Mozilla VPN: 'Mac and Linux coming soon' https://vpn.mozilla.org/

Airbnb was like a family, until the layoffs started - Erin Griffith/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/17/technology/airbnb-coronavirus-layoffs-.html

GitHub Archive Program: The journey of the world's open source code to the Arctic - Julia Metcalf/The GitHub Blog https://github.blog/2020-07-16-github-archive-program-the-journey-of-the-worlds-open-source-code-to-the-arctic/

Who’s behind Wednesday’s epic Twitter hack? — Krebs on Security https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/07/whos-behind-wednesdays-epic-twitter-hack/

Introducing a new and improved Twitter API - Twitter Developer Blog https://blog.twitter.com/developer/en_us/topics/tools/2020/introducing_new_twitter_api.html

NYT opinion editor Bari Weiss' resignation letter https://www.bariweiss.com/resignation-letter

Debian Security Advisory DSA 4714-3 chromium regression update: This is the update that fixed Chromium in @debian Stable after a previous update broke it a little over a week ago. https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2020/msg00129.html

Debian is very responsive to security issues in the Stable distribution https://www.debian.org/security/

My first stop every day is the Debian Security Information page https://www.debian.org/security/

It's 'so far, so good' with today's Chromium update in @debian. No crashes since I installed it. It took about a week to go from bad update to fix. That's about average. In my experience, this kind of thing — a package update that breaks an app — happens about once per distro release. They are generally fixed in between one and two weeks. Sometimes (but not this time) there is a workaround before then. In this case I suffered with the crashes (which seemingly happened at random). I still had Firefox when I needed a non-crashy browser.

The @debian updates for Chromium are here. Let's see if this resolves my frequent crashes

Ever want to see what a 6,800-post Hugo blog looks like? I stumbled upon Rubenerd https://rubenerd.com/archives/

The curse of the Honeycrisp apple: Expensive because everyone loves them, but hard to grow, store or ship - Deena Shanker and Lydia Mulvany/Bloomberg https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-curse-of-the-honeycrisp-apple

Debian is supposed to be old and conservative, but it ships Wayland by default. You can get Flatpaks and Snaps if you want them.

When ‘The Day After’ Terrorized 100 Million Viewers With a Vision of Nuclear War https://getpocket.com/explore/item/when-em-the-day-after-em-terrorized-100-million-viewers-with-a-vision-of-nuclear-war

One way the stability of Debian Stable breaks down is when some packages are not so stable. That is the case with Chromium, which doesn't offer a package like Firefox ESR. Chromium is way more up to date. I guess there's no other way to do it.

Git - Basic Branching and Merging https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Branching-Basic-Branching-and-Merging

Bug No. 964362 - chromium crash frequently, SEGV_MAPERR - Debian Bug report logs: I'm hopeful that this fix will solve my own Chromium-is-crashing issue in Debian Stable. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=964362#31

Here's why these media startups chose to launch while so many other outlets are going under - Kerry Flynn/CNN Business: I'm most interested in @berkeleyside and @Oaklandside — two news nonprofits in the Bay Area. https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/10/media/new-media-companies-pandemic/index.html

LibreOffice: the next five years Jonathan Corbet/LWN.net — Even though I am using a lot of Google Docs/Sheets, I am still a LO user, and the project's health and direction are important. https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/825598/21fb7c2a3f9358e7/

There was a Ruby security update for @Debian Stable https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4721

Who will win the presidential election, Biden or Trump? The Economist has an ongoing forecast. https://projects.economist.com/us-2020-forecast/president

I'm running Chromium in Debian with the --disabled-extensions switch, and it's not crashing

Another Chromium bug reported in Debian: #964362 - chromium crash frequently, SEGV_MAPERR https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=964362

Grain: A strongly-typed functional programming language for the modern web. https://grain-lang.org/

I'm cleaning up the blogPoster code with an eye toward a rewrite

Linux Mint drops Ubuntu Snap packages John/Coggeshall/LWN.net https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/825005/6440c82feb745bbe/

Bugs in package chromium -- Debian Bug report logs https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=chromium

I can confirm that Chromium remains very crashy in Debian Buster on my HP Envy 15 laptop

Nope. Xorg or Wayland, Chromium is still crashy AF in Debian Stable.

Doing a test: Maybe the Chromium crashes I have been experiencing in Debian Stable are due to Wayland. I'm in an Xorg session now. We'll see what happens.

