Wikipedia, the online nonprofit encyclopedia, laid out a simple plan to ensure its website continues to be supported in the AI era, despite its declining traffic.

https://archive.is/je5sj

“If adopted, these amendments would not simplify compliance but hollow out the GDPR’s and ePrivacy’s core guarantees: purpose limitation, accountability, and independent oversight,” Itxaso Dominguez de Olazabal, from the European Digital Rights group, told EUobserver.

The draft includes adjustments to what is considered “personal data,” a key component of the GDPR and protected by Article 8 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union.

As someone who loves both coding and learning Japanese, I’ve always wished there was an open-source, truly free tool for learning Japanese, kind of like what Monkeytype is in the typing community (fun fact: we actually have 2 Monkeytype devs on board with us now!)

Unfortunately, most language learning apps these days are either paid or closed-source, and the few free ones that are still out there haven’t really been kept up to date. I felt like that left a gap for people who just want a straightforward, open-source, high-quality learning tool that isn’t trying to milk them and/or sell them something.

That being said, I didn’t want to just make another “me too” language app just for the sake of creating one. There needed to be something special about it. That’s when I thought: why not truly hit it home and do something no other language learning app has done by adding tons of color themes, fonts and an extremely fun and customizable experience, as a little tribute to the vibe that inspired me in the first place, Monkeytype.

So, that’s what I’m doing now. We've already hit half a thousand stars on GitHub and reached thousands of Japanese learners worldwide, and we're looking to grow our forever free, open-source platform even more.

Why? Because Japanese learners and weebs deserve a free and genuinely fun learning experience too.

Live demo: https://kanadojo.com/

If you wanna make our day by dropping us a star or even contributing, then you can do so here --> https://github.com/lingdojo/kana-dojo ^^

どもありがとうございます！

cross-posted from: https://scribe.disroot.org/post/5554417

Nazi Germany confronted its crimes only after military defeat made denial untenable. Russia, by contrast, continues to equate victory with moral legitimacy. Without a clear and undeniable defeat, there is no sense of guilt—and without guilt, no basis for reflection or reform.

We started translating ProleWiki to french locally which would have taken 8 days of local inference on my computer, and then we found out Mistral AI offers a free API. You get 500,000 input tokens per minute, and a total of 2 billion token generation per month. All you need is to give them a phone number.

Basically with this kind of limits we could translate all of ProleWiki English (about 50 million tokens currently) to, well, every single language in existence or something like that. (the answer is 40 per month per account).

All of their models are freely accessible like this (they have thinking models, coding, etc for different tasks) but the counterpart is they are allowed to train their models on what you send. Which is fine with me lol here have some communist propaganda in your AI.

I can only speak for French but the translation quality is very, very good with the 3.2 Large model. Previously I could only run the 3.2 Small on my computer. The speed is also much faster than my computer and because it's an API you can multithread (running more than one instance of the script at a time).

For example it's able to figure out acronyms and automatically reorder them. Oh and we're also translating our entire English-language library which contains over 1400 books. And just to preface - yes many of these are already available in French but it's not a problem, down the line we can easily replace the machine translation with the existing 'official' editions. That's the beauty of the internet, this would have been too much of a pain in print.

Of course language capabilities depend on a lot of things, but we may look at this for other language instances if the result is worth it. It requires a lot of testing with native speakers, changing the prompt one word at a time to test different outputs on the same chunk of text each time.

It does introduce some artefacts but this is very easily fixable with some regex to clean up the files which I think a lot of people just don't bother to do but it's literally so simple. For example the Large model likes to say "Here is the French translation of the provided wikitext:" sometimes, but you can very easily remove that in bulk. The small model didn't have this quirk funnily enough.

Honestly I have to wonder how long this will keep going, this can't be profitable for them. I don't know how Mistral AI makes its money but they aim to be one of the big players in the sphere (and they're based in France so western tech).

I made the script with crush + deepseek API and adapted it to be compatible with their API which is OpenAI format, and it works out of the box. I just run the script on my computer and they do the heavy lifting. And the more you use crush the more you know what you should have in your script or what you should ask crush/deepseek, like any tool. If I had to redo this script from scratch I think I could get it in just one prompt, maybe 2.

You could also use crush with their API, it's just that the data will be used to train their AI. I also don't know how good their model is at coding.

I was worried about potential censoring ("I'm sorry I can't help with that let's talk about something else") but it seems APIs are generally more permissive than the web interfaces, probably because it would drive away enterprise clients.

Anyway, instead of running cycles for 8 days with my GPU this should take only 2 days, though we are spreading the workload between 4 people and have added the entire Library to this run.

Anyway if you wanted to try all of this stuff out you could begin with the free Mistral API. Open this link and it should prompt you to make an account, follow the steps then you can generate an API key here: https://console.mistral.ai/home?workspace_dialog=apiKeys.

The tech giant says the change will enable users to use their voice more naturally to access content and more.

