mitram

Check the website translation tool great use of local “AI”

I personally found it a somewhat interesting use case, although rarely needed it and they have also implemented other “AI” stuff like the website translation tool which allowed me to avoid Google translate (and is fully local)

The customer doesn’t know what they want, and they are always wrong.

Do you want enshittification? Because that’s what the authors of all the enshittification have said in the last decade

Providing a solid product and trying new things (specially things that can be toggled off in the settings, although it could be easier) is not incompatible and might uncover new useful use cases. I don’t love all the recent developments but all the hate is overblown

So it’s a PR problem?

I hate how everything depends on marketing (manipulation)

Thank you for your input

I still don’t understand the hate towards the AI features in Firefox.

Could they focus on other topics? Yes, but to get new users they have to meet them where they are and since Firefox is Foss you can remove what you don’t like by joining a project focused on that.

IMHO some of the features are cool, specially, because it’s local AI with no dependency on any provider

Could someone explain in a civilised manner why you don’t like the AI features?

In Portugal, we usually just say “Cavalos” (horses)

Pferd is horse, right? What is “stärken”?

Never heard of anyone using it. Is it mostly used by technicians?

!sidehustles@leminal.space

One of Portugal’s official languages! And AFAIK even older than modern portuguese

Oh, I never knew Signal had such humble beginnings. I think you would be very surprised if you ever give it another shot. It’s pretty much “install an app and talk” (with the pretty stuff!]). Never heard of SimpleX, might give it a look someday. Thank you!

Honestly curious, what was missing on Signal and what was complicated? I can’t even remember the sign up process and never felt I was missing out on features, at least not on features available elsewhere