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Proprietary: Zoho W, Proton VPN, and Microsoft's Plagiarism
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Dedoimedo ☛ Zoho Writer - Okay but somewhat confusing and too cloudy
Here's a wee review of the Zoho Writer hybrid desktop-cloud office program, including setup in Linux, first launch and mandatory Internet connectivity, use with and without network, UI look and feel, lack of customization and settings, Abusive Monopolist Microsoft DOCX support and compatibility, performance, various quirks, some other observations, and more. Take a look.
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TechRadar ☛ Proton VPN on Linux gets a huge accessibility boost with 20 new languages
The highly requested feature is expected to arrive in mid-August and will automatically detect your OS language without touching a single setting
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Debian Family
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Colin Walters: Agentic Hey Hi (AI) and software forges
In my last post, I talked about the value Microsoft's proprietary prison GitHub provides to FOSS, while arguing that we should avoid deep dependency on it.
Now let’s talk about agentic Hey Hi (AI) (LLMs).
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Entrapment (Microsoft GitHub)
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Colin Walters: On Microsoft's proprietary prison GitHub
The question of using proprietary tools to build FOSS has always been one of the tension points in our community. One of the most prominent proprietary tools is github.com and the non-FOSS parts of gitlab.com (and a longer tail of other platforms).
A while ago I came across Give Up Microsoft's proprietary prison GitHub from the Software Freedom Conservancy which is on one side of this. My opinion remains nuanced and split. One I think few people would argue with is that there’s been enormous value provided to FOSS by the $0 github.com (and gitlab.com etc) services. Just the basic hosting of git infrastructure, issue tracking and other ancillary things (discussions, etc) but especially Microsoft's proprietary prison GitHub Actions.
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Security Week ☛ In Other News: Zombie Card Attack, T-Mobile Cut Cable to Stop Hackers, Microsoft's proprietary prison GitHub Denies Hey Hi (AI) Caused Bug
Other noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: Threema DDoS attack, Evooo1Bot GNU/Linux botnet, Crypto4A secures top-tier NIST certification.
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