Mastodawn

https://support.joinpeertube.org/en/

Nicolas Strobl 5d ago

@eloquence looking forward to Telegram fact checking when Elon can just decide what's *objectively* right and wrong /s

Nicolas Strobl Jun 14

Jeff Sikes Jun 14

With 2 days left to go, PeerTube is less than $6k from reaching the next funding milestone - and only 2 days ago it was $10k.

Reaching it will add live streaming directly from your phone via the app. Think how important live streaming is, especially on days like No Kings Day to provide censorship free documentation of protests.

If you can manage a contribution, please consider it!

#PeerTube #NoKingsDay

Support PeerTube

Let's popularize videos shared by the people, for the people!

Nicolas Strobl May 26

Tofu Golem May 25

Same.

https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/screen/home

Nicolas Strobl May 22

@derpostillon damit müsste dann auch noch Strom generiert werden, mit welchem die Bahn dann fährt

Nicolas Strobl May 15

juliette May 15

Two days to go, 400,000 signatures to find. The Citizens’ Initiative to ban conversion practices now passed the threshold in 7 countries, so we need just any EU citizens at this point.
https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/screen/home

Nicolas Strobl May 14

Emelia 👸🏻May 13

Fantastic news! We've reached 1 million votes! But please keep sharing and voting in case some votes are invalid!

EU citizens, please sign this petition to ban so-called "conversion therapy" in the EU. It's a practice that's extremely harmful towards LGBTQ+ people.

The site is a little slow, but keep trying!

It's already banned in some countries but we need a EU wide ban!

We now have eight countries past their thresholds, and we have at least 1,000,000 total votes.

So keep signing & voting!

https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/screen/home

#lgbtqia #europe

Nicolas Strobl May 9

Der Postillon 📯May 9

Endlich: Friedrich Merz bekommt Zahnarzttermin https://www.der-postillon.com/2025/05/merz-zahnarzt.html

Endlich: Friedrich Merz bekommt Zahnarzttermin

Berlin (dpo) - Darauf hat er lange warten müssen: Nach fast zwei Jahren Wartezeit hat Friedrich Merz endlich einen Zahnarzttermin bekommen,...

Blogger

Nicolas Strobl May 1

iFixit Apr 30

Shoutout to the marketing ‘expert’ who mailed a large, battery-powered, LCD-equipped video greeting card to our CEO to demonstrate their innovative approach to ignoring the #ewaste crisis. Bold strategy.

We’ll be sure to reach out if we need help shipping steaks and leather handbags to PETA.

Nicolas Strobl Apr 29

Not only is one German state moving from Microsoft to LibreOffice, but the whole federal government is committing to move to open standards by 2027: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/04/29/germany-committing-to-odf-and-open-document-standards/

Germany committing to ODF and open document standards - The Document Foundation Blog

Digital sovereignty is of vital importance for data freedom. If governments and organisations use proprietary or pseudo-standard formats, they limit the tools that citizens can use to access data. So we’re happy to see that the IT Planning Council in Germany is committing to move to the Open Document Format – a fully standardised format […]

The Document Foundation Blog

Nicolas Strobl Apr 8

@Techaltar love the video! Really interesting overview.
Regarding technology I am frankly amazed that there is no requirement for a unified and open standard in the EU yet. Disregarding the requirement for it to be only under European authority (even though that should definitely be the goal), how is this not a thing yet?

Toran "Torspedia" Shaw Apr 29

@libreoffice just wish my university would let us submit assignments in .ODF format, as we can only really use Word... and as a Linux user that means Word Online, which is slow and clunky.

@toran Oh no! Ask your uni why they won't accept standardised formats, and force students to use specific software. It's the exact opposite of what unis should be doing. If they say "We use Microsoft Office/365", point out that Microsoft also supports ODF so they should at least accept documents in that format!

karlggest Apr 29

@libreoffice
Microsoft support to odf is poor.
@toran

Patrik Apr 29

@karlggestd @libreoffice @toran Microsoft's support for ISO OOXML (“their own open standard”) is also poor. So, what?

