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ProZ.com technical support | It takes forever for a job listing to open.

José J. Martínez — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 17:18:00 +0000

Forum: ProZ.com technical support
Topic: It takes forever for a job listing to open.
Poster: José J. Martínez

Off topic | Ageing disgracefully | unique strengths

Lucas Fischer — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 14:06:00 +0000

Forum: Off topic
Topic: Ageing disgracefully
Poster: Lucas Fischer
Post title: unique strengths

Ageing disgracefully sounds more like embracing life than resisting it. Many Baby Boomers and Gen Xers have shown how adapting to change — from typewriters to AI — keeps us vibrant. Instead of focusing on generational divides, it’s inspiring to see how each group brings unique strengths. Living with curiosity and humor may be the best way to age “disgracefully” yet gracefully.

Off topic | Ageing disgracefully | Ageing disgracefully?

Daryo — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 12:36:00 +0000

Forum: Off topic
Topic: Ageing disgracefully
Poster: Daryo
Post title: Ageing disgracefully?

Sounds like a far more interesting variant.

Off topic | Ageing disgracefully | Generations

expressisverbis — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 11:18:00 +0000

Forum: Off topic
Topic: Ageing disgracefully
Poster: expressisverbis
Post title: Generations

Much of today's public discussion focuses on Baby Boomers, Millennials, and Gen Z.
But Gen X is sometimes called the "middle child" of generations because it receives comparatively less media attention.
However, let's keep in mind that they learned to use typewriters, fax machines, floppy disks, dial-up internet, smartphones, cloud computing, and AI.
They remember finding information in libraries and paper encyclopedias, but they also adapted to search engines, smartphones, and now AI.
Of course, it's worth remembering that people's personalities and values are shaped by many factors (temperament, family, education, peers, culture, opportunities, and their own choices over time) besides the years in which they were born.

Off topic | Transferring PC-PC | .exes

Gjorgji Apostolovski — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:48:00 +0000

Forum: Off topic
Topic: Transferring PC-PC
Poster: Gjorgji Apostolovski
Post title: .exes

I think that from pc to pc for .exeS the best way would it be to reinstall them freshly on the new pc and new OS, but if you have any licensed software locked on machine Id you might got problems.

Winpinator allows you to transfer files (no .exes) via local wi fi network. So, no usb cables, external drives...
Also works from Windows to Linux and vice versa.

AI for translators and interpreters | What to do starting in September | Well..

Gregor Trebec — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 09:36:00 +0000

Forum: AI for translators and interpreters
Topic: What to do starting in September
Poster: Gregor Trebec
Post title: Well..

What to do, what to do... :D

AI for translators and interpreters | What to do starting in September

MassimoA — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 08:04:00 +0000

Forum: AI for translators and interpreters
Topic: What to do starting in September
Poster: MassimoA

Translation will exist forever; the sector will never face a crisis.
The evolution of AI will necessitate the creation of new roles - such as AI verifier or AI-assisted interpreter (a role that, in theory, anyone could perform).
We need to give this serious thought starting in September.
Happy holidays, everyone.

MemoQ support | Import filter for markdown files wanted | Cascading filter

CafeTran Trainer — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 07:50:00 +0000

Forum: MemoQ support
Topic: Import filter for markdown files wanted
Poster: CafeTran Trainer
Post title: Cascading filter

A kind person uploaded this cascading filter that she wrote:

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You have to subscribe to the mQ Group first:

[quote]In order to prevent spam, subscriptions by e-mail via the Subscribe address [email removed] will only be accepted if you add a brief reason why you wish to join the group.[/quote]

Off topic | Ageing disgracefully | Correction 😉

The Shredder — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 05:59:00 +0000

Forum: Off topic
Topic: Ageing disgracefully
Poster: The Shredder
Post title: Correction 😉

[quote]Philip Lees wrote:

Summing up some of the main points of the article:

