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Major update! #LibreOffice 7.5 is now available, with:

✅ Dark mode improvements
✅ Data tables in charts
✅ Better bookmark handling

...and much more. Huge thanks to the LibreOffice community for making this release! Learn more, and download it: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl…

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The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 7.5 Community - The Document Foundation Blog

Berlin, February 2, 2023 – LibreOffice 7.5 Community, the new major release of the volunteer-supported free office suite for desktop productivity, is immediately available from https://www.libreoffice.
Italo Vignoli (The Document Foundation)
#libreoffice

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I've always struggled with movement coordination & been an awkward dancer. But this winter I took up lindy hop with my bf and yesterday, I went to a social dance party for the 1st time and DANCED😊And that's it, that's the tweet. I'm just very happy about that.

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Saturday afternoon, make sure to visit #Collabora's talks on @libreoffice , #CollaboraOffice and #CollaboraOnline at the #LibreOffice Technology devroom at @fosdem 2023. 💪

Please find the schedule in our blog 🗓️ collaboraoffice.com/community-…

#fosdem #fosdem23 #LOtech #foss #opensource #digitalsovereignty

#foss #opensource #libreoffice #fosdem #collaboraonline #LoTech #collaboraoffice #digitalsovereignty #collabora #fosdem23 @LibreOffice @FOSDEM
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Billy

re: audiogame-manager
@fireborn I just found another major bug that would cause some games to not load and spew forth errors like an error spewing volcano. lol running specific versions of wine for specific games means that some games are more stable, and some games that no longer work in wine 8.0 will still be playable, but… Ouch, my poor brain.
@aaron

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Erhitzte Debatte: Kinderschützer*innen wollen Streit um #Chatkontrolle beilegen
netzpolitik.org/2023/erhitzte-…

Erhitzte Debatte: Kinderschützer*innen wollen Streit um Chatkontrolle beilegen

Nein, Datenschutz und Kinderschutz sind kein Gegensatz. Das zeigt das Internationale Netzwerk für Kinderrechte auf gut 100 Seiten voller Argumente. Die Analyse kann die Debatte um Europas härtestes Überwachungsvorhaben auf ein neues Niveau bringen.
netzpolitik.org
#Chatkontrolle

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Il en va de sa période climato-négationniste comme du principe de précaution: l'obscurantisme de l'AFIS apparait mieux avec le recul. Ce papier sur la vaccination est proprement criminel, après 3 ans de Covid.
afis.org/Le-principe-de-precau…

Le principe de précaution : un principe contre-productif / Afis Science - Association française pour l’information scientifique

La récente campagne de vaccination contre la grippe A/H1N1 vient de fournir une nouvelle preuve, s’il en était besoin, du caractère inapproprié, et (...)
Afis Science - Association française pour l’information scientifique
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Nicoco

Le point, l'express et raoult qui racontent des conneries j'étais au courant, je vais essayer de me renseigner sur ce que Bronner (Gérald?) a dit sur le covid. Je ne suis pas de très près tous les zinzins médiatiques.
Il n'en reste pas moins que « le principe de précaution » c'est tellement vague que l'on peut lui faire dire une chose et son contraire… au sein même d'un court article comme celui ci.
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Nicoco

Sans connaître de très près l'AFIS, à ma connaissance ils défendent des positions très "zététiciennes", souvent aveugles face aux malversations de nos chères industries (très pro-nucléaire, très pro-produits phytosanitaires, etc.).
Mais il me semble que l'antivaxxisme est hors de leur registre et je suis surpris de les voir associés à ça.
Je ne savais pas qu'ils avaient raconté des conneries sur le réchauffement climatique, je vais chercher un peu tout ça.
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Did you catch last week's In-Process? What did you think of the tips for reading the clipboard? Did you learn anything you weren't aware of previously? If you missed it, you can still read it here: nvaccess.org/post/in-process-2…
Windows Clipboard history showing several pieces of text “Here is some text I just copied to the clipboard” and “Here is some text I copied to the clipboard earlier”

In-Process 27th January 2023

Can you believe we’re into our fourth week of 2023 already? This week, we’ve got more on the recently released 2022.4, our inspiring trip to Samoa, and more: NVDA 2022.4 NVDA 2022.4 has been out fo…
NV Access

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Being held hostage by the HP printer company is not new. For well over a decade, HP has engineered a chip into its laserjet cartridges, which prevent running the printer on 3rd party cartridges (until, that is, the 3rd party cartridge company has reverse engineered the chip). HP is a very customer-hostile company. Hence, my new personal printer is from Brother.
theatlantic.com/technology/arc…
@pluralistic
@cwarzel@twitter

I thought I owned my printer. But my printer owns me.

Subscriptions such as HP’s Instant Ink challenge what it means to own our devices.
Charlie Warzel (The Atlantic)
@Cory Doctorow

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Remember those sky-high gas prices in 2022? How about those idiotic Biden “I did this” stickers that right-wing trolls put on every gas pump? Well, Exxon Mobil's shareholders wish to thank you.

“Exxon Mobil posted a $56 billion profit for 2022, the company said on Tuesday, taking home about $6.3 million per hour last year, and setting not only a company record but a historic high for the Western oil industry.”

cnbc.com/2023/01/31/exxon-smas…

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I wrote a blog post about the dangers of focusing too much on hardware specs to predict performance when choosing hardware. In my experience many other factors (such as the software the hardware will run) have much more of an impact. Focusing on specs alone incentivizes bad practices like planned obsolescence and disposable hardware.

puri.sm/posts/the-danger-of-fo…


The Danger of Focusing on Specs – Purism

Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
Purism SPC

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@TauriApps is awesome!

