codesections @codesections@fosstodon.org

Trying to get the Southeast Michigan technical groups to start using Gettogether.community like our community bulletin board of events.

(Minus the realtors and the get-rich-quick schemes).

Join us.

Is it better to use kwin and one of the tiling scripts or replace kwin with a tilling wm?

TFW you just finished a two day class on #GDPR and some rando on the internet wants to argue about what the law says. Citation needed, buddy.

SystemD is a better cleaner faster way to boot Linux. I miss nothing about 500 line sysvinit bash files. Fight me.

@gaditb thread 'main' is not panicked, but feels mild existential terror at main.rs:32

Rust remains fun

This website designed for a resolution of 80x25.

I wouldn’t call any of my friends stupid multiple times a day for mistakes they’ve made years in the past but man am I good at saying it to myself all day for the past 20 years

Looking to ditch Facebook messenger for all my communication needs (I hate having to admit that is how I contact people).

Need something that's secure, trustworthy and easy-to-use (if I'm to convince non-techy friends to use it).

I've heard great things about Signal but seems Too Good To Be True™️.

What messaging platforms would you suggest?

Om nom nom nom 🍪 🍪 🍪
#cookies

Flying out to Germany in a bit here. Can anyone refer me to any cool tech meetups / hacker spaces in either the #Cologne/#Köln or #Hamm areas?

I want to use mdbook to write some documentation for a (private) #Rust project. How should I structure the various directories locally?

A)

<project-name>/
└── docs (the mdbook)
├── book
└── src
├── chapter_1.md
└── SUMMARY.md
└── <project_name>
├── src
├── Cargo.lock
├── target
└── Cargo.toml

B)

<project-name>/
|── src
├── Cargo.lock
├── target
└── Cargo.toml
└── docs
├── book
└── src
├── chapter_1.md
└── SUMMARY.md

LibreOffice is getting some great new features thanks to Google Summer of Code students. Here's Muhammet Kara explaining more at a recent event in Ankara, Turkey: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2019/11/12/event-report-google-summer-of-code-presentation-in-ankara-turkey/

@cancel "Linux FOSS" people are not one intergal mass. Some people don't like Apple's behavior, while others like it and sometimes copy it.

Updated the list of sponsors (patrons on Patreon) who support my work on Mastodon development and the hosting of mastodon.social:

https://joinmastodon.org/sponsors

Thank you!