1. Our generation - the baby boomers - know how to have fun.

2. Subsequent generations don't.

3. That's why they resent us. [/quote]

*can afford to have fun

Off topic | Ageing disgracefully | Fun

Philip Lees — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 04:45:00 +0000

Forum: Off topic
Topic: Ageing disgracefully
Poster: Philip Lees
Post title: Fun

Summing up some of the main points of the article:

1. Our generation - the baby boomers - know how to have fun.

2. Subsequent generations don't.

3. That's why they resent us.

Off topic | Do you procrastinate? | Not today

Philip Lees — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 04:35:00 +0000

Forum: Off topic
Topic: Do you procrastinate?
Poster: Philip Lees
Post title: Not today

I was going to respond to this topic, but then I decided to leave it until later in the week.

[Edited at 2026-08-03 04:36 GMT]

Off topic | Transferring PC-PC | Use backup software

Samuel Murray — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 15:43:00 +0000

Forum: Off topic
Topic: Transferring PC-PC
Poster: Samuel Murray
Post title: Use backup software

[quote]Gregor Trebec wrote:
I want to transfer programs to the new PC via USB keychain. Google says it cannot be done and programs should be downloaded, installed from fresh. [/quote]
Yes. You have to find the installers for the software and install them one by one.

Alternatively, use backup software to create a "mirror" of your existing computer and then transfer that mirror onto the new computer. This will overwrite anything that is on the new computer (so, e.g. if the new computer has Windows 11 and your old computer has Windows 10, transferring a mirror would remove Windows 11).

E.g. in Macrium Reflect you'd select the option "Create an image of the partition(s) required to backup and restore Windows". Macrium will create the mirror file somewhere e.g. on an external hard drive. Then you'd have to figure out how to transfer the mirror onto the new computer.

AI for translators and interpreters | AI cyber-security incidents | Same here

Angie Garbarino — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 15:13:00 +0000

Forum: AI for translators and interpreters
Topic: AI cyber-security incidents
Poster: Angie Garbarino
Post title: Same here

[quote]Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida wrote:

‘ai’ in Portuguese is an interjection used to express pain, distress, displeasure, sadness or astonishment. This meaning seems to be becoming increasingly relevant… [/quote]

Italian: Ahi (che dolore) (written wih H in te middle but pronoucede AI) :)

AI for translators and interpreters | AI cyber-security incidents | let ai bots alone...

Zea_Mays — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 14:46:00 +0000

Forum: AI for translators and interpreters
Topic: AI cyber-security incidents
Poster: Zea_Mays
Post title: let ai bots alone...

and see what happens - Andon Labs experiments:

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Chinese | 唱歌吧......(Sing, Sing a Song...) | Stranger On The Shore

pkchan — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 13:17:00 +0000

Forum: Chinese
Topic: 唱歌吧......(Sing, Sing a Song...)
Poster: pkchan
Post title: Stranger On The Shore

Stranger On The Shore ANDY WILLIAMS
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Stranger On The Shore - Acker Bilk
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Acker Bilk - Stranger On The Shore
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Stranger On The Shore - Patti Page
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Kenny G - Stranger on the Shore
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[Edited at 2026-08-02 20:35 GMT]

Translator resources | Remote Interpreting Platforms

Ercan Celik — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 13:14:00 +0000

Forum: Translator resources
Topic: Remote Interpreting Platforms
Poster: Ercan Celik

What remote interpreting platforms are you working for? Could you share your resources please?

Off topic | Do you procrastinate?

Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 12:25:00 +0000

Forum: Off topic
Topic: Do you procrastinate?
Poster: Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida

I have never been a procrastinator (work-wise). When something needs done, I do it — as soon as possible. During the heyday of my translation career, when I had more than one project on the go, I always started with the most complex one. So, I found interesting this article in “The Economist”.

