Control Structure #98: Farms Are Expensive

Twentieth Century boots into this show with Andrew and Steve talking about Christmas, RASPBERRY!, Google, Chrome, Firefox, Ubuntu, PCI compliance, backdoors, minigames, games, file formats, Wireshark, and Andrew's encrypted blog. Have a Merry Chrixmix!

Banter

• Star Citizen Alpha 2.0 Available! – Roberts Space Industries
• Reverse the Verse: December 11th, 2015 – YouTube
• Chiron Beta Prime – YouTube

News

• Raspberry Pi microSD card performance comparison – 2015 | Midwestern Mac, LLC
• Did Google Shut Down ____ Yet?
• xkcd: Google Announcement
• Google Sense of Humor · GitHub
• V8 JavaScript Engine: There’s Math.random(), and then there’s Math.random()
• Firefox — Notes (43.0) — Mozilla
• unity – Globally disable “include online search results” – Ask Ubuntu
• Online searches in the dash to be off by default. — whizzy.org
• Date Change for Migrating from SSL and Early TLS
• Researchers confirm backdoor password in Juniper firewall code | Ars Technica
• Gamasutra: David Hoppe’s Blog – 2015: The Year We Get Loading Screen Mini-Games Back
• Gwent – Witcher Wiki – Wikia
• Ultimate Gwent Set – Album on Imgur
• Just Solve the File Format Problem

Appreciate Deprecate

• Wireshark · Go Deep.

Feats

• the Andrew Bailey
• SSL Server Test: theandrewbailey.com (Powered by Qualys SSL Labs)

Thank Yous

• Let’s Encrypt – Free SSL/TLS Certificates
• letsencrypt/letsencrypt · GitHub

Don’t forget

• International Backup Awareness Day

Music

• Bump Foot – Releases – foot132
• Jonathan Coulton
• Frozen Silence – Christmas Merry Christmas | Jamendo Music | Free music streaming & download
• Music | Big Giant Circles
• Music by Jimmy Hinson
• Music | Lifeformed

This episode of Control Structure has a Fringe episode. You should really listen to The Fringe #355: CS #98 — Buying Childhood!

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