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https://www.ilmarilauhakangas.fi/
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buovjaga··on Linux on Older Hardware: The Complete Revival Guide
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...

buovjaga··on C++: The Documentary
Projects: https://arewemodulesyet.org/projects/

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

buovjaga··on Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release
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 GNOME, KDE, and wlroots,

Can you help find where we can work out this list?

An all or nothing probably isn’t going to work, but we can chip away at this.

There are definitely people who want to help.

buovjaga··on We've made the world too complicated
> 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 the main hard problem of human societies. It's great that we can now put a name to the issue and there is more and more awareness of it. It's also refreshing to see human history being examined through that lens, like in Luke Kemp's "Goliath's Curse": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goliath's_Curse

buovjaga··on LibreOffice – Let's put an end to the speculation
LibreOffice development will continue and TDF will keep hiring new developers.
buovjaga··on Danish government agency to ditch Microsoft software (2025)
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.

buovjaga··on Danish government agency to ditch Microsoft software (2025)
Have you deactivated Tools - Options - Load/Save - General: Save AutoRecovery information...?
buovjaga··on Danish government agency to ditch Microsoft software (2025)
> 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 report: https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/crash_details/bac2...

"Bug reports for libc.so.6:

File a bug for: Calc Writer Impress Chart Base"

Here is what the dialog says about bug reports: https://git.libreoffice.org/core/+/master/svx/uiconfig/ui/cr...

> It'd be great if the Document Foundation helped distros to offer libreoffice-*-debug packages for this case

I believe most distros have this covered now, some by making use of debuginfod, which downloads symbols on demand: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Debuginfod

buovjaga··on Danish government agency to ditch Microsoft software (2025)
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 with debug symbols and get backtraces or debug the program.

At The Document Foundation we are always interested in helping deployments. It is also nice to do writeups for our blog. Let me know, if your organisation needs help: ilmari.lauhakangas@libreoffice.org

I recommend to consider our certification program: https://www.documentfoundation.org/certification-program/

I asked about the Maven artifacts and our release engineer will update them later this week.

buovjaga··on European Tech Alternatives
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 site was populated using LLMs. For example, LibreOffice is incorrectly listed as being closed source, SaaS and paid: https://eutechmap.com/company/libreoffice

buovjaga··on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
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 involved.

buovjaga··on Vouch
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. As there is money involved, this attracts scammers now more than ever.
buovjaga··on Vouch
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 internship this way. If they have not yet submitted anything non-trivial, they could showcase personal projects in the same way.

FOSS has turned into an exercise in scammer hunting.

buovjaga··on France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US
Just a guess, but Jitsi having no governance structure outside of 8x8, Inc. might have something to do with it.
buovjaga··on Quickemu: Quickly create and run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux VMs
It's fixed in https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu/pull/1640 but they haven't cut a release since Dec 2024.
buovjaga··on New layouts with CSS Subgrid
The Firefox bug report has an image that illustrates the issue: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1857365#c0
buovjaga··on New layouts with CSS Subgrid
Random grid gotcha that drove me crazy some time ago: due to browser bugs we can't use <img> elements with percentage widths or heights as grid items. The grid cell dimensions get blown out to the ones of the original image. Seen in both Firefox and Chromium. Relevant FF bug is probably https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1857365 '<img> grid item with percentage height, "width: auto", "grid-template-columns: auto", and no track stretching makes column to have the same width of the original image's width' (although someone there claims it works in Chromium).
buovjaga··on Wikipedia says traffic is falling due to AI search summaries and social video
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 an anti-intellectual on, but the truth is that it was actually a political one. A second problem comes when Dr. Sagan links her death to the destruction of the Great Library. In fact, in the final episode of the original Cosmos, “Who Speaks for Earth”, Carl Sagan says, “The last remains of the library were destroyed within a year of Hypatia’s death.”

The problem with this is that the last remnant of the Library of Alexandria were almost certainly destroyed in 391, 24 years before Hypatia’s death, and most of the library was likely destroyed, by accident, centuries earlier.

