It’s too bad that GLIMPSE fork never took off.
It’s too bad that GLIMPSE fork never took off.
They’ve been working on porting it since back in 2012, and didn’t want to redo a bunch of the porting work before they even released it.
There was another one but it doesn’t work anymore. It hasn’t been updated in 3 years.
It usually implies it’s weird in an old-fasioned way though.
Hacker’s Keyboard hasn’t had a real release in about 5 years, so it can be slightly buggy.
Unexpected Keyboard is pretty good. It’s got the complete keyboard layout available including stuff like Control and Function keys, so I think it’s an acceptable replacement. It uses swipes to type other keys, which I’m not sure if I prefer, but it works well enough. I set the swipe distance higher because I would accidentally swipe from time to time.
If you check “I’m an advanced user” in the settings, then hit the “More” button in the dropdown a few times it’ll show the more advanced interface that lets you choose which third party domains to allow. It doesn’t work quite the same since it blocks both content and scripts per site, but I find it good enough for my usage.
edit: You can technically block just scripts per 3rd party site, but it involves manually editing the content type for your rules in the settings. It’s not part of the main interface, so I never bother using it.
UBlock Origin will block content within Firefox, and do a better job at it than AdAway. AdAway tries to block ads on the whole phone, including embeded ads in a lot of apps. But unless you root your phone, you can’t run AdAway and a VPN at the same time.
GoToSocial is designed for small / single user instances. There’s more with similar goals like snac, seppo, pub, ktistec, tapir, shuttlecraft, activities.next, and microblog.pub, but I haven’t really looked into them so I’m not sure on the status of each. There’s a nice list of activitypub software at delightful fediverse apps if you want to look at more options.
There’s nothing quite perfect, so I still use ddg the most often. They do pull in most of their results from bing, but they also have their own crawler and use a bunch of other search engines as sources. At least they only send the search query to microsoft, so it’s better for privacy than searching directly on google or bing.
SearXNG is an open source meta search engine that compiles results from other search engines.
Marginalia and Clew are a couple of open source search engines that focus on only indexing smaller, independent, or non-commercial sites.
A lot of sites have their own search engines built in, so I’ll often search directly on sites like Wikipedia or Lemmy.
There’s a good overview of various search engines in this blog post.
Most philosophers think free will and determinism are compatible.
The creator of pixelfed is working on a tiktok alternative loops, although for now it’s in private beta.
For a starting point that is available now, you could look at Pixeldroid, an open source pixelfed app.
Besides the ones already mentioned:
The FSF has some channels at https://framatube.org/a/fsf
There’s a bunch of KDE related channels at https://tube.kockatoo.org
Blender has several channels at https://video.blender.org
https://peertube.touhoppai.moe/a/shichimi has Krita tutorials from the creator of the Pepper and Carrot webcomic.
https://tilvids.com/a/martin_owens from someone who works on Inkscape.
https://tilvids.com/a/togglejam looks at the science behind fictional games and shows.
https://diode.zone/c/andrewtropin has a bunch of scheme and guix related videos
There’s some anarchist channels on https://kolektiva.media like CrimethInc and subMedia.
A couple of gaming related accounts/channels:
With AI upscaling it fills it in based on the training from other images/videos. So it probably won’t be an alien, but small details common in other videos that looked similar will also show up in the upscaled videos. If an extra flower shows up in a field of grass it’s usually not a big deal, but for some things like faces or symbols, small details can really change the way people interpret it.
Depending on the context it’s probably not that bad, but there’s plenty of details in youtube videos that people pay attention to, like in news, history, tutorials, educational content, and so on. Even for a fictional story, it could add nonsense that people assume is part of the actual show.
The problem with AI upscaling is that it does add something. It fills in the details with things that could plausibly be there, regardless of if they are. It’s especially dangerous if it’s used for something like security footage, where it’ll do stuff like make up a face based on a few pixels.
There’s also sepiasearch.org for PeerTube videos.
There’s a list of people that have agreed to block it at https://fedipact.online/
Thanks, I didn’t know about that. I looked into this a bit more and there’s actually a bunch of techniques, and shift right click only gets around some of them. There’s a tester tool at https://webbrowsertools.com/test-right-click/ with examples of blocking right clicks, text selection, and copying/pasting text.
The biggest thing is probably non-destructive editing, so you can do stuff like apply filters without them changing the underlying image. Gtk3 should add better support for tablets and wayland. There’s also better layer tools and font support. A lot of it was on the backend, which should eventually allow for using other color spaces like cmyk natively.