The Slack Social Network – Stratechery by Ben Thompson https://stratechery.com/2020/the-slack-social-network/

Bug 964334 - segfault repeatedly (Chromium) - Debian Bug report logs: This could be the bug taking down Chromium in Debian Stable. The last update fixed the issue on my 2011 iMac but not on my 2017 HP Envy. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=964334

Bug 963548 - Received signal 11 SEGV_MAPERR (in Chromium) - Debian Bug report logs. I'm not sure if this is the bug that's making my Chromium crash, but I do know that Chromium 83.0.4103.116-1~deb10u2 is crashing regularly. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=963548

Bug 964161 - chromium: high cpu load and frequent crashes - Debian Bug report logs (I'm pretty sure this bug is affecting me) https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=964161

I just changed the name of a variable I use about 50 times in one program

The same day I tweet how Debian is better/faster/stronger than MacOS and also better than Windows 10, I spend some time using the new Windows Terminal with Git and Ruby, and it all goes very well

Dave Winer is too important to think he's accomplishing nothing - Steven Rosenberg http://passthejoe.net/post/2020_0704_dave_winer/

My mid-2011 27-inch iMac is a very nice machine with Debian 10. GNOME is great on a 9-year-old computer.

Washington NFL sponsor FedEx requests that team change its name - Ursula Perano/Axios https://www.axios.com/washington-redskins-nfl-team-fedex-0b351929-8297-4db5-8cc6-d1aedcb740e3.html

Americans reflect on Independence Day amid racism reckoning - Fadel Allassan/Axios https://www.axios.com/americans-fourth-july-racism-independence-5cd54a59-1756-48af-af64-a427b27e352a.html

Still enjoying @replit. It takes the friction out of coding.

While I've been testing Hey.com email, I'm probably going to stick with @TutanotaTeam because at €12 per year (about $13.50), the value is too good. https://tutanota.com/pricing

I'm trying the Workspace Isolated Dash GNOME Shell Extension. Will this solve my problem where I'm in one workspace and when I open a file, it opens in a different workspace because I already have the app open there? https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/887/workspace-isolated-dash/

True suburban story: After weed-whacking for 30 or 40 minutes, boy are my armms tired. The weed whacker is heavy AF.

Recode's Land of the Giants podcast featuring @DelRey seems like the best podcast ever. Now all I have to do is listen to it. Not driving has put quite the dent in my podcast listening, meaning I've stopped doing it. https://pod.link/landofthegiants

The programming language that wants to rescue the world from dangerous code (tl;dr: it's Rust) - Tom Krazit/Protocol https://www.protocol.com/rust-programming-safety-security

I like Pete Davidson, but I don't $19.99-to-stream-his-new-movie like him. I'd consider it for $10 and will definitely do it for $5.

I love these clean electric guitar sounds http://passthejoe.net/post/2020_0627_clean_guitar_sounds/

You're showering too much - James Hamblin/The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/07/hygiene-is-overrated/612235/

L.A. Times faces painful reckoning over race in staff, pages - Meg James and Daniel Hernandez/Los Angeles Times https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2020-06-24/los-angeles-times-black-lives-matter-diversity

A guide on re-creating Hey’s features in Fastmail - Nuno Donato https://www.nunodonato.com/2020/06/25/a-guide-on-re-creating-heys-features/

New York City's mail chutes are lovely, ingenious, and almost entirely ignored - Luke Spencer/Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/new-york-citys-mail-chutes-are-lovely-ingenious-and-almost-entirely-ignored

One thing I didn't anticipate: In WSL, adding software and updating via apt is a bit creaky. While adding my Ruby development environment (including gcc and make), I had a couple of freezes and errors. I made it work, but "real" Linux is faster and easier.

I've been getting my Windows 10 development and journalism production environment together. The thinking is that if I have to be in Windows, I'll be able to make it work.

Why are there so many errors in WSL apt upgrades? - Microsoft Docs https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/faq#why-are-there-so-many-errors-when-i-run-apt-get-upgrade

WSL commands and launch configurations - Microsoft Docs https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/wsl-config

Windows Subsystem for Linux documentation - Microsoft Docs https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/

JavaScript and who made it - Dave Winer/Scripting News http://scripting.com/2020/06/24/152038.html?title=javascriptAndWhoMadeIt

I figured out my Ruby gem conflict between the twitter and mastodon-api gems. Instead of twitter 7.0.0, using twitter 6.2.0 eliminates the problem of dueling http gems (3.x vs. 4.x) https://github.com/passthejoe/blogPoster