This gives Google LESS access to your data! - YouTube
This gives Google LESS access to your data! - YouTube
Can we move away from the habit of just copy-pasting clickbait video titles with no information as to what they're actually about? Lemmy gives you a description field, you have the power to summarise videos which should really be blog posts!
I'm not watching a video for something that can be 3 lines of text.
I'm supposing this is some speech to text? It's completely on device? If it's not on device, i don't see many difference between giving data to google and giving the same exact data to somebody else.
Yes, it is text to speech engine that works completely on the device. Actually, I use it right now to write this.
I'm using it to type this comment and I REALLY like it! But I will say it tries to do punctuation for me, and that drives me nuts.
(Video is about an open source voice to text, input method for Android, by the way.)
What's the name of it? Then I don't have to watch a video
Section 4: Termination, suspension and variation
We may suspend, terminate or vary the terms of this license and any access to the code at any time, without notice, for any reason or no reason, in respect of any licensee, group of licensees or all licensees including as may be applicable any sub-licensees.
The license isn't exactly giving me warm fuzzies, the source is available, but it isn't GPL.
https://gitlab.futo.org/alex/voiceinput/-/blob/master/FTL_LICENSE.md?ref_type=heads
Reading through their license, it appears that people may only distribute the code, and the binaries non-commercially. There's nothing in there allowing people to modify in the distribute the modification. But I'm not a law talking person so maybe I got that wrong
Oh no :(. Another cool project being ruined by trying to invent it's own licence.
If they want to not make it free of price, they could make payments for model download or just do a paywall screen. Most people would prefer to pay some bucks for not having to compile app themselfs or having to get it from shady sources.
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The reported tracker is ACRA, a crash report library (https://github.com/ACRA/acra).
I digged a bit into the source code and the apk. From looking at the code alone one can't tell if the crash report is actually enabled, the build configuration depends on some unpublished file. But looking into the apk allows to reconstruct it. These are my findings:
- the usage is implemented here: https://gitlab.futo.org/alex/voiceinput/-/blob/master/app/src/main/java/org/futo/voiceinput/CrashLoggingApplication.kt
- the crash handler is compiled in and also enabled (BuildConfig.ENABLE_ACRA=true)
- the crash handler is configured to dialog mode. According to the ACRA documentation (https://www.acra.ch/docs/Interactions#dialog) that means that user interaction is required for sending (a popup dialog with a cancel button).
- the upload domain is crash.sapples.net
- the dialog can't be disabled via settings
- the usage of ACRA is missing in the licenses and about dialogs (https://gitlab.futo.org/alex/voiceinput/-/blob/master/app/src/main/assets/license-list.html)
- the privacy policy is correctly stated (https://voiceinput.futo.org/VoiceInput/PrivacyPolicy)
4.1. If the app crashes, you may be asked if you wish to submit a crash report. If you accept, your device information and crash details will be sent to us for the purposes of investigating the crash and improving the software.
Unfortunetly they go with their own custom licence and AFAIK it's not open source as it does not allow commercial use.
Can you give more details of the scan result? Exodus only lists the Play store version. I installed the F-Droid version but Exodus app reports it as "same version" and just shows the clean Google Play Store results. This is obviously wrong, the SHA1 listed for the Play Store version on the Exodus website is different compared to the F-Droid .apk I have installed. Sadly the Exodus website does not support scanning F-Droid apps from third-party repos so I have no idea how to scan it.
That being said, according to the privacy policy (https://voiceinput.futo.org/VoiceInput/PrivacyPolicy), the F-Droid .apk version should have some kind of crash report build-in. So I could imagine that this might get flagged.
I didn't install/scan it myself, but the exodus site shows no trackers on Google play version. https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/org.futo.voiceinput/latest/
I installed the version from the repo on their website: app.futo.org/fdroid/repo
It contains trackers: 1 tracker = 266 classes.
I also downloaded the Google play version. It also contains the same spyware:
1 tracker = 266 classes.
I figure if I lurk here someone will come along and breakdown whether this is legit to install or not
Louis Rossmann is a respectable person in the open source/right to repair arena
Right on, that helps to know, thank you
Howsabout you try it and let us all know if your phone gets hot?
I tried it on my device... Works great!
But it's just a Voice to Text utility at the moment, so only where there's a mic icon for said VTT applications. But they're working on integration with open source keyboards and also suggested the possibility that they'd make one of their own keyboards.
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