overview for MrSoup

Do you use Gnome or KDE Plasma? in c/[email protected]

[–] MrSoup 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're refering to as KDE, is in fact, KDE Plasma.

Anyway, I use Gnome but if you are used to Plasma, there is no need to make things harder by using Gnome on a device and Plasma on another. Just stick to Plasma.

1080p viewing experience in c/[email protected]

[–] MrSoup 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

YouTube always re-encodes the video

You are right. For example you can upload an avi to YouTube, but they will never host and stream an avi.

1080p viewing experience in c/[email protected]

[–] MrSoup 16 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

YouTube automatically generate videos in lower resolution of the one uploaded.
So when you watch a 4k video and switch to 1080, you are no longer watching the original video but a re-encoded one by YouTube itself which could have more artifacts since it's resized and compressed.

I dunno the exact specs (like bit rate, etc.), someone will probably add them in another reply.

Native PDF support is coming to Chrome for Android, and you can try it now in c/[email protected]

[–] MrSoup 15 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

Do really chrome on Android, up to this point, never had PDF support?

PS5 Owners Get Limited-Time PlayStation 30th Anniversary Themes and More in c/[email protected]

[–] MrSoup 2 points 3 weeks ago

Lol

PS5 Owners Get Limited-Time PlayStation 30th Anniversary Themes and More in c/[email protected]

[–] MrSoup 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

It changes the startup/shutdown animation and sound too plus having UI sounds changed. I use the PS2 theme which brings me memories.

PS5 Owners Get Limited-Time PlayStation 30th Anniversary Themes and More in c/playstation

[–] MrSoup 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I've just updated and rebooted to be greeted by PS1 intro.

Haven't booted this machine for a month or two... look at these updates! in c/[email protected]

[–] MrSoup 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Is it Debian Sid?

NetGuard - A simple way to block access to the internet per app in c/[email protected]

[–] MrSoup 2 points 3 weeks ago

You can use port forwarding.

NetGuard - A simple way to block access to the internet per app in c/[email protected]

[–] MrSoup 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I'm gonna try it, ty

NetGuard - A simple way to block access to the internet per app in c/[email protected]

[–] MrSoup 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (12 children)

I use TrackerControl (F-Droid) which can filter domains to block per app.

SUCC in c/[email protected]

[–] MrSoup 34 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Appropriate price

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Android Intent Filter Verification Service (self.privacy)

submitted 6 months ago by MrSoup to c/[email protected]

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I've seen on TrackerControl this system app (on my grapheneOS) contacting Amazon (amazon.com) and Google (android.clients.google.com, m.youtube.com, play.google.com and www.youtube.com).

What does this app do? I've disabled internet access for the time being.

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Boeing's Starliner Just Docked To The ISS Despite New Thruster Problems (invidious.fi)

submitted 6 months ago by MrSoup to c/[email protected]

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Photo Picker albums view does not show all albums (lemmy.zip)

submitted 6 months ago by MrSoup to c/[email protected]

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As you can see in the screenshot, inside the Photo Picker in the Albums view only "Screenshots" is shown while in Photos view all the pictures are available in chronological order.

By looking it up, I found people complaining the same issue and one suggesting adding them with Google Photos (which I don't have and I don't want to install).

Just wanted to know if someone else here got the same issue or if there is a workaround/fix for this.
(I'm on GrapheneOS)

Thanks

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Lemmy community discoverability is not user-friendly and can be improved App side (self.fediverse)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by MrSoup to c/[email protected]

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I've introduced two of my friends (not into tech) to Lemmy. Since they're not into tech this is their first web forum.

I've explained the federation thru the usual email metaphore and that's ok, but to lookup for communities is not quite there on client side.

Let me explain.
He wanted to see all the communities on an instance because that instance is in his native language but he's registered on another instance. So to see all those communities you must go on instance.domain/communities, copy the name of the community you are interessed in and paste it inside the app/web client to look it up.

And to see all the communities all over the fediverse you must use lemmyverse.net which is a cool site, but still you got to copy paste back and forth to the app.

This could be implementend inside app itself by listing all communities and add ability to filter by things like instance.

Obviously open to discussion about the issue itself and how that could be improved.

Feel free to tag apps/clients devs to ear their opinion too.

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Gamepad players, what button do you use for push-to-talk? (self.helldivers2)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by MrSoup to c/[email protected]

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Dualsense player here, I would like to know what button do you use as push-to-talk or if you use dualsense built-in mute button.

Have a nice democracy ✊

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UK Woman Mistaken As Shoplifter By Facewatch, Now She's Banned From All Stores With Facial Recognition Tech (www.ibtimes.co.uk)

submitted 7 months ago by MrSoup to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/19999900

UK Woman Mistaken As Shoplifter By Facewatch, Now She's Banned From All Stores With Facial Recognition Tech

A big biometric security company in the UK, Facewatch, is in hot water after their facial recognition system caused a major snafu - the system wrongly identified a 19-year-old girl as a shoplifter.

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True Tone / Adaptive Color Tone for AOSP (self.android)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by MrSoup to c/[email protected]

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I would like to know if there is something like iPhone "True Tone" or Samsung "Adaptive Color Tone" in AOSP or if there are alternatives to install.
(I'm on GrapheneOS)

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Fake WhatsApp and Instagram apps that can steal personal data (www.infoterkiniviral.com)

submitted 7 months ago by MrSoup to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/13793778

Fake WhatsApp and Instagram apps that can steal personal data

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Large Graph Visualization Tools and Approaches | by Sviatoslav Kovalev (towardsdatascience.com)

submitted 7 months ago by MrSoup to c/[email protected]

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What to do, if you need to visualize a large network graph but all tools you try can only draw a hairball or eat all your RAM and hang…

Just wanted to share this article that I came across (tho it's from 2019).

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Can't load last one missile (lemmy.zip)

submitted 8 months ago by MrSoup to c/[email protected]

4 comments fedilink

Happened to anyone else?

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How to encrypt regular phone calls? (self.privacy)

submitted 8 months ago by MrSoup to c/[email protected]

25 comments fedilink

Is it even possible on android? Is there a FOSS dialer to optionally encrypt some phone calls (non voip) using a pre-shared key with other party?

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Is a Piped-like instance federated with PeerTube possible? (self.fediverse)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by MrSoup to c/[email protected]

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Does every PeerTube instance store all other instances' content metadata (title, description, comments)? Would federating virtually with YouTube (through a YouTube frontend like Piped) give a too high ammount of data to store on other instances?