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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.
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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.
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LibGen.is for books
Anna's Archive is pretty popular from what I hear
Wow!
Thank you so much.
12ft.io, because the sheer amount of nagwalls are getting absurd. I gladly subscribe to newspapers I frequently read, but without being able to check them out I wouldn't sub to any (or very few) of them.
Also tosdr.org . Not bad to have an idea what terms you're accepting...
and archive.ph
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.
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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.
Agreed. And by extension arxiv.org - just be aware the papers posted to arXiv are of variable quality.
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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.
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!
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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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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.
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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 concepts
Streaming 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
- chat.openai.com
- kbin.social :)
- you.com
- phind.com
- songmeanings.com
Edit:
- learnxinyminutes.com
- genius.com
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.
songmeanings.com
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.
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https://search.marginalia.nu/ is a great little search engine for research. It favors results that would most likely be buried in the larger engines, excellent for finding lesser known sources.
Also the “random” button is a lot of fun, and fairly nostalgic if you remember the late 90s-early 00s web. Lots of geocities style personal websites still out there apparently.
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The most useful are definitely DDG.gg and wikipedia.org.
Useful and lesser known:
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Super specific, but one that saves my life for programming tasks on my job almost on the daily is https://curlconverter.com/
It translates a REST API call from any one language to another. Thanks to this site, if you know, for example, the curl command for a REST request, you know how to do it in Python Requests, Ansible, Javascript, you name it. And of course it works the other way around as well.
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I never thought I’d say it but, Bing chat.
Gets nearly everything I need done first time which is worrying for the websites it’s learned from, I hardly click through.
As someone who has never heard of this what do you use it for? What does it do?
It's Microsoft's take on ChatGPT powered search and as an example, I asked it what it was for you - this is the output:
Hello, this is Bing. Bing Chat is a new feature for Bing’s search engine that lets you talk to an AI chatbot rather than simply filling out search queries. You can ask questions, get answers, and create content using natural language. Bing Chat is powered by ChatGPT, an AI system that can generate realistic and engaging conversations.
It's now my go-to if I get stuck on anything and as another example, I asked it:
write me a program that says helllo Hikyuri in different colours in sinclair basic.
here's what it spat out:
I’ll try to create that. Here is a possible program that says hello Hikyuri in different colors in Sinclair BASIC:
10 REM This program prints hello Hikyuri in different colors
20 FOR C = 0 TO 7
30 INK C
40 PRINT "Hello Hikyuri"
50 NEXT C
60 END
It really is clever. Google also have Bard to do the same but it doesn't seem as good which is a first for me
Sure, here is a Sinclair BASIC program that says "hello Hikyuri" in different colors:
10 PRINT "hello Hikyuri"
20 COLOR 1
30 PRINT "hello Hikyuri"
40 COLOR 2
50 PRINT "hello Hikyuri"
60 COLOR 3
70 PRINT "hello Hikyuri"
80 COLOR 4
90 PRINT "hello Hikyuri"
100 COLOR 5
110 PRINT "hello Hikyuri"
120 COLOR 6
130 PRINT "hello Hikyuri"
140 COLOR 7
150 END
That is really cool! This probably isn't something I'd need in my day to day but it's a great tool to keep at the back of my head if I ever do have a more complicated issue or question that needs resolving so thank you very much for sharing.
Also thank you so much for taking the time to write such a detailed and extensive response. For sure made me smile to have a little program made just for me hehe.
newsminimalist.com
It's uses ChatGPT to work out which news stories are the most significant so it can show only the important ones. It's great and has been my main source of world news since I started using it a few weeks ago.
I love to use print friendly if I want to print a website page to pdf. I can exclude or include all information I wish to in the pdf.
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