Software Endorsements

[Fagnacious D]

Gyroflow

A good stabilization software with built in lens correction. It's FOSS, Linux support, so with DaVinci Resolve and FFmpeg, you can have a 100% Linux workflow for video making, no VM's or Wine. Pretty neat considering music production and photo editing is still a pain in Linux.

Is it really that bad? I heard that Bitwig is a reasonable replacement for Ableton Live / FL Studios.

 

[ENDTOPII]

Is it really that bad? I heard that Bitwig is a reasonable replacement for Ableton Live / FL Studios.

Never used Bitwig, by the looks of it seems decent and got all the majord functions needed for a real mix. But if I (my personal opinion!) were to be forced to move over to linux right now, I would go for REAPER.

That being said, the VST support still lacks on Linux, there are a few good ones (and with this post you can get a song "done"), but if you come from windows/mac making music for a while (you probably got Native Instruments, Fabfilter and iZotope stuff in you VST library), it's it's a very big downgrade that probably most musicians/mixers will just pay up for a new Mac to keep their quality workflow.

Untill these big brands start to adding Linux support (yes, I know it's meme!), Linux will never take off (in the music industry at least) and keep being a niche OS for servers and computer enthusiasts.

 

[Trigger Me Timbers]

I wanted to give a meek, basic, passing endorsement of free pseudo anonymous webhosting site tiiny.site

Now tiiny.site are not based, or redpilled. But what I can say is they do not have any automatic code screening for naughty no-no words.
neocities.org does automatically screen for naughty-no-no words.

I used both for my April fools Null-E.ai gag. Neocities, before I even shared the link, deleted my account within 3 minutes of my code going live and I got no emails or anything telling me what happened. (the code has lots of naughty no-no words baked into it).

TiinyHost is still up.

Here is my list comparing the two.

	TiinyHost	Neocities
Doesn't Automatically deletes your account if it finds the words NIGGER anywhere
Allows you to use disposable emails
Doesn't gives users a malware warning
Not watermarked

Now I doubt tiinyhost will stand up if I got mass reported, but it works if you just need a quick one off. The watermark is annoying but I think I could easily hide it with some javascript. Oh and it gets flagged as malware which sucks.

I didn't bother trying github pages because I have been told that they will also auto listen to NIGGER words but also I don't trust my computer to not some how leak my other Github usernames because I am quite injected into the GitHub ecosystem and use their apps.

GitGud uses GitLab which may also be pozzed but also they require some weird docker shit to make it work and that sounded gay, like docking into another mans cock? No thank you.

 

[Rats in a Trenchcoat]

retarded question: is there a nice APK that just clones the youtube UI and blocks ads?

 

[Civillian 18]

retarded question: is there a nice APK that just clones the youtube UI and blocks ads?

I do not know about a full clone, but ReVanced is a thing. You download the manager and patch the suggested/valid YouTube APK on your phone itself (simply to get around the 'distrubuting patched/modified APK' issue). This allows you to select from a list of patches in addition to the basic blocking of ads, it also has SponsorBlock integration etc.

Otherwise there are public Invidious instances that you could navigate to but that would be browser-based on a phone which kind of just sucks ass.

 

[User names must be unique]

retarded question: is there a nice APK that just clones the youtube UI and blocks ads?

Easiest method is to just use youtube.com in brave web browser, blocks all the ads and allows playback while minimized and picture in picture (sometimes, it's a bit hit or miss on my phone*)

EDIT: *pip that is all the other features work fine

 

[Rats in a Trenchcoat]

I do not know about a full clone, but ReVanced is a thing. You download the manager and patch the suggested/valid YouTube APK on your phone itself (simply to get around the 'distrubuting patched/modified APK' issue). This allows you to select from a list of patches in addition to the basic blocking of ads, it also has SponsorBlock integration etc.

Otherwise there are public Invidious instances that you could navigate to but that would be browser-based on a phone which kind of just sucks ass.

ill try that, thanks. i seem to remember something along those lines years back but that stuff gets snuffed so hard these days

 

[Civillian 18]

ill try that, thanks. i seem to remember something along those lines years back but that stuff gets snuffed so hard these days

Yeah the original Vanced shut down for a couple reasons, I assume there was some pressure from YouTube/Google themselves but they also went full retard with NFT shit. I never looked into it once it eventually stopped working on my phone and just started using ReVanced.
The manager will prompt the suggested version and take you to a Google search with the version pre-filled. Make sure to get the 'nodpi' version from APKMirror (it will 99% be the first result). You will also need to install their patched version of gmscore(? I think, I am not 100% on the name.) which will enable you to log in and have your subscriptions etc. but the app should prompt you for that also.

 

[clipartfan92]

ill try that, thanks. i seem to remember something along those lines years back but that stuff gets snuffed so hard these days

There's also these two options that work well:

https://grayjay.app/

https://github.com/bravenewpipe/NewPipe

 

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Does anyone have a VPN recommendation? I know everyone on youtube shills Nord but I think I heard they got breached a while back which idk how I feel about that, Ive seen a suggestion for one other from some random youtuber, I think it was called Atlas VPN and I looked and it was just shut down and owned by Nord like a month or so ago so idk.

 

[AnOminous]

Does anyone have a VPN recommendation? I know everyone on youtube shills Nord but I think I heard they got breached a while back which idk how I feel about that, Ive seen a suggestion for one other from some random youtuber, I think it was called Atlas VPN and I looked and it was just shut down and owned by Nord like a month or so ago so idk.

