Vincent

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[–] Vincent@feddit.nl 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It costs nothing* to kiss some ass, it buys the US nothing, and yet it can get Trump (and thus the US) to support you. To do anything else would be irresponsible, TBH.

*Not even your pride, in this case, because everyone can see that Trump is the baby for needing it, and everyone knows you don't need to mean it.

[–] Vincent@feddit.nl 1 points 1 month ago

Well, good to hear it works now at least!

[–] Vincent@feddit.nl 2 points 1 month ago

Founder is on Mastodon too: @stefanlindbohm@mastodon.social

[–] Vincent@feddit.nl 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I think they always did, if you had "Expand sidebar on hover" enabled in your "Customise sidebar" settings?

[–] Vincent@feddit.nl 6 points 1 month ago

I'm afraid the reason for that is that is that it's the only place where Firefox has full control over the upload experience. Like, how would Firefox even be able to insert an alt text when e.g. I'm uploading a pic to Mastodon, without adding special cases for every website (which would break whenever the websites update)?

Though I wouldn't be surprised if at least some "copy suggested alt text to clipboard" feature would be added at some point.

In any case, sure it's an edge case, but it's still weird to be angry about "AI" for it. It won't even download the model if you don't use it, AFAIK.

[–] Vincent@feddit.nl 1 points 1 month ago

Honestly if it prefilled something like that that would already be an improvement, at least to create temporary ones (though in practice, they're probably never temporary).

[–] Vincent@feddit.nl 1 points 1 month ago

Oh speed is definitely going to be the make-it-or-break it here. I do usually know the name without thinking, but it's having to type it (and preferably without typos) that's the effort that would be nice to save.

It feels really stupid, because it's really not that much effort. But I know myself - I also really like contactless payments, even though it really wasn't that much effort to insert my card and type in my PIN. Yet it's a small convenience for something that I do with some regularity. I imagine the same for this feature.

[–] Vincent@feddit.nl 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah but I don't think anyone was referring to Israel's actions as the US doing "preventative bombing"?

[–] Vincent@feddit.nl 53 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

I can see people not necessarily wanting suggestions for tab group names, but... The rest of the list is translations and alt text suggestions for images added to PDFs. The most uncontroversial AI features if ever there were any.

I really don't care for this urge to advertise "AI" everywhere. I also don't care much for the knee-jerk reaction just because someone calls something AI.

[–] Vincent@feddit.nl 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well, people were at least asking for translations all the time.

[–] Vincent@feddit.nl -2 points 1 month ago (5 children)

TBF, I love my tab groups, and honestly having to come up with and type out a name for each of them is the biggest hurdle. It's a small thing, but I can imagine myself using tab groups even more because of it.

[–] Vincent@feddit.nl 7 points 1 month ago (7 children)

So far I don't think the US strikes specifically on Iran are known to have killed or even wounded anyone, let alone civilians, nor hit hospitals or schools, right?

 

Thanks everyone for your active participation here. We knew this would have a lot of interest and so we’ve waited to dive into the conversation because we see some themes emerging that I’ll respond to broadly here. The main concerns I’m noting are around the license agreements we declare, our use of data for AI, and our Acceptable Use Policy. Below are a few clarifications to each of these areas.

 

Gemeentes maken via buurtpreventieborden op grote schaal reclame voor WhatsApp van Meta, vaak met belastinggeld. Het is tijd voor neutrale borden, maar daar staat niet iedere gemeente voor open.

 

Mobiliteit: Beleidsmakers moeten zich richten op een stad waarin de auto niet langer de norm is, betogen Marco te Brömmelstroet en Ian Walker.

 

Verontrustend nieuws uit doorgaans goed geïnformeerde kring: terwijl de universiteiten nog nasudderen van de draconische bezuinigingen die hen zijn opgelegd – de Eerste Kamer moet nog instemmen, maar niemand koestert nog illusies over de liefde van de christelijke partijen voor het onderwijs –, bezint minister Eppo Bruins zich alweer op de volgende grote klap met de sloopkogel.

Hij zou bij de Voorjaarsnota met een ingrijpende wijziging in het universitaire systeem komen. Drie lijnen daarvan zijn inmiddels bekend.

 

WhatsApp is razend populair. De app is wel van Facebook, niet iedereen vindt dat een prettig idee. Berichten-app Signal is een privacyvriendelijk alternatief. We helpen je de app te gebruiken.

 

De voormalig melkveehouder schenkt zijn grond aan een stichting voor natuurlijkvriendelijke landbouw. Door de gift is hij er zeker van dat het land voor altijd goed benut blijft, zegt hij.

 

Als eerste politieke partij in Nederland vertrekt Volt van X. Ook steeds meer andere organisaties laten het platform links liggen, of overwegen dit. (...) Dassen hoopt dat zijn besluit ook andere politieke partijen aanzet om over te stappen op alternatieve platforms als Bluesky en Mastodon.

 
 

Onze politici hebben het over benoemen, maar of ze ook goed uit hun woorden komen...

 

De belastingschijven worden anders, de trein wordt duurder, elektrische auto's krijgen wegenbelasting, nicotinezakjes worden verboden en nog veel meer.

 

Gemeenten hebben van asielminister Faber te horen gekregen dat hun huisvesting voor statushouders niet 'sober genoeg' is. Eén persoon per slaapkamer zou niet voldoende sober zijn. De spanningen tussen gemeenten en de minister lopen hierdoor verder op.

 

De NS gaat de dienstregeling fors uitbreiden. De spoorvervoerder meldt dat er vanaf zondag 15 december meer treinen gaan rijden in de spits, 's avonds en in het weekend.

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