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Document Liberation Project
- jonathanoliver 8y agoAh yes, good old Word Star 2000 and Lotus Ami Pro...
- g105b 8y agoHey the peasants need software too.
- jl6 8y agoDoes anybody know of a project to develop a converter for OneNote files? Tricky to say what it should convert to, but PDF or HTML would be a good start. Even OneNote’s own export routines don’t faithfully preserve the content (e.g. embedded files).
- ATsch 8y agoPerhaps try their GDPR takeout?
- jl6 8y agoDoes such a thing exist?
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- Sylos 8y agoDon't think this preserves embedded files either, but to convert to HTML, you can export as webpage which gives you a HTM-file, then open that in Internet Explorer, right-click -> View Source and then copy the HTML from there. Not actually readable HTML either, though...
- yorwba 8y agoWhat's the significance of opening it Internet Explorer? Doesn't the HTM-file already contain HTML?
- jancsika 8y ago> The Document Liberation Project was created to empower individuals, organizations, and governments to recover their data from proprietary formats and provide a mechanism to transition that data into open and standardised file formats, returning effective control over the content from computer companies to the actual authors. To achieve this, The Document Liberation Project develops software libraries that applications can use to read data in proprietary formats. Ok, so serious question-- what is DLP's official position on Sci-Hub, a project that was created to empower individuals, organizations, and governments to recover their data from proprietary databases, returning effective control over the content from companies to the actual citizenry? (To achieve this, sci-hub has a web service and a document store that users can use to read data from proprietary databases.)
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- archagon 8y agoTangential, but this is one of the many things that excites me about CRDTs. By using CvRDTs for data fields, you can define completely open and fairly arbitrary document formats that support real-time collaboration out of the box. The same document could be simultaneously edited by multiple apps and devices (online or offline) without ever having to ask the user to manually pick a revision or merge changes. This means that instead of relying on bloated, all-in-one programs for document editing that invariably centralize data and satisfy no one, you could run a suite of precisely-targeted micro-apps—drawing palates, text editors, color pickers, typesetters—that all collaborate on the same document. I know it's been tried before (OpenDoc, if my understanding is correct?), but CRDTs weren't around back then. This could be the one technical advancement to finally make the system work! (I've written a long article about this recently, but I'm working on a revision before making another post on HN: http://archagon.net/blog/2018/03/24/data-laced-with-history/ http://archagon.net/blog/2018/03/24/data-laced-with-history/)
- teddyh 8y agoI had to scroll quite a few paragraphs into your article before you even explain what CRDT stands for. For the curious, it’s “Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types”¹. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict-free_replicated_data_type https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict-free_replicated_data_...
- archagon 8y agoYes, it's explained in this section[1], but I do recommend skimming the full Wikipedia article. (To clarify, I don't get into CRDTs right off the bat. It simply turns out to be the best solution to my sync problem, which is described in the first section.) [1]: http://archagon.net/blog/2018/03/24/data-laced-with-history/#conflict-free-replicated-data-types http://archagon.net/blog/2018/03/24/data-laced-with-history/...
- teddyh 8y agoYes, but since you use the abbreviation “CRDT” in the title, you’d think you could explain it a bit sooner.
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- qrbLPHiKpiux 8y agoThis is why I’m a big fan of plaintext for all documentation. The old days of 80W.
- jwilk 8y agoWhat's 80W?
- rad_gruchalski 8y agoAssumption: https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/148677/why-is-80-characters-the-standard-limit-for-code-width https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/1486...