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   Mike Stone (mike@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 25-Oct-2024 09:16:58 JST Mike Stone

   There's a brand new version of #VivaldiBrowser out there if you haven't already tried it. There's an updated UI and a new dashboard to customize. Also, not a drop of AI in sight.

   https://vivaldi.com/blog/read-all-about-vivaldi-7-0/

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     Ethan Black (golemwire@social.librem.one)'s status on Friday, 25-Oct-2024 09:16:57 JST Ethan Black

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     @mike I don't understand some of the antagonism against AI -- ML-based human language translators are nice for example. Though that's not technically "AI", is it.

     Does Firefox's page translation feature use ML? They used the word "model" https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/features/translate/

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     Mike Stone (mike@fosstodon.org)'s status on Saturday, 26-Oct-2024 09:38:00 JST Mike Stone

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     • Ethan Black

     @golemwire I think a good amount of the antagonism regarding AI is just due to its prevalence. I mean, Microsoft is integrating AI into NOTEPAD. Let me say that again. NOTEPAD. It's hard to find anything in the technology sector that doesn't involve AI in some way at this point, and people are burning out.

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     Ethan Black (golemwire@social.librem.one)'s status on Saturday, 26-Oct-2024 09:38:00 JST Ethan Black

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     @mike My college upgraded ("upgraded" 🙂) their computers to Windows 11, and I remember seeing some sort of session token or something in the About window for Microsoft Paint, I think for AI....

     I don't know what someone's doing with Notepad if it needs AI 😆 that seems more like something you might want with Word.

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     Ethan Black (golemwire@social.librem.one)'s status on Saturday, 26-Oct-2024 09:39:57 JST Ethan Black

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     @mike My philosophy is that the user does the thinking and the computer does the computing. The user is the intelligence, and the computer is the calculator.

     I personally avoid AI, since if I'm doing what I do correctly it doesn't have much to offer me.