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LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features

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Re: LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features

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"it's our most powerful X ever" - every Apple event ever

God, I'm hoping that this phraseology changes with the new CEO, I am so tired of that overused statement haha.

Didn’t Steve Jobs use that formula as well? The most powerful thing we released compared to last year’s thing we released?

Re: LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features

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I don't see not having AI as a feature, but I'd prefer for them to take the approach of optional, easy to implement interfaces that increase the ability for the suite to be 'scripted' rather than implement AI directly. My motivation is that the field of AI is moving so fast I think its a better long term plan to make your software something that can be automated with AI than to try to fight the speed of that innovati…

I absolutely see a lack of soulless clankers to be a feature.

I completely agree that focusing on "scripting" would be great. Clanker proxies can allow their clanker to use it while grumpy bastards like me can stick to Bash to automate it.

Re: LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features

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The number of weekly downloads has simply been increasing over time, due to growing popularity. Calling each new high "record-breaking" is a bit meaningless. Unix timestamp counter breaks record after writing this comment.

But still nice to hear. Really timely, too, since my 83-year-old mom called me the other day to help her E-mail a document she prepared in LibreOffice. I installed it on her (seldom-used) computer years ago. So I talked her through E-mailing it with Thunderbird. And I say "talked," because the jagoffs at Microsoft REMOVED Remote Assistance from every version of Windows used by people who are likely to need it. And MS…

I use Google remote desktop with my mother. It's not perfect but it's adequate.

Re: LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features

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The number of weekly downloads has simply been increasing over time, due to growing popularity. Calling each new high "record-breaking" is a bit meaningless. Unix timestamp counter breaks record after writing this comment.

is the trend of increasing weekly downloads not itself meaningful?

Re: LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features

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Offtopic blogging tip: Americans will read dates like "8/9/2026" as "August 9, 2026." I'm pretty sure the author is using the (more sensible) convention of day/month/year but expressing dates as e.g. "08-Sep-2026" removes the ambiguity.

The only real sensible date format is yyyy-mm-dd, makes it easy to sort.

Re: LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features

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Conversely, a no-AI ethos is one that will very likely need to be walked back at some point in the future for tech products. AI isn't going anywhere, so finding ways to use it constructively with your product is going to be a far better long term strategy. For now while it's new and scary and there's a lack of regulation and governance and ethical considerations - I can see why an anti-AI stance is popular, but it's…

The internet has been around for quite a while now, and is absolutely critical for a lot of applications. Most people would never give up the internet. Yet there are still many applications without explicit mandatory internet tie-ins like cloud sync. In fact, "stores data locally" and "won't disappear with zero notice" are valuable features to many people! Just because AI is a no-brainer must-have for some apps doesn…

> valuable features to many people!

Which products that sell this are broadly popular? I can see some people on HN wanting it, but people I know who are outside that bubble don't even think of it as an issue.

Re: LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features

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Not a fan of pushing LLMs into everything, but this is one of those things where it would be great to have a powerful(or specialized) local llm to help you

Write a formula, make a macros, filter stuff, formatting. I'd rather not to Google it. Especially considering SEO made it impossible to find information how to do stuff in editor X of version Y, at best you'd get thrown with crap for other version and have to figure out how to adapt it for your version

Re: LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features

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Let's use AI to test the validity of an AI generated clickbait article.

Fable 5.1 was presented with the following prompt to do research.

> https://manualdousuario.net/en/libreoffice-download-record-n... states an interesting causality. Generate an artifact that tests this claim. Is it causal or coincidental. ie if libreoffice downloads have been increasing every release then it's possible to claim any recent feature change is responsible for the download. You need to get access to the download stats and then see what other major features could be responsible

https://funny-taffy-f8d6c0.netlify.app/

Conclusion is that the claim is speculative.

(This post was meat written. The report is AI generated content. )

Re: LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features

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I feel this every time the stock market hits a new “all time high”

the stock market goes up and down daily, but with a functioning economy it will overall be up. from a distance you are right, something that keeps going up keeps achieving new highs. but, if you follow the market on a daily basis, you will be paying attention to the market swooning for periods of time, maybe with a small recovery and then another swoon. New "all time highs" do provide convenient notifications that th…

Hell, it took like 5 years for the market to get back to its peak after 2008.
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