Flyoobe is a useful tool for those who want to skip Windows 11's hardware requirements or declutter the operating system. Its latest update, version 2.0, introduces an overhauled UI.

Good song but stop bumping into people dickhead

The EU is looking at turning its guidance on "high-risk" telecom vendors into binding rules that would push member states to phase out Huawei and ZTE over security concerns.

The highest number of attempts at the practical test before passing last year was 21

I legit made ragebait about like one of the worst things to ragebait about and like to be honest its not like I hate someone for not being fortunate but still I messed up and idk how to actually own up for it and stuff. once again im sorry

Nazi Germany confronted its crimes only after military defeat made denial untenable. Russia, by contrast, continues to equate victory with moral legitimacy. Without a clear and undeniable defeat, there is no sense of guilt—and without guilt, no basis for reflection or reform.

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• The European Commission is exploring ways to force European Union member states to phase out Huawei Technologies Co. and ZTE Corp. from their telecommunications networks.
• Commission Vice President Henna Virkkunen wants to convert the European Commission’s 2020 recommendation to stop using high-risk vendors in mobile networks into a legal requirement.
• The EU is increasingly focused on the risks posed by Chinese telecom equipment makers as trade and political ties with its second-largest trading partner fray.

The European Commission is exploring ways to force European Union member states to phase out Huawei Technologies Co. and ZTE Corp. from their telecommunications networks, according to people familiar with the matter.

Commission Vice President Henna Virkkunen wants to convert the European Commission’s 2020 recommendation to stop using high-risk vendors in mobile networks into a legal requirement, according to the people, who asked not to be identified because the negotiations are private.

While infrastructure decisions rest with national governments, Virkkunen’s proposal would compel EU countries to align with the commission’s security guidance. If the recommendations become legally binding, member countries that don’t follow the rules could face a so-called infringement procedure and financial penalties.

The EU is increasingly focused on the risks posed by Chinese telecom equipment makers as trade and political ties with its second-largest trading partner fray. The concern is that handing over control of critical national infrastructure to companies with such close ties to Beijing could compromise national security interests.

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The foreign affairs select committee is drawing up plans to examine Chinese government interference in academia as part of its inquiry into the UK’s strategy towards Beijing. MPs are broadening the scope of their investigation into the China audit, an internal government review of UK-China relations that concluded in June, to look into Chinese state influence at British universities. Ministers are under pressure to take a more robust approach after the Guardian disclosed that Sheffield Hallam University had blocked the work of a professor whose work was critical of China’s human rights record. Sheffield Hallam banned one of its most prominent professors, Laura Murphy, from continuing with her work on China-linked supply chains, after years of pressure from the Chinese government. Murphy’s work focuses on Uyghurs, a persecuted Muslim minority in China, being co-opted into forced labour programmes. The Chinese government rejects accusations of forced labour, claiming Uyghur work programmes are for poverty alleviation. In October, Sheffield Hallam lifted the ban, and apologised to Murphy. But the case has caused widespread alarm about the influence of the Chinese government on UK universities, both in the form of specific threats and fears of losing access to the lucrative market of Chinese international students.

Emily Thornberry, the chair of the foreign affairs select committee, said: “From what we have heard so far, Chinese government interference in our universities is a threat. We need to examine the extent of it and universities should have a co-ordinated response to it”.

Last week, the Sheffield Hallam branch of the University and College Union (UCU) and the national executive committee of the UCU passed motions calling for a “full public inquiry” into the events at Sheffield Hallam. The motions also called for a government-led review into the ways in which commercial considerations are eroding academic free speech.

Similar motions are expected to be tabled at regional UCU branches in the coming weeks.

Bob Jeffrey, a branch officer for the Sheffield Hallam UCU, said: “Laura’s case really resonates with UCU members”. Academics in the UK have spoken out about “extremely heaving” pressure from Beijing in the wake of the revelations about Sheffield Hallam.

Internal emails from Sheffield Hallam revealed that Murphy’s work and the university’s business interests in China were considered to be “untenable bedfellows”. The university said the emails did not represent university policy and that the decision to block Murphy’s research was not based on commercial interests.

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“His campaign paired moral conviction with concrete plans to lower costs and expand access to services, making it unmistakable what he stood for and whom he was fighting for.”

Senate Democrats actually know how to use their power to counter Donald Trump.

Stop pirating

No more IP theft

Hey,

I know it sucks to rely on cloud services but it is what it is. I use Apple iCloud, Bitwarden and GitHub.

Technically, I could self-host all three but I want my backups not at my place or at least have them in both places cloud/at home.

I do have two spare Raspberry Pi Zero 2W and one small computer with an old i5 / 8 GB RAM.

What do you personally self-host?

My dumbass was gonna strip it for parts.

Curious what you industrious folks would do with it?

Similar except 4x2 TB https://www.ebay.com/itm/316549741700

Inb4 put Linux on it

Edit: well it booted earlier and now it doesn't. 😵

THE DUST