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jonmccull | 3 years ago

Slite is adding AI to it's workspace tool, but not in the way you'd expect. It's called "Ask" and it allows you to just... ask questions of the content in your team's workspace. Using a LLM + GPT to synthesize an answer and cite the references.

jonmccull | 3 years ago

Check out this tweet from the founder of Slite (a Notion competitor focusing on remote teams) for video and examples of how Discussions will work.

"It lets you make key decisions meeting-less, in context of your docs, and it launches in 2 weeks!"

jonmccull | 4 years ago | on: Vivaldi's latest version disables Google Idle API by default

"Big update alert: Vivaldi says no to Google Idle API, improves Capture, Download Panel, Sync, adds 68 new languages to Translate, and more."

jonmccull | 5 years ago | on: Double-decker browser tabs can be yours with Vivaldi

Mail, Calendar and RSS are available in the Snapshot version under vivaldi://experiments/

More on the Technical Preview here: https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-mail-technical-preview/

jonmccull | 7 years ago | on: Vivaldi 2.0 – includes sync, resizable tab tiling, floating web panels and more

Yes, this. The ability to drag and resize them now is just brilliant. I pretty much only use it to view two pages side-by-side, but when you try it with 4 or 5 tabs the resizing is a dream.

jonmccull | 7 years ago | on: Vivaldi Browser: Chrome engine, no personal data collected

Re: "Why we are doing this", see https://vivaldi.com/company/

From wiki: > "Vivaldi began as a virtual community website that replaced My Opera, which was shut down by Opera Software in March 2014.[15] Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner was angered by this decision because he believed that this community helped make the Opera web browser what it was. Tetzchner then launched the Vivaldi Community—a virtual community focused on providing registered users with a discussion forum, blogging service, and numerous other practical web services—to make up for My Opera's closure. Later, on January 27, 2015, Vivaldi Technologies launched—with the community in mind[16]—the first technical preview of the Vivaldi web browser."

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As for income, it's the standard browser model – partnerships with default search engines and bookmarks.

jonmccull | 7 years ago | on: Vivaldi now includes Qwant, a privacy-focused search engine based in Europe

Just putting this out there but... does any browser pass the fingerprinting test?

Quick look with Firefox, Brave, Safari and all has similar results for me.

jonmccull | 7 years ago | on: Vivaldi now includes Qwant, a privacy-focused search engine based in Europe

here's their privacy policy: https://about.qwant.com/legal/privacy/

jonmccull | 7 years ago | on: Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try

Sync has been live in the snapshot version for quite some time. it's planned to be released to the stable version in Vivaldi's next major update.

jonmccull | 7 years ago | on: Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try

i use the snapshot version as my default on mac and it's definitely usable (and then some). you do run into the odd bugginess, but anything major is usually fixed within a few days.

jonmccull | 8 years ago | on: Vivaldi browser releases Sync in Snapshot build for public testing

This feature has been the reason many users have held out on making the switch to Vivaldi as a daily drive. Will be interesting to see the results of the testing and how quickly the features makes it into a final stable build.

jonmccull | 8 years ago | on: Vivaldi 1.13 is here :)

Big fan of the Window Panel. I think I'll try disabling the Tab Bar and only uses this to manage my tabs for a bit. :)

jonmccull | 8 years ago | on: Vivaldi 1.11 – Focus on accessibility

Love the new reader mode options and setting for stopping loading of animated gifs.

jonmccull | 8 years ago | on: Vivaldi browser v1.10 released, with docked dev tools and new Startpage options

Vivaldi has a setting for limiting the minimum font size under Settings > Webpages > Fonts (screenshot: https://cl.ly/1h2N0Y3a3w0s).

Is that what you mean? You can set the font to max 24pt (on macOS anyway) and images are untouched.

jonmccull | 8 years ago | on: Vivaldi browser v1.10 released, with docked dev tools and new Startpage options

Love how many fixes and features get squeezed into each Vivaldi release (8 new features and 80+ bug fixes this time!).

jonmccull | 8 years ago | on: Opera is Reborn

Vivaldi's "Web Panels" are doing this with a lot more flexibility - you can add any site you want as a custom panel in the sidebar and resize the width to adjust the ratio with your main window.

Granted, a lot of people use it for social/messengers, but it's also super useful for resources and tools like Stackoverflow or Google Translate.

jonmccull | 9 years ago | on: Vivaldi add green search engine Ecosia as default option

Ecosia uses ad revenue to fund tree-planting projects around the world. Is Vivaldi the first browser to include the "green" option as default?

jonmccull | 9 years ago | on: Vivaldi browser v1.8 released, with calendar-style browsing history

Docked dev tools is in active development at Vivaldi at the moment, so fingers crossed it will be included in an upcoming release. It's easily one of the most requested features we get, understandably, and definitely not being ignored. :)

jonmccull | 9 years ago | on: Vivaldi browser v1.8 released, with calendar-style browsing history

Nice!

jonmccull | 9 years ago | on: Vivaldi browser v1.8 released, with calendar-style browsing history

You can vote for new features on the Vivaldi forum here:

https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/14250/feature-requests-for-1...