Hey folks, got another update for the GhostNet documentation. The biggest change is a freq change to 7.107 to avoid the main VarAC calling freq. This should work simultaneously, and not conflict (just pick an open area on the JS8 waterfall), but I wanted to alleviate any possible overlap, just in case. Same for the 20m freq, which is now 14.107.

FUTO Voice Input

Android application that lets you do speech-to-text on Android, integrating with third party keyboards or apps that use the generic speech-to-text APIs.

👉 FUTO Voice website: https://voiceinput.futo.org
👉 F-Droid repo:
https://app.futo.org/fdroid/repo/
👉 FUTO Voice play store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.futo.voiceinput
👉 FUTO Voice source code: https://gitlab.futo.org/alex/voiceinput
⚠️ License https://gitlab.futo.org/alex/voiceinput/-/blob/master/FTL_LICENSE.md

🔵 Linux Live Captions interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r09Hm2zd2lY
👉 Live Captions github: https://github.com/abb128/LiveCaptions
🔵 Louis' interview w/ FUTO's founder:
Q&A w/ billionaire alt-tech investor/philanthropist Eron Wolf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJPmbcU-Vzo
⚠️ Google's breaches of privacy have gone TOO FAR!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vWAF13KigI

00:00 - Intro
00:24 - The problem with voice to text
00:37 - How Google's voice to text stored data
01:24 - EULA roofying
02:21 - Why is this called paid promotion?
03:37 - Introducing our voice to text keyboard
04:00 - The issue with Google's voice to text
04:30 - Demoing Google's voice to text
04:58 - Installing FUTO Voice Input
05:26 - Configuring FUTO Voice Input
05:52 - A note on compatible keyboards
06:19 - Configuring FUTO Voice Input
06:42 - Demoing FUTO Voice Input - SLOW MODEL
07:54 - Demoing FUTO Voice Input - FAST MODEL
08:28 - Demoing Google Voice input - same text
08:52 - FUTO keyboard wins out - better accuracy & punctuation
09:34 - NO DATA COLLECTION, NO ADS, NO TRACKING
09:58 - Open Source, but not free
10:18 - Our DRM/antipiracy measure is the honor system
10:48 - Why isn't this free?
12:00 - We will be making a keyboard w/ autocorrect soon as well

#Android #speech #recognition #stt #voice

#Linux Desktop application that provides live #captioning

FUTO Fellowship program interview; linux captions software

👉 Live Captions github: https://github.com/abb128/LiveCaptions

🔵 Q&A w/ billionaire alt-tech investor/philanthropist Eron Wolf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJPmbcU-Vzo
🔵 FUTO Fellows program: https://futo.org/fellows/
🔵 FUTO Youtube channel - @futotech
⚠️ Google's breaches of privacy have gone TOO FAR!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vWAF13KigI

#speech #recognition #stt #voice

Changelog : v4.3.3 (45)
• Fixed search issues

(PS: You may still see frequent rate-limiting until majority of you have updated to latest build)

Changelog: 4.3.4(52)

• Fix crash on some devices while searching non-english keywords
• Improve Apps & Games page
• Add back toggle for auto install post app download
• Do not play notification sound when app is installed or updated
• Fix crash on some devices while opening app details
• Add uninstall confirmation dialog if using root installer

Omnivore

Free, open source, read-it-later App

https://omnivore.app

https://github.com/omnivore-app/omnivore

Features:
Highlighting, notes, search, and sharing
Full keyboard navigation
Automatically saves your place in long articles
Add newsletter articles via email (with substack support!)
PDF support
Web app written in Node.js and TypeScript
Native iOS app
Android app (source)
Progressive web app for Android users
Browser extensions for Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge
Labels (aka tagging)
Offline support
Text to speech (iOS only)
Logseq support via our Logseq Plugin
Obsidian support via our Obsidian Plugin
Every single part is fully open source! Fork it, extend it, or deploy it to your own server.

We also have a free hosted version of Omnivore at omnivore.app

Changelog: 4.3.5 (53)

• Fix apps not installing post download
• Allow choosing custom download directory
• Add Wifi-only download option

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Louis Rossman and FUTO have released another not -FOSS app of interest. This time they bring us the #video #streaming app #Grayjay, which is designed to let you surf and search all you favorite video streaming services at once.

Grayjay does everything the popular NewPipe app does, plus more. Unfortunately NewPipe only worked with YouTube and PeerTube.

So far Grayjay works w/these platforms (to a certain extent)
- Rumble
- Odysee
- Youtube
- FUTO's PeerTube Instance
- Twitch
- Patreon
- Soundcloud
- Kick
- Nebula

Sorry, no BitChute so far.

You can download videos for offline viewing, and then export those to your Movies folder on your phone.

You can download the apk install file here:
https://grayjay.app/

Their GitLab source code can be found here:
https://gitlab.futo.org/videostreaming/grayjay

Casting: https://gitlab.futo.org/videostreaming/grayjay/-/blob/master/docs/casting.md

⚠️ License https://gitlab.futo.org/alex/voiceinput/-/blob/master/FTL_LICENSE.md


⚡️@LinuxTechIndex

BraveNewPipe

A libre lightweight streaming front-end for Android

Due to restrictive project policy, the #NewPipe team refuses to add platforms that they find offensive. This fork (BraveNewPipe) will not be as restrictive. As long as the platforms work in the spirit of free speech, they could be integrated.
Nevertheless, platforms that promote pornography or other degrading things will NOT be included here.

Contribute
This fork will focus only on integrating other platforms. Unrelated patches will be rejected for now.
Feel free to suggest which alternative platforms should be included. Any contribution (development/testing/bug report) is greatly appreciated.

