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Re:Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device with...
on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @01:27AM (#48032569)
But then they should state that minimum size of Chrome is 5-6GB (lol, OS size). Sure this feature should be installed by informing the user what are the pros/cons; just installing without asking - means that you are using user's traffic (huge for mobile, for example) and disk (quite a large part) without notice, which is probably a bit shady.
Re:De-Googling TOTP Authenticator Codes
on Monday September 01, 2025 @06:18AM (#45091351)
Or Ente Auth: https://ente.io/auth. Opensource, encrypted, can be used on any OS, has sync/backup. The problem with using same password manager for OTP is that you kind of loose 2nd factor: 1 app compromised - passwords and OTP are compromised too. My approach is to use password manager's OTP generator for non critical services and dedicated app for the critical ones..
Re:Vivaldi 7.2: Speedy and smart, a serious update
on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @04:52AM (#43396996)
They did interesting things with priorities of keyboard shortcuts for the browser and changing the addressbar. Discussions: https://www.reddit.com/r/vivaldibrowser/comments/1jdzoyv/viv...
Vivaldi 7.2: Speedy and smart, a serious update
Commitments and zero-knowledge attestations over TLS 1.3: DiStefano protocol
Vivaldi 7.0 on Android
Redesigned Vivaldi 7.0
Re:KOReader Document Viewer for E Ink devices
on Thursday April 11, 2024 @05:32AM (#40000240)
Nice list! May I ask what dictionaries do you use (I've just chosen from the internal list, but they seem not that "ideal" after Oxford)? By the way about backlight - on Android there is a bug with that feature: warm light can't be used and also if you start using automatic lighting it does not actually work. Not a big deal: just using system presets from device lighting menu.
Re:KOReader Document Viewer for E Ink devices
on Thursday April 11, 2024 @05:09AM (#40000059)
Great opensource reader! Lots of options. I'd even like someone to make OS with ONLY this program + something to sync books easily. Without that additional bloat like Android readers have nowadays.
Re:Framework Laptop 16 Delivers Great Linux Support and Performance
on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @12:25AM (#39113939)
The owner of DIY FW13 12 Gen here. The only problem I've faced was fingerprint scanner: it just fell off (I don't know why, I've not done anything crazy to the machine, worked almost stationary). I've just replaced the button with sticky plastic rectangle and that's it: button works, fingerprint - no. But this is a minor issue really: overall this is the best laptop I've had considering that I also can upgrade it more cheaply in the future, I suggest almost everyone to consider this brand when searching for new machine.
Re:Threads Is Testing ActivityPup Integration
on Thursday December 14, 2023 @01:12AM (#38638357)
Wow, this was a pleasant surprise. Now need 2way integration, so that Threads can see posts from Mastodon instances too. But what's the real reason for Meta to do that? Other clients will not show their ads like the official Threads client in the future... Maybe they just need to be "good guys" now, 3rd party with "< 0.1%" share are "OK". Anyway: good to see distribution here.
Vivaldi gets more powerful and works across all devices
Re:Anna's Archive – LLM Training Data from Shadow Libraries
on Friday October 20, 2023 @02:07AM (#37952821)
Just went and donated them. Nice to have such products: science research papers are always under paywalls, but sometimes just "ordinary" people want to read that to wide their scope and knowledge. Knowledge should not be paywalled like that. Also there are some situations sometimes that some books are just not available in some countries. In that cases such products can be used I think. In other cases - sure we need to support authors(sometimes publishers/resellers) directly if we can.
Re:Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly int...
on Friday September 08, 2023 @07:36AM (#37432230)
Vivaldi's team made a statement on the matter:
https://vivaldi.com/blog/news/alert-no-google-topics-in-viva...
Shortly: they disable the tracking forcibly, even if "someone" tries to enable it remotely or via flags.
Privacy issues with SponsorLink, starting from version 4.20
Re:Block Adware and Malware with /etc/hosts
on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @01:32AM (#36305844)
hosts file will grow with records + you need to run specific scripts to update it. One of the similar options will be to use DNS resolver with built in filters (like pi-hole, but "cloud"), for example: https://nextdns.io, even free version is OK.
Re:Vivaldi on Android bypasses restrictions to let users access Bing Chat
on Thursday June 08, 2023 @04:57AM (#36239021)
As I see right now - no: tried to open bing chat in Chrome Incognito and saw suggestion to install Edge. Same in Vivaldi just works.
Rider 2023.1: Enhanced C# Support, Best-in-Class GameDev Features, and Much More
Re:Framework announces AMD, new Intel gen, 16“ laptop and more
on Friday March 24, 2023 @01:30AM (#35285402)
They already shipped 2 generations of mainboards and more or less everything is really fine. They have good support + upgradability (former Thinkpad user, took Framework with 32RAM, but in the process realized that I need 64 -> not a problem at all), had 0 problems with drivers on Windows 11(but had some on Linux Mint). As about keyboard: just buy transparent stickers with your language, no need to wait for them to prepare engraved keyboards with "all layouts".
Re:Vivaldi takes the Window Panel to another level
on Thursday February 16, 2023 @05:07AM (#34816903)
Impressive list of bugfixes along with long awaited address bar algorithm changes!
Re:Firefox Multi-Account Containers
on Monday February 13, 2023 @12:15AM (#34770394)
With different profiles you have different settings -> completely independent connection settings, if you want. What's the difference here with Chromium profiles for example?
Re:Firefox Multi-Account Containers
on Monday February 13, 2023 @12:14AM (#34770388)
But why is this REALLY "more powerful than first party isolation"? I don't need this feature every day, in case I do - just create separate profile and it's easy to run it right from toolbar. The only usecase I can remember: specific domains can be automatically opened in container - and that's a good feature to have, but not really a dealbreaker. Another difference: organization as a tab in the same window - not that really needed, just a different UI for not commonly used feature.
Re:YouChat 2.0 – Unlock the Power of AI with the Search Assistant That...
on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @01:40AM (#34704915)
Everyone today writes about Microsoft with new Bing, but no comments here? :) This feature is good, a bit ugly on UI, but actually handy. I started to use you.com for everything for the last several weeks and it serves probably 90% my needs (programming mostly), without going to Google.
Re:The New Bing with ChatGPT
on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @01:37AM (#34704895)
These are great news for the competition! Can't really test Microsoft's implementation yet, but you.com already has ChatGPT-2 integrated in their search for some time and it's really OK, I find myself to use it more and more instead of old search: you just get the answer + aggregation of sources + other results if you need more deep checks.
Re:700M users and Premium
on Monday June 20, 2022 @03:11AM (#31807203)
Still seems like a good thing. I can use the same app with the same contacts for e2e chats too. Also the calls are e2e encrypted. For now: Telegram is fast with good UX, many contacts, works just fine and is reasonably secure (with their own "credo"). The mentioned above WhatsApp is a closed source client program that can do whatever it wants on your phone, who said that it is not secretly sending any word you type to some telemetry address, while e2e encrypting your chat traffic...
Re:700M users and Premium
on Monday June 20, 2022 @03:05AM (#31807175)
Agree: this seems like a perfect way to stay with only users' help in sustaining business. Features are not that critical to pay for, you just can greatly continue use the free tier. But you CAN support them and get small bonuses.
Re:Vivaldi launches its own email client with integrated calendar and ...
on Thursday June 09, 2022 @06:43AM (#31679613)
Nice thing, normally implemented: you also can customize toolbar to have mail notificator icon right in your top toolbar without statusbar, for example. Memory usage is not greatly increased during email indexing. But: no support for protocols < TLS1.2, so I just can't use it for work mail for now.. Anyway - interesting product, like in old good Opera!
Re:RetroArch: Automatic Frame Delay to reduce input latency
on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @06:22AM (#31665336)
Was shocked too. It probably should really have just a reasonable "defaults" + "ADVANCED" menu with all that tuning... Anyway for me default fine in all the games I've tried.
Re:Chess.com vs. Lichess
on Thursday December 16, 2021 @12:17AM (#29575200)
Lichess is a bit sluggish in navigation, but it's almost purely community driven and you can feel that! I do support them and I really like their transparent philosophy, they even show you WHERE do they spend EVERY received $! Yes, there are some flaws, but me with other guys are actually making the website just better every day. Chess.com sure has their own philosophy, better moderation, better news articles (sometimes written by professional journalists), but hey, it's almost like a comparison of good paid service with good opensource community driven thing. Like... Windows vs Linux. Both do have their downsides, but the core philosophies are different and you just follow them or not.