There are a few ways in which LibreOffice isn’t as good as Microsoft Office. It’s a little clunky, it’s a little ugly, it can struggle with some Office documents, etc.
But there are a huge number of ways #LibreOffice is much better. Support for open formats, respect for user privacy and user choice, broader range of media support, more stable layout (much less likely to mess up your whole doc when you make a small change), etc.
I use it constantly at work, even to collaborate with Microsoft Office users. It’s fantastic and worth spending some time on
Looks like Die Linke did better then expected in #Germany
https://mastodon.social/@dielinke/114054427423935453
In 1983, sci-fi author Arthur C. Clarke and director Peter Hyams began working on a film adaptation of Clarke's novel "2010: Odyssey Two."
Hyams lived in Los Angeles, though, while Clarke lived in Sri Lanka. So their collaboration took a new form: using modem-equipped Kaypro computers, the men outlined what would become 2010: THE YEAR WE MAKE CONTACT (1984) via electronic mail.
Their correspondence was novel enough that it was later reproduced as a book, "The Odyssey File," with a preface by Clarke explaining all the technical details of their connection. You can read it in full at the Internet Archive.
https://archive.org/details/arthur-c.-clarke-peter-hyams-the-odyssey-file-making-of-2010/mode/2up
Just discovered @The_Counterforce put together this really lovely zine about how to use the #fediverse for punks!
https://the-counterforce.org/guide-to-mastodon-fediverse
https://kolektiva.social/@The_Counterforce/113947288265944385
As computer scientist I wince when I hear "I want no algorithms in my software" the same a chemist might wince when they hear "I want no chemicals in my food".
At least I know that journalists & in turn laypeople mean "(non-trivial) recommendation algorithms".
But reflecting on @TechConnectify 's latest video ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEJpZjg8GuA ) I think "algorithmic complacency" does fit compsci's vauger definition.
In a sense of: Just because the computer says it doesn't make it so!
This was my second attempt at implementing a spreadsheet in assembly, the first time around I got so tangled up that I had to put it aside. But, this time, it went smoothly, I must say I've picked up many new tricks for this sort of development during the past year.
I'm so happy to finally have my dream spreadsheet program to manage my little databases and lexicons, all in.. just over 8.3kb.
I think that might be less than a blank excel file 🤔
tonic cracked software hosting site called Freed Software Foundation is that anything
A lot of blog engineering today, mostly doing smart #ed hacks and dealing with the consequences.
But! I came up with a way to include arbitrary files with #ed, so it's almost as powerful as #C #Preprocessor for my purposes! (Taking file name from buffer, modifying it into a reading command and then running another ed instance over this same file with this command. And using E command to read it back from modified file.)
Next: moving all the stuff I churned out to my HTML-ish format (that I should write about someday) and then to Server Side Includes (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Side_Includes) for the sake of portability?
Who invented the #Unix operating system?
a) Joe Ossanna.
b) Brian Kernighan.
c) Ken Thompson.
d) AT&T employees at Bell Labs.
e) All of the above
ok, so i've just scraped 1972 ebooks out of Kindle for Android's data directory (4.3GB's worth!) - now how do i deDRM them? (also, can i deDRM them?)
The good news is that current events are making it obvious who around you is truly brave and who is just a coward.
This is also the bad news
Well I just spent three hours tromping around in frigid darkness trying to get people to go out and vote against Doug Ford so
If you are an Ontario voter
Pls vote for whoever in your riding is not a conservative!
You can vote early FRIDAY FEB 21 and SATURDAY FEB 22 from 10 AM to 8 PM using the "voter information card" that was theoretically mailed to you OR the identification described at OntarioNDP.ca/vote
I cannot vote I can only ask you to do this