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does anyone got a converter that can take any image/gif format and convert it; mostly for jfif and webp images
 
fartsnstuf said:
does anyone got a converter that can take any image/gif format and convert it; mostly for jfif and webp images
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A command line thing? I know about Imagemagic/Graphicsmagic, but you might have to compile it yourself to support something like webp. I don't know if Gimp can do batches, if that's what you want.
 
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Who here has a good alternative to recommend for P2P VPN software like Hamachi? I'm not a fan of LogMeIn forcing users to have an account now just to use it, and I also wouldn't mind something that can also be used in the command line fairly quickly.
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ZeroTier requires an account, though it's nowhere near as intrusive as logmein and will take disposable email addresses.

The command line functionality works great on Linux, and doesn't require systemd.

There's a sort of managed P2P WireGuard solution called TailScale that's been shilled a lot lately. I expect that requires an email account, though it won't be anywhere near as intrusive as LogMeIn.
EDIT: I should note that one advantage of ZeroTier that I believe used to drive people to Hamachi is support for non-IP protocols like IPX for very old Windows/DOS games.
 
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does anyone got a converter that can take any image/gif format and convert it; mostly for jfif and webp images
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If it's not animated webp's then IrfanView can batch-convert any filetype to any other filetype with lots of options. It's also got a GUI that is easy to figure out. If all your doing is converting one or two images here and there, just open the image in IV and press ctrl-s and choose a new format.
 
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Mailgw (formerly mailnull)
Gishpuppy

Both are free services that provide disposable email addresses, but they do it by forwarding emails to your real email address instead of making a box out in the open that anyone can access and you'll probably forget to check. The email addresses don't have to expire if you don't want them to, so you can use them to register for things where you actually want to receive updates long term.

Additional commentary inspired by This thread about people having to use gmail to sign up for KF:
Usually I like Mailgw more. Nicer UI, instantly creates new addresses for you when you get mail (if the address is in the right format, and if you enable the option), and has evidence that the dev is alive. Last I checked gishpuppy works but I don't know when the owner is going up die and stop paying the upkeep costs.

Usually meaning, normie stuff. Mailgw dude I assume would not approve of KF, so I'll take gishpuppy's owner being AWOL as a selling point if you're trying to receive a KF activation email. I have no reason to believe that the owner of Mailgw spies on emails that pass through his service, but also I get the feeling that KF is considered bad enough to be an exception.

Remember: neither of these services will stop Gmail from seeing that you're receiving mail from KF. They will only hide your real email address in the case of another database leak. For things where you really want to stay anon, best practice would still be to use something like a cock.li or a lolcow.email under the alias, if they'll accept the emails.

MXroute
Warning: don't send unsolicited marketing emails/spam via this service, the owner is very protective of his clean IP addresses. If you send spam, he will ban you with no refund, and charge you $1 for each piece of spam sent.

The reason I'd consider recommending this is because on the topic of being worried about email providers knowing you're receiving emails from KF, I'd consider MXroute "safe". At least, relative to big tech. During the Twitter purges earlier this year, they voluntarily chose to remove themself from Twitter and relocate to mastodon.

This apparently cost them a few customers, but only because the customers were triggered that the company banned itself instead of waiting to get banned, lol. The owner did not ban the customers for being too left wing. He allows people from all sides of the political spectrum to use his service. We probably won't be instabanned over troons.

Reasons I would not recommend this service include the fact that it costs money, and the fact that you need to bring your own domain. The cost itself actually seems good by paid email standards, but between paying for MXroute and paying for the domain, this isn't an anonymous option. I'd only suggest putting this on the table if the alternative is say, using Gmail to register for KF. Or if you are looking for an actual normal email provider instead of a kiwi thing, in which case it doesn't matter that you're leaking PII everywhere.

Now, whether you should use MXroute aside, if you do use it then it actually allows you to make a proper inbox with storage if you want. You can make as many accounts on as many domains as you want, you're limited by total inbox size instead of accounts and domains. Each inbox comes with a 10GB NextCloud account, but with the disclaimer that they offer the service as is.

Although you can use MXroute as a fully fledged email service, it's still possible to configure a bunch of forwarders and use it like the free services I mentioned above.

Note that is guy also sets up other alternative services, kind of like KF's family of sister sites.

I don't recommend these for the purposes of wrong thinking anonymity, but they might be useful for normie stuff and spam management. Mostly I keep them in the back of my head just in case I one day find and purchase a domain so memetastic that I must milk it for as many email addresses as I can.

ForwardEmail - The free tier isn't very anonymous if people look up your DNS. Also the owner harasses other email forwarding services on Twitter, then locks down his account to DFE when they fight back. They look like they might be the cheapest option - excluding MXRoute LTD/BF - for large numbers of domains.

ImprovMX - I think they have a free tier but they require you bring a domain. These are the dudes ForwardEmail was targeting on Twitter, I assume they're perceived as the biggest competitor.

Hanami - I don't know much about them, they just appeared once day.

AnonAddy - Can encrypt mail before forwarding to you. Sounds cool. I'm enough of a nerd to be paranoid that header stuff can't be encrypted so it might be a false sense of security.