⊥ᵒᵚ⁄Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️Apr 29

@PatrikSchoenfeldt @karlggestd @libreoffice @toran Microsoft's support for older .doc(x) is poor too!

Toran "Torspedia" Shaw Apr 29

@karlggestd @libreoffice it's even poor for saving LO Writer files as .docx.. as the last time I tried it came back as 'corrupted'.

Toran "Torspedia" Shaw Apr 29

@libreoffice I'll try, ta... they're heavily invested in the MS ecosystem, as we're given 365 accounts on sign up.

Didn't know that Word also opens .odf files, so will ask them about it. Ta! 🙂

Robo Apr 29

@toran can't you use LibreOffice to save the document in .doc/.docx format? I used to do that when I was in University.

Jeremy List Apr 29

@neurob @toran @libreoffice that's what I did in first year and then in second year my math and humanities classes started wanting assignments in PDF and my computer science classes started wanting assignments in LaTeX.

Toran "Torspedia" Shaw May 2

@neurob @libreoffice tried that, but the tutor told me that the document was partially corrupted.

Gal also works Apr 29

@toran @libreoffice i don't mean to sound sarcastic but can't you just export as .docx or .doc? IIRC LibreOffice supports it

Jeremy List Apr 29

@Sir_Ga1ahad @toran @libreoffice I hear that such documents don't always look exactly the same when opened in MS office, but the vast majority of the time it's close enough that you don't need to worry about it.

Toran "Torspedia" Shaw May 2

@Sir_Ga1ahad @libreoffice not if the tutor can't open it.

Bill Zaumen Apr 29

@toran @libreoffice If you are just submitting a class assignment, is there any reason why you can't send them a PDF file---libreoffice can export a document in that format. I'd presume what you submit is read-only.

Toran "Torspedia" Shaw May 2

@bzdev @libreoffice because they add comments to the assignment, when they return it, for feed back so we can improve for the next one.

Bart Knubben Apr 29

@libreoffice Thanks. Can you also share a reference to the source document that contains this decision?

@bartknubben It's linked to in the blog post: "More information (in German) on this page."

Dominik Apr 29

@libreoffice
Thank you in the interests of all, except the overpowering large corporations! ✌️ 🍀

Petra van Cronenburg Apr 29

@libreoffice That's fine. But let's hope that the new government doesn't pull out ... (the paper is from March, the new government will be installed in May.)

Bernd Apr 29

@NatureMC @libreoffice Interesting that the paper was published in the interim period after the general elections but before chancellor vote and appointment of new ministers.

Petra van Cronenburg Apr 29

@hopfgeist This is completely normal: the old government is in office until the new one officially enters the Bundestag. @libreoffice

Bernd Apr 29

@NatureMC @libreoffice Sure, the old government remains in office until the new one is elected/appointed, but it is still interesting to craft a policy paper when you don't know if the incoming government will honour it. When in fact, you have good reason to suspect that they won't, because they are traditionally rather biassed towards big corporations. Not saying they couldn't or shouldn't do it, but conspicuous timing, nonetheless.

Petra van Cronenburg Apr 29

@hopfgeist No, it's normal.
If you only decided things every time that you thought another future government would approve, politics would no longer be possible. Every government utilises its term of office until the last day, especially as steps backwards are often costly and not so easy. It is common practice.

@libreoffice ils ont mis du temps avant de comprendre

@wmpv4321 @libreoffice mieux vaut tard que jamais. Autant nous en réjouir. En France nous n'avons aucune leçon a donner quand on coït le nombre de postes informatiques dépendants des GAFAMs

@seyfr @libreoffice ce que je ne comprend pas c'est qu'ils y vont en tatonnant alors que ca parait evident

@wmpv4321 @libreoffice ça la dessus on est d'accord. Mais j'imagine que pour les vieillards qui commandent c'est tout nouveau et ils ne sont pas rassurés 🤣

@seyfr @libreoffice pr les gouvernants , oui il faut commencer avec l'utilisation de la souris comment on déplace le curseur , c'est pas évident ^^

@wmpv4321 @libreoffice un oeil sur l'écran, un oeil sur le clavier !

