Instead of just generating the next response, it simulates entire conversation trees to find paths that achieve long-term goals.

How it works:

• Generates multiple response candidates at each conversation state
• Simulates how conversations might unfold down each branch (using the LLM to predict user responses)
• Scores each trajectory on metrics like empathy, goal achievement, coherence
• Uses MCTS with UCB1 to efficiently explore the most promising paths
• Selects the response that leads to the best expected outcome

Limitations:

• Scoring is done by the same LLM that generates responses
• Branch pruning is naive - just threshold-based instead of something smarter like progressive widening
• Memory usage grows with tree size, there currently no node recycling

I'm having trouble understanding the options under settings > DATA should I change reddit source to Teddit? Or should I configure redirect manually in Privacy enhancer?

No this is fine; version 2 is in maintenance mode, and version 3 is technically stable, it's just not as polished as a release version.

What you're getting with V3 is more services, currently Reddit and Lemmy.

Regarding your question, there are a few things to know.

Originally, Stealth supported a few Reddit sources: the original API, web scrapping using old.reddit (for when API was rate-limited), and Teddit for more privacy. So when you chose either of those, requests were made using that source.

V3 was launched along with the Stealth API, to which all requests from the app are routed. The source selection was updated to be compatible with Stealth API and was working fine at first.

Then, old.reddit started to block bots and made web scrapping almost impossible (especially when using an IP address from a VPS). Also, Teddit was deprecated and most of the instances are now dead.

So technically, the mechanism still works, but not with the official Stealth instances, nor with the provided Teddit instances.

I recommended sticking with the official Reddit source, as it is the most reliable one.

Regarding Privacy Enhancer, this is different thing. When enabled, and when a service is configured, it will redirect external links to a privacy-focused frontend, but only when you click on a link in the comments of a post.

For example, let's say you have enabled PE, and configured TikTok to be redirected to a ProxiTok instance; when you click on a TikTok link in the comments, it will be opened with ProxiTok instead of TikTok.

The tricky part is to find instances that still work.

Sharing from midwest.social, not OP

Also see CoMaps community post

https://sopuli.xyz/post/29816376

Hi all.

Currently using microsoft products on a work laptop however I'm looking for an open source alternative for a calendar app.

At a min. I would want to it work on android and/or BOTH windows 11 and Linux Mint (so it would cover usage for both partner and myself). I'm a 'plug and play' sort of person when it comes to Linux so nothing too complicated.

If it can sync between devices that would be great but not a deal breaker in any way.

All other functionality is fine to be bare bones, I don't need it to do reminders or send email, just a basic calendar

Any suggestions and thanks all.

*edit. Spelling.

It's a minor update, so this is more about me sharing that this neat app exists

An elegant and colorful location information app for Android with Compass, Clock, Level, Sun, Moon, Trail Marker and many other features.

Old: https://web.archive.org/web/20240917143456/http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.txt

New: https://web.archive.org/web/20240919194602/http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.txt

Hi everyone, I have some exciting new things about Postiz!

Postiz is a social media scheduling tool supporting 19 social media channels:

Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, Reddit, LinkedIn, X, Threads, BlueSky, Mastodon, YouTube, Pinterest, Dribbble, Slack, Discord, Warpcast, Lemmy, Telegram, VK, Nostr.

https://github.com/gitroomhq/postiz-app/

Here is what's new:

• New Editor - The Previous editor was clunky, with many hacky hooks, real technical debt, I spent two days (monk mode), and created something awesome, UI and UX also changed.

• Overall better UI / UX - showing the amount of characters/characters left.

• OIDC fixed, working well now :)

• Sets, you can define a template of a message that will be posted later

• X - added option to select who can reply to your post, post to an X community

• BlueSky - Upload videos to BlueSky

• Integrations - you can work with an integration such as Heygen to generate content for you; you can see more here.

• Drag and drop pictures directly on the editor now shows progress in "%"

• Alt and thumbnails for media - This is the initial release, which currently allows you to add alt and thumbnails for pictures, but these changes are not yet reflected on the backend.

