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• Wait, What's a Bookmarklet?

  I use a kinda hacky bit of JS to do a number of actions based on the current URL. I create bookmarks like this, and set a keyword (this one is 'gt', for Google Translate):

    javascript:location="https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=&sl=auto&tl=en&u="+location.

  - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

• RARBG Release Alternatives?

  If you don't want to use Chrome or install an extension, you could use a... Source: 11 months ago

• Ever-expanding animation of the life of the 796th floor of a space station

  English link: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&hl=en&u=https://habr.com/ru/companies/floor796/articles/673318/&client=webapp Unfortunately, while this is very interesting, it's not how the site appears in my mobile browser. I'm seeing a series of standard MP4 files (the loading animation is also different, showing a series of vertical bars instead of a percentage), and while I have no problems... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Google search crashes when searching “how many emojis on iOS”

  Searching through Google translate loads the page but without content: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&hl=en&u=https://www.google.com/search?q%3Dhow%2Bmany%2Bemojis%2Bon%2Bios%26oq%3Dhow%2Bmany%2Bemojis%2Bon%2Bios&client=webapp. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Telegram now censoring channels in Germany for “violating local laws”

  My comment will appear abstract compared to the vast majority of free speech-related comments. I read the article translated into English: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&hl=en&u=https://netzpolitik.org/2022/nach-gespraechen-mit-bundesregierung-telegram-sperrt-erstmals-kanaele-in-deutschland-wegen-lokalen-gesetzesverstoessen/&client=webapp Then, I went to read this person's Wiki... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• Bookmarklet that opens current subreddit's user overlap list on subredditstats.com in a new tab

  Javascript:(function(){l=location.href;if(l.indexOf('translate')>=0){l=decodeURIComponent(l.replace(/^.*[&?](trurl|url|u)=/,%27%27).replace(/[&?].*$/,%27%27))};s=document.selection?document.selection.createRange().text:window.getSelection?window.getSelection().toString():document.getSelection?document.getSelection():%27%27;lw=(s==%27%27)?%27https://translate.google.com/translate?u=%27+encodeURIComponent(l)+%27&sl=... Source: over 2 years ago

• How Telegram Messenger circumvents Google Translate's API

  Telegram's use of the Translate API may be violating Google ToS. But then: It isn't uncommon to use translate.google.com to "violate law" to view websites otherwise blocked by governments. translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=cn&u= ex: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=zh-CN&u=https://theguardian.com/us or if translate.google.com is blocked:... - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Welcome on Mezha.Media

  Translated from Ukrainian via Google Translate:[0] > Hello everyone, welcome to Mezha.Media or just Mezha, a new information site for those who are interested in technology, gadgets, computers and general news from the world of IT. My name is Taras Mishchenko[1], for the last 7 years I have been the editor-in-chief of ITC[2], and today we are launching Mezha.Media with its editors. > Experienced... - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• So what is the deal with A/UX anyways?

  This YouTube video on A/UX https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwrTTXOg-KI is one of the best things I've found about the subject. (It has a usable transcript.) On the subject of what happened with Big Mac, the Macintosh II and NeXT, https://lowendmac.com/2013/apples-bigmac-project-failed-precursor-mac-ii-next-cube/ and some of the articles linked from it... - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Transforming OpenStreetMap into thick roads and intersections

  Right, from https://supaplexosm.github.io/strassenraumkarte-neukoelln/posts/2021-07-18-strassenraumkarte (translation https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https://supaplexosm.github.io/strassenraumkarte-neukoelln/posts/2021-07-18-strassenraumkarte), there was an extra curb data-set used. I've actually found a few of these... - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Andrew Yang to launch a third party

  Just incidentally, here's a tool Jann Horn put together to chart party-line voting among the various German political parties. https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&u=https://thejh.net/misc/fraktion-diff-bundestag-2017-2021. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Banco Santander and AWS offer 1000 grants (Spanish)

  Autotranslation: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=es&tl=en&u=https://www.santander.com/es/sala-de-comunicacion/notas-de-prensa/2021/09/banco-santander-y-amazon-web-services-ofrecen-1-000-becas-digital-experience-para-formacion-online-en-competencias-digitales IIUC the grant doesn't give you money. It's only a 10 hours online course. Is it include Q&A sessions with T.A.? Does it include some perks like... - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Ivermectin gegen Corona – news coverage

  Autotranslated title: "Ivermectin against Corona - The worm is in there" (Is there a pun here?) The article is in German. Autotranslation for the lazy: https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=&sl=auto&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.spiegel.de%2Fnetzwelt%2Fweb%2Fivermectin-gegen-corona-da-ist-der-wurm-drin-a-42a252c9-e08e-4210-8724-7b35d4f9b023 It's a discussion about the last week press coverage of the overdoses with... - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• The World Is Still Short of Everything. Get Used to It.

  The base part is: https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=&sl=en&tl=en&u= and then you add the URL https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/30/business/supply-chain-shortages.html. Source: over 2 years ago

• Comparing SARS-CoV-2 natural immunity to vaccine-induced immunity [pdf]

  While vaccine injuries are rare, they do happen. A German pathologist has been performing autopsies, https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https://www.sueddeutsche.de/wissen/wissenschaft-heidelberg-chef-pathologe-pocht-auf-mehr-obduktionen-von-geimpften-dpa.urn-newsml-dpa-com-20090101-210801-99-647273 > The doctor now wants to get to the bottom of rare, serious side effects of the vaccination... - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• A DIY E-bike Conversion on the Cheap

  Here is my tutorial to de-car (unfortunately in Swedish but google translated): https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=elhjul.se The biggest issue remaining is the wear of tires, and no good alternatives really exist for bike rims in terms of thicker tires. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• The Duke Mansion Mystery

  > It’s how the rich got their fresh air back in the day. Fuel bills were not a concern. I once had a tour in a now-empty former Siemens office building in Munich (https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=&sl=de&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fde.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FSiemens-Hochhaus_(M%C3%BCnchen)) built in the sixties. This 75 meter highrise had the same kind of heating: cold air was sucked in through a... - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• The Kawa Scheme Language

  There was (and still is)a project called Bigloo (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigloo) that was interesting by allowing to get C, JVM and .Net code from scheme programs. We were a Scheme shop and experimented a lot with MzScheme (our main implementation, Bigloo and Kawa) P.S. Regarding success stories for Scheme - we had a commercial product written in it, quite successful. I wrote the article about it in Russian... - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Xsolla fires 150 employees using analysis of chat and email activity

  Agapitov later gave a long interview to Meduza explaining the decision. It's surprisingly honest. Here is an interesting quote: In America, in recent years, both in our company and in the media, various minorities have been actively protected and people are very cautious about the dismissal of gays, blacks, and more recently, Asians. But in Xsolla, we did not give immunity to these groups, because all decisions... - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Unix à jamais: nouvelle série en cours sur le Club iGen

  This looks on topic, but post in other languages are usually ignored or flagged unless there is no equivalent information in English. At least translate the title to something like "Unix Forever: New Series Underway on Club iGen [in French]". Autotranslation for the lazy:... - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• ProtonMail: Nutzerdaten für die USA dank Rechtshilfe und guter Zusammenarbeit

  Article is in German. Translation via Google Translate here: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https://steigerlegal.ch/2021/08/02/protonmail-daten-usa/ Translated title: ProtonMail: User data for the USA thanks to legal assistance and good cooperation with authorities That's a bit rough, the context is given in the (translated) first paragraph: ProtonMail, by its own account a “secure... - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago