Berlin, 31 January 2024 – LibreOffice 24.2 Community, the new major release of the free, volunteer-supported office suite and the first to use the new calendar-based numbering scheme (YY.M), is now available at https://www.libreoffice.
@AnokLola No – the release schedule stays the same (a major update every six months). Only the version numbering has changed, to make the number reflect the release date.
Regarding bug reports and feature suggestions, please use bugs.documentfoundation.org. Of course, we're a volunteer-driven project with very limited resources, so the best way to get new features is to join our community and help to implement them 😊
Cool discovery I just made as I lie in bed with my keyboard is software called streamlink. If you want to watch a livestream of something, but don't want to use the browser, streamlink will find the livestream URL and pass it to your media player of choice. Works with Twitch, YouTube Live, and tons of other services. And it's as easy to install as pip install streamlink or winget install streamlink. It uses VLC by default, but I'm trying to figure out how to talk it into using foobar2000 though it doesn't seem to want to. github.com/streamlink/streamlink
Until Friday for our bi-weekly Dev Update #3, we just posted the interview with 1 of our 2 interns who've been working on Jami for the past 6 months. It's available here: jami.net/internship-interview-…
They both have extensive feature sets. But unfortunately my messenger of choice, @signalapp , is still not fully OpenSource (server), doesn't provide similar features, and the most annoying thing: have a stale bot on their Github to push issues under the rug:
🧵👆 They have spent countless hours and some chunk of money to add features that the common user doesn't even use (e.g stories which since it's launch, even Signal themselves does not use it to update users of development 🤦)
Yes I have recurring donation to them. Yes, I'm trying to keep calm, but damn it, this is ridiculous that Signal is still this much behind the market. Stability, quality, features, design, using phone number,... . Come on!
Via bridge, yes, but first one should expose their accounts to bridges (already adding one security risk), and then have to have the bridges running on a server (time, maintenance), and on top of that matrix itself is not designed to be something like Signal or Whatsapp (voice messages, disappearing messages, gifs).
Not to mention that Matrix is not fully E2EE unlike the common misconception (e.g the reactions are fully plain text).
Regarding the sec risk, I get it but in case you need full encryption is better to use pgp and email? Plus, in case you run your own server then you could onboard everybody you care to it. Getting people out of closed source apps is always a win.
A single app to chat on iMessage, WhatsApp, and 13 other chat networks. You can search, snooze, or archive messages. And with a unified inbox, you’ll never miss a message again.
No one, and I mean it, no one from non techy world will stay in Matrix. I have tried, others have tried, we all failed and they all left for WhatsApp and Telegram. Matrix is really bad and not user-friendly. The first thing a user hits is verification step which for them is a vig complicated thing. Then the crappy UI or Element on mobile and being laggy as hell (both on Android and iOS) compared to WhatsApp and Telegram. Other clients are not good either. 🧵👇
🧵👆 @bioinformatician_next_door Matrix is designed to replace work environment communications. Something to replace Slack, not WhatsApp.
About encryption, we have many other ways other than pgp with much lower barrier to entry (e.g @delta or @Jami ) but none of them are still as attractive to general public. Jami practically is a ticking time bomb as all my conversations were wiped one day (happened twice)
I still think our best bet is Signal if they don't mess around with logo on shopping bags
Hello @Mehrad @bioinformatician_next_door @delta I'm sorry to hear this! Jami still encounters a lot of issues, especially when it comes to device synchronization and reliability. Our whole team is now fully working on these issues, and we should have greater improvements throughout this year, with no bugs like these anymore!
Hello @Mehrad I'm sorry about your negative experience with Jami, and thank you for the positive thoughts! However, I'm a bit confused: we haven't used GTK since 2019. So when was the last time you tried or used Jami? Also, we started as a R&D project (we still are by a great extent) which means most of our growth comes from the open source community and users who report bugs and features they'd like to have, on top of our own road map.
Funny Reddit thread about Tim Cook's comment: "the Mac is the best computer for AI." Apple fanboys defend it with unified ram, and Apple haters attack with Nvidia GPU speed. lol #ML #AI #Apple #Macreddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/commen…
The main functions in reproject, such as reproject_interp, accept parallel= and block_size= arguments which, if used, will leverage dask behind the scenes to split up the data into chunks and then ...
#Canari, nouvelle équipe commune à Inria, @univbordeaux et @cnrs ambitionne de développer des systèmes de #cryptographie pouvant résister à de nouvelles attaques en vue des futurs ordinateurs #quantiques.
