Notices by Walter Tross (waltertross@mastodon.online)

Among the mainstream #Eurovision 2025 songs, the one by Laura Thorn for #Luxembourg, "La poupée monte le son", would really have deserved a higher place in the ranking, IMO
https://wiwibloggs.com/2025/05/03/laura-thorn-la-poupee-monte-le-son-lyrics-translation/284046/
#ESC #ESC2025 #EurovisionSongContest #Eurovision2025 #EurovisionSongContest2025
#LauraThorn

@pikuma

@pikuma What did they smoke when they decided that −3*2 was −6 but −3^2 was 9?

@toad I mean titles, not subtitles.
I also looked into the "notifications" menu, to no avail :-(

@valhalla
OK, I see what you mean. Maybe it's me, not being a native English speaker, who doesn't know the exact meaning of "doing maths" (or "math", in the USA)
@SteveClough

@valhalla
are you kidding? Ask any engineer over 70.
@SteveClough

@SteveClough You must admit, though, that soon no-one will know what a slide rule was for...

How do I stop #YouTube from translating titles into my smartphone's #language?

Frankly, #Israel should be excluded from the #Eurovision Song Contest!
(There's no-one to exclude on the other side, unfortunately)

#ESC #ESC2024

@kaia Boomer here, just let's not generalise

@thomasfuchs
BTW we should forget about Watts. It's like changing currency, which is something we did in most of Europe a couple of decades ago. After a while you start thinking in the new currency. The old currency is the Watt (W), the lumen (lm) is the new one.

Dear #Fedilab (@apps), until now I have been recommending your #Android app, because it displays threads as what they are, i.e., trees.
But I found out (the "hard way", so to say) that you do #markdown formatting and HTML removal, neither of which are done by the standard #Mastodon web UI or the Mastodon Android app.
IMO, this is simply not right. Not even if you made it optional. A post/toot should not be seen differently depending on where you see it. This is not an enhancement, it's a mistake

@Jdreben I wouldn't say that this is the main reason why we see the wavelengths between infrared and ultraviolet. It's not a coincidence that the peak of the sun's emission lies approximately in the middle of that range!

@apps For that reason it would be best to allow the choice of the target language, with English easily selectable

#Lingva #fedilab

@apps The main problem with Google Translate is that it often (always?) uses English as intermediate language, which means that if neither your source nor your target language are English, you much too often end up with nonsense

#fedilab #Lingva