Notices by Mike Taylor 🦕 (mike@sauropods.win)

@feditips How can I tell what version of the software my instance is running?

@libreoffice Aha! No, it works fine in LibreOffice 7.5.6.2 — thanks for that tip.

So what we have here is a regression.

Infuriating to find that #LibreOffice, on which I created the 13 Mb, 64 slide deck for my #SVPCA talk, cannot export it as a PDF: it crashes every time, even when I save my PPTX as an ODP, quit, open the ODP and try to export from that.

I am running LibreOffice v7.6.0.3 on Mac OS X 12.6.8.

Anyone have any ideas?

CC @libreoffice,

As Twitter self-immolates, I am seeing people I know setting up on Bluesky.

I find this perplexing. Can people really not learn the lesson that a social network owned by a capitalist is a social network they don't control?

You can argue about whether Bluesky or Mastodon has the better technology, but what's 100% clear is that Mastodon is run BY users FOR users. And that difference is the only one that matters in the end.