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Sync is back on the Play Store, but it's not a third-party Reddit app anymore (www.androidpolice.com)

submitted 1 year ago by TheGreenGolem@lemm.ee to c/syncforlemmy@lemmy.world

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[-] rikudou@lemmings.world 5 points 1 year ago

What functionality?

[-] KingStrafeIV@midwest.social 3 points 1 year ago

Ad free
Cloud backup
Highlight users
Tag users
Translate text
Select text from images
Push notifications
Saved folders
Import / export subscriptions

Source: The sync ultra description from in-app

[-] rikudou@lemmings.world 1 points 1 year ago

Neither of which requires running a server.

[-] KingStrafeIV@midwest.social 4 points 1 year ago

It all depends on how you implement it. He describes the text from images as using machine learning, which implies using an external API to do that translation.

Storing cloud backups requires a server and storage, etc.

[-] rikudou@lemmings.world 2 points 1 year ago

which implies using an external API to do that translation

It doesn't. You can have local models.

Storing cloud backups requires a server and storage, etc.

Yes, it doesn't have to be the author's storage. Many, many apps implement it as adding the data to your Google Drive / Dropbox / whatever.

[-] KingStrafeIV@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago

You can have local models, but the vast majority of people are going to farm that out to a 3rd party provider via API calls because it's the easiest thing to do.

Remember I said "It all depends on how you implement it".