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Catweazle

@Catweazle@vivaldi.net

Retired, lover of good #music (any genre, except Reggeton and Summer hits), #computers, #technology, #science, #art, #ateismus, #human_rights, #left_wing #iconoclast, a lttle #troll, a cold beer with friends.

The reason why I love my #Vivaldi_browser and possibly you too
https://vivaldi.com/onemillion/

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Vivaldi, to security
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๐Ÿ”’It's World Password Day and we'd like to remind you that a good password is like a good joke โ€“ not too short, not too obvious, and definitely not something you've told your friends, family, or everyone at the office!

Catweazle,
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@Vivaldi, with this you can create a good Password for sure

https://neal.fun/password-game/

Vivaldi, to windows
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Who here wouldnโ€™t want to remove unnecessary apps, save resources, and space on their computers? ๐Ÿ™‹๐Ÿผ

So, whether you just bought yourself a shiny new computer or want to optimize your existing oneโ€”@xdadevelopers tells you how the Vivaldi browser (and 9 other apps) can make your experience on Windows even sweeter ๐Ÿ‘‡

https://www.xda-developers.com/10-apps-should-install-new-pc/

Catweazle, (edited )
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@Vivaldi @xdadevelopers, well there is few usefull in the list, at least for me.
My list of apps apart Vivaldi;

Portmaster https://safing.io

Optimizer https://github.com/hellzerg/optimizer

ShareX https://getsharex.com

Crow Translate https://crow-translate.github.io

FreeTube https://freetubeapp.io

SMplayer https://www.smplayer.info

PicView https://sourceforge.net/projects/picview/

7-zip https://7-zip.org

Gimp https://www.gimp.org

Krita https://krita.org

Libre Office https://www.libreoffice.org

Rainmeter https://www.rainmeter.net

That are for me the basics, all FOSS and I think, the best of their kind.

jon, (edited ) to random
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So what does it mean for a browser to have AI built in? Does it mean that it is using your browsing data? Is it using it for ads or for profiling?

Is AI just another reason to collect your data? What are the so-called AI browsers doing today?

Would you use a browser that has AI built in?

I have provided three choices. The first one is that you want AI and do not care if the data is used for ads and profiling. Two : you do not want AI at all. Three: Want AI, but only if the data is not used for other purposes, such as ads and profiling.

Catweazle, (edited )
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@jon, I recently had a discussion about this topic on the forum and I have a pretty clear position on the use of AI. AI is here to stay and is included in more and more applications. Naturally you have to look very carefully at the PP before using it, since many leave much to be desired regarding privacy.

But the problem is also another, there is currently an immense variety of AI apps and services for the most diverse tasks, which makes it practically impossible to decide which of them can work for all users, it is not enough to embed a ChatGPT in Vivaldi, like Mainstream browsers are doing it now, more for fashion and commercial reasons than for necessity.

I think it is much more sensible that each user chooses from the more than 7000 AI apps, extensions, scripts and services which cover exactly what they need.

https://www.futurepedia.io
https://www.futuretools.io
https://huggingface.co/spaces

etc.

Personally I use Andisearch as my main search engine and the Perplexity extension, it is useful to me, but it can only speak for myself. Andi PP (https://andisearch.com/privacy/), I think you'll like

Vivaldi, to random
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What's the weirdest or most amusing suggestion autofill has thrown your way while typing in a search query?

Share your hilarious autofill encounters or fails with us! ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™‚๏ธ๐Ÿ˜†๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿค–

Catweazle,
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@Vivaldi, I don't use search suggestions. After decades of internet, I have hal the content in my bookmarks and for specific searches I go to the corresponding reliable source (Wiki, Wolphram, diccionarys, research centers, etc.), now with AI (Andisearch) made easier.

Vivaldi, (edited ) to technology
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Who here has discovered a digital Easter egg so funny or unexpected that it made you question the sanity of the developers who put it there? ๐Ÿ˜

Tell us what you discovered! ๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿป

๐Ÿš€We'll go first: playing some iconic Star Wars soundtracks brings up a lightsaber progress bar on Spotify!

Photo by Tengyart on Unsplash

Catweazle,
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@Vivaldi, Google has more than 50 easter eggs, apparently their devs are getting very bored, which is why I'm not going to list them. But there is an easter egg in the Wordpress TOS, where at the end in "Disclaimer" there is a tasty Treat.
In Vivaldi, perhaps we can consider https://vivaldi.com/en/onemillion/ as an easter egg.

