Comment Re:Enhance the User experience (Score 1) 262
20-30 dumb-as-fuck ads about 'natural soap' from that "Dr. Squatch" lame-ass
You're not a DISH, you're a MAN!
Comment Re: So what? (Score 1) 302
Hi, meet me. I'm in Michigan, not a morning person. Am super excited about the possibility of permanent DST.
Comment Re:What do people use for Maildir now? (Score 1) 217
Maybe if we had systemd-maildir that could efficiently store them all in a binary database? I kid. I kid!
Shh... don't give them any ideas!
Comment Re:So give them mutt already (Score 1) 77
It was a thing when GMail first launched
Submission + - Systemd-Free Devuan 4.0 'Chimaera' Officially Released (devuan.org)
"Devuan Developers are delighted to announce the release of Devuan Chimaera 4.0 as the project's new stable release. This is the result of many months of painstaking work by the Team and detailed testing by the wider Devuan community."
This release is Based on Debian Bullseye (11.1) with Linux kernel 5.10 and lets you choose your init system : sysvinit, runit, and OpenRC.
Comment Re:Microsoft just needs to.. (Score 1) 77
Comment Can we kill blockchain hype with blockchain? (Score 1) 164
Can blockchain be applied to stop blockchain hype?
Comment Re:!cloud == privacy (Score 2) 50
Our current launch plan is browser addon or plugin. That got lost in the news articles. I'm the project coordinator.
Comment Re:Sounds like a great extension (Score 1) 50
We've been debating a few integration options including an extension, a plugin with an install on first usage, or a captive process that Firefox launches and communicates with. Part of this depends on how much performance we can get out of WebAssembly vs native C++ code with CPU-specific routines. I'm the project coordinator.
Comment Re:Deep Leaning seems so slanted (Score 1) 50
Yes, we are worried about bias in translation. Here's a specific example from people we collaborate with: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgenderbiasnlp.talp.cat...
Comment Re:The German one is CATASTROPHIC. (Score 1) 50
I can't speak to the spellchecker. But the translation system is able to handle German compounds via Byte Pair Encoding: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Frsennrich%2Fs... .
Comment Re:!cloud == privacy (Score 2) 50
Would you be interested in joining a user study? The difficulty with addons is that WebAssembly doesn't support vector instructions over 128 bits wide, which make neural machine translation's matrix operations faster.
Comment Re:!cloud == privacy (Score 4, Informative) 50
That's a good suggestion! The main difficulty with PDF files is you have to reassemble soft-returns into sentences (but not hard returns), possibly OCR, avoid page numbers in the middle of things, etc. It's doable with heuristics but a lot more software is involved.
Comment Re:!cloud == privacy (Score 5, Informative) 50
Your desktop does the translation. The models will be trained on a cluster at Mozilla. I run the project.