Feel free to delete this if it doesn't fit here, since it's not about reversing the bad that exists. Posted since it seems to align with the attitudes here of making things better, not worse, and making useful tech that is nondestructive to people and the environment and not greedy, which sounds opposed to enshittification.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/46162019

I finally open sourced my game!!! I was mainly working on getting it a better title (it still may change in the future) and figuring out licensing.

This game comes from me playing with the minecraft mod computercraft and my friend pondering the idea "what if you played the game from a bedrock box by only controlling a turtle" and everything just kinda spiraled out of control from there. The game is in a very bare bones state, just with a basic interpreter for Hive--, the truly god awful programming language you use to command your workers. The automation aspect of the game is very much meant to encapsulate both the diegetic resource gathering and processing you do as well as the tools you create to make writing the code easier. It's very much not a game for most people and isn't trying to be commercial or have a large audience. This is solely a game for people who are as autistic about programming (and slightly insane) as I am.

You can keep track of development using the git.gay

Found this site, figured at least this part of it aligned with the intent of deshittification.

Today, a few companies decide what you see, store what you do, and choose what you’re allowed to say. The tools recommended here are the way out: browsers, messaging apps, publishing platforms, and services that push back.

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/49917849

Tons of blocker tools out there like LeechBlock and StayFocusd, this one redirects instead of blocks. I've found it useful.

• I know I try to access timesuckwebsite.com that I know I browse when I actually should be squeeblerizing, and so I have timesuckwebsite.com redirect to squeeblerizingthesite.com.
• I know that I have a bad habit of looking at ostensiblyusefulwebsite.com for information on underwater basket weaving, but end up sucked into endless scrolling the related articles and never actually finding the answers I am looking for. Sometimes I've actually just dealt with this by using uBlock Origin to banish the thing showing related articles; sometimes I just redirect ostensiblyusefulwebsite.com to an html file I made 3 years ago with links to good underwater basket weaving resources where I can probably turn up the answer with a little more concentrated effort.
• Of course, you can also use this for other things (which I guess could be incremental time saving and lots of annoyance-saving) like redirecting minecraft.fandom.com to minecraft.wiki.

Tons of blocker tools out there like LeechBlock and StayFocusd, this one redirects instead of blocks. I've found it useful.

• I know I try to access timesuckwebsite.com that I know I browse when I actually should be squeeblerizing, and so I have timesuckwebsite.com redirect to squeeblerizingthesite.com.
• I know that I have a bad habit of looking at ostensiblyusefulwebsite.com for information on underwater basket weaving, but end up sucked into endless scrolling the related articles and never actually finding the answers I am looking for. Sometimes I've actually just dealt with this by using uBlock Origin to banish the thing showing related articles; sometimes I just redirect ostensiblyusefulwebsite.com to an html file I made 3 years ago with links to good underwater basket weaving resources where I can probably turn up the answer with a little more concentrated effort.
• Of course, you can also use this for other things (which I guess could be incremental time saving and lots of annoyance-saving) like redirecting minecraft.fandom.com to minecraft.wiki.

Although not everything on the to-move-away-from lists (as far as I know) is enshittified big tech, a good deal is, enough to the point where I think it does at least fit the spirit of helping people get out of enshittification, of deshittification. Mod, feel free to remove if this doesn't fit.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/40834339

Just pick one - All the Fox functionality without bloatware

Librewolf - https://librewolf.net/

Waterfox - https://www.waterfox.com/

Zen Browser - https://zen-browser.app/

More browsers here - https://alternativeto.net/category/browsers/firefox-based/

You can also use this add to disable the shitload ai function in many search engines in one go

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/disable-ai/

GitHub page - https://github.com/jruns/disable-ai

You can find all the links on Mastodon<

The browser’s job is to serve you, not to think for you. That core Waterfox principle hasn’t changed, and it won’t.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/60767470

Amazon introduced ads into their line of smart displays. Luckily, hackers have found a way to liberate a few of them.

Links to liberate your…

• 1st gen Echo Show 5 (checkers) released in 2019 (H23K37)
• 2nd gen Echo Show 5 (cronos) released in 2021 (C76N8S)
• 1st gen Echo Show 8 (crown) released in 2019 (C7H6N3)

We host wikis on behalf of game studios and other companies using MediaWiki. Weird Gloop began as a company formed in 2018 to move the RuneScape Wiki from Fandom to an independent website, and we've since helped other wikis do the same thing, including the Minecraft Wiki and League of Legends Wiki.

While we're on the topic, for wikis currently on Fandom, there's also replacing "fandom" in the URL on fandom wikis with "antifandom". For example, change minecraft.fandom.com to minecraft.antifandom.com. It'll remove the crap formatting and ads everywhere and put it back to the useful format fandom wikis used to use around 2008ish, pre-being-gobbled-up.

Xikipedia is a pseudo social media feed that algorithmically shows you content from Simple Wikipedia. It is made as a demonstration of how even a basic non-ML algorithm with no data from other users can quickly learn what you engage with to suggest you more similar content. The algorithm runs locally and no data leaves your device.

Once Xikipedia has loaded, it is available fully offline, and you can even install it as an app by clicking the install button.

—https://github.com/rebane2001/xikipedia

Personally having trouble with getting this to work on an iPhone, but I always thought hijacking the techniques used to keep our attention on things that make other people money, and using it for our own good, like endlessly clicking Wikipedia articles for our own edification instead of endlessly clicking outrage bait, would be cool. Now someone went and did it, albeit with a demonstrative intent instead of "hook you on useful information instead of my lootbox gambling game".

Mod(s), feel free to remove if not deshittification enough for this community.

I feel this post had pretty good answers in the replies, and figured it's a post people learning programming might want to see.

Wanted to post about O&O Shutup since I just used it on my work computer, and was looking for a preexisting Threadiverse post mentioning it. Found this.

cross-posted from: https://lotide.fbxl.net/apub/posts/8985

The first thing I use is Windows 10 decrapifier.

To use this, open up Powershell ISE as an administrator, and paste the script into a new editor window, then run it. It will automatically remove all the garbage Windows 10 installs by default. It works pretty well with Windows 11 as well.

https://community.spiceworks.com/scripts/show/4378-windows-10-decrapifier-18xx-19xx-2xxx

Next, O&O Shutup10

This tool shuts down a lot of the different telemetry stuff to keep windows 10 your own. It also works with Windows 11.

https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10

Finally, I like to install OpenShell, a start menu replacement for Windows 10. Right now it doesn't easily work on Windows 11, I use Start11 on windows 11. Openshell doesn't just replace the start menu with a windows 7 style start menu, it reimplements search so the search works much better and doesn't rely on windows search service.

https://github.com/Open-Shell/Open-Shell-Menu

Here's a bonus tip that only applies to Windows 11: If you use the open source tool rufus to create your installation media, you can tell rufus to create installation media that bypasses all the new TPM requirements. I have a computer capable of running windows 11, but I don't want to give them access to my TPM, I don't want secure boot, I don't want any of this stuff. I want to run my computer the way I want to, and this install media allows that. You lose some minor features here and there.

https://rufus.ie/en/

cross-posted from: https://digipres.cafe/post/99916

SmartTube is a free and open-source YouTube client for Android TV and TV boxes. It removes ads, supports SponsorBlock, works without Google Services, and is designed for large screens and remote controls.

Note: the developer recently disclosed a build environment compromise and has since rotated keys, rebuilt the environment, and added additional verification steps. Users should update to the latest version and verify sources. GitHub: https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTube