The creator of pixelfed is working on a tiktok alternative loops, although for now it’s in private beta.

For a starting point that is available now, you could look at Pixeldroid, an open source pixelfed app.

Besides the ones already mentioned:

• The FSF has some channels at https://framatube.org/a/fsf

• There’s a bunch of KDE related channels at https://tube.kockatoo.org

• Blender has several channels at https://video.blender.org

• https://peertube.touhoppai.moe/a/shichimi has Krita tutorials from the creator of the Pepper and Carrot webcomic.

• https://tilvids.com/a/martin_owens from someone who works on Inkscape.

• https://tilvids.com/a/togglejam looks at the science behind fictional games and shows.

• https://diode.zone/c/andrewtropin has a bunch of scheme and guix related videos

• There’s some anarchist channels on https://kolektiva.media like CrimethInc and subMedia.

A couple of gaming related accounts/channels:

• https://subscribeto.me/a/gbryant

• https://peertube.linuxrocks.online/c/boilingsteam

Most aren’t specifically for learners, but you could try:

!learntopaint@lemmy.world

!artshare@lemmy.world

!aip@lemmy.mindoki.com

!art@lemmy.world

!drawing@lemmy.world

!arting@lemmy.ml

!watercolor@lemmy.ml

These don’t have any activity, but are more aimed at learning:

!artistlounge@lemmy.ml

!learnart@lemm.ee

!artfundamentals@lemm.ee

With AI upscaling it fills it in based on the training from other images/videos. So it probably won’t be an alien, but small details common in other videos that looked similar will also show up in the upscaled videos. If an extra flower shows up in a field of grass it’s usually not a big deal, but for some things like faces or symbols, small details can really change the way people interpret it.

Depending on the context it’s probably not that bad, but there’s plenty of details in youtube videos that people pay attention to, like in news, history, tutorials, educational content, and so on. Even for a fictional story, it could add nonsense that people assume is part of the actual show.

The problem with AI upscaling is that it does add something. It fills in the details with things that could plausibly be there, regardless of if they are. It’s especially dangerous if it’s used for something like security footage, where it’ll do stuff like make up a face based on a few pixels.

It’s not brassica oleracea though, it’s a different species, brassica rapa. The same species as napa cabbage, brocolli rabe, and bok choy. Rutabaga is actually a hybrid of the two species.

There’s also sepiasearch.org for PeerTube videos.

It’s part of Spider-Man & the X-Men.

There’s a list of people that have agreed to block it at https://fedipact.online/

Thanks, I didn’t know about that. I looked into this a bit more and there’s actually a bunch of techniques, and shift right click only gets around some of them. There’s a tester tool at https://webbrowsertools.com/test-right-click/ with examples of blocking right clicks, text selection, and copying/pasting text.

It looks like a good extension, but I feel like my setup works better for my workflow. Tab groups with auto tab discard has a similar effect, and there’s an archive option for when I really want to unload the whole group.

Tab groups are really handy for multitasking if you use multiple desktops. I have a window open on each desktop, and switching between tab groups switches to the relevant desktop.

This question gets asked pretty often, so I’d been meaning to write something up for a while. Browser extensions were one of the first ways I got interested in free software, and there’s a lot of really useful ones out there.

If you want even more options, here’s some I have installed but disabled.

• Forcastfox (fix version) - Shows the weather.
• Gesturify - Control the browser with just mouse gestures. I don’t really use it because I try to use keyboard shortcuts, but it’s really handy if you use a mouse a lot.
• GNU LibreJS - Blocks any non-free javascript. This is not a easy or fun extension to use. I’ve got my one system set up to use only free software, with this enabled. It really shows you how much proprietary javascript you’re using.
• Picket Line Notifier - It tells you what products are from companies with ongoing strikes.
• Kiwix - Download offline sections of wikipedia, stackoverflow, khan academy and a bunch of other websites. They also have desktop and phone apps, so I don’t really use the browser extension.
• Buster: Captcha Solving for Humans - I love how there’s an add-on bot that can solve captchas to prove you’re a human.
• Allow Right Click - Turn this on when a website tries to block you from saving images.
• User Agent Switcher and Manager - Occasionally you find a site that doesn’t work in your browser, but just changing the user agent string often fixes it.

I use firefox, so I’m not positive if all of these are available for chromium based browsers.

Each extension varies in how big it is, so there isn’t an easy rule for how many extensions to use. Also, if you’re trying to increase privacy, many extensions can make your browser fingerprint more easily identifiable.

• uBlock Origin - I have it set to block everything by default like NoScript, whitelisting sites as I use them. I used to use uMatrix for this before it was discontinued, but this works well enough.

