What does (Remote) mean next to the title of a document?

[jabowery]

The following item from 6 years ago was closed without resolution and it is still terrorizing users in an age of cyberattacks who, quite reasonably, are concerned their personal computer has been hacked.
This is particularly true given that LibreOffice is pretty aggressive about interposing the"recovery" step when starting LibreOffice – like it happens almost every time – so if there is a bug that appears in conjunction with the “recovery” option that terrorizes people, please consider fixing it.

what does (remote) mean?

Hi libreoffice 5.1.6.2, Mint Sylvia. Impress was used to open a new blank presentation which crashed. When the document was recovered and opened it had the word (remote) on title bar and everything was slow. What does this mean? Was it uploading the document to some server or had it visible online? Don’t remember doing anything to connect to any server just started up a new presentation. Can’t rule out clicking a stray button though

In my case the version information is as follows:

Version: 7.3.7.2 / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 30(Build:2)
CPU threads: 24; OS: Linux 6.5; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Ubuntu package version: 1:7.3.7-0ubuntu0.22.04.5
Calc: threaded

PS: The LLMs send people on a wild goosechase by hallucinating ways of finding out where in the world the document is being uploaded. e.g.

[mikekaganski]

“Remote” or “recovered”?
What is shown in File → Properties, General tab?

[karolus]

@jabowery

PS: The LLMs send people on a wild goosechase by hallucinating ways of finding out where in the world the document is being uploaded.

Who’s forcing you to use “LLMs”? ( me calls it AP aka ArtificialPoetry )

[jabowery]

My what a helpful comment!

[mikekaganski]

Heh, in this case, it was pretty correct; it gave correct general tips, and even the correct File → Properties, with the tab mentioned

[mikekaganski]

It is even unnamed yet - it’s not saved. Can you also show a screenshot of the title with “(Remote)”?

[jabowery]

Are you saying that "Location: nothing here" is the correct “Remote” location?

[mikekaganski]

It was already said (in that other old question that you quoted) that “(Remote)” in the title definitely tells you that LibreOffice (at least thinks that it) opened the file from a remote location. And that location is expected to be there in the Location. The missing location there is strange for a “remote” document.

[karolus]

@jabowery

what a helpful comment!

maybe helpful for future-readers, thinking about using »ChatGpt« or not!

[jabowery]

@mikekaganski

And that location is expected to be there in the Location.

That’s not stated in the originally linked article and it is irrelevant in any case because a blank there, leads to a wild goose chase even in the absence of the “advice” offered by the ChatGPT hallucinations. Those hallucinations are a symptom of how bad this bug is since they lead the reasonable person to suspect not just a bug, but a cyber attack.

PS: Addressing concerns about cyber attacks with weasel words like “is expected” and “strange” – as well as discouraging people from using every resource at their disposal to figure out whether they’ve been attacked, including ChatGPT, is bad open source citizenship.

[mikekaganski]

Did you provide the screenshot I asked?

@jabowery

Addressing concerns about cyber attacks with weasel words like “is expected” and “strange” … is bad open source citizenship

Ah, you dismiss me, hallucinating something about me, and putting something into my words that wasn’t there. I only told about my thoughts, telling that I find it strange. But I find it not comfortable for myself to continue here. Bye then.

[cwolan]

FWIW:
There is tdf#124213 - A recovered document has “(Remote)” in the title

I can reproduce it in Windows 11 using 6.3.0.0.alpha0+ and newer versions e.g. 7.6.7.2.
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