LibreOffice 24.8 will be released as final at the end of August, 2024 ( Check the Release Plan ) being LibreOffice 24.8 Beta1 the second pre-release since the development of version 24.8 started at the beginning of December, 2023.
Here's another #LibreOffice feature you might not know about! If you're looking for a feature but can't find it in the menu, go to Help ▸ Search Commands (or use the shortcut ⇧ Shift + Esc). Type a few letters and you can see where in the menu to find it! 👍 #foss #opensource #tip
@yatil Hmmm, I can’t seem to make it work with VOiceOver though, or at least can’t figure out how to use it. Should I be seeing autocompletions when typing into that search field?
Yes, if you go to Safari, for example and type Zoom into the search field in the Help menu, the first four autocompletions are Zoom In, Zoom Out, Zoom, Zoom All under a Menu Items heading.
I can’t make it work with VoiceOver, too… unsure if it’s my terrible VO skills tho.
@yatil You know, I think I am able to see the serch results after typing into the “search” field under the “help” menu, but those results seem to link to help topics rather than menu items. What am I missing? :)
There are Menu items at the top and documentation search results at the bottom. If there are only documentation search results, it looks like they are reachable, but once there are menu items, I can’t get it to work. No time unfortunately to investigate it in-depth at the moment. Maybe on the weekend.
Well this sucks. ChromeOS at least tried to track mainline Linux and was a major Linux desktop ecosystem contributor. Now it becomes just another android vendored crap. With more and more AI forcefeeding too. #chromeos
Some years ago, Arm announced MTE. I pointed out that it would be trivial to leak tags via speculative execution and so it wasn’t a robust defence in the presence of an adaptive adversary. No problem, I was told, it’s not intended as a mitigation technique, it’s intended for at-scale debugging. Then certain companies decided it was a security technology.
Note: The composition of CHERI and MTE that we proposed is not vulnerable to these attacks because MTE tag changing (in pointers and memory) is controlled via the CHERI permissions mechanism and so nothing in the model depends on the secrecy of MTE tags. If you leak the MTE tag in the composition, you gain nothing of value and cannot forge a pointer using that tag.
“A Short IPv6 Guide for Home IPv4 Admins” - taught me a bunch of useful things I didn't know that I didn't know about IPv6 in practice. Good stuff! gist.github.com/timothyham/dd0…
Nach vielen Monaten Vorbereitung ist die Kampagne #AfDVerbotJetzt heute gestartet. Meine Bitte: Lest, was wir auf der Seite an Argumenten und FAQs aufbereitet haben, folgt dem Account @AfDVerbotJetzt und wenn ihr könnt und wollt:
Here's Moonchild in 2017 explaining that he believes men are inherently better at programming than women: forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.p… Here's Moonchild in 2020 announcing that he will no longer accept donations through Patreon, because he claims they got "political" by putting a Black Lives Matter banner at the top of their home page. He instead endorses the "politically neutral" Paypal, owned by a billionare who has never done anything political. forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.p… Here's Moonchild in 2022 complaining about "SJW" forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.p… Here's Moonchild's number two person Athenian200 in 2024 complaining about how terrible the gays on "Mastodon" are: forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.p…(And Moonchild agrees with him in the following post).
Now let's talk about Matt Tobin. To be clear, Tobin is not involved with Pale Moon anymore. For several years he was the number two person. He was a very outspoken Trump supporter, and he'd frequently derail Github discussions with rants about how SJW Marxist Killary is coming to force you to be gay. He would quickly ban from the forum anyone who criticized this behavior (even people who agreed with his politics but didn't want him to rant about it in unrelated git issues). Moonchild never criticized or reprimanded Tobin for this behavior and kept him on for a long time.
In 2022, Moonchild and Tobin got into an argument about the correct format for extensions, and Tobin ended the argument by insulting Moonchild and trying to deliberately break the PM website. Moonchild was able to restore the site and boot Tobin from the project. But it's worth noting that even after parting ways, Moonchild never denounced Tobin's bigotry.
I listed down the demos that needed to be ported according to their length (S, M, L depending on the Lines of code) I planned to work on 3 demos daily, 1 LOC type each, which was different from how…
Join us for a VIRTUAL book talk with legal scholar BARBARA McQUADE on her New York Times bestseller, ATTACK FROM WITHIN, about disinformation’s impact on democracy. NYU professor and author […]\n
Erst wurde der Widerruf ihres Lehrauftrags für unwirksam erklärt und nun auch das Disziplinarverfahren eingestellt: Aslan hat kein Dienstvergehen begangen.
