If you try F-Droid Basic (their more lightweight version that doesn’t do the remote sharing thing) you can see it already, the redesign has been available there for a while.
But I have to say I preferred being able to filter by just the whole wide category and sort it by new, instead of having to pick now a subcategory… specially for things that I don’t mind so much what’s the sub-genre, when I just want to browse, not nit-pick amongst a lot of specific subcategories.
Control4 and Sonos
You won’t find many apps that depend on third party closed source services. At least not in the official repos (there might be a few, but marked as having “anti-features”).
But imho, that is a good thing… I go to f-droid to find fully free and open source apps, for more corporate stuff you still can use the official store.
(Rant: I wish all these smart home companies fully embraced open standards like Matter… it’s annoying having to install a different proprietary app for every different brand of smart home device… F-Droid does have a Home Assistant client compatible with open standards, but it won’t work properly with locked-in proprietary systems)
A lot of my favorite apps are there.
Material Files, Librera reader, KeepassDX, Syncthing, AntennaPod, Seal, Echo, and a bunch of open source games like Unciv, Xeonjia and Shattered Pixel Dungeon, or Idle Fantasy if you like idle games.
If you are into self hosting (I am) they have multiple Jellyfin clients, Immich client, etc.
There’s also Lemmy clients.
And Termux if you are comfortable with tinkering in the terminal. I use it to run a privoxy and ssh server from my phone that I can connect to from my work computer. It helps me get past some firewalls.
I had heard the “PostmarketOS” name in the past but it never sparked my interest, the name made me think it was an OS made for some old obscure hardware that I’m likely to not own or that I would not be able to buy anymore. Either that, or a distro meant for old PCs.
I just found out that it comes shipped in PinePhones and that it’s actually a modern OS not necessarily constrained by a specific line of legacy hardware.
I think it’s better a name with no implicit meaning than a name with a misleading meaning. All names are obscure when they just appear, I don’t think “PostmarketOS” was such mainstream name.
I wouldn’t say I really care if the “community” is big or small (it’s also a bit unclear what you mean exactly, do you just mean user adoption?)… but I care about Linux (and in general, open source alternatives) being real options when it comes to hardware support, compatibility with services I might want to use, etc.
I don’t think you can have proper “progress” in those areas without having Linux be a recognized mainstream system. Like say… banks are unlikely to make an authenticator app for non-Android Linux phones if non-Android Linux phones are not mainstream, for example.
Yes, but then this would need to be paired with a more straightforward filtering system that people actually use.
Otherwise, I’m certain that there’s gonna be many people still annoyed at it, and who will vote negatively when they see something being advertised as AI. And that’s likely going to still incentivize people to not disclose it and try to hide it, with an inevitable cat-vs-mouse chase still.
Alternatively… have a /c/opensource-noai and/or a /c/opensource-ai
It’s not a “service” but a program that runs locally.
Downloading the model and running it locally is essentially what it does. If you do it by yourself then you’d have to write your own scripts. At which point, you might as well share those scripts with the community putting them in Github, and maybe including them in a web extension to integrate with the browser and/or in a static website that locally runs it via WASM… precisely what this project is doing…
I didn’t know this, that’s great! More info here:
Together, Motorola and the GrapheneOS Foundation will work to strengthen smartphone security and collaborate on future devices engineered with GrapheneOS compatibility.
“We are thrilled to be partnering with Motorola to bring GrapheneOS’s industry‑leading privacy and security‑focused mobile operating system to their next-generation smartphone”, said a spokesperson at GrapheneOS. “This collaboration marks a significant milestone in expanding the reach of GrapheneOS, and we applaud Motorola for taking this meaningful step towards advancing mobile security.”
I hope it works out and we start seeing more manufacturers explicitly offering compatibility.
You don’t have to use the website… the project is not just that website, it’s also packaged as a browser extension, a desktop app and a CLI program.
That website is just a convenient way to see it working (while still processing it locally) without installing anything.
If you download the raw model and write up scripts to create subtitles out of video by yourself then you are essentially re-building the same app… the result would be similar, just duplicating effort.
Note that flatpaks are using systemd’s sd_id128_get_machine_app_specific API, which generates an app-specific id that’s derived from the original machine-id.
