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I take screenshots of posts on X and have ChatGPT provide critical commentary. It has worked out really well. I am sure translation will work well too.
Agreed with the overall sentiment but screenshot+immediate text select on iOS/Mac has solved 99% of my issues here Technology!
Which the OP acknowledges, but it’s an extra step (and one that a lot of people don’t realize is possible) that shouldn’t be necessary.
Im aware about the article but for the small German Bumble example: Do not bother with bios. 99% of them are unfunny copy and paste bs because they cant be bothered to put in actual effort, their like inbox is filled up after half a day anyway.
Screenshot, paste in LLM, select text is my workaround.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
100% disagree. Not everyone is fluent in every language, and not every website works perfectly with the browser's translator. There will be situations where people will want to translate that ONE word that is actually in a button or tab, and isn't selectable because someone thought they knew better.
In Firefox my tabs have text, and I frequently rearrange tabs with my cursor. I think this is a pretty common usage pattern (I do it on a daily basis). It would be an enormous pain if most of the area on the tab turned my arrow cursor into an I-beam cursor that I couldn't move the tab with. I checked Chrome and it looks like the tabs work the same way. While having the text in the tabs is very useful to know what is…
At this point, it's not even a technical problem anymore - it's a social one. Even if somehow OS and browser vendors all agreed on a scheme like this, copyright industry and security people would scream bloody murder and prevent it from being implemented.
The most recent offender I’ve encountered is some SaaS called Termly which barfs out full terms of service, privacy policies, etc. with this human-hostile “feature”. Good luck actually using the contact information they contain. I added this uBO filter just yesterday: app.termly.io##*:style(user-select: unset !important;) Of course all the links are `target=_blank` too. I really don’t understand the mentality of whom…
One of many examples of the way that UI has backslid in modern times. I swear, sometimes I think we peaked sometime in the TN3270 days
Hey Artyom. :P
We need a browser extension that treats the rendered page as an image, then runs OCR over it, then converts that to something where text can be selected. Pros: 1. safer (what you see is what you select), 2. also works with images, 3. all text can be selected
This is roughly what reader mode is, no? Safari ships it out of the box, although it's very hit or miss as far as my experience with it goes. But I like the idea.
I have a habit of selecting and highlighting text on computer screens, while reading. I have no issues tracking lines usually, but somehow I still select and highlight. Maybe it is just easier to track lines this way. When I see some web page, that prevents this, then that website gets a -50 reputation score out of 100 in my book. So if the site is perfect in every other way (almost no site is) then -50 still makes i…
> I have a habit of selecting and highlighting text on computer screens, while reading. "There are dozens of us!"