Software Endorsements

[Daddy's Little Kitten]

Tutanota doesn't require a recovery mail so maybe try that... or there's another option.

Sorry for the late reply. I made an account with Tutanota, switched my email here, but forgot a very important detail. Tutanota keeps your account in ice for 2 days. I accidentally locked myself out of KF.

 

[Spud]

Sorry for the late reply. I made an account with Tutanota, switched my email here, but forgot a very important detail. Tutanota keeps your account in ice for 2 days. I accidentally locked myself out of KF.

What was the freedom like?

 

[Daddy's Little Kitten]

What was the freedom like?

It was OK.

 

[neal_rice]

Wouldn't recommend Tuta as an email alternative, had too many troubles dealing with them. When they say privacy first, they really do mean it: to the extreme. No email forwarding, no email subaddressing (for example kiwiskull+fag@gmail.com), none of that. You have to set up multiple email addresses, the most egregious example being kiwiskull-kf@gmail.com. You get the idea.

Quite awful experience, not one I want to repeat. Proton on the other hand does support subaddressing, but I'm hesitent to make an email addy via Proton for some reason.

 

[Eddie Riggs]

ytdlp.online is a website version of the downloader we all know and love.

Gets the job done, all you gotta do is just bookmark it and have the commands you use most jotted down.

 

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OK, TECHNICALLY not software as such, but it is a recommendation.

If you've used the FEC donation registrar recently to get someone's employer and address, you have almost certainly run into this bullshit error when clicking through to the individual details, especially on ActBlue records.

"Error#1896: Image is not processed yet, please try again later
Images from this report have not yet completed processing."

Now you should- with a lot of effort- be able to go through and download tens of different CSV files and use a command line search on the tens of GBs of files to get the details from there, but, there is a much easier way!

A site called https://checkmydonation.org/ lets you get most of the details like address you can (under ideal circumstances) from the FEC site- with the sole exception of employer- and it searches quicker. Very cool!

 

[They were once men]

Does anyone know of any good simple lightweight video editors out there, I know there's plenty of free ones but i'd only really being using it to make simple edits not editing a fucking movie or someshit.

 

[canalCrab]

Does anyone know of any good simple lightweight video editors out there, I know there's plenty of free ones but i'd only really being using it to make simple edits not editing a fucking movie or someshit.

kdenlive works quite well for me.

 

[Aidan]

Can anyone endorse me a good way to mass-convert webp images to jpg or png on Android so I can send memes to my friends again
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Not what you're looking for and more appropriate for https://kiwifarmsaaf4t2h7gc3dfc5ojh...stions-nsq-internet-technology-edition.62906/ but I use find + imagemagick to do this but to do that easily would require moving them to a Linux computer, using WSL or maybe Mac.

https://imagemagick.org/script/magick.php

Example usage:

find . -type f -iname '*.webp' -exec bash -c 'magick "$0" "${0%.*}.jpg"' {} \;

There's probably a better way but that's always worked for me. Change the . to whatever directory they're in, but I always do these things in a temporary directory just for the conversions to keep it simple.

Just found out about an app called LocalSend. It lets you share files with nearby devices without an internet connection. It's available on Windows, Android, Linux, MacOS, iOS, and Fire OS.

I desperately needed something like this. Thank you.

Syncthing can do this as well and has a setting to only share on local networks. https://syncthing.net/

Speaking of, @dick brain you could use syncthing to sync your image files on your phone with some directory on another computer and avoid having to manually shift files around for the conversions.

 

[TerribleUser09]

I just want to brag about how great is SmartTube for TV. No longer ads, no longer sponsor intermissions or wacky beginnings/endings of the video. Clean, sleak. Just nice.

 

[Rustle]

Does anyone know of any good simple lightweight video editors out there, I know there's plenty of free ones but i'd only really being using it to make simple edits not editing a fucking movie or someshit.

I use shotcut and it works fine.

 

[I Know 孤独のせい]

Any recommendations for e-book readers on PC ? I think I tried calibre years ago.

 

[Slav Power]

Any recommendations for e-book readers on PC ? I think I tried calibre years ago.

If you only need to open e-book formats, SumatraPDF will do just fine.

 

[KYSing myself brb]

Any recommendations for e-book readers on PC ? I think I tried calibre years ago.

do you mean a simple pdf/epub reading application or a full-fledged book library thing? as for a replacement for calibre, i'm not aware of any comparable software. if you're talking about a simple pdf/epub reader, there is sumatrapdf for windows and atril for linux. the only downside to atril is that it requires some dependencies from the mate desktop to build, without which it won't build, no matter what desktop enviornment you're actually using, but that's more of poweruser concern that most people probably don't need to care about.

 

[TORtlEMUStRaNSUS]

ytdlp.online is a website version of the downloader we all know and love.

Gets the job done, all you gotta do is just bookmark it and have the commands you use most jotted down.

A better option, mainly for linux users, is to just set bash aliases with the commands you want. then you can have it downloaded and no need for a third party site.

 

[August Levasseur]

A better option, mainly for linux users, is to just set bash aliases with the commands you want. then you can have it downloaded and no need for a third party site.

Partly unrelated, but something I've found very useful on Linux is to add a directory to your $PATH specifically for scripts you write and create a script to partly automate creating new scripts. I have $HOME/.local/bin/scripts, and a little script that checks to see if there's already a script with that name, then opens a text editor, and adds the correct permissions to the new script file. I would also recommend making a couple scripts to automate editing and deleting the scripts you create this way.

 

[Ferryman]

Tutanota is good but keep in mind that you have to log in once every six months or it gets deleted (if you're going to use the free plan); otherwise, hassle-free mail creation. Cockli recently removed its webmail and only works via mail client, so it may not be what you need right now. Disroot works well as long as you don't mind them being unabashed leftists; they might take a while to approve your account and you also have to write about why do you need to use their services, yadda yadda. No experience with lolcow mail. There's one last provider not mentioned in that post, mailfence, relatively no-nonsense mail and also touting privacy, though I don't remember if they delete accounts after a period of inactivity; I made one address on there three years ago and it's still there.

+ 1 for Disroot, and if you can get an invite, RiseUp or Lavabit. All three of them are run by anarchist types, so if you're into saucy stuff, you'll be hard pressed to find a better provider. Honestly, cock.li is probably the easiest thing you can get going. They do not have encryption by default though, so you might also want to set up clientside PGP or something if you intend on using it as an actual email.

Edit: *** As long as you keep your footprint clean and do not put any personal info on there. Ever. This goes for ALL email services. You cannot trust one single group or organization to not leak your data.