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

There is a @mozthunderbird update available for @debian https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main/t/thunderbird/thunderbird_68.6.0-1_changelog

NASA to launch 247 petabytes of data into AWS – but forgot about eye-watering cloudy egress costs before lift-off - The Register https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/03/19/nasa_cloud_data_migration_mess/

1981 Fender Lead I - Crave Guitars http://www.craveguitars.co.uk/home/features/instruments/feature-1981-fender-lead-i/

My "The Linux Setup" on Linux Rig from 2011. I'm still running Debian with GNOME with gThumb for photo editing. Except it's GNOME 3 instead of 2. https://linuxrig.com/2011/06/19/the-linux-setup-steven-rosenberg-los-angeles/

The Write Stuff for C128 - AmigaLove https://amigalove.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=1387

We are all home due to coronavirus, and my wife is doing a conference call on @zoom_us, and it is amazing in terms of audio/video quality

Text processing in the shell - Balthazar Rouberol and Etienne Brodu https://blog.balthazar-rouberol.com/text-processing-in-the-shell

.@Dropbox is rewriting its sync engine in @rustlang - Sujay Jayakar/Dropbox https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/rewriting-the-heart-of-our-sync-engine

Extend the life of your SSD drive with fstrim - Alan Formy-Duval/Opensource.com https://opensource.com/article/20/2/trim-solid-state-storage-linux

Mitt Romney and Andrew Yang say give people money - Adam Harris/The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/03/coronavirus-romney-yang-money/608134/

NsCDE: Modern and functional CDE desktop based on FVWM https://github.com/nscde/nscde

Jeff’s letter to the Angular team and community - Jeff Cross (tl;dr The Angular team at Google is a toxic hellhole) https://medium.com/@jeffbcross/jeffs-letter-to-the-angular-team-and-community-5367934a16c9

We are NOT referring to restaurants as "restos." No.

GitHub acquires npm https://github.blog/2020-03-16-npm-is-joining-github/

One last party, one last dance, then goodbye: College students decamp in the age of covid-19 - Karen Weintraub and Susan Svrluga/The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2020/03/15/one-last-party-one-last-dance-then-goodbye-college-students-decamp-age-covid-19/

Mass amateurization - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_amateurization

A coronavirus cautionary tale from Italy: Don't do what we did - Mattia Ferraresi/The Boston Globe https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/03/13/opinion/coronavirus-cautionary-tale-italy-dont-do-what-we-did/