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Have you gone down any rabbit holes that gave you an existential crisis?
  • Most philosophers think free will and determinism are compatible.

  • Any dev here ? Building an image scroller fediverse client
  • 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.

  • What are your favourite PeerTube channels??
  • Besides the ones already mentioned:

    A couple of gaming related accounts/channels:

  • Mozilla Firefox Adds AI-Powered RTX Video
  • 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.

  • Mozilla Firefox Adds AI-Powered RTX Video
  • 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.

  • Mozilla Firefox Adds AI-Powered RTX Video
  • 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.

  • Brassica
  • It's not brassica oleracea though, it's a different species, brassica rapa. The same species as napa cabbage, brocolli rabe, and bok choy. Rutabaga is actually a hybrid of the two species.

  • is there a search engine for the fediverse?
  • There's also sepiasearch.org for PeerTube videos.

  • Mad Palaeontologists
  • It's part of Spider-Man & the X-Men.

  • Is there any privacy-preserving app to learn new languages?
  • 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?, NheengarĂ© and a PReVo. For learning numbers/time there's the Nanji clock widget that can show the printed time in several languages.

  • App installed from F-Droid and updated via Playstore?
  • It can also happen with apps from the main repo. If the app is reproducible (about 5% so far, most new apps) then F-Droid will use the developer signature.

  • Brave fork without crypto crap?
  • 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.

  • Brave fork without crypto crap?
  • There's CanvasBlocker for Firefox that can do fingerprint protection.

  • What open source keyboard alternative you suggest instead of gBoard on Android?
  • It hasn't had a real release in about 5 years though. It uses a very old API so it's slightly buggy.

    I've been using Unexpected Keyboard lately instead. It's the only modern keyboard I've found that has stuff like control and function keys. It uses swiping on keys to get more characters though, so it takes some getting used to. I had to set the swipe distance higher so I don't have as many typos.

  • Visiting the US soon - do I really have to tip?
  • Most states in the US have separate lower minimum wages for tipped workers, with a federal minimum of $2.13/hour.

  • Instance which defederates no one and isn't defederated by anyone?
  • You might find a few, but it's not really possible long term. Either you block instances that are run by fascists or child abusers, or you get blocked by instances for allowing that on your server.

  • What is your favourite Matrix Android client?
  • Schildichat for now. I like some stuff in Fluffychat better, but I find it's a bit buggy.

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