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One relevant thing to check with older hardware: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/631217/how-do-i-che... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64#Microarchitecture_level...

Projects: https://arewemodulesyet.org/projects/ Tools: https://arewemodulesyet.org/tools/

A KDE developer commented: https://nocoffei.com/?p=451#comment-736 Quote: >As a community, gather together, and successfully implement the entire API surface needed for Talon on GN…

> It's usually the psychopaths taking advantage of everyone else and ruining it for the rest of us, technology or not. They've lurked around in "simpler times" too. Indeed, this is…

LibreOffice development will continue and TDF will keep hiring new developers.

There is this command line option that you could add to your shortcut for launching LibreOffice: --norestore It will skip the recovery dialog. I use it often when doing QA.

Have you deactivated Tools - Options - Load/Save - General: Save AutoRecovery information...?

> if you could file a bug report right from that screen, that'd be perfect You can file a bug report from a crash report - it prefills all the relevant data. See an example crash r…

LibreOffice release builds should offer to send a crash report. Ideally, you should then create a bug report referencing the crash report. Besides that, you can do your own build w…

There are existing sites like https://www.goeuropean.org/ Based on the creator of EU Tech Map having an AI-powered advertising company and the mistakes in the entries, I assume the…

For the latest in IRC tech, you can read my blog posts: https://www.ilmarilauhakangas.fi/irc_technology_news_from_th... I wrote the summaries with my own two hands, no LLMs involve…

The patches are not malicious, but the submitters are unable to explain them. We require submitting a non-trivial patch in order for someone to be considered for a FOSS internship.…

One solution is to have a screensharing call with the contributor and have them explain their patch. We have already caught a couple of scammers who were applying for a FOSS intern…

Just a guess, but Jitsi having no governance structure outside of 8x8, Inc. might have something to do with it.

It's fixed in https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu/pull/1640 but they haven't cut a release since Dec 2024.

The Firefox bug report has an image that illustrates the issue: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1857365#c0

Random grid gotcha that drove me crazy some time ago: due to browser bugs we can't use elements with percentage widths or heights as grid items. The grid cell dimensions get blown …

Ok, the errors in Cosmos are covered here: https://sciencemeetsfiction.com/2014/06/15/cosmos-follow-up-... Quote: Cosmos does not make Hypatia’s death so much a religious issue as …

What you say sounds influenced by the movie Agora: https://bookhaven.stanford.edu/2016/03/the-library-of-alexan...

Comment in the issue referring to the wiki page: "note: it needs updates for stuff merged in Sofia".

That's more or less the critique OSE got back in 2013. Ie. if you're going to raise money, why not hire professional designers?

New Yorker covered the organisational issues in 2013: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/12/23/the-civilizati... About the churn: "By February, 2013, all the O.S.E. collaborat…

Not saying there's a turnkey solution at the moment for your exact needs, but even with your current $5k/year budget something interesting could be built with the "modern IRC stack…

New projects in that genre keep popping up, for example eIRC: An Enterprise Chat System Based on IRC https://github.com/jesse-greathouse/eIRC

Ok, I submitted a patch with a comment.