Apart from searching for apps, AppCore Search also allows you to search the internet. It uses DuckDuckGo by default, and you can easily use DDG "bangs" to search for anything. For example, use !chat for AI Chat, !yt for YouTube search, !r for Reddit search, and more. Download:

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AppCore: Organize All Your Favorite Native Apps, Websites & Notes Privately This application lets you manage, launch, and organize all your favorit...

But the worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself; you lie in wait for yourself in caverns and forests. Lonely one, you are going the way to yourself! And your way goes past yourself, and past your seven devils! You will be a heretic to yourself and witch and soothsayer and fool and doubter and unholy one and villain. You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame: how could you become new, if you had not first become ashes? Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

This is what the user experience looks like on AppCore. Once you add your favorite websites and apps, switching between them becomes seamless & ability to keep any website in a floating window while using your native apps is incredibly handy.

I’ve made some more improvements to AppCore. Next version will have some interesting features. If you find it useful, I highly recommend adding it to Obtainium, it will see many improvements in the coming days. Feel free to share any recommendations to enhance usability. View quoted note →

I built a native version of WebCore.live that lets you organize your native apps, web apps, and notes. It's offline-first, privacy-focused, fast & open-sourced Download APK:

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Release AppCore update, what's new! · iefanx/AppCore

AppCore: Organize All Your Favorite Native Apps, Websites & Notes Privately This application lets you manage, launch, and organize all your favorit...

When you thought it couldn't get worse, it always does.

Assange walks out of the US Federal court as a free man. Congratulations @Stella Assange

A future version of Chrome will come with an inbuilt Gemini Nano model that developers can access with just two lines of code. These models will run locally, and we can also integrate them into our web app. Someone has already extracted the weights of this model, and it's available on Hugging Face.

There is a lot to be said about the Assange case, including the injustice of his nearly 15-year detention and the coercion to plead guilty despite his innocence. Yet, on a personal level, witnessing his release and departure from the UK is truly heartwarming. 🤍

In the next few days, WebCore users will have access to a suite of encryption and password security tools. These tools will help you generate strong passwords, encrypt text manually, and provide offline storage that is also AES encrypted & of course everything will be open source. Install: https://webcore.live

Omg, Julian Assange is free

Fun fact: You can also run other AI models locally on your phone, including those for summarization, speech-to-text, translation, and more. You can essentially run any model that uses the Transformer architecture on mobile devices, and fortunately, these task-specific models are usually small and run very efficiently. This opens up exciting possibilities for creating private smart note-taking and composition apps. NostrNet's new 'Aithena' dashboard will become a hub for running multimodal LLMs alongside task-specific SLMs. You can try these small task-specific AI models and run them locally through your browser. https://xenova.github.io/transformers.js/

NostrNet is back, and it's better than ever! Now it comes with integrated AI voice assistant that runs on a fine-tuned Gemini flash model. It's capable & Lightning fast. In the future, you'll be able to run models locally using WebGPU on any device. Voice recognition and text-to-speech are already happening on-device! Install NostrNet: https://webcore.live

Just Lalo hanging with his lawyer. No big deal

The Nostrnet voice assistant, with Gemini Flash model, is live. It's extremely fast and ideal for this particular use case. The next update will introduce models like Phi-3 and Llama 3, which will run locally even on phones using WebGPU. Although they will be a bit slower, they offer complete privacy. Isn't that cool? https://webcore.live

The new Assassin's Creed game will have three separate paywalls, a season subscription, and a pay-to-win option. Ubisoft is a completely trash company.

I've just built an AI assistant that performs voice recognition and text-to-speech directly on the device. It's using a fine-tuned Google Gemini Flash model, which is fast and works great. I know, Google, right? But what if we replace that model with an open-source one, like Phi-3 or Gemma-2b, that can also run locally on a device, even a phone? It might be a bit slower and more battery-intensive, but in return, you get a completely private AI assistant that can run offline. The fun part is I can make it into a PWA, so it can run on any device—Android, iOS, and PC. Plus, it will have proper Nostr integration. You can check how these models might work on your device using WebGPU in your browser. We'll use this tech and even better ones. LLM demo in browser:

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WebLLM: High-Performance In-Browser LLM Inference Engine

I'll also add PDF and vision capabilities. If I'm not making a big miscalculation, with one toggle, you should be able to use Stable Diffusion in one PWA—offline, locally, and completely private. Let me know if you have any suggestions or recommendations for models or features. I'll share an initial version soon, and from there, we can improve it together.

I should start detecting my web apps from their domains. Once installed as PWAs, all components should be available offline like a native app. Updates should be optional. Domains are shitcoins.

Apologies for any inconvenience to all users. NostrNet is now live at: webcore.live NostrSync is also live at: nostrsync.live The old URL will be active again very soon, along with the Zapit monetization service. Most importantly, all my services are open source and can be deployed with one click. My next project will be to create a simple page where you can just click on a button and deploy my app with one click for self-hosting on GitHub or Vercel.

A lot has happened. First, NostrNet users can use the webcore.live URL for now. It's live. I will also get the previous domain back. Zapit will also be active tomorrow. If there is anything else, please let me know. I was a little busy with my studies and have completed the first year of my Master's.