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There are a few websites dedicated to translating free software: Hosted Weblate (by Weblate developers), Codeberg Translate (independent), GNOME’s Damned Lies, KDE Localization, and GNU Translation Project, each hosting many apps and components that publish translatable sources in a standard way (such as Gettext PO files) and have continuous integration pulling back the work of translators. Weblate instances are somewhat of a wiki-like wild West, with enthusiasts translating many projects at once; they could use help with proofreading - if you notice a mistake in the software you use and it happens to be on Weblate, it’s easy to sign in and fix it.

Volunteers indeed have translated join-lemmy and the engine itself, but from what I’ve seen, Lemmy developers have never turned on Ukrainian in either codebase, unlike other languages with similar completion rate, which means any instance admin willing to use the translation has to fork, patch and rebuild to add the support. Technically, PieFed 1.6.x still hasn’t the translation-enabling commit cherry-picked from main, either, but 1.7 should have it if minor versions begin as branches off main.

He takes a jab at the Brits for not enough diversity distribution, but where there’s diversity in his country, he leads with a policy of relocation and deportation… https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/26/world/europe/denmark-housing.html I wonder if that’s the kind of distribution policy he’s saying the UK should also achieve.

While they can be attracted, without social pressures the teenagers would simply tell them to go away. An image of an older entrepreneur or a star seeking very young companions is recognized as success. Older people have more autonomy and resources than young adults and teenagers. Being an equal in a company of other teenagers is seen as boring, less cool than a teenager in a company of adults. Socially constructed hierarchies of adults over children like these add up, leading to predators not being prevented as much as they should. In case of Epstein, he was considered normal as long as he was perceived as targeting young women in their late teens as a 40 year-old man, which I think should be much more frowned upon; instead, it’s being celebrated, not by evolution but by adults making conscious decisions.

Having children early is a different demographic, teenagers with teenagers or young adults. Pedos are older people targeting teenagers, which I’m not sure has any significant evolutionary advantage. If anything, young women would be better off looking for young men, and vice versa. I’d argue pedos is a socially constructed phenomenon, powered mainly by power disbalance, not an evolutionary one.

So essential that they helped Orban manufacture a sex scandal against the main opposition candidate)) It backfired, everyone whom I asked about Peter Magyar now overlook his shady background and consider him relatable and keeping up with the times.

How does btop compare against a GTK+ task manager in terms of memory usage when you include the terminal emulator in the btop count? It’d be a more technically correct comparison that way.

I hope Klychko will not just receive generators, but focus on actual resilience improvements. Centralized electricity generation (thermal and nuclear) is quite vulnerable, we need to deploy lots of small-scale wind and solar ASAP, widely, preferably from European sources because China is financing the Russian war effort. Elevators in every tower block need to be retrofitted with backup batteries, subsidized up to 100% in low-income neighborhoods where lots of older and disabled people live. Public transit financing from the budget must increase at least threefold, through things like a progressive tax reform and cutting down the privacy-negating IT superstructure creep, as the situation with overcrowding and inability to use electric vehicles has severely worsened; it sucks to wait an hour for a bus in freezing cold and be unable to enter because standing people have squeezed into every cubic centimeter.

The stance of Code Pink is to let invaders conquer people, so they can label it “peace”. Because dictatorships are “not our enemy” - what Code Pink website says. You conveniently try not to see you’re talking down to an actual person from the invaded country whose defense Code Pink is campaigning to defund. What helps people here (Ukrainians are people in your eyes, right?) are many things, but I’ll name three: bringing manufacturing back to Europe to reduce the dependency on Chinese imports (that fund the invasion), sending us weapons to defend ourselves from Russia (who’ve already committed genocide here before, are trying it again right now, and will gladly continue doing it if they win), and fighting for worker rights internationally (not by defunding our defense in the short term).

Promoting a laissez-faire imperialist-appeaser agenda isn’t anti-war in any meaningful sense. The head of codepink has 47 million dollars of assets: https://pdf.guidestar.org/PDF_Images/2022/841/618/2022-841618483-202343209349101304-F.pdf - in local currency she’d be a billionaire twice. If you ask me, the road to international peace would start with a worldwide worker revolution, overthrowing people like her who dictate poor peoples to give up fights against an oil rig trying to conquer us and force us to go conquer somebody else, just so that she looks good in the media. The only difference I see between her and the likes of Trump’s donors is that she currently has less money and targets a different audience in social media. Behavior is the same.

