by euroderf on 4/30/25, 9:15 AM
Before long you'll have a different LLM embedded in each of a series of cells, and they'll each have an opinion on what you are doing elsewhere in the sheet, and your One True Trusted Overview LLM (named OTTO) will survey them and take a vote and get back to you.
by dmitrygr on 4/30/25, 5:16 AM
“ The emulator is built as a seperate dll which is loaded by the VBA macro. The VBA macro calls the emulator in the dll and gets the output and writes it into the cells in the spreadsheet. ”
Not really in excel. Excel is just the console. Emulator is a native DLL
by nogajun on 4/30/25, 6:24 AM
Linux can run on Excel, but not Excel on Linux.
by tinktank on 4/30/25, 5:07 AM
This is the insanity that I miss.
by h4ck_th3_pl4n3t on 4/30/25, 8:40 PM
So when will there nmap be backported to run in this VM?
Would be awesome to have a little VM that can scan for lateral movement possibilities, in an excel spreadsheet. Next-gen malware!
by valorzard on 4/30/25, 6:33 AM
Would this same trick work on LibreOffice Calc?
by necovek on 4/30/25, 4:48 AM
It runs on neither MacOS nor Excel cloud though, as it depends on a Windows DLL.
by padde on 4/30/25, 7:23 AM
Any practical use cases come to mind? Could you actually interact from Excel cells with Linux userspace, e.g. running a cell's value through a bash script as if applying a formula?
by ivolimmen on 4/30/25, 10:16 AM
Question remains: can you run Windows in LibreOffice under Linux?
by nailer on 4/30/25, 3:57 AM
I just posted the ‘doom on a lightning adapter’ story, and saw this in submissions. I’ll have to tip my hat to the better bizarre ‘X on Y’ post. You win this time, radeeyate.
by userbinator on 4/30/25, 4:37 AM
Unfortunately it doesn't seem possible to run WINE in it, and thus another Excel inside that.
by ngcazz on 4/30/25, 8:03 AM
I thought for a second this would be about the use of a spreadsheet as a general computation device.
by goodboyjojo on 4/30/25, 11:18 AM
linux and the hit game doom are the things hackers always put on something first. any eletronic
by aussieguy1234 on 4/30/25, 7:27 AM
Excel > Linux > Wine > Excel...to infinity?
by tolien on 4/30/25, 8:51 AM
Next step is to get Doom working on it :-)
by snvzz on 4/30/25, 2:51 PM
RISC-V is inevitable.
by apexalpha on 4/30/25, 10:07 AM
Wow! We are in awe that you managed to run Linux on a database tool designed to query Bigdata tables sharded over 72 sheets.Very impressive.
Greetings,
Deloitte.