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.
I’ve had it freeze up on me several times, where I had to reset the app to get it working again. It works most of the time, but I wouldn’t recommend it yet for general use.
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 Anki which is one of the most popular flashcard apps. Kiwix is pretty great for having tons of offline content from websites like Wikipedia, StackExchange, and Khan Academy, but I’ve run into a few bugs with it. I believe the current version isn’t on F-Droid but they plan to remove the non-free build tools in the next version. There’s the translation dictionary QuickDic. There’s some language specific apps like Der Die Das and Starke Verben for learning German, Kakugo, Fun with Kanji, and Kanji Dojo for Japanese. There’s several language specific dictionaries like Nani?, Nheengaré and a PReVo. For learning numbers/time there’s the Nanji clock widget that can show the printed time in several languages.
It depends. Many addons have effects that can be tested for and fingerprinted, but it’s not always straight forward. There’s a way to detect any specific chrome extension, but doesn’t work on firefox because it uses unique extension ids per person.
With addons like CanvasBlocker, they generate random values for a bunch of apis like canvas. So each time you will look unique, but it changes every time so you’re not easily tracked. I’d assume it’s similar to what Brave does, but I haven’t looked into the details. Some stuff isn’t randomized by default, so they can get info like timezone and languages, but probably not enough to give you a unique identity.
There’s CanvasBlocker for Firefox that can do fingerprint protection.
Riseup is run by activists entirely on donations, so I don’t think that ‘you are the product’ really applies. Be a bit cautious anyway though, because they have given info to the FBI before. Of course Proton has handed over IP logs to Swiss law enforcewent too. There’s only so far you can really trust any VPN. I still think they’re more trustworthy than most other ‘free’ VPNs though.
I think they just have multiple test instances to test federation between them.
None of the options are that great right now. I still mostly use Jerboa, and go to the PWA for things that don’t work. Other android apps you can check out are thunder that has an alpha out, memmy which only has an iOS beta so far, but plans to be cross-platform, and lemmur which is outdated and is incompatible with current lemmy, although there’s a fork with more recent development so it could possibly come back at some point.
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.