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

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/

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

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/

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.

The Bandwidth Alliance is a group of forward-thinking cloud and networking companies that are committed to discounting or waiving data transfer (also known as bandwidth) fees for shared customers. https://www.cloudflare.com/bandwidth-alliance/

DigitalOcean announces VPC — Virtual Private Cloud - Rafael Rosa/DigitalOcean https://blog.digitalocean.com/vpc-trust-platform/

The pandemic will change American retail forever - Derek Thompson/The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/04/how-pandemic-will-change-face-retail/610738/

Some overwhelmed parents are giving up on distance learning and abandoning at-home schooling - Caroline Alphonso/The Globe and Mail https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-growing-cohort-of-overwhelmed-parents-unengaged-children-drop/

In a crisis, radio should be bigger than ever — so why isn't it? - Samantha Hissong/Rolling Stone https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/radio-coronavirus-crisis-985533/

Coronavirus: An oral history of the day everything changed - Garrett M. Graff/WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/an-oral-history-of-the-day-everything-changed-coronavirus/

Celebrating ‘Hey Jude,’ the Beatles’ most open-hearted masterpiece - Rob Sheffield/Rolling Stone https://getpocket.com/explore/item/hey-jude-at-50-celebrating-the-beatles-most-open-hearted-masterpiece

I was looking around in old directories and found the instructions/workarounds I wrote down for running CentOS 5

When I complain about an open-source project on Twitter and am not asking for support on Twitter, don't complain about my asking for support on Twitter and then instruct me to ask for support on your mailing list. Your software isn't ready. Your tone is lousy.

Coming soon: Fedora on Lenovo laptops - Matthew Miller/Fedora Magazine https://fedoramagazine.org/coming-soon-fedora-on-lenovo-laptops/

Kdenlive 20.04 is out. I always say I should try this video editor. https://kdenlive.org/en/2020/04/kdenlive-20-04-is-out/

Instagram is Facebook. Are you cool with that?

File under 'terrible,' cross-file under 'IDGAF': Instagram no longer allows people without an account to view photos and videos on computers https://manualdousuario.net/instagram-photos-videos-unlogged-on-computers/

I am now running two @raspberrypi Zero W boards. The "new" one is using an old SD card and is doing a long Buster upgrade. The "old" one is now doing a dist-upgrade from Stretch to Buster. https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-zero-w/

Permanent.org: Secure cloud storage with a one-time payment to 'take control of your digital legacy' https://www.permanent.org/

Rules of thumb for a 1x developer - Mickey Muldoon https://muldoon.cloud/programming/2020/04/17/programming-rules-thumb.html

GNU's advanced distro and transactional package manager — GNU Guix https://guix.gnu.org/

GNU Shepherd is an alternative to Systemd https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2020-04/msg00010.html

Looks like this OpenSSL security fix has already moved to #Debian Stable. https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20200421.txt

Just got an openssl update for #Debian Stable

Final bits from the outgoing Debian project leader - Sam Hartman https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2020/04/msg00012.html

Another Git update for #Debian https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4659

Apple's new iPhone SE has no credible Android alternative - Adrian Kingsley-Hughes/ZDNet https://www.zdnet.com/article/apples-new-iphone-se-has-no-credible-android-alternative/

This worked for me: How to open a terminal from Nautilus - Ryan Lerch/Fedora Magazine (Fedora doesn't ship with the required package. Debian does.) https://fedoramagazine.org/how-to-open-a-terminal-nautilus/

This article pretty much has me convinced: Reasons to give OpenSUSE a try - NewsLagoon https://newslagoon.com/reasons-to-give-opensuse-a-try/17928/

Workstream is "a super fast, virtual computer you can use for anything" https://workstream.paperspace.com/

For about $1,100, Vintage 47 Amps of San Pedro will make you a sweet amp that sounds like an early-1940s Gibson model http://www.vintage47amps.com/VA-185G/

Apple announces new iPhone SE starting at https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/04/iphone-se-a-powerful-new-smartphone-in-a-popular-design/

🌱 My blog is a digital garden, not a blog - Joel Hooks https://joelhooks.com/digital-garden

Debian sends security updates for Thunderbird and Git https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4656 https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4657

Try gh, GitHub's new CLI - John Papa https://johnpapa.net/try-githubs-new-cli-gh/

WriteFreely is free and open source software for starting a minimalist, federated blog — or an entire community. https://writefreely.org/

This is the Fediverse Network list of Pleroma instances https://fediverse.network/pleroma