It sounds strange, but we actually don’t have a very good idea of when the Library of Alexandria was destroyed. As best we can tell, much of it was burned unintentionally when a fire spread through the city during Julius Caesar’s invasion in 48 BC. While the majority of the library may have survived that war, it was almost certainly destroyed in the war between Emperor Aurelian and Queen Zenobia of Palmyra in the 270s AD. This also appears to have been unintentional, as a large part of the city was burned.

What little was left of the library was deliberately destroyed in 391, when Emperor Theodosius I banned Paganism. The remaining repository of books in Alexandria was destroyed along with the Pagan temple it was stored in. [Even this has no evidence as pointed out by Tim O'Neill in the blog comments]

I admire most of Dr. Sagan’s and Dr. Tyson work, but when they characterize Hypatia’s death and the burning of the Great Library as the deliberate (and linked) actions of an anti-intellectual mob, they are simply misrepresenting the history.

buovjaga··on Wikipedia says traffic is falling due to AI search summaries and social video
What you say sounds influenced by the movie Agora: https://bookhaven.stanford.edu/2016/03/the-library-of-alexan...
buovjaga··on C++ Reflection and Qt MOC
Comment in the issue referring to the wiki page: "note: it needs updates for stuff merged in Sofia".
buovjaga··on Global Village Construction Set
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?
buovjaga··on Global Village Construction Set
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. collaborators had left the farm."

buovjaga··on Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year
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" that https://irctoday.com/ uses, for example. Call support would have to be done by integrating Jitsi, but it's been done before as seen in https://github.com/kiwiirc/plugin-conference and https://convos.chat/doc/features#video-support
buovjaga··on Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year
New projects in that genre keep popping up, for example eIRC: An Enterprise Chat System Based on IRC https://github.com/jesse-greathouse/eIRC
buovjaga··on DeepWiki: Understand Any Codebase
Ok, I submitted a patch with a comment.
buovjaga··on DeepWiki: Understand Any Codebase
It's a pity that there is no clear way to send takedown requests. We didn't ask for deceptive garbage to be generated as documentation for LibreOffice, but here it is and newbies are discovering it: https://deepwiki.com/LibreOffice/core/2-build-system (spoiler: LibreOffice has never used Buck as a build system)
buovjaga··on You know more Finnish than you think
> - Stendari (fire mage) is "cigarette lighter" (slang)

From Swedish "tändare".

- Stevari (holy temple guardian) is "mall cop" (slang)

From STV (Suomen Teollisuuden Vartiointi) security firm.

buovjaga··on Beetroot juice lowers blood pressure by changing oral microbiome: study
Joseph R. McConnell et al. (January 6, 2025). Pan-European atmospheric lead pollution, enhanced blood lead levels, and cognitive decline from Roman-era mining and smelting. https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2419630121
buovjaga··on Giving Up on Element and Matrix.org
> It's tough finding an open-standards based IM application for corporate use.

I didn't try it, but this seems interesting: https://github.com/jesse-greathouse/eIRC

"eIRC is a modern, scalable enterprise messaging architecture built on the IRC protocol. Designed for organizations that require ephemeral, real-time communication without the heavy operational overhead of pub/sub systems like Apache Kafka, eIRC delivers high-throughput, low-latency chat experiences while minimizing memory and CPU usage per user."

It does support history as well: "IRC History Bridge: Implement Redis-backed buffer for message replay".

buovjaga··on Re: My AI skeptic friends are all nuts
> But that doesn't mean that I have to lay any more credence to the guys who have, since time immemorial, said "this new thing makes something easier; it will make us worse because we do not slog as much".

I don't use LLMs myself, but the anecdotes about skill atrophy seem credible. From the OP: "Even for me it shows. I tried to write some test code recently and I absolutely forgot how to write table tests because I generate all that. And it’s frightening."

An article about the topic that tries to stay positive: https://addyo.substack.com/p/avoiding-skill-atrophy-in-the-a...

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