Graphisme, messagerie, cloud… des acteurs du logiciel libre offrent des alternatives aux GAFAM
Des associations proposent des services pour dire au revoir à Google ; des entreprises choisissent de ne travailler qu’avec des logiciels libres. L’écosystème du numérique libre se développe en France.
https://basta.media/Graphisme-messagerie-cloud-acteurs-logiciel-libre-offrent-alternatives-aux-Gafam
#Lyon, #France Adopts #OnlyOffice: From #Russia With Love
The city of Lyon is getting rid of most of its #US #software. Its choice of OnlyOffice instead of #LibreOffice has me scratching my head. https://fossforce.com/2025/07/lyon-france-adopts-onlyoffice-from-russia-with-love/
I'm looking for a configurable converter from #LibreOffice Writer .odt files to #Markdown.
Not in the #pandoc style, but with an option to map the paragraph and character #styles of LibreOffice Writer to arbitrary Markdown counterparts. Every unmapped style should simply be dropped, during the conversion.
Does such a converter exist?
(Linux news in previous posts of thread)
FOSS NEWS
Mastodon (official) mobile apps and mastodon.social, mastodon.online web UI will include easily dismissable donation banner:
https://news.itsfoss.com/mastodon-in-app-donation-nudge/
(Some people often get mad if a project asks for donation within its software UI, but I think volunteer devs also deserve to get some payment for their work, it's fair to include a donation notice, if it doesn't annoy users with its placement.)
Brave and AdGuard will block Microsoft Recall:
https://brave.com/privacy-updates/35-block-recall/
https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/7/adguard-joins-signal-and-brave-in-blocking-microsoft-recall-calling-it-a-privacy-concern-/
Bluesky introduces age verification (using payment cards, ID scans, or face scans) for accessing adult content and direct messaging, and content controls for UK users:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/7/bluesky-introduces-age-verification-and-content-controls-for-uk-users/
(Yeah we're heading into a dystopian future, where you can't use social media without giving up sensitive information... Or can't send messages because a small portion of predators also use that feature... It shouldn't be the responsibility of governments and social media platforms to protect children, it's the parents' task to protect their children. If governments would really care about protecting children, they would rather push campaigns targeted towards parents to raise awareness of the importance of paying attention what their child is doing online. But nah, this "protect children" thing is only pushed for emotional manipulation, so that the governments can cover their arse, while building surveillance infrastructure.)
(more FOSS news in comment)
alguien en #Mastodon sabe si con #libreOffice draw, puedo unir todo el cuadro conceptual que estoy haciendo, en una gran página, en vez de páginas separadas como me está quedando ahora
@marcellinusme LibreOffice en Thunderbird zitten er in Ubuntu ook gewoon bij. @zandbelt
I am utterly blown away by the amount of digital power afforded by open source products, some of which I've been sleeping on for years:
#LibreOffice
#Krita
#GIMP
#Scribus
#Inkscape
#Microsoft and #Adobe can go kick rocks until the end of time as far as I'm concerned.
O que são os arquivos .odt, .ods, .odp?
Eles fazem parte do padrão aberto ODF — ideal para quem valoriza liberdade, interoperabilidade e futuro dos seus documentos.
Leia e compartilhe:
https://pt-br.blog.documentfoundation.org/2025/07/26/entendendo-os-tipos-de-arquivos-odf-odt-ods-odp-e-outros/
O que são os arquivos .odt, .ods, .odp?
Eles fazem parte do padrão aberto ODF — ideal para quem valoriza liberdade, interoperabilidade e futuro dos seus documentos.
Leia e compartilhe:
https://pt-br.blog.documentfoundation.org/2025/07/26/entendendo-os-tipos-de-arquivos-odf-odt-ods-odp-e-outros/
Oh, I have so much violence in my heart.
Every time I try to open the #libreoffice document I spend hours editing today, it crashes the program.
You are still better off to use LibreOffice. It is not trying to spy on you.
@tinker Another benefit is you don't have to use the, IMO, mind-numbingly stupid interface that is the Ribbon if you choose to go with #LibreOffice
@tinker Funny that you should mention this! I made much the same argument about half a year ago (and I surely wasn't first!). 
https://michael.kjorling.se/blog/2025/microsoft-365-switch-donate/
Applies equally to much other nominally free-of-charge software, too, of course.
@tinker
Pretty much done with the transfer to Linux. OnlyOffice is another free suite worth trying. Does everything Office does, more elegantly in some cases.
@tinker I recently switched many of my spreadsheets to #LibreOffice and have been very happy.
I frequently work remotely on my iPad, often without Internet access in my small, rural, state of #Vermont. It took some research to figure out that #CollaboraOffice is the #iPadOS (née #iOS) & #Android version, is free, and does NOT require #CollaboraOnline account service.
https://www.collaboraonline.com/collabora-office-android-ios/
Works pretty well. I think I'd struggle using it on a phone without a physical keyboard, but that's me.
@GabeMoralesVR @parismarx Bill Gates once said, you could purchase a software application from us and never have a reason to upgrade again. I run various legacy Windows VMs going all the way back to Windows 2.0 with Excel 2.0and honestly, the same basic budget spreadsheet I used to manage in Excel works the same in that version. You really don't need the latest. Switched to #LibreOffice Calc and #Numbers on my #Mac never looked back.
是我太慢發現嗎？？
libre office可以直接讀取numbers檔？
那很方便耶!! 
只是存檔的時候不能存numbers就是
Am I too slow to realize it? ?
Can libre office directly read numbers files?
That's very convenient!!
It's just that numbers files cannot be saved when saving files.
#mac #macos #apple
#libreoffice #microsoft #excel
The power of LibreOffice
I have many documents created with Microsoft Office for assignments written for graduate school courses years ago. How can I easily convert those dozens of documents to a different format without using an online application? This is an excellent example of the power of open source.
Five years ago I took a course at a local university where all of the documents were provided in ‘docx’ format. Is there a way to convert those documents to an ‘odt’ format? There is and it is quite simple.
Cath 
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$libreoffice --headless --convert-to odt *.docxWhat if I decided I wanted to convert those ‘docx’ items to ‘html’ so they could easily be shared on my classroom website. What if I had wanted to convert all those documents to html?
$libreoffice --headless --convert-to html *.docxI can use the same tool to turn those ‘docx’ files into ‘pdf’ files with an iteration of the same command.
$libreoffice –headless –convert-to pdf *.docx
Using LibreOffice from the command line inside the directory where the files you want to convert is easy and the conversion is accomplished in a matter of seconds depending on your processor and memory. You can find many more uses of LibreOffice from the command line by entering the following command on your own command line if you have LibreOffice installed as most Linux distributions do.
$libreoffice --helpThis is a great example of the power of open source software.
Desmistificando o LibreOffice Calc 
O LibreOffice Calc é uma alternativa poderosa e gratuita para criar e gerenciar planilhas. Mas você sabe tudo o que ele pode oferecer? Descubra dicas, truques e recursos que vão mudar sua experiência com planilhas!
Confira no blog: https://nova.escolalinux.com.br/blog/desmistificando-o-libreoffice-calc?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
