freeman

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Introducing Proton Sheets⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There are probably a lot of programms that do aspects of Excel better. But the combined might you weild if you know how to use Excel is very powerful. I tried LibreOffice and OnlyOffice and the spreadsheet part of those office suites is the roughest one until today.

  But my comment was more about how much of our economy probably runs on Excel. And I experienced how badly Excel and for example LibreOffice Calc plays together, it makes switching very hard. A complex .xlsx is far from being rendered and calculated correctly in LibreOffice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Introducing Proton Sheets⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Good luck.

  If Excel ever gets replaced, then we know that we overcame Microsoft.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Swiss government urges people to ditch Microsoft 365 and others due to lack of proper encryption⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  We have a lot of different political and government bodies. Like the “checks and balances” the US had. So when you read “Switzerland wants to…” it could be:

  • A survey of people living in Switzerland
  • A initiative (an official political vote done by the swiss citicens)
  • One big or multiple parties signing an agreement
  • A group of cantons or communal legislative or executive politicians
  • A group of semi-official people (like the conference of cantonal privacy-advocates (“Kantonale Datenschützer”, keine Ahnung wie all das Zeug auf Englisch heisst, Hilfe)
  • Our parliament or a comitee in it
  • Our other parliament or a comitee in it
  • The federal court
  • The federal chancelor
  • The federal government

  I probably forgot a few and misspelt a lot but you get the idea. And all of them are different elected or appointed persons, with their own opinions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Migrating Dillo from GitHub⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Project objectives

  Lower the barrier of entry to the web.
  

  Download

  Download the latest release 3.2.0 and follow the README.md instructions to build Dillo.

  Nice

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Introducing SlopStop: Community-driven AI slop detection in Kagi Search⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  AI-driven community detection 👎🏻

  Community-driven AI detection 👍🏻

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In Praise of RSS and Controlled Feeds of Information⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t forget to backup your subscriptions. Its really easy, it just generates a opml textfile, which every other reader could import.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨America could have avoided all of this with a functional justice system⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or a proportional voting system, that doesnt produce a two party situation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A robot programmed to act like a 7-year-old girl works to combat fear and loneliness in hospitals⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree, but usually the vendor picks the highest bidder ;)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Campaigners urge EU to mandate 15 years of OS updates⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What would that mean for Linux distros? It seems like it could be a law that cuts off the competition. Like amazon who is very selectively for better working conditions when the know that no competitior can fulfull them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tea is basically just salad water.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait till you hear about fruit salad

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dedicated music server or all-in-one media server?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Symphonium supports playlists. You can make a own manual playlist or a “smart” playlist, which has the x amount of least listened to songs, the 10 highest rated ones and so on. Everything is on the listening device local, so you have to backup for yourself. Symphonium is really really customizable.

  Screenshot_20250829_135759 Sorry for german. A setting for an intelligent playlist for all highly rated songs which I havent listented to in 70 days. (AND/OR) can be set for rules. Its amazing.

  Music recommendation is not really a thing unfortunately by the nature which most of download->server->jellyfin->client systems run. I sometimes use listenbrainz (by the musicbrainz team) like lastfm

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dedicated music server or all-in-one media server?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Jellyfin works nicely for music, as long as you use a good client. The native jellyfin mobile app is not optimized for music. I use symphonium for android listening and am very pleased with it. More settings than Id ever need, different options for downloading/caching songs on device, support for subtitles and all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A handful of people are slowly killing over 8 billion people, but we're expected to sit idly by and let it happen⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nonviolent but measures like unions and strikes do very much work. I just say that annectotaly but there is probably some study about it.

  They are probably considered “violent” or maybe only “agggrssive” behaviour by the capitalist class, because it threatens their income/revenue. Thats enough to make them change.

  Completly overthrowing a whole economic system might work but is a big ask. Everyday people can do little things. Like unionizing, standing up to the boss or maybe even stand together with the boss and against the next higher-up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epstein puts my morality into perspective⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or specifically bred/GMOd soy and corn which gets used for animal food instead of soy and corn humans could eat.

  (Nothing against GMO, but against our high animal produce consumption)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The most Microsoft support document of all time – OSnews⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not to forget Teams (new)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump social media site brought down by Iran hackers⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hacking a Social Media profile --> Tearing down a poster Hacking a Website --> defacing a facade

  If the blinds arent closed by or a window is left open by accident, some information could get out. If the doors arent locked, the attacker could get access to further information.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half-Life 3 Has Been Designed to be ‘The Final Chapter’, It’s Claimed⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair we know that a HL Sequel was worked on by Valve several times but always scrapped in various stages of production. So the rumours really came from somewhere reasonable and not just from pure speculation and desperation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The 17th Year Anniversary of the Fediverse network is upon us!⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s federated porn? 0.o

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Airbnb will now show users the total cost of their stay right away⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it shouldnt be on the consumers but on the lawmaker. Tax airbnbs like real bnbs or like hotels or there are many other levers that can be pulled to make it less profitable than renting to locals

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have I Been Pwned owner, pwned.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thats why we have RSS feeds. Thats how I follow Troy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big Tech Wants You Trapped. The Open Web Sets You Free⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I use Tusky and am satisfied, maybe there are better apps idk

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, maybe use it with a pseudonym account, with several accounts or only when on holidays (on hikes for example, its like geocaching!).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A new study found adaptive traffic signals powered by big data reduced peak-hour travel times by 11% in China’s 100 most congested cities – saving 31.73 million tonnes of CO₂ annually.⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In Switzerland we have sensors in the streets at most crossings. And behind it I assume, is a determinate algorithm whoch decides who has green for how long. This mainly is done to avoid the backing up of one crossing into another.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
  • StreetComplete It makes editing OSM addictive and competitive!
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google officially changes the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on Maps⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Street Complete is amazing! Perfect for people who find going on a walk too boring, like me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I benchmarked 6 different metal USB sticks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a stick dangeling on my keychain too, also in heavy use. But due to my Mac-Friends i need one with usb-c. So I settled for this: 81gqM6ouEcL.SL1500-247235771 The hinge is still holding on since almost a year. Also have two of those: sandisk_ultra_dual_usb_c_flash_drive_3-1009136228 But they seem a lot cheaper, flimsier and I probably got ripped off by a dropshipper.

  Havent benchmarked them, if anyone knows of a comparison as good as this one for “dual” usb sticks, let me know!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dropbox lays off 20% of staff, says it overinvested and underperformed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow, Sync seems almost too good to be true, as they are significantly less expensive. Have you experience with it? Are there any drawbacks? Slow speeds or bad integration into Windows Explorer?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My cat lives in a bigger house than I do.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Cats are (at least genetically) used to much bigger and more open areas. So no, a house probably doesnt feel that huge like the relative bodysize would suggest.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean there are chinese spies in europe, which suppress, bully and sometimes even kill chinese journalists who have fleed (?) to europe. And thats not even a conspiracy theory, there were investigative journalists who have uncovered this in several countries. So I’d say that china is reeealy close to that villain line

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All Of Apple’s Foldable iPhone Prototypes Have Visible Creases, Which May Explain The Company’s Apprehension Towards A Launch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I miss small phones