Chatroom Log

Chatroom Log

Participants

• Shadow
• handyc
• mattf
• telegram/loudercake

Conversation

Shadow: GitHub

Shadow: GitHub

Shadow: 3. Open-Source & Private Options

Shadow: For projects requiring high data privacy or offline capabilities:

Shadow: LibreTranslate: An open-source, self-hostable alternative. You can point a custom script at your Lingui .po files to translate them via the LibreTranslate API.

Shadow: Argos Translate: An offline-first open-source library that can be integrated into a custom build step to translate extracted strings before compilation.

Shadow: GitHub

Shadow: GitHub

Shadow: Summary of Top Non-Google Engines

Shadow: Engine Why it's better for LinguiKey Strength

Shadow: DeepLMore natural phrasing for UI buttons/labelsIndustry-leading accuracy

Shadow: Azure AIBest for technical or domain-specific termsEnterprise-grade security

Shadow: ModernMTLearns from your previous translationsDynamic adaptation

Shadow: Would you like a code example of how to script a custom translation step using the DeepL API for your Lingui catalogs?

Shadow: I used ai

handyc: mattf

handyc: prosobab.leidenuniv.nl

handyc: this is something I recently took over as 'product owner' or whatever

handyc: a lot of it could probably be replicated / duplicated by claude in 2 seconds

handyc: even though this is probably like 200 years worth of people's research distilled into a small database

Shadow: Yo handyc that looks cool still even old documents have their needs bruh

mattf: nice

mattf: yeah that kind of thing is completely stupid now

mattf: worthless

mattf: i didnt even open it though

mattf: I have no idea what it is

mattf: i just know by the domain

handyc: well the thing is, parts of it are worthless and parts are invaluable

handyc: some of it really should be cleaned up and modernized, and some of it I can't touch because it's not my domain

handyc: I would not even want to delete an apostrophe or something

handyc: because I do not know this language or what anything means in it

handyc: so that is the basic danger of AI for those things

handyc: some researchers are very excited about it

handyc: because some things that seemed to me very complicated previously will become trivial

telegram/loudercake: yo mattf and handyc

handyc: yo loudercake

telegram/loudercake: you guys have a wise account

handyc: I don't know what that is

telegram/loudercake: Its a money app

handyc: I don't have any money

telegram/loudercake: If you make an account with my affiliate link i get free money

handyc: sounds like a scam

telegram/loudercake: probably

mattf: everything does that these days

mattf: everything is a pyramid

telegram/loudercake: i didnt see the whole term

telegram/loudercake: Its probably like

telegram/loudercake: *the account made by the affiliate link must deposit $1000000 for it to be elligible

handyc: if I can bring 1 million new users to h4ks.com, mattf will raise my h4ks.com account access level to platinum level

handyc: but even at the 100 thousand user mark, I can still be bronze level