I once failed a uni assignment, because the teachers assistant wrote remarks on a pdf in a way that's only viewable in adobe's products.
She failed us because "we ignored her remarks". Had no idea they were there.
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Had the same in gymnasium, eventually got it overturned via bitching about it. Notes wouldnt even show up on their webapp : /
Ooh I would fucking LAY into her in the review if she did that, and cause a stink to the dean. That shit would've pissed me off so bad. I hate when people expect you to be telepathic like that.
To be honest she probably didn't even know that the comments were only visible to Adobe product readers, but that's still infuriating as hell
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Tbh it's probably less of an Adobe problem and more due to the absolute mess that is PDF annotations.
Despite being a defined open standard, most free PDF viewers either don't support them (zathura etc), or fuck them up (GNOME evince). Even some of the viewers that do support them like Okular need extra configuration.
Unironically Firefox as a PDF viewer actually has the best support for PDF annotations.
The state of PDF Readers on Linux - Discussion - It's FOSS Community - https://itsfoss.community/t/the-state-of-pdf-readers-on-linux/12798
Wasn't .docx also supposed to be an open standard but M$ kept fucking with the implementation so it would only work in Office?
Isn’t it open? It works with Dropbox and macOS Numbers opens .docx and saves as .docx.
So does LibreOffice, but they’ve been called out multiple times for purposefully making the format overly complex to make it as hard as possible to reliable read and write to it.
I genuinely think they're just incompetent lol
You should see the windows xp source code
You should see the windows xp source code
The rapidly dwindling sanity of windows programmers as expressed through code comments
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Yes, it technically is a standard, but because it's an ISO standard you have to pay for I wouldn't call it open. https://www.iso.org/standard/71691.html but people have different definitions of what an open standard is and I'm not trying to critique them.
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Could we perhaps not drag RMS out of whatever dark place we're blessed not to hear about him from now?
We have enough pedo shit going on with the POTUS at the moment.
Also, LibreOffice saves in .docx format, if you want to be pragmatic rather than dogmatic.
I agree, I fixed it.
I kinda like using Doctorow for this:
- Similar facial expression
- Works with the EFF
- Cool shades
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For anyone who's not aware:
https://stallman-report.org/
Thanks. Sorry I should have linked to it. I kind of assumed it was common knowledge.
I had no idea. With all of the things I have to follow on a daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly basis some things are just going to fall through the cracks. "Minor public figure holds reprehensible views" won't generally hit my radar. "Major public figure did something reprehensible" may not hit my radar depending on how busy or drunk I am in a given week, which will leave me wondering why people hate them years later.
I'm not saying this as a criticism of you. You brought it up which is super valuable. There's just so much shit to keep up with that I always appreciate context because I have other things going on and rarely have any idea what reprehensible thing a particular person has said or done.
Hey no sweat 🙂 I just happen to be old enough to have known / read about / heard about RMS for decades. Given enough time, if you're at all interested in the free software movement, his less-than-savory traits naturally end up coming to your attention.
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Does using the computer just turn people into this?
Wow, he's quite passionate. I just kept scrolling through the quotes and it never ends
Yeah, LibreOffice saves in docx. Which is fine as long as you don't care what it looks like when they open it.
At least for school assignments this is easily fixed by just opening it yourself in the school library and adjusting format. It's usually pretty minor.
Honestly most of my professors accepted papers saved as pdfs which was helpful too
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Okay, I just want to say I blame schools for Microsoft's monopoly on personal computing. School sysadmins are always dazzled by the shiny looking gifts that Microsoft gives them, ensuring the next generation of Microsoft useds is ready.
Yes I really liked the "microsoft excel and spreadsheets" class everyone had to take for 1-2 whole years. The tools designed for us to learn basics within weeks and discover features naturally over time.
I mean imagine how many negative side effects on education there would be if we just spent one or two weeks learning KStars or Geogebra or Kalzium.
Don't worry tho cause with microsoft backing openai I am sure every student will be given a set of chatgpt premium accounts to "help" them in their learning. Universities are already doing it en masse.
You lose some you lose some.
Schools could have used that time they were "teaching" the Office suite to give an introduction to unix, programming, and the basics of how the internet functions. I had to read and analyze Beowulf, Shakespeare, Chaucer, and Homer and memorize the names and formulas of 33 polyatomic ions. Computing education to the same depth should have been and should be required as it was required for the other subjects.
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Really?
They're almost universally Chromebooks and the Google suite for schools these days...
yeah but that's fairly recent.
when i was in school in the late 90s it was all microsoft all the time. we had courses specifically on Microsoft^TM^ Word^TM^. that sort of indoctrination isn't visible in the workplace until the people going through it are old enough to work.
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K-12 use Google, University use Microsoft
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Everyone knows the only acceptable formats are .pdf and .tex, everything else should be shunned out of society.
.tex is a source format, not a presentation format, and as such should not be valid in a submission field.
they should take .ps though.
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.pdf can contain malware
But the entire paper in a .jpeg would be hilarious
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Most of my professors prefer pdf
Haven't used word in over 20 years and have no intention of ever using it again.
OpenOffice baby!
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most of them accept pdfs so if thats the case for you just write the assignment in typst or latex and compile to pdf
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Best thing I ever saw was an Italian cooking class that sent recipes as an ODT, and then 20 minutes later as a DOCX as an afterthought for the Americans.
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It's the right thing to complain about that kind of stuff and to do it officially.
Nick Offerman after getting Jumanji’ed
Me when the school system is Google Classroom
just rename the file and submit it as a .docx, it's their fault
I use RTF because it works on most systems out of the box.
I write my papers in markdown. Simple to write, easy to paste into Discord or Lemmy, and you can use pandoc to instantly turn it into any format you like.
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