Joseph Nuthalapati @njoseph_1@toot.thoughtworks.com

I learned a very useful #LibreOffice troubleshooting skill today. We've had users complain about random blank boxes overlapping their spreadsheets or documents before.

Turns out that if you open View > Navigator and look at the objects, you can easily select and delete them from there. #sharingiscaring

Set an alarm so you remember to eat regular meals if you have a tendency to get caught up in work and forget.

I keep having to re-learn this: queue your yaks, don't stack them.

If you find a new bug while debugging something, file an issue, and continue with your debugging, Don't complicate things by trying to do many things at a time.

Zoom says they take their users' privacy seriously. I'd like to get mine back and not have taken away again.

https://theintercept.com/2020/03/31/zoom-meeting-encryption/

Ok. One of our colleague in #twBCN recreated the whole office layout in #Sims4 https://sites.google.com/view/twofficebcn

And it’s incredibly accurate. 😲

RT @heydonworks@twitter.activitypub.actor
"Capitalism funds innovation. You wouldn't have the iPhone without capitalism."

"mom can we buy a sound mixer?"

"no we have sound mixer at home"

sound mixer at home:

Plasma's wide variety of settings, add-ons and apps are on display in "This is Plasma", Jakub Profota's finalist entry in the #Promo2020 Video Contest.

https://peertube.mastodon.host/videos/watch/b9cadfac-fb78-4fde-aa77-67d4fb011a86

Successfully using entirely self-hosted+federated Riot/Matrix/Jitsi/Etherpad/PeerTube to host lectures, teleconference with students, answer questions in chat, and collaboratively edit their code. Write-up is incoming. Once I take a nap.

GOOGLE DOES NOT DO THAT!

When was the last time you did something you really love doing?

My math-teaching brother's wish is that 2020 is the year everyone learns that "exponential" doesn't mean "very fast" it means "imperceptibly gradual and then suddenly overwhelming".

@maximpistos maybe a Kimfusi server would work for you?

https://www.kimsufi.com/en/servers.xml

Quarantine day 5: gone through the guix user manual, I think I'm in love.

Gonna spend the weekend to create a guix nixos module to get my feet wet.