I wish they had a song lookup in addition to the artist lookup. I have so many songs in my "liked songs" list in my Spotify and it gets difficult to try to organize them into moods and flavors.
Yes, have spent many happy wasted hours here. Good for music discovery.
Wow, very cool.
This is something I always wanted but never thought of searching for. Thanks!
Movies and tv series. Automatically streams from a good source. I've had zero stuttering so far.
Holy crap I can watch seasons 2-4 of Rake!!!
Thank you thank you thank you!!!
Amazing! Great if they could also enable other audio tracks
12ft.io
if you see an article online but it asks for a subscription before you can read it, you can put the webpage of that article in 12ft.io and it'll give you a version you can read without such guards. The person who made it says there's a special code in those sites that doesn't block the article for search engines, as doing so would cause the google/bing/etc to block that result. So they just found that code and put it in a webpage for you
I get it. A 12ft ladder to see over the pay wall
I used it in the past but it stopped working for some sites.
I prefer to use archive.ph now.
How do you get past the „I am not a robot“/capture frenzy?
It used to work for me, but not anymore. I keep getting capture after capture…
Learn coding on a site that seems to get it right. Lots of information, multiple languages, and mentors to help you get past a difficult problem.
Fantastic site, highly recommended!
Wow, I'm in computer science 1 this semester and my instructor is not great at breaking things down. This may help save my semester!
If my comment helps a couple of people, I will be giddy for days lol.
I was too lazy to pull out my laptop last night, but I looked at it on my phone and it looks like it's going to be such a helpful resource! I'm going to share with a few of my classmates who are also struggling with the lack of instruction. You've definitely helped at least one poor computer science student, thank you so much!
This looks awesome! How is this free?
Donations of money, and time from volunteer mentors.
Just dug in some more and saw it's open-source too, and they teach you how to contribute. I'm in love.
I've been planning to learn Javascript and Python -- you just made my month!
I'm about 10% into the Python track. I'm digging it so far :)
Crontab generator was my gateway to all things 'generator'. Looking for a quick way to construct something? Google it + generator to see if someone has created a generator site for it.
Just don't be that guy that uses a website to generate passwords. If you're going to generate passwords it needs to be a trusted utility that runs locally otherwise someone has your password.
If the website generating the password a) doesn't know the site/account and b) doesn't know the username then it doesn't matter. And c) with 2fa knowing a password doesn't grant access by itself.
If a site is decently coded, it would be run in client side scripting like JavaScript anyway. It wouldn't require anything being sent to the site.
If a site is decently coded
This is the crux of the issue. The average internet user, the kind of user going to a random website to generate a password, would not be able to find this out. For all we know, even without the username, a randomly generated password could be saved to a wordlist after it's generated. That would be pretty smart, since now you have a list of known used passwords that someone went through the effort to generate to secure something more valuable. (Which would refute your points A and B)
And your point C, not always. By your same logic, you'd be comfortable using "password" as long as you have 2FA? There is always a possibility of 2FA being bypassed through some other vulnerability depending on its implementation. This is why it's TWO (or multi) factor authentication. In case one factor is compromised, you have another layer of defense. If you use a compromised password (by either using "password" or a sketchy password generator), then you've effectively reverted yourself back to one factor authentication. Or zero, if you didn't have MFA.
Don't listen to anyone suggesting otherwise. Don't use random websites. Either stick to a password manager to generate them for you, or take it completely offline with a dice roll-based generation.
I've been using Pass since not long after it was released. Moved my OTPs into it as well.
Oh how I wish I knew this existed years ago!
My standard procedure is to go to systemd's doc website and spend 10 minutes looking for the option I want.
You guys ever hear about this social media thing called Lemmy?
This is a collection of salvaged original Geocities sites. There must be hundreds and hundreds of random people's homepages from the mid 90s to early 2000s. Some of them still have working links. The "Hollywood" section is the best because it has endless fan pages of 90s media and celebrities.
That last one has a community on Lemmy dedicated to it: !hackernews@derp.foo.
