Slack CEO: Microsoft is ‘unhealthily preoccupied with killing us’ - The Verge (Slack says Teams is primarily a video platform. It's really a Slack killer.) https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/26/21270421/slack-ceo-stewart-butterfield-microsoft-teams-competition

Have you ever thought of using IntenseDebate comments on your not-WordPress blog? I'm thinking about it. https://intensedebate.com/home

C++ has become more Pythonic - Jeff Preshing https://preshing.com/20141202/cpp-has-become-more-pythonic/

c++ - Why is "using namespace std;" considered bad practice? - Stack Overflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1452721/why-is-using-namespace-std-considered-bad-practice

A new cross-platform open source C++ framework - Jeff Preshing https://preshing.com/20200526/a-new-cross-platform-open-source-cpp-framework/

Work from home is dead, long live work from anywhere – Danny Crichton/TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/18/work-from-home-is-dead-long-live-work-from-anywhere/

Remembering the nearly 100,000 lives lost to coronavirus in America - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/05/24/us/us-coronavirus-deaths-100000.html

More big moves from Microsoft: Windows Package Manager - Demitrius Nelon/Windows Command Line https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-package-manager-preview/

Microsoft is very much committed to rapid development with its Windows Subsystem for Linux - Craig Loewen/Windows Command Line https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/the-windows-subsystem-for-linux-build-2020-summary/

Microsoft open-sources GW-BASIC | Rich Turner/Windows Command Line https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/microsoft-open-sources-gw-basic/

Fedora Silverblue, an introduction for developers - Nick Hardiman/Fedora Magazine https://fedoramagazine.org/fedora-silverblue-brings-future-tech-to-the-desktop/

IDEs and text editors for writing C++ code on a large scale - Daniel Martin/Inside PSPDFKit https://pspdfkit.com/blog/2020/ide-text-editors-cpp-large-scale/

Microsoft’s new Windows Package Manager is already better than the Windows Store - Tom Warren/The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/20/21264739/microsoft-windows-package-manager-preview-download

The state of the AWK - Ben Hoyt/LWN.net https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/820829/5bf9bf8bb9d6f2bf/

It is POURING rain in the Valley

I spent some time this weekend trying to get a NetBSD desktop going. It's a muuch heavier lift than OpenBSD -- by orders of magnitude.

The Raspberry Pi Foundation now has a very nice program available to put Raspbian and other OSes on SD cards. https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/

I haven't done a NetBSD install in quite a while. I have the image on a USB, so now's the time.

Changes in the Seventh Edition of 'JavaScript: The Definitive Guide' - David Flanagan https://davidflanagan.com/2020/05/03/changes-in-the-seventh-edition.html

With the OpenBSD 6.6 install I just did, Chromium and Firefox are running well (instead of not at all at times). Geany core dumps on every exit.

A lot has changed in OpenBSD over the past 12 years, except its default Fvwm look is exactly the same.

tl;dr I ran a LOT of OpenBSD 12 years ago.

I had a question about Fvwm configuration in OpenBSD, and Google gave me my own blog post from 12 years ago. http://blogs.dailynews.com/click/2008/04/10/configuring-fvwm-in-openbsd-an/

What is a mask valve, and why are cities banning them? - Mark Wilson/Fast Company https://www.fastcompany.com/90496717/what-is-a-mask-valve-and-why-are-cities-banning-them

Twitter will allow employees to work at home forever - Alex Kantrowitz/BuzzFeed https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alexkantrowitz/twitter-will-allow-employees-to-work-at-home-forever

Most detailed ever photograph of Rembrandt's 'The Night Watch' goes online - Rijksmuseum https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/most-detailed-ever-photograph-of-the-night-watch-goes-online

I set up Vim to compile and run C++ programs, and we mowed the lawn with a manual push mower #QuarantineLife

I used a modified version of this .vimrc add to compile and run C++ programs from Vim https://goyalankit.com/blog/compile-and-run-cpp-program-from-vim

Cleanup on aisle everywhere: A day in the life of supermarket workers during coronavirus - Brittny Mejia/Los Angeles Times https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-05-10/coronavirus-supermarket-worker-grocery-store-vons-day-in-the-life

The Debian 10.4 update was bigger than I remember the previous Buster updates being. https://www.debian.org/News/2020/20200509

Sometimes Facebook is a little broken

When all is said and done, I've spent an enyoyable afternoon using Windows 10. Nothing froze.

