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Tue, 31 Mar 2020

Campus is closed, so college students are rebuilding their schools in Minecraft - Pearse Anderson/The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/31/21200972/college-students-graduation-minecraft-coronavirus-school-closures

Posted: Mar 31, 2020 6:34pm UTC

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OMG, an @sdtimes article that I actually want to tweet: Eclipse Foundation offers open-source alternative to Visual Studio Code https://sdtimes.com/softwaredev/eclipse-foundation-offers-open-source-alternative-to-visual-studio-code/

Posted: Mar 31, 2020 6:30pm UTC

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I made another blog post, this time about a 19th-century classical guitar http://passthejoe.net/post/2020_0330_amazing_torres_classical_guitar/

Posted: Mar 31, 2020 00:24am UTC

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Mon, 30 Mar 2020

I wrote my first blog entry in a long time. Only for those who care about classical guitar technique. http://passthejoe.net/post/2020_0330_nails/

Posted: Mar 30, 2020 11:08pm UTC

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Appearance improvements — with lots of choices — for @Apache @NetBeans 11.3 are strong https://netbeans.apache.org/download/nb113/index.html#_appearance

Posted: Mar 30, 2020 4:50pm UTC

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Thank you to the @netbeans team for the 11.3 release with so many improvements. From the easy-to-see visual fixes and upgrades to better JavaFX integration, this is an important release. More thanks for Flatpak packaging. http://netbeans.apache.org/

Posted: Mar 30, 2020 4:23pm UTC

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Bail out journalists. Let newspaper chains die. - Ben Smith/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/29/business/coronavirus-journalists-newspapers.html

Posted: Mar 30, 2020 4:09pm UTC

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Debian's apt and GNOME's Software Center will not update your Flatpak application. Run this in a terminal:

$ flatpak update

I figured this out in the Flatpak documentation. https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/using-flatpak.html

Posted: Mar 30, 2020 4:05pm UTC

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Social distancing can’t last forever. Here’s what should come next. - Brian Resnick/Vox https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2020/3/26/21192211/coronavirus-covid-19-social-distancing-end

Posted: Mar 30, 2020 3:15pm UTC

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Sun, 29 Mar 2020

How Aristotle created the computer - Chris Dixon/The Atlantic https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-aristotle-created-the-computer

Posted: Mar 29, 2020 11:45pm UTC

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Where did all the saxophones go? - Kelsey McKinney/The Outline https://getpocket.com/explore/item/where-did-all-the-saxophones-go

Posted: Mar 29, 2020 11:26pm UTC

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Fri, 27 Mar 2020

New @debian team: Debian Social. Nice cupcake! https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianSocial

Posted: Mar 27, 2020 3:55pm UTC

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Official communication channels for Debian - Bits from Debian https://bits.debian.org/2020/03/official-communication-channels.html

Posted: Mar 27, 2020 3:45pm UTC

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Updates from @debian for bluez and icu https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4646 https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4647

Posted: Mar 27, 2020 3:42pm UTC

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Thu, 26 Mar 2020

The untold origin story of the N95 mask - Mark Wilson/Fast Company https://www.fastcompany.com/90479846/the-untold-origin-story-of-the-n95-mask

Posted: Mar 26, 2020 8:27pm UTC

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