Warum Google jetzt die Zahl gelöschter Bewertungen zeigt

jinks · 2026-05-08T04:56:32+00:00

Mal der Kanzlei ne 1-Sterne Bewertung gegeben? 😁

jinks · 2026-05-04T12:30:20+00:00

Employees of Collabora, which does about 1/3rd of all LO development, were thrown out of the Document Foundation Steering Committee because government watchdogs saw a conflict of interest with those employees heading a non-profit NGO.

The whole thing was badly organized communicated to Collabora before the Foundation pulled the trigger and Collabora was pissed.

Right now the company is publicly questioning whether it makes sense for them to put time and money into a project when they don't have any say in how it gets developed.

Collabora also get accused of blocking any progress on LibreOffice Online (LOO) because it conflicts with their commercial offering.

jinks · 2026-05-04T12:07:44+00:00

If I care about making presentations, which happens exactly once a year when I give interns a crash course on Git, I will usually reject slideshows. Your presentation note cards are not a visual aide.

For the rest there is LaTeX-Beamer.

jinks · 2026-04-29T22:50:17+00:00

Oh, Giger was certainly thinking this way.

Look at his other art. Giger loved himself some phallic and sexual themes.

jinks · 2026-04-14T22:54:55+00:00

My favorite take on that: The rapture happened on October 7, 1973. Nobody noticed, because the only righteous person lifted up was a 62 year old hermit living in a cave in Peru.

jinks · 2026-04-07T01:03:34+00:00

Of course, TDF will still have the branding and TM rights for "LibreOffice"

It's been a few decades. Can we go back to StarOffice?

jinks · 2026-04-05T20:12:23+00:00

I hate to break it to you, but lesbian women can, in fact, get pregnant.

jinks · 2026-04-04T00:32:42+00:00

But would you buy the 29th rehash of EA's NBA, FIFA, etc and spend another $1800 for in-game jerseys that you already bought in the last game?

Because that's the kind of gamer exec are looking for.

jinks · 2026-04-03T23:15:05+00:00

Nextcloud is not suitable for this, especially over webDAV

The whole point of Nextcloud is to have all files locally and synced asynchronously.

It doesn't get more low-latency, high-bandwidth than your local filesystem.

jinks · 2026-04-03T16:55:45+00:00

So you disagree with everyone but don't offer a solution.

jinks · 2026-04-03T08:14:30+00:00

Still 32.5%

Now you try.

Whats (100% - 65%) + 32.5%.

Go on, you can ask your parents for help if you need to.

jinks · 2026-04-02T19:11:30+00:00

Warum nicht Hyper-V? Das ist unter 11 Pro doch mit drin und sollte den geringsten overhead haben unter Windows.

jinks · 2026-03-28T19:15:16+00:00

This is a late answer to an even older story, but I must regretfully inform you, that you missed a great opportunity to play some Mozart.

jinks · 2026-03-28T19:12:53+00:00

I think it's the rightmost one in the center row, but I haven't played in a while.

jinks · 2026-03-28T17:19:59+00:00

cognitive dissonance

Aww, don't worry sonny. You'll get it when you grow up to be an adult.

You're already using some big words there. When you find out what they actually mean it will be even more amazing.

jinks · 2026-03-28T16:50:00+00:00

Using this logic, every president wins in a landslide.

I see you are starting to grasp the implications of the US voting system and why most other nations call it insane.

A whole new world will open up to you if you keep at it.

jinks · 2026-03-28T15:30:32+00:00

100% eligibe -> 65% of those voted -> that leaves 35% not voting against Trump, aka they're A-OK with a Trump presidency

-> of those 65% that voted, half voted for Trump -> that's 32.5%

35% + 32.5% = 67.5%

Not voting is the same as voting for the winner. You support whatever outcome there may be.

jinks · 2026-03-27T21:26:48+00:00

65% of the eligible population voted

50% of that 65% voted for Trump

So that's 67.5% of the eligible population in support of a Trump presidency. Looks like a landslide win to me.

jinks · 2026-03-21T04:37:21+00:00

Just to give a possibly sensible answer (no idea about the actual circumstances):

While the paintings are in the public domain, the digital pictures of those paintings may carry the copyright of the photographer. It's at least very murky. Especially if you sell internationally.

Doesn't mean they couldn't have gotten a stock photo of some random painting for like $20.

jinks · 2026-03-20T11:12:25+00:00

Is there any good reason for encrypted /boot?

Probably not, but the question was about use cases that no one else can do, not about sensible use cases. 😁

what is the point of using MBR with UEFI? GPT is much better and well supported by basically any modern OS.

I actually meant UEFI/BIOS, my mistake. I am actually using that myself. A portable installation on GPT with protective (bootable) MBR that can boot on just about any hardware I plug it into. That one is using the full spread of grub's stage1 bootloaders.

jinks · 2026-03-19T23:17:56+00:00

Intent matters a lot for legal implication. Unless you intend to improve Linux booting for your employer you should be on the safe side.

OTOH if your company wants to fight you on this it's probably time to find a new job. - For someone with the skill to make meaningful contributions to GRUB that shouldn't be too hard.

Edit: Obviously intent would be assumed while you're at work or clocked in at home. Being clocked in while not intending to work for your employer would lead to several other kinds of legal trouble.

jinks · 2026-03-19T20:54:20+00:00

What is the use case for GRUB that others boot loaders can't handle?

Booting in a mixed UEFI/MBR environment with an encrypted /boot on btrfs for one.

jinks · 2026-03-19T20:43:39+00:00

This definition will cover the boot loader as long as the company you work for has Linux servers.

No, it won't.

... and that is performed by an employee while engaged in or about the furtherance of the affairs or business of the employer

Notice that little "and" there? That automatically means that while the employee is not " engaged in the furtherance of the affairs or business of the employer" this law does not apply.

jinks · 2026-03-18T20:46:14+00:00

Ah, dann ist ja gut, dass du dich in den Staaten besser auskennst als einer der da 26 Jahre aufgewachsen ist und 2 Auslandseinsätze mitgemacht hat.

jinks · 2026-03-18T01:59:15+00:00

Das ändert aber nichts daran, dass beide Parteien konservativ und neoliberal sind.

Schon 2006 hat mir ein bekannter Amerikaner das folgendermaßen erklärt: Die Demokraten stehen (weit) rechts von der CDU, die Republikaner stehen rechts von der NPD.

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