"All crossword editing involves judgment calls about language and its use that could hardly be called politically neutral, and, ultimately, the question of a word or phrase’s “puzzle-worthiness” is a negotiation between the constructor’s voice and that of a publication’s house style... A list of terms rejected by the white, male, longtime puzzle editors of major newspapers in the past ten years... we begin to see a pattern: they refer to women..."
y'all know what? I think it's as good a time as any for me to take another stab at learning gtk with rust, hmm. What do you think? should I do that, or learn to use egui with the accessibility stuff? speaking of that, are the default examples in there using accessibility mode, or do I have to do something else to enable it?
@the esoteric programmer On linux #Accessibility is working fine with #GTK4 if a screen reader is already running. I think you can try to follow the tutorial you like and try to pay extra attention to the keyboard navigation, focus handling and labelling controls that don't have the text by default.
Just fine? Nope, not on Wayland. No key grabs for Orca, and caret moving in text boxes using the Wayland backend is completely broken. GTK3 however doesn't face this issue.
I am so glad to see React doesn't seem to appear there at all.
It's astonishing to me when you look at job boards these days, every single frontend job requires React or some other framework.
The vanilla web is incredibly underrated.
Edit: oops nevermind, they do cover frameworks and React. But luckily it's buried pretty far down, emphasizing learning the vanilla web deeply first. That's good, I guess.
This is a repository of apps to be used with F-Droid. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).
NVK is nearly stable so I don't really think Nvidia needs to bother. They only care about AI stuff, and for that, the proprietary drivers work really well
🚀 Introducing ejabberd 24.02: A Huge Release! ejabberd 24.02 has just been release and well, this is a huge release with 200 commits and more in the libraries.
The most compact two-seater electric car was presented in Switzerland
The length of the electric vehicle is 2.5 m and the width is 1.47 m. Weight is less than 600 kg.
The car has a steel unibody structure and a 6 kW engine. The Microlino Lite is classified as an L6e vehicle, so anyone with an AM class moped license (eg teenagers over 14 years old) can drive one in Europe.
Purism StartEngine Fundraising Campaign Dear Purism Community, We’re excited to announce a special opportunity for our supporters to win one of five Librem 5 smartphones! As part of our StartEngine fundraising campaign, we’re inviting you to help us …
Storm Dragon pushed changes to the testing branch of the audiogame-manager project Galactic Strike ready to go. Apparently the problems with it were coming from my nvidia card and the wine driver for it.
Hope the day is well for everyone. Let’s start it off with our #KoffeeWithKyle chat and see what’s on the agenda.
For me, it’s just the usual day job stuff. I also am having to up the resources for the #AllThingsTech blog as it is currently down because we underestimated the interest we’d get.
Later today will be relaxing and working on week 3 of school.
🇩🇪 🚨Alarm: Der neue belgische Ratsvorsitz will #Chatkontrolle mithilfe von Minimaländerungen doch noch durchdrücken - die EU-Innenminister beraten schon am Montag. Der Kampf um unser digitales Briefgeheimnis und sichere #Verschlüsselung geht weiter!
Ausweislich eines auf netzpolitik.org geleakten Dokuments will die belgische Ratspräsidentschaft unter Führung der konservativen Innenministerin Annelies Verlinden dem umkämpften Kommissionsvorschlag zur verpflichtenden Einführung der Chatkontrolle m…
The Thunderbird Project is a family of free & open-source email software and productivity solutions for managing your personal and professional communications. Available on Linux, macOS and Windows. Coming soon to Android.
![A comment I posted on gitlab which says:
"I asked you to be polite
Since you weren't, I'm not gonna use a single minute of my free time trying to debug this specific issue which afaik only happens in your specific system.
If anyone else has this problem, ping me and I'll gladly reopen the issue.
Otherwise, [redacted username] my professional rate is 100€/h + VAT. Let me know if you want me to invest time trying to address this issue. The rate is non-negotiable. Otherwise pull requests are welcome if you wish to fix it yourself (or pay anyone else to fix it for you). This is an opensource project after all"](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/524236 "A comment I posted on gitlab which says:
\"I asked you to be polite
Since you weren't, I'm not gonna use a single minute of my free time trying to debug this specific issue which afaik only happens in your specific system.
If anyone else has this problem, ping me and I'll gladly reopen the issue.
Otherwise, [redacted username] my professional rate is 100€/h + VAT. Let me know if you want me to invest time trying to address this issue. The rate is non-negotiable. Otherwise pull requests are welcome if you wish to fix it yourself (or pay anyone else to fix it for you). This is an opensource project after all\"")
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in reply to anoklola • • •@AnokLola No – the release schedule stays the same (a major update every six months). Only the version numbering has changed, to make the number reflect the release date.
Regarding bug reports and feature suggestions, please use bugs.documentfoundation.org. Of course, we're a volunteer-driven project with very limited resources, so the best way to get new features is to join our community and help to implement them 😊
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