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Romance author gets locked out of Google Docs for “inappropriate” content (www.dexerto.com)

submitted 6 months ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to c/technology@lemmy.zip

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Aspiring Author K. Renee was reportedly locked out of her own content on Google Docs after Google flagged it as "inappropriate."

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[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 15 points 6 months ago (2 children)

They should switch to LibreOffice then, with Syncthing if they need to sync it across multiple computers.

[–] FlihpFlorp@lemm.ee 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

After months and months of hrm-ing and haw-ing I think about to pull the trigger but Is this the right link

Ik it seems silly but I thought I’d ask

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This link seems to be correct indeed, if anything, their code is on that domain: https://git.libreoffice.org/

[–] FlihpFlorp@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for verifying cus I definitely have my parents tech anxiety of Am I dOwNlOaDiNg A vIrUs

[–] squidspinachfootball@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Not necessarily a bad feeling to have, I upload everything I downloaded to https://www.virustotal.com/ before opening them if I can.

[–] FlihpFlorp@lemm.ee 3 points 6 months ago

I’m assuming that’s a virus checker. But tysm for that it’ll make my life so much easier

[–] squidspinachfootball@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I like this idea, except sometimes I need to access my notes on mobile. Can we open Libre files on mobile? Haven't tried that.

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago

Collabora office can open open document format files, yes