Everything as usual is available on the open-source :)

The livestream is happening now Tue July 1 https://stream.firesidefedi.live/

Hi, is there any way to have a whatsapp work on a rooted phone (Pixel 7a) with something like frost is to Facebook?

We are proud to release GIMP 3.1.2. It's the first development version of what will become GIMP 3.2!

Note that a development release is not ready for regular use. It might crash. If it didn’t have problems it would be 3.2 already. So please please understand this is an early release for early adopters and for the more adventurous!

What is GIMP ?

GIMP is a powerful, free and opensource photo editor. It' available on Linux, Windows, and MacOS.

What are the new features?

• Theme colors for Brush, Font, and Palette improvements

• We know have an additional “System Colors” color scheme so that GIMP matches your current OS theme preferences on Windows and Linux

• New contributor Woynert implemented a new paint blend mode called Overwrite. It allows you to directly replace the pixels over the area you paint, without blending the transparency values of the brush and the existing pixels in that area. This new mode is particularly useful for pixel art.

• There’s a new setting in the text tool to control the direction of the text outline. You can have the text outline grow inward, outward, or in both directions!

• GIMP now supports adding non-destructive filters to channels! The Channels dockable now shows the same FX column as the Layers dockable, so you can edit, rearrange, delete, and merge filters on channels just like you can with layers.

• The CMYK Color Selector now calculates and displays the Total Ink Coverage of the selected color. This is useful when printing, as depending on the printing system and the media used, there may be a limit on how much ink can be applied.

• We’re adding support for using ART (AnotherRawTherapee) as a Camera Raw loader in GIMP, in addition to our existing support for darktable and RawTherapee. If you have ART already installed, GIMP should automatically recognize it and use it to load Camera Raw format images for further editing.

• We’ve added a new option to export to Krita‘s .kpl palette format from GIMP. You can do this by choosing Export as from the menu in the Palette dockable.

• Jacob Boerema has added support for importing Photoshop patterns! You can put Adobe .pat files in the GIMP pattern folder and automatically load them in the same way as GIMP’s own .pat files

• You can now use presets from Photoshop’s Curves and Levels filters in GIMP’s Curves and Levels filters! When you use these filters, choose Import Current Settings from File... from the Preset menu and select your .acv or .alv preset respectively

• Alx Sa has implemented initial support for exporting PSBs, Photoshop Large format. It is very similar to PSDs - the main difference is that you can export images up to 300,000 pixels

• GIMP can now import APNG animations

• We’ve now added support for loading multi-layer OpenEXR images. For instance, if you export a multi-view image from other software such as Blender, all views should show up in GIMP as individual layers.

• All previously non-portable build scripts of GIMP repository have been made POSIX-compliant. This means that it’s now easier to use these on platforms like BSD

• Some image formats do not allow images to have transparent sections. This can be confusing if you’re not familiar with all the details of the image you imported, especially when rotating or applying a filter with transparency such as Color to Alpha. We now detect if a filter or transformation would require transparency, and automatically add an alpha channel to the layer to prevent unexpected distortions.

What about UX/UI Improvements?

Denis Rangelov, Reju, Michal Vašut, and other designers have been working on a number of UX/UI updates for GIMP 3.2.

While the larger changes are still being designed and reviewed, we have been implementing several of their UX/UI fixes:

• We found instances where the Foreground Selection algorithm would run when switching to another tool, even if no selection had been made yet. This caused an unnecessary lag, so we adjusted the algorithm to avoid running in those cases.

• The state of the “Merge Filter” checkbox for non-destructive filters should no longer be affected if you apply a filter that currently has to be destructive, like Lens Blur.

• The Palette dockable now automatically selects the next swatch when you delete a previous one, allowing you to quickly delete several swatches by just clicking the Delete button repeatedly.

• “Lock pixels” now generates an undo step in undo history, just like “Lock Position” and other locks.

