For Molly, I kept seeing this popup by Google when downloading Molly FOSS from fdroid.
Should I be concerned? What should I do to ensure I am downloading Molly from a trusted source if Fdroid isn't an ideal place (due to misleading names as depicted in the referenced post)?
I used to work in a place where we constantly got looked at by security companies and consultants. The wisdom of that time? Companies don’t hire security firms and consultants to find nothing, so no matter how asinine or impractical it is, they’ll still file it because an empty report is bad for business.
Our security handling was pretty strict, and we had to constantly talk customers off the ledge and kindly inform them that their consultant was blowing crazy swamp gas up their asses. My favorite was a firm that listed all Easter eggs as a vulnerability. An open source package could raise the list of developers with a secret key combo, and so the customer saw this on their report and raised a stink. The customer had no idea what this all meant, but their consultant had scared the crap out of them, so we had to layer on a patch to disable the stupid thing.
The last place I worked, we had a cyber security team, whose job it was to send us CVEs to investigate. I mean random CVEs that had zero relevance to our systems or the technologies we used. Sometimes they sent us low level kernel type CVEs and expected us to explain why we weren’t affected. Mostly it was a waste of time. If they knew how to do their job, they’d have a list of technologies we used on each project and could filter out the irrelevant stuff, instead of wasting developer time.
Found a neat little program that will compile, split, merge, and rename chapters in fiction all with the keyboard. Some commands conflict with screen readers so I suggest not using this program for reviewing your writing, but for compiling. It was designed to be keyboard exclusive and is at least 70% accessible, with some dialogs not reading unless in browse mode. warewoolf. https://github.com/brsloan/warewoolf#OpenSource#BlindCommunity@foss
Having seen a couple of data driven disasters, I’ve gotten extremely suspicious of data driven business. I’ve ranted about this in some earlier comments, but it seems to very often be the case that the business “intelligence” people producing the data not only apply statistics wrong (things like taking averages of averages when the sets have very different sizes, or not taking into account how skewed the distribution of some variable is etc etc), but also tend to define “KPIs” so that they don’t necessarily measure what they believe they’re measuring in the first place. On top of all that, there’s also the fact that using “engagement” (however the hell they measure or mismeasure it in each particular case) as a key metric that you try to optimize most likely won’t lead you to build a better product as much as it’ll be a product that takes up more of the users’ time.
@rkw_social@MacroCyclo I think so as well, yes. LibreOffice is the most maintained FOS solution to Microsoft Word. Microsoft has a billion times better accessibility support, but then again, big tech is always lightyears ahead of accessibility support, sadly! Still, I hope that tide is shifting.
Maybe give the OnlyOffice Desktop Editors a spin, too. Don’t get me wrong, LibreOffice is great and all, but OnlyOffice looks and feels a lot more familiar to Word/Excel/PowerPoint users. I’ve found that its handling of document formatting is better than LibreOffice’s.
I was wondering how it saved files if it’s livecd only:
“At the moment, GhostWriter can save files only to a diskette. It can’t write them to to a hard drive or a USB drive. Admittedly, saving files to a floppy is easy. The desktop menu includes commands to mount and unmount a diskette drive. But many newer computers don’t come with floppy disk drives.”
This project seems like something someone made for themselves just to fuck around. I don’t know why anyone else would need this.
@OpenSource@foss It would be great if we had a LineageOS/GrapheneOS image that would be similar to Linux distros where they could be installed on any Android phone and it would auto download/install all the drivers needed for the phone to be fully functional. I really hope there is some work being done on this in the background.