LibreOffice<p>With the world changing around us, many governments and organisations are trying to reduce their dependency on tech giants. Here's an update on how one German federal state is moving 30,000 PCs to LibreOffice (and longer-term, Linux): <a href="https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/03/13/updates-on-schleswig-holstein-moving-to-libreoffice/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.documentfoundation.org/bl</span><span class="invisible">og/2025/03/13/updates-on-schleswig-holstein-moving-to-libreoffice/</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/foss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>foss</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>opensource</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/freesoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>freesoftware</span></a></p>
I know we all love to criticize older generations, but in the 20th century if someone did a Nazi salute you could almost guarantee that a WW2 veteran would punch them in the head, and I think there was a great societal benefit to that.
If Germans own #Hitler - and we obviously do - then Americans definitely own #Trump .
Saying: "I didn't vote for him!" Is no longer enough. Now the question is: "Do you comply, or do you resist?"
The Germans who grew up after WWII also asked these questions to the generations of their parents and grandparents... and the latter often failed to have good answers.
Putting an end to the debate regarding if it's ok to punch a Nazi or not.
From now on it's called "A Roman High Five"
Baba Is You is now 6 years old! Thank you for all these years of support and kindness!
#babaisyou
Adding a third celestial body to a gravitational system makes things wildly chaotic and unpredictable. Hence the 'Three Body Problem'. Some beautiful examples of periodic 3-body systems:
(via instagram user data__is__beautiful)
The Government of Sweden announces a new USD 290 million artillery package to Ukraine, containing 18 artillery pieces of the Archer type plus counter artillery radars and money for the Ukrainian defence sector.
Tack Sverige! 
https://www.regeringen.se/pressmeddelanden/2025/03/sverige-forstarker-ukrainas-artilleriformaga/
6,000 probationary USDA employees hired back.
Guantanamo detainees brought back stateside
Weldon's CDC nomination yanked.
Tesla stock in the toilet.
Pushback works. Court battles work. Protests work.
We can't save everything, but the things we can save are worth saving.
Keep going.
Yep, Windows XP icons were designed and produced on a Mac in FreeHand.
Microsoft was our first paying client back in 1997: we made the icon suite for Outlook Express on Mac OS 9. It was the email counterpart to Internet Explorer 5.
https://news.microsoft.com/source/1998/01/06/microsoft-announces-march-availability-of-office-98-macintosh-edition/
https://techhub.social/@maccatalan/114155754052920748
Source · Microsoft Announces March Availability of Office 98 Macintosh Edition - Source25,000 Hours of Customer Research and Over 1 Million Wish Line Requests Shaped Product Tailored to Macintosh Customer
Tell a friend to save a life:
name.lowercased().contains(searchText.lowercased())
name.localizedStandardContains(searchText)
The latter ignores case, but also ignores diacritics (cafe vs café), handles localized variants (ẞ → ss, etc), and is supported in SwiftData.