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Tue, 12 May 2020

Twitter will allow employees to work at home forever - Alex Kantrowitz/BuzzFeed https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alexkantrowitz/twitter-will-allow-employees-to-work-at-home-forever

Most detailed ever photograph of Rembrandt's 'The Night Watch' goes online - Rijksmuseum https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/most-detailed-ever-photograph-of-the-night-watch-goes-online

I set up Vim to compile and run C++ programs, and we mowed the lawn with a manual push mower #QuarantineLife

Mon, 11 May 2020

I used a modified version of this .vimrc add to compile and run C++ programs from Vim https://goyalankit.com/blog/compile-and-run-cpp-program-from-vim

Cleanup on aisle everywhere: A day in the life of supermarket workers during coronavirus - Brittny Mejia/Los Angeles Times https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-05-10/coronavirus-supermarket-worker-grocery-store-vons-day-in-the-life

Sun, 10 May 2020

The Debian 10.4 update was bigger than I remember the previous Buster updates being. https://www.debian.org/News/2020/20200509

Sat, 09 May 2020

Sometimes Facebook is a little broken

When all is said and done, I've spent an enyoyable afternoon using Windows 10. Nothing froze.

Running Windows is OK until that time of day when every window freezes for no particular reason

Upgrading my now-dying 2012 laptop to Fedora 32 probably won't happen - Steven Rosenberg http://passthejoe.net/post/2020_0509_upgrading_to_fedora_32_probably_wont_happen/

Installing OpenBSD on a USB flash drive. Do not recommend. - Steven Rosenberg http://passthejoe.net/post/2020_0509_openbsd_on_a_usb_flash_drive/

The problem with Conexant's Flow.exe and Firefox has been fixed in Windows - Steven Rosenberg http://passthejoe.net/post/2020_0509_windows_firefox_conexant_flow_fixed/

My Ode.io site is very fast. The software is good, and so is my host. http://stevenrosenberg.net/blog/

I also installed Cisco AnyConnect in Linux. I hope to spend as little time using it as possible.

Fri, 08 May 2020

Mac migration pain (read it for the info on Perl and MySQL in modern MacOS) - Tim Bray https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2020/04/25/Mac-Migration

Thu, 07 May 2020

I needed to set up the Cisco VPN software for work, so I decided to do it in Windows 10. I spent a couple of days in Windows. It was good until it wasn't.

Golang has been through a lot since Go 1.11 in Debian Buster. Instead I installed Go 1.14 from buster-backports. https://packages.debian.org/buster-backports/golang

GitHub Codespaces: Get the full Visual Studio Code experience without leaving GitHub https://github.com/features/codespaces

Zoom acquires Keybase in effort to beef up video-communications platform's security through encryption - Zoom Blog https://blog.zoom.us/wordpress/2020/05/07/zoom-acquires-keybase-and-announces-goal-of-developing-the-most-broadly-used-enterprise-end-to-end-encryption-offering/

Mon, 04 May 2020

How to create a personal file server with SSH on Linux | Jim Hall/Opensource.com https://opensource.com/article/20/3/personal-file-server-ssh

Sun, 03 May 2020

How the coronavirus pandemic has shattered the myth of college in America - Masha Gessen/The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/news/us-journal/how-the-coronavirus-pandemic-has-shattered-the-myth-of-college-in-america

College choice: Reopen and risk virus spread or face financial ruin - POLITICO https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/02/colleges-reopen-decision-coronavirus-229609

Sat, 02 May 2020

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it – Jatan Mehta https://jatan.blog/2020/05/02/ubuntu-snap-obsession-has-snapped-me-off-of-it/

Fri, 01 May 2020

Digital.gov uses the @GoHugoIO static-site generator to build about 10K pages in 32 seconds https://gohugo.io/showcase/digitalgov/

Thu, 30 Apr 2020

If you partitioned your disk and didn't allow enough space for applications to live in your /home directory, you are not going to be happy with Flatpaks https://flatpak.org/

Quite a few @debian security updates in the past couple of days: tiff, nodejs, openjdk-8, linux (the kernel), openldap https://www.debian.org/security/

Wed, 29 Apr 2020

I am prepared to say that my in-place dist-upgrade of a @raspberrypi Zero W was not a success. It keeps losing its WiFi connection, and Wicd is no help. I will re-image with a fresh Raspbian Buster.