• alvyn@discuss.tchncs.de
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    EU should really create rule to use only EU FOSS tech for goverment services. For all member states.

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      People are complicated and FOSS isn’t as simple as all or nothing.

      Sometimes people have things setup before they discovered FOSS - it’s hard for me to give up my gmail account from age 14, even though I run my own domain now.

      Sometimes FOSS gets captured - Microsoft owns githib now, which makes tough decisions for all the projects hosted there.

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    What isn’t made clear is if this had anything to do with him being a LibreOffice developer. Or just the usual Kafkaesque bullshit that happens when someone’s account gets flagged for “suspicious activity” or whatever and they cannot get a real human being to help or reverse the problem.

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        Or the terrifyingly-random bullshit that happens when someone chooses to depend on a free service such as Hotmail as their primary mission-critical address. (This article is about the developer getting locked out of their Hotmail, and the generally-broken state of Hotmail’s account recovery process.)

        That could be it. What is certain is that these big corps really don’t want to pay human beings to sort out issues so if you get caught in the middle of some BS you may have no recourse out of it.

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      Or the terrifyingly-random bullshit that happens when someone chooses to depend on a free service such as Hotmail as their primary mission-critical address. (This article is about the developer getting locked out of their Hotmail, and the generally-broken state of Hotmail’s account recovery process.)

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    I am a newbie in LibreOffice, but I am wondering whether me chronicling my first experiences in it would be worth doing.

    I think what we sorely lack is more people like Nick and Michael Horn making approachable tech news about this niche.

    I understand that to some the idea itself of the tech news cycle, focused on its own navel all the time is not appealing, but I think that is exactly there that a channel like this could distinguish itself, showcasing OSS solutions having an impact on the public good, something the usual news outlets cannot afford to do since every second is lost revenue.

    The only risk is being boring.

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    Can someone suggest me good alternatives to both Microsoft’s mailing system (Outlook, etc.), and to Github, just in case?

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    What was a LibreOffice developer doing using Microsoft stuff in the first place?

    If you use Microsoft or Meta or any of the usual suspects, and they screw up or get hacked or behave badly, don’t be all surprised and complain. It’s what they do, and they don’t care, and never listen. You know this.

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    Anyone who has projects on Github they care about, you might wanna move it to self-hosting or another git host while you still can, because once MS gets tired of killing e-mails, Github repos are probably going to start getting sniped next.

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      Even if you stay on GitHub, definitely mirror to another host. Git is designed to be distributed, why not make use of that capability!

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      So either Codeberg, Sourcehut or Gitlab ??

      If you want to quit Git entirely then Fossil which has a built-in GUI & a fully-fledged alternative to both Git & Github & is self-hostable or Darcs/Pijul which are Patch-oriented

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        I host my main repository on my “lab server” at home, I got a copy on codeberg, and my public repo are mirrored on github.

        I specify in the github description that’s a mirror with a link to codeberg.

        Github is the little outcast kid of the bunch…

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        They probably meant purely self hosted. You can self hosted Gitea, Forgejo, GitLab, and probably many others.

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        Self-hosted GitLab is what GNOME and Debian chose to do.

        I still use the main GitLab for most things.

        https://repo.or.cz/ provides just git hosting.

        It’s also relatively easy to just self-host Git, though permissions can be wonky, at least last time I tried.

        I can’t recommend Darcs. Luckily I don’t see MS (or any other corp) being able to take over core Git development. I really should try Pijul again, but least time I played with it, the history/branch visualization (which you can do without, but I really like to have) was actually still worse than Darcs.

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        Or self-host if that’s feasible, MAS has been self-hosting for a while now, for example.

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        Oh man, I hate the whole git system so much, it was like the worst part of coding.

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    This tells me LibreOffice has become a threat to Microsoft, and I’m here for it.

    If anyone else is curious what it’s like, LibreOffice’s site is here. Highly recommend.

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        I don’t think anything in the software world has ever pissed me off as much as the fucking ribbon. “We’ve run out of ideas as far as the UI is concerned - just throw everything up there somewhere, menus, toolbars, whatever”. A close second was their genius idea of hiding unused menu items so the locations of the items you do use are constantly changing.

        I don’t use MS products any more but my 90 yo parents do and it’s a fucking nightmare trying to help them with stuff. MS Office is certifiable elder abuse.

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          Office 97 was the last good Office. No auto-adjusting menus, no ribbons, you could actually provide phone support and have confidence that both people were seeing the same thing.

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        Word is proof that there is no God and that we’re all alone in the cold vacuum of space. Word is every traffic light being red. Word is getting an itchy arsehole because you couldn’t quite wipe yourself properly.

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        Large corporations have zero empathy for competition.

        What will their quarterly report say? Think of the stockholders. (/s)

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          If large corporations have zero empathy for their competition, why do they have such an easy time coordinating raising grocery prices well above the free market optimum?

          Large corporations are owned by capital holders. Often it’s the same set of capital holders owning different corporations because they’ve diversified their assets. It is not in the interest of their owners to have a free market race to the bottom.

          So they make deals. And when socialists force the government to forbid those deals, they find Schelling points where they can make deals without making deals. It’s not collusion; it’s covid supply issues; ask anyone. And with neoliberal/neocon dismantling of regulatory agencies they can just do it.

