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buovjagaon Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup

> Reported in 2011, still not fixed: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42673

Perhaps spurred by this comment, there was new discussion in the report and it turned out Microsoft has fixed the issue in Windows 11: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42673#c8...

Quote:

"I was one of the many who reported this problem in one from or another. The problem is Windows-specific. I have found out that the problem actually comes from the Windows print system. There is no way to check that a printer is actually active or working or even present without incurring a long time-out in case the printer is not present or powered. Trying to check the defualt printer will incur the same time-out.

Calc apparently wants to check the printer to know how to construct its layout, and has to wait for the time-out to continue.

Some of the comments that claim that Calc hangs and never returns have probably not waited long enough for the timeout.

On my new Windows 11 computer, this printer system behavior has been changed and I no longer experience a delay while opening Calc."

buovjagaon The dark side of the Moomins

I read that same story a long time ago, but apparently it had things mixed up and this is the way it actually went down: https://www.moomin.com/en/blog/the-story-of-moomintrolls/

"On a summer day, she was discussing literary philosophy with her brother Per Olov Jansson next to the outhouse at their summer cottage in the archipelago. Tove quoted Immanuel Kant, who Per Olov immediately downplayed. To get back at her brother, Tove drew the ugliest creature she could imagine on the outhouse wall. That drawing, out of chance, is the first glimpse of a Moomin-like figure, although Tove called it a Snork."

buovjagaon The dark side of the Moomins

Moomins at Torrelorca: https://www.oocities.org/ghb17/muumit.html

Relevant pages:

https://www.oocities.org/ghb17/muumi/18.jpg

https://www.oocities.org/ghb17/muumi/19.jpg

https://www.oocities.org/ghb17/muumi/20.jpg

https://www.oocities.org/ghb17/muumi/21.jpg

"Waiter, four marijuanas" - they end up scoring LBJ pills instead as marijuana was so last season.

Note that the comic is by Lars Jansson, Tove's brother.

buovjagaon Charts.css

Blocked on conversion from flex to grid, which never happened: https://github.com/ChartsCSS/charts.css/issues/45

buovjagaon Apache ECharts

I see there are unaddressed requests for improving accessibility:

[Bug] ECharts claims to be accessible, but is not keyboard accessible https://github.com/apache/echarts/issues/18585

[Feature] Support for accessibility of elements inside the chart (series, legend...) https://github.com/apache/echarts/issues/18256

buovjagaon LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs

The default one is different per operating system or desktop environment. On KDE it's Breeze, on Windows it's Colibre, on macOS it's Sifr (off the top of my head).

buovjagaon LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs

Fortunately they are, but TDF's budget is still rather small when considering the scale of the project. TDF is looking to expand its dev team. There's a lot of activity going on with volunteers and interns, but we need more senior devs to tackle the trickier renovations.

buovjagaon LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs

XLOOKUP was implemented last year. Submit a bug report with an example document and the perf issue can be looked into. Calc's performance is being improved constantly.

https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/BugReport

buovjagaon LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs

You could try https://github.com/balisujohn/localwriter

buovjagaon LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs

LibreOffice comes with six icon themes. Do you mean every single one of them is childish or only a particular one?

buovjagaon Watt The Fox?

Dev doc index is here, includes links to articles about debugging: https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/

buovjagaon Alzheimer's biomarkers now visible up to a decade ahead of symptoms

This is about a new cerebrospinal fluid assay. These days there are also blood tests, which are obviously way easier to take and much less unpleasant:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-024-02869-z

https://www.fujirebio.com/en/products-solutions/lumipulse-g-...

buovjagaon Recent results show that LLMs struggle with compositional tasks

You might get a kick out of this essay by Robert Epstein from 2016: https://aeon.co/essays/your-brain-does-not-process-informati... (The empty brain - Your brain does not process information, retrieve knowledge or store memories. In short: your brain is not a computer)

buovjagaon Human corpses keep moving for over a year after death, scientist says (2019)

Life review is a stereotypical effect of some psychedelics such as ibogaine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXjLD1tDC7k

Now consider that your body naturally produces psychedelics, including DMT.

buovjagaon The Origins of Wokeness

PG would have done well to read this rather good Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woke

buovjagaon Amazon reveals first color Kindle, new Kindle Scribe, and more

https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/16/24271632/amazon-kindle-c...

