How do you stay in shape? Try OpenTracks, a privacy respecting sports tracking app.
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https://opentracksapp.com/

I recently picked up running again and have been impressed with the OpenTracks app, its usability, and how in depth you can get with the statistics. Now to actually get back to running a 9 minute mile 😮‍💨

Sharing: you decide if, when, with whom, and how to share your data.

Elevation gain: estimate your traveled elevation gain

Bluetooth LE sensor: collect your data like heart rate

Photos and Markers: mark interesting places while tracking

Online & offline maps: take what you need with you

Theming: style the maps how you like it

Compass: shows your direction

Pure offline version: for high privacy requirements there is a pure offline version available which doesn’t have the permission to access the internet. Download via F-Droid

Buku, powerful bookmark manager & personal textual mini-web
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Ever find something cool on the internet and forget to save it?

In my case I found an alternative repository for Chrome extensions so you wouldn't have to Download it through the Chrome Web Store. Now I'm having a hard time finding it (i have no idea why Google would want to hide it as a result ;)

Thanks to some awesome peeps in the #TBOT XMPP group (tbot@group.chat.above.im) I am going to give buku a try, and start saving more information that crosses my screen.

Buku allows you to save links, tag & organize them. You can do cool things like tag a related group of links, and then open all of them at one time.

There's no tracking, hidden history, obsolete records, usage analytics or homing.

Buku gets around the problem of having multiple incompatible bookmark formats across browsers and provides a standard way to sync bookmarks from any computer. You can even integrate it to save a URL in your clipboard with a keyboard shortcut.

I'll let you know my experiences! And hopefully I find that alternative chrome extension repository I was looking for.

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NextCloud Collectives: Collaborative Knowledge Base for Communities & Activists
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Sharing knowledge across a team can be challenging, typically within our organizations we have used one-off documents. Using a knowledgebase app like NextCloud collectives can be super useful as each document links directly to other documents in the knowledgebase. It allows for different groups to manage their own documents, perfect for organizational methodologies like sociocracy.

Do you think your Freedom Cell or community group would benefit from a shared knowledgebase?

https://nextcloud.com/blog/all-about-collectives-its-founders-mission-and-use-cases-create-a-collective-today/

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Rhasspy: Open-Source Offline Voice Assistant
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If there was such a thing as a 'Wise Home' that you could control by voice, it would be powered by a fully offline voice recognition solution. Rhasspy could be that solution, it works well with the leading open source home assistant platforms and supports over 15 languages. It offers a simple template language and produces simple JSON events that software can pick up easily.

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⁣OwlGram is an unofficial messaging app that uses Telegram's API.

Customizable
You can quickly and easily change several aspects of the interface and the app icon by choosing one from the available ones.

Simple
We take great care to keep the interface clean and consistent with the official version of Telegram.

Open
OwlGram is open source and the builds are verifiable to prove the app you download is built from the exact same source code that is published.

Always up to date
We always keep the app updated to the latest available version of Telegram. You can also sign up for the beta program to test new updates before their official release.

About OwlGram
Our mission is to add new features to give users who use Telegram everyday for stay in touch with friends and family, for work and/or other purposes a better experience.

For support and questions contact us at support@owlgram.org or join @OwlGramForum/ @OwlGramForumIT.

New Productivity Tools
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Ever feel like you waste a lot of time? Me too. Time trackers can help you get a realistic view of how much time you're spending on different activities. I decided to try a new one out today doing my preparation for the webinar tomorrow! Rather then asking what I'm doing at specific increments, Super Productivity lets you choose the tasks you're working on and time them out.

Its got break timers and even a cool 'procrastination help' page which I could see being helpful for stressful tasks.

Plus there's no accounts, no registration required, and FOSS. Love it.

https://super-productivity.com/

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NopeCHA Chrome Extension & Firefox Add-on

Automatically solve reCAPTCHA, hCaptcha, FunCAPTCHA, AWS WAF, and text CAPTCHA using AI.
Works on all websites.

Supported CAPTCHA types:
reCAPTCHA v2
reCAPTCHA v3
reCAPTCHA Enterprise
hCaptcha
hCaptcha Enterprise
FunCAPTCHA
AWS WAF CAPTCHA
Text-based CAPTCHA

https://github.com/nopecha-ai/nopecha-extension

https://github.com/nopecha-ai/nopecha-python

https://github.com/nopecha-ai/nopecha-noscripts

#captcha

Nagram

Third-party Telegram client for Android based on NekoX with some modifications

Official Site: https://nextalone.xyz
Telegram Update Channel: https://news.1rj.ru/str/nagram_channel
Releases: https://github.com/NextAlone/Nagram/releases
Issues here: https://github.com/NextAlone/Nagram/issues

#nagram #tg #telegram

LinkWarden

Self-hosted, open-source #bookmark + archive manager to collect, and save websites for offline use.

