Today marks nine years since the last big OpenOffice update (4.1). If you're still using it, but want something more up-to-date, check out #LibreOffice! It was based on OpenOffice and is also free and open source, but with huge improvements and many fixes: https://www.libreoffice.org/discover/libreoffice/
I just tried to help a friend and found this - wait what, Save As a PDF in MS Office on your local computer, it ... funnels your local document through their cloud service? 🤯
I said everything is better with a mascot, right? 😁
I learned that Tyson Tan, the artist that, among other things, did the KDE and Krita mascot, also designed a mascot, Libbie, for LibreOffice, but the mascot contest was cancelled because stuff wasn't "professional enough" or something. BUT all his art was available, thus, I took inspiration by this (outdated) project https://github.com/sdomi/libbieoffice and set my own Libbie Splash & Icons with his artwork.
I have had enough of Apple, Microsoft and Google indoctrinating their brands on the children I teach (7-11 year olds) so I have gone a little off piste... #opensource#freeware#libreoffice
The #WebP buffer overflow bug that caused all the major browsers to issue patches earlier this week (e.g. #Firefox 117.0.1) also affects applications built with Electron. #1Password issued an update today for their Mac build.
The CVE affects the underlying webp library, not just web browsers, so this will be an ongoing issue.
"Who uses #libwebp?
"There are a lot of applications that use libwebp to render WebP images, I already mentioned a few of them, but some of the others that I know include: #Affinity (the design software), #Gimp, Inkscape [not according to Martin Owens, see comment below], #LibreOffice, #Telegram, #Thunderbird (now patched), #ffmpeg, and many, many #Android applications as well as cross-platform apps built with #Flutter."
Spreadsheet column and row highlighting coming in #LibreOffice 24.2, our next major release! (With new "year.month" version scheme.) Enable it in Tools > Options > LibreOffice Calc > View. Thanks to Sahil Gautam from our community for implementing this feature 😊 #foss#opensource
Das Kabinett hat den Startschuss für den Umstieg auf freie Software gegeben - ein Gewinn für #IT-Sicherheit, #Datenschutz und die heimische Digitalwirtschaft.
Langfristiges Ziel ist die vollständige digitale Souveränität des Landes.
Tried #LibreOffice's dark mode yet? Our Design community added lots of improvements to it in LibreOffice 7.6 – so check it out (Tools > Options > View)... #foss#opensource