The @GNOME desktop just crashed. Doesn't happen often. Firefox and Chromium saved my tabs, and Vim saved almost all of my changes, but still ...

I am using the Dark Theme Toggle @GNOME Shell Extension https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1518/dark-theme-toggle/

Updating your @GNOME Shell Extensions in @firefox from the GNOME web site can be dicey in @debian stable. An update broke Tray Icons, so I replaced with TopIconsFix. Don't update extensions that are not broken. https://extensions.gnome.org/

I speak Vim. Sort of. I probably can order in a Vim-speaking restaurant. https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Vim_Tips_Wiki

To make a long story short, I am trying to manually install a GNOME Shell extension using this LinuxConfig.org tutorial https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-install-gnome-shell-extensions-from-zip-file-using-command-line-on-ubuntu-18-04-bionic-beaver-linux

FuryBSD is a desktop system powered by FreeBSD https://www.furybsd.org

Twitter lets you turn off "personalization and data" settings. Do this to blunt @twitter's ability to "personalize" ads, track you across the web and "share" (aka sell) that data to its "business partners." https://twitter.com/settings/account/personalization

It won't cure coronavirus, but LAUSD sweetens your life with the recipe for its famous coffee cake http://passthejoe.net/post/2020_0408_lausd_coffee_cake_for_coronavirus/

There are just about 2,500 entries in my microblog of short posts. http://updates.passthejoe.net

I installed @racketlang in @debian Buster. sudo apt install racket brings in the whole thing, including the DrRacket IDE. https://racket-lang.org

I added the Dark Theme Toggle GNOME Shell Extension. Happy to say that it works. https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1518/dark-theme-toggle/

I tried to use emacs today. That is all.

My Zen of Debian project is now on Codeberg.org https://codeberg.org/passthejoe/zen-of-debian

Sourcehut - hosted repositories and CI for hackers https://sourcehut.org/

7-month-old Hacker News thread on the Unison File Synchronizer, of which I'm a big fan. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20627903

Why software projects and packages have the names they do - Debian Wiki https://wiki.debian.org/WhyTheName

How to make your own yeast for baking - Justine Calma/The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/31/21199708/yeast-diy-baking-covid-19-shortage-make-it-yourself-bread

Free hosted Git service Codeberg.org launched at the beginning of 2019 https://blog.codeberg.org/codebergorg-launched.html

Codeberg.org is a free Git hosting service for free-software projects. They use @giteaio. http://codeberg.org

The hottest free agent in L.A. is a 69-year-old waitress from now-closed Nate ’n Al’s - Daniel Miller/Los Angeles Times https://www.latimes.com/food/story/2020-04-03/coronavirus-nate-n-als-waitress-gloria-leon

Here's how Bird laid off 406 people in two minutes - Ben Bergman/dot.LA https://dot.la/bird-layoffs-meeting-story-2645612465.html

3 free meals a day for all in New York City https://www.schools.nyc.gov/freemeals

They all retired before they hit 40. Then this happened. - Steven Kurutz/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/02/style/fire-movement-stock-market-coronavirus.html

The woman who lives 200,000 years in the past - Katherine Rowland/Outside Online https://www.outsideonline.com/2411125/lynx-vilden-stone-age-life

A message to our users - Zoom https://blog.zoom.us/wordpress/2020/04/01/a-message-to-our-users/

Jazz guitar great Bucky Pizzarelli dies of coronavirus at 94 - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/02/arts/music/bucky-pizzarelli-dead-coronavirus.html

These are the common compose key sequences that can render special characters. I'm using @gnome to access these. - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compose_key#Common_compose_combinations

I just figured out that @gnome has a 'compose key' feature to make it easy to enter special characters like accented letters. I set right ctrl as my compose key. https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/tips-specialchars.html.en

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

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/

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

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/

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

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/

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

How Kinfolk magazine defined the millennial aesthetic … and unraveled behind the scenes - Lisa Abend/Vanity Fair https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2020/03/how-kinfolk-magazine-defined-the-millennial-aesthetic-and-unraveled-behind-the-scenes

The coronavirus crisis proves the internet should be a public utility — Ephrat Livni/Quartz https://qz.com/1826043/the-coronavirus-crisis-proves-internet-should-be-a-public-utility/

96 coronavirus cases in the San Fernando Valley: Which communities have the most? – Steven Rosenberg/LA Daily News https://www.dailynews.com/2020/03/24/96-coronavirus-cases-in-the-san-fernando-valley-which-communities-have-the-most/

Turing Pi: A 7 node Kubernetes cluster on your desk https://turingpi.com/

Coronavirus symptoms could include lost sense of smell, doctors warn - Michael Brice-Saddler/The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/03/23/coronavirus-sense-of-smell/

Two years with Rust - Marc Brooker http://brooker.co.za/blog/2020/03/22/rust.html

Webamp is Winamp 2 in your browser - and it plays files on your local drive https://webamp.org/

Adafruit is deemed an essential service during coronavirus outbreak and is shipping orders for health care professionals and urgent needs only. See their extensive manufacturing equipment. https://blog.adafruit.com/2020/03/22/covid/

Yes, there is an open-source alternative to Zoom. It's called Jitsi Meet. https://jitsi.org/

The great toilet paper scare of 1973 - Priceonomics https://priceonomics.com/the-great-toilet-paper-scare-of-1973/

The @debian Security team updates Chromium https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4645

We scored some supplies from the corner market/liquor store. No lines, no waiting, much social distance.

On Reddit: I’m Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. AMA about COVID-19/Coronavirus https://www.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/fksnbf/im_bill_gates_cochair_of_the_bill_melinda_gates/

Why do so few people major in computer science? | Dan Wang https://danwang.co/why-so-few-computer-science-majors/

Build this 8-bit home computer with just 5 chips - Matt Sarnoff/IEEE Spectrum https://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/hands-on/build-this-8bit-home-computer-with-just-5-chips

Things I can do in an effort to "save" my broken OpenBSD 6.6 laptop (aside from a reinstall): pkg_check -f (check package information and force removal of "bogus" info), pkg_delete -X (delete all packages). Worth a try. https://man.openbsd.org/pkg_delete

Since it now seems so easy, I upgraded an OpenBSD 6.5 laptop to 6.6:

# syspatch

# sysupgrade

# pkg_add -u

Things were OK until the package upgrade. Maybe I can fix it, but it's easy enough to blow the whole thing away and start again. http://openbsd.org