“How to stop procrastinating

Thwarting the thief of time

PUTTING THINGS off exacts a hefty toll. One study published in 2013 ranked 22,053 people on a procrastination scale of one to five. Each increase of one point was associated with a drop of nearly $15,000 in annual earnings. Those who habitually engage in “self-regulatory failure”, as procrastination is also known, are more prone to delaying medical treatment. A study of 3,525 Swedish university students published in 2023 found that those who scored highly for procrastination were more likely to suffer debilitating pain.

It gets worse. The same Swedish study also found procrastinators more prone to anxiety, stress and loneliness. A 2025 meta-analysis, published in Frontiers in Psychiatry and covering 88 studies involving 63,323 people in 17 countries, found procrastination and its resulting erosion of self-esteem to be a predictor of future depression. How might procrastination be curbed?

Mental exercises appear to help. One set is known as mental contrasting with implementation intentions (MCII). Popularised in a number of smartphone apps, the idea is simple: picture the benefits of achieving a goal; contrast that image with the main obstacle; and devise a tactic to overcome it. In two randomised trials reported in 2020 undergraduates were given online MCII exercises designed to reduce the delaying of bedtime, which research has linked to procrastination in general. They missed their intended bedtimes by around 38 minutes less each night than those in a control group given advice about healthy sleeping habits.

Exercise shows promise too. A Chinese trial published in March assessed procrastination in 77 male teenagers. Those randomly assigned to 12 weeks of strength training, high-intensity interval training, or a combination of the two, showed “significant reductions” in putting things off. An earlier study of 564 Chinese university students, published in 2022, found that the most physically active also procrastinated less. The researchers speculated that overcoming the stress of exertion gave them a “sense of mastery” that boosted confidence and motivation.

Then there is the question of diet and other habits. A 2024 study of Italian university students found higher procrastination among breakfast-skippers, heavy drinkers and poor sleepers. The researchers speculated that missing the energy from breakfast might hinder “motivation and ability to focus on tasks”. But the skipped breakfasts may have been a consequence of procrastination, rather than a cause: studies have yet to show convincingly that diet affects it.

As for medications, none as yet targets procrastination. But an intriguing finding emerged in 2021 from an American randomised controlled trial. Adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder showed significant gains in cognitive executive function, including the ability to get started on tasks, while taking the stimulant lisdexamfetamine rather than a placebo.

These days, opportunities for procrastination are greater than before. Many people work from home, out of the boss’s sight. Smartphones offer endless distractions. In one review published in 2022, each of the 18 studies assessed linked excessive smartphone use to procrastination. Scrolling often delays bedtime, too. Lack of sleep impedes executive function, leading to more failures of self-regulation. It would be helpful if the scientists involved could stop dawdling.”

Off topic | Ageing disgracefully

Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 10:13:00 +0000

Forum: Off topic
Topic: Ageing disgracefully
Poster: Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida

As we are starting the “silly season”, I’ve taken the liberty of including an article published yesterday in “The Economist”. The article focuses on people over the age of 55 but under the age of 75. In Portugal, as far as I know, the situation is very different. We “oldies” tend to live alone in our own homes, with our families or in care homes, not in communities.

“Why people over the age of 55 are the new problem generation

Baby-boomers are keeping their bad habits into retirement

THE WORDS “retirement community” summon up images of easy chairs, overcooked food and endless daytime TV. Latitude Margaritaville, a community being built near Hilton Head Island in South Carolina, quickly disabuses these. “There was a toga party this past weekend,” says Lynette, a resident. “There was a live band, and it was a riot.” Barbie, another of the community’s “ambassadors” (residents employed by the developers to help sell it to potential newcomers), compares living there to “starting college all over again”. There are, she says, “drinks on the driveway, cocktails on the concrete”.

If Margaritaville’s residents are representative of their age cohort, there will be a lot more to the toga parties than fancy dress. Whereas young people in rich countries these days are addicted to their phones, more anxious than previous generations and far less likely than them to use mind-altering substances or to party recklessly, their grandparents belong to a generation that experimented with sex, drugs and rock’n’roll. As they reach older age, they are not giving up their old habits.