Dänemarks Nationalteam verzichtet auf Gehalt für Equal-Pay. Dänemarks Fußballer verzichten deswegen jetzt auf eine Erhöhung ihrer Prämien. Dadurch wollen sie erreichen, dass Dänemarks Nationalspielerinnen nach der EM genauso bezahlt werden wie sie. www1.wdr.de/mediathek/audio/co…
Frauen verdienen im Fußball oft noch immer deutlich weniger als ihre männlichen Kollegen. Dänemarks Fußballer verzichten deswegen jetzt auf eine Erhöhung ihrer Prämien.
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🌴We've finally wrangled everyone together for a group photo last month! 📸
We're a small but mighty team based in Montreal 🇨🇦, and building a secure and private communication app like Jami takes more than just code. It takes a dedicated team with a shared vision, a healthy dose of humor (seriously, check out those smiles! 😄), and a passion for collaboration (both within our team and with the amazing Free software community 🌐). #OpenSource #Privacy #TogetherWeBuild
Here's a picture taken with the Meta Smart Glasses, then described with #AI via #BeMyEyes, which has been an invaluable helping-hand, enabling me to know what randomly labeled pictures in my collection are, without having to ask my wife or children. With image names such as 'photo-296_singular_display_fullPicture.jpg' it's a fun time trying to decipher such randomness sometimes. This was taken at a podcast recording of Tim Harford's 'Cautionary Tales' and I got to take Jake along with me.
I get the AI hate I really do, but there are just times in life where hate is misplaced. for me, something that is an enabler is such a time. No, it's not perfect, we're not there yet, but for my usecase it helps more than it hinders. Your milage will of course, vary.
Did you know? In Canada, Capital gains are taxed far lower than other types of income.
But watch for confusion! The recent increase from 50% to 67% is NOT the tax rate, it's just the amount of the gain that qualifies to be considered for taxation. Nothing is *taxed* at 67%.
You can have an opinion about whether or not $ in an investment should be treated the same or differently from $ from working a job. But that's a different topic.
and even the Intuit lobby lies as they say the average tax rate is 15.6%, when it is actually 7.8% by calculating it over the taxable income instead of the actual income.
Sovereign Tech Fund Opens Up To Smaller Investments & Updated Criteria
Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund has been making sizable investments into various Linux desktop projects, the Rust-based Coreutils implementation, libmicrohttpd, PHP, a systemd bug bounty, and other prominent open-source software that could benefit from greater financial resources. Today they have announced they have opened up for a new round of applications for tho… phoronix.com/news/Sovereign-Te…
Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund has been making sizable investments into various Linux desktop projects, the Rust-based Coreutils implementation, libmicrohttpd, PHP, a systemd bug bounty, and other prominent open-source software that could benefit from…
📢 Wir sprechen uns mit Nachdruck dagegen aus, #Asylverfahren in #Drittstaaten auszulagern! Wir befürchten eine Unterminierung des Flüchtlingsschutzes weltweit.
Unsere Stellungnahme: "Auslagerung von Asylverfahren in Drittstaaten. Eine menschenrechtliche Bewertung der aktuellen Debatte" institut-fuer-menschenrechte.d…
Attached to this post is an audio file. Have a listen and guess the origin.
I recorded this in my rented co-working office space. It's super loud and annoying and has been happening for months.
Engineers have now discovered the source!
Clues: * I am on the 2nd of 4 floors * It's intermittent and can happen a few times a day, or 5 times in 5 minutes. * There is a bathroom nearby * There are other offices nearby * It does not come from my office (or me)
There is one more live TV service jumping into the fray called ZipWave TV. This new service offers a mix of free and premium channels like the Game Show Network and Great American Family.
Some of the problems I encountered after installing Windows 11 alongside Linux (as described in the previous post):
1. Windows by default sets the real-time clock to local time; Linux by default sets it to UTC. This is a problem in a dual-boot configuration in which both operating systems are installed on the same machine, and they don't agree on the date/time. I must have solved this before, but I had forgotten the solution. A Web search identified a Windows registry change which specifies that the clock is set to UTC.