          So they have empathy for other large corporations. But it goes further than that. At least for now, capital assets are still managed by people. Those people are flesh and blood. They eat, they socialize, they make friends, and they care about their friends and acquaintances. And this caring is embedded into the choices that they make at work, where they compete against their friends and acquaintances.

          So large corporations have empathy not just for other corporations, but also for rich people in general. Golden parachutes, nepotist appointments, favors, massively overpaid C-suite execs and expensive consultancy jobs from each other’s hobby projects.

          Corporations bleed trillions of dollars for the sake of empathy with their competitors and with private individuals, they just won’t accept a competitor to bourgeoisie hegemony.

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          It’s not even that. It’s way smaller potatoes down in the org chart.

          People always say “why would large company do this” and the answer is almost always that guy 7 or 8 rows down the org chart needs this to get their bonus this year and that point gets distilled into 1 bullet in a power point presentation that is summarized by chatgpt.

        • Cricket [he/him]@lemmy.zip
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          I visited a local Microsoft office in the mid-90s. Their office employee kitchen had a poster of the Internet Explorer logo smashing the Netscape logo to a bloody pulp.

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            I worked for apple

            It was creepy. I have been in litteral sex-cults that felt less cultish and close-minded.

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              I got recruited by Apple some years ago because of my Stack Overflow account. I’m glad I ignored them, although there’s something to be said for an ungodly salary and Apple stock options.

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        They literally blew billions of dollars and years of developer time just to screw the companies that won the argument of “open internet or Microsoft protocol” back in the day. Yes, petty.

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    No real reason to be using a hotmail account in this day and age, even less so if you’re a developer of a direct competitor for Microsoft.

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      Eh, that’s the problem with email - it’s much harder to change and migrate, because you can’t guarantee others will use your new email, much less find out who somehow still has the old email to send messages to and expects a reply from.

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        This is an argument for having your own domain for emails. There is an annual cost but at least your address isn’t locked to a specific provider sokcd you can change some DNS settings to point at a different mail server.

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          It’s also an argument for not having your own domain for emails, because you may one day loose that domain too, and someone could poach the domain to impersonate you.

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          I’ve been with Tuta mail for years now and it just keeps getting better. It’s not free, but I believe that that’s why it’s a good choice. They’ve add the calendar app and are expanding to cloud storage.

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        Eh, that’s when you just turn on auto-reply/forwarding and abandon it.

        But of course they need to be able to access it to enable auto-reply. :)

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          This. Don’t ever delete the account because someone will scoop it up and impersonate you. Just set auto reply and log out. Check the terms, you may need to log in every 6 months though. Do that a couple of times at least.

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      What alternative do you recommend that won’t be blocked by Google and Microsoft? I hate Microsoft, but I can’t even sign up for a Google account, and everywhere else I’ve tried is blocked by Google, Microsoft, or both.

      I self-hosted my email from 2006-2021, and do not have the stamina to do that any more.

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        Dunno… the last time I dealt with it was someone trying to reach my mom and couldn’t.

        I asked them to verify the address…

        @hotmale.com

        Oh, well there’s your problem!

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        I stopped using Hotmail when gmail launched and I was given one of the early invites from a tech relative. I have the welcome email from '04.

        But now I’m looking at moving my emails to a self hosted solution because they have used everything in my >20year email history for Ai and I don’t want that to continue into the future.

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        When MS ditched the Hotmail name, they went to their “Live” branding. I have an account with that domain, in addition to my old Hotmail account.

        I wish I held onto my old Yahoo account, but it got so full of spam that it became completely unusable; so I deleted it 🫤

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          Yahoo still exists. Somehow. Apparently the brand is extremely popular in Japan, Yahoo Japan is on the list of top 50 visited websites. IIRC the brand was bought by Verizon, and I have no idea if Yahoo even offers web search anymore.

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      I just don’t really value email accounts much. I have several and only rarely check them.

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    This isn’t a conspiracy…

    It’s the reality of using Hotmail as a business account in 2025.

    Which is frankly nuts.

    But the author even says the same thing happened to them before too

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      Using Hotmail for anything was already a bad idea, using it for an open-source dev account is worse. I don’t understand why they haven’t switched to something else 20 years ago.

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      95% of senior government officials across Africa will give you a fancy-ass, taxpayer funded, full color laminated plastic business card that lists their email address for official business as Gmail or Hotmail.

      Like… Today. Right now. I used to have a collection. Once got one with a 3D hologram thing. Fucking hotmail and gmail address.

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      Yep, I don’t remember the exact phrasing, but in these situations, I assume incompetence before I assume evil intent.

      Maybe it is intentional but the incompetence is in how obvious they are.

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        Never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetentance

        Is the saying, but it’s definitely not always true.

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          It’s more like some of the best evil can be hidden behind incompetence for quite a while

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            I mean, the phrase is for associates and random people you run into for one specific interaction

            Basically:

            Give em the benefit of doubt

            It doesn’t mean if your neighbor kicks you in the balls everyone morning, you still try to shake his hand tomorrow.

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    Relying on American companies is a liability in of itself.

    While there is corruption everywhere and on a standardized basis, there are of course countries with higher levels of corruption, the US is the #1 source of corruption and criminality in the world. Additionally it’s the ideological centre for global oligarch/criminal gangs.

    Microsoft’s monopoly in Windows and Office alone results in extraction of hundreds of billions of dollars from companies and individuals all around the world.