FTL VS LibreTranslate

It's actually the name of the Pi-hole DNS server (FTLDNS) - pihole-FTL: - https://docs.pi-hole.net/ftldns/ - https://github.com/pi-hole/FTL

FTL v5.23

[✓] Detected ARMv8 (or newer) processor [i] Checking for existing FTL binary... [i] Downloading and Installing FTL...curl: (28) Failed to connect to github.com port 443: Die Wartezeit für die Verbindung ist abgelaufen [✗] Downloading and Installing FTL Error: URL https://github.com/pi-hole/ftl/releases/latest/download/pihole-FTL-armv8-linux-gnueabihf not found [✗] FTL Engine not installed

You will need to install it manually. You can find older versions on github: https://github.com/pi-hole/FTL/releases

To fix this, the "Other" category was introduced on this pull request: https://github.com/pi-hole/FTL/pull/1284.

FTL v5.22

curl failed to verify the legitimacy of the server and therefore could not establish a secure connection to it. To learn more about this situation and how to fix it, please visit the web page mentioned above. [✗] Downloading and Installing FTL Error: URL https://github.com/pi-hole/ftl/releases/latest/download/pihole-FTL-linux-x86_64 not found [✗] FTL Engine not installed Unable to complete update, please contact Pi-hole Support

Error: URL https://github.com/pi-hole/ftl/releases/latest/download/pihole-FTL-armv7-linux-gnueabihf not found

Interestingly, I think this is actually related to the offline translation features built into Firefox. Both are products of "Project Bergamot", but the Mozilla-maintained version was later merged into the Firefox application:

https://browser.mt/

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/local-translation-add-on...

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2022/06/training-efficient-neural-...

https://github.com/mozilla/firefox-translations

https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/toolkit/components/t...

Extra webpage with screenshot and links, impossible to search for normally:

https://translatelocally.com/downloads/

Does one thing and does it well.

Oh— For downloading models, it's much easier to pipe/`xargs` `translateLocally --available-models` into `translateLocally -d` than go through the GUI.

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Other self-hostable translation tools:

https://www.apertium.org/index.eng.html

- Traditional rule-based translation. Seems to work pretty well, but no good desktop frontend.

https://www.argosopentech.com/

- Works, but crashy desktop app.

https://libretranslate.com/

- API wrapping Argos Translate.

https://lingva.thedaviddelta.com/

- Google Translate scraper/privacy frontend.

https://euroglot.com/

- Proprietary, subscription trialware.

Esperanto is eurocentric (sounds foreign for many people, in particular Asians),is poor in history and is spoken by a very small minority. SolarPunk should focus on local languages and multilingualism, to celebrate the local culture and inclusion, instead. AI translation should be part of SolarPunk as well. So, SolarPunks should consider learn a language that could help improve their local community e.g. immigrants or dying languages. They also should consider working or using open source AI translator (e.g. https://github.com/LibreTranslate/LibreTranslate).

Maybe check out libretranslate? https://libretranslate.com/

2g. Both the source text and the indirect text are then put into a translator. https://libretranslate.com/

LibreTranslate

Looking for a self-hosted alternative for DeepL & Co. Found a handful of older posts pointing at LibreTranslate.

Consider a free software alternative to this translation service, such as Argos Translate or its web based frontend LibreTranslate.