Dione Maddern

@Twistappel
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Australian living in the USA. Game Master, technical writer, occasional artist. Opinions are my own.
PronounsShe/Her or They/Them
InterestsDigital art, Folklore, FOSS, Linux, TTRPGs, Video Games
Bloghttps://twistappel.github.io/
Linkstackhttps://linksta.cc/@dionemaddern
Wait so... exactly how many pairs of socks do I get? I'm so confused. #ConsumerHell

#documents #LibreOffice #Markdown

'Specifically, LibreOffice 26.2 supports the version called CommonMark.'

https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/09/markdown_in_libreoffice/

LibreOffice learns to speak Markdown in version 26.2

: Plain-text fans rejoice as Writer gains native CommonMark import and export

The Register
What’s at stake in the fight against age verification is not just a single bill in a single state. It’s about whether “protecting children” becomes a legal pretext for embedding government control online that reinforces specific moral and religious worldviews. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/rep-finke-was-right-age-gating-isnt-about-kids-its-about-control
Rep. Finke Was Right: Age-Gating Isn’t About Kids, It’s About Control

What’s at stake is whether “protecting children” becomes a legal pretext for embedding government control over the internet to enforce specific moral and religious judgments—judgments that deny marginalized people access to speech, community, history, and truth—into law.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Twistappel/116201194486564728

So much for shorts weather. At least I have my stylish #LibreOffice hoodie to keep me warm.

Horses can't use laptops.

They use maneframes.

Good afternoon. Please enjoy some random old-people #music.

Here's Johnny by Hocus Pocus
#Hardcore #Electronic #1993

https://youtu.be/hgl-ZUWQ_Qo?si=BFgDnryZqGBx8QxW

Hocus Pocus - Here's Johnny!

YouTube
I'd just like you to know that the reason user guides do not contain sarcastic remarks is because of style guides and sheer force of will. Not because they didn't occur to the authors during the writing process.
#TechnicalWriting

"This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper"

Thus, with a faint clicking noise, the staff at The Gamers' Tavern turned off the lights in the Discord server many of us called home for almost 4 years.

I won't waste your time explaining how Discord has lost its way, or the heavy toll its latest choices have taken on the most fragile and persecuted among us. I will instead tell you that we will always fight those choices, even when it will be hard, hard as leaving our digital home.

But worry not friends, for we have a new home. The Gamers' Tavern is now on Discourse (a self hosted instance in EU, protected by GDPR). Answering the most common doubt, Discourse is a forum but also has chat functionalities and we are customising it following the community needs and feedbacks. Plus...we may have other news soon 👀 just sayin'.

We will always fight for you and your rights to privacy and being safe.
We will always fight to protect our users and keep our part of the public staff contract (more here) and respecting the rules

We will always strive to be a cosy, safe and heartwarming community, may it be in this tool or that tool.

If you want to know more or taste first hand if I'm telling the truth, join us @ TGT's Discourse instance

No BS, no ads, no tracking cookies, no unnecessary data.
Your data is your data.

#TheGamersTavern #Discourse #Discord #Community #Safe #Cosy

THE STAFF

Members Alex Harrybo Jamie BrakeOut Gaming Missiongiraffe What we will do for you The staff promise to do the following: moderate a...

The Gamers' Tavern
Looking at my incoming mail items from USPS and wishing there was some way to add a spam filter to my physical mailbox.
Another update for today: We're planning to revive LibreOffice Online, a web-based version of the suite that users can deploy on their own infrastructure: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/02/24/libreoffice-online-a-fresh-start/