Among those for whom time’s winged chariot is hurrying a little nearer, drug and alcohol use—and abuse—have surged. And since many have also long since struck coyness from the statute books, sexually transmitted diseases are also spreading. The prevalence of gonorrhoea, to name but one, among Americans aged 55 and up has increased by more than six times since 2010. “Today, older adults are more likely to participate in the hookup culture of casual encounters and condomless sex, which might be further encouraged by the availability of drugs for sexual dysfunction, the commonality of living in retirement communities, and the increased use of dating apps for seniors,” noted Janie Steckenrider in a paper in the Lancet.

Similar increases are evident elsewhere. Though in the four years to 2023, the number of new syphilis infections among young adults in England fell slightly, cases in those over the age of 65 grew by 31%. That is despite it having already shot up in the previous five years. (Happily, this trend does not apply to HIV, the number of new infections of which is falling globally.)

In the past, revolutionary and reckless youth worried politicians. These days the oldest strain public services, wreak havoc on national politics and account for a growing share of social problems. Elderly revellers are numerous: the number of people over 65 is growing across the rich world. In Britain they are more than a fifth of the population. And they want to have fun. In a way, those over the age of 55 but under the age of 75—roughly speaking, the baby-boomers and some of what is referred to as “Generation X”—are the new problem generation.

What makes them so reckless? For one thing, there’s the attitudes to drink, drugs and sex. In the two decades to 2023 the proportion of people aged 18 to 34 in America who “ever have occasion to use alcoholic beverages” declined from 72% to 62%, according to Gallup, a pollster. Yet among those over 55 alcohol use increased to 59% from 49%.

Similar trends are visible almost anywhere you look across the rich world. “While younger Australians are drinking at less risky levels, there’s been a significant increase in risky drinking by older Australians,” reported the Alcohol and Drug Foundation, an Australian charity, in 2022. Such has been the shift that older Australians are now more likely to drink at dangerous levels than people in general. In France alcohol consumption has dipped among all groups in recent years. But it is the young who are forsaking it the most. “There is a loss of wine transmission within families,” complained Bernard Farges, the head of France’s wine-producers industry group, in an interview with Les Echos, a financial newspaper.

What applies to alcohol also applies to other mind-altering substances. In America cannabis use has risen sharply among older cohorts—perhaps unsurprisingly, given that it is now legal in a majority of states and the baby-boomer generation used cannabis the most when they were young. (Both Barack Obama, a member of a high-school “Choom Gang”, and more recently, Kamala Harris, have admitted extensive youthful use.)
But the trend is almost as dramatic elsewhere. In Spain the share of people aged 55-64 who report having used cocaine in the past year has increased eight-fold in 15 years. In England people well into their 50s are “getting back on it like they used to” at festivals, says Fiona Measham, an academic at the University of Liverpool who studies drug and alcohol use.

Then there’s sex. Divorce rates in the rich world are generally falling (in large part because far fewer people are getting married in the first place, and those who do tend to wait until they have found a good match). But they are rising among pensioners. In 2022 more Japanese couples divorced after at least 20 years of marriage than ever before, even though the rates have declined among younger groups. More than one in four Americans over the age of 60 lives alone. That does not, however, necessarily mean that they are having less sex. One study from the Netherlands found that the percentage of people over the age of 75 who report being sexually active leapt from 16% in 2014 to 27% less than a decade later.

Sexy oldies
The behaviour of the boomers stands in striking contrast to that of their children, who are proving surprisingly tranquil. But this is a generation that has always been chaotic. On both sides of the Atlantic, the baby-boomers and then Generation X were born to parents who had rushed out of war and into prosperity in the 1950s and 1960s, marrying young, having children early and raising them with a bare minimum of attention. They grew up breathing the fumes of leaded petrol (long associated with impulsive behaviour) and watching social mores collapse. They had access to contraception, abortion and pop music.

