There are several UI translation projects, one is Transifex. There is also Crowdin, but I see they have started using “AI” translations as well…

Generally, both mobile and web apps that are interested in volunteer translators will have a link to their preferred platform in their source code repository.

All the more reason to chip in as a (human) volunteer translating open source apps 🙂

I’ve used deepl, and as a “quick solution/I’m fine with the occasional error” translation service it’s definitely better than Google. As a commercial platform probably tracking more than I personally care for, trying to corner a market share —not so much.

But neither of the above are fit for translating books of any kind (except perhaps as a joke to emphasise just that). And I’m still doubtful of the “AI” models doing any better.

This weird grudge match is devolving more and more into schoolyard tactics. I’ve been wary of all the Automattic service integrations even in self hosted WP, and it’s turning out even worse than I could imagine. Not with simple enshittification, but with a complete egomaniacal tantrum.

My earnest hope is that all of the former WordPress community supporters and contributors, swivel and start investing their time and effort into WriteFreely.

I’m afraid there won’t be one replacement for WordPress, because it has so many applications. The pure blogging aspect could be substituted by Writefreely, more advanced users may go to Ghost, and I’m not sure what small business and corporate websites will turn to?

the most extreme POV possible

Absolutely not. Somebody may still wade into the discussion and Godwin themselves.

Um, yes. It is odd, and you get some things ass backward:

But then the government is dependent on this private company again

To my knowledge Linux is community driven. I can only assume that’s Murena and /e/OS you’re talking about, then? In which case, that was my point.

I am shocked that most governments in the world don’t have their own distribution. It just makes sense.

Yeah, makes sense to North Korea, too. I’m not sure they’re an example to follow, though.

To be clear, nation states controlling the tools that their employees and, potentially, wider population communicate and access information is a dystopian vision, and I cannot agree with that point at all.

Such odd choices here. Why should the EU make its own version of Linux when they could invest in existing project and kernel development? Given the recent sacking of Russian kernel developers, do we want further politicisation of Linux development?

the adoption of the E/OS mobile operating system for government devices

Just no. There are way better solutions than /e/, and suggesting device and OS lock-in like this doesn’t exactly inspire trust. In my eyes, that idiosyncracy detracts from the generally positive suggestions of getting public administrations away from corporate platforms and OSes.

Yeah. Be very, very afraid of people using search engines or “AI” as some Magic Eightball oracle to give them answers.

I understand the ease from an admin POV, but besides locking users into a third party, corporate suite, everything UX about Office365 sucks balls.

Buggers, removing features that are actually handy to the users 😶 Apologies for the snark, didn’t know they’d done this.

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Maybe if they hadn’t decided to mislabel it “artificial intelligence”, people wouldn’t have unrealistic expectations.

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Fwiw, I found this project that may or may not make a batch export possible (but I can’t tell if that includes front matter): https://github.com/kursad-k/joplin_batch_exporter

Will probably take a good deal of finagling. I’ve seen plenty of file converters, local and online, but markdown to ICS sounds super esoteric.

Is there even front matter in Joplin files that could fill in the required fields of an ICS?

That was probably not on WeDistribute, who mostly write about the Fediverse.

That’s the difference, isn’t it? People can use “AI” to make simple little things easier. Corporations want it to replace and automate the jobs of swathes of the workforce. It’s the latter that is the “growth market”, and the one that eats the most power.

“Wherever it’s needed” is the operative term here, isn’t it? Looking at how it’s already being implemented, nobody seems to bother asking whether “AI” is really needed.

Came here to say that a 95% reduction in energy consumption will only greenwash a corresponding or larger increase in usage — but yours is of course the correct response! 👏👏👏

Hopefully not. They’re clearly batting down the hatches and trying to centralise the market around WP.org — at least as far as The Verge calls ACF a “WP Engine plug-in”, and (although I’m not sure how accurate that is) Mullenweg shares that impression.

This all feels like an odd subversion of open source software, where maybe the commercial branches of WP are spread thin financially and need to play hardball with rivals to corner the market? I honestly don’t know, but Mullenweg’s belligerent rhetoric re WP Engine seems desperate and over the top.

I’m reminded of that other time a happy-go-lucky FLOSS founder turned monopolist, although Moxie Marlinspike wasn’t suing and being countersued when he personally shut down a third party Signal client in Github comments…