The app-specific id will be unique per-app so it won’t be shared between different apps / flatpaks. The apps can’t know the original machine-id, but the id they get would still be the same on every restart of the app and in theory does not prevent different sessions within the same app to be fingerprinted as coming from the same user.
Yeah… according to the stats in this post, about 1.9 million people are behind bars.
11 billion a year between 1.9 million prisioners is about 6k per year per prisoner.
So that’s about $500 a month per prisoner. Which is not as big of a number… and according to the article, the prisoners still get paid a fraction of it… it’s just that 80% is used “for room and board, court costs, restitution and other fees, including the construction and maintenance of prisons”.
This is what it looks like when they try to police the software that’s NOT from their store (or their partners).
All the Google-verified malware that infests Google’s marketplace will continue to be a problematic vector after this change. But this change will put obstacles in my attempts to install safe alternatives that are free of malware and not part of Google’s junkyard or spyware full of anti-features.
Yes, sorry I had a busy month :P
Yeah, that was my point… that’s why I was saying that if a kid is smart enough to to set up a VM like that they are smart enough to find alternative/easy out-of-the-box methods… the “using someone else’s login” in particular is one of the points I made earlier.
This is why I think the control should be local, and with the parents being the ones responsible. Relying on third party authentication and expecting the remote services to be able to determine the age is not gonna work.
It’s going to be an arm race and the most dedicated kids, not necessarily the smartest or wisest, will figure it out. Eventually they’ll get the concepts behind the tools they mindlessly use until then, eventually find much better tools allowing them to bypass a lot more restrictions.
Well… it depends on how do you define “smart” …but to me, that kind of dedication and resourcefulness is already showing problem-solving skills, regardless of whether they “get the concepts” (many adults don’t fully understand the tools they use either).
I don’t see how a browser will be able to prevent this kind of usage
In Firefox, you can disable websockets (and most other features or about:config settings, but the website you linked uses websockets) through a policy.json setting writable only by root, so it wouldn’t be possible for a user without root permissions to change it.
I agree that your previous misunderstandings lead you to this one.
Fascist speech is to be exposed and criticised scientifically, not dogmatically. Your use of “protected” here implies something I do not defend.
I want to attack fascist speech, you want to hide it… from my point of view I could also say you are the one protecting it.
Since its inception the term has been about adherence to party lines and enforcing ideological purity. The right wants to pretend they don’t do it, so they want to attribute it to particular instances from the left, but they do the same thing all the time.
See the next paragraph on that same article you quote (Wikipedia, btw):
The phrase politically correct first appeared in the 1930s, when it was used to describe dogmatic adherence to ideology in totalitarian regimes, such as Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia.[5] Early usage of the term politically correct by leftists in the 1970s and 1980s was as self-critical satire;[8] usage was ironic, rather than a name for a serious political movement.[12][13][14] It was considered an in-joke among leftists used to satirise those who were too rigid in their adherence to political orthodoxy.[15] The modern pejorative usage of the term emerged from conservative criticism of the New Left in the late 20th century, with many describing it as a form of censorship.[16]
What? it’s hard to tell what did you interpret this time …but I hope you are not implying that politically correct language like “military operation” shows the whole truth, that “pacification” is the whole truth, that “terrorism” is the whole truth, that “re-education camps” are the whole truth, that “voluntary relocation” is the whole truth, that “austerity measures” are the whole truth.
Science is not a fantasy, and wanting to call it a “marketplace” is proof of the misunderstanding. We have historic proof of the damage to the power of the workers that dogmatic censorship, “political correctness” (ie. hiding truth) and manipulation of public perception causes, we are seeing it right now first person in the west. Doing the same thing (and more overtly) is fighting dogma with dogma, even if the ideals from one of them were fully benevolent and made people happy.
What is an OS? is Android an OS or just an application layer? Because most of its deep close-to-metal components are not maintained by Google.
What is “developing”? is keeping things stable “developing”? I actually wish Google stopped releasing breaking changes…
IMHO, I actually think Android would be a better off if Google stopped experimenting with it, “developing” it, and adding stuff nobody asked for.