The objective is to have a self-hosted place to keep useful links in one place, and since useful links can go away (see the inevitability of Link Rot), LinkWarden also saves a copy of the link as screenshot and PDF.

https://github.com/Daniel31x13/link-warden

The Deepfake Offensive Toolkit
https://github.com/sensity-ai/dot

dot (aka #Deepfake Offensive Toolkit) makes real-time, controllable deepfakes ready for virtual cameras injection. dot is created for performing penetration testing against e.g. identity verification and video conferencing systems, for the use by security analysts, Red Team members, and biometrics researchers.

OpenAndroidInstaller

https://openandroidinstaller.org

The graphical installer that makes installing alternative #Android distributions nice and easy from your computer.

F-Droid Gets Faster Repo Updates with New Repository Format
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Ever wait forever for F-Droid to 'load' its apps? That's because F-Droid is loading its repository index, which includes a list of all 4056 apps and their metadata (including where to connect to download them).

Good news, F-Droid has just released (March 1st) version 1.16 of the F-Droid client that uses a new repository format. The new app will determine what has changed and download the 'difference' files which contain only the changes. This means you are downloading a file 1/100th of the size.

I just tested the speed differences, the download went from 3 minutes to a few seconds.

Technical details and more info here: https://f-droid.org/en/2023/03/01/new-repo-format-faster-smaller-updates.html

Its also interesting to see that these latest updates were supported by a grant from the Filecoin Foundation - the same organization behind IPFS.

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https://writeout.ai

#Transcribe and #translate any #audio file. 100% free to use.

This website with source code available (it can be hosted locally) allows you to upload any audio file and receive a trannoscription and/or text translation. It uses OpenAI's Whisper API on the back end.

Source on GitHub:
https://github.com/beyondcode/writeout.ai

#writeout #ai #speech #recognition

Kali Linux 2023.1 introduces 'Purple' distro for defensive security

https://gitlab.com/kalilinux/kali-purple/documentation/-/wikis/home

Awesome-totally-open-ChatGPT

A list of open alternatives to ChatGPT

ChatGPT is GPT-3.5 with RLHF (Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback) for chat system.

By alternative, I mean projects feature different language model for chat system. Projects are not counted if they are:
• alternative frontend projects because they just call the API from OpenAI.
• alternative transformer decoder • models to GPT 3.5 either because the training data of them are (mostly) not for chat system.

https://github.com/nichtdax/awesome-totally-open-chatgpt

#ai #chatgpt #assistant

Ultimate #ai #assistant

#ChatGPT with a voice interface

https://github.com/lspahija/ultimate-ai-assistant

https://ultimate-ai-assistant.up.railway.app/

Sayboard: Offline FOSS Voice Keyboard Released
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Sayboard is an offline FOSS voice keyboard that supports multiple languages. It's a continuation of a prototype developed ontop of the Vosk speech recognition toolkit.

It supports multiple languages and is incredibly easy to use. Although it lacks punctuation, it is accurate in its trannoscription.

Mark this as a huge win for the friendly software space.

Download the first release here:
https://github.com/ElishaAz/Sayboard/releases/tag/v2.0.1

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OpenAssistant

Open-source Chat AI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddG2fM9i4Kk

Try the chat: https://open-assistant.io/chat
Homepage: https://open-assistant.io
Dataset: https://huggingface.co/datasets/OpenAssistant/oasst1
Code: https://github.com/LAION-AI/Open-Assistant
Paper (temporary): https://ykilcher.com/oa-paper

#openassistant #chatgpt #ai #assistant

🎵 Mousai: Desktop Song Recognition
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I remember someone asking for a 'Shazam' like app, and now one's come out on Linux desktop.

Although it uses a third party API, I think we're a year away from seeing more open AI models that would could make an app like this self-hosted.

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Discover songs you are aching to know with an easy-to-use interface.

Mousai is a simple application that can identify songs similar to Shazam. Just click the listen button, and then wait a few seconds. It will magically return the noscript and artist of that song!

Note: This uses the API of audd.io, so it is necessary to log in to their site to get more trials.

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