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Sat, 23 Mar 2019

If you want a live Linux with persistence, pickings are slim. I couldn't get a persistent version of Ubuntu running. I don't think Knoppix does persistence. So I turned to a distro I first ran more than 10 years ago: Puppy Linux, which was built for persistence.

I made my first git commit from the Puppy Linux (XenialPup) system that I'm using on my HP Envy 15t laptop. XenialPup is based on Ubuntu 16.04.

For Sale: This massive, obsessive and (probably) obsolete VHS boxing archive - Alex Vadukul/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/22/nyregion/boxing-vhs-archive.html

Apple's reinvention as a services company starts for real on Monday - Mark Gurman/Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-23/apple-s-reinvention-as-a-services-company-starts-for-real-monday

Thu, 21 Mar 2019

A 30-million page library is heading to the moon to help preserve human civilization - Corey S. Powell/NBC News https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/30-million-page-library-heading-moon-help-preserve-human-civilization-ncna977786?

There is no reason to cross the U.S. by train. But I did it anyway. - Caity Weaver and Holly Andres/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/03/20/magazine/train-across-america-amtrak.html

A few simple steps to vastly increase your privacy online - Keith Axline/The Tools We Need https://thetoolsweneed.com/a-few-simple-steps-to-vastly-increase-your-privacy-online/

Notes about migrating to Hugo · Fatih Arslan https://arslan.io/2017/11/30/notes-about-migrating-to-hugo/

Wed, 20 Mar 2019

Modern Labor pays you to learn to code https://modernlabor.com/

No Medium — build your own site, please https://nomedium.dev/

Supercharging Vim: Navigate files instantly - Matt Layman https://www.mattlayman.com/blog/2019/supercharging-vim-navigate-files-instantly/

Gmail confidential mode now available to G Suite customers https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2019/03/keep-data-secure-with-gmail-confidential-mode-beta.html

Tue, 19 Mar 2019

I am using the @LinuxLive USB Creator to make a live @Ubuntu 18.10 stick with persistence http://www.linuxliveusb.com/

Original Apollo moon mission press kits in PDF https://www.apollopresskits.com/apollo-presskit-directory

Mon, 18 Mar 2019

Some humans can sense Earth’s magnetic field, experiment suggests - George Dvorsky/Gizmodo https://gizmodo.com/fascinating-experiment-suggests-some-humans-can-sense-e-1833377029

Open source doesn’t make money because it isn’t designed to make money - Ian Bicking http://www.ianbicking.org/blog/2019/03/open-source-doesnt-make-money-by-design.html

Inside Garageband, the little app ruling the sound of modern music – Amy X. Wang/Rolling Stone https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/apple-garageband-modern-music-784257/

As costs skyrocket, more U.S. cities stop recycling - Michael Corkery/New York Times https://share.qz.com/news/2338977/body/

Myspace lost all the music its users uploaded between 2003 and 2015 - Cory Doctorow/Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2019/03/17/facebook-is-next.html

Fri, 15 Mar 2019

OSDisc.com is still there to provide Linux and BSD CDs, DVDs and USB flash drives of most operating systems https://www.osdisc.com

Install GNOME 3.32 on Fedora 29 using Paul Carroty's Copr repository https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/paulcarroty/Gnome_3.32/

Thu, 14 Mar 2019

I spent the morning using the Microsoft Edge browser, knowing full well that MS is going to kill it in favor of a Chromium-based offering. You could do worse that Edge, for sure. It's a smooth program on Windows 10.

How the Discord chat platform went mainstream - Taylor Lorenz/The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/03/how-discord-went-mainstream-influencers/584671/

Pi in the sky: Calculating a record-breaking 31.4 trillion digits of Archimedes’ constant on Google Cloud | Google Cloud Blog https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/calculating-31-4-trillion-digits-of-archimedes-constant-on-google-cloud

Wed, 13 Mar 2019

Your first progressive web app - Pete LePage/Google Developers https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/codelabs/your-first-pwapp/

Desktop progressive web apps with Google Chrome are now supported on all desktop platforms - Google Developers https://developers.google.com/web/progressive-web-apps/desktop

Tue, 12 Mar 2019

Leaderless Debian - Jonathan Corbet/LWN.net https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/782786/1b0334c3a2a9d8b1/