Linux in Excel

(github.com)

186 points | by radeeyate 2 months ago ago

10 comments

  • euroderf 2 months ago

    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.

  • dmitrygr 2 months ago

    “ 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

  • nogajun 2 months ago

    Linux can run on Excel, but not Excel on Linux.

  • tinktank 2 months ago

    This is the insanity that I miss.

  • h4ck_th3_pl4n3t 2 months ago

    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!

  • valorzard 2 months ago

    Would this same trick work on LibreOffice Calc?

  • necovek 2 months ago

    It runs on neither MacOS nor Excel cloud though, as it depends on a Windows DLL.

  • padde 2 months ago

    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?

  • ivolimmen 2 months ago

    Question remains: can you run Windows in LibreOffice under Linux?

  • nailer 2 months ago

    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.