Vivaldi, (edited ) to productivity
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It always gives us immense joy to know how each of you use the Vivaldi browser, what you think of it, and how we can make it better for you.

Weโ€™re eager to know how you personalize Vivaldi to suit your needs with custom themes, tab management hacks, and everything that makes the browser uniquely yours.

Nick Zorn, whoโ€™s tried many browsers, shares how our browser in particular has helped boost his productivity drastically.๐Ÿ‘‡

https://medium.com/@nico.zorn/this-is-how-the-vivaldi-browser-has-drastically-increased-my-productivity-44884bf171d6

Catweazle,
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@Vivaldi, no full article without account and I will not create an account on this site that even uses keyloggers

https://themarkup.org/blacklight?url=medium.com&device=desktop&location=us&force=true

>We found this website capturing user keystrokes.
Key logging is when a website captures the text that you type into a webpage before you hit the submit button. This technique has been used to identify anonymous web users by matching them to postal addresses and real names. This technique was used by four percent of popular websites when we scanned them in September 2020.

On the site you are inspecting, information entered in the name, family-name, given-name fields were logged.

Blacklight detected a script belonging to the company Algolia Inc doing this on this site.......

Ann1944, to random
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https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/internet-shambles-fox-news-claimed-223352784.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=seanjkernan%2Fmagazine%2FWorld+and+Breaking+News

Catweazle,
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@Ann1944, one of my favorite musicians, Mike Oldfield, left a bad taste in my mouth when I read that he is a Trump fan, and he also supported Brexit. He was even trying to get involved in Trump's election. Adding him to the list of famous Trump supporters.

caiocgo, to Vivaldi
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    Catweazle,
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    @caiocgo @Vivaldi, welcome and enjoy :tony_smirking:

    Vivaldi, (edited ) to productivity
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    Results are in from the Bookmarks Census where many of you participated!

    ๐Ÿคฉ 51% of you use bookmarks like your life depends on it

    ๐Ÿซฃ 31% of you embrace chaos and live life on the edge instead

    ๐Ÿซก while the rest of you rely on our Speed Dial, your browsing History, or memory (good luck with that!)

    Catweazle,
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    @Vivaldi, bookmarks are vital, they contain 20years of my browser history. But this is also a chaos, because it need often mantenance to gut out a lot of discontinued sites or not longer needed. Buton the other hand, I often I don't even need to search in the web, when i need some resources or informations.
    So I've a lot of bookmark folders well sorted with all I may need, or direct access to the sites I use daily.

    Vivaldi, (edited ) to askmeanything
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    We are now live! ๐ŸŸข

    Vivaldi's CEO @jon is ready to take on your questions, so come and ask him anything! ๐Ÿ˜€

    https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1abkmj3/i_am_jon_von_tetzchner_fighting_big_tech_for_a/

    Catweazle,
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    @Vivaldi @jonsvt, In principle, it doesn't matter to me which engine the browser uses, I'm more interested in the fact that it doesn't contain scripts that profile and track the user. At this point I know that Vivaldi uses Chromium as it should, without Big Brother embedded.

    Vivaldi, (edited ) to random
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    Day 4

    by companies poses a big threat to our privacy.

    In light of this, switching to a -friendly search engine is a quick and easy way to help you keep your online experience private. ๐Ÿ”’

    What is your preferred privacy-oriented ? Do you use different ones for regular and private searches?

    Catweazle,
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    @Vivaldi, some of the search engines which I use most

    Vivaldi, (edited ) to Oslo
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    ๐Ÿฅถ Current state of the Vivaldi waterfall by the office:

    (Should we make this into a postcard?)

    Catweazle,
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    @Vivaldi, good idea to make a postcard of a very nice Photo

    video/mp4

    Vivaldi, to privacy
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    Come on folks, the year is not over, why did you stop posting your ? ๐Ÿ˜„

    We're really proud of ours, so here it goes again! ๐Ÿš€

    Wrapped 2023 Vivaldi edition "We have no idea of how many minutes you spent browsing this year."
    Wrapped 2023 Vivaldi edition "We do not know what sites you visited in 2023".
    Wrapped 2023 Vivaldi edition "Which features did you use the most in Vivaldi? We have no clue."

