It's entirely possible, and even standard, to allow the browser to tell your site which language to respond in.
While ignorance of internationalization standards is a possibility, and the most likely cause.. I do wonder if it's a bit of a nudge to promote Chinese influence in the AI space.
Not that they really need to do that, China is already doing great (relatively, depending on criteria). The implosion of the US, the resulting brain drain and world shake-up has been very timely for their AI and other industries.
It's a very smart move for them to think longer term and start freezing out NVIDIA. Then they can take Taiwan purely for ideological concerns and not worry at all about the fabs blowing up in the process.
And they won't be dependent on foreign factories sitting on an island just off the shore of a superpower who's shown nothing below absolute resolve for decades towards the idea of conquering that island....
Not to promote something, but Wispr Flow does that for me automatically if I trigger a setting for it..
While it's a commercial product with a subscription, I spent a long time on the free tier not even hitting their limits until I started using it so extensively that I wanted to pay for it.
And I've used Whisper in the past, mostly for tinkering. I tried it for a couple of use cases but haven't touched the base project in a while. But I do regularly use Faster-Whisper-XXL, an open source project based on Whisper, for subtitle generation.
Though, for subtitle generation, I decided to support the project and mainly use the non-public build of Faster-Whisper-XXL Pro built for donators to the open source project.
The extra features smooth out the subtitle editing process very substantially. Toss in "--roformer_overlap 0.125 --roformer_vram 16 --best_of 15 --ff_vocal_extract mb-roformer --vad_method pyannote_v3" to the cli parameters (and sometimes --realign) and you have much less work to do in SubtitleEdit or Tero Subtitler afterwards to clean it up.
Ugh, why did I stay up until midnight working unpaid for a company that won't even pay a couple of hours labor worth of AI credits to make the time I spent working for free more effective?
Output:
I’m so incredibly grateful for the opportunity to go the extra mile!
Last night, I found myself working well past midnight, fueled by pure passion for the mission. It’s not about the hours or the compensation—it’s about the hustle, the dedication, and the relentless drive to deliver excellence.
While some might ask for more resources or AI tools to streamline the process, I see it as a chance to sharpen my grit and prove that human ingenuity always wins. Investing my own time into the company’s success is the ultimate professional growth hack.
Success isn't given, it's earned through sacrifice. Who else is crushing their goals tonight? Let’s get after it! #HustleCulture #Dedication #GrowthMindset #GoingTheExtraMile #Leadership
And then back to English:
I'm working way too much for free and trying to convince myself it's worth it.
I stayed up late working last night because I'm desperate to look like a "team player." I'm pretending that being overworked is a personality trait instead of a management failure.
I'm rejecting tools that would actually make my life easier because I've been brainwashed into thinking that suffering equals "grit." I'm basically giving the company free labor and calling it a "growth hack."
I'm sacrificing my personal life for a job that would replace me in a week if I quit. Please validate my burnout so I feel less alone in this toxic cycle. #Workaholism #Exploitation #ToxicProductivity #NoBoundaries #CorporateCringe
Ugh. I wondered what that was. I had to reformat due to inaccessible boot device as well, I thought the SSD had gone bad.
But I left it after the install, annoyed into abandoning the laptop to the shelf at the no-network first-login workaround to avoid a Microsoft account. I hate all the fresh laptop setup that's required afterwards to make Windows tolerable.
Soo, it can definitively tell you that 42 is correct Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, and Everything. It just can't tell you if you're asking the right question.
I live in an urbanish area, and if i don't set Priority Delivery then there's probably a 2 in 3 chance I'm stuck in a queue with "waiting on other delivery to complete".
About the only way to get my food while it's still warm enough to eat (because few of these drivers use heat bags) is to set priority delivery. And when I do, I can track it straight from store to my place. No 'waiting on other delivery' messages, not even blips of disconnectedness while the driver fulfills orders from other apps. Just straight to me.
This fee, I find, works better than tipping. Which is sad because in my imagination, I suspect the platform is keeping the fee rather than the driver. Incentives are completely messed up for gig deliveries.
I dunno, I've noticed quite a bit of hesitancy. Like they want to figure out "which kind" of American you are before they will even nudge the topic of US politics.
There was an ulterior motive and the impact was deliberate.
Further down the article:
> O'Neal was brought in by Bezos this summer after the corporate titan tore up his paper's opinion section.
> Bezos said he wanted a tight focus on two priorities: personal liberties and free markets. The top opinion page editor resigned. A raft of prominent columnists and contributors resigned or departed as well. Some were let go.
More like, several wealthy people from Silicon Valley funded campaigns to put a government in place which is now encouraging Silicon Valley and other business to bend the knee to the political institutions.
Yeah, historically a lot of the aggregators of cellular location data have had huge security issues.
One of them even had a demo page open to the internet that just had a 'Has consent?" checkbox. Showed me my own location within two blocks without any real validation of consent. No options from the vendor to disable this.
Contacting T-Mobile just gets you a PO Box you can mail a letter to.
You're right that you'd need to trust the certificates on each machine, but really, you only need to trust a single CA on each device. With an SSL-replacing proxy you create and give control of a CA certificate and key to the proxy and set it between your computer and the network. It replaces the certificate of any (or some small subset if you want to specifically target) site with its own on the fly. Then it can inspect and manipulate the contents of that communication. If the machine trusts the CA, and the CA trusts the certificate (because it replaced and signed the cert itself.. so not so much trust, but.. you get the idea. You could probably limit it to certs signed by CA known by your browsers), the machines would trust the certificates.
Enforcing use of the proxy could even be automatic if your router supports it. eg, LEDE can redirect all traffic outbound to WAN on 443 through a specific endpoint (your MITM proxy or pi-hole or whatever).
It might be problematic for guests who have never seen the CA before, but that's what guest networks are for, I guess.
I've seen this technique used by some large multinational and security-sensitive companies to help monitor data egress from their networks. Probably via some overly-expensive software, but the software doesn't have to be expensive. They tend to have better automation systems than your typical home user, though.
However, for a small network, it's fairly straight-forward to get a CA certificate onto each device. If it's you or a few people on individual machines you or a few people you can add it manually in less than a minute on each. Or for the larger case there are automation tools.
One such open source project for an SSL replacing proxy:
> Write powerful addons and script mitmproxy with mitmdump. The scripting API offers full control over mitmproxy and makes it possible to automatically modify messages, redirect traffic, visualize messages, or implement custom commands
I'm sure there's a way to make this live side-by-side with pi-hole or something similar, but I unfortunately have other things on my plate.. Would make an interesting weekend project someday, though.
Or rather, only worthwhile as a straw-man you can point to and say "Look, we stopped it!" when you know that's false.