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JFC...
I have four tabs open, Firefox web browser on Ubuntu, to my home instance
/home
/public/local
my Lists
and my Profile home
I'm on my /home tab viewing posts
I am looking for and using the Translate tag at the lower left of a given post
Do you need a screenshot to understand what I'm saying?
Or do you think I don't know what I'm talking about?
I am attemting to translate using the Translate text at the bottom of given post
Again my instance uses LibreTranslate
Sometimes I'll click through to the post on the origin instance and try there
Sometimes (when I have a lot of time to waste and I'm in a better mood) I'll open up the instances
/public/local
and see
1) if they have any posts in anything other than their native language, and
2) do they seem to offer any translation at all
And here's the core point:
how much effort should I be expected to expand, to translate a foreign / European/ German post just to read something that ends up being extremely mundane
And how much finite screen space am I expected to give to posts / posters I'll never be able to translate and read?
I've already Muted and Blocked two in the last 15 minutes...
I understand this
My instance use LibreTranslate
My issue is remote instances that throw an httpd 404 or httpd 503 at any attempt to translate a post from one of their posters, even when I go to their profile feed and try to translate directly from their home instance, or where posts in my Home feed don't even offer Translate at all
It's really an inexcusable weak point
I remember on Github (where I follow Mastodon development) where quite some time ago Gargron himself blew off the entire auto-translate issue as too marginal to bother addressing programmatically in the distribution itself
His attitude was basically "Meh... they should all be able to read European (meaning German) anyway..."
So here we are: Mastodon as a Tower of Babel
cc @klu9
It's seriously about time
Way past time, as a matter of fact
I've been on Mastodon generally since November 2, 2022, and it was an issue back then
"Alex Pretti suffered a broken rib when a group of federal officers tackled him while he was protesting their attempt to detain other individuals."
So
Prior knowledge, and premeditation
A planned hit, a planned take-down
10 rounds to the back of the head and neck while he was being held down
An execution
Yeah I doubt he'll retire
That's just a cover story to get attention off him for a while
These are *all* pathological liars
cc @inthehands
El Centro El Centro El Centro
Was Bovino the freak who took an entire attack squad of ICE goons up California a couple hundred miles to Bakersfield (think it was) to harass Hispanic farm laborers out in the fields, completely out of the blue, a year ago or so?
Thought I'd heard of him before...
So Bovino's not "retiring" he's returning to his original post / field of operations
"On Jan. 7 [2025], the day after Congress certified Trump’s election victory, Bovino sent 65 of his agents into Kern County, six hours north of the border, to conduct a raid that has shaken immigrant communities and agricultural businesses across the state, and has set the stage for a legal battle over how the government carries out mass deportations."
Here: https://calmatters.org/economy/2025/04/border-patrol-records-kern-county/
Read that: exactly the same modus operandi and exactly the same wording he and Noem and the rest of them use right now
It's a trap
Minneapolis hands over the files, ICE knows exactly who to target, and comes right back in with a verified target list
cc @briankrebs