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Just a bunch of Useful websites - Updated for 2023
Removed/checked all links to make sure everything is working (03/03/23). Hope they help!
Sejda - Free online PDF editor.
Supercook - Have ingredients but no idea what to make? Put them in here and it’ll give you recipe ideas.
Still Tasty - Trying the above but unsure about whether that sauce in the fridge is still edible? Check here first.
Archive.ph - Paywall bypass. Like 12ft below but appears to work far better and across more sites in my testing. I’d recommend trying this one first as I had more success with it.
12ft – Hate paywalls? Try this site out.
Where Is This - Want to know where a picture was taken, this site can help.
TOS/DR - Terms of service, didn’t read. Gives you a summary of terms of service plus gives each site a privacy rating.
OneLook - Reverse dictionary for when you know the description of the word but can’t for the life of you remember the actual word.
My Abandonware - Brilliant site for free, legal games. Has games from 1978 up to present day across pc and console. You’ll be surprised by some of the games on there, some absolute gems.
Project Gutenberg – Always ends up on these type of lists and for very good reason. All works that are copyright free in one place.
Ninite – New PC? Install all of your programs in one go with no bloat or unnecessary crap.
PatchMyPC - Alternative to ninite with over 300 app options to keep upto date. Free for home users.
Unchecky – Tired of software trying to install additional unwanted programs? This will stop it completely by unchecking the necessary boxes when you install.
Sci-Hub – Research papers galore! Check here before shelling out money. And if it’s not here, try the next link in our list.
LibGen – Lots of free PDFs relate primarily to the sciences.
Zotero – A free and easy to use program to collect, organize, cite and share research.
Car Complaints – Buying a used car? Check out what other owners of the same model have to say about it first.
CamelCamelCamel – Check the historical prices of items on Amazon and set alerts for when prices drop.
Have I Been Pawned – Still the king when it comes to checking if your online accounts have been released in a data breach. Also able to sign up for email alerts if you’ve ever a victim of a breach.
I Have No TV - A collection of documentaries for you to while away the time. Completely free.
Radio Garden – Think Google Earth but wherever you zoom, you get the radio station of that place.
Just The Recipe – Paste in the url and get just the recipe as a result. No life story or adverts.
Tineye – An Amazing reverse image search tool.
My 90s TV – Simulates 90’s TV using YouTube videos. Also has My80sTV, My70sTV, My60sTV and for the younger ones out there, My00sTV. Lose yourself in nostalgia.
Foto Forensics – Free image analysis tools.
Old Games Download – A repository of games from the 90’s and early 2000’s. Get your fix of nostalgia here.
Online OCR – Convert pictures of text into actual text and output it in the format you need.
Remove Background – An amazingly quick and accurate way to remove backgrounds from your pictures.
Twoseven – Allows you to sync videos from providers such as Netflix, Youtube, Disney+ etc and watch them with your friends. Ad free and also has the ability to do real time video and text chat.
Terms of Service, Didn’t Read – Get a quick summary of Terms of service plus a privacy rating.
Coolors – Struggling to get a good combination of colors? This site will generate color palettes for you.
This To That – Need to glue two things together? This’ll help.
Photopea – A free online alternative to Adobe Photoshop. Does everything in your browser.
BitWarden – Free open source password manager.
Just Beam It - Peer to peer file transfer. Drop the file in on one end, click create link and send to whoever. Leave your pc on that page while they download. Because of how it works there are no file limits. It’s genuinely amazing. Best file transfer system I have ever used.
Atlas Obscura – Travelling to a new place? Find out the hidden treasures you should go to with Atlas Obscura.
ID Ransomware – Ever get ransomware on your computer? Use this to see if the virus infecting your pc has been cracked yet or not. Potentially saving you money. You can also sign up for email notifications if your particular problem hasn’t been cracked yet.
Way Back Machine – The Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites and loads more.
Rome2Rio – Directions from anywhere to anywhere by bus, train, plane, car and ferry.
Splitter – Seperate different audio tracks audio. Allowing you to split out music from the words for example.
myNoise – Gives you beautiful noises to match your mood. Increase your productivity, calm down and need help sleeping? All here for you.
DeepL – Best language translation tool on the web.
Forvo – Alternatively, if you need to hear a local speaking a word, this is the site for you.
For even more useful sites, there is an expanded list that can be found here.
If they don’t get it to breakeven they’ll hopefully best case just open source the website which is a method they’ve done in the past. And it would probably work, and then the website would to my understanding be being maintained by users. Now this is where my understanding gets fuzzy so anyone with more knowledge of how this would shake out feel free to chime in. But my understanding is that the source code for the site would be opened up and maintained by the community likely through mostly volunteer work. I would guess largely uncompensated.