I just made a standalone app for emoji-mart using tauri.

It is very easy to use as a developer, starts fast, binaries are small (2mb for this project) and packaging just works out of the box.

For this project I did not even had to write a single line of rust, so you don't need to be comfortable with #rustlang to be able use it.

github.com/Simon-Laux/tauri-em…

#tauri

screenshot of the emoji picker

GitHub - Simon-Laux/tauri-emoji-mart-app: Emoji Mart packaged as tauri app, simple emoji picker app.

Emoji Mart packaged as tauri app, simple emoji picker app. - GitHub - Simon-Laux/tauri-emoji-mart-app: Emoji Mart packaged as tauri app, simple emoji picker app.
GitHub
#RustLang #tauri @TauriApps
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treefit

Context: if you follow #deltachat_desktop discussions on the #deltachat forum you might already know that we're planning to move #deltachat_desktop from #electron to #tauri in the future. But porting the desktop client is a big effort (our move to #jsonrpc was one step into this direction).
So I made this small sample project to check tauri out.
It's a nice side effect if the emoji picker is useful by itself, maybe we could even build a community for the emoji picker.
#deltachat #electron #deltachat_desktop #jsonrpc #tauri

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Xfce 4.20 Desktop Environment Will Bring Wayland Support

linuxtoday.com/developer/xfce-…

#desktopenvironment #Developer #Xfce4.20 #release #support #Wayland #News


Xfce 4.20 Desktop Environment Will Bring Wayland Support

Work on Xfce 4.20 kicked off earlier this month with the release of libxfce4windowing, a new dependency for the Xfce desktop environment.
LinuxToday
#release #News #developer #support #Wayland #xfce4 #desktopenvironment

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From 2023, W3C is its own legal entity (“W3C Inc”).
What's new, you ask? Well, it's a big change, as until this year, W3C wasn't a thing in itself. It existed in a “hosted model”, meaning (most recently) four universities “hosted” W3C, with staff being employed by/through those universities. Three of those universities (all except MIT) are still around, now as ”partner”.

w3.org/2023/01/pressrelease-w3…

W3C re-launched as a public-interest non-profit organization

www.w3.org

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Someone asked me about de-centralized social media iOS app Damus, which uses the Nostr protocol -- and has been promoted heavily by Twitter Co-Founder Jack Dorsey.

Things I like:

1. Looks simple
2. Neat UI/UX
3. Easy to get up and running

Things I don't like:

1. The private key / public key is difficult to use
2. Interoperability with different clients is not fun
3. More crypto bullshit

I've tried other Nostr clients. It's pretty much the same thing.

techcrunch.com/2023/02/01/damu…

Damus screenshot

TechCrunch is part of the Yahoo family of brands

techcrunch.com
in reply to Chris Trottier

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Chris Trottier

Nobody would care about Nostr if it wasn't for Jack Dorsey donating $245,000 towards the project.

And that's the real story to me:

Twitter's previous billionaire CEO wants to hurt Twitter's current billionaire CEO by throwing money at decentralized, open source projects.

But not all decentralized, open source projects are worthwhile.

Especially ones that have pretty much just become yet another vector for crypto spam.

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Chris Trottier

Many people don't understand that, when it comes to software development, time is more effective than money.

You can't just throw $1 billion at software and expect it to be any good.

You need someone who is dedicated, puts in the work -- more importantly -- models *how* it's supposed to work.

Just because Jack Dorsey throws money at something doesn't mean it will be amazing.

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Mein Artikel zum automatischen Entschlüsseln von LUKS Partitionen mittels eines TPM2 chips ist heute auch im FedoraMagazine erschienen
fedoramagazine.org/automatical…

Automatically decrypt your disk using TPM2 - Fedora Magazine

Entering the passphrase to decrypt the disk at boot can become quite tedious. On modern systems a secure hardware chip called "TPM" (Trusted Platform Module) can store a secret to automatically decrypt your LUKS partitions.
Alexander Wellbrock (Fedora Project)

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Performance difference between friendica forums and gup groups

@Friendica Support Good evening everyone. To help the mastodon users of my new instance poliversity.it (a spin off for researchers and journalists, born from my instance friendica poliverso.org) I started promoting the use of the Friendica forums, as a way to make up for the lack of topics all inside of mastodon.

I then discovered that a fediverse project already exists, managed by the "immers-space" cooperative, which aims to create real groups (a.gup.pe/) and the mechanism on which it is based it is the same as the Friendica forums (re-share messages addressed to the group address which will be [groupname] + @ a.gup.pe ) .

I confess that I don't like that immers-space centrally manages a service for the entire fediverse, while the possibility that any friendly user can autonomously manage a group/forum seems to me more adherent to the spirit of the fediverse.

However, I have found that gup groups have extremely good performance compared to Friendica, reposting received messages in real time (and on any instance!), while Friendica groups have a much higher latency.

What can be the reason? This is a question related to the higher performance of gup servers compared to those of poliverso.org, or it depends on the design of friendica compared to that of gup (here the github link github.com/immers-space/guppe )


(sorry for my english)

@Friendica Support

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Why am I finding all the good #Christmas #music late? I love this so much that I won't give any spoilers. Let's just say this should have been playing in a certain shop around this time of year. No, it's not "Never Gonna Give you up" or any other prank of that nature, but it is pretty funny and cool. youtube.com/watch?v=pDGl2albRH…

All I Want For Christmas Is You (Wii Shop)

Full and improved version of the one I made beforeDiscord: https://discord.gg/tbVD6mZGXu
YouTube
#music #christmas
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