What is the most useful website you know?
I'm always eager to find new amazing sites i've never heard of, which ones would you recommend?
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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!
It's browser based which means there's no bare metal CPU or GPU calls in can make. It all has to go through the browsers interpreter. That massively limits it's potential.
Here's hoping WebGPU can fix that in the future.
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 don't know what "dakke dak" is, but it sounds like Cotton Eye Joe. Good.
Device of culture!
I remember this when it first started out, holy fucking shit it's grown.
Thank you for introducing me to: Enbilulugugal "Return to Hellrokken Goatsex"
It's their music video that really ties it all together.
This is amazing!
My first Whoa on /kbin. Thanks!
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.
You might find https://sub.rehab/ relevant
https://regexr.com/ is an alternative that I use.
LibGen.is for books
Anna's Archive is pretty popular from what I hear
Wow!
Thank you so much.
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.
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
Scihub for accessing research papers.
There was a fantastic episode about SciHub on Radiolab recently. Well worth a listen.
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 right
ArXiv 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 installhttps://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 :(
Alternativeto.net is an alternative alternative.
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 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.
Is it weird that I have to read the article title in Snoop Dogg's voice?
https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome or download this
I use 12footladder.io
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.
Oh man, this is extremely useful! Thanks for mentioning it.
Combined with devtool's "copy as curl command" in the networking tab, this will make playing with API a lot easier.
Edit:
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.
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.
What's the advantage of using songmeanings.com compared to genius.com?
I use both, you can see different opinions on the songs.
Songmeanings is older.
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.
and wiby.me!
Nice to be reminded that the old internet still exists
The most useful are definitely DDG.gg and wikipedia.org.
Useful and lesser known:
https://openinframap.org/
https://ourworldindata.org/
https://www.quiverquant.com/
They have duck.com too now, ironically google gave it to them for free.
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.
@BigVault
As someone who has never heard of this what do you use it for? What does it do?
@Hikyuri
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:
It's now my go-to if I get stuck on anything and as another example, I asked it:
here's what it spat out:
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
https://bard.google.com/
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
@BigVault
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.
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.
https://www.printfriendly.com/
Thanks! Will use that at work
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.
Not necessarily useful but really cool and I'd love a digital watch face that does this. https://sunclock.net/
Essentially it's just a 24 hour analog clock's hour hand over colors representing what the sun is doing. It really helps me understand when the sun is going to set so much more than a number.
I believe analog clocks are more useful for understanding the flow of time than digital clocks. Digital clocks have this thing where a few.minutes before the top of the hour can still feel like an hour (or at least somewhat) before the hour. Meanwhile with an analog clock it just looks really close. Heck, you might even misread it as being past the hour mark. So take all of that brilliant fuzziness and overlay it on a graphic representing what the sun is doing and it all just really comes together into a beautiful tool.
https://www.timeanddate.com/ is one I keep going back to. Lots of useful tools everywhere, for scheduling events across timezones, get the twilight time instead of sunset to plan activities in the evening, eclipses, moon phases and so much more!
https://privacyguides.org community is here: @privacyguides
https://f-droid.org (I use it solely to find FOSS android apps... Then i install the newly found app with Obtainium)
mynoise.net It's got a huge list of generators for all sorta of sounds, from soundscape and environmental noise like coffee shops, to musical instruments, to white/grey/pink noise, and all sort of other things.
There's nothing better for when my tinitis is acting up and I want to play some tonal drones, or I just want to get into a mood by mixing some Tibetan singing bowls and a rainforest, or maybe just play noise-blockers to help me focus.
https://www.thisiswhyimbroke.com/ Hard to find, mostly useless. Often times amazing stuff to waste your money on for a dopamine hit.
https://stilltasty.com/ Great little site to gauge when food goes bad.