There’s free web software LibreTranslate, which is a frontend to the Argos Translate library, built around the OpenNMT machine translation models. It still makes a lot of serious mistakes, but you can self-host it (after downloading models from, well, AWS) and find a way to contribute so that they can improve.

Looks like a good starting point for municipalities implementing live bus location maps.

I agree that incompatibility of most Android devices with free OS development is a huge problem, and that Android devices taking up an increasing share of all computers is a problem for FOSS rather than a benefit, despite the use of the Linux kernel. In shops around me, none of the phones affordable for someone with a 400 EUR / month salary will ever have LineageOS support, meaning that after two years they’ll all end up running abandoned, outdated, proprietary operating system forks, despite nothing technically preventing these capable computers from running a secure, up-to-date free OS for a few more years. This isn’t because of any issue on the LineageOS side, but because the entire Android device ecosystem is fixated on producing planned obsolescence and locking the user in.

It’s like they don’t understand the reason for this success is how different their road taken has been compared to all-in on AI companies.

Remembered that I made such a tool for myself ten years ago. Dusted off a backup, updated dependencies (and replaced some), refactored somewhat, changed license to AGPL and uploaded here: https://codeberg.org/nykula/imgie

Should be very easy to install because the backend is just ImageMagick and SQLite.

Beware of a 250M node_modules, though. My code is less than 1K lines in the initial commit, but the linters, bundlers etc are the same as I use for big projects.

Note: Lufi encrypts uploaded files and lets one share a link containing a decryption key. It doesn’t let one expose images for other websites to embed. Thus a good tool but not for OP’s purpose?

Slink might be easy enough to set up with Docker: https://docs.slinkapp.io/getting-started/02-quick-start/

Upd 22:04: tried setting it up with Podman instead of Docker, and the instructions didn’t work, first because of missing directories and then a permission issue. However, this can be because I tried on WSL rather than a dedicated GNU/Linux box.

Chimera uses udev and elogind, almost unavoidable on desktops. One is a major part of systemd, the other is a fork of another major part of systemd backporting updates from systemd upstream. Trying new distros is good, just let’s not mislead ourselves, apart from switching to the BSDs altogether, boycotting systemd is only possible at the moment when building an embedded system or a server.

I remember the shared storage location functionality in the Password Store app but I no longer see it in any versions released since last year. That’s why I had to switch to Termux. Also a control freak, just a different kind 😅

Are there mechanisms for fully automatic synchronization on every file change and every initialization in the Android and console apps for password-store out of the box these days? Using Syncthing with password-store at the moment to get a user experience as close to that as possible. Had to switch from the Android app to Termux and the CLI because the app no longer supports usage with Syncthing.

It’d be cool if your app was installable from F-Droid, for which the sources have to be somewhere under a free license. I most likely won’t be able to contribute code but would indeed like to look through the sources, and maybe help with translation if the code supports internationalization.

Do some parts of go-notes have proprietary sources? I can’t find the source for the native Android client in the repo or instructions on how to download and build it from elsewhere.

UK rappers such as Skepta and Stormzy accustomed me to technique, wordplay, sometimes uplifting and other times deadly serious but lively lyrics, and catchy beats. They move me, they inspire me to play with rhymes and samples. Right-wing “AI” prompting seems to take everything fun away from rap music and channel the art form straight into /dev/null. Their character is speaking of a downfall for UK culture when he’s the downfall.

So it’s like Google Drive/Docs, but feels like normal files, without a heavy web app tab overhead for every document, thus working faster on cheap office computers?

I understood quickly increasing hardware requirements when 95 replaced 3.1, 98 replaced 95, 2000/XP replaced 98, or 7 replaced XP, because those new versions brought noticeable usability and quality updates, as well as lots of new media- and game-related features. I’m still unsure in what visible ways 11 is an improvement over 7, and 12 seems to not offer anything interesting compared to 11? Basically a statement of, “we can no longer code efficient software and pull new requirements out of thin air”.

What are the ways in which MS Office is closely integrated with Windows compared to its Mac port? I often hear user complaints that alternatives to Office on Windows have less intuitive UI and not good enough internationalization support (spell and grammar checking, hyphenation), but they never told me about integration differences.

Have you tried adding Tor hidden services? It was the easiest solution for me to expose ports from behind the provider’s NAT to my phone when not at home.

Gateshead council use heat from water in flooded mines to heat hundreds of homes. It is estimated that a quarter of homes sit above abandoned coal mines which could be used in the same way.

This makes me think, can geothermal energy be a viable way to revitalize Donbas after the war?

Many thanks for such a detailed answer. I agree that blocs and federations are a good thing, and hope to see Asian, South-Eastern Asian, African, and South-American alliances similar to EU form around democratic values. I also hope that they don’t turn into rival fortresses with armed borders and migration restrictions between them. As someone from former USSR (Ukraine), I’m quite sure that Russia on its own, without Chinese government assistance, especially technologic, wouldn’t at their current economic state be able to wage war and suppress internal movements to democratize and/or truly federalize (in the North, particularly); but I read, admittedly not extensively, about Chinese history and recognize how dangerous it is not to have strong allies when empires are nearby - without strong allies, it’s a must to have mostly autarkic production and strength in numbers.

Plushies rock.