Yes, I need a newer WSL than Ubuntu 16.04. I will upgrade at some point.

My Unison test on NearlyFreeSpeech.net was a success: NFSN uses the current version of the Unison File Synchronizer, but no Linux distros package it. I built it from source on Ubuntu 16.04 in the WSL, and it works like butter. http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/

The Amazon Lightsail FAQ is extensive https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/faq/

Even though Amazon Lightsail starts at .50/month, they kind of want you to pair it with a /month managed database. But I think you can use a database from within your VPS, though it won't be as beefy. https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/faq/

Amazon sees its Lightsail VM product as a gateway drug to EC2 https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/features/

When it comes to price, performance and bandwidth Amazon Lightsail (basically a VM) is looking pretty attractive https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/

Raspberry Pi on Raspberry Pi: It’s good enough to run its own launch website with tens of millions of visitors | Mythic Beasts https://blog.mythic-beasts.com/2019/06/22/raspberry-pi-on-raspberry-pi/

Since I disabled @conexantsystems's awful Flow.exe (by renaming it _Flow.exe so the Conexant drivers can't find it), I can run @firefox again. It's an ugly hack, but it's all that works in Windows 10.

Raspberry Pi 4 Model B is out: Faster CPU, GPU, dual-screen 4K, up to 4GB for | ZDNet https://www.zdnet.com/article/raspberry-pi-4-model-b-is-out-faster-cpu-gpu-dual-screen-4k-up-to-4gb-for-55/

Hey there, @medium writer, they're probably not paying you, so I'm not crazy about paying them ...

I would have dumped @googlechrome for @firefox already if @ConexantSystems' terrible audio driver didn't wreck the performance of thousands of HP laptops, including mine https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1555726

Is Firefox better than Chrome? It comes down to privacy. - Geoffrey A. Fowler/The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/06/21/google-chrome-has-become-surveillance-software-its-time-switch/?utm_term=.744d8f025e70

Reminder to law enforcement PIOs: If your way of distributing images to the media is to embed them in Word documents, you are not doing it right

Mattermost raises million to advance its open source Slack alternative - Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat https://venturebeat.com/2019/06/19/mattermost-raises-50-million-to-advance-its-open-source-slack-alternative/

Slack's direct listing may render the IPO obsolete - Michael J. Coren/Quartz https://qz.com/1642378/slacks-direct-listing-may-render-the-ipo-obsolete/

Fullstaq Ruby: Ruby, optimized for production https://fullstaqruby.org/

Publishing simple books with Jekyll - Bradley Taunt https://bradleytaunt.com/2019/06/20/publish-with-jekyll/

iRedMail: Free, open-source mail server solution https://www.iredmail.org/

Mail-in-a-Box: Take back control of your email with this easy-to-deploy mail server in a box https://mailinabox.email/

Bill Gates wrote much of the code in the TRS-80 Model 100 https://americanhistory.si.edu/comphist/gates.htm#tc35

The TRS-80 Model 100, journalism workhorse of the 1980s - Wayne Lorentz http://wayne.lorentz.me/This_TRS-80/

Facebook: I'm there for the jazz guitar and old-technology posts

Not to copy other bloggers, though I'm totally doing just that, I'm thinking of adding an e-mail newsletter. E-mail is newly "hot" because it's a direct connection that doesn't involve a smarmy social-media interloper

I really don't like seeing the cheesy Disqus ads Disqus on my blog. Disqus deserves to make money, but I'm reluctant to pay. Like other bloggers, I might start creating "discussion" links on Reddit or Hacker News. Also, who needs the extra JS that loads with Disqus?

I've seen a few people delete their Facebook accounts more due to lack of interest than anything else. They are mostly moving to Instagram, so it's all in the family, so to speak.

I don't know what's worse, a company that only responds to your complaint when you shame them on social media, or one that DGAF even then

Why Mazda is purging touchscreens from its vehicles - Bengt Halvorson/Motor Authority https://www.motorauthority.com/news/1121372_why-mazda-is-purging-touchscreens-from-its-vehicles

The Unison file synchronization tool is too fragile. I need to find another way. Client and server need the exact same Unison version in order for sync to work, and it's getting harder to make that happen.

