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I recently discovered the Affinity suite of software.

Possibly I'm just slow and everybody is familiar with them but I picked them up because I needed to do some light creative work and they are wonderfully cheap compared to Adobe Creative Cloud. AND you get permanent ownership of them. (£40 for a permanent licence).

I've been pleasantly surprised. I'm not a super power user so I don't know how Affinity Publisher compares to Adobe's PDF creator, etc. But very easy to learn and use and does everything I've needed to do with it so far. Ditto the rest.

EDIT: Just noticed they have a sale on - so like £25 for something that does 90% of what I need from Adobe for).
 
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Dork Of Ages said:
Cock.li used to be perfect for what you are describing but you currently need an invite code (I used to generate a shitton of e-mails addresses on it before though, feel free to PM me if you want an invite). Outside of that you can check out Tutanota, ProtonMail and other providers that advertise as privacy-focused, however they might not be as quick or request an existing e-mail address.
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Was it Tutanota or Proton that got criticiszed for retention policies? I know Protonmail used to redirect tor back to clearweb on logins for a bit.
Elude is okay but the signup requires you to explain why you need it.... so...

I would run my own mail server (for myself) if my local department of transportation would stop digging through fibre cables. Government at its finest.
 
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兄貴 Forevermore said:
Was it Tutanota or Proton that got criticiszed for retention policies? I know Protonmail used to redirect tor back to clearweb on logins for a bit.
Elude is okay but the signup requires you to explain why you need it.... so...

I would run my own mail server (for myself) if my local department of transportation would stop digging through fibre cables. Government at its finest.
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I forget which exactly, but Mental Outlaw did some videos reporting on Protonmail doing some slightly spooky stuff:
 
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BONE_Buddy said:
I presume that only captures undeleted chat messages?
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It should grab them as soon as they appear and before they're deleted if you're running it on a live url. If it's playing back a VOD, it won't catch them.

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At the risk of stating the obvious DuckDuckGo is done. They started manipulating search results. And someone on twitter said they found ddg actually does allow tracking from the likes of microsoft. The new meta is brave search https://search.brave.com/

As for VPNs, mullvad is a good choice. Not only is it completely anonymous but also infinitely more convenient and easy to use than VPNs you see on youtube ads. No username/password or mandatory subscription service, you just get an account number and pay to add time whenever you want.
 
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I recently learned how to make video clips and animated gifs, and thought I should share for the people like me who are dumb & not very tech-savvy.
  • I use yt-dlp for downloading videos from pretty much any website. Here's a good guide for installing & using yt-dlp for Windows users.
    • Using the command line is kind of annoying, so I recommend just making a BAT file and leaving it on your desktop. That way, you just have to make a small edit to the file (usually just to swap out the URL of the video you want to download), save the changes, then double-click the file to have it run automatically on the command line.
cd "c:\ytdl" rem Update with yt-dlp -U rem Check formats with yt-dlp -F "link url" rem Choose one with yt-dlp "link url" -f number rem Download only part of the video with timestamps: rem yt-dlp -f "(bestvideo+bestaudio/best)[protocol!*=dash]" --external-downloader ffmpeg --external-downloader-args "ffmpeg_i:-ss 00:54:23.00 -to 00:54:34.00" "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9HdPi9Ikhk" yt-dlp "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-e2j_QAkY4" pause
  • I use Kdenlive for most (or all) of the clipping/editing. Null's guide is short and sweet.
  • EZGIF.com is also a good online resource for clipping/editing small videos or turning them into looping animated gifs.

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At the risk of stating the obvious DuckDuckGo is done. They started manipulating search results. And someone on twitter said they found ddg actually does allow tracking from the likes of microsoft. The new meta is brave search https://search.brave.com/

As for VPNs, mullvad is a good choice. Not only is it completely anonymous but also infinitely more convenient and easy to use than VPNs you see on youtube ads. No username/password or mandatory subscription service, you just get an account number and pay to add time whenever you want.
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Brave search seems really promising. I appreciate that it has the "Bangs" feature, which is something I liked using with DDG. The "Discussions" box with results from Reddit/StackExchange/other forums is also quite nice.
 
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Since the below covers all sorts of software, I'll include it here. If it belongs somewhere else, let me know and I will cyberstalk you for the remainder of your life. I didn't see a thread dedicated to this area of interest.
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Mike Bazzell, former Glowie, and best-selling author and podcaster, has launched a new magazine focusing on privacy, security, and OSINT.

UnredactedMagazine [dot] com - Its a monthly magazine that's a downloadable PDF.

Bazzell already has a podcast on these topics


Im not linking to his sites because I dont want the pingback

inteltechniques [dot] com/podcast.html

And Ive attached the issues of the magazine. There's a really disturbing story from an Amazon whistleblower in issue 2.

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Since this thread is the go-to software for Kiwis, is Redact trustworthy? It was seen in PrivacyTools but it is sponsored and closed-source, which are two massive red flags.
 
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Since this thread is the go-to software for Kiwis, is Redact trustworthy? It was seen in PrivacyTools but it is sponsored and closed-source, which are two massive red flags.
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Closed source. Free. Must provide login information for each site you want scrubbed.

Something's fishy here.
 
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Any suggestions for an RSS reader that can run audio? Would like one, but I do want some of its usage for old MATI streams, too, if I can..
 
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For those who would like to use an alternative frontend to access a site, there is the extension Libredirect (a maintained fork of privacy redirect) that supports redirection from a whole lot of sites (and even offline frontend instances).
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Thank you! Been looking for something like this that worked for awhile. However I will say one thing. If you use Invidious or Piped, you want to change the setting for "redirect type" to "only not embedded". I noticed that it borked links to be unclickable if the site has automatic embedding. This is a workaround (sorta), just click the title of the video instead of the video itself to be redirected.
(How it looks by default and the setting to change)
borked.pngsetting.png
(Click here to be redirected and voilà )
click here retard.png
 
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am i misremembering or was there an infosec/opsec thread just like this? was it renamed? am i going mental?
 
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