What’s next?

Our main focus for GIMP 3.2 on the roadmap is developing two new types of non-destructive layers - linked layers and vector layers. Our Google Summer of Code students are making great progress with their summer projects!

• Gabriele Barbero is making some much-requested improvements to our on-canvas text editor.

• Ondřej Míchal has created a GEGL Filter Browser prototype in their own test branch. This involved a lot of research, as there any a number of edge cases and formats to account for.

• Shivam is working on a website to list and display third-party GIMP extensions

About Gimp 3.1.2

We remind that this is a development version, not a stable version. We advise against using it for production. We also really welcome feedback and bug reports:

https://www.gimp.org/bugs/report.html

GIMP is a community, first and foremost. We are relying on your help so that the upcoming GIMP 3.2 can be as stable and good as possible.

Don’t forget you can donate to GIMP developers, as a way to give back and accelerate the development. Community commitment helps the project to grow stronger!

https://www.gimp.org/news/2025/06/23/gimp-3-1-2-released/

Thank you so much ❤️ 🙏

We’re proud to announce GIMP 3.1.2, the first development version of what will become GIMP 3.2!

I've been using DeepL in Translate You for some time, but lately I don't like that it is so limited, I mean its api, I would like to find something open source that gives the same results, because with DeepL I haven't had any problems...

I'm not at all an expert with open source licensing, but does the following conflict with open source licensing ?

I don't mean any ill intent to the developers of the application, but want to inform them if there is something wrong. (Sorry if my question feels dumb, I'm just getting familiar with licensing terms)

I've been following this app for sometime and it recently had its alpha release. While taking a look at the Terms and Conditions section of the app, I came across the Application Use section which reads:

3. Application Use

3.1. License

Pockaw grants you a personal, non-transferable, non-exclusive license to use the app for personal or small business financial management purposes. 3.2. Prohibited Use

You agree not to: Reverse engineer, decompile, or modify Pockaw. Use the app for illegal activities. Exploit the app in ways not intended, such as reselling it as your own product.

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Should I enable WIFI scanning / Bluetooth scanning / Network Location under setting->location->location services?

Which one would help me navigate inside a building or underground using open source maps?

I haven't tested yet, does google map requires any of those location services enabled to work? Should I just use google map in vanadium?

thanks a lot

What is the difference between lawnchair Layout Default vs Dock (Beta)?

When I use dock layout all apps shows on my homescreen but none can be removed from home screen

Default layout on the other hand doesn't show or add any installed app icon to home screen at all (even though I have enabled add newly installed icon to home screen in the setting).

Which one should I use?

thanks a million

Hey guys, i am planning to begin my Journaling journey starting today. Any recomendations? I have already tried DayOne and Journey Didn't like them Particularly. DayOne seems uncool and even though they claim, a little unsafe. Plus i once before lost all my journal entries in DayOne bcoz i didn't save the encryption keys in my GoogleDrive. Journey is Worse (my opinion). They keep on pushing me to buy their paid option which costs 4$ per month. Like WTF. Its just a Journaling app. I am not going to try Penzu because i have heard a lot of bad reviews on how they cheat people and stuff. Finally i landed on DD-DigitalDiary which isn't open source. Which Sucks. But at least isn't costing me like 50$ a month or anything. Its mostly free. But i am looking or something better. More specifically OpenSource, Free (or almost free) and idk, modern & sxy Like when will these huge companies understand. Not everything needs to be VC funded. Next i am launching my VC funded Venture backed Fried Eggs company

Edit: Wow! Literally few days after posting, there are already several open PR and quite a few great suggestions. Huge thanks to all of you, the FOSS community really rocks!

Original post:

TLdR. Nothing major, just needs help finding an app icon.

I'm developing VScan, a little project aiming to research how vision LLMs could help out blind people on travel and in their every-day life by substituting eyesight for various visual tasks.