This @NewYorker article on @ewarren (aka Elizabeth Warren) is so long, I can't read it in one sitting. I'll have to wait for the paper magazine to come out. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/06/24/can-elizabeth-warren-win-it-all

Say what you will about @Microsoft, but they are putting money and people behind efforts to provide more tools for developers well beyond the MS-only languages and frameworks https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/

Announcing the Visual Studio Code Installer for Java | The Visual Studio Blog https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/announcing-visual-studio-code-java-installer/

The Ruby Style Guide https://rubystyle.guide/

The new Dropbox sucks - Daring Fireball https://daringfireball.net/linked/2019/06/13/dropbox-sucks

I would be running Firefox right now if it weren't for @BangOlufsen and @ConexantSystems' broken audio driver https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1555726

Apple reveals 'Lisa': Its million gamble (1983) - Newsweek https://www.newsweek.com/apple-reveals-lisa-its-50-million-gamble-207032

GIMP is never going to fix IPTC captions. If they haven't done it by now, it's never going to happen. https://www.gimp.org

It's not like I'm all that and a bag of chips, but writing on Twitter is better than reading on it

A brief history of how your privacy was stolen (by Google and Facebook, that is) - Roger McNamee/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/03/opinion/google-facebook-data-privacy.html

Eleventy is a static-site generator written in JavaScript that is extensible and light weight. Consider it an alternative to Jekyll, Hugo and Gatsby. https://www.11ty.io/

Java for everything - Teamten.com https://www.teamten.com/lawrence/writings/java-for-everything.html

Time Machine-style backup with rsync - Laurent Cozic https://github.com/laurent22/rsync-time-backup

An orbit map of the solar system - Eleanor Lutz/Tabletop Whale http://tabletopwhale.com/2019/06/10/the-solar-system.html

MacBook Pro problem costing turned out to be a /home/public//cgi-bin/ode.cgi fix - Ben Lovejoy/9to5Mac https://9to5mac.com/2019/06/11/macbook-pro-problem/

Mozilla is launching paid, premium features in Firefox - Katharine Schwab/Fast Company https://www.fastcompany.com/90362208/even-more-evidence-that-firefox-wants-to-be-the-anti-chrome

Meet the new Dropbox desktop app (Windows and Mac, no Linux) https://www.dropbox.com/features/new

The next big thing in fashion? Not washing your clothes - Elizabeth Segran/Fast Company https://www.fastcompany.com/90359188/the-next-big-thing-in-fashion-not-washing-your-clothes

(Why) I’m stepping down from my WordPress marketing role • Joost de Valk https://joost.blog/why-im-stepping-down-from-my-wordpress-marketing-role/

He loves the direction Apple is taking with the Mac – Marco.org https://marco.org/2019/06/09/apple-is-listening

They See It. They Like It. They Want It. They Rent It. - Sapna Maheshwari/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/08/style/rent-subscription-clothing-furniture.html

I'm worried that gem install in Ruby brings in dependencies from that program that could be better installed from the Fedora repositories

Fedora upgraded Ruby from 2.5 to 2.6, and I had to do a gem update in order to get it working. I'm hazy on which gems I have installed as Fedora packages and which are from gem install.

I've heard a lot of ES-335 and ES-330-type guitars lately, and I really love the sounds

Forestry.io is a CMS for static sites created with Hugo, Jekyll, VuePress and Gatsby. For up to 3 collaborators per site, it's free. https://forestry.io/

I tried to turn a JRuby program into a jar with Warbler, but it doesn't want to work in Windows. Coming out with a jar file that you can "just run" with Java would seem to be THE reason to use JRuby instead of regular Ruby.

Calling Java from JRuby - JRuby Wiki https://github.com/jruby/jruby/wiki/CallingJavaFromJRuby

JRuby is a neat trick for sure. The part I need to figure out is how you go from JRuby to a JAR file that can be run like any other Java app.

JRuby already told me to replace the deprecated Dir.exists? with Dir.exist. I should get on that.

I'm using JRuby instead of MRuby (aka "regular" Ruby) to run my blogPoster app to post to Twitter and http://updates.stevenrosenberg.net

Trying jruby to run my blogPoster Ruby script

Why Excel is a startup killer, and how the riches are in the niches - Ross Simmonds/Foundation https://foundationinc.co/lab/the-saas-opportunity-of-unbundling-excel/