Running Windows is OK until that time of day when every window freezes for no particular reason

Upgrading my now-dying 2012 laptop to Fedora 32 probably won't happen - Steven Rosenberg http://passthejoe.net/post/2020_0509_upgrading_to_fedora_32_probably_wont_happen/

Installing OpenBSD on a USB flash drive. Do not recommend. - Steven Rosenberg http://passthejoe.net/post/2020_0509_openbsd_on_a_usb_flash_drive/

The problem with Conexant's Flow.exe and Firefox has been fixed in Windows - Steven Rosenberg http://passthejoe.net/post/2020_0509_windows_firefox_conexant_flow_fixed/

My Ode.io site is very fast. The software is good, and so is my host. http://stevenrosenberg.net/blog/

I also installed Cisco AnyConnect in Linux. I hope to spend as little time using it as possible.

Mac migration pain (read it for the info on Perl and MySQL in modern MacOS) - Tim Bray https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2020/04/25/Mac-Migration

I needed to set up the Cisco VPN software for work, so I decided to do it in Windows 10. I spent a couple of days in Windows. It was good until it wasn't.

Golang has been through a lot since Go 1.11 in Debian Buster. Instead I installed Go 1.14 from buster-backports. https://packages.debian.org/buster-backports/golang

GitHub Codespaces: Get the full Visual Studio Code experience without leaving GitHub https://github.com/features/codespaces

Zoom acquires Keybase in effort to beef up video-communications platform's security through encryption - Zoom Blog https://blog.zoom.us/wordpress/2020/05/07/zoom-acquires-keybase-and-announces-goal-of-developing-the-most-broadly-used-enterprise-end-to-end-encryption-offering/

How to create a personal file server with SSH on Linux | Jim Hall/Opensource.com https://opensource.com/article/20/3/personal-file-server-ssh

How the coronavirus pandemic has shattered the myth of college in America - Masha Gessen/The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/news/us-journal/how-the-coronavirus-pandemic-has-shattered-the-myth-of-college-in-america

College choice: Reopen and risk virus spread or face financial ruin - POLITICO https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/02/colleges-reopen-decision-coronavirus-229609

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it – Jatan Mehta https://jatan.blog/2020/05/02/ubuntu-snap-obsession-has-snapped-me-off-of-it/

Digital.gov uses the @GoHugoIO static-site generator to build about 10K pages in 32 seconds https://gohugo.io/showcase/digitalgov/

If you partitioned your disk and didn't allow enough space for applications to live in your /home directory, you are not going to be happy with Flatpaks https://flatpak.org/

Quite a few @debian security updates in the past couple of days: tiff, nodejs, openjdk-8, linux (the kernel), openldap https://www.debian.org/security/

I am prepared to say that my in-place dist-upgrade of a @raspberrypi Zero W was not a success. It keeps losing its WiFi connection, and Wicd is no help. I will re-image with a fresh Raspbian Buster.

The Bandwidth Alliance is a group of forward-thinking cloud and networking companies that are committed to discounting or waiving data transfer (also known as bandwidth) fees for shared customers. https://www.cloudflare.com/bandwidth-alliance/

DigitalOcean announces VPC — Virtual Private Cloud - Rafael Rosa/DigitalOcean https://blog.digitalocean.com/vpc-trust-platform/

The pandemic will change American retail forever - Derek Thompson/The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/04/how-pandemic-will-change-face-retail/610738/

Some overwhelmed parents are giving up on distance learning and abandoning at-home schooling - Caroline Alphonso/The Globe and Mail https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-growing-cohort-of-overwhelmed-parents-unengaged-children-drop/

In a crisis, radio should be bigger than ever — so why isn't it? - Samantha Hissong/Rolling Stone https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/radio-coronavirus-crisis-985533/

Coronavirus: An oral history of the day everything changed - Garrett M. Graff/WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/an-oral-history-of-the-day-everything-changed-coronavirus/

Celebrating ‘Hey Jude,’ the Beatles’ most open-hearted masterpiece - Rob Sheffield/Rolling Stone https://getpocket.com/explore/item/hey-jude-at-50-celebrating-the-beatles-most-open-hearted-masterpiece

I was looking around in old directories and found the instructions/workarounds I wrote down for running CentOS 5

When I complain about an open-source project on Twitter and am not asking for support on Twitter, don't complain about my asking for support on Twitter and then instruct me to ask for support on your mailing list. Your software isn't ready. Your tone is lousy.