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

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/

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

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

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/