You say that as if it was easy, and as if it doesn’t come back again a few Windows updates down the road.

Dick Head… his name was Dick Head.

I’m reading this at Amsterdam airport. Trying to get the hell away from here asap.

…at least, not until after the vasectomy.

Zuckerman vs Zuckerberg. Who will win, the man… or the berg? Either way, they’re both Zuckers.

Meditation with help from the “Waking Up” app changed my life. I tried some other apps before and they’re mostly just about stress relief which doesn’t help you grow. This is different.

In a corporate setting there usually isn’t

Good bye.

I crave meat like a vampire.

The Gartner Hype Cycle

Great, but can you access the DOM?

When will Wasm grow, according to your gut? I feel like I’ve been waiting for a decade now.

Not just modern scifi but modern reality.

Specific cause it was exactly the situation with my last employer

When there is both Cisco video conferencing equipment and Skype/Teams-certified devices in the conference rooms because they are managed by two different departments that purchased conference equipment separately.

Or GNU HURD, FreeBSD, ReactOS, Singularity, TempleOS, …

Sorry, I can see from the first screenshot on their web site that OnlyOffice is not conducive to legibility. A user interface that promotes direct control of the typeface (instead of styling rules based on semantic tags) is going to produce inconsistent documents.

User interfaces should be designed to make it easy to do things right, and difficult to do things wrong. This UI encourages people to produce crap.

Their other screenshots further show that they do not care about things like appropriate margin size or inter-word spacing, leaving me with little trust in the product.

I just think Microsoft Word is actively making the entire world less efficient. It’s not made to produce documents that are easy to read. Don’t have an obvious contender though. LibreOffice Writer just tries to be the same shitty product but free, LaTeX is way too technical and has horrible error handling. Markdown usability and quality breaks down if you make any serious use of tables and figures.

Since I’m not a US citizen I also think it’s a threat to our country that our entire administration and every company is dependent on storing documents in an effectively proprietary format controlled by a US company, on cloud servers controlled by a US company. If compelled by the US government, Microsoft could put all of EU to a halt with the flick of a switch. National security calls for formats as central as this to be open standards supported by multiple competing products.

Relief, not excitement

It doesn’t need to be paid. Many journalists are happy to receive a pre-written article that they can just push out with zero effort.