nixCraft 🐧Interest in LibreOffice, the open-source alternative to Microsoft Office, is on the rise, with weekly downloads of its software package close to 1 million a week as users look to avoid subscription costs. That’s the highest download number since 2023. It works on Linux, macOS, Windows and Unix like systems. https://www.computerworld.com/article/3840480/libreoffice-downloads-on-the-rise-as-users-look-to-avoid-subscription-costs.html
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Greg WilsonI know it's only November, but I'd like to make a request: if you are buying toys for kids in the next couple of months, and think you might have old ones that you want to clear out, please consider donating them before the holidays rather than after. Shelters and charities always get a glut of donations in January, but they'd be more useful to the families who need them now rather than then. Thank you.
OvercastUpdate 2024.8 is now in the App Store!
Fixes:
- A bug that sometimes reset episode order in playlists
- A bug that could lose playback progress
- Launching on visionOS
- Siri suggestions for playback
- Siri support for playlists and podcasts by name, e.g. "Play my Queue playlist on Overcast" (now works from HomePods, too)
@overcastfm Hello! I'm really enjoying the overcast overhaul so far! One small thing I noticed is that I can't click on the podcast title to go to the original website anymore... Is that an intended behavior?
Waldo JaquithThis is brilliant. In Germany, it's popular to buy €200 solar panel / inverter combos that plug into a nearby power outlet, feeding the power back into the grid, running their power meter backwards. "Installation" just takes a minute. Folks in apartments simply hang them from their balcony “like wet laundry.” Over 500,000 have been sold. With power at €0.25/kWh, the payback time is about 27 months—after that, it's just free electricity. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/29/business/germany-solar-panels-climate-change.html?unlocked_article_code=1._E0.zL83.1FCeoxOrFDBY&smid=url-share
kcarruthersAnd everyone who said said I was being alarmist in predicting that the GOP were coming for the following can get fucked:
- abortion
- same sex marriage
- contraception
- no fault divorce
- mixed race marriages
The GOP and Christian Nationalists hate women and will only be happy when they have completely subjugated women again
They hate LGBTQI folks too and want them dead.
And they don’t think people of colour are human.
OpenAI, Mircosoft, and Google together kill the open web. Thousands of independent blogs and forums are now nowhere in search engines or pushed back to page two to support their AI and partnerships with Reddit, StackOverflow, and more. Many humans contributed to these sites hoping to build a knowledge base for humanity, but now greedy people like Sama and OpenAI are taking over everything.
Everyone should immediately stop contributing to the stack overflow and its network. The human touch is what made it unique. Delete your profile from SO AND all your answers. Freeloaders are making money out of human contributions.
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Jen SorensenI've been drawing strips for years about attacks on students' right to protest, yet strangely I've never been invited to give a TED Talk, speak at an "ideas festival," or pen a column for the Atlantic.
This is from 2016.