Russia is a proxy. I urge Westerners not to think it’s an “equal” side in the war.

Easy, here’s a short list of codepink calls to disarm Ukraine just in their recent publications. If you read just a little about their “activism”, you know about their positions very well.

“we urge President Biden and Congress to stop the flow of weapons to Ukraine” https://www.codepink.org/stop_war_in_ukraine

“Push for… not more weapons to Ukraine.” https://www.codepink.org/push_for_negotiations_not_more_weapons_to_ukraine

“Washington warhawks are in meltdown mode over the idea of pausing weapons to Ukraine” https://www.facebook.com/codepinkalert/videos/ukraine-weapons-halt3mov/628512656715821/

“U.S. taxpayers will shell out for thousands of tons of weapons and millions of Ukrainians will die” https://codepink.substack.com/p/the-growing-chorus-for-peace-in-ukraine

“the war in Ukraine, which… the U.S. and NATO then chose to prolong” https://codepink.substack.com/p/ukrainian-neutrality-is-still-the

“We cannot call for peace in Ukraine while simultaneously supplying that country with advanced rocket systems and missiles” https://medium.com/@codepink/the-missing-peace-in-13-5-billion-of-military-aid-to-ukraine-a0d46ee0e8f1

Reading reviews on Google Maps in private browsing mode also got blocked for me.

Unsure about offline-first, but yes, local-first, for which a LAN is enough and no cloud is needed, is very much what I’d rather we depended on more, instead of what’s considered professional and an industry standard. Organizations requiring SaaS (as in, a network of 20 computers simultaneously becoming unable to open an app because the Internet went down) in a country experiencing war and blackouts is an additional source of stress. Free software requiring containers and gigabytes of dependencies is also suboptimal, we should aim to simplify native packaging for GNU/Linux and BSD distributions.

Another thing, programmer visions of what would suffice in bad situations are often very Western, anglophone. Software, including operating systems, eschewing localization in a quest for a lightweight footprint are not accessible or are outright unusable for the majority of the people in the world. Please take care to make your software possible to translate, including documentation. Best if the focus is on tutorials and handbooks; manpages are less of a priority.

Among organizers, I see CodePink, those whose definition of peace is to disarm a country being invaded. Once the Cubans grow more strength to protect themselves against imperialism (any camp), folks like these will be quick to throw them under the bus.

Do they attack more often or has the police started to take the right wing more seriously and track more cases? Here they still do absolutely nothing, usually blaming the assaulted person for what they call provoking veterans, or redirecting the person through an infinite bureaucratic maze.

To fellow Ukrainians who haven’t realized this yet: migrants are not “they”, it’s our friends and family, and making any migration means-tested and bureaucratic is bullshit that will make “illegals” out of random people, out of you, and cause great suffering. Let’s build international solidarity with migrants and refugees from all countries, in all countries.

Yes, I tried multiple popular SSR frameworks and use one at work. As a hobby, I’ve been making my own SSR framework that is much more minimal, based on Preact, Valibot, Vite, node:sqlite, URLPattern, gettext.js and a few companion libraries. (But components look more like old-school Mithril than React because no JSX extension, just standard JS.) I want its node_modules to stay below 200 MB and to pick such dependencies that the apps built with it can be included in Debian repositories and potentially FreedomBox. Hopefully I’ll be ready to make a fedi post about it next month.

JavaScript has been my favorite language for a decade. Still, I try to make websites server-rendered so that they can be read if my code fails to load or execute. For example, there are power outages in Ukrainian cities for most of the day because of the war. When there’s no power, there’s still 4G for a while but it switches to economic mode and slows down to a crawl. The websites of the monopolist energy company require a lot of JavaScript. It often fails to load for me during the outage. It’s also not keyboard-accessible because of how its JS is implemented (I won’t image I’d do better, they have a team while I’m a solo programmer, but I try and they don’t). For me to see when there will be electricity at what place and plan where to go study and work, I have to rent a VPS, scrape their website and show me a static table that doesn’t require JS to load. Some code to see what I mean: https://codeberg.org/nykula/powerup

Some of us would enjoy it I guess, but I personally see it as a dangerous stereotype similar to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_black_woman. The government commends our resilience and uses it as an excuse to strip worker and student rights, to “study” engineering offline in 5°C rooms for example. EU countries are cutting support for migrants because we’re too resilient in their eyes, spreading welfare queen stereotypes that even our our media, which is quite right-wing, is quick to quote without a grain of salt.