More subtle trends may also be in play. For a start, those retiring today are far richer than in the past. In 1993 just over half of people over the age of 65 in Britain owned their homes outright. Now three-quarters do. Second, they now have fewer responsibilities. From the 1970s onwards, as female participation in the labour market increased, grandparents took on more child care. But in the past decade birth rates have plunged, meaning more older people have no children or grandchildren at all. And those who do may be expected to do less now than in the past. Paid-for child care has expanded and in some countries the government provides subsidised nursery places. In the Netherlands, for example, just 2% of grandparents report having to do “intensive” child care. That leaves more time for boozing.

What are the consequences of all this? When youthful excess is rising, it is often seen as a symbol of social decline. Fewer people worry about their ageing parents being wreckheads than the other way round. Similarly, government surveys of drinking, gambling, smoking and the education campaigns intended to stop it focus on youth. America’s Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, which surveys drug use in that country, splits its studies into two groups: under 25s and the rest. But in fact, as viewers of “Shameless”, a TV show set in Chicago (though based on a British show) about a middle-aged drunk, can plainly see, the carefree life comes at a cost, for individuals and for society at large.

Newly single old people—perhaps those attending the toga parties at Margaritaville—may need to be reminded, or perhaps even told for the first time, how easily infections can spread. “Folks are connecting in loving relationships and, quite honestly, in hookups,” says Imara Canady, of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, a charity which recently launched an advertising campaign encouraging older people to get tested for HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases.

Middle-aged drug taking has consequences, too. In England and Wales deaths of people over 50 made up more than a third of all drug-misuse deaths in 2022, up from just 13% two decades before. Many of those dying come from a thinning cohort of ageing heroin addicts, who have been using for decades. But not all. Deaths caused by cocaine are now far more numerous among the old than among the young. No fewer than 38 people over the age of 50 died from overdosing on ecstasy—a drug usually associated with teenage rave culture—in the four years to 2022. Ms Measham from the University of Liverpool also runs a charity that provides testing kits for people to make sure their illegal drugs are not contaminated. She says older ravers are often less careful than the young. “Younger people are seeking information or advice,” she says. “Older people clearly don’t think they need to.”

Infection and early death are only some of the more obvious problems. A minority of the reckless old are causing more direct mischief themselves: they make up a growing proportion of people arrested and convicted of crimes. It is well known that America’s prisons are increasingly full of older inmates. What is less well understood is that this is not entirely due to inmates ageing inside. Older people make up a larger share of newly convicted criminals these days, too. From 1992 to 2022, among men arrested, the share over the age of 50 tripled, from 5% to 15%, according to data from the FBI. In absolute terms, the number increased by nearly 40%, even as arrests of other age groups tumbled. Similar trends are seen in other countries.

Older folk seem in some ways more prone to political violence, too. A generation ago, the idea of pensioners rampaging was laughable. But when anti-immigration riots broke out across England in August 2024, one of those arrested in Liverpool was William Nelson Morgan, a 69-year-old grandfather. At his court hearing, it was recounted that he shouted at officers arresting him: “I’m fucking 70.” The police officer retorted: “Well, why are you at a fucking riot?” Similarly, of those arrested and charged after the riots in Washington, DC, on January 6th 2021, almost half were older than 40, and the oldest was 81. Of the women arrested (a smaller number) fully a third were in their 50s, far outnumbering any other age group.

Perhaps this is because baby-boomers tend to be an unhappy lot. Surveys suggest that they are more pessimistic about the future than the young almost everywhere. People have always grown more pessimistic as they age, yet there is reason to think this generation is especially—and weirdly—glum. A study by Pew, a think-tank, published a decade ago found that “When it comes to quality-of-life assessments, data suggest the boomers generally have been downbeat, compared with other age groups, for the past two decades.” The more recent data do not seem to mark improvements. Moreover, some rather harder data suggest the baby-boomers (and Gen X) are in essence miserable generations. British figures show, for example, that in the decade to 2023, suicide rates rose sharply for those aged 45 to 65, while falling for those older and younger.

