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Fri, 03 Apr 2020

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

Thu, 02 Apr 2020

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

Wed, 01 Apr 2020

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

Tue, 31 Mar 2020

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/

Mon, 30 Mar 2020

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

Sun, 29 Mar 2020

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

Fri, 27 Mar 2020

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

Thu, 26 Mar 2020

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/

Tue, 24 Mar 2020

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/