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You blink your eye and there are new FLOSS office projects. First, LibreOffice is clearly splitting between Document foundation and Collabora Online/Desktop. See also current discussion on that here and here. In the meantime, OnlyOffice are forked to Euro-Office. The main reason is to get European digital sovereignty. Lots of users’ confusion ahead soon, I’m afraid. Some people still use and install OpenOffice, even though it’s dead effectively.

Very interesting text on the relationship between knowledge work and the real/material one: https://www.oliverburkeman.com/physical . It shows why the internet and social networks is so addictive for many of us and how we should deal with it. If you want to go even deeper, there is Extended mind by Annie Murphy Paul.

A new Prague-based AI-security startup https://aisle.com develops a model tailored at finding vulnerabilities in large software projects. Free service for important OSS projects, paid for closed-source. Recently, they found 12 bugs in OpenSSL: https://aisle.com/blog/aisle-discovered-12-out-of-12-openssl-vulnerabilities via https://www.respekt.cz/podcasty/stanislav-fort-ai-bublina-je-mytus-vyvoj-je-rychly-a-lide-mozna-jen-nevi-jak-dobre-uz-modely-jsou (Czech podcast)

Let’s discover forgotten corners on Windows 11. Elements that have been there for decades. State of the Windows: How many layers of UI inconsistencies are in Windows 11? And, WinFile manager from Windows 3.0 was opensourced so years ago. You can install it using winget install microsoft.winfile --source winget And why aren’t these old apps “simply” modernized? Even WinFile was sunset after some time. See what Microsoft wrote about it: we simply do not have the expertise or resources within the organization to continue to maintain this project

Digital independence day is a movement that informs about alternatives to big techs. Sadly, we may need them: https://di.day/ via https://itsfoss.com/news/di-day-celebration/ On a related note, Why there’s no European Google?

When two years of academic work vanished with a single click https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-04064-7 After turning off ChatGPT’s ‘data consent’ option, Marcel Bucher lost the work behind grant applications, teaching materials and publication drafts. “Looking back, there are things I should have done to safeguard my data. I should, as OpenAI suggests, have exported important conversations regularly, kept systematic offline backups and avoided experimenting with data settings without knowing the consequences.”

Free / open model for coding with a smaller version to run locally / on prem https://www.datacamp.com/blog/mistral-vibe-2-0