SimpleLogin - Same thoughts as AnonAddy
 
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Just a heads up since I've seen sandboxie mentioned earlier in the thread, since this has been the bane of my existence for the last month:

If you're getting intermittent video crashes on a machine with a nvidia card it's sandboxie causing it. Doesn't matter which version of nvidia's drivers you have installed, if geforce experience is installed or not, or if sandboxie is physically running at all. If the sandboxie system driver is there it's going to shit the bed every 20 minutes if the GPU is under load.

Hopefully this angrypost saves someone else some grief because holy shit fuck this thing.
 
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AnOminous said:
If you're okay with ncurses apps, cmus is very fast and zero frills.
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Cmus has the best search I've ever seen in an application. If your MP3s are tagged good enough, you can type literally anything related to the song and you'll get what you want, every time.

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moocow said:
I recently got fed up with the hot garbage known as "File Explorer" that Windows ships with (note: I'm just referring to the file manager tool, not the Windows shell, which is its own rat's nest of pain). It finally irritated me enough to motivate me to go searching for a replacement. There are a few reasonably decent ones, but each one I came across had some kind of showstopper; a given replacement was either just a barebones clone of Explorer, a ripoff of the linux tool "mc" (which is a great console tool) without much of anything extra, was paid software, or a clone of some paid software.

Then I came across Q-Dir. Holy mother of shit. It's free (not open-source, but screw it -- I'll forgive them for this one), not begware or shareware or donationware (it doesn't beg for money when you run or use it), has a metric fuckton of features, functionality and customizability, and has definitely scratched my itch for an Explorer replacement:

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Holy mother of shit, look at this thing! It defaults to a split layout with four separate folder views (hence the name "Q-Dir" or "Quad-Dir") but it supports myriad different layouts (two side-by-side, two top-to-bottom, one top panel and two split bottom panels, basically every combination you can think of). It supports rule-based filename styling (color, bold/italic/underline, etc.), supports themes, has tabs (each independent view has its own set of tabs), a tree view (one for all open panels or one per panel), all the usual "view modes" (details, small/medium/large icons, list, etc.), native zip support, etc. Every bit of it is optional -- you can strip it down to a barebones multi-panel file manager if you want. It can also be configured to step in as an Explorer replacement.

Even with a lot of those features turned on, it's very lightweight and uses minimal resources. One File Explorer window, just showing the "This PC" view listing all the system's disks and network storage, is using 65MB of memory on my machine. My open Q-Dir instance, showing four panels and seven total tabs, including several directories with thousands of entries, is using 89MB. It's very fast too (with one notable exception; see below). It handles all the usual things you'd expect from a file manager, like drag-and-drop between panels (and other applications), sane keyboard shortcuts, proper clipboard support, etc.

I've only noted a couple issues with it, but I think they're minor enough to forgive it. The biggest pain point is that it uses the native Explorer delete/recycle function to delete files and directories, and it blocks when it does so. Not a huge deal until you decide to delete a big folder with tons of stuff in it or delete a bunch of stuff all at once from a slow network drive. Then you're stuck waiting for the delete operation to finish before you can interact with Q-Dir again. You can spin up another instance of Q-Dir if you've previously configured it to allow that (I think that's actually the default behavior), but it's still annoying.

Second, it is notably slow when selecting tons of items (i.e. tens or hundreds of thousands) at once in a single panel view by some action like pressing [Ctrl]-[A] ("select all"). I made the mistake of hitting [Ctrl]-[A] on a folder with a couple hundred thousand items and ended up waiting nearly 10 minutes for Q-Dir to become responsive again. To its credit, it handles thousands of items just fine. It only seems to have problems when you get into the 5-digit counts.

Finally, the web site is a bit Engrish, but it's still pretty easy to understand and there's an absolute boatload of documentation and FAQs.

That's it for downsides I've seen so far though. Overall I'm very happy with this thing. It's still in active development, too, so it's got that going for it.
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Just installed this, thanks. I've been looking for a dual-pane windows file manager for a long time, so quad-pane is even better.


I whole-heartedly recommend consent-manager. It's a chrome/brave extension that removes GDPR notices ("do you ok cookies?"). Makes the internet slightly less annoying.

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Consent Manager

Removes most cookie banners and declines consent by omission
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Doesn't seem to be available on Linux, so that's out of the question for me I'm afraid. However, it seems like CLI options do exist, such as n2n and freelan, which might be worth looking into.
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Have you seen wireguard? Supports Linux, Windows (!) and MacOS (!!!). Command line and GUI options. And I don't know how they've done it, but connecting to the tunnel is damn near instant compared to the 10+ seconds I see most other VPN clients take to establish a connection. Open source, GPL/MIT licensed.
 
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moocow said:
Yeah, it's got some scummy behaviors by default. From what I can tell it can at least all be mitigated, and I still find it to be a better browser than Chrome. Maybe it's just a matter of choosing between the lesser of two evils, but I think Brave is the lesser evil.

