Greenpepper

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Office EU - Europe's Open-Source Productivity Suite in c/foss@beehaw.org
[–] Greenpepper@beehaw.org 2 points 1 month ago

Thanks for clearing that up. The similarity of the names is very confusing and had me completely fooled.

Office EU - Europe's Open-Source Productivity Suite in c/foss@beehaw.org
[–] Greenpepper@beehaw.org 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Answering my own question, here is a link to a blog post from The Document Foundation, https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/03/27/odf-is-the-future-ooxml-is-the-past/. The criticism of The Document Foundation centers around the use of Microsoft OOXML format in OnlyOffice instead of the truly open ODF standard in LibreOffice.

Office EU - Europe's Open-Source Productivity Suite in c/foss@beehaw.org
[–] Greenpepper@beehaw.org 13 points 1 month ago (3 children)

That was my first thought too. Apparently Euro-office is based on OnlyOffice. According to Nextcloud and IONOS "Libre Office is 35 years old and no longer the most innovative and fluid". For more detail: https://www.heise.de/en/news/Microsoft-alternative-Nextcloud-and-Ionos-develop-open-source-Euro-Office-11228123.html. I would like to hear what The Document Foundation thinks about this.

Office EU - Europe's Open-Source Productivity Suite in c/foss@beehaw.org
[–] Greenpepper@beehaw.org 17 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Reading from Wikipedia: Euro-Office is an upcoming open-source office suite and collaborative software platform based on OnlyOffice that provides editors for documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and PDFs. The software includes web-based, desktop, and mobile applications designed for document creation, editing, and collaborative work

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Office EU - Europe's Open-Source Productivity Suite (office.eu)
A curated list of awesome FOSS games in c/foss@beehaw.org
[–] Greenpepper@beehaw.org 2 points 3 months ago

I checked the website and you're right, the game engine is free but the mods require files from the original games.

Looking for photo organization software in c/foss@beehaw.org
[–] Greenpepper@beehaw.org 5 points 3 months ago

My current Linux distro (MX) came with gThumb which grew on me over time. It's simple, fast and covers the basics. Linux only. https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Gthumb

A curated list of awesome FOSS games in c/foss@beehaw.org
[–] Greenpepper@beehaw.org 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Another RTS suggestion, OpenRA: https://www.openra.net/

Paramilitary massacres unfolding in Sudan’s Darfur, videos show in c/news@beehaw.org
[–] Greenpepper@beehaw.org 3 points 6 months ago

I totally agree. On a personal level the least we can do to be helpful by donating e.g to the International Rescue Committee (https://www.rescue.org/) or by letting our voice be heard.

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Paramilitary massacres unfolding in Sudan’s Darfur, videos show (www.msn.com)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by Greenpepper@beehaw.org to c/news@beehaw.org
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The blackout makes it impossible to assess the full scale of the massacres, but the videos that have trickled out provide a horrifying glimpse. Some were filmed and proudly posted online by RSF fighters, showing them taunting crowds of terrified people before shooting them at close range. Most prominent in the videos is RSF Brigadier General Al-Fateh Abdullah Idris, nicknamed Abu Lulu, who boasted on Monday that he may have killed more than 2,000 people.

An aid worker helping fleeing civilians, speaking on the condition of anonymity for safety reasons, said his organization had heard multiple accounts that men and teenage boys were being separated from their families and beaten, tortured or killed. “Numerous reports emerged of hundreds, if not thousands, of civilians in El Fashir being targeted and killed on ethnic grounds,” the aid worker said. The U.N. Human Rights Office said Monday it was “receiving multiple, alarming reports” that RSF forces were “carrying out atrocities, including summary executions.”

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Elon Musk’s Grokipedia launches with AI-cloned pages from Wikipedia (www.theverge.com)
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noyb win: Microsoft 365 Education may not track school children (noyb.eu)
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RIAA: Telegram & Discord Are Notorious Hubs For Pre-Release Music Piracy * TorrentFreak (torrentfreak.com)
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Larry Ellison’s quest to run the world (www.theverge.com)
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Meta’s Ray-Ban Display Glasses And The New Glassholes (hackaday.com)
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A Deep Dive On Creepy Cameras (hackaday.com)
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Plex tells users to reset passwords after new data breach (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
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Wikipedia is under attack — and how it can survive (www.theverge.com)
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Threat actors abuse X’s Grok AI to spread malicious links (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
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Because Grok is automatically a trusted system account on the X platform, its post boosts the link's credibility, reach, SEO, and reputation, increasing the likelihood that it will be broadcast to a large number of users.

The researcher has found that many of these links funnel through shady ad networks, leading to scams such as fake CAPTCHA tests, information-stealing malware, and other malicious payloads.

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EFF Statement on ICE Use of Paragon Solutions Malware (www.eff.org)
What non-FOSS software have you been unable to quit? in c/foss@beehaw.org
[–] Greenpepper@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

Solvespace is a FLOSS light weight 3D CAD alternative. Although it lacks the advanced features of Solidworks works really great for most of my 3d designs.

You probably don't need a VPN in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] Greenpepper@beehaw.org 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Another good use for VPN is to counter dynamic pricing. My wife visited a website some time ago to request the price for a ticket. When she visited the website a second time the price had increased considerably. However when visiting the price with VPN it was the original price again. It saved her a lot of money.

Migrating from Google Podcasts to AntennaPod: why and how to do it – AntennaPod in c/foss@beehaw.org
[–] Greenpepper@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

I liked it but until an annoying bug drove me to Podverse which is also pretty good.

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