Control Structure #152: At Very Right Moment

Control Structure

Coming back again, Steve and Andrew talk about dial up, Firefox, Internet Explorer, RAID accidents, and a few other tidbits.

News

• Dial up server – Doge Microsystems
• Firefox 65.0, See All New Features, Updates and Fixes
• A new image format for the Web | WebP | Google Developers
• Mozilla Celebrates Release of Free, High-Quality Video Compression Technology AV1 in Firefox 65
• How I lost my data trying to back it up | Hamy – The IT Guy
• What is the space overhead of Base64 encoding? – Daniel Lemire’s blog
• Mike Pan on Twitter: “”Why do I need a 4Ghz quadcore to run facebook?” This is why. A single word split up into 11 HTML DOM elements to avoid adblockers.… https://t.co/5AukD9O7ja”
• Apple Is Removing ‘Do Not Track’ From Safari
• W3C Tracking Protection Working Group
• The perils of using Internet Explorer as your default browser – Microsoft Tech Community – 331732
• Microsoft Edge: Making the web better through more open source collaboration | Windows Experience Blog
• Google Fiber Blog: Saying Goodbye to Louisville

Don’t forget

• The Nexus TV
• International Backup Awareness Day

Music

• Bump Foot – Releases – foot132
• Younnat – Radiovision [kahvi256] : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

This episode of Control Structure has a Fringe episode. You should really listen to The Fringe #517: CS #152 — Modem That Broke The Camel’s Back!

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