

I mean yeah, it exists, but have you tried using calligra for anything productive? It is missing so many basic features and has lots of annoying bugs.


I mean yeah, it exists, but have you tried using calligra for anything productive? It is missing so many basic features and has lots of annoying bugs.


It’s entirely web-based (their desktop app uses electron). It is quite good, has no problems with editing Microsofts shitty formats and offers a feature set on the level of office 356 web.
Downside: made by a Russian company which has since re-incorporated in Singapore I think.


Photogrammetry is very computationally expensive, I don’t think current phones have what it takes to do it in an appropriate amount of time.
On PC, COLMAP is the OG suite, its data format is widely used even outside of COLMAP itself, for example in gaussian splatting or NeRf.
It’s FOSS of course.


I answered in another comment:


There seem to be conflicting opinions on the matter:
https://netzpolitik.org/2024/pay-or-okay-privatsphaere-nur-gegen-gebuehr/
https://www.etes.de/blog/pay-or-okay-pur-abo-modell-zulaessig/
In any case, the requirements for “pay or okay” being legal are: (translated with deepl)
“In principle, the tracking of user behavior can be based on consent if a tracking-free model is offered as an alternative, even if this is subject to payment. However, the service that users receive in a paid model must firstly represent an equivalent alternative to the service that they obtain through consent. Secondly, the consent must meet all the conditions for effectiveness set out in the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), i.e. in particular the requirements listed in Art. 4 No. 11 and Art. 7 GDPR. Whether the payment option - e.g. a monthly subscription - is to be regarded as an equivalent alternative to consent to tracking depends in particular on whether users are given equivalent access to the same service in return for a standard market fee. Equivalent access generally exists if the offers include the same service, at least in principle.”
If a user opts for the subscription option, only storage and readout processes that are technically absolutely necessary may take place (Section 25 (1) TTDSG). Furthermore, the permissions under Art. 6 para. 1 GDPR must be complied with.
“If there are several processing purposes that differ significantly from one another, the requirements for voluntariness must be met to the effect that consent can be granted on a granular basis. This means, among other things, that users must be able to actively select the individual purposes for which consent is to be obtained (opt-in). Only if purposes are very closely related can a bundling of purposes be considered. A blanket overall consent for different purposes in this respect cannot be effectively granted.”
In addition, the consents must meet the other requirements of the GDPR. This applies in particular to the principle of transparency, comprehensibility and compliance with information obligations.
As I see it, at the very least the granularity requirement is not fulfilled in these cases.


No it’s not. For some reason, most of the larger German publications do this, as of now apparently they haven’t been sued.


Couch distance and especially screen size can vary a lot. I can clearly see the difference between full HD and whatever resolution DVDs have at the 2~3 meter distance at my parents’. (43" full HD screen). Same goes for 4K vs full HD on my 60" screen.
In any case, my main point was that DVDs are no viable alternative to streaming services since all of them offer much better quality. If you really want to replace streaming services at similar or better quality, go for Blu rays.


DVDs have atrocious quality. Blu rays are where it’s at


Well they published their source code.
It’s not as permissively licensed as usual open source projects, but I would argue that in the true sense of the phrase, this falls under “open source”.


Which afaik runs very well under Linux.


There is no causality there.


If you worked on smithing knives sorry but you must have known eventually someone would get stabbed
If you worked on building cars sorry but you must have known eventually someone would drive one into a protest
If you worked on producing painkillers sorry but you must have known eventually someone would trigger an opioid epidemic for their personal gain
…
A tool is a tool. Regulation and responsibility determine the associated dangers.


How is that tiny though?
Considering this is about sending some random data to a server and measuring the speed, that’s quite large. I’ve seen whole computer games that fit in 1/10 of that space.


I agree with the other answer that a noise removal VST (or similar) is probably the most efficient option.
If you want to try something “AI” based anyways, I would suggest demucs, which was originally made to separate music into voice, instruments, …
Not possible, widevine L1 needs hardware-level DRM which depends on manufacturer support. So unless there are actual TVs / set top boxes being shipped with Plasma Bigscreen, we’re SOL 🏴☠