Software Endorsements

[chiobu]

Spoiler: lol their sysadmin

Privacy and tech have a lot of overlap, especially these days, and unfortunately part of that is these weirdos.

https://twitter.com/JonahAragon

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Your username is the perjorative for FtMs

 

[Dr. Octogonapus]

I want to say thank you to the Kiwis who recommended random programs modern search engines won’t let you see because they don’t make bank off of them. I knew there’s probably still free software out there that does the job better than most things shilling for cash, but I sure couldn’t find it. I haven’t been invested in computing these past few years. The internet is such a shithole now, but at least you guys gave me tools to navigate through this tunnel of shit we call our home.

I wish I had literally anything good to throw into the pot, but I don’t really. I think these have already been said but just incase:
-LibreOffice: Classic Microsoft Office clone + literally an OpenOffice clone. OpenOffice has been kind of a pain to get to install lately. LibreOffice is the same shit but more up to date.
-OpenShell: ClassicShell clone but also up to date. The guy that made ClassicShell doesn’t do updates to it anymore. OpenShell picked up where they left off. It brings back the classic Windows taskbar in whatever flavor of your choosing (7, Vista, XP, ect)
-Joplin: Evernote clone but no subscription for syncing your notes to as many devices as you want. It’s also kinda P2P like I think? Where Evernote you had your notes in the cloud, Joplin just syncs your files straight between your devices. At least it seems like it.

 

[Frail Snail]

Ran into some frustrations on Linux, where I needed my monitor setup to have two behaviors: free mouse movement between any monitor by default and a way to trap the mouse pointer at will for some fullscreen programs per monitor. xpointerbarrier did the job, but don't listen to their Readme example. I don't know why they put those random variables as barrier parameters when 1 1 1 1 for the entire screen is what you normally want.

 

[awoo]

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sponsorblock/ along with uBlock Origin to skip sponsors within videos

 

[Fred Fuckstone]

Hydrus is a desktop booru-styled multimedia manager, and it's as robust as you'd expect. Tags and searches, imports image URLs from the clipboard, has a built-in duplicate filter, etc, and there's a(n extremely large) community run tag database.

Yes, it's almost entirely made for nicking shit from porn sites, but I've used it to collect a surprisingly accurately tagged collection of chan shit. It does take some setting up and some work to tag your own shit if you'd rather not download almost 40gb worth of mappings, but I've been using it for almost four years and it hasn't let me down once. Just remember to cycle your imports tab after every 10,000 or so images, it tends to bog down once it hits five digits.


Would anyone happen to have a file duplicate searcher they'd recommend? I remember CCleaner had one, but apparently it got backdoored out the ass, and I'd rather not keep it.

 

[BONE_Buddy]

Going to throw an endorsement behind voidtools "everything" local search engine. It fucking works like black magic for finding things the useless widows search can't.

It's free, it's fast, and it works. Just try it. I had been rolling my eyes at the thought of getting a separate search program for my computer too. However, you don't understand just how shit Windows search is until you have something really good to compare it to on the same platform.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

Would anyone happen to have a file duplicate searcher they'd recommend? I remember CCleaner had one, but apparently it got backdoored out the ass, and I'd rather not keep it.

Everything was mentioned in the post above but it has a filter(in advanced search iirc) to only show duplicates(going by filesize, name or both). It can do so across all your drives or you can specify one drive only, or one folder only, or only one kind of file(.webp) or a type of file(images) in one folder/drive/everywhere. It will probably be a pain in the ass if you're dealing with a huge amount of dupes, but hey, it's free and it works. And like the poster above said, you don't have to wait for a long scan, it immediately shows you the results.

 

[Least Concern]

@Null The ProtonVPN affiliate link in the OP seems to be broken currently. It leads to a 404.

 

[Null]

@Null The ProtonVPN affiliate link in the OP seems to be broken currently. It leads to a 404.

