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Hello everyone! I am interested in replacing the Google Speech Recognition and Synthesis app on Android. For Speech-to-Text (STT), I've tried Whisper and FUTO, and settled on the latter because it seemed to be more versatile. Also, FUTO seems to have some decent recognition, but not yet capable of handling all the languages that I want. Regardless, so far happy with STT. The only annoyance I have is that it does not appear as an option in the settings for Speech recognition :(

However, I can't seem to find any replacements that have good Text-to-Speech (TTS) quality. I tried espeak-ng and RHVoice, but both have robotic outputs.

Given the recent advancements in AI, I was expecting that there would be ways to incorporate open source TTS models like Kokoro to generate speech on the go. Nevertheless, I could not really find any such apps so far.

Has anyone managed to completely replace the Google app with (an)other privacy-focused FOSS app(s)?

cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/25718777

I just can't find any!

Hey, so I decided that a calorie counting app like Yazio could help me figure out my recent weight gain.

I want to track my weight and calories, exercise is optional, since I got analogue means for that.

However, I am concerned about my data being somewhere unknown.

Does anyone know a privacy focused/transparent app like that?

GIMP and I have never gotten on well. I'd tried it many times over the years, but it always felt sort've off. Unpleasant, even. Things got better when the Single Window Mode came out years ago, but still, I would choose something else to edit images if I could, which usually ended up being Krita, even if it was forcing it into a role it wasn't originally intended for.

With the release of GIMP 3, I was hopeful things would be better and maybe even have its Blender 2.8 glow-up moment.

3.0 on its own, while nice (and setting the stage for more rapid improvement), didn't turn out to be the revolution I was mildly hoping it would be.

But I'd heard of an outside attempt to improve the UI called PhotoGIMP, and was pleased to find that it'd already been updated for GIMP 3.0. Installation was as simple as could be. And by Jove, it really does what it says on the tin.

For the first time, using GIMP felt good. When you get right down to it it's not a monumental change, just a reorganization of windows and some better shortcuts, but damn if it isn't just what the doctor ordered.

This positive experience warranted further investigation of the merits of GIMP, and if it could be pushed further with community efforts. That's when I discovered Resynthesizer, a plugin that replicates most of the functionality of Photoshop's Context Aware Fill.

That installed even easier thanks to being available as a flatpak, and after quickly learning how to use it, I was off to races, content filling all of the areas to my heart's content (and I assure you, it was thoroughly contented, and I haven't even tried G'Mic yet!)

In all seriousness, GIMP with these modifications was a revelation for me on how good GIMP can actually be when you spend a minute giving it a bit of polish. If you'd written it off in the past as I did, I hope this post encourages you to follow in my footsteps and give it another go as well. You might find that you can get along with it after all.

When the two coolest people you know become friends

This is part of the cross-platform work for bluetuith, and is essentially a demo of the bluetooth-classic library.

This daemon provides a REST API interface to control Bluetooth Classic functions.

Features are:

• Pairing (with authentication)

• Connection (automatic and manual profile based connection)

• Object Push (Send and receive files)

And currently only on Linux, it additionally supports:

• Bluetooth network tethering (PANU/DUN)

• Media playback control (AVRCP)

It also provides an interactive API viewer (courtesy of Scalar Docs) via the "/docs" endpoint. Also, it provides an openapi command to output the entire OpenAPI specification of the REST API.

This is currently in preview (i.e. alpha).

Any feedback is appreciated.

Sorry idk if this is the right place to ask.

Struggling with retrieving my offline emails!

Changed the server info and password but email is the same.

Hello everybody, I'm looking for an android app for my to-do lists that combines these criteria :

• FOSS
• allow me to put several labels on my tasks like "administrative", "DIY" or "to read"
• allow me to filter my tasks depending on labels.
• nice looking if possible

Do you have some recommendations ?

Thanks a lot

Mwmbl is a community-built, non-profit search engine that puts privacy and user control first. It offers a truly different search experience—one where the results are shaped not by corporate interests but by real people.

Key Features:

• Ad-Free & Privacy-Respecting: No ads, no tracking, and no commercial interests—just a search engine built with the users in mind.

• User-Curated Results: Instead of relying on algorithms, search results are refined and tuned by the community.

• Community-Driven Crawling: The engine relies on volunteer-run crawlers. Although the index currently holds around 500 million unique URLs, there's massive potential.

• Ambitious Growth Goals: mwmbl plans to reach 10 billion unique URLs by the end of 2025 and 100 billion by 2026, at which point it should be a true alternative to commercial search engines.

• Open-Source: The project is fully open-source, meaning you can contribute to the code and help resolve issues to push the project forward.

How to Get Involved:

Right now, the search quality is pretty rough, but that’s where you can make an impact:

• Contribute to the Index:

  • Install the Firefox Extension: Once installed, it crawls the web on your behalf.

  • Run the CLI Script: An even better option would be to use your spare computing power by running the command line crawler.

• Join the Community: The main community is on Matrix for non-development related discussions.

• Code Contributions: Check out the project on Codeberg. You can contribute code, report issues, or suggest new features to help make the search results better.

• Financial Contributions: Donate some money towards hosting costs and supporting volunteers.

As explained by the developer, Nvidia recently published the source code of its kernel driver under the MIT license (called NVRM). This driver is remarkably portable, and its platform-independent part can be compiled for Haiku with relatively minimal effort, although it requires the implementation of OS-specific binding code to be actually usable.

For those, who don't know: There is an app called StreetComplete.

StreetComplete is a mobile app that enhances OpenStreetMap (OSM) by allowing users to contribute to mapping efforts in their local areas. It gamifies the process of collecting and verifying geographic data through simple tasks.