Definitely worth bookmarking. Lots of arithmetic going on there. Incredibly really.
techdirt.com
News and analysis (and some biting commentary) on mostly tech policy stuff. Run by the guy who coined the phrase " Streisand Effect" in a post on that site, Mike Masnick. Very insightful, apolitical, and a good way for me to keep up on topics I don't normally follow too closely. Bonus: No annoying ads
No it has nothing to do with what it makes you think of and no I'm not sorry for ruining your work efficiency
I hate you right now..
Not really underrated but one that most people probably dont know, hackaday.com. Its all about hardware hacking, which is primarily people making stuff with electronics or making them do things they werent designed to do but they also have a whole heap of non electronics stuff. If you can make it, and its clever, it belongs there!
zombo.com. Most people don't realize you can do anything there.
The only limit is yourself.
da fuq?!
Your first time? I'm jealous
html5zombo.com is better for modern browsers, now that Flash is dead.
There's no flash on zombo.com. Unless you want there to be.
Oh neat. I'm glad it got updated to remove the Flash element. Breaking that site was the real tragedy of Flash's shutdown.
Lol what is this nonsense?
https://everynoise.com/
Every music genre with examples.
I wish they had a song lookup in addition to the artist lookup. I have so many songs in my "liked songs" list in my Spotify and it gets difficult to try to organize them into moods and flavors.
Yes, have spent many happy wasted hours here. Good for music discovery.
Wow, very cool.
This is something I always wanted but never thought of searching for. Thanks!
https://movie-web.app/
Movies and tv series. Automatically streams from a good source. I've had zero stuttering so far.
Holy crap I can watch seasons 2-4 of Rake!!!
Thank you thank you thank you!!!
Amazing! Great if they could also enable other audio tracks
12ft.io
if you see an article online but it asks for a subscription before you can read it, you can put the webpage of that article in 12ft.io and it'll give you a version you can read without such guards. The person who made it says there's a special code in those sites that doesn't block the article for search engines, as doing so would cause the google/bing/etc to block that result. So they just found that code and put it in a webpage for you
I get it. A 12ft ladder to see over the pay wall
I used it in the past but it stopped working for some sites.
I prefer to use archive.ph now.
How do you get past the „I am not a robot“/capture frenzy? It used to work for me, but not anymore. I keep getting capture after capture…
https://exercism.org
Learn coding on a site that seems to get it right. Lots of information, multiple languages, and mentors to help you get past a difficult problem.
Fantastic site, highly recommended!
Wow, I'm in computer science 1 this semester and my instructor is not great at breaking things down. This may help save my semester!
If my comment helps a couple of people, I will be giddy for days lol.
I was too lazy to pull out my laptop last night, but I looked at it on my phone and it looks like it's going to be such a helpful resource! I'm going to share with a few of my classmates who are also struggling with the lack of instruction. You've definitely helped at least one poor computer science student, thank you so much!
This looks awesome! How is this free?
Donations of money, and time from volunteer mentors.
Just dug in some more and saw it's open-source too, and they teach you how to contribute. I'm in love.
I've been planning to learn Javascript and Python -- you just made my month!
I'm about 10% into the Python track. I'm digging it so far :)
2 useful sites
Crontab Generator
Systemd Generator
I think they are very helpful ☺️
Crontab generator was my gateway to all things 'generator'. Looking for a quick way to construct something? Google it + generator to see if someone has created a generator site for it.
Just don't be that guy that uses a website to generate passwords. If you're going to generate passwords it needs to be a trusted utility that runs locally otherwise someone has your password.
If the website generating the password a) doesn't know the site/account and b) doesn't know the username then it doesn't matter. And c) with 2fa knowing a password doesn't grant access by itself.
If a site is decently coded, it would be run in client side scripting like JavaScript anyway. It wouldn't require anything being sent to the site.
