The coronavirus is never going away - Sarah Zhang/The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/08/coronavirus-will-never-go-away/614860/

Why should you learn Vim in 2020? - Nikola Đuza/Pragmatic Pineapple 🍍 https://pragmaticpineapple.com/why-should-you-learn-vim-in-2020/

27-inch iMac gets a major update - Apple https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/08/27-inch-imac-gets-a-major-update/

Meet The 19th*, a new gender and politics news organization by women and for women – Tom Jones/Poynter https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2020/meet-the-19th-a-new-gender-and-politics-news-organization-by-women-and-for-women/

Some YouTubers are selling subscriptions to their channels — and make big money doing it - Lucas Shaw and Mark Bergen/Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-03/youtube-influencers-charge-for-subscriptions-after-coronavirus-hits-ads

How link-begging became the most annoying search engine tactic - Ernie Smith/Vice https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/889d8b/how-link-begging-became-the-most-annoying-search-engine-tactic

Google announces Pixel 5, Pixel 4A 5G, and Pixel 4A all at once - Dieter Bohn/The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/3/21352032/google-pixel-5-4a-5g-price-release-date-specs

One-Third of New York's small businesses may be gone forever - Matthew Haag/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/03/nyregion/nyc-small-businesses-closing-coronavirus.html

C++ Creator Bjarne Stroustrup Weighs in on Distributed Systems, Type Safety and Rust – The New Stack https://thenewstack.io/c-creator-bjarne-stroustrup-weighs-in-on-distributed-systems-type-safety-and-rust/

Standard Ebooks: Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover https://standardebooks.org/

GITenberg is a collaborative, open-source community dedicated to publishing ebooks in the public domain https://www.gitenberg.org/

Trump administration gives TikTok 45 days to sell to Microsoft or leave US - Kate Cox/Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/08/microsoft-in-talks-to-acquire-tiktok-after-trump-ultimatum/

I was looking at Emilio Pujol's guitar method and was intrigued by his variations on an exercise by Aguado, so I decided to write about it. I'm doing it as a CC-licensed project on GitHub. https://github.com/passthejoe/pujol_variations_on_aguado

Perl 7 is coming, and it's more like Perl 5 than Perl 6 - Sawyer X/nntp.perl.org https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/06/msg257565.html

Deleting older Linux kernel images in Debian and Ubuntu - nixCraft https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/debian-ubuntu-linux-delete-old-kernel-images-command/

Donald Knuth: The Yoda of Silicon Valley - Siobhan Roberts/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/17/science/donald-knuth-computers-algorithms-programming.html

I take it back. WordPress Dashboard response in Chrome on Windows 10 is as bad as ever. The lag is back.

I'm not working today. It's not a 'production' day. But I'm in Windows 10, and it's running well. I'm not sure if MS fixed something, or it's something I'm doing (or not doing)

A bold new chapter for Fedora Workstation — Christian F.K. Schaller https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2020/04/24/a-bold-new-chapter-for-fedora-workstation/

Debian News -- Updated Debian 10: 10.5 released https://www.debian.org/News/2020/20200801

Fedora Workstation: Swamp draining for 6 years — Christian F.K. Schaller https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2020/04/28/fedora-workstation-swamp-draining-for-6-years/

Normally Google Chrome runs very poorly in Windows 10 when I'm using the WordPress Dashboard, but today the lag was gone in both Chrome and Microsoft Edge. Did recent updates fix something?

GNOME is not the default for Fedora Workstation — Christian F.K. Schaller https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2020/05/07/gnome-is-not-the-default-for-fedora-workstation/

Grub security issue fixed in Debian https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4735

Let's throw the kitchen sink at COVID-19 and get back to normal by October - Washington Post Editorial Board https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/what-it-would-take-to-get-back-to-normal-by-october/2020/07/27/a8886854-d02d-11ea-8c55-61e7fa5e82ab_story.html

Dear @getspectrum, between phone calls, emails and postal mail, you have asked me to subscribe to Spectrum TV well over 1,000 times. I think we both know it's never going to happen.

Zucchinis linked to rare poisonings in England | Food Safety News https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2020/07/zucchinis-linked-to-rare-poisonings-in-england/