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#localization

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Miss Gayle

"Eco-localists argue that globalization is authoritarian by nature: increasingly, multinational corporations rule the world. Individuals and communities are powerless by comparison."

Or are we? Maybe the only winning move is not to play - to instead embrace relocalization and degrowth, not more and more surrender to predatory capitalism and profiteering off our food and other necessities of life.

Link: resilience.org/stories/2025-04

How Eco-Localism Differs from Tariff Terrorism Richard Heinberg, originally published by Resilience.org April 17, 2025 As soaring consumer prices, supply chain disruptions, and reductions in government-provided funding and services threaten communities, localists can help bolster local markets and inspire mutual aid efforts, helping mobilize folks to take more responsibility for their own collective resilience and well-being. Side by side images of a farmer's market on the left, vs an industrial silo pouring items into a train car, c/o Adobe Stock. "society and nature are losers when globalization worsens inequality while speeding up depletion and pollution. Global economic inequality declined during some decades of the 20th century, but it did so mainly because of the Great Depression and two World Wars. Otherwise, the last century saw a relentlessly widening gap between rich and poor—a trend that has accelerated in the past two decades, not just in the US, but in China, India, and elsewhere. Indigenous cultures in less-industrialized nations are hardest hit, as globalization uproots people from traditional village life, thrusting them into cities and factories. Meanwhile, forests disappear, carbon accumulates in the atmosphere, wild creatures vanish, and floods and fires devastate more communities."
#Community#Sustainability#Localization
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Lianna

🇬🇧 We don't need humans in #translation and #localization anymore, huh?

Let's put some #MachineTranslation services to the test with a simple English idiom!

"I'm a lady in the streets but a freak in the sheets" and its variations mean that you're one kind of person in public, but another in private, often with other words inserted to humorous effect.

Let's see how #GoogleTranslate, #DeepL, #ChatGPT and #Deepseek handle this for English to #German.

Conclusion in the comments.

Google Translate screenshot. The sentence "Let's just say I'm Dostoevsky in the streets but Lenin in the sheets ;)" is translated to "Sagen wir einfach, ich bin Dostojewski auf den Straßen, aber Lenin in den Laken;)"
DeepL screenshot. The sentence is translated to "Sagen wir einfach, ich bin Dostojewski auf der Straße, aber Lenin in den Laken ;)"
ChatGPT screenshot. The sentence is translated to "Man könnte sagen, ich bin Dostojewski auf der Straße, aber Lenin im Bett ;)"
Deepseek V3 screenshot. The sentence is translated to "Sagen wir einfach, ich bin Dostojewski auf der Straße, aber Lenin zwischen den Laken ;)"
#linguistics#ai
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Lianna

🇩🇪 Hallo! :)

Ich bin #neuHier im Localisation Café.

Seit einiger Zeit arbeite ich als #Freiberufler:in in der #Übersetzung und #Localization, hauptsächlich für #Computerspiele. Mein Sprachpaar ist #Deutsch und #Englisch.

Außerhalb meiner freiberuflichen Tätigkeit bin ich gerade dabei, meinen Zweifachabschluss in #Linguistik und #Computerlinguistik fertigzustellen.

In Zukunft würde ich gerne festangestellt in der #Gamingindustrie arbeiten, aber das liegt wohl leider noch in der Ferne. :)

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/dev/urandom

the more i see software developers make localization mistakes (such as using the same string for "post" (verb, on a button to make a post) and "post" (noun, on a header when viewing a post), the more i continue to insist that they learn at least a bit of #esperanto

you can learn enough of it in two or three months to be able to read a wide variety of texts, and its grammar is clear enough that it avoids ambiguities that cause localization problems for monolingual english speakers

even if you never speak a word of esperanto again, just thinking about "oh, this is a button to make a post, so i'd use the verb form 'afiŝi' there, and that is a header displayed when viewing a specific post, so the noun form 'afiŝo' makes more sense there" when writing the localization strings will make it much easier for people who want to localize your app or website for french, german, russian, etc. (and probably also other languages, but i don't have enough expertise in that)

#i18n#l10n#localization
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Florian

When I started the IC_Null channel the idea was to cover topics primarily about #cybersecurity, #hacking, #pentesting etc. from a #blind perspective. Blind as in #screenReader user, that is. But an overarching topic is showing off what jobs are (up to a point) doable for this demographic and where the obstacles are. Today's stream leans that way: we'll be looking at the premier #translation and #localization tool, Trados Studio. Supposedly they have upped their #accessibility as of late. I'll be the judge of that 💀
I'll see you all on #youtube and #twitch just under 1.5 hours from now. https://twitch.tvic_null youtube.com/@blindlyCoding #selfPromo #stream #trados

youtube.comBefore you continue to YouTube
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Astrarium Games

We're thrilled to #announce that we have #partnered with WeMavin Language Services Co., Ltd. for all our localization needs!

WeMavin are planning to offer their services to several western #indie #games #studios in the near future, so if you're looking for any #localization #services, get in touch with them!

#languages #english #french #spanish #german #italian #swedish #finnish #turkish #japanese #chinese #korean #polish #hindi #arabic #gamesupport

wemaven.com/

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Harald

Localization of a TypeScript app? Meaning the texts the users see adapt to the language configured in the browser or otherwise picked? There are a lot of copious frameworks out there. But for small projects, an extremely simple **and** type-safe way is to just use a JavaScript object and use TypeScript typing to make sure a translation request in the code does not request something which cannot exist.

See my codeberg snippet.
codeberg.org/harald/Codeschnip

Summary card of repository harald/Codeschnipselnotizen
Codeberg.orgCodeschnipselnotizen/typescript/Localizer.ts at mainCodeschnipselnotizen - Code snippets and notes
#TypeScript#localization#codeberg
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@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman:

Localization is important to make Decentralization work and last.

Decentralization without Localization can be susceptible to Centralization.

Decentralization with Localization spreads out decision-making and power to groups (that could consistent of a single individual) with a personal stake in the outcome of the decision-making.

Which creates incentives that lead to greater resilience to Centralization.

#Decentralization#DeSo#Fediverse
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W3C Developers

The @w3c Timed Text #WorkingGroup invites implementations of the "Dubbing and Audio Description Profiles of TTML2 (DAPT)" specification for exchanging timed text content in #dubbing and #audio description workflows #timetoimplement

▶️ w3.org/TR/dapt/

DAPT enables scripting, voicing, and mixing for dubbing and audio descriptions, supporting video #localization and #accessibility.

Feedback welcome in github.com/w3c/dapt/

www.w3.orgDubbing and Audio description Profiles of TTML2
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