My project is not a "magical AI app" which is going to solve every problem on the click of a button. In fact, I don't use the "AI branding" at all, because I think it's very misleading for the general audience. It's more of an experiment to find out if the blind people could use LLMs as tools for visual cognition in a way that would be useful.

I'm trying to be as clear and specific as I can about the used technology, and providing as much customization as possible without sacrificing convenience. Of course, the project is completely open-source, does not collect any user data and while the first generations only supported GPT models, because that was the only thing usable for vision at the time, the current dev version already supports defining an arbitrary LLM provider (including a self-hosted server), and the ability to choose any model supported by the respective provider.

I'm facing just one major issue. I'm blind myself, coding the app as my personal tool. And I'm having quite a hard time finding an app icon that would work on the modern Android systems and setting it up properly. To be honest, I'm quite lost in the various suggested standards, there are the ordinary raster PNG icons, vector based SVG icons, and these days Android seems to also have some multi-part contextual XML based icons which as far as I understand should adapt to the different screens, configurations, themes etc. but I genuinely have no idea where to find these and sofar whatever I tried ended up as some undefinable point cloud on the screen.

Normally I wouldn't care about such things, but having an app icon is the requirement for getting accepted into app stores like F-Droid or Google Play, and subsequently, to the users. Nobody these days is willing to side-load apps anymore.

If anybody with Android development experience could take a look on this, I would be very grateful. All that's needed to do is finding a suitable icon on one of the icon portals, preferably in shape of an eye, or a camera (the one used to mark video recording), although the exact appearance doesn't really matter, the users won't see it anyway. It can be free or paid, as far as the price is reasonable. Then you can either open a PR yourself (the project does not require anything special to build, it's just the ordinary Android Studio stuff), or you could explain to me how to implement the icons and I will try to follow.

Thanks for your attention! I apologize if this is not the right place to post this, mods feel free to remove if necessary.

This license has the peculiarity that any software implementation requires you to offer the source code, even if you only plan to use it privately. This makes it a stronger license than the AGPL in terms of copyleft. If the AGPL already scares away almost all companies, the SOWPL scares away almost everyone.

My question is, what would happen if free and/or open source software had the SOWPL? Would projects have to be forked? Would free and open source software die? Would we have to start from scratch again or hire lawyers to avoid problems?

I would like to know your response to this fictional scenario.

Academic paper: https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/techreports/UCAM-CL-TR-999.pdf

Hi guys!

Just that...Wondering if there's any easy FOSS photogrammetry software that I could run from the phone. Alternatively, what would be the easiest one to run from my computer to experiment with it?

Thanks!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/31889138

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Is there a firefox extension that disable the web connection of other extensions?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/31889138

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/31887590

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What is the difference between Chameleon and JShelter?

• Chameleon – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox Android (en-US)
  • Chameleon is a WebExtension port of the popular Firefox addon Random Agent Spoofer.
• JShelter – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox Android (en-US)
  • JShelter is a browser extension to give back control over what your browser is doing. A JavaScript-enabled web page can access much of the browser's functionality, with little control over this process available to the user: malicious websites can uniquely identify you through fingerprinting and use other tactics for tracking your activity. JShelter aims to improve the privacy and security of your web browsing.
  • Like a firewall that controls network connections, JShelter controls the APIs provided by the browser, restricting the data that they gather and send out to websites. JShelter adds a safety layer that allows the user to choose if a certain action should be forbidden on a site, or if it should be allowed with restrictions, such as reducing the precision of geolocation to the city area. This layer can also aid as a countermeasure against attacks targeting the browser, operating system or hardware.

JShelter seems to spoof info by controls the APIs provided by the browser? and Chameleon spoofs user agent and many other information.

To me both seems to serves the same purpose of spoofing. Is Chameleon spoofing without interfering with js and JShelter spoofing with interfering with js the main difference between them? In addition JShelter seems to be able to block malicious js

How JShelter and Chameleon achieves spoofing differently?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/31887590

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/31885153

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https://sereneblue.github.io/chameleon/

strongly recommend

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