<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: buovjaga</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=buovjaga</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 02:02:51 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=buovjaga" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by buovjaga in "LibreOffice – Let's put an end to the speculation"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>LibreOffice development will continue and TDF will keep hiring new developers.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 05:17:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47657244</link><dc:creator>buovjaga</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47657244</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47657244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by buovjaga in "Danish government agency to ditch Microsoft software (2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There is this command line option that you could add to your shortcut for launching LibreOffice: --norestore<p>It will skip the recovery dialog. I use it often when doing QA.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 10:18:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47178811</link><dc:creator>buovjaga</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47178811</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47178811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by buovjaga in "Danish government agency to ditch Microsoft software (2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Have you deactivated Tools - Options - Load/Save - General: Save AutoRecovery information...?</p>
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<p>> if you could file a bug report right from that screen, that'd be perfect<p>You can file a bug report from a crash report - it prefills all the relevant data. See an example crash report: <a href="https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/crash_details/bac2fbf9-fd3e-4868-8bfb-d323970ddb08" rel="nofollow">https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/crash_details/bac2...</a><p>"Bug reports for libc.so.6:<p>File a bug for: Calc Writer Impress Chart Base"<p>Here is what the dialog says about bug reports: <a href="https://git.libreoffice.org/core/+/master/svx/uiconfig/ui/crashreportdlg.ui#146" rel="nofollow">https://git.libreoffice.org/core/+/master/svx/uiconfig/ui/cr...</a><p>> It'd be great if the Document Foundation helped distros to offer libreoffice-*-debug packages for this case<p>I believe most distros have this covered now, some by making use of debuginfod, which downloads symbols on demand: <a href="https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Debuginfod" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Debuginfod</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 12:53:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47165408</link><dc:creator>buovjaga</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47165408</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47165408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by buovjaga in "Danish government agency to ditch Microsoft software (2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>LibreOffice release builds should offer to send a crash report. Ideally, you should then create a bug report referencing the crash report. Besides that, you can do your own build with debug symbols and get backtraces or debug the program.<p>At The Document Foundation we are always interested in helping deployments. It is also nice to do writeups for our blog. Let me know, if your organisation needs help: ilmari.lauhakangas@libreoffice.org<p>I recommend to consider our certification program: <a href="https://www.documentfoundation.org/certification-program/" rel="nofollow">https://www.documentfoundation.org/certification-program/</a><p>I asked about the Maven artifacts and our release engineer will update them later this week.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 16:38:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47153933</link><dc:creator>buovjaga</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47153933</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47153933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by buovjaga in "European Tech Alternatives"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There are existing sites like <a href="https://www.goeuropean.org/" rel="nofollow">https://www.goeuropean.org/</a><p>Based on the creator of EU Tech Map having an AI-powered advertising company and the mistakes in the entries, I assume the site was populated using LLMs. For example, LibreOffice is incorrectly listed as being closed source, SaaS and paid: <a href="https://eutechmap.com/company/libreoffice" rel="nofollow">https://eutechmap.com/company/libreoffice</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47072291</link><dc:creator>buovjaga</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47072291</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47072291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by buovjaga in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>For the latest in IRC tech, you can read my blog posts: <a href="https://www.ilmarilauhakangas.fi/irc_technology_news_from_the_second_half_of_2025/" rel="nofollow">https://www.ilmarilauhakangas.fi/irc_technology_news_from_th...</a><p>I wrote the summaries with my own two hands, no LLMs involved.</p>
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<p>The patches are not malicious, but the submitters are unable to explain them. We require submitting a non-trivial patch in order for someone to be considered for a FOSS internship. As there is money involved, this attracts scammers now more than ever.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 07:47:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46942664</link><dc:creator>buovjaga</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46942664</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46942664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by buovjaga in "Vouch"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>One solution is to have a screensharing call with the contributor and have them explain their patch. We have already caught a couple of scammers who were applying for a FOSS internship this way. If they have not yet submitted anything non-trivial, they could showcase personal projects in the same way.<p>FOSS has turned into an exercise in scammer hunting.</p>
