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Comment · 3 months ago
The same article at Apple fanboys website somewhat says the opposite: https://www.macrumors.com/2026/07/13/apples-steady-iphone-pr...
Curious where is the reality
Comment · 3 months ago
No no, it wasn't against you, in fact I used your comment to piggy-back on "my"/our vision :)
Comment · 3 months ago
At least no regrets purchasing that expensive CPU and the solar panels
Comment · 3 months ago
The reality is that the move is great, it's a very cool and nice stuff, just that it takes bandwidth and space without letting the user know.
A solution:
New AI features are available for use offline, they will make you able to translate offline, get answers, summaries, etc, would you like to download / install them (~4 GB)?
It is going to fix the experience in the UI. It's a significant misstep by Google in its form (probably lazy/hasted/bureaucratic release), but on the move itself, this is actually a very user-friendly initiative from Google.
It's quite unfair in that specific case to say that Google = evil, and when Qwen = good. It's just about informing the user better so the bandwidth and space is not wasted. Giving user choice.
They will fix it eventually, especially after raising the issue.
But shouting here "Google = bad, me uninstall Google, if you use Google Chrome you are an idiot" are not a productive feedback for a product owner there.
Comment · 3 months ago
Thanks! Very informative. Lot of new details including the answer from Google and several experiments
Comment · 3 months ago
You can try the model here: https://chromeai.org/
-> Press the left edit button to start a new context.
It's free, multi-language, well tested, respecting privacy (no cloud needed), nothing extra to install. Quite nice actually.
Like what iPhones do, and everybody is ok with it. Chrome is not just a browser, it's a Window (ahem) to the web, almost an operating system considering the wide scope.
Average game is 80 GB, Call of Duty 200 GB+, etc
It's a quite oriented title:
Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent
The same news can be read as:
Amazing, Chrome now includes a fully offline AI so you don't have to send your secrets to ChatGPT
A proper journalist would have found the middle ground, explained that this is by default, can be made optional and to raise the issue to Google as "Cons: this uses bandwidth and user is not aware of it".
Comment · 3 months ago
Protect the kids bla bla bla...
Always the same political excuse
Comment · 4 months ago
All the models, have to respect their local laws, and most of all, pressure from users and the employees.
They all carry political weights, because humans behind defend their interests, and are promoting some social values.
This answer from Claude is so biased that it is ridiculous
Comment · 4 months ago
https://x.com/CloudflareDev/status/2031488099725754821
Well, there is this little conflict of interest
Comment · 4 months ago
Yeah, except the website doesn't have broad access to your computer and filesystem
Comment · 4 months ago
When a company can remotely push code without explicit user approval, and code that was hostile / almost malicious, it is a backdoor
Comment · 4 months ago
Can't say they are wrong, after the latest backdoor, or let's say, undocumented functionality that leaks some data that was pushed in Claude Code few days ago
Comment · 4 months ago
It's a weird broken import of French (could be because the EU Parliament) is in Brussels so highly French-speaking. It's also still very incoherent, it mixes up billion and trillion, and it mixes up milliard (the French equivalent) with billion. You absolutely do not want ambiguity there when you work professionally as a politician.
deadline supposed to come from delay but it is incorrect use in French. cabinet is toilet. etc
It's an artificial invented variant, like a kid would invent its own language to speak to other kids, not something that was born out of habit and unified. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto shares a similar issue but at least it's cute and more logical though.
AI would be good at creating an international language