I honestly wish there was something chrome-flavored that isn't pozzed, owned by corporate overlords and/or contaminated with spyware and bloat, but here we are :(

I further wish the chromium maintainers could figure out how to drop the god damn ridiculous memory footprint these chrome-based browsers all exhibit now. It's just getting silly at this point. Just because I have 32GB of RAM on this workstation doesn't mean I intended for it to all be hogged by the damned browser.
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It can't. The issue I have with Brave is that it makes 24 some odd requests out to servers hosted on Amazon AWS, Google, and Fastly infrastructure on every launch. I have tried disabling just about every option in Brave's settings to no avail. I like my browsers to be radio silent until I tell them to actually do something. They shouldn't so much as send out a hello world until I tell them to load a page.

There is. Ungoogled Chrome works fine and doesn't make unsolicited requests. Either build it from the source or conduct a basic security audit of the community supplied binaries. Even if you can't do either its not much different then blindly placing trust in Brave's prebuilt binary.

I am running Ungoogled Chrome with 20 some odd tabs open at any given time on a 10 year old laptop with only 8gb of ram and I am not experiencing any memory consumption or high cpu load issues. You either have a bad build of chrome, a rouge crx extension or malware on your machine. Something is definitely wrong.
 
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If there are any music heads here I can't recommend Logitech Media Server enough. The forums here would probably be a more useful place to start.

All of my music sits on a NAS with a SMB share, I have a little Debian thin client hosting LMS itself, but you can easily containerize if that's your thing. I have a raspberry pi using piCorePlayer in each room connected to a stereo. Each room can play music pulling from your LMS server separately or synced kind of like a Sonos. The options are endless.

If you want to keep it really simple piCorePlayer has the ability to host LMS itself so if you want to go really simple you can just connect an external HDD to your pi and do it that way. Also, if you do try this out I recommend the Material Skin plugin as the default skin looks a little dated.
 
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is there software that can bulk download media from Twitter?

EDIT: I have found Image Cyborg and will see if it pans out, i'll try to keep you updated
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Okay, coming back to this post 2 years later, Image Cyborg did work at the time; but from since then to now; they annoyingly added a "trial" plan to force you to pay money

since then, i have moved onto RipMe a bulk image downloader that is open source
 
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Okay, coming back to this post 2 years later, Image Cyborg did work at the time; but from since then to now; they annoyingly added a "trial" plan to force you to pay money

since then, i have moved onto RipMe a bulk image downloader that is open source
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JDownloader works well for Twitter images and videos, as well as Instagram... and basically all websites of note.
 
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Recently started using obsidian.md (personal knowledge base software / note taking) and it's pretty great. Does the best job compared to similar softwares imo
obsidian.md

Obsidian: A knowledge base that works on local Markdown files.

Obsidian – A knowledge base that works on local Markdown files.
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Got the reccomendation from this LessWrong thread, which has a bunch of good software reccomendations in general
www.lesswrong.com

The Best Software For Every Need - LessWrong

When I first started programming, I didn't use a terminal multiplexer and finding tmux was a sort of revelation. I joked once on discord that "life before tmux was not life". It strikes me there are probably many other programs that I am not aware of that would be useful to know about. I've...
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Can anyone recommend a browser extension or something to get rid of these annoying "accept our cookies" pop ups? I swear someone already posted something in this thread but now I can't find the post.
 
moocow said:
Yeah, it's got some scummy behaviors by default. From what I can tell it can at least all be mitigated, and I still find it to be a better browser than Chrome. Maybe it's just a matter of choosing between the lesser of two evils, but I think Brave is the lesser evil.

I honestly wish there was something chrome-flavored that isn't pozzed, owned by corporate overlords and/or contaminated with spyware and bloat, but here we are :(

I further wish the chromium maintainers could figure out how to drop the god damn ridiculous memory footprint these chrome-based browsers all exhibit now. It's just getting silly at this point. Just because I have 32GB of RAM on this workstation doesn't mean I intended for it to all be hogged by the damned browser.
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https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

edit: on Android, Bromite is an option.
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Astute Observation said:
It can't. The issue I have with Brave is that it makes 24 some odd requests out to servers hosted on Amazon AWS, Google, and Fastly infrastructure on every launch. I have tried disabling just about every option in Brave's settings to no avail. I like my browsers to be radio silent until I tell them to actually do something. They shouldn't so much as send out a hello world until I tell them to load a page.

There is. Ungoogled Chrome works fine and doesn't make unsolicited requests. Either build it from the source or conduct a basic security audit of the community supplied binaries. Even if you can't do either its not much different then blindly placing trust in Brave's prebuilt binary.

I am running Ungoogled Chrome with 20 some odd tabs open at any given time on a 10 year old laptop with only 8gb of ram and I am not experiencing any memory consumption or high cpu load issues. You either have a bad build of chrome, a rouge crx extension or malware on your machine. Something is definitely wrong.
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What's wrong with vivaldi? different options for 'open in new tab' & 'open in background tab' is godsent. and it's aesthetics are the peak java opera
The Empirical Bogey said:
I use this great notes app called D Notes. It looks good and has many features and options, rarely lags. Notes can be backed up to internal storage, but that requires the pro version. It's made by an Afrikaaner, which is odd.

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just use standard notes https://standardnotes.com/
bloat free, web app support
 
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