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Thibaultmol 🌈
in reply to Tuta • • •Glad to see an updated version!
And glad to see FUTO keyboard on there as well.
For 2FA apps I always now recommend @ente . it's open source. it's a good looking app. and works perfectly. with backup even !
For search there's also
@kagihq
and they offer a very good translation service as well: translate.kagi.com/
(btw, stupid ocd thing: the bottom right, it's actually 'origanic maps' not 'organic map' xd)
Kagi Translate
translate.kagi.comHaris Razis
in reply to Thibaultmol 🌈 • • •@thibaultmol @ente @kagihq I second the kagi ecosystem. As for organic maps there is some ongoing drama atm.
openletter.earth/open-letter-t…
Open Letter to Organic Maps Shareholders
openletter.earthThibaultmol 🌈
in reply to Haris Razis • • •Thx!
Matthew 🖖
in reply to Haris Razis • • •d-shoot.net/kagi.html
Why I Lost Faith in Kagi
lori's blogThibaultmol 🌈
in reply to Matthew 🖖 • • •* about the ai stuff: it's optional, unlike google which gives you an unwanted ai overview for each search. Kagi only does it if you press a button or add a question mark at the end.
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in reply to abeorch • • •@abeorch I'm still stuck on gboard. There's three things I need that a keyboard
- Multilingual without switching
- typing by swiping
- accurate voice dictation
#Futo already has that 3rd point covered with FUTO Voice Input (which uses a local Whisper model).
The second point they have as well, mostly. (They're only open source keyboard with an actual decent swipe to type system.)
But they don't have the ability yet to do language detection swiping.
Hydro Walrus
in reply to Thibaultmol 🌈 • • •abeorch
in reply to Hydro Walrus • •Thibaultmol 🌈
in reply to Hydro Walrus • • •@hydrowalrus @abeorch that's weird. Where did they get their training data from. Cause that was the whole problem that futo tried to solve with the voluntary data collection swiping website. Because I was basically no open data sets with the reasonable size for swiping data.
This comment seems to say that you have to install some kind of Google library to make swiping work?
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Although doesn't seem like it's an actual problem
lemmy.world/post/16439080/1058…
I'll give it a go
Alternatives to gboard with gesture/swype style typing? - Lemmy.World
lemmy.worldHydro Walrus
in reply to Thibaultmol 🌈 • • •Airikr :sweden: :endeavour:
in reply to Thibaultmol 🌈 • • •Kagi gets funded by Yandex which is a company in Russia. I would not trust them at all.
You want proof? Just do a search online for
kagi yandexorkagi russia supportand you'll find some sources.I would recommend SearxNG instead.
Thibaultmol 🌈
in reply to Airikr :sweden: :endeavour: • • •I see that you found resources that said kagi and Russian and yandex... But I think you misunderstood what you probably found.
Yandex doesn't fund kagi.
Kagi uses a bunch of different search indexes, one of them is Yandex.
Thibaultmol 🌈
in reply to Thibaultmol 🌈 • • •@edgren During any given search, it will pull from a variety of different search providers and deliver a combined search results page which is much better than each of the individual engines.
So kagi is paying Yandex for services just like how they're paying other search providers.
Yandex is just one many... So only 2% of infra cost is spent on yandex.
What I personally prefer to not have any money go to yandex... Yeah.
If I could turn off yandex on kagi, i would
Airikr :sweden: :endeavour:
in reply to Thibaultmol 🌈 • • •The Mandela effect is huge when it comes to me. Kagi doesn't get funded by Yandex. It's the other way around.
Source: old.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comme…
If you want to continue using and maybe even supporting Kagi, go ahead 🙂 I can't stop anyone from doing this. But I can give them information.
Thibaultmol 🌈
in reply to Airikr :sweden: :endeavour: • • •cuNha
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in reply to cuNha • • •Richard
in reply to Tuta • • •You and @thunderbird
Yes. I use both.
Richard
in reply to Richard • • •@thunderbird
Also, I am a Legend Tuta member.
I also look forward to Thunderbird Mail. I signed up for the wait list.
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