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  • What feature/app do you use that the majority never talk about?

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

    UndercoverBozo

    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.

      User2288

      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.

      5 days later

      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)

        2 months later

        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

        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/

            6 days later

            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

              a month later

              Not an app per-se, but can we just appriciate Vanadium with PWA's? Holy shit

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              Ok, not an app, but a Swiss based service, allowing you to share files up to 50GB. You can password protect access to your file, limit the number of downloads, set an expiration date, etc. Does not require an account:

              https://www.swisstransfer.com/en-us

                AlanZ
                Is SwissTransfer E2EE? I wasn't able to find anything after a quick search to suggest that it is. Even this page doesn't mention encryption (despite the advertised "privacy"). Sounds like its honestly just better to use a Send instance (including your own if public instances don't have large enough file sizes)

                  Dumdum Is SwissTransfer E2EE?

                  Probably not. But I wouldn't trust it anyways, I always encrypt locally, then you can share the password through another channel.