We ran out of things to watch and started @nbcthegoodplace on @netflix. Would recommend. I avoided it for years, thinking it was like "Touched By An Angel" (no offense). It is not. First season is GOLDEN.

When the local paper shrank, these journalists started an alternative - Katharine Q. Seeyle/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/20/business/media/when-the-local-paper-shrank-these-journalists-started-an-alternative.html

I'm still trying to figure out the cron jobs, aka "scheduled tasks" on NearlyFreeSpeech.net. I keep changing directories, and they won't run. Looking at the support forum, I am now adding a line to CD into the proper directory. That's a good tip. Will report back.

I did write a script to make an HTML archive of this entire microblog once a day, but I'm still messing around with NearlyFreeSpeech cron

The script that creates the microblogging archive should be a cron job running daily so it's set it and forget it.

I need to write a small script that offers a static HTML page that contains this entire microblogging site. It's very much doable. It's possible to render it in Perl in a few seconds, but it'll be much faster as a static file.

I need to work on migrating this microblog to a static site generator. Probably Hugo.

Thank you, @redhat developers, for fixing this bug in CentOS Stream: 1967125 – SELinux is preventing libcap-ng from 'getattr' accesses on the filesystem /proc. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1967125

Today's CentOS Stream 8 updates for my system

• NetworkManager
• alsa-utils
• anaconda
• binutils
• bluez
• ca-certificates
• cldr-emoji-annotation
• cockpit
• coreutils
• gcc
• cpp
• cups-filters
• dnf-plugin-subscription-manager
• firewalld
• gnome-session
• gnome-shell-extension
• graphviz
• gupnp
• iscsi-initiator-utils
• java-11
• kmod-kvdo
• krb5-libs
• openjpeg2
• openldap
• pango
• samba
• selinux-policy
• selinux-policy-targeted
• sssd
• subscription-manager
• systemd
• valgrind
• xorg

I am hoping that Flatseal will solve all my Flatpak permissions issues https://github.com/tchx84/flatseal

Company I've never heard of acquires Stack Overflow for $1.8 billion https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/06/02/prosus-acquires-stack-overflow/

Today's CentOS Stream 8 updates on my system

• kernel 4.18.0-310.el8
• alsa-utils
• autoconf
• bluez
• bpftool
• device-mapper
• dwz
• elfutils
• filesystem
• firefox
• hostname
• kmod
• lvm2
• openssh
• pango
• pcre
• qemu-kvm
• virt-what
• xorg

CentOS/RHEL never had the number of desktop packages that Debian and Fedora have. There are so many gaps. I will either figure out packaging and make what I want, or go back to where I came from. http://centos.org

How Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project | Radon/Intuitive Explanations https://intuitiveexplanations.com/tech/replit/

My Windows system would NOT update, so I turned to this thing called Windows 10 Update Assistant. It worked, but the whole thing emphasizes how Windows is NOT easier to maintain than other OSes. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/windows-10-update-assistant-3550dfb2-a015-7765-12ea-fba2ac36fb3f

Today's CentOS Stream 8 updates on my system

• kernel 4.18.0.305.3.1.el8
• bpftool
• ethtool
• glib2
• microcode_ctl
• ncurses
• openssl
• polkit
• realmd
• rpm
• sssd
• tuned

Today's CentOS Stream 8 updates to my system

• Kernel 4.18.0-305.0.1
• NetworkManager
• Bash
• Bind
• Bluez
• bpftool
• CentOS backgrounds
• CentOS logos
• cockpit
• gcc
• GNOME Software
• Google noto emoji fonts
• lz4
• open-vm-tools
• Ruby 2.5.9
• Systemtap

I have been running CentOS Stream 8 for maybe a couple of months on the desktop at this point, and it is a solid OS. Once you figure out where/how to get your apps (for me it's Copr, EPEL and Flatpak), the whole experience is smooth and uneventful. I did most of a semester's C++ homework (with Geany) and a whole lot of news writing/editing/production.