I suspect that it’s used in headless clip mode to reliably convert file formats back and forth.
alex-moon 9 hours ago||
Someone may need to explain to me what is wrong with this sorry. Is it because it bloats the app with functionality that some users will never use? I feel like that is fairly usual for productivity/business apps generally.
simonw 9 hours ago||
I don't see anything wrong with it, I just think it's interesting.
alex-moon 9 hours ago|||
Oh right, yeah I agree. It's the kind of thing I can imagine the harness downloading in the background anyway (or instructing the user to do) at some point so I can see the sense in just skipping that bit. Kind of comforting they just do it the same way the rest of us do - if it ain't broke and so on.
nialse 9 hours ago||||
It does, however, introduce a potentially enormous attack surface into ChatGPT, along with creative opportunities for less security conscious individuals and LLMs.
winstonp 9 hours ago|||
I think it's overbloating my computer
OutOfHere 9 hours ago||
Actually, people do use and require the functionality, which is the point. The title as posted might be incorrect.
alex-moon 9 hours ago||
Yes, that's what I mean - maybe that didn't come across cos I said "bloats". I work for a business that builds web apps for corporates - LibreOffice is bundled in most of the repos of ours that I've seen, a bit like Imagick is in the broader sector.
mirzap 8 hours ago||
I wonder why they didn't try to discover if the user already has those binaries and use them before downloading.
duskdozer 11 minutes ago||
Why would they? Storage [they don't have to pay for] is cheap! And just bundling it saves them time.
LtWorf 7 hours ago||
Because they vibe coded it.
Lucasoato 7 hours ago||
Also in the newest app I think the transcription feature is unusable. Ok, I can have a shortcut to start and stop recording. Wow, cool! Ok, but where did the transcription go? In my clipboard? To my cursor? Hey? :(
jrflo 9 hours ago||
I've noticed that when I have codex read/modify word files the live reasoning snippets often allude to LibreOffice, so that makes sense. I think it was a quick and dirty way for them to interface with docx and xlsx files?
gfalcao 7 hours ago||
Are they at least respecting the licenses (.i.e.: providing a verbatim copy of each license?)
zitterbewegung 8 hours ago||
It might be for their new Work product which can produce docx, pdf and pox files.
topaztee 7 hours ago||
spinning up an entire copy of libreoffice sounds super heavy?, if someone here is actually using chatgpt to edit docx documents then they can feel free to use us.
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woadwarrior01 7 hours ago|
You want something heavier? They were trashing people's SSDs a few months ago. IDK if it's been resolved, yet.
(This is more of a tweet than a blog post, it really wasn't written with Hacker News in mind.)
benatkin 7 hours ago||
Indeed, but that likely wouldn't have stopped someone from submitting it with a misleading title. HN is known to get a lot of misleading titles submitted and to have to change them. The <title> tag is better, it doesn't say "a full copy". In the screenshot it shows "headless" in the filename. I would simply add the tiny detail of headless to the <title> and use this title for HN: Codex Bundles Headless LibreOffice
MattDamonSpace 9 hours ago||
frankly how dare you
mrob 9 hours ago||
How is simonw to blame for somebody else submitting it to HN?
embedding-shape 9 hours ago|||
True, I feel like the entire HN community is to blame for this, particularly pg and dang.