"The Colorsoft is based on E Ink’s Kaleido technology but uses an entirely new display stack for Kindles, all the way back to a newly designed oxide backplane that makes it easier for E Ink panel’s tiny bits of ink to move around quickly. The E Ink world has been working on similar tech for a while, and Amazon thinks it’s the key to making color work well. The Colorsoft has new LED pixels, and a new way of shining light through them individually to enhance colors. It’s also brighter than ever, to help the whole thing feel more vivid. Some of this tech also helped the new Paperwhite turn pages faster and easier, but it was designed to make Colorsoft work."

https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/devices/kindle-color-specs-...

"...Kindle Colorsoft Signature Edition packs a suite of innovations that make every hue and shade pop.

Those include custom formulated coatings between the display layers to enhance the color, a light guide with micro-deflectors to minimize stray light, and an ultra-thin coating in the display stack to improve optical performance. We built the display on an oxide backplane for sharper contrast, faster page turns, and better image quality."

buovjagaon Making the Tibetan language a first-class citizen in the digital world

For reference:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengali%E2%80%93Assamese_scrip...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibetan_script

buovjagaon Making the Tibetan language a first-class citizen in the digital world

Support is included: https://git.libreoffice.org/core/+/8a11d2e0b1ff09b3637a369eb...

buovjagaon Making the Tibetan language a first-class citizen in the digital world

The bug report about long paragraphs and the blog post are by Élie Roux, the CTO of BDRC :)

buovjagaon Making the Tibetan language a first-class citizen in the digital world

First commit from July: https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/4c8f88bef948b18f3d81...

buovjagaon LibrePythonista allows running IPython code in a LibreOffice spreadsheet

Maybe Microsoft thinks it's a good solution to security concerns, if the code is run in their sandbox.

buovjagaon LibrePythonista allows running IPython code in a LibreOffice spreadsheet

Yes, some LibreOffice developers commenting on this agree with you. We also have existing proposals like "Ship Python package manager (PIP) with LibreOffice internal Python" https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162786

buovjagaon LibrePythonista allows running IPython code in a LibreOffice spreadsheet

Not until someone implements the handling of such in XLSX import. Excel needs a cloud connection to run Python and there are apparently some homegrown functions like xl(), so it probably would not be straightforward:

https://www.solvermax.com/blog/python-embedded-in-excel-firs...

buovjagaon LibrePythonista allows running IPython code in a LibreOffice spreadsheet

Ok, can you report that to the developer: https://github.com/Amourspirit/python_libre_pythonista_ext/i...

I'm not affiliated with this project.

buovjagaon LibrePythonista allows running IPython code in a LibreOffice spreadsheet

Built extension available here: https://extensions.libreoffice.org/en/extensions/show/99231

buovjagaon Mermaid Gantt diagrams for displaying distributed traces in Markdown (2023)

Docs:

https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/writing-on-github/wor...

https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/tools-and-tips/#using-m...

buovjagaon "GitHub" Is Starting to Feel Like Legacy Software

For a blame view, OpenGrok has an "Annotate" feature.

buovjagaon Eden Abhez: The strangest hit songwriter

> Frankly, I consider him the first hippie, an advocate for a lifestyle that didn’t even exist when he rose to fame.

Hippie-like movements have always popped up as an escape from authoritarian rule and oppression. Raoul Vaneigem frames this well in his book The Movement of the Free Spirit, about medieval and Renaissance heretical movements: https://monoskop.org/log/?p=7986

"He sees not only resistance to the power of state and church but also the immensely creative invention of new forms of love, sexuality, community, and exchange."

buovjagaon My thoughts on Python in Excel

No need to use BASIC, you can use ScriptForge in LibreOffice Python macros directly. ScriptForge is also available for use with LibreOffice BASIC macros.

buovjagaon My thoughts on Python in Excel

Did you try the ScriptForge library shipped with LibreOffice: https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/en-US/text/sbasic/shared...

See the SFDocuments.Calc service there. ScriptForge makes it more convenient to work with the API.

Using it with Python: https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/en-US/text/sbasic/shared...