What feature/app do you use that the majority never talk about?
AppVerifier is a tool I can use to check the signing certificate hash of an app against the signing certificate hash I get from a trusted source and/or its internal database so I don't have to trust GitHub (or other sites) as much not to tamper with APKs I download from them. If I recall correctly, it's made by a GrapheneOS dev too, so I'm surprised it doesn't get more attention.
MarsTrue Hi, I'm the creator of Tranacribro. Version 0.2.0 comes with a bigger model (74M) than 0.1.0 which significantly improved quality, but note that FUTO Voice Input allows you to choose an even bigger model (244M). Transcribro doesn't yet have the option to use a different model, but it is planned and it might be implemented in 0.3.0 in the form of being able to import a downloaded model file which can be one that the app links you to or a custom one. It would mean you can make your own decision on the amount of quality vs speed you want to tradeoff instead of being limited to a few models!
Can you elaborate on "better integration"? It could help with improving Transcribro so feedback would be appreciated!
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soupslurpr The main issue I have with Transcribro is a usability one. On the browser search widget it doesn't show the voice input icon. I've tested it with multiple keyboards and browsers. this means that every query now requires two aditional taps to change the keyboard which is very inconvenient.
The voice input key does seem to work on the keyboard when not typing in a search box, after activating it in settings.
Additionally there's no audio feedback when using it which can be a a bit confusing.
I've tested them both again, on 74. futo is faster, more accurate and it doesn't suffer from the above mentioned UX issues.
Hope this helps.
Seek which works without an account, offline, and without location permission to ID plants, bugs, and fungus fairly well. You will want to go into settings and toggle on the "automatically take photo when the identification reaches speces". Once IDed the website www.pfaf.org has the best info you cant find any where on the edibility and medical propeties of the plant. Happy foraging!
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MarsTrue ah, the browser search widget. I'll see about adding it.
Okay, audio feedback, that makes sense. Will work on that.
FUTO and Transcribro are actually around the same speed with FUTO being a bit faster because of their acft fine-tuned whisper models (https://github.com/futo-org/whisper-acft) which means they can use a lower audio ctx than Transcribro can. FUTO also may seem faster because it pastes the words as it is processing instead of processing then pasting the transcription. FUTO may indeed be slightly more accurate because whisper.cpp's beam search is too slow to be used right now. Once that changes, Transcribro will also use beam search and they should be around the same accuracy.
Thanks for the feedback!
TowerCollector, to improve the OpenCellID database.
Btw, Mozilla Location Service is being abandoned and with it their precious Bluetooth and Wifi databases. Network based location is key, but there is no good implementation yet.
But when there is, why not have good data in the areas where you live?
Disable Mozilla Location Service in TowerCollector to avoid sending useless data
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Apps:
- Untrack me
- ImagePipe
- Image Toolbox
- Scrambled Exif
- LocalSend
- fx File Browser
- Obsidian - some features are superior to all foss note taking apps.
Feature:
- Home screen shortcut for the "internet" setting. Less clicks to turn wifi off and on.
On PC:
- exiftool - to remove photo exif data on pc.
Image Toolbox
ImagePipe
Scrambled Exif
each of this do the same thing. I only use the first as it has more functions.
soupslurpr perhaps from the point of view of a developer that has to take in account all the technical intricacies of an app this grievances seem trivial but they can make the difference between a happy user that would use and recomand an app and a quick uninstall. I appreciate all the work that goes into projects like this and hope my perspective was of use.
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Some good info here I'll keep it going.
BCR-GUI Manage Recorded Calls.
InviZible Tor, DNSCrypt, (Firewall/Monitor) and Purple I2P. Orbot Replacement.
PCAP Droid No-root network monitor, firewall and PCAP dumper for Android
LinkHub Link/Bookmark Manager
Mullvad Leta Search - Privacy friendly search (must have Mullvad VPN connection)
MarsTrue @fid02 @MarsTrue With version 0.3.0, Transcribro got audio feedback when the ringer is set to sound, is faster (by switching back to the smaller tiny.en model but q8_0 instead of q5_1 this time. I couldn't find a noticeable difference between base.en q5_1 and tiny.en q8_0, and in fact tiny.en q8_0 might be better in quality perhaps because of being quantized less.), and also got a ACTION_RECOGNIZE_SPEECH activity which means Vanadium will be able to make use of it! Additionally, the keyboard got a new feature that makes editing far easier and take less switching back to another keyboard.