Clearly, not everyone is thriving in old age. Although baby-boomers are doing financially well in aggregate—they own half of the wealth in America, according to the Federal Reserve—many are feeling a pinch. People over 60 in America account for more than a quarter of foreclosures, up from just one in ten 20 years ago, and there has been a similar rise in bankruptcies, data from the New York Fed show. All of those divorces are expensive.

And the flip side of having to do less baby-sitting of grandchildren is that there are fewer youngsters around to help keep grandma and grandpa company. “Isolated and lonely older adults have longer stays in hospitals as well as higher emergency hospitalisation and re-hospitalisation rates and are more likely to be admitted earlier into residential or nursing care,” reported a study published by the European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research, a Vienna-based think-tank, in 2022.

Toga and tonic
It is all enough to make one turn to drink. When Jimmy Buffett wrote “Margaritaville” in 1977, he was just 31. It seems fair to say he could not have realised what he was setting in motion. The song is a bittersweet lament for the life of a beach bum, helped along by alcohol. “But there’s booze in the blender/And soon it will render/That frozen concoction/That helps me hang on.” Buffett died in 2023, at the age of 76. Today, though, Margaritaville is a real place. Or many of them. It is a chain of bars, a holiday resort and now, most pertinently, it is a group of three retirement communities: there are two in Florida, as well as the one in South Carolina. It is a place that perhaps best represents the ambitions of the baby-boomer generation in retirement.

For most of the post-war period crime, alcoholism, drugs and pregnancy were all rising among the young. And then at some point it stopped. The generations now ageing disgracefully were disgraceful in youth, and in middle age. If they’re behaving badly now, there is really not much to be done about it. If they choose to frolic at toga parties, no one will stop them. Except, ultimately, time.”

Well, well, well… interesting, isn’t it? :roll:

Teresa, who is well over 75…

Off topic | Transferring PC-PC | only...

Sergei Leshchinsky — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 23:12:00 +0000

Forum: Off topic
Topic: Transferring PC-PC
Poster: Sergei Leshchinsky
Post title: only...

... for Windows Server Edition. Not for humans and local deployments.

[quote]WolfgangS wrote: I think Windows has a migration assistant, too, as the Macintosh has. Or does it not? [/quote]

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Getting established | New translator looking for career advice. | career advice

Michael Newton — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 22:49:00 +0000

Forum: Getting established
Topic: New translator looking for career advice.
Poster: Michael Newton
Post title: career advice

What do you say to a sociology graduate with a job?
"Big Mac, please".

Getting established | New translator looking for career advice. | I peaked in 2008-2018

Samuel Murray — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 22:06:00 +0000

Forum: Getting established
Topic: New translator looking for career advice.
Poster: Samuel Murray
Post title: I peaked in 2008-2018

[quote]Daryo wrote:

Translation was something I dreamed about when I was younger. Next week I'll turn 25 and I know that my professional future does not belong to translation anymore.
... Notice the year: 2008! [/quote]
And yet, 2008 was the year in which my translation business really took off. The years 2008-2018 was my best decade so far.

But I recognize the original poster's plight: 2005-2008 was a period in which translation agencies began to squeeze translators who had previously charged spectacular rates. This was the period between when translators had discovered CAT tools and when agencies started discovering CAT tools, or when CAT tools because generally affordable and generally feature-rich. During this phase, agencies began to realize that translators can do much more for much less, but many long-standing translators were still used to charging high rates, and those that adopted CAT tools early had gotten used to riding the wave of existing high rates combined with a newly acquired faster turnaround.

Alas, 2008 was also the year in which my translation rate peaked. From then onwards there was a constant pressure on rates, and my rate has gradually reduced to its current low levels.

There was a brief respite when MT suddenly became very good (Google Translate's statistical engine took a while to gain acceptance, but their neural network engine blew us away in around 2016) while agencies were slow adopters of MT in their workflows. But then agencies made peace with machine translation and the rates tanked yet again.

