I understand the ease from an admin POV, but besides locking users into a third party, corporate suite, everything UX about Office365 sucks balls.

You tried 1234 and password already, right?

That is certainly an improvement over Signal, yeah.

Yeah, “Matrix as IRC” with general interest rooms is an unmonitored cesspool. “Matrix as IM” for staying in touch with mates is doing just fine.

“Slightly biased”, yeah.

There is also MicroBlogPub, although development has wound down in the past year. I spun up a test instance before that, though, and it does what it says on the tin.

Of late I’ve tried out the Translate You Android app. Not necessarily an endorsement of the app itself, but it offers a selection of 9 translator services, a few of which are libre.

Certainly LibreTranslate and Lingva [my bad, it’s a GTranslate front-end] Apertium are open source, probably a few more on their list. Give them a try and see which works best for you!

Looks like Mastodon have been hiring accountants 😆 https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/112769333503182077

I mean, Deepl is useful, and more accurate than Google Translate — but I’d prefer a libre alternative. Haven’t found one yet that hits the mark.

But anyway, that’s OT for the Fediverse sub 🙂

Yeah, for one thing deepl is defo not part of the fediverse.

Fwiw, I found this project that may or may not make a batch export possible (but I can’t tell if that includes front matter): https://github.com/kursad-k/joplin_batch_exporter

Will probably take a good deal of finagling. I’ve seen plenty of file converters, local and online, but markdown to ICS sounds super esoteric.

Is there even front matter in Joplin files that could fill in the required fields of an ICS?

See, I’ll be fine.

You read my mind! Now help me read this dead mechanical drive, would you?

I’m waiting for the disk to stop clicking before I back it up. Any day now!

Oh man, what a headache to maintain! If that’s the case I understand why the resource deprecated after 2020.

Agreed on the project’s impact and importance! Raising a small altar to Alexandra Elbakyan right here.

without relying on destroying the third world

Whether you’re talking about Russia or China here, both of those countries have massive resources, both natural and in terms of population. I’d argue that they didn’t have to look for (other) third world countries to ruin; they had plenty of area and people of their own to turn to.

Also, a Lemmy ML user charging into the comments to defend state capitalism in oppressive regimes kinda proves my point.

FFS, that whole hack has left the IA a shambles.

I don’t disagree, therefore the attempt to disentangle the actual ideologies from the totalitarian stans who got stuck on '80s propaganda.

It’s not like sci-hub hosted anything, AFAIK. Didn’t it just circumvent paywalls?

If I’m right (and fucking Elsevier & co. didn’t patch the security holes) it should still work, but the sci-hub proxy sites are most likely defunct.

As those in the know can probably tell, I didn’t keep up with the whole takedown, but I do miss that easy access to research articles.