Control Structure #128: One Of The Three Halves

Control Structure

Andrew talks about the story behind last week's podcast, Steven talks RASPBERRY!, then they talk about lots of exploits, Python, Linux, SQL, and viewer feedback!

Banter

• Control Structure #127: Hold The Light Still – YouTube
• Google shuts down Burger King’s cunning TV ad – The Verge

News

• How to use Google Assistant on the Raspberry Pi
• Get a Dell Optiplex FX160 instead of a Raspberry Pi – The Sizzle
• Intel® Product Security Center
• Intel x86s hide another CPU that can take over your machine (you can’t audit it) / Boing Boing
• Troy Hunt: Everything you need to know about the WannaCry / Wcry / WannaCrypt ransomware
• Microsoft Security Bulletin MS17-010 – Critical
• Troy Hunt: Don’t tell people to turn off Windows Update, just don’t
• Troy Hunt: Reckon you’ve seen some stupid security things? Here, hold my beer…
• A Lap Around Python in Visual Studio 2017 | The Visual Studio Blog
• System76 Blog — Entering Phase Three
• Full AMD Ryzen 9 Threadripper Lineup Leaked, up to 16 Cores & 4.1GHz With Quad Channel DDR4 Support & 44 PCIe Lanes
• GitHub – evilsocket/opensnitch: OpenSnitch is a GNU/Linux port of the Little Snitch application firewall.
• Ubuntu Linux Remove/Delete PPAs apt-get command – nixCraft

Olds

• SQL is 43 years old – here’s 8 reasons we still use it today | The Official SQLizer Blog

Appreciate Deprecate

• Wings Over Pittsburgh airshow returns to thrill onlookers | TribLIVE
• blender.org – Home of the Blender project – Free and Open 3D Creation Software
• Video Editing in Blender – Introduction – YouTube

Feats

• Save Toby – Wikipedia
• Frontier Flintlock Model, Rifles Frontier (1760-1840 c.) .

Podcast Feedback

• Understanding M.2, the interface that will speed up your next SSD | Ars Technica
• SYBA M.2 PCI-e To PCI-e 3.0 x4 Card Model SI-PEX40110 – Newegg.com
• Schlock Mercenary – The Comic Space Opera by Howard Tayler
• Ovalkwiki – The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

Don’t forget

• International Backup Awareness Day

Music

• Bump Foot – Releases – foot132
• instrumentals | tryad
• Seven Years of Server Data | C418

This episode of Control Structure has a Fringe episode. You should really listen to The Fringe #426: CS #128 — Agent 327!

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