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Because people that make an effort of announcing these things are all about virtual signaling. Nothing they do ever has real substance to it.
I think the term you're looking for is virtue signaling.
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#252What’s the Google Sheets/Excel of Europe?
Collabora: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collabora_Online
Thank you. The overall site design and UX makes me pessimistic. Its not just depresses me to use it. I really wanted to be enthusiastic and pleasantly surprised by it.
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Oh, it’s possible in Germany. What problems do you have in Poland?
> Oh, it’s possible in Germany Of course. How do I fire an employee? That's right, I don't. Otherwise sure it's possible.
You don't like worker rights. You should have written that. That is not bureaucracy.
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#254This would be the same country (The Netherlands) that is prohibiting construction of new data centers... Really joined up thinking!
I'm sure we could annex some from Microsoft. You know, for security reasons.
Also, data centers from big tech have a large environmental impact and cost a lot of energy, yet do not bring any jobs.
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This feature has definitely been abused by fans of the current US administration. Anything close to being critical gets flagged and needs manual intervention to be brought back.
The post disappeared from my home page, though I can still find it when searching. Is anyone else experiencing this issue? I hope the free speech administration recognizes the flagging as satire, but such nuance will probably go over their heads
I hope the free speech administration...
well right there is where you went off the rails isn't it.
These people never said they supported free speech. Maybe people assumed that's what they were saying? But that wasn't actually what any of them said.
Mostly what they were saying was that they felt conservative viewpoints were being systematically removed from public discourse. That's subtly different than saying they support free speech.
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#256Called it, again . Data sovereignty is the true trend of the next decade. Not Quantum, not AI, but the new multi-pole world order divesting from Americentric technologies and back into the sort of locally-grown economies that children of the Cold War would be familiar with. Local vendors serving local needs with a focus on regional, not global, scale and service. Us Cassandra types have been screaming for years that…
Dump Office and Teams. Easy to do and a great start to move outside of Windows OS. LibreOffice is perfect, and government officials wont govern better or worst, if their PowerPoint presentations don't have the latest MS fonts....
Suggesting LibreOffice 19 years after Google Docs is so weird to me.
Are you expecting people to shuffle around single files to each other every time something is changed? Is that what we consider perfect?
Re: Dutch Parliament: Time to ditch US tech for homegrown options
#257Called it, again . Data sovereignty is the true trend of the next decade. Not Quantum, not AI, but the new multi-pole world order divesting from Americentric technologies and back into the sort of locally-grown economies that children of the Cold War would be familiar with. Local vendors serving local needs with a focus on regional, not global, scale and service. Us Cassandra types have been screaming for years that…
Dump Office and Teams. Easy to do and a great start to move outside of Windows OS. LibreOffice is perfect, and government officials wont govern better or worst, if their PowerPoint presentations don't have the latest MS fonts....
A suggestion to dump Office and Teams and move out of Windows, selectively down voted out of a whole thread...Fascinating....
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Dump Office and Teams. Easy to do and a great start to move outside of Windows OS. LibreOffice is perfect, and government officials wont govern better or worst, if their PowerPoint presentations don't have the latest MS fonts....
Suggesting LibreOffice 19 years after Google Docs is so weird to me. Are you expecting people to shuffle around single files to each other every time something is changed? Is that what we consider perfect?
Except for emailing Linux kernel patches...:-)
Do people for example do that with Code in 2025?
Or do they use Version Management and Shared Portals
with document locking?
Are most companies having three or four employees working in the SAME document at the SAME time? Maybe while singing Kumbaya over Teams? That would not be very efficient...
Or just use: https://www.collaboraonline.com/
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Dump Office and Teams. Easy to do and a great start to move outside of Windows OS. LibreOffice is perfect, and government officials wont govern better or worst, if their PowerPoint presentations don't have the latest MS fonts....
It seems the Microsoft influencer team [1] is again all over this thread. They must have some alerts... Reminder LibreOffice for most things is better than Office - Feature Comparison: LibreOffice - Microsoft Office: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Feature_Comparison:_Libr... [1] "In fact, this morning, I was reading a news article in Hacker News, which is a community where we have been working hard to make sure…
A proof Microsoft has sock puppet accounts here, from the words of their own CEO, selectively down voted out of a whole thread...Fascinating....
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