Such simple tasks in StreetComplete could be providing information regarding:

1. Classifying streets (one-way or not)?

2. Is an object (e.g. a bench or a trash bin) still there, or was it removed by the city/state?

3. When does shop XY open and close?

4. Who is allowed to use the parking lot?

5. Does a bus station have lights?

6. Can people with disabilities use the crosswalk?

7. Is a way for bicycles?

It's getting warmer outside. Why not going out and playing it bit? It might feel a little bit like Pokemon GO (but compared to it, your location data won't be sold to Saudi Arabia).

If you usually don't go outside often or walk around outside often, maybe this could be a motivation/reason...

Official website of StreetComplete with download links: https://streetcomplete.app/

FAQ: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/StreetComplete/FAQ

If you have already use/played it, what's your rank?

Just had a look at the GIMP 3.0 milestones page and saw this.

Am I missing anything or is GIMP 3.0 actually going to be released soon?!

Hi!

If anyone know good Ai or Program to translate (and\or make subs) for video?

Tryed this but get errors all the times :( Looking alternatives

Thanks

The GitHub repos at https://github.com/organicmaps are all public archives now, but there's no information on them about why.

Hey, does anyone know and/or use an OSS grocery list?

That's something I wasn't able to digitalize, but I want to....

I'm looking for a grocery list server (hostable via Docker) that I can access from my smartphone or Desktop, but haven't found a good solution yet.

I know, there are Markdown note taking apps like Joplin and I'm using them as a private "knowledge base", but I wasn't convinced of them as grocery lists. I imagine, there could be some optimizations like templates for stuff you buy every time or auto-completions (e.g. if you type "papr" and there was "paprica" in your list history, it could auto-complete or at least suggest the word...).

How are you doing it? Already digitalized or still on paper? If digitalized, via some subscription service behind it or self-hosted?

There is a GitHub project called "Awesome-Linux-Software" (22.8k stars). It's a curated list of FOSS Desktop software on Linux.

It was what convinced me to switch from MacOS to Linux (first Debian, now Manjaro) 2 years ago, because it showed me for the first time, that there is a nice Desktop app on Linux for pretty much EVERYTHING.

If you'd print the list, it'd be ~ 50 pages.

Link: https://github.com/luong-komorebi/Awesome-Linux-Software

Floss things get a lot of rep for working well, but looking bad, sure we appreciate function, but here's some floss games that feel AND look good. These games are optimized for mobile, often polished to a tee, AND have the looks.

All links are for F-Droid

Tell me any more open source Android games you think look Amazing (on F-Droid or not).

Key: EXGL - extremely good looking

My favorite's:

• Super Retro Mega Wars - play retro games like Tetris, Snake, Atari breakout and space invaders, in style! EXGL

• TriPeaks - beautiful pixel art tri-peaks solitaire. EXGL

• Lato - more of a demo than a polished game, but still very fun to ski from peak to peak, and its gobsmackingly beautiful (heavily inspired by Alto's Adventure). EXGL

• Xeonjia - slide around on ice in this polished pixel art RPG

• Fruity Game - perhaps not conventional beauty, but as you merge fruit you will realise it is art of the finest order

• Libre Memory - a gorgeous app to play memory, with a creative "very hard" mode, bringing a whole new level to classic memory

• gauguin -a unique sudoku like game that's a lot of fun

• Flowit! - a puzzle game with fantastic level design

• Ricochlime - ricochet through your enemies defences

• Antimine

• fancy customizable minesweeper.

Other games which are also fun but aren't (imo) as polished and/or good looking as the ones above, or just aren't for me:

• Feudal Tactics - a fun strategy game, its pretty great, except it looks really bad (though the MS paint like looks do carry some charm)

• Vector Pinball -very fun pinball with great sound design

• Ball2Box - put the ball In the box

• RuamBaller - fun pixel art galaxian like game (bit to easy though)

• SUD🩷KU

• LibreSudoku

• Mindustry - looks great, though I haven't played it much, so that's why its here (may be moved to my favourites soon)

• BlastOff - guide your rocket to space through debris

• Astroids revenge - I nearly deleted this game because the default android controls suck, until realising better controls are hidden in settings, why.

• 2050 - 2048 but circles, fun and creative take on 2048 but the visuals are a bit lacking

• pixel wheels - looks are great but the controls are pretty bad (imo).

• unciv - civilisation building game, I haven't played this yet but once again it looks fun

Honorable mentions:

• GLXY - simple and quite elegant space gravity simulator (I love it but it's probably not what people reading this list want)

Hope you found a game you like!

Edit: added unciv and feudal tactics

Hi! I'm sometimes handling photos of people who wouldn't like their real faces shown. But pixellation isn't a very PR-friendly practice if you want to publish the images (e.g. photos of a protest).

So I remembered that ages ago, back when I used snapchat that they had this simple faceswap feature that was able to run on a simple smartphone and I was wondering:

Is there a simple, easy to set up program that takes the faces of a picture and faceswaps them with another, available face?

I was thinking of getting a random face from this-person-does-not-exist.com and superimpose it on the faces of the photo. This way, it's protecting the identity of the people on the photos, while keeping the photo easy to look at (plus, no one else's likeness will be used unconsentually).

After a quick google, I found faceswap.dev, but then I read stuff about extracting, training and converting and deemed it overkill. The feature I was thinking of was done for two people swapping their faces on a live video feed on a phone. I don't want to go broke by throwing a GTX 5090 on that problem.

Do you know any problem on Desktop (or maybe on android, or a selfhosted service) that can do that kind of thing? IMHO, it shouldn't be too hard.