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New comment by Emoticon4032 in "Open-source Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Word replications"

Emoticon4032 — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 19:12:20 +0000

Just curious… why do you think that? We have been using LibreOffice in our company for 20+ years, exchanging files with customers and vendors who use MS Office in all its versions during this time. We never had a problem…

New comment by Emoticon4032 in "LibreWolf – Ratfactor"

Emoticon4032 — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 22:48:07 +0000

I don’t see how this addresses the issue of browser fingerprinting. All the browsers I’ve used have very distinct fingerprints regardless of whether anonymous/incognito mode is on or off.

New comment by Emoticon4032 in "Mox – modern, secure, all-in-one email server"

Emoticon4032 — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 19:14:59 +0000

I gave up and started self-hosting Mailcow. It’s worth paying the support fee to free yourself to do other more productive things. Let them manage the complexities.

New comment by Emoticon4032 in "Studies suggest a drug-free nasal spray could ward off respiratory infections"

Emoticon4032 — Sat, 05 Oct 2024 17:37:38 +0000

A couple of decades ago, I was on a commercial aircraft and sat next to a man who occasionally puffed something into his nostrils. It turned out that he was a researcher at Ft. Detrick, and he explained that keeping your nasal passages moist with saline spray helped to keep out germs. I’ve been using saline sprays ever since!

New comment by Emoticon4032 in "Apple's New CarPlay Becomes Last Hope to Crack the Auto Industry"

Emoticon4032 — Sun, 17 Mar 2024 15:26:00 +0000

Seems ripe for spoofed data. After all, how would you verify that what you receive from other cars is valid/real?

New comment by Emoticon4032 in "Binance founder Changpeng Zhao agrees to step down, plead guilty"

Emoticon4032 — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 22:32:40 +0000

Here’s an article: https://coincu.com/110838-he-yi-co-founder-binance/

New comment by Emoticon4032 in "As wildfires burn across the world, what is the role of Australia's eucalyptus?"

Emoticon4032 — Sat, 09 Sep 2023 08:02:05 +0000

I grew up in Tasmania, immersed in bush fire smoke during summers. As I travelled through the US and other places, I thought I was going nuts because I kept seeing trees that shouldn’t be there at all. Now I know why…

When you get stands of gum (eucalyptus) trees, you also get fast spreading tree-top fires since the living leaves of gum burn ferociously. Gum trees in urban areas or non-native areas are bad, bad news.

New comment by Emoticon4032 in "Ask HN: Alternatives to Reddit"

Emoticon4032 — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 21:12:39 +0000

Maybe the model going forward is to go back to the use of RSS feeds from each of the discrete sites that you frequent? Not sure if RSS is a thing these days though.