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> The deck acknowledges Receptionist. It would also like to acknowledge that it last spoke with a CISO asking about a very similar matter. The cards are not judgmental. They are, however, observant, and they find the timing of the role change worth a comment.

It is a little bit sarcastic.


But only in a very dry way, not in-your-face way.

If Libreoffice, in addition to not have feature parity with MS Office, now has a similar per-seat pricing... what exactly is the value proposition?

I don't know. What value does non-paying enterprise users give to Libreoffice?

What value do non-paying FOSS users give?

> a non-intrusive banner that appears monthly on a transition screen and asks users who save hundreds of euros or dollars a year to consider making a voluntary contribution is not scandalous

Showing that actually pretty intrusive banner would undermine their argument.


This prompted me to look it up.

Are we seriously talking about a white box with placeholder text, or has there been a development since then?

https://www.phoronix.com/image-viewer.php?id=2026&image=libr...


How does LibreOffice save people hundreds?

By providing a free competent competitor to other Office software bundles.

Oh come on. If you can create a better program without ever asking for donations, feel free to do so.

This is a bad argument. Established things are established. “If you don’t like what the president of your country is doing, just run for the office yourself.”

"Established things are established" BUT "established things don't always stay there." Things can change, if many people will support said change. The power of many is really something.

Exactly. And it seems that "many people" do not, in fact, support this change, to the point Libreoffice felt necessary to defend it after the fact on their official website.

Maybe "many people" remember what's been going on at Mozilla over the past decade. After all, Mozilla went there before and set the example of downward slope: first donations then partnerships, first opt-in then opt-out then automatically installed addons, first "contribute to the browser" then to sideprojects/non-technical causes, etc.

A similar case could be made for Wikimedia.


Okay cool, I don't ask for donations. Instead I just sell my product, something like a Office 2024 license. 120 Eur a year, but feel free to use it as long as you like. That's what I bought recently. I don't want Microsoft 365 with the cloud storage, I pay Dropbox for that and use some other client to use it basically as a extra storage device for backups. I just need an Office suite, Excel, Word, Powerpoint. Yes: LibreOffice is nice and all, but doesn't work for MY needs.

But I get your point: having a succesful Open Source (FLOSS) app without dono's isn't possible, you need to have some to make it work anyhow.


Does the system work for other tenants? No? Then it's not a repair, just a backdoor.

The article must be pretty great if that's the strongest argument against it. Thanks! Added to the reading list.

2 years ago, LLMs failed at answering coherently. Last year, they failed at answering fast on optimized servers. Now, they're failing at answering fast on underpowered handheld devices... I can't wait to see what they'll be failing to do next year.

Probably the one elephant in the roomy thing that matters: failing to say they don't know/can't answer

With tool use, it's actually quite doable!

Claude does it all the time, in my experience.

Same here, it's even told me "I don't have much experience with this, you probably know better than me, want me to help with something else?".

The speed on a constrained device isn't entirely the point. Two years ago, LLMs failed at answering coherently. Now...

You're absolutely right. Now, LLMs are too slow to be useful on handheld devices, and the future of LLMs is brighter than ever.

LLMs can be useful, but quite often the responses are about as painful as LinkedIn posts. Will they get better? Maybe. Will they get worse? Maybe.


> Will they get better? Maybe. Will they get worse? Maybe.

I find it hard to understand your uncertainty; how could they not keep getting even better when we've been seeing qualitative improvements literally every second week for months on end? These improvements being eminently public and applied across multiple relevant dimensions: raw inference speed (https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases), external-facing capabilities (https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/releases) and performance against established benchmarks (https://unsloth.ai/docs/models/qwen3.5/gguf-benchmarks)


There are many metrics for “better” and “worse”. It is entirely possible for an AI system to be better in the sense of hallucination while also being of less utility. An arrogant prick who’s always correct isn’t always a good person to have on your team, right?

See here for how Amazon's mega menu was designed around this problem:

https://bjk5.com/post/44698559168/breaking-down-amazons-mega...


It's slightly irritating to see Amazon get credit for that, when Bruce Tognazzini used that same solution 40 years ago when working on the classic MacOS interface!

(Apple forgot about it again for OS X, but that's a different story.)


From the article:

> I’m sure this problem was solved years and years ago, forgotten, rediscovered, solved again, forgotten, rediscovered, solved again.


From the NN/g article:

"older versions of MacOS featured a menu designed by NN/g principal Bruce Tognazzini; that menu did not exhibit this behavior, but instead, used a vector-based triangular buffer to allow users to move diagonally. Unfortunately, in the years since, Apple has reverted this excellent bit of interaction design."

But I'm on macOS 15 and the menus seem to behave that way (the good way). Did they re-implement it?


Yes, they did eventually. If I'm understanding correctly, the original design used a simple funnel shape with 45 degree sides (suitable for the resource-limited systems of the day), and when they eventually re-implemented it they used a funnel defined by the left hand corners of the submenu, as per the Amazon design. (See the large animgif halfway down https://thomaspark.co/2011/10/making-menus-escapable/ )

Track not the ship itself but the planes that take off and land on it. Many sites will expose their paths, you'll see the planes circling in a pattern around "some void" - that's the ship.

Many sites? Can you show me any De Gaulle aircraft currently in-flight?

You can find yesterday's location easily on flightradar24.com. Try it it will make you feel like an ossint sleuth or something. Look to the south of Cyprus.

Now that's not realtime because I'm telling you after the fact. But if you were paid to do it, of course, then you'd spend some money on an actual account on this and similar services, which would get you many more filters and much more precise data.


If de Gaulle is turning off AIS, it stands to reason that it's also turning off the transponders in the air wing.

The US tried this with their Venezuela raid. It resulted in a tanker almost hitting a passenger plane twice in two days. [0]

Turning off AIS while allowing civilian traffic is incredibly risky, and creating a huge no-fly zone in the Med is politically tricky.

[0]: https://edition.cnn.com/2025/12/16/americas/venezuela-near-c...


They didn't “try” anything, they did something they routinely do.

Not at all, depends on the mission. In fact you can spot yesterday's location of the ship right now on flightradar.

It was patrolling ~100km below Cyprus's main southern city.

Move the timeline to yesterday, find a non-Boeing military plane in that zone, enable flight traces and keep trying planes until you see an ovoidal pattern circling around "nothing"... but that nothingness moves over time.m; that's the ship.



> In fact you can spot yesterday's location of the ship right now on flightradar.

No need to go that far. Macron did press conferences in Cyprus and on the Charles de Gaulle. You just need a passing glance at the headlines of a French newspaper. Or any decent international news channel (granted, that’s a bit tricky in the US).


Maybe, maybe not. When the US did their venezuela maduro operation they turned on adsb on f15e for whatever reason. And only turned it on for like a portion of the mission so maybe that wasn’t intentional.

You don't even need a free account on flightradar24 to track its planes, at least two launch from it and pattern circle around it almost daily.

That relies on transponders which can be switched of if decision is taken to do so.

Sure, and they don't decide to do that in many cases.

That's fine, it's pretty good slop and from the comments history even entertaining at times.

> my grandmother had a cookie jar collection and I always thought it was weird until I realized she was basically running a primitive NFT gallery except the tokens were actually useful because they contained cookies


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