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