Presumably they just pushed Collabora to employees telling them "it's just like Word, don't worry" and gave them no training whatsoever.

Because in all the areas of complaints (issues with style, paragraph formatting, blank pages, and challenges with tracking changes), Libreoffice, on which Collabora is built upon, is actually superior and more stable than Word. If you know how to do it or get teached how to do it.

Heck, I wrote, edited and formatted a whole *book* with LibreOffice, with proper styling, paragraphs, page jumps and blanks, and change revision... And that was 10 years ago! Although Scribus would have been the best tool for the job, I was extremely pleasantly surprised with the result. No way I'd ever manage to do this with Word...

Did they send the Doomguy in the probe, just in case something goes wrong?

Selon que vous soyez puissants ou misérables...

It might be counterintuitive but refrigerators kill people. One example that immediately comes to mind is the Grenfell Tower Fire where a faulty refrigerator ignited and ultimately caused the death of 72 people. I'm not sure that self-driving cars killed that many people, but I don't have the stats...

How many votes do you have, pal?

Yes, the web is fscked. It has been for a while (we had SEO slop way before LLMs became a thing). But now it's really finished.

I have a personal website that I update irregularly. I publish everything by hand, written by hand. When I check the stats, I'm only visited by bots. I've had 1 (one) human visit this year. And it was a friend, who afterwards sent me a message telling me about it. One human visit.

Mind you, I originally made this website to get in touch with random people sharing common interests (you know, geeky stuff). It used to work fairly well. This is now completely over. I'm now writing content for AI agents who will summarize them to people who will never contact me because they don't even know where their data comes from.

For a while I considered blocking AI traffic, but at the end of the day I still think what I publish is useful and I'm happy that other people can access it even if they have no idea it's me who originally put it online.

But the solitude is excruciating - specially for someone like me who has a tendency to isolation and needs avenues to stay in contact with other human beings.

But what's "human data" in 2026? Our brains are already fed by AI, it influences the way we write and talk. We are, in a way, contaminated and already producing slop, even if we're not using the tool. Unintended consequence of unleashing LLMs to everyone without considering the fact that human beings are inherently lazy and will definitely relinquish their brain to it.

Even slashdotters?

Our promise: you don't need a fan to cool your computer down - all those holes make passive cooling a reality!

After 50 Years Chuck Norris May Have Finally Found The Physicists

After 50 Years Slashdotter May Have Finally Found An Article Made Of Pure Dupe

Yeah, almost as old as the Slashdot "smart quote" bug :-D.

Like this "budget CPU" thing rolled out so well last time, Intel...

Maybe Anthropic is asking him to help steering Claude's spiritual development...

Well, I for one welcome our new Orange Jesus overlord.

I suggest "iHole" for a name