Read about version 0.3.0 in more detail at https://github.com/soupslurpr/Transcribro/releases/tag/v0.3.0
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fid02 https://www.privacyguides.org/en/os/android-overview/#android-permissions
Exodus can be useful when comparing apps that have similar purposes. If an app requires a lot of permissions and has a lot of advertising and analytics this is probably a bad sign. We recommend looking at the individual trackers and reading their descriptions rather than simply counting the total and assuming all items listed are equal.
If an app is mostly a web-based service, the tracking may occur on the server side. Facebook shows "no trackers" but certainly does track users' interests and behavior across the site. Apps may evade detection by not using standard code libraries produced by the advertising industry, though this is unlikely.
horde I know what Exodus is. And I don't agree with Privacy Guides' assessment of it. I'm leaning more towards GrapheneOS' analysis: https://x.com/GrapheneOS/status/1793051200255848553
I'm not sure it fits in this thread, but I'll quote the posts by the GrapheneOS account here because I have the impression that some users tend to take Exodus' outputs at face value, without thinking critically about how the service actually comes to the conclusions it does.
Bear in mind that it's only scanning for specific third party libraries they decided are trackers. The classification of some of these libraries as trackers is often questionable or clearly wrong. The way it displays permissions is very wrong and really not how permissions work.
As an example of why scanning for specific third party libraries doesn't tell you much:https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/com.facebook.katana/latest/
https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/com.facebook.lite/latest/The way it displays permissions displays low-level info without grouping them into their runtime toggle groups and showing they're opt-in.
In addition to not showing them grouped into their permission toggles and showing that the most important ones marked dangerous are opt-in, it doesn't show the ones with special access permission toggles (mostly off by default) or that the battery restriction mode controls a lot.
It also shows a lot of useless things like QUERY_ALL_PACKAGES for querying info about packages in the same profile. Reason it's useless is because apps can simply declare queries matching all apps and still query them without it. It's the beginning of a future privacy feature.
The low-level permissions marked dangerous are the ones with standard toggles, which also includes INTERNET (Network) on GrapheneOS. Ones not marked dangerous mostly use a special access toggle (usually off by default), case-by-case requests or both (request install packages).
Whether or not they're marked dangerous is a low-level thing determining if they get a permission toggle. Some aren't marked dangerous because they are considered more dangerous and have an off-by-default special access toggle or a whole special page like accessibility services.
I've been using LinkSheet. You set it as your default browser to have more control over links you click in external apps. For example, you can manually choose which browser to open a link in each time or have it remember to open links from a domain in a specific browser. It also has other nifty features like built-in clearURLs, Libaredirect, and others. Settings are stored locally and can be imported/exported.
This is really useful when trying to compartamentalize web browser activity.
I also use Red Moon as an offline FOSS alternative to Twilight since I'm super sensitive to blue light. I use it so I can have a 3rd preset filter. During the day, dark mode but no filter. In the early evening, night light turns on. If I decide to use my phone while in bed in my dark room later that night, I use a combination of night light, extra dim, and red moon.
Red Moon is essentially abandoned by the developer, but it's a very simple app that still works well and probably doesn't require much maintanence anyway. It also doesn't require network access.
Not open source, at least I don't think, but Weawow as my weather app. Its on the Play Store. I use this instead of a FOSS app like Breezy Weather since Weawow is one of the only free android apps that still supports Dark Sky ever since Apple poached it to integrate it into Apple Weather. The app itself is lightweight, doesn't require any permissions besides Network to run properly, and doesn't require play services either. It also supports manually setting a location instead of requiring location access.
You can also run it from the browser instead of installing it.
https://weawow.com/
Sbpr 🔥
User2288 Home screen shortcut for the "internet" setting. Less clicks to turn wifi off and on.
How do you go about doing this? It always annoys me that I can't separate wifi from internet in the status bar
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AverageGuy it is basically adding a Settings widget on home screen and choosing Internet from the menu options. Wifi toggle in the widget is near the top and can be brought up just using one tap on the widget
https://github.com/niedev/RTranslator Open source real-time translation app for Android that runs locally
Not an app per-se, but can we just appriciate Vanadium with PWA's? Holy shit