This is the crux of the issue. The average internet user, the kind of user going to a random website to generate a password, would not be able to find this out. For all we know, even without the username, a randomly generated password could be saved to a wordlist after it's generated. That would be pretty smart, since now you have a list of known used passwords that someone went through the effort to generate to secure something more valuable. (Which would refute your points A and B)
And your point C, not always. By your same logic, you'd be comfortable using "password" as long as you have 2FA? There is always a possibility of 2FA being bypassed through some other vulnerability depending on its implementation. This is why it's TWO (or multi) factor authentication. In case one factor is compromised, you have another layer of defense. If you use a compromised password (by either using "password" or a sketchy password generator), then you've effectively reverted yourself back to one factor authentication. Or zero, if you didn't have MFA.
Don't listen to anyone suggesting otherwise. Don't use random websites. Either stick to a password manager to generate them for you, or take it completely offline with a dice roll-based generation.
I've been using Pass since not long after it was released. Moved my OTPs into it as well.
Oh how I wish I knew this existed years ago! My standard procedure is to go to systemd's doc website and spend 10 minutes looking for the option I want.
You guys ever hear about this social media thing called Lemmy?
No, tell me more.
https://ground.news
It shows you what bias(es) the news sources and articles you are reading may have.
https://neocities.org
Geocities revived.
https://news.ycombinator.com
Useful/interesting tech news.
https://geocities.restorativland.org/
This is a collection of salvaged original Geocities sites. There must be hundreds and hundreds of random people's homepages from the mid 90s to early 2000s. Some of them still have working links. The "Hollywood" section is the best because it has endless fan pages of 90s media and celebrities.
That last one has a community on Lemmy dedicated to it: !hackernews@derp.foo.
Disclosure: I’m running the bot.
Based ground news
earth.nullschool.net
That is so fucking cool. Thanks
Definitely worth bookmarking. Lots of arithmetic going on there. Incredibly really.
techdirt.com
News and analysis (and some biting commentary) on mostly tech policy stuff. Run by the guy who coined the phrase " Streisand Effect" in a post on that site, Mike Masnick. Very insightful, apolitical, and a good way for me to keep up on topics I don't normally follow too closely. Bonus: No annoying ads
You had me at apolitical.
https://trimps.github.io/
No it has nothing to do with what it makes you think of and no I'm not sorry for ruining your work efficiency
I hate you right now..
Not really underrated but one that most people probably dont know, hackaday.com. Its all about hardware hacking, which is primarily people making stuff with electronics or making them do things they werent designed to do but they also have a whole heap of non electronics stuff. If you can make it, and its clever, it belongs there!
https://wttr.in/ (https://wttr.in/:help for help)
It's hard to comment without this being a NSFW post.
We all already know about cute hamster videos 😸
So, should I make a NSFW version of this thread when I'm off work?
If you would like to make an important contribution to internet culture, then yes, you should. 🧐
I am a fan of culture...
Yeah. I can always imagine 2 huuuge cultures! I'm absolutely a fan too!
Why not four? :)
Nsfw: http://www.gregariousfrog.com/svengali/svengali.html
Mcstories.com already has great content, but lacking search. This site just searches mcstories.
https://cyber.dabamos.de/
There's some bunch of stuff but also large collection of 88x31 GIFs. It is a nice static webpage.
https://flexboxfroggy.com, to learn flex CSS with small games.
Calicocutpants.com
YOU GOTTA GIVE
Everyone gives
It's not loud is it?
This must be a reference of some kind.
It's from the Netflix show I think you should leave. Pretty funny stuff but lots of random, awkward and cringe moment humor.
Fine, I'll get out of here :( You don't gotta be so harsh.
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/I_Think_You_Should_Leave_with_Tim_Robinson
https://www.scrapehero.com/location-reports
Enter a franchise name, find out how many stores there are in the U.S.
https://www.colorhexa.com/ - Colour information and conversion (web safe colours, related colours)
https://encycolorpedia.com/ - A catalogue of colours and paints
omfgdogs.com
https://projectsegfau.lt
thiswebsitewillselfdestruct.com
e621
Do you mean "under appreciated?" I don't know of any website rating systems, so how do I know if a site's underrated?