The official @Debian 11 Bullseye release announcement https://www.debian.org/News/2021/20210814

There's something very exciting about a new @debian release, even though I tested it months ago. The two-ish-year cadence seems to really work. https://micronews.debian.org/2021/1628980288.html

I got a bunch of very timely updates today in @CentOS Stream 8, including Firefox, so that's a plus. The murkiness of kernel updates is annoying, but I have to trust the @RedHat/CentOS developers to keep these systems secure.

Today's CentOS Stream 8 updates on my system

• NetworkManager
• anaconda
• blivet-data
• cockpit
• device-mapper
• dnf
• dnsmasq
• dracut
• dyninst
• exiv2
• firefox
• firewalld
• gdb
• gnome-session
• gnome-shell
• iproute
• iscsi-initiator-utils
• A lot of iwl firmware
• kexec-tools
• lvm2
• lz4
• mcelog
• mdadm
• mobile-broadband-provider-info
• openldap
• poppler
• rsyslog
• sssd
• subscription-manager
• systemtap
• tpm2-tools
• yum

I did some significant work on the blogPoster microblog/Twitter/Mastodon posting app today. And all of that work is now in the Main branch. https://github.com/passthejoe/blogPoster

Atwater Village amp repairer and maker Colleen Fazio https://www.fazioelectric.com/about

Testing new code for Mastodon posting with the http Ruby gem

How L.A.'s indie bookstores survived the COVID pandemic - Dorany Pineda/Los Angeles Times https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2021-06-16/indie-bookstores-in-la-say-theyre-out-of-the-red

How A Good Used Book's L.A. pop-ups survived COVID-19 - Max Bell/Los Angeles Times https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2021-08-05/how-l-a-s-most-innovative-pop-up-bookstore-barely-survived-the-pandemic

The firefox-esr package is in MUCH better shape than chromium on Debian systems. It is up to date. https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/firefox-esr

There hasn't been a new Chromium package in any Debian version (stable, testing or unstable) since May 21. Not great. It's a security mess. https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/chromium

I will be returning Mastodon support to blogPoster. I will not be using the mastodon-api Ruby gem. Instead I will do the posting to Mastodon via the http gem. https://github.com/passthejoe/blogPoster/

git rm - How can I delete a file from a Git repository? - Stack Overflow https://stackoverflow.com/a/2047477

Today's CentOS Stream 8 updates on my system

• alsa-sof-firmware
• flatpak
• kmod-kvdo
• nfs-utils
• nvme-cli
• policycoreutils
• selinux-policy

Today's CentOS Stream 8 updates on my system

• alsa-sof-firmware
• flatpak
• kmod-kvdo
• nfs-utils
• nvme-cli
• policycoreutils
• selinux-policy

Universities often omit any mention of the private companies that help run their online degrees, but these companies typically take a 60 percent cut of tuition, sometimes more. - HuffPost https://www.huffpost.com/highline/article/capitalist-takeover-college/

I tried Fedora's Toolbox utility today in CentOS Stream 8. I wasn't impressed, and it also isn't what I'm looking for. Maybe GNOME Boxes will be better.

While Revue is owned by Twitter, there's no integration of comments (even a Twitter feed) in their newsletters. Substack has comments baked in, and I've seen writers use them to solicit discussion.

The mastodon-api Ruby gem has had trouble for some time. It hasn't worked since Ruby 2.7.1 — at least a year. https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon-api/issues/49

I'm now developing blogPoster in Ruby 3.0.2 via rbenv. I upgraded the Twitter gem from 6.2.0 to 7.0.0, which means no Mastodon support. If the mastodon-api gem is ever updated, or I find another solution, I'll bring it back. https://github.com/passthejoe/blogPoster

Today's CentOS Stream 8 updates on my system

• kernel 4.18.0-326.el8
• NetworkManager
• anaconda
• bpftool
• chkconfig
• device-mapper-multipath
• firefox
• gnome-calculator
• gtk3
• sos
• vdo

I am experimenting with rbenv. Right now I'm using Ruby 3.0.2 https://github.com/rbenv/rbenv

Could I use my iMac running Debian to get video off of a digital-tape camcorder? https://www.arsouyes.org/en/blog/2021/2021-07-05_Numerisation_DV

Updates to my CentOS Stream 8 system today (that notably don't include a new kernel EIGHT days after a major vulnerability was patched in RHEL):

• NetworkManager
• bash
• cockpit
• cups-filters
• dhcp-client
• glibc
• gnome-shell
• gsettings-desktop-schemas
• kexec-tools
• mdadm
• microcode_ctl
• sssd
• systemd
• tuned
• webkit2gtk3

Planning the CentOS 8 endgame - Jake Edge/LWN.net https://lwn.net/Articles/862832/

Today's CentOS Stream 8 updates on my system

• anaconda
• authselect
• gcc
• gnome-shell
• java-11
• man-pages-overrides
• mutter
• openssl
• ostree
• rpm
• samba
• selinux-policy
• subscription-manager
• tigervnc
• util-linux
• xfsprogs

Chromium hasn't been updated for Debian Stable since May https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/chromium