@seyfr @libreoffice pour la france y a les dépôts de code et la mise en avant des projets opensource mais pour les postes il faudrait viser une entreprise informatique qui fait du logiciel opensource

@wmpv4321 @libreoffice dans les faits la plupart des logiciels utilisés (dans la fonction publique au moins niveau universités et Région pour ce que je sais de ma propre expérience) sont a minima propriétaires, bien souvent américains. Le libre et made un EU bien que "promu" par le ministère du numérique n'est installé quasiment nulle part.

@seyfr @libreoffice pour l'université , j'ai noté moodle et roundcube , apres on a pu toucher libreoffice pour la rédaction , et pour la presentation , l'éditeur de code en opensource évidemment , à continuer ainsi.

@wmpv4321 @libreoffice intéressant. L'UFR avec lequel je travaillais était peut-être un peu plus hermétique malgré le nombre de libristes parmi nous.

@seyfr @libreoffice et ubuntu pour l'os

digituba Apr 29

@libreoffice this is great, I really hope the rest of the world follows. Thanks for doing what you do!

wakest ⁂Apr 29

@libreoffice is the "Standardisierungsboard" thats tasked with enacting this framework @FITKOfoederal?

wakest ⁂Apr 29

Speaking of which: @FITKOfoederal's Wikipedia page is only in German, https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%B6derale_IT-Kooperation, this could really use some translation into other languages!

Föderale IT-Kooperation – Wikipedia

codo Apr 29

How is #OpenDocumentFormat interoperability these days? The last #odfplugfest was 8 years ago.

https://odfplugfest.org

ODF plugfest homepage

Robert Berger Apr 29

I will believe it after it is done.
Not before.

@Robbe_Duesseldorf @libreoffice

guenther Apr 29

yeah this is just some council that doesn't decide shit and in the end we'll just spend millions of tax euros on Microsoft 365 and possibly google cloud, like always.

Enea Lecas Apr 29

@libreoffice Great stuff! Way to go!

leyrer Apr 29

@libreoffice which means, they will stick with MS and just change the default format ...

Dieu Apr 29

@leyrer @libreoffice We're also very likely in for a rush of basest anality, unfettered cronyism and apocalyptic incompetence. Wouldn't bet on anything at the moment.

@libreoffice or just maybe They don't have enought money to continue using Microsoft apps ? Just got this in my mind. In poland some hospitals also using Libre and it is really bad to work with. And this is just because they dont't want to buy. Not because of security or other major problems. Just because of money.

nicole mikołajczyk Apr 29

@proxydark @libreoffice You can continue using Microsoft Office while switching to Open Document Format (supported since 2009), which would be reasonable in such a case where public administration workers are most likely familiar with it.

@mkljczk @libreoffice but the problem is simple .. converting documents are not 100% same , diference between .docx and .odt are quite big and mostly crashes documents or making huge changes.

@mkljczk @libreoffice albo mówiąc prościej. Jak w szpitalu użyją .odt .. potem idą z tym do Dyrektora placówki , który ma Worda często gęsto wszystko się rozjeżdża :)

nicole mikołajczyk Apr 29

@proxydark @libreoffice Pamiętaj że poza użytkownikami MS Office i paroma nerdami trzymającymi się LibreOffice są też np. osoby używające Google Docs. Wydaje mi się że przenośność ODF między różnym oprogramowaniem wygląda jednak dużo lepiej niż przy O„O”XML

@mkljczk @libreoffice też fakt :)

08956495 Apr 29

@libreoffice I really hope that as they make the move they are also donating to the Open Source alternatives they are using.