Then came Covid and then came LLMs and that was when clients REALLY stopped caring about quality, and "barely good enough" became simply good enough.

[quote]Just take a look in the Jobs section (and in few other sites) at what is on offer right now in your langue pair... [/quote]
Fair enough, but: the heyday of job boards was in 2000-2010. Job boards still exist, but the type of clients that post to job boards are those that aren't willing/skilled/equipped to search for translators themselves, and thus such jobs tend to be from clients with unrealistic expectations of what translation costs.

[quote]If you decide to persist, agencies are 'the least bad option / the solution of last resort'. Better to aim from the start for direct clients (i.e. the ones who need your translations for themselves, as opposed to self-serving intermediaries) - takes more efforts (to put luck on your side…) and time but it's definitely worth it. [/quote]
I agree -- agency work has always been low-hanging fruit, and the best kind of translation business is one that focuses on direct clients. It takes a certain kind of personality, social and business skill, and determination to get clients like that, but you should definitely consider going for it.

Proofreading / Editing / Reviewing | After nearly 20 years as Proz member: Forced to not renew membership | Would that be

Daryo — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 20:58:00 +0000

Forum: Proofreading / Editing / Reviewing
Topic: After nearly 20 years as Proz member: Forced to not renew membership
Poster: Daryo
Post title: Would that be

[quote]Zea_Mays wrote:

... among the posts above... [/quote]

Would that be the spiritual heir of that Frenchwoman who few years ago was so busy promoting herself and her agency all over the place that she couldn't find time for such mundane tasks as paying translators?

It would take some time, but I could dig up the whole old story for any doubting Thomases - OTOH the new version is plain to see...

Off topic | Transferring PC-PC | I just checked

WolfgangS — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 16:33:00 +0000

Forum: Off topic
Topic: Transferring PC-PC
Poster: WolfgangS
Post title: I just checked

[quote]WolfgangS wrote:

[quote]Gregor Trebec wrote:

Hi,

It is time for me to buy new laptop. I want to trasfer programes to the new PC via USB keychain. Google says it cannot be done and programes should be downloaded, installed from fresh. I tried to put some programes on F: and looks like they transfered correctly. I did not run them tho. What is the best way to transfer .exe programes? Should i go to 'programe files' and just copy - paste the whole file to F:? [/quote]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think Windows has a migration assistant, too, as the Macintosh has. Or does it not? [/quote]

No, Windows does not have a migration assistant.

Off topic | Transferring PC-PC | Windows 11

WolfgangS — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 16:21:00 +0000

Forum: Off topic
Topic: Transferring PC-PC
Poster: WolfgangS
Post title: Windows 11

[quote]Gregor Trebec wrote:

Hi,

It is time for me to buy new laptop. I want to trasfer programes to the new PC via USB keychain. Google says it cannot be done and programes should be downloaded, installed from fresh. I tried to put some programes on F: and looks like they transfered correctly. I did not run them tho. What is the best way to transfer .exe programes? Should i go to 'programe files' and just copy - paste the whole file to F:? [/quote]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think Windows has a migration assistant, too, as the Macintosh has. Or does it not?

Off topic | Transferring PC-PC | tech-support guy?

Sergei Leshchinsky — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 16:08:00 +0000

Forum: Off topic
Topic: Transferring PC-PC
Poster: Sergei Leshchinsky
Post title: tech-support guy?

I always call my tech-support guy. (We call them "any-key-presser" in Russian. :) )

I send a PC by courier mail accross the city (we have a parcel machine downstairs in our building) and receive it back in several days.

I'm waiting for a new laptop next week and will send it for stuffing right from the post office.

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Proofreading / Editing / Reviewing | After nearly 20 years as Proz member: Forced to not renew membership | Guess which is the AI bot contribution

Zea_Mays — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 16:03:00 +0000

Forum: Proofreading / Editing / Reviewing
Topic: After nearly 20 years as Proz member: Forced to not renew membership
Poster: Zea_Mays
Post title: Guess which is the AI bot contribution

... among the posts above...