2. The Network Time Protocol (NTP) service under Windows wouldn't synchronize. It was configured to use time.windows.com as its NTP server. Changing the server to pool.ntp.org worked. For some reason, this seemed to deactivate the NTP service, so I had to start it manually and configure it to be started automatically on boot, with a couple of Windows PowerShell commands. I don't understand why it wasn't running after I changed the server details.
3. Microsoft Windows kept losing its IPv6 address. This is possibly related to the packet filter configuration. A discussion I found on the Web suggested that IPv6 router advertisements might be filtered out - and they're needed to renew the address. At this point, I had installed Microsoft's Windows Security Baseline, which sets a large number of security-related parameters in the local group policy configuration. The solution, in the end, was to change the network category of the Ethernet interface from Public to Private, which has less restrictive packet filtering applied.
4. The Windows Security Baseline also prevented the system from entering suspend mode (i.e., any of the sleep states). I found and fixed the setting in Local Group Policy. I also remembered that I had to change the setting which prevented writing to unencrypted removable drives - a good idea in many commercial environments, but not for my use cases.
Here's another #LibreOffice feature you might not know about! If you're looking for a feature but can't find it in the menu, go to Help ▸ Search Commands (or use the shortcut ⇧ Shift + Esc). Type a few letters and you can see where in the menu to find it! 👍 #foss #opensource #tip
Maybe you're thinking of something else? LibreOffice has been able to open and save in Microsoft's formats for many years. Millions of people use it to share documents with Microsoft Office users. So saying it's "not compatible" isn't true at all.
@gawron Hi! Are you using the latest release of LibreOffice 24.2.4? If so, and it still crashes, please let our QA community know with a quick bug report at bugs.documentfoundation.org – Thanks! 😊
@ninguem Sounds like a good idea! You can submit it as an enhancement request on bugs.documentfoundation.org – But of course, as we're a volunteer-driven project with limited resources, the more help we get to implement it, the better 😊
Patrick Breyer fordert zum Widerstand gegen die Chatkontrolle auf und gibt Tipps, wie sich jeder Einzelne aktiv beteiligen kann. Werdet JETZT aktiv, sonst kann es sein, dass die Unvernunft siegt. 👇
Der belgische Vorsitz im Rat der EU will die Chatkontrolle am Mittwoch den 19. Juni abstimmen lassen. Damit bestätigen sich die Befürchtungen: die Verfechter der Chatkontrolle wollen ausnutzen, dass es nach den Wahlen weniger öffentliche Aufmerksamke…
Schon am Mittwoch könnte über den belgischen Vorschlag zur Chatkontrolle abgestimmt werden. Die Chefin des Messengers Signal warnt vor rhetorischen Spielchen: Der Vorschlag führe zu einer „gefährlichen Schwachstelle in der Kerninfrastruktur“ und würde Verschlüsselung grundlegend schwächen. Das sieht auch der Chaos Computer Club so.
1. Making Brotli much better for English than for other languages *might* make some sense because it's often used to compress html markup, Javascript, stylesheets and so on, and those are overwhelmingly English, even on non-English websites. I don't think it's why this happened and there's probably bias involved, but I can envision a scenario in which something like this was explicitly considered "intended behavior"
2. I think there are fundamentally two kinds of AI bias, and people seem to be conflating the two. The first is a bias explicitly against the user's intentions, e.g. turning Asians into whites. That's a bug. THe second, however, is a reflection of the world, and "fixing" it would actually make the model worse. A good example is a sentence like "My partner is a programmer. [blank] works at Google on search rankings." If you ask a model to fill in the blank, "he" should be far more likely than "she", just because there are far more male programmers than female programmers. "Fixing" this makes the model objectively worse at its job.
I notice that most people are in two camps, either they think both biases are egregious and should be fixed, or they think that it's all just "woke people being woke" and we shouldn't fix any of them. I think both attitudes are wrong.
vis-a-vis your point 1: it's addressed in the text, and typically javascript / stylesheets are minimized these days anyway. brotli isn't targeting stylesheets or javascript or whatever in particular, it's "regular" text (which is also clear if you look at the dictionary which is also linked in the text). (your second point is not really even worth responding to but i'd also recommend reading the text again since it's just a copy paste of a common argument)
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I can’t make it work with VoiceOver, too… unsure if it’s my terrible VO skills tho.
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