They revoked it ages ago

 

[Toolbox]

Going to throw an endorsement behind voidtools "everything" local search engine. It fucking works like black magic for finding things the useless widows search can't.

It's free, it's fast, and it works. Just try it. I had been rolling my eyes at the thought of getting a separate search program for my computer too. However, you don't understand just how shit Windows search is until you have something really good to compare it to on the same platform.

There's also AnyTXT for more in depth searches. Free tool that can search within text documents, including HTML.

Anyone know of a reliable way to block garbage recommendations on Youtube? Video blocker is pretty much not updated anymore, and manually attempting to clean up with ublock filters is unreliable.

 

[Short Circuit]

Would anyone happen to have a file duplicate searcher they'd recommend?

Czkawka for general purpose is basically a swiss knife, although I still like using AntiDupl.NET for just images, has a far comfier interface.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

There's also AnyTXT for more in depth searches. Free tool that can search within text documents, including HTML.

I'm going to give AnyTXT a try but there is a similar program that I really like called DocFetcher that works very well. It's fast, portable and can search through huge amount of files in a couple of seconds.

http://docfetcher.sourceforge.net/en/index.html

 

[Frail Snail]

(Linux only) SongRec, basically a frontend to Shazam's song recognition service. Has options to recognize audio from mic or file, I've only used the file option (it works well).

 

[Dante Alighieri]

Privacy Guides

Massive organizations are monitoring your online activities. Privacy Guides is your central privacy and security resource to protect yourself online.

privacyguides.org

People should be referencing this site instead of privacytools.

 

[He Who Points And Laughs]

I can't stand Word, as the moment you move one image your entire document becomes a M.C. Escher piece. Not too fond of the LibreOffice writer either. So instead I use LaTeX.

I'll have one terminal open editing the .tex file, another terminal for converting the .tex file into pdf via pdflatex example.tex, and Evince displaying the pdf. Each save, and transformation to pdf, automatically updates the Evince view. The end result are professional looking documents which are easy to edit without becoming a mess.

All of the internal documentation I make for my team is written in LaTeX, and I've become so comfortable with it that I use it for pretty much anything I need to write.

 

[Cowboy Kim]

Privacy Guides

Massive organizations are monitoring your online activities. Privacy Guides is your central privacy and security resource to protect yourself online.

privacyguides.org

People should be referencing this site instead of privacytools.

Why so? PrivacyTools was still held in high regard, last I checked.

 

[Dante Alighieri]

Why so? PrivacyTools was still held in high regard, last I checked.

Welcome to Privacy Guides | Privacy Guides

Massive organizations are monitoring your online activities. Privacy Guides is your central privacy and security resource to protect yourself online.

privacyguides.org

 

[Cowboy Kim]

Welcome to Privacy Guides | Privacy Guides

Massive organizations are monitoring your online activities. Privacy Guides is your central privacy and security resource to protect yourself online.

privacyguides.org

From what I could gather, there's no real issue other then political/social issues with the .io TLD.
I know fuck-all about bongland politics, which the drama centers around, so I can't speak for certain, but I don't see there to be any need to replace the .io entirely as long as its still maintained.
Listing it as an alternate site in the OP would be good if not just to provide a second option.

 

[moocow]

From what I could gather, there's no real issue other then political/social issues with the .io TLD.

They're shutting down literally all their existing services (except the website itself) to focus on whatever "social issue" garbage they're delving into, which is guaranteed to be woketard shit because of their open (and enthusiastic) affiliation with a subreddit. On reddit. Which is not generally known for its tolerance of "people who get shit done" or "people who are not woke."

Existing information on the site may still be valuable, but going forward expect nothing reliable to issue from this group of misfits.

 

[AnOminous]

All of the internal documentation I make for my team is written in LaTeX, and I've become so comfortable with it that I use it for pretty much anything I need to write.

Note, LaTeX is literally 38 years old. Stuff released last year is absolute garbage compared to it.