I love the @debian system, but I love the @fedora community and philosophy more.

5 ways to count files in a directory in Linux - Linux Handbook https://linuxhandbook.com/count-files-directory-linux/

There are @firefox ESR and @ChromiumDev updates available for @Debian Stable (Buster) https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4638

Upgrading @openbsd looks easier than ever with the new sysupgrade command. https://man.openbsd.org/sysupgrade.8

I spent some time running Windows 10 today. Back in Debian now.

Something tells me that the Windows Task Manager does not track a whole bunch of sketchy Microsoft processes.

Bug fixes I'm making on blogPoster in the near future include: preventing crashes when networking is down, eliminating final underscore in post paths. http://github.com/passthejoe/blogposter

I just discovered the net-ping Ruby gem, which I'm going to use to test for a live Internet connection and keep my blogPoster script from crashing. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21081639/how-to-ping-for-reachability-of-remote-host-in-ruby/21081715

I use Gvim instead of console Vim much of the time. I like being able to click the mouse around and select text that way.

I heard about the new GTK website on @latenightlinux. It is very good. The first example you see is a JavaScript app. I am very interested. https://www.gtk.org/

Things I've added to my @debian-running iMac: Git, Ruby and the Nokogiri, Twitter and net-sftp Ruby gems (plus all the dependencies they brought with them).

My @debian-running mid-2011 iMac is now at the point where I can use my blogPoster script on it to write these updates. https://github.com/passthejoe/blogPoster

I love this live election results page from @nytimes https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/02/29/us/elections/results-south-carolina-primary-election.html?action=click&module=ELEX_results&pgtype=Interactive&region=RaceTitle

NearlyFreeSpeech.net estimates that my two sites (one production, one non-production) will cost me $1.96 per month. Total. For both.

I went to the downtown LA area near City Hall and Little Tokyo at night for the first time in a long time. A LOT of homeless. Hundreds of tents.

In this @debian install, I didn't do encrypted LVM, or LVM at all. I went for straight partitions, one for swap, one for /. I'm changing my philosophy on partitioning. #KeepItSimple

I installed Debian Buster on a mid-2011 iMac. I went for a dual boot with MacOS, using the REFInd boot manager to make it slightly more civilized. I used the nonfree-firmware Debian installer but still had to add firmware to get the Radeon card to work. #FunWithRunLevel3

Unless I'm incorrect, @debian Live images used to all ship with nonfree firmware, but now they don't, though live images with nonfree firmware are available in the nonfree "area"

Unix as IDE - Tom Ryder: TONS of great tips here https://sanctum.geek.nz/arabesque/series/unix-as-ide/

How to prepare for coronavirus in the United States - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/02/26/how-to-prepare-for-coronavirus/?arc404=true

I now have two sites on @nfsn. http://updates.passthejoe.net and http://passthejoe.net

Steven Rosenberg's microblog of short posts has moved to a new hosting provider and is now being actively updated by the blogPoster script via SFTP. http://updates.passthejoe.net/

I replaced ftp with sftp in my blogPoster Ruby script that posts to Twitter and a personal microblog

Getting the user and permissions right for files and directories where Perl CGI programs write to files via the Apache web server is a delicate operation.

Use Haven to turn your old Android phone into a monitoring device that detects motion, sound, vibration and light. https://github.com/guardianproject/haven

The most famous teen basketball players go to Sierra Canyon - Reeves Wiedeman/The Intelligencer https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/02/sierra-canyon-basketball-team.html

Could micro-credentials compete with traditional degrees? - Anisa Purbasari Horton/BBC Worklife https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20200212-could-micro-credentials-compete-with-traditional-degrees