Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

I will add that masking/distancing/vaccination is all good, but what we REALLY need is forced PM2.5 air filtration in all public spaces. Schools, hospitals, universities, shops, restaurants, cinemas: on trains, buses, planes, and passenger ships. And ESPECIALLY schools and hospitals. These premises have always been viral disease amplifiers, but filtration stops it spreading at source.

Yes, Apache OpenOffice is still alive and kicking, and no, it is not intended to be the #opensource office suite for the masses. It still has a very specific use case, and maybe it's not *your* use case, but for those who it is, it's vitally important.

Test builds for AOO 4.2.0-Dev4 can be found here: https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/openoffice/4.2.0-Dev4/binaries/

@pbarker Those stuck on extremely old OSs and platforms as well as those that require permissive (non-copyleft) licensing.

There are huge swathes of world population that are still using 32 bit OSs for example.

@jimjag @pbarker
ok from a very quick check, LibreOffice stopped directly supplying pre-compiled binaries for 32 bit a while back (citing low demand) but the code is thought to still be viable for others to compile.
As an example, Debian seems to still support it across multiple architectures - see https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=libreoffice

Can you imagine trusting a car made by the fool who runs Twitter?

https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-driver-watched-in-horror-tesla-crashed-burst-into-flames-2022-12

#tesla #elonMusk #twitter

Respect Earth's materials

These items do not disappear when flung into the ether. They land quite concretely in expanding landfills that degrade landscapes and ecosystems, taint water supplies, and pump out methane as carbon is released during decomposition.

In a world of unbridled consumerism, we are experiencing a waste crisis. We dispose of tremendous amounts of furniture while consuming masses of new furniture, all in the midst of global timber supply shortages.

https://theconversation.com/rethinking-the-big-spring-clean-chuck-out-frenzy-how-keeping-old-things-away-from-the-landfill-can-spark-joy-in-its-own-way-195568

Everyone knows about Cola and how it used to contain cocaine, but have you heard about 7Up, or how it was initially called: Bib-label Lithiated Lemon-lime Soda?

Guess what it contained originally? Yep. Lithium (citrate).

#Science #History #Pharma

@tutam @eikofried Forever amused that this isn’t a call to action:

“Academics write articles for Elsevier journals for free and hand over copyright; other academics review and edit these papers for free; and Elsevier then sells these papers back to academics.”

Particularly because most academics and their libraries are funded by the taxpayer. Ludicrous. https://albert.rierol.net/tell/20210306_be_paid_for_publishing_scientific_papers.html

#academia #science

BofA is now on my boycott list ➡️
“A collection of several banks — including Morgan Stanley, Bank of America and Barclays — have lent Musk more than a quarter of the funding, or $13 billion.”
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Here’s who helped Elon Musk buy Twitter: Who pulls the financial strings at Twitter?
#Twitter #Musk

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/12/24/elon-musk-twitter-funders/

ByteDance used TikTok to track my location — and the locations of two of my colleagues — to try to find our sources. We reported on this back in October, but kept things vague to protect sources. Today ByteDance admitted it, so we can say much more:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilybaker-white/2022/12/22/tiktok-tracks-forbes-journalists-bytedance/