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<p>Just a guess, but Jitsi having no governance structure outside of 8x8, Inc. might have something to do with it.</p>
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<p>It's fixed in <a href="https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu/pull/1640" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu/pull/1640</a> but they haven't cut a release since Dec 2024.</p>
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<p>The Firefox bug report has an image that illustrates the issue: <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1857365#c0" rel="nofollow">https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1857365#c0</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2025 04:46:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46065765</link><dc:creator>buovjaga</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46065765</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46065765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by buovjaga in "New layouts with CSS Subgrid"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Random grid gotcha that drove me crazy some time ago: due to browser bugs we can't use <img> elements with percentage widths or heights as grid items. The grid cell dimensions get blown out to the ones of the original image. Seen in both Firefox and Chromium. Relevant FF bug is probably <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1857365" rel="nofollow">https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1857365</a> '<img> grid item with percentage height, "width: auto", "grid-template-columns: auto", and no track stretching makes column to have the same width of the original image's width' (although someone there claims it works in Chromium).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2025 07:21:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46054982</link><dc:creator>buovjaga</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46054982</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46054982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by buovjaga in "Wikipedia says traffic is falling due to AI search summaries and social video"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ok, the errors in Cosmos are covered here: <a href="https://sciencemeetsfiction.com/2014/06/15/cosmos-follow-up-hypatia-and-the-library-of-alexandria/" rel="nofollow">https://sciencemeetsfiction.com/2014/06/15/cosmos-follow-up-...</a><p>Quote:<p>Cosmos does not make Hypatia’s death so much a religious issue as an anti-intellectual on, but the truth is that it was actually a political one. A second problem comes when Dr. Sagan links her death to the destruction of the Great Library. In fact, in the final episode of the original Cosmos, “Who Speaks for Earth”, Carl Sagan says, “The last remains of the library were destroyed within a year of Hypatia’s death.”<p>The problem with this is that the last remnant of the Library of Alexandria were almost certainly destroyed in 391, 24 years before Hypatia’s death, and most of the library was likely destroyed, by accident, centuries earlier.<p>It sounds strange, but we actually don’t have a very good idea of when the Library of Alexandria was destroyed. As best we can tell, much of it was burned unintentionally when a fire spread through the city during Julius Caesar’s invasion in 48 BC. While the majority of the library may have survived that war, it was almost certainly destroyed in the war between Emperor Aurelian and Queen Zenobia of Palmyra in the 270s AD. This also appears to have been unintentional, as a large part of the city was burned.<p>What little was left of the library was deliberately destroyed in 391, when Emperor Theodosius I banned Paganism. The remaining repository of books in Alexandria was destroyed along with the Pagan temple it was stored in. [Even this has no evidence as pointed out by Tim O'Neill in the blog comments]<p>I admire most of Dr. Sagan’s and Dr. Tyson work, but when they characterize Hypatia’s death and the burning of the Great Library as the deliberate (and linked) actions of an anti-intellectual mob, they are simply misrepresenting the history.</p>
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<p>What you say sounds influenced by the movie Agora: <a href="https://bookhaven.stanford.edu/2016/03/the-library-of-alexandria-destroyed-by-an-angry-mob-with-torches-not-very-likely/" rel="nofollow">https://bookhaven.stanford.edu/2016/03/the-library-of-alexan...</a></p>
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<p>Comment in the issue referring to the wiki page: "note: it needs updates for stuff merged in Sofia".</p>
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<p>That's more or less the critique OSE got back in 2013. Ie. if you're going to raise money, why not hire professional designers?</p>
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<p>New Yorker covered the organisational issues in 2013: <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/12/23/the-civilization-kit" rel="nofollow">https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/12/23/the-civilizati...</a><p>About the churn: "By February, 2013, all the O.S.E. collaborators had left the farm."</p>
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<p>Not saying there's a turnkey solution at the moment for your exact needs, but even with your current $5k/year budget something interesting could be built with the "modern IRC stack" that <a href="https://irctoday.com/" rel="nofollow">https://irctoday.com/</a> uses, for example. Call support would have to be done by integrating Jitsi, but it's been done before as seen in <a href="https://github.com/kiwiirc/plugin-conference" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/kiwiirc/plugin-conference</a> and <a href="https://convos.chat/doc/features#video-support" rel="nofollow">https://convos.chat/doc/features#video-support</a></p>
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<p>New projects in that genre keep popping up, for example eIRC: An Enterprise Chat System Based on IRC <a href="https://github.com/jesse-greathouse/eIRC" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/jesse-greathouse/eIRC</a></p>
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