Is there anyone in the open source office suite space that has their shit together?

I was looking for alternatives now that I’m committed to migrating away from Microsoft, and it feels like moving from one room where everything’s on fire to… another room where everything’s also on fire.

That sounds like source-available, not open source.

If they don’t cancel the partnership over age verification digital IDs

Every ChatGPT message triggers a Cloudflare Turnstile program that runs silently in your browser. I decrypted 377 of these programs from network traffic and found something that goes beyond standard browser fingerprinting.

The program checks 55 properties spanning three layers: your browser (GPU, screen, fonts), the Cloudflare network (your city, your IP, your region from edge headers), and the ChatGPT React application itself (__reactRouterContext, loaderData, clientBootstrap). Turnstile doesn’t just verify that you’re running a real browser. It verifies that you’re running a real browser that has fully booted a specific React application.

A bot that spoofs browser fingerprints but doesn’t render the actual ChatGPT SPA will fail.

Based on the picture, it only has one

That article also says:

While the goodbye message seems crystal clear, the site’s official Discord server and Reddit community don’t appear convinced. While it is unclear whether the operators are moderating these communities, the mods and admins caution people not to jump to conclusions.

They then show a screenshot of the same message I showed above.

The tweet.

Where’d you hear that? This is the last I’ve seen about it from the official Discord.

Some will argue that what we do is exploitative, that we are extracting the ideas from open source while leaving behind the people who contributed them. To this I say: yes, that is a reasonably accurate description of our business model. It is also a reasonably accurate description of every company that has ever used open source software without contributing back, which is to say, virtually every company that has ever used open source software. We are simply being honest about it, and charging a fee for the privilege.

I don’t think it’s satire.

why is GrapheneOS using X?

If you’re trying to convert new people to your religion, you have to leave the church.

Thanks for explaining. I’m not “people”.

I had a similar feeling about people leaving Discord for <other service that will do the exact same thing>.

The point is that the headline is true. Proton helped the FBI uncover that person’s identity, by revealing their banking information.

Yes, it was legal for the Swiss government to request that information and for Proton to release it when asked.

Those facts aren’t mutually exclusive.

I don’t understand why you’re responding so aggressively.

Proton has a history of breaking the spirit of its promise to users. Does Tuta?

This marks Proton’s third known disclosure to authorities. They previously handed over a recovery email for a Catalan Democratic Tsunami activist and were forced to log a French climate activist’s IP address via Europol — despite claiming they don’t log IPs by default.

Each case followed the same script: foreign law enforcement pressure, Swiss legal compliance, user anonymity compromised. Like watching the same Netflix thriller where the plot twist stops being surprising.

Sounds just like Proton in the article:

Proton AG clarified they shared no data directly with the FBI — technically accurate but missing the point.

Apparently the tradeoff is a lot more features in exchange for your ram.

The leak site has links at the bottom.

a single company might download the same code hundreds of thousands of times in a day, and the next day, and the next

Why would anyone ever need to do this?

So this, but Discord.

This is the original website you could have linked.

https://idonutbelieve.com/

Please don’t make the post link go straight to a file.

Weirds me out when I think I’m going to a website and suddenly it’s asking where I want to download to.