I’m always eager to find new amazing sites i’ve never heard of, which ones would you recommend?
Photopea.com, a free online Photoshop alternative
Very much not a professional user, but thanks to Photopea I have had no need to have Photoshop/Gimp/forget-what-else-I’ve-used for a few years now and I like it that way!
I always, always recommend Photopea for those who can’t install programs like adobe or free ones like firealpaca/paint dot net. It’s extremely powerful.
bookmarked
Every Noise At Once: Recommend this website to find new music that suits your tastes. Play around with the options at the top, best way to see what they do.
Thanks, that’s an hour of my life going listening to things like funeral doom
Check out Rise To The Sky, a lot of their stuff is on YouTube. Gloriously heavy misery.
I remember this when it first started out, holy fucking shit it’s grown.
I don’t know what “dakke dak” is, but it sounds like Cotton Eye Joe. Good.
Device of culture!
My first Whoa on /kbin. Thanks!
This is amazing!
Thank you for introducing me to: Enbilulugugal “Return to Hellrokken Goatsex”
It’s their music video that really ties it all together.
LibGen.is for books
Anna’s Archive is pretty popular from what I hear
Wow!
Thank you so much.
Until recently Reddit would have been very high on that list for me. :/
The other one that I frequent weekly, sometimes daily is https://regex101.com/
A (not so) secret tip is the Verge Website for Tech News. https://www.theverge.com/
Dude, that exact regex checker came to mind while reading the OP.
But I’ll be honest - I’m putting my requests into chatgpt from now on. I just can’t compete with how quick that is.
Just keep in mind chatgpt has not as much knack for context than language rules, so it has a potential for giving syntacticcally correct but logically iffy answers.
Yeah it can take a few tries.
https://regexr.com/ is an alternative that I use.
You might find https://sub.rehab/ relevant
and archive.ph
I am sure it’s fairly known around here but at my work we regularly use https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/ to generate faces for social media mock-ups.
Scihub for accessing research papers.
There was a fantastic episode about SciHub on Radiolab recently. Well worth a listen.
Agreed. And by extension arxiv.org - just be aware the papers posted to arXiv are of variable quality.
What’s the difference between scihub and arvix? I have heavily used arvix for my thesis and this is the first time I hear about scihub.
LE: apparently I cannot spell arxiv rightArXiv is for pre-prints. These are papers that have not yet undergone peer review. There is also bioRxiv, medRxiv, and others that are for specific field. SciHub is a piracy site for downloading papers. It is very useful, even when you have “legal” access to papers, because you can quickly load a paper using its DOI.
Also MyBib for the bibliography/organization!
I rarely use windows these days, but when I do, I always visit ninite.com when setting a new windows installation to install several common apps in a single go. Very handy.
The Internet Archive ( archive.org ) is extremely useful, not just for its Wayback Machine which allows you to see historical copies of a huge chunk of the internet (very useful when the web page you attempt to visit is no longer exist), but it also host a large collection of old media and softwares. Need to install an old copy of Windows XP to run an old software? You can find Windows XP installer there. Need to borrow digital book? They even have a huge digital book library there. If you find the service useful, please donate them some money if you can because the Internet Archive is extremely important to the modern internet and could use all the money it can get.
Great post. The Internet Archive is a wonderful resource; I particularly enjoy browsing their vintage gaming magazine/fanzine collections, and reading old copies of High Times!
These days, there is also
chocofor people who want to install apps via the terminal likeapt installorbrew install
https://european-alternatives.eu/ - all sorts of alternatives for digital products (btw, kbin should totally be registered there)
All these Amazon replacements, yet no replacement on the site for Amazon the shopping website :(
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The (only?) travel website with no bs
wikivoyage.org
It may not have the bs, but I’ve looked at wikivoyage for some places I’m familiar with and the recommendations are really weird or sub-par for the most part, especially for food and drink.
As a DIYer I tend to use YouTube first for all my home repairs (appliances, electronics, etc). There tends to always be someone who is in my shoes before me so I can find the tutorials pretty quickly.
Download and install libretube. No more ads or tracking. Exactly the same content. Not on the app store though. Works flawlessly.
codewars.com to practice coding algorithms
codecademy.com to learn to code
chat.openai.com is an absolute game changer for getting pointed in the right direction when it comes to trying to understand conceptsStreaming radio stations from all over the world, select via globe.
https://radio.garden/Want to see what the weather is doing on a global scale?
https://earth.nullschool.net/
I use Firefox with temporary containers and a combination of DDG & Google to get around paywalls.
- Once you have temporary containers installed in Firefox, find an article that’s behind a paywall. I read the Financial Times, for example.
- Copy the title of a story.
- Open a new tab.
- Search the story title in DDG using the g! at the end. For example, “Xi sees ‘progress’ in China-US ties at meeting with Blinken g!”
- Find the story and click on it. Enjoy your read.
Is it weird that I have to read the article title in Snoop Dogg’s voice?
I use 12footladder.io
https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome or download this
Seconding ChatGPT; I do a lot of fantasy worldbuilding and run a few Pathfinder games, so having a semi-limitless sounding board for my ideas is a godsend.
Where every song in history has at least one person say the song is about drugs and another person who says the song is about God.
