*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
I self host a server. It works on my laptop and android. I like it, but some of the suggestions are bad.
Haven’t used grammarly in years, so I can’t compare.
I like it very much and thanks to the various extensions it’s also trivial to use in Firefox and Libreoffice.
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.
Ouch, thought that if you used the extension with a self-hosted local server that it was fully open source. Looks like I’ll be uninstalling then.
I’m okay with some proprietary extensions and stuff, but when it comes to the stuff that I type, I’d rather be able to know exactly what it’s doing with it.
tell me anything that isn’t
Texts are securely stored
Right, must be military grade encryption
Interestingly I knew about Languagetool long before I got to constantly see Grammarly ads. With the right tools it’s useful for checking latex etc.
Just wish there was a language tool keyboard for android
You can use it in Firefox/Fennec/other forks on Android. It’s better than nothing.
I wonder how grammarly desktop is for privacy
Their whole service is built to collect everything you type.
Literally a key logger with extra steps.
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.
off topic: is deepl down or something ? thing doesn’t respond :/
edit: now works
My foss alternative was an English class
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.
Do you know what FOSS even means?
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
With happy ending?
you got free schooling? lucky bastard
First time I’ve heard someone say they’re jealous of an America’s free schooling system lol. Even in deep Africa villages they have free schooling systems, so idk where you are where that doesn’t exist.
how good do you think the free schooling in africa is rofl
That’s a completely different topic
