#censr

3 free tools to blur protesters’ faces and remove photo metadata

A web app developed by Everest Pipkin. The web app runs entirely in the browser and doesn’t upload or store any data. He also open-sourced the code, allowing anyone to download and run the app on their own offline device.

i built a tool for quickly scrubbing metadata from images and selectively blurring faces and identifiable features. it runs on a phone or computer, and doesn't send info anywhere.

I actually wrote a paper on linguistic differences and similarities between south indian languages and sanskrit-derived languages and that was one thing that really threw me off because some people called marathi and gujarati (for ex) dialects while others say they are separate languages lol. weird

ooh that sounds like a really cool paper!

I’m more frustrated about the complete lack of interest in distinguishing between accents (minor differences in pronunciation and nothing else) and dialects (which can include an accent but also use of different words, slightly different grammatical structures, but can still be understood by speakers of the standard language/a different dialect) even when the same person may have both in different contexts

(I’m just defining these terms for the sake of clarity, not because I think you don’t already know)

Dialect does melt into language, and India is FULL of really blurry lines in this regard. It’s not so much an issue of terminology as it is an issue of how you’re going to examine what’s there. (Marathi and Gujurati, though? What on EARTH?? I can see Gujurati being classed as a dialect of Hindi, maybe, if you had a particularly unifying-minded writer, but Marathi???????? Oh, well, maybe they’re closer to each other than I realize. I don’t speak either, so...)

Here you go: http://is.gd/O2hLXE