Notices by Maltimore (maltimore@masto.themimitoof.fr)

As much as I hate both #Trump and #McDonalds, the Big-Mac White House dinner is hilarious and a fun idea.

There are 2 main rivaling programs to handle your scientific references. One is free/libre software (#Zotero), the other is not (#Mendeley). Guess which one you should use?

Hint: if you use the closed source one, it will encrypt your article-database and not give you the possibility to decrypt and export it.

https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/mendeley_import

Anybody who thinks that the big Exodus from #github to #gitlab is gonna happen now: that's wishful thinking. We're in a comparatively small bubble here, in the real world® nobody gives a shit.

Congratulations to the Chinese #wikipedia for reaching 1M articles! 🥂

So I just met one of the 3 (!) maintainers of F-Droid. They are desperately looking for more volunteers as they are responsible for 1500 repositories between them.
#fdroid #foss

The course of action of the Spanish government is genius:

1. Do everything in their power to stop a referendum from happening, including severe violence against peaceful voters.

2. Accuse Catalan government of being undemocratic because they declare independence without a real referendum.

#Spain
#Catalonia
#Independence

Nothing quite like committing straight to master directly after a work meeting about proper git usage.

#madlads
#fuckthepolice