Off topic | Transferring PC-PC

Gregor Trebec — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 13:54:00 +0000

Forum: Off topic
Topic: Transferring PC-PC
Poster: Gregor Trebec

Hi,

It is time for me to buy new laptop. I want to trasfer programes to the new PC via USB keychain. Google says it cannot be done and programes should be downloaded, installed from fresh. I tried to put some programes on F: and looks like they transfered correctly. I did not run them tho. What is the best way to transfer .exe programes? Should i go to 'programe files' and just copy - paste the whole file to F:?

Proofreading / Editing / Reviewing | After nearly 20 years as Proz member: Forced to not renew membership | Advice about getting a good night sleep

Daryo — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 13:46:00 +0000

Forum: Proofreading / Editing / Reviewing
Topic: After nearly 20 years as Proz member: Forced to not renew membership
Poster: Daryo
Post title: Advice about getting a good night sleep

[quote]Circle Translations wrote:
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At the same time, there are still many professionals and companies that value quality translation and fair collaboration.
...
[/quote]

Like this one?
[url removed] #:~:text=A%20lot%20of,company%3A%20stay%20away.

I don't know how you would feel about it, but I don't think I would want advice about getting a good night sleep from someone playing loud music all night.

Just a completely unrelated digression.

AI for translators and interpreters | AI cyber-security incidents | I was apparently under the delusion ...

Daryo — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 11:39:00 +0000

Forum: AI for translators and interpreters
Topic: AI cyber-security incidents
Poster: Daryo
Post title: I was apparently under the delusion ...

[quote]kd42 wrote:

[quote]Li-Hsiang Hsu wrote:

OpenAI was unaware that their models had been roaming around out in the wild for a week before receiving an alert from FBI.

However, it seems OpenAI is not the only company to have experienced such an episode; the most powerful Chinese open-source models like Kimi K3 appear to have at least attempted to break out of their hosting environments too, without their masters' authorization. [/quote]

AI fact check and comment
[quote].....[/quote] [/quote]

I was apparently under the delusion that these forums are meant for contributions from other translators!

Or did I miss some updated 'definitions of terms' where is says that quoting verbatim AI output counts as 'my take on this'?

ProZ.com technical support | Where is the "Spam" (or rather Scam) option in new direct Job messages? + other annoying elements | A great opportunity not to be missed ...

Daryo — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 11:23:00 +0000

Forum: ProZ.com technical support
Topic: Where is the "Spam" (or rather Scam) option in new direct Job messages? + other annoying elements
Poster: Daryo
Post title: A great opportunity not to be missed ...

[quote]Zea_Mays wrote:

It's now been a while that I receive - probably mass - messages in a new format via the ProZ directory, and I am really missing an option in these to mark them as spam (or rather scam for some).
See the most recent one below - where the scam consists in the "free voice recording test" (and maybe in promoting those online tools):

[quote]
Hello,

... first there is a voice recording test for free
...

Recording & Audio Specifications
1. Quiet, low-noise environment
2. Mono/mixed-down single-channel recordings are not acceptable.
...
3. WAV format files

To ensure a smooth collaboration, I'd appreciate confirmation on the following:
• Your confirmation on the five minutes voice recording for Free.
• ...
• Can deliver this task Today ASAP
• ...
[/quote]

... [/quote]

Short version: drop whatever you're doing and give us right now + for free a 5 minute recording and

make sure that it's studio quality (Quiet, low-noise environment)

also a basic mono recording won't do, nor any loss of quality due do compression - we want uncompressed WAV format only. (Compact Disc quality)

What is not to like in this 'opportunity' ... to work for free and then never hear from then again!

I could bet that buried somewhere in their T&Cs you will of course give them unlimited rights to do whatever they want with your 'free sample'.

Why would you need a spam / scam button? For such a great opportunity, not to be missed?

What will be the next 'opportunity'? Give us right now a 3000 word free sample translation and make sure it’s formatted ready for publishing?