*hearing in comments certains parts aren’t foss
I think it’s better to link to their github since the website has references to a premium sister project that isn’t FOSS: https://github.com/languagetool-org/languagetool
I haven’t used this myself but I’m curious if anyone likes it
Their extension isn’t open source anymore, see here, so I don’t recommend it personally, especially with how sensitive the data it collects is, its basically a keylogger, so trust is super important imo.
If they don’t trust you with the source, you can trust them with your data.
While I appreciate the sentiment, isn’t that effectively the same as “if the restaurant won’t give you the complete recipe for their pizza sauce, how do you know they’re not trying to poison you?”
Only a Sith deals in absolutes.
At least restaurants are subjected to health and safety inspection. Software never have, and right now opening their code is the only way to ensure that.
Except a restaurant is not asking to log every word of yours in exchange for pizza.
Opinions vs deepl?
Note about deepl: according to their EULA they collect all what you type there and use it for training their algorithm. They are much smaller that Google and co, what makes me thinking that your data could be more “visible” in the training results.
The service as such is good, though.
I think this is only the case with the free version. Source: I worked with some big German companies which wanted to have an autotranslate function for their software. DeepL was the top choice, because the quality is very good and the data protection agreements for the paid service left no questions.
Most probably this is correct. One can say the same about most enterprise targeting offers, for example by Microsoft.
People who consider it for private usage should make decisions knowing such details.
My foss alternative was an English class
With happy ending?
Usually not foss and rather expensive.
Not really. There’s even English classes in remote Africa. It’s FOSS because textbooks and dictionaries exist.
Dunno where you live where textbooks are free and not proprietary.
They’re not free, they’re accessable.
Good bit, spelling accessible wrong was the cherry
Were you trying to make a point or just gave up, because I’ve literally never seen anywhere without free education. Unless you’re talking about higher education which isn’t being discussed here.
Ah, you took the bit too far, brevity etc. 6/10
