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LibreOffice Hits 9.4 Million Downloads in Just Eight Weeks
How does LibreOffice Calc compare to Google Sheets?
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LibreOffice Hits 9.4 Million Downloads in Just Eight Weeks
How does LibreOffice Calc compare to Google Sheets?
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An Important Update from Legacy Games: Notice of Closure | Legacy Games
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I don't know of anything I would miss.
But it's a good reminder that our game libraries can just disappear. Some kind of legislation is probably needed, but I'm not sure what.
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The Internet goes on high alert after discovery of 8 compromised TLS certs
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I'm lost.
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[Epic Games] GetHigh.EXE (FREE / 100% off)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4331890/GetHighEXE/
All Reviews: 3 user reviews SteamDB Rating: 67.06% (3)
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Microsoft Wants to Protect Your Linux Desktop with Defender
A lot of nice sounding words when it's really about employee monitoring and control.
This is bad news for Linux developers at work. One reason for wanting Linux is to get rid of all the privacy violating corporate spyware. Now corporate forces this spyware on you, or you can't access any corporate resources from your machine.
Have fun developing when you need to start worrying what sudo commands you run, because some raise alerts in IT.
I hope someone reverse engineers mdatp and documents how to limit how much of your privacy it can invade. That shit needs to be jailed into namespaces that are limited to absolute minimum necessary.
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A UNICEF bundle from a new site (for me), PlanetPlay
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Unfortunately, not many details there, just the same "net profits" mention.
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Mozilla Firefox 119 Is Now Available for Download, Here's What's New
I would just rather see direct link than blogspam:
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Internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom has suffered a serious stroke, a post on his X account says
I would suffer a stroke and more, too, if my country wanted to deport my ass to a third world country like the USA.
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Firefox Devs Working on Tab Previews
Please work on tab grouping instead!
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Can you please add the company name in the title? If you want to keep original title, you can do it like this:
This printer company [Procolored]
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WhatsApp running through android-translation-layer (no container!) on Linux desktop
I hope this makes it easier to do TLS sniffing and security research on Android apps. A lot of developers seem to rely on no one simply looking at how much information is exposed in the APIs apps use. Currently because it's much more difficult to sniff Android apps, a lot of privacy/security issues are not raised.
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Android’s next big feature turns your phone into a desktop
Cool. Now let me legally record my phone calls without rooting my phone.
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Dotfiles matter! Please stop dumping files in users’ $HOME directories.
If you care, please take time to upvote or file bugs on packages that don't follow XDG. Or even better, make PRs.
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US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS-based software ecosystem
US has been building soft power like this for decades, and Trump is pissing it all away.
If this process to get rid of dependency on US gets well underway, there's no turning that ship. US won't recover the position it had in fifty years or more.
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Phoronix: Linus Torvalds Comments On The Russian Linux Maintainers Being Delisted
As a finn, I understand that there are probably legal reasons for doing this.
I just wish they would be transparent and share those reasons with us. The Linux kernel is certainly not the only free software project that is impacted, if this comes straight from EU/US sanctions. Maintainers of other projects have a lot of interest in what is happening.
Transparency is also important because if EU/US policy/sanctions are causing issues for free software projects, then that discussion needs to be public, so that there is a chance to amend the policies if necessary.
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The four horsemen of unmet financial expectations
Steam should have an option to send feedback to publishers: "I didn't buy this because of [select all that apply]".
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WhatsApp provides no cryptographic management for group messages
If you want your group memberships to be known only by the group members, use Signal.
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Lasse Collin, the other xz maintainer, has acknowledged the backdoor
Nothing so far seems to indicate Lasse Collin knew what was going on.
I feel sorry for him. Must suck working on an open source project for free and then get sucked into something nefarious like this. He must be under tremendous stress.
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Best way to share folders between user accounts?
Create group, add users to group, create a new directory, chown it to the group, chmod g+s and done.
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Discord sued by users claiming Nitro subscription is too difficult to cancel
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It's also illegal in EU.