LibreOffice essentially says that they’re preventing me from spreading the truth about white genocide in South Africa. The fact thay they imply such collaborationist behaviour by pretending to be better than others shows how the genocidal narrative has seeped from the mainstream to ever more obscure communities.
The spreadsheets seem to run better, at least on initial glance.
I kinda think that’s the most important thing. Excel is the only service Microsoft provides that’s decent. A proper replacement for that is how you get more people and organizations on open source systems.
Microsoft also makes SQL Server, Azure, and .NET which are all pretty big too. I’m not knowledgeable enough to evaluate them but I think they are at least decent
Excel + PowerBI (query?) is too powerful.
Maybe some LibreOffice + KNime integration + Easier Python macroing would be THE killer feature coming from a FOSS office suite.
Actually, expanding on that, LibreOffice needs both a book like OpenOffice.org Macros explained, but for Python and a grumpy guru like Villeroy, but on the pythonic side of the fence.
Why yes, I use LibreOffice Writer for my word processing needs, how did you know?
I just use the lemmy comment box for all my word processing needs.
The article, signed by Italo Vignoli, says TDF “does not reject artificial intelligence out of hand,” but that the technology doesn’t yet meet an exhaustive list of principles to be included by default. Those principles are:
User-controlled execution.
No content may leave the computer without authorization.
No telemetry of any kind.
No dependency on a single vendor.
No compromises on [file] format.
Entirely optional.
Debian community, you had one job…
Not happy with the Debian decision but it’s not like they are adding a bunch of AI features into the distro.
This trick worked on me with Gentoo; maybe it’s the warm feeling one gets when they know that there are people who still care about social respectability and consent.
AI is the escaton of enshittification.
At least the old enshittification created bullshit jobs, now it’s just pure shit.
And Greg and Linus are not opposed to that… They’re Imperial citizens after all
Linus seems to be handling it the same way that Tim Peters is. They’re both older guys who are very talented and have large projects that they have been major core contributors to (Linux and Python), but they both kinda see AI as nothing more than a tool because that’s all they’ve really interacted with it as.
I think Guido is kinda in the same boat, but he’s still yucking it up at Microsoft and doesn’t really say much so who knows.
If you want more context, go read through some of the posts and comments from the greybeards on discuss.python.org it’s full of AI agnosticism from them and a mix of hyper anti AI sentiment from the younger folks and AI overuse from the really young folks.
And what’s your position? It’s important in how I’ll address it.
But, for starters, I see AI and Nukes in the same way: the object isn’t political per si. But certainly their use is political. So a hands-off stance is just siding with the hegemon.
I’m staunchly in the AI very bad camp lol. Just pointing out that it’s more just that generation of programmers that has that sort of intrigued apathy for them.
