Do you think Amazon just parks non-working vehicles at that site so that irgc thinks they're actually working on it?
Iran says it's struck offline AWS facility in Bahrain ... again
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) claims it hit an AWS datacenter in Bahrain months after taking it offline for the first time, in a move it claimed as retaliation for a US attack on a nuclear plant that was under construction. The IRGC said in a statement on Tuesday that it had struck back at what it called the " …
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Tuesday 21st July 2026 23:17 GMT doublelayer
Re: Doing journalism…
What do you suggest they do instead? Hire a translation firm, even though many of them have also been using AI translation tools because it's cheaper? They can of course fix that, having a vetted Farsi translator on call for situations where they need to translate Iranian documents. That must happen very frequently for a small, tech-focused paper, so it'd be cost-effective.
There are undoubtedly situations where the nuance of a document is important enough that they need that, and I think the journalists here would probably do it in that case. Do you have any reason to expect this document required that level? It's linked in the article, take a look. Let us know what was lost.
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Wednesday 22nd July 2026 18:55 GMT doublelayer
Re: Doing journalism…
There isn't ironclad metrics on how many or which translation firms use software. Evidence I provide will be anecdotal. Remember that I said "many", not "all".
One basis is friends I have who do translation work. From their reports, the most common way they are asked to do them is to receive a machine-translated version along with the original and be asked to correct it. This probably saves them time and, for many documents, produces something of acceptable quality, but if the machine translation goes far off the rails, it can be a problem.
Other reports are from people who wanted software localization, hired a company to do it, and got customer complaints. In one case, it was software I worked on which hired a firm to do localization, and it was a language I spoke. On receiving a bug report which we couldn't reproduce, we decided it might only affect a certain translation, and only I spoke that language. I had never used the localization before, though, and when verifying the bug, I found many inaccurate translations. This is likely because machine translation is less accurate when the phrases to be translated are small chunks from a UI.
Unfortunately, there are some businesses that have realized that they can advertise translation work without having to do it by hand. There are many reputable ones out there, but the problem is that most people hiring one haven't done it before so don't have a way to assess their reputation and they probably don't speak the languages they're having translated, so checking the work of the one they picked is difficult. The easiest way to test is to give them a document you already have the translation of, but that's also the easiest thing for them to use a tool to do.
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Thursday 23rd July 2026 00:17 GMT Derezed
Re: Doing journalism…
It makes me pleased that customers are coming back to use the real deal. Hollowing out arts/languages/humanities and entrusting it to corporations whose only desire is monopoly and profit is something we're sleepwalking into. Translation is the thin end of the wedge, and as we can see, the result isn't pretty...always promising it will get better. Thanks for the detailed response anyway, food for thought.
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