• Tridactyl - Advanced vim-like keybindings. It has more features than something like Vimium, but I’ve had it occasionally break sites so I had to change the noiframe settings listed on the troubleshooting page.

• Midnight Lizard - I’ve been using this lately instead of Dark Reader. It has much more customization, but I’ve occasionally had it mess up on some sites.

• CanvasBlocker - Sends out fake info to make your browser fingerprint different each time. This doesn’t fully prevent fingerprinting with how I have my add-ons set up, but it at least makes the job harder for trackers and gives them less real data.

• Local CDN - local copies of common libraries, so you don’t access a bunch of 3rd party sites to download javascript. This sends your data to fewer sites, but if you’re trying to stay anonymous it makes your fingerprint more unique.

• AutoTabDiscard - This unloads inactive tabs, which comes in handy if you have a ton of tabs open. You can disable it for any sites you always want to keep active. You can also tweak how many tabs to keep open and how long before it tries to discard them.

• Leechblock NG - Set time limits for how long you want to spend on each site. If you use it right it can help break addictions to certain websites.

• Stylus - I use it for a couple of sites that just have really terrible styles or don’t work well with dark mode.

• AutoFill Forms - Handy for if you have any repetitive forms you need to fill out.

• DownThemAll - I don’t use it often, but really useful when there’s a bunch of links to download.

• ViolentMonkey - Per site custom javascript. I don’t use this much, but occasionally comes in handy to make a website do what you want.

• Tab Reloader - for sites that you want to keep refreshed.

I’ve got a bunch for integration with various websites and software:

• Plasma Integration - This integrates stuff like video playback and notifications into KDE. Also needs a package installed to connect to. There’s also Gnome Shell Extension, which does a similar thing for for Gnome.
• Flatline - Install flatpaks more easily from flathub website. I usually avoid flatpaks, but it’s convenient for when I do.
• Mastodon Simplified Federation - More easily interact with other mastodon sites to forward to your server.
• SponsorBlock for YouTube - I really hate ads.
• Bypass Paywall Clean - This gets around paywalls for a bunch of news sites. It’s not on mozilla’s add-on page, so need to get it off gitlab.
• Pinboard Pin - for my bookmarks.
• BlueLiteBlocker - I rarely go on twitter, but blocking all the top replies with blue checkmarks makes it slightly less terrible.
• RedditEnhancementSuite - I don’t use reddit much lately, but when I do, this makes it more usable.
• moderator toolbox for reddit - mod tools for reddit
• TinEye - just adds a right click option for images to do reverse image search.

I’m pretty sure these are Firefox only, but I’ll leave them here for anyone else who’s interested.

• Simple Tab Groups - I like using this to organize my tabs into groups. There’s probably better ways to not have so many tabs open but it’s convenient to have a bunch of open tabs when I want them.

• Multi-Account Containers - Helpful if you have multiple accounts on the same site, or want to keep your cookies separate for different tasks.

• Firefox Translations - adds more language options to Firefox’s offline translation.

There’s Anki which is one of the most popular flashcard apps. Kiwix is pretty great for having tons of offline content from websites like Wikipedia, StackExchange, and Khan Academy, but I’ve run into a few bugs with it. I believe the current version isn’t on F-Droid but they plan to remove the non-free build tools in the next version. There’s the translation dictionary QuickDic. There’s some language specific apps like Der Die Das and Starke Verben for learning German, Kakugo, Fun with Kanji, and Kanji Dojo for Japanese. There’s several language specific dictionaries like Nani?, Nheengaré and a PReVo. For learning numbers/time there’s the Nanji clock widget that can show the printed time in several languages.

It can also happen with apps from the main repo. If the app is reproducible (about 5% so far, most new apps) then F-Droid will use the developer signature.

There’s !lemmy411@lemmy.ca .

It depends. Many addons have effects that can be tested for and fingerprinted, but it’s not always straight forward. There’s a way to detect any specific chrome extension, but doesn’t work on firefox because it uses unique extension ids per person.

With addons like CanvasBlocker, they generate random values for a bunch of apis like canvas. So each time you will look unique, but it changes every time so you’re not easily tracked. I’d assume it’s similar to what Brave does, but I haven’t looked into the details. Some stuff isn’t randomized by default, so they can get info like timezone and languages, but probably not enough to give you a unique identity.

There’s CanvasBlocker for Firefox that can do fingerprint protection.

It hasn’t had a real release in about 5 years though. It uses a very old API so it’s slightly buggy.

I’ve been using Unexpected Keyboard lately instead. It’s the only modern keyboard I’ve found that has stuff like control and function keys. It uses swiping on keys to get more characters though, so it takes some getting used to. I had to set the swipe distance higher so I don’t have as many typos.