Mullvad still has a pretty good reputation. There are way more neckbeardy options, though.

 

[generic sauce]

Does anyone have a VPN recommendation? I know everyone on youtube shills Nord but I think I heard they got breached a while back which idk how I feel about that, Ive seen a suggestion for one other from some random youtuber, I think it was called Atlas VPN and I looked and it was just shut down and owned by Nord like a month or so ago so idk.

If you aren't doing glownigger shit a cheap vps and tailscale is bretty gud. I use it for actual vpn usage but it has an easy way to just enable traffic routing.

 

[clipartfan92]

Mullvad still has a pretty good reputation.

Always a bonus that you can send them an envelope of cash and have zero payment details linked to you.

 

[AnOminous]

Always a bonus that you can send them an envelope of cash and have zero payment details linked to you.

Crypto as well. They still have your IP address at least to maintain a session, and like all VPNs, if they get a court order, they'll have to provide ongoing information even if they don't keep logs.

 

[clipartfan92]

They still have your IP address at least to maintain a session, and like all VPNs, if they get a court order, they'll have to provide ongoing information even if they don't keep logs.

Well, they have an IP address for someone. Layers of an onion and all of that. I don't think they're rolling out the triangulation equipment like in Gleaming the Cube Pump Up The Volume over my shitposts.

 

[anustart76]

Does anyone have a VPN recommendation? I know everyone on youtube shills Nord but I think I heard they got breached a while back which idk how I feel about that, Ive seen a suggestion for one other from some random youtuber, I think it was called Atlas VPN and I looked and it was just shut down and owned by Nord like a month or so ago so idk.

I've used Mullvad, Proton, and AirVPN, all of which were pretty good.

 

[AmpleApricots]

I used to use Mullvad, but it's relatively expensive (compared to other providers) and their API at least used to shit the bed regularily and they recentely removed port forwarding as feature. I heard it was connected to people hosting child porn and offering access via forwarded ports but if it wasn't torrenting I find that hard to believe because it just seems overtly complicated in a time where twitter, discord etc. don't take posts with CP down for years and LE obviously doesn't care that much if it's not useful for some agenda to "find" it.

I use AirVPN now, their API is more stable and has more features, the service is faster (at least for me) and they also still offer port forwarding. If you wait for special sales it's very cheap to get it for a year.

Then again, I only use it to dodge copyright lawyers, (very proactive laws against pirating here) tranny jannies, and making corpo data-hoarders lives a bit more difficult, I would not recommend VPNs for anything else.

Mullvad got a good grep for swedish police finding nothing at their offices when they got raided because of their data retention rules. I don't think it means much. VPN providers are not beholden to keep logs by law in most countries, they have literally nothing to gain and only to lose by doing it secretly anyways so if a VPN is not a literal glowie setup (which might absolutely be true for most if not all of them) I doubt any of them log anything on purpose, nor do I think it's a sign of outstanding quality or privacy.

 

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used to use Mullvad, but it's relatively expensive (compared to other providers) and their API at least used to shit the bed regularily and they recentely removed port forwarding as feature. I heard it was connected to people hosting child porn and offering access via forwarded ports but if it wasn't torrenting I find that hard to believe because it just seems overtly complicated in a time where twitter, discord etc. don't take posts with CP down for years and LE obviously doesn't care that much if it's not useful for some agenda to "find" it.

I suspect the primary reason for Mullvad (and others) removing port forwarding is that it was useful for people running up absolutely UGE ratios on private torrent trackers and Soulseek etc and costing them lots of network traffic. It sucks but if you can't actually identify the few hundred people amongst your customers who regularly upload several tens of terabytes every month so you can send them an email asking them to just be happy with having a 100:1 or 10:1 ratio, the only choice is to cut it off for everyone.

What's most frustrating with commercial VPN providers is how few have servers in free countries. It's easy to understand why; if you set up a VPN service with servers in Russia, even if you block connections to the Russian IP space to try and keep Roskomnadzor off your back, the enemies of humanity will just use your VPN server to send threats to the Russian government via some random webmail provider and that will then get you deplatformed.

There's not really a good way to get around that apart from accepting that your VPN server in Russia, Venezuela, etc will be secure except against the local internet authorities and doing some negotiations with them- that's a compromise I'm mostly fine with as it means real protection against anything but bribery or nation state spies, but the only way I can see to get that kind of service is just to buy a cheapass Russian VPS with crypto, and it would be nice to have a bit more freedom to be able to shift servers when you get blocked from sites with gay blocking policies.

 

[Betonhaus]

I'm slowly migrating away from Microsoft services, and I'm trying to find alternatives for their cloud services and apps that will run on both Linux and Android - and can ideally be set up to be hosted on a personal server already running nextcloud? So like a To-Do task sync, OneNote, calendar also. And maybe a RSS client that can be hosted on a server?

 

[Null]

I'm slowly migrating away from Microsoft services, and I'm trying to find alternatives for their cloud services and apps that will run on both Linux and Android - and can ideally be set up to be hosted on a personal server already running nextcloud? So like a To-Do task sync, OneNote, calendar also. And maybe a RSS client that can be hosted on a server?

Proton offers a lot of that shit. Their docs explain what is encrypted e2e. You can lose access if you lose your password.