Software Endorsements

[Hellwalker]

Crossposting. Not software but I still think it deserves an endorsement:

To all the homies that hate unnecessary animations on webpages and want them to burn in the firey pits of Hell, I found an extension that does just that:

Disable Transitions

 

[foam rolla]

Thinking of getting rid my old Gmail accounts and switching over to something like Proton mail. I wonder how long till you'll have to get a facial scan to access Gmail and it doesn't seem to worth staying with them. Also heard that you're going to have to verify in the future in order to access your Google Drive account.

 

[Ferryman]

Thinking of getting rid my old Gmail accounts and switching over to something like Proton mail. I wonder how long till you'll have to get a facial scan to access Gmail and it doesn't seem to worth staying with them. Also heard that you're going to have to verify in the future in order to access your Google Drive account.

Get off them sooner rather than later. I would suggest you consider truly privacy conscious, anti-corporate ones like Disroot. Even ProtonMail won't be safe forever, they might be Swiss but they are still EU-adjacent, and I have a strong feeling that the EU pressure towards ID verification might catch up with them one day.

 

[CEO of Autism]

Even ProtonMail won't be safe forever, they might be Swiss but they are still EU-adjacent

They've already said that if Swiss law comes to stomp them, they'll move their business elsewhere where it's safe to keep operating like they do in the present.

 

[eeto]

Proton has suggested a move to the EU for their services, particularly with their new AI chatbot, which seems counterintuitive? But maybe countries like Germany are still resistant to censorship/surveillance on a legislative level.

Source: https://proton.me/blog/lumo-ai

Lumo represents one of many investments Proton will be making before the end of the decade to ensure that Europe stays strong, independent, and technologically sovereign. Because of legal uncertainty around Swiss government proposals(new window) to introduce mass surveillance — proposals that have been outlawed in the EU — Proton is moving most of its physical infrastructure out of Switzerland. Lumo will be the first product to move.

This shift represents an investment of over €100 million into the EU proper. While we do not give up the fight for privacy in Switzerland (and will continue to fight proposals that we believe will be extremely damaging to the Swiss economy), Proton is also embracing Europe and helping to develop a sovereign EuroStack(new window) for the future of our home continent. Lumo is European, and proudly so, and here to serve everybody who cares about privacy and security worldwide.

 

[Flaming Dumpster]

Crossposting. Not software but I still think it deserves an endorsement:

Given all this is doing is injecting a custom stylesheet into every webpage, you're better off using something like Stylus to do this as then you can set exceptions for websites that are broken by the custom stylesheet.

Here's the CSS from the addon

* {
    animation-delay: initial !important;
    animation-direction: initial !important;
    animation-duration: initial !important;
    animation-fill-mode: initial !important;
    animation-iteration-count: initial !important;
    animation-name: initial !important;
    animation-play-state: initial !important;
    animation-timing-function: initial !important;
    animation: initial !important;

    -moz-animation-delay: initial !important;
    -moz-animation-delay: initial !important;
    -moz-animation-direction: initial !important;
    -moz-animation-fill-mode: initial !important;
    -moz-animation-iteration-count: initial !important;
    -moz-animation-name: initial !important;
    -moz-animation-play-state: initial !important;
    -moz-animation-timing-function: initial !important;
    -moz-animation: initial !important;

    -webkit-animation-delay: initial !important;
    -webkit-animation-delay: initial !important;
    -webkit-animation-direction: initial !important;
    -webkit-animation-fill-mode: initial !important;
    -webkit-animation-iteration-count: initial !important;
    -webkit-animation-name: initial !important;
    -webkit-animation-play-state: initial !important;
    -webkit-animation-timing-function: initial !important;
    -webkit-animation: initial !important;

    transition-delay: initial !important;
    transition-duration: initial !important;
    transition-property: initial !important;
    transition-timing-function: initial !important;
    transition: initial !important;

    -moz-transition-delay: initial !important;
    -moz-transition-duration: initial !important;
    -moz-transition-property: initial !important;
    -moz-transition-timing-function: initial !important;
    -moz-transition: initial !important;

    -webkit-transition-delay: initial !important;
    -webkit-transition-duration: initial !important;
    -webkit-transition-property: initial !important;
    -webkit-transition-timing-function: initial !important;
    -webkit-transition: initial !important;
}

 

[Hentai-Semitism]

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

SumatraPDF is super lightweight and normally I would recommend it, but its search function is shit. You can only go to previous/next search result, which is unacceptable. I switched to STDU Viewer recently because it can list multiple search results in a separate list.

 

[Sauro]

What’s the best VPN I can get for a reasonable price or better yet free? I’m cool with paying for one I’d rather not have to pay more than 5-10 dollars American for one

 

[Flaming Dumpster]

What’s the best VPN I can get for a reasonable price or better yet free? I’m cool with paying for one I’d rather not have to pay more than 5-10 dollars American for one

Mullvad is what I personally recommend. They've got servers all over the place, require zero identifying information to sign up, have a clean track record with LEA requests, and they don't sponsor sloptubers.

Main limitation is they took away inbound port mapping due to pedophiles using it to share CP so it's not possible to seed torrents anymore.