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Think globally, microblog locally
Mon, 13 Apr 2020

An introduction to the Pleroma microblogging server - Lainblog. tl;dr Pleroma has fewer moving parts. https://blog.soykaf.com/post/what-is-pleroma/

Pleroma is a free, federated social network server built on open protocols. It is compatible with GNU Social, Mastodon and other ActivityPub implementations. https://pleroma.social/

This is Git gold: Pushing to multiple remote repositories using Git - Casey Scarborough http://caseyscarborough.com/blog/2013/08/25/pushing-to-multiple-remotes-using-git/

New task for me: Figure out how to post to a Mastodon site from a local app https://joinmastodon.org/

In Windows, the net-ping Ruby gem needs the win32-security gem in order to run. I found this out after a few crashes and a look at the net-ping documentation. https://www.rubydoc.info/gems/net-ping/

Sat, 11 Apr 2020

Opposite of a platform for DPL 2020 - Sam Hartman (current Debian Project Leader on why he is not running for the position this year) https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2020/03/msg00000.html

This is the debian-user list email that announced the Debian User Forums way back in 2004. https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2004/09/msg00014.html

Debian is testing the use of a Discourse forum. The project's members have stedfastly kept just about all communication to email only. The longtime Debian User Forums (http://forums.debian.net) is independent of the project. https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2020/04/msg00074.html

Fri, 10 Apr 2020

Debian has released security updates in recent days for @firefox and #Chromium https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4655 https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4653 https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4654

A little more Clojure - Uncle Bob/Clean Coder Blog http://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2020/04/09/ALittleMoreClojure.html

Mathematics for the adventurous self-learner | Neil Sainsbury https://www.neilwithdata.com/mathematics-self-learner

The software industry's greatest sin: hiring | Neil Sainsbury https://www.neilwithdata.com/developer-hiring