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Mastodon (official) mobile apps and mastodon.social, mastodon.online web UI will include easily dismissable donation banner:
news.itsfoss.com/mastodon-in-a
(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:
brave.com/privacy-updates/35-b
alternativeto.net/news/2025/7/

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:
alternativeto.net/news/2025/7/
(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)

It's FOSS News · Mastodon Wants Funding and Won't Mind Nudging You for DonationThis small change could help support Mastodon.
#WeeklyNews#OpenSource#FOSSNews
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Morgan Aldridge

@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.

collaboraonline.com/collabora-

Works pretty well. I think I'd struggle using it on a phone without a physical keyboard, but that's me.

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Don

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. 

$libreoffice --headless --convert-to odt *.docx

What 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 *.docx

I 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 --help

This is a great example of the power of open source software.

www.libreoffice.orgHome | LibreOffice - Free and private office suite - Based on OpenOffice - Compatible with MicrosoftFree office suite – the evolution of OpenOffice. Compatible with Microsoft .doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx, .ppt, .pptx. Updated regularly, community powered.
#commandLine#LibreOffice
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Fossery Tech :debian: :gnome:

(Linux news in previous posts of thread)

FOSS NEWS

Firefox 141 will include WebGPU support, Windows-only for now, with plans to extend it to Linux and macOS:
news.itsfoss.com/firefox-webgp
(Mozilla treating Linux as a second-class citizen? Another reason for distros to ditch it lol)

Servo monthly status update: work towards supporting incremental layout handling, support for viewport meta tags, scroll events in the DOM, barebones IndexedDB support, and more:
phoronix.com/news/Servo-June-2

Blender 4.5 LTS released with stable Vulkan backend, pen tablet tilt support, horizontal scrolling support in the UI, region resize highlighting, support for dropping a tree view item after the last element, a new operator to take a screenshot within Blender for an asset preview, a new shader node to control volume coefficients, etc.:
9to5linux.com/blender-4-5-lts-

VirtualBox 7.1.12 released with improved support for Linux kernel 6.16, bug fixes:
9to5linux.com/virtualbox-7-1-1

Organic Map July update released with updated OpenStreetMap data, better Arabic search, map display now highlights campsites, resort areas, and industrial zones, etc.:
alternativeto.net/news/2025/7/

LibreOffice merged built-in support for Bitcoin, will probably by available in 26.2 next year:
phoronix.com/news/LibreOffice-

Wireshark 4.4.8 released with updated protocol support, bug fixes:
9to5linux.com/wireshark-4-4-8-

Calibre 8.7 released with support for generating page number files (APNX) on 2024 and newer MTP-based Kindle devices, ability to ignore “et al.” suffix on author names when finding similar e-books by author, bug fixes and improvements:
9to5linux.com/calibre-8-7-adds

Haiku monthly recap: Wifi driver replaced, work on HiDPI scaling, more robust error handling for the FAT file system driver, etc.:
phoronix.com/news/Haiku-OS-Jun

It's FOSS News · Firefox Catches Up to Chrome With the Addition of This Feature But Leaves Linux Out (for now)Mozilla did a very good job with this. Now, bring it to Linux as well, please.
#WeeklyNews#OpenSource#FOSSNews
Beardy Star Stuff

Every year that users cooperate with Microsoft's technological subjugation, is another year Microsoft uses to further bind them.

"Instead, these users – including governments and supranational organisations – have allowed lock-in strategies, in which Microsoft 365’s artificially and unnecessarily complex XML document schema plays a fundamental strategic role, to become increasingly sophisticated and pervasive."
#microsoft #endof10 #LibreOffice #FreeSoftware #gnu #linux

blog.documentfoundation.org/bl

The Document Foundation Blog · An artificially complex XML schema as a lock-in tool - The Document Foundation BlogA document format is a tool for sharing knowledge and, as such, should be as simple and accessible as possible in relation to the complexity of the document content itself. This remains true even when the format is based on an XML schema that is hidden from users when the document is displayed on screen. […]
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