    Catweazle,
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    @Vivaldi, ha, I know exactly what you had done this Year, and I like it. :tony_santa: ๐Ÿ‘

    Catweazle, to coffee Spanish
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    my , to wake up this with and

    My cat is very obedient, after I banned him from sitting on the keyboard, he has never done it again

    Vivaldi, to design
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    Who here remembers old Tony from ca. 2015? :tony_happy:

    He clearly needed that cup of coffee! ๐Ÿ˜…

    Catweazle,
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    @Vivaldi, I remember very well, also the little bug 6 years ago

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkIAOTck78k

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04GUqgggGcE

    adamsdesk, to Funny
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    Close to Home - Gelocation by John McPherson, circa 2014

    Catweazle,
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    @adamsdesk, Google Street View already found him

    mina, to random German
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    Als Mina Q dieses Morgens aus fiebrigen Trรคumen erwachte, fand sie sich in ihrem Bett in ein schniefendes und hustendes Ungeziefer verwandelt.

    Catweazle,
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    @mina, gute Besserung. Ich empfehle Salzwasser als Nasenspray und einen Tee aus Zwiebel-und Zitronensaft mit Honig, gegen den Husten

    Vivaldi, to random
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    is often full of hectic days, where we're running from place to place.

    Remember to enable and you will have all your tabs available across your devices.

    That way you won't miss anything, regardless of where you are browsing from!๐Ÿ’ก

    โœจ https://adventcalendar.vivaldi.net/day-9 โœจ

    Catweazle,
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    @Vivaldi, also remembering that sync is a good backup method in the event of a computer disaster

    ilyess, to infosec
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    I was shocked witnessing someone logging into their bank on the phone in public recently:

    1. Their phoneโ€™s big display was at full brightness so everyone around could see what they were doing.
    2. They typed their password in, so no password manager. Unsurprisingly the password was weak: 5 lowercase letters and 1 numeric character.
    3. They didnโ€™t have any kind of 2FA set up!

    How on earth is this still happening?! ๐Ÿคฆ

    Catweazle,
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    @ilyess, Some people only learn the hard way, eg realizing that their bank account is inexplicably empty from one day to the next.
    I never make banking from a smartphone, because a smartphone itself is spyware and never secure to store important data in it, less using a bank with an evident weak protection.

    jon, to random
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    Who would have known? Do not track might actually be about to become the real deal!

    https://vivaldi.com/blog/do-no-track-gets-legal-backing-in-germany/

    Catweazle,
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    @jon, an important step forward, but there is still a lot of work to free the Internet from the bad practices of large corporations.

    dgar, to random
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    Banana bread.

    Follow me for more recipes.

    Catweazle,
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    @dgar, in the same recipe collection Chickensoup

    MIfoodie, to spanish
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    Another random thought:

    At my school we have three languages ( , , ).

    Spanish is definitely the most popular with people claiming it to be the most "useful" in my area (which is probably true).

    The people who take French probably think France is just cool for fashion or because they have some random tower that looks like a upside down Y.

    And the people like me who take German are sort of the weird ones.

    I have found that online (especially on ) there is definitely more German speakers then the other two...

    Catweazle,
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    @MIfoodie, mostly english, oft auch deutsch, y de vez en cuando espaรฑol.

    Catweazle,
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    @netchami, well the UI isn't a problem, less in fullscreen, front-end like Piped, Invideous, PokeTube and others a lot of times fails because the instance is down or well, no couldn't skip the YT block, no such problems in MotionBox, apart it can access videos and music from almost all streaming platforms, even from TikTok and Facebook, not only from YT.
    Yes, the UI isn't to anyone's taste, but the operation is impeccable and blazing fast.

    Catweazle,
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    @netchami, well, FreeTube also is nice, I used it before, but I changed it, because more and more Videos are inplayable (YT also knows FreeTube). Invidious, yes, works fine most of the time (yewtube works the best), CloudTube is dead, PokeTube also works fine and even permits to download the video (mp4 or mp3),

    Catweazle,
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    @netchami, i know, that is the problem from front-ends which use the YT API, they can be blocked, Invideous no, but FreeTube and others do, not a problem of decentralized or no, YT only need to blok the API and thats all, folks. With Invidious the only problem are the stability of the diferent instances. Motionbox use an another approach and also don't use the API.

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