Is this only for MacOS? If it's a Chromium fork, what's the reason for no Linux/Windows?
Also what's the business model?
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#32Name derived from Netscape (Firefox's great-grandfather), icon is a red fox, but based on Chrome? Was this originally designed as a Firefox fork or what happened there
Yeah. Regardless, it seems misleading to use that icon with a Chromium fork. Also the fact that it's AGPL means this project is very copyleft and not compatible with business models. I'm not saying that there is no place for copyleft open source anymore, but when it's in a clearly commercial project that makes me question the utility of it being open source.
> very copyleft and not compatible with business models.
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#34I'll get voted down, but I hate that cute AI fox, and hope I never see it again.
I wish we could stop with the animal "furry" mascots for projects.
It was cute when the internet was cute but now it's just boring.
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#35I'll get voted down, but I hate that cute AI fox, and hope I never see it again.
Haha, used gpt4o to generate it. What change do you want to see in that fox appearance? Any change should be a prompt away :)
The text is very off-center and the AI "vibe" is palpable. Hire a designer or at least take the time to add the text to a free SVG yourself.
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#36AOL still have active trademarks for “Netscape” which might trouble you here:
- https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=76017078&caseSearchType=U...
> PROVIDING MULTIPLE-USER ACCESS TO A GLOBAL COMPUTER INFORMATION NETWORK FOR THE TRANSFER AND DISSEMINATION OF A WIDE RANGE OF INFORMATION; ELECTRONIC TRANSMISSION OF DATA, IMAGES, AND DOCUMENTS VIA COMPUTER NETWORKS; [ELECTRONIC MAIL SERVICES; PROVIDING ON-LINE CHAT ROOMS FOR TRANSMISSION OF MESSAGES AMONG COMPUTER USERS CONCERNING A WIDE VARIETY OF FIELDS]
- https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=76017079&caseSearchType=U...
> PROVIDING INFORMATION IN THE FIELD OF COMPUTERS VIA A GLOBAL COMPUTER NETWORK; PROVIDING A WIDE RANGE OF GENERAL INTEREST INFORMATION VIA COMPUTER NETWORKS
- https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=74574057&caseSearchType=U...
> computer software for use in the transfer of information and the conduct of commercial transactions across local, national and world-wide information networks
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#37Yeah that's just what we need, more AI shit, more slop slapped on top of Chromium.
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#39I’m using Dia a lot for work at the moment and frankly it’s a gamechanger. granted I’m not a developer but being able to interact with an LLM that has access to the page I’m on is extremely useful: Instead of manually hunting across half a dozen different elements, then copy/paste and retype to put something into a format I want… I can just get Dia do it. In fact, I can create a shortcut to get it to do it the same w…
If this workflow starts getting any traction this will quickly turn into a cat and mouse game, where companies do their best to make sure those AIs don't work on their websites to make sure humans and humans only watch their websites' ads, their links, their banners and so on.
Google being a big one of those companies would soon side with those companies and not with the users, it's been their modus operandi, just recently some people got threats that if they don't stop using ad blockers in YouTube they will ban them from the platform.
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#40I've upvoted to encourage your initiative, but I personally will not support any "AI" software unless it 100% runs locally and supports old platforms and hardware. Otherwise it is nothing but another conduit to get access to, and suck all my personal data for surveillance capitalism.