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Open Camera is a FOSS camera app for Android

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Re: Open Camera is a FOSS camera app for Android

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Handbrake ;)

wget is a download CLI tool. Handbrake is a video transcoder. I feel like I'm missing something, or just missed the joke lol.

I Googled screenshots of "wget gui" and "handbrake software", both are GUI programs with a whole lot of dropdowns, checkboxes, etc.

Maybe that's the meaning of the parent comment?

Re: Open Camera is a FOSS camera app for Android

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Funnily enough I use this just to have a camera which saves to a different directory for keeping RealityScan images apart from my general photos.

That really should be a standard setting for camera apps.

If only the average person wasn't afraid of a directory tree...

Re: Open Camera is a FOSS camera app for Android

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Which camera brands / models don't phone home or have "smart" ai features built in provided over a proprietary cloud app?

Google Pixel with GrapheneOS

You can even use the proprietary Pixel Camera on GrapheneOS and just deny network permissions, or if you’re worried about IPC (if you have another networked Google app installed) it can be in its own private space. And then just strip the exif data if you want before sending it anywhere.

Re: Open Camera is a FOSS camera app for Android

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What makes it secure? (There's no readme, and it just links to GrapheneOS homepage.)

https://grapheneos.org/usage#grapheneos-camera-app

By default, doesn't save metadata to images.

Always saves metadata to videos.

Doesn't request or need media/storage permissions. Defaults to no location permissions.

So good - but room for improvement?

Re: Open Camera is a FOSS camera app for Android

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tried to visit it without ublock, I still don't see any ads at all and see no reason why there would be any, can you tell me were are the ads?

Here is a screenshot: https://files.catbox.moe/ukxte8.png I do have to wonder if this is a net negative. At least for me, it significantly reduces trust and respect for the website and developer, while I can't imagine the traffic produces any meaningful revenue? Edit: Just realized it's the same ad 4 times, haha. (I think the 5th one, offscreen, was the same too.)

With ublock origin, none of that appears on the site.

Re: Open Camera is a FOSS camera app for Android

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wget is a download CLI tool. Handbrake is a video transcoder. I feel like I'm missing something, or just missed the joke lol.

I Googled screenshots of "wget gui" and "handbrake software", both are GUI programs with a whole lot of dropdowns, checkboxes, etc. Maybe that's the meaning of the parent comment?

Handbrake is aesthetically better, if slightly less powerful compared to MeGUI, but MeGUI is usable if one doesn't mind reading through some video encoding guides.

Whatever came before MeGUI was likely much worse.

Re: Open Camera is a FOSS camera app for Android

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Would this be the iOS 'alternative'? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47010018

The pre-iOS 26 native camera app is good enough for me, and I really like Live Photos, which most alternatives don't handle.

I had a one-time purchase to Halide, but it somehow stopped working in early 2025 because Halide support claimed that the app's feature unlock (used to be one-time upfront purchase, now IAP) only works if I'm logged into the App Store account I purchased it from.

Re: Open Camera is a FOSS camera app for Android

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post #50

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tried to visit it without ublock, I still don't see any ads at all and see no reason why there would be any, can you tell me were are the ads?

Here is a screenshot: https://files.catbox.moe/ukxte8.png I do have to wonder if this is a net negative. At least for me, it significantly reduces trust and respect for the website and developer, while I can't imagine the traffic produces any meaningful revenue? Edit: Just realized it's the same ad 4 times, haha. (I think the 5th one, offscreen, was the same too.)

No wonder regular people hate technology.
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