inc. : Free Streaming : Internet Archive
• Wasteland : Interplay Productions, Inc. : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive
• dreamlayers/em-dosbox · GitHub
• This Ingenious Machine Turns Feces Into Drinking Water | Bill Gates
• Making Payments Easier for Creators and Backers » The Kickstarter Blog — Kickstarter

News

• Penguin Lifelines | Raspberry Pi
• Release mozjpeg v3.0 · mozilla/mozjpeg · GitHub
• Performance Calendar » MozJPEG 3.0
• Untitled: https://pornel.net/deringing/
• PostgreSQL: PostgreSQL 9.4 Increases Flexibility, Scalability and Performance
• BBC News – Deal forcing Microsoft to offer browser choices ends
• Lavabit founder wants to make “dark” e-mail secure by default | Ars Technica
• What We Learned About NSA Spying in 2014—And What We’re Fighting to Expose in 2015: 2014 in Review | Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Inside the NSA’s War on Internet Security – SPIEGEL ONLINE
• Secure Secure Shell
• This is Pono, the $399 high-end audio player Neil Young created | The Verge
• Broadwell U arrives: Faster laptop CPUs and GPUs from Core i7 to Celeron | Ars Technica
• The Asus Zenfone 2 hopes the inside counts—4GB of RAM, 2.3GHz Intel Atom Z3580 | Ars Technica

Don’t forget

• International Backup Awareness Day

Music

• Bump Foot – Releases – foot132
• I can’t afford mastering | C418
• Impostor Nostalgia | Big Giant Circles

This episode of Control Structure has a Fringe episode. You should really listen to The Fringe #287: CS #77 — Carpet in the Bathroom!

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