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Today I learned that in @librewolf I can type "translate" in the URL bar and get to a text translation UI.
This is powered by a local model and part of the Firefox translation thingy. I guess it must work the same way in Firefox?
Anyway, this is great. Local model, pretty solid translations, now possible to use directly to translate copy-pasted text snippets, not just text on a website.
Local models will eat Big AI's cake.
(usual caveats apply, such translations are always imperfect!)
Almost 25 years ago, I wrote a blog post with the title ‘jumping ship slowly’ about leaving Windows (XP was awful, it was mind boggling to me that Vista managed to make people nostalgic for XP). My advice remains the same:
Don’t try switching OS first. The OS is the most easily replaceable bit in the stack. Switch applications first. Most ‘Linux’ apps are cross platform. They’ll run on Windows, and the few that don’t will run in WSL2. You can switch out apps one at a time, and take the time to get comfortable with the alternatives.
Once you’re comfortable not using any Windows-only apps, changing the OS but using all of the same applications is very easy to do. Changing OS and application stack at the same time is an enormous obstacle.
I believe this is also why a lot of corporate and government Linux migrations fail: they try to change everything at the same time and that’s too steep a learning curve.
Especially now. More than ever. This is the way.
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Trump’s bad bargains have shaken a complacent continent.
The planet doesn’t negotiate. It sends signals: rising seas, wildfires, heatwaves.
The EU responds with commitments like:
🔸Water Resilience Strategy
🔹Chemical Regulation
🔸EU Climate Law (net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050)
🔹Restoring nature and repairing damaged ecosystems
Change is accelerating: solar and wind infrastructure is expanding, cities are being redesigned around nature.
This World Environment Day, the debate isn't if climate change is real, but how fast we can act.