"Thundermail" will be part of a suite of Thunderbird Pro services, as the team behind the venerable Mozilla email client begins building a complete ecosystem.
  • Leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    18 days ago

    Thunderbird Pro will apparently be:

    This email thing plus Thunderbird Send (which is basically https://send.vis.ee/), Thunderbird Appointment - a scheduling tool and Thunderbird Assist, which is:

    “…at least for now, being cautiously labeled as “an experiment” that will allow users to take advantage of AI features within their email. However, the goal is to be lightweight enough that the language models can be run locally on a user’s PC in the interest of privacy. This service is being developed in partnership with Flower AI, which leverages Nvidia’s confidential compute to provide private remote processing in the event a user’s PC isn’t powerful enough. Sipes emphasizes that any remote processing features attached to Thunderbird Assist will always be optional, in the interest of ensuring complete user privacy.”

    So AI shit that nobody asked for or wants.

    • SaltSong@startrek.websiteEnglish
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      18 days ago

      This covers my thoughts about damn near every “helpful” feature this side of auto-complete email addresses.

  • Ray1992xD@feddit.nlEnglish
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    19 days ago

    No matter how much I hate Mozilla’s new path, companies like this challenging big tech are bold and have a lot of courage. If I set aside my personal op opinions about Mozilla, I actually admire them for this. They can actually dent big tech with funding from big tech itself.

    • danc4498@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      19 days ago

      I keep hearing a lot of negative comments about Mozilla lately. I’m wondering if this move is more in line with then just turning into another google rather than disrupting the marketplace.

    • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      18 days ago

      For now, they’re better than Google. I have some bad opinions about them, but anything better than Google competing with Google is an improvement.

    • 0x0@programming.devEnglish
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      19 days ago

      It’s a saturated market and email is starting to disappear (it’ll take years, but the signs are there).
      They’d be better using it on the browser and ditching other products.

      • 1984@lemmy.todayEnglish
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        19 days ago

        No its never going to disappear. If you are referring to people using slack and chat apps, those are locked in walled gardens where your messages cant ever leave.

        Email can be moved anywhere easily.