Don't see why not. You can download a database of hashes and compare that locally. Granted, those hashes aren't "free", but that's due to the legal status of such material. The principle itself - comparing hashes - can be foss.
Yea people can look into the algorithms to see how they work and circumvent etc., but that's no different than with... Anything else. If someone is motivated enough to distribute the material, they'll make their own network. Foss doesn't make any difference here.
I use Session Messenger, on the Oxen network. Love it on principle even tho the implementation is a bit lacking in places.
And there's Tor... Which is what it is.
Cuz they just tend to be slow. I don't know how these apps behave on a 1500€ phone, but I had a pretty beefy computer at my disposal these last 2 years and web apps are just always slower, usually much slower.
And back to phones, the UI of graphics web apps rarely considers them. Or they simplify the UI to the point of being unusably dumb.
And Paint... Yes true, but again do you understand "phone"?
I think it's the transporter accident from ST:TMP. I didn't know they can procreate.
Yea it's not full-blown Photoshop layers in this regard. Still, with the amount of other stuff it has and for the price (or with just small ads and no fullscreen video ads or other crap), I really can't complain. I've replaced amost every other app with a foss one, but there's no good foss image editor. Pocket Paint and Litrato can do a few things here and there but not much and both seem abandoned.
Ed: Ok so PP isn't abandoned and is quite nice in its own way but just doesn't have the practicality for photo editing or meme making.
There's a girl on YT who has one arm and said exactly that - "I don't know how you people with two arms sleep" I think.
I sometimes use online apps when I need something specific and Christ that's like the 6th level of hell on my old slow phone... Tho honestly I can't imagine how an online app can ever be equal to a local one
Iudesk Photo Editor
Getting a 404 on that.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/2207898
Did you ever hear the tragedy of WebP The Efficient? I thought not. It’s not a story the GIF gang would tell you. It’s an image legend.
WebP was a new format of pictures, so efficient and so lightweight, it could use modern compression to influence the web pages to actually load faster…
It had such a knowledge of the user's needs that it could even keep transparency and animations from dying.
The power of modern computing is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural.
It became so widespread… The only thing we had to be afraid of, was people insisting on using formats from the 90's, which eventually, of course, they did.
Unfortunately, we didn't teach the noobs everything we knew about compression, then the noobs killed the format by converting it to PNG and sharing that.
Ironic. We could save the web from being too slow, but not from the users.
Don't you know, fat people can't be made fun of. It's the skinny people who are funny, see!