Which additional platforms are supported?
Bitchute
Rumble

Other features not found in NewPipe
-NewPipe x Sponsorblock into this fork
-searchfilters: in the action menu of the search page you can now change the search behavior for the actual search. The supported content/sort filters depend on the service

https://github.com/bravenewpipe/NewPipe

Download
https://github.com/bravenewpipe/NewPipe/releases

#yt #video #streaming

OpenSign

Open-source document e-signing solution designed to provide a secure, reliable, and free alternative to commercial platforms like DocuSign, PandaDoc, SignNow, Adobe Sign, Smartwaiver, SignRequest, HelloSign & Zoho sign

https://github.com/OpenSignLabs/OpenSign

https://www.opensignlabs.com/

Installation Guide
https://github.com/OpenSignLabs/OpenSign/blob/staging/INSTALLATION.md

User Manual
https://github.com/OpenSignLabs/OpenSign/blob/staging/USAGE.md

Comments
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38052344

Documenso

The Open Source DocuSign Alternative.

Signing documents digitally should be fast and easy and should be the best practice for every document signed worldwide.

This is technically quite easy today, but it also introduces a new party to every signature: The signing tool providers. While this is not a problem in itself, it should make us think about how we want these providers of trust to work.

Documenso aims to be the world's most trusted document-signing tool. This trust is built by empowering you to self-host Documenso and review how it works under the hood.

https://github.com/documenso/documenso

https://documenso.com/

Graphite

An Open Source Web-Based AI-Powered Vector Graphics Editor

Currently, the app is in its alpha stage of development. So, most of its planned features are in a conceptual state.

https://news.itsfoss.com/graphite/

@itsfoss_official

Nextcloud now offers AI integration for your Nextcloud server.  Apps aren't installed by default, except Smart Mail, Background Images & Sus Login.

AI comes with risk, so #Nextcloud rates their #AI apps at 4 levels, based on 3 conditions.

Conditions
1. Is it open source?
2. is the trained model free for self-hosting?
3. is the training data available and free to use?

Rating levels
🟢 = All condition met
🟡 = 2 conditions met
🟠 = 1 condition met
🔴 = 0 conditions met

The AI apps are listed
below w/their ratings.
👇

IMAGE GENERATION
🟡 Online StableDiffusion
🟡 Self-Hosted StableDiffusion
🔴 Online DALL-E 2

TEXT GENERATION
🟡 LocalAI
🔴 ChatGPT

SPEECH-2-TEXT DICTATION
🟢 OpenAI Whisper
🟡 External Whisper

SPEECH-2-TEXT TRANSCRIPTION
🟢 OpenAI Whisper
🟢 LocalAI

SMART INBOX
🟢 Built-In
(can be disabled in low-left settings)

FACE/OBJECT RECOGNITION
🟢 Recognize

BACKGROUND IMAGES/BLUR
🟢 Built-In

TRANSLATION
🟢 Opus
🟢 LibreTranslate
🔴 DeepL

SUSPICIOUS LOGIN
🟢 Built-In

⚡️@LinuxTechIndex

Butterfly

🎨 Powerful, minimalistic, cross-platform, opensource note-taking app 🎨

Website 
https://docs.butterfly.linwood.dev/

Download 
https://docs.butterfly.linwood.dev/downloads
Or
https://www.f-droid.org/packages/dev.linwood.butterfly.nightly/

Sources
https://github.com/LinwoodDev/Butterfly


Butterfly is a #note taking app where your ideas come first. You can paint, add #texts, and export them easily on every device. This app works on android, windows, linux, and in the web.

Features
⚡ Simple and intuitive Every tool is in the right place. Open the app and start drawing. Change your tools by clicking on it.
🎨 Customizable: Change everything to your needs. Choose your custom color, create a palette, and add your pages to the paper. The paper has an infinite size, perfect for your ideas and notes.
📝 Support your favorite formats: Import and export are supported for images, pdf and svg. Register the app to open these files to edit them.
📱 Works on every device: The app is available for android, windows, linux, and in the web. You can use it on your phone, tablet, or computer.
💻 Choose where your data is stored: You can choose to store your data locally or in your favorite cloud (webdav). You can also export your data to a file and import it again.
🌐 Available in many languages: The app is available in many languages. Help us to translate this app to your language.
📚 FOSS: The app is open source and free. You can contribute to the project and help to make it better.
🔋 Use it offline: You can use the app offline. You can draw, paint, and export your notes without an internet connection.
🖊️ Use your favorite stylus: The app supports stylus and touch devices. You can draw and paint with your favorite stylus.
📜 Write text: You can write text on your notes. You can change the font, size, and color.
📸 Take photos: You can take photos and add them to your notes. You can also import photos from your gallery.
⚙️ Editable: You can change the size, color, and position of every element after you added it to your note.
🟦 Add shapes: You can add shapes to your notes. You can choose between a rectangle, circle and line.
🔳 Structure your notes: Add areas and waypoints to your notes to keep them organized.

For anyone using any Simple Mobile Tools app be aware that they were sold few days ago (4 dec 2023) to a very privacy unfriendly company:

https://github.com/SimpleMobileTools/General-Discussion/issues/241

Is suggested to remove them or stop updating them.

BTW the company is an israeli publisher that buys apps and fills them with ads asking weekly fees to avoid them...

Someone has made an alternatives list:
https://libreddit.nullnet.services/r/SimpleMobileTools/comments/18929pq/simplemobiletools_was_sold_alternatives/

One of the dev of SMT has forked them:
https://github.com/FossifyOrg

And another group of dev announced a fork too:
https://github.com/goastian

Fully Customizable ROM + Latest Treble Patches & Features
#GSI #AOSP 14

https://xdaforums.com/t/gsi-aosp-14-fully-customizable-rom-latest-treble-patches-features.4637632/

https://github.com/tabletseeker/treble_build_aosp