Well.... sort-of. When you say it's "a method they've done in the past" I get the impression you're referring to Automattic and Wordpress. For those less technically inclined, I think it'd be useful to go over some basics of how Wordpress works: Wordpress is just a bunch of code that anyone can download and put onto a server (either a physical computer somewhere or a rented server). Once that's running they can point a domain at the server, and boom, a new Wordpress site is born that anyone on the internet can visit!
But I'm not really sure that anyone would actually want to visit at that point -- the site is empty! You need to add stuff ("data") to it to make it actually useful -- that can be pages, plugins, themes, posts, comments, accounts, whatever -- all of it is "data" that you have to add to Wordpress in order to make my site not blank and empty.
You can think of a Wordpress website as having 3 pieces: the Wordpress code, site data (posts, themes, users, etc), and the computer/server that hosts it. Only 1 of those things is open-source, and that's the Wordpress code. The other two are owned and controlled by whoever runs the site.
So, let's say that tumblr decided to open source their website. Well, what that means is that they'd make the code public. That would let me get a server and launch tumblr2.com, which definitely would be cool, but tumblr2.com would be empty -- it wouldn't have any of the tumblr accounts, posts, any of that site data that tumblr has. If someone actually did that and set up tumblr2.com, I think most people would probably continue to use tumblr.com just because that's where everyone is already and that's where all the content is. And since there's no way for my new tumblr2.com to talk to tumblr.com, you can't follow or share content between them. Yes, there are other sites that can be configured to be able to do that (looking at you mastodon/fediverse) but that's not tumblr. That model would require months and months of solving coding problems to even get close to working on tumblr.
Ok, so then what's the benefit of open-source? Well, with the source code fully available, that would allow people to switch from suggesting features by describing them with words (which an engineer at tumblr would need to interpret and figure out how to code up) to instead writing the code for new features and submitting it to staff, which staff could just copy paste in. In theory, this would mean that tumblr would have to spend less money on staffing the site because staff wouldn't need to be writing code, but it's important to note that they'd now need a new type of staff for reviewing code submissions!
Not only does there still need to be people at tumblr who are looking over code submissions and making sure they're high quality, bug free, and will work with the rest of the code, but there also still needs to be people at tumblr handling moderation / T&S, and there still needs to be people managing the servers that host tumblr and its data so they don't explode or get hacked! While in theory it might be possible to lose a few staff members, in reality even in the best case it probably wouldn't be very many. It would just shift people from writing code to reviewing community contributions, and in fact, they'd still need people writing code because there are sometimes code needs to be written that nobody in the community wants to / has time to write! Or perhaps there's a bug that requires looking at a users personal information to debug -- community members just can't be allowed to do that, so you'd need an internal engineer to do it.
Point being, while I do think open source would be nice, for a website that works like tumblr it really wouldn't resolve many (or possibly even any) of it's problems :( Sorry to be a party pooper, but I thought it would be useful to give a somewhat detailed explanation so hopefully you can understand why open source isn't a silver bullet.
Okay so here’s my thoughts on the staffcon thing.
I still think collapsing reblogs so posts look more like other social media isn’t gonna work as a feature but they will probably roll them back a little and at least add a toggle off for it if they try it and enough people submit feedback. Edit: this is actually less of an issue, most of the discussion is based on a misrepresentation of what’s happening. They’re just making it easier to scroll past long posts.
I think submitting feedback is a takeaway. There was a pretty clear effort to just remind the user base that there are real humans on the other side of a paycheck having to read and respond to the inputs of every feedback method on the site, which is fair. It’s easy to be an asshole online in any semi anonymous platform and that is something that tumblr culture takes a certain bloodthirsty pleasure in.
And yes, of course, user complaints about issues such as accessibility and the many ongoing glitches and bots and the search function, etc. are valid and do need to be addressed. But at the very least it would be cool if we as users maybe try to cultivate a slightly less pitchforky social norm when submitting feedback about changes to the site. The ceo is not reading every @ to his blog. One of his employees is. The people reading all of the feedback are just people doing their jobs. All jobs suck under capitalism, maybe we could try not to make their jobs actively worse.
Would you be rude to an overworked server in a restaurant? No? Cool also try to not be a dick to the person getting paid to answer customer or user complaints.
Related to that, funding. Many current and former members of staff have been pretty frank about funding in the past. The company is trying to at the very least breakeven, which not a single company who has owned tumblr has managed because the hosting fees for this site are insane due to all of the stuff on it.
If they don’t get it to breakeven they’ll hopefully best case just open source the website which is a method they’ve done in the past. And it would probably work, and then the website would to my understanding be being maintained by users. Now this is where my understanding gets fuzzy so anyone with more knowledge of how this would shake out feel free to chime in. But my understanding is that the source code for the site would be opened up and maintained by the community likely through mostly volunteer work. I would guess largely uncompensated.
So personally I think maybe the vitriolic response to every change they make going forward to try and monetize the site and pay even some of the cost of operation is perhaps a bit overblown, because they’re still trying to find a way to keep paying those people to work on tumblr, and I think people continuing to be paid for the work they do is better than volunteers doing unpaid labor.
I do also think there’s a secret third option for automattic and every other company finding themselves with a worse outlook now the Silicon Valley bubble has started to really burst, and that is for all existing staff members to unionize and then turn the whole thing into a worker coop. Much more stable organizational structures. Worker coops are also one of my favorite short term solutions to many other systemic problems we are currently experiencing.
I do hope this site continues to exist for many years, especially as it is one of the only places on the internet where the culture makes it safer to talk about some of the more permanent and long term solutions to various systemic issues that function within societies. Also funny text posts.
A friend shared this on facebook and I'm putting it here for reference.
what a fantastic post, actually. i use so much free software, and i absolutely love open source stuff, so helpful when you’re trying to learn everything!
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Loved the JED piece! Is Blip the cat open-source?
Thank you so much!! And yes, Blip is open-source! When creating a little friend for Jenny I knew I had to keep them on the same page, so feel free to use Blip as you see fit! And like Jenny you only have a few distinctive features to stick to, the rest is open to interpretation. Blip is a Calico with a Star shaped mark over their right eye, you can alter age/ coat length/ gender/ overall remaining pattern- color/ etc ( if you have questions just let me know ) ⭐
If your phone is Android, consider using Free and Open Source apps as alternatives. The F-Droid repository of non-commercial apps is very transparent about what data is being shared (frequently none). Install F-Droid (many instruction videos exist) and use it like the play store.
In the process of switching to Linux so I can't use photoshop and I was wondering why Krita is such a well kept secret? Maybe it's just come a long way over the years, but its kind of the tits?
It's really streamlined and super powerful, not to mention it's open source, free, and wicked easy to install. If yall are sick of Photoshop training it's dumbass AI, I think Krita is worth considering as an alternative. It's dynamic and focused on artists, and the workspace is easy to get used to.
It's rough out there for artists rn, but the Open Source community seems to have our asses covered
I made a digital rain thing.
Here's a gif:
GitHub and other info under the cut.
It's a C# .NET project available as source code, a Nuget package, or a GitHub release.
Both the source and Nuget versions require you to have dotnet installed, but the GitHub releases are self-contained.
If you don't want to run some random executable, here's a YouTube video that is just 30 minutes of it running.
It's quite hackable and modifiable. As an example, there's a branch with a bunch of pride flag colors.
HOW TO BLOCK YOUTUBE ADS WITH UBLOCK
UBlock Origin is my best friend, if you're tired of getting ads, or getting blocked by youtubes ad blocker, you should TOTALLY use it. It's open source and trustworthy (which means its not owned by a corporation, its made by a bunch of freelance devs). They have extensions for Chrome, Firefox, and presumably most browsers. I'll be showing the chrome version in this post.
Clicking here or on the equivalent button for your browser should take you to your browser's UBlock extension.
Click this button to install, it will likely say "Add to Chrome" for you.
Any new websites you load up should be AD-FREE.
If you're still experiencing problems with youtube, or suddenly it stops working, its because youtube has changed their adblock-blocking algorithm (they change it every 12 hours to a few days), but this can be easily fixed!
Click on the extension, and head to the options page. Go to the "Filter lists" tab of the setting page in the top left.
Click on "uBlock filters - Quick fixes" on the third icon. This is usually a small clock, or this little warning symbol. After clicking this, click on "Update now".
Now if you reload your youtube page, your adblocker should work.
Although, UBlock's quick fixes doesn't work alongside other adblockers very well, so I recommend uninstalling those if youtube is still blocking you.
If reloading this doesn't work, that means that youtube has uploaded a brand new adblocker-blocker, but that means someone on UBlock's dev team is likely already hard at work fixing it. This only happens rarely, I've only seen it twice in over 500 youtube videos I've watched.