"LibreOffice 26.8 contains no generative AI features. Documents are never transmitted to remote services and no component requires network access to function. The suite includes no advertising, no telemetry, no subscription and no account requirement, unlike some well-known proprietary office suites."

#LibreOffice #opensource #odf #openstandards

https://www.slwoods.co.uk/?p=17192

Apathy and bad behaviour are a bigger problem than disagreement. People saying “I don't understand” is not necessarily the problem. We can explain things better. The problem starts when people don't care enough to engage, dismiss ideas without trying to understand them, and turn a discussion into personal attacks.

Apathy creates the space for bad systems to continue. If we don't care, the #dotcons keep doing what they do. If we don't participate, other people make the decisions. If we don't challenge bad behaviour, it becomes normal.

So yes, we should make our language clearer. We should avoid unnecessary jargon and explain the ideas better. But there also has to be some willingness to engage.

You can't build an #openweb, healthy communities or meaningful governance from people who simply don't care - or who respond to disagreement with abuse.

The #openweb needs participation, curiosity, patience and accountability. The opposite of that isn't just ignorance, it's apathy + bad behaviour.

And that is something we need to talk about. #OMN #4opens #openweb #commons #governance #Fediverse #OGB

@sebsauvage 'croyable, il est évidemment bloqué dans mon boîte (qui adore JIRA)

@neil @geoffl It seems like a pretty firm set of regulations. You have to buy a “kit”. The whole kit needs to be approved. There’s a lot you still can’t do.

This is where you can see approvals: https://connect-direct.energynetworks.org/device-databases/search-gen?device_type_id=14

This site is an excellent overall tracker: https://4billionyearson.org/plug-in-solar-uk

@bryce @jnv @h

yet again:

> "Our ethical LLM is built using ethically sourced data bro"
> look inside
> anything they found on huggingface

every fuckin time

Outsourcing brains to trillionaire-owned malfunctioning data centers causes a lot of nasty havok! From my #scifi #cyberpunk adventure Neofeud 2! https://store.steampowered.com/app/4611140/Neofeud_2/
Itch: https://silverspook.itch.io/neofeud2 #retrogame #indiedev #indiegames #steamdeck #art #artist #scifiart #noai

@RegisHaubourg
Ah bah non il n'est pas bloqué.

@JulianOliver it's beautiful, thanks for sharing.

@sebsauvage même effet que j'ai eu avec les jeux de survie il y a quelques années, et j'ai jamais désaturé

@fabi1cazenave cool that you are doing this; maybe #Azul

(as inspired by the board game)

🤖 AI says "change your business practices so our mega brains can do your business for you. Business replies "of course, we'll use AI!"

Business gets rid of all the expensive people that know how stuff works, _then_ hoses AI all over the place... 🧵

big push to try to push "responsible" AI coding as "not *slop*"

just hit another one

> "oh no they're very anti-slop here's their CONTRIBUTING.md"
> list of ways to use the slop bot in their project

come off it with this bullshit, it fools nobody and makes you look like a smarmy collaborator

Geplantes #Polizeigesetz von Rot-Grün Niedersachsen: Drastische Eingriffe in informationelle Selbstbestimmung und hochinvasive Überwachung, doch keine Opposition https://netzpolitik.org/2026/polizeigesetz-niedersachsen-das-vergiftet-alles/ #Palantir

Update on copy/paste being broken on GIMP/Inkscape on macOS (and as it turns out, TIFF loading is also broken on Windows): They won't fix it, because their image loader is legacy on macOS and Windows, but also there are no plans to bring the non-legacy image loader to those platforms.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/work_items/6569#note_2853567

I guess GTK is now deprecated and unmaintained on anything that isn't Linux, and with it every app that uses GTK.

Yayoi Kusama passed away from multiple organ failure at a hospital in Tokyo on Aug. 14, 2026. She was 97.
The renowned Japanese avant-garde artist was best known for her signature polka dots, pumpkin sculptures and quirky, brightly coloured art installations.
Her museum’s official Instagram page said that she “continued to paint until her final days, never setting aside her brush and remained steadfast in her lifelong belief that love can save the world”.
#yayoikusama #globalmuseum #art

There is a correct way to do things, and then there is the way you will eventually do them after staring at the instructions for seven minutes. Both are valid. One has a detour for a tasty snack. #gooderliving

@darnell 🤗

@expertenkommision_cyberunfall @cstross on the blockchain