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Control Structure #156: Fringe Farm
After a long break, Steven and Andrew are back at it, talking about RASPBERRY!, Microsoft, Python, AMD, AVIF, and a few more things. It's been a long while.
News
- Raspberry Pi 4 on sale now from $35 – Raspberry Pi
- Raspberry Pi 4 B+ – PCI Express
- macOS Catalina 10.15 Beta 5 Release Notes | Apple Developer Documentation
- Has the Python GIL been slain? – By
- Python consumes a lot of memory or how to reduce the size of objects? / Habr
- Who put Python in the Windows 10 May 2019 Update? | Python
- Statement on 32-bit i386 packages for Ubuntu 19.10 and 20.04 LTS | Ubuntu
- VESA Publishes DisplayPort 2.0 Video Standard Enabling Support for Beyond-8K Resolutions, Higher Refresh Rates for 4K/HDR and Virtual Reality Applications – VESA – Interface Standards for The Display Industry
- Details about MIDI 2.0, MIDI-CI, Profiles and Property Exchange –
- PCI Express 5.0 Announced With 32GT/s Transfer Rates – Phoronix
- Password expiration is dead, long live your passwords – TechCrunch
- Microsoft Project Scarlett Xbox: 8K graphics, SSD, and ray-tracing in 2020 – The Verge
- AMD Working on a Hybrid Ray Tracing Technology (Hardware X Software)
- The AMD 3rd Gen Ryzen Deep Dive Review: 3700X and 3900X Raising The Bar
- AMD Rome Second Generation EPYC Review: 2x 64-core Benchmarked
- The AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT & RX 5700 Review: Navi Renews Competition in the Midrange Market
- Migrating Dyn Services to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
- Rob Donoghue on Twitter: “Reminded that the Microsoft ebook store closes next week. The DRM’d books will stop working. I cannot believe that sentence. “The books will stop working.” I keep saying it and it sounds worse each time.”
- What’s new in PostgreSQL 11: built-in web search – HabraHabr.Info
- Google Chrome Hides WWW and HTTPS:// in the Address Bar Again
- Why did moving the mouse cursor cause Windows 95 to run more quickly? – Retrocomputing Stack Exchange
- The Nexus TV
- International Backup Awareness Day
- Freesound – “Crashing Ocean Waves (3 hours) To Relax, Sleep, or Meditate” by hansende
- Bump Foot – Releases – foot132
This episode of Control Structure has a Fringe episode. You should really listen to The Fringe #554: CS #156 — Hippy Games!
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