What is a website everyone should know about?

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https://haveibeenpwned.com

To figure out if your email addresses are part of a known breach. Also, start using a password manager (https://bitwarden.com)

A good alternative to Bitwarden is KeePass/KeepassXC btw

A good alternative to keepass is a self hosted vaultwarden btw. (compiled from bitwardens opensource code iirc)

Vaultwarden is not compiled from Bitwarden's code, it's a separate project and codebase but designed to be compatible with Bitwarden's API.

Bitwarden is open source and you can self-host it but IIRC it's a bit more complex and resource-hungry than Vaultwarden.

They have totally different design goals which is why Bitwarden is more resource-hungry and more complex to deploy. Bitwarden can scale up to large use cases such as companies with hundreds of thousands of employees (it's what they run on the hosted version, after all), whereas Vaultwarden is designed to be small and light for home use cases where you almost always have <10 users total.

I agree. But I think is much easier for people to use KeePass compared to self hosting Vaultwarden

Nothing can beat passwords written on paper though

Scissors can.

I was talking about digital espionage, assuming one is not stupid enough to record their offline passwords digitally

But rock beats scissors. What if paper has an alliance with rock to be protected from scissors in return for paper not covering rock?

Physical access can. Indentations on the below page can. Fire and moisture can. Someone looking over your shoulder can.

I found keepassium for the work phone and I was in love that I could keep a separate db with my OTPs under a password and backed up.

Then I left that job and had to split my OTPs. Vanilla keepass for droid will gives me the OTP values for gitlab etc, so it's good there, but Vanilla keepassium for Android has no camera/QR->OTP input that I have yet, one that works like keepassium does and is all compatible down the line. I'd love to keep using it to maintain the existing separate keepass OTP db I have.

Do you (or anyone) know of a good combo for droid that gets

  • keepass
  • backup to box/gdoc/etc
  • qr for OTP

In one final package? Does XC do it in a way we think may be compatible?

Keepass2Android does all that on android. It natively supports Dropbox, google drive, one drive, nextcloud, pcloud, and mega, plus you can use WebDAV or sftp. When editing an entry, the totp setup has the ability to scan qr codes with the camera. Plus, the whole thing is free and open source.

They even have a package on F-Droid, though that build lacks the built-in support for cloud syncing (due to F-Droid restrictions prohibiting binaries, I think).

I've used this app for years on android, paired with various cloud sync options as providers change their restrictions and capabilities. On desktop, I use keepassxc.

Hm i switched from KeePass to Bitwarden because the latter lets me use my passwords on multiple devices and as a Firefox extension that enters my credentials at a shortcut.

Can you elaborate why you think KeePass is better?

I think itโ€™s more flexible. Also, due to the databases just being normal files you can sync them with syncthing between your devices.

In my case I run a NAS at home on which theyโ€™re stored so I donโ€™t need to sync them. I just open them directly from the NAS.

I do all of that with Keepass, for what it's worth.

Spoiler alert: Yes. Yes it has.

Is this really that useful though?

I pretty much just assume that I'm getting pwned regularly.

Obviously the password manager advice is very useful.

Is this really that useful though?

It's very useful if you don't use a password manager and/or reuse passwords.

The most useful part about it to me is the API. You can tie it in to Active Directory to blacklist all hashes that appear in any breach, plus expire/force a password change if any user on your domain uses a password that has been in a breach. It completely eliminates that vector from threat actors immediately.

So yeah, I would call this intensely useful.

The most useful part about it to me is the API. You can tie it in to Active Directory

This trick alone makes my Lemmy addiction pay off. Thanks for even suggesting such magic is possible. Adding that as a task after my samba-AD rebuild this very f'n week.

So who has the highest score? I've got 21 on my OG email and 13 on my primary ๐Ÿคฃ

30 on my OG and what use to be my primary up until a year ago.

and if my Email is part of any kind of breach, is thier something else I should do beside changing my password ?

PS: I do have 2FA activated already

Use a unique password for everything. I recommend bitwarden

If you're a developer, devdocs.io is clutch as fuck.

If you Like consuming media but not expelling money, fmhy is lit af

Unlimited sound generators at MyNoise

Here's a bunch of useful online tools

Trying to find someone? Try the tools here

Free shit for developers

Track Awesome List tracks a ridiculous number of Awesome lists on github.

I'm sure there's more, these are just the ones that were on the top of my head

Feel free to post these on !oldweb

It's a place to share links to interesting or unknown sites, old style websites, personal websites, link collections etc.

What is different about your links that i can't click on a single one? I'm on mobile and touching them does nothing, but i can click on others' links.

That's a great list, I have bookmarked a bunch of those entries, Thanks for sharing it.

I will spend a good amount of time on those sites! Fascinating!

Wikipedia

I can't think of anything that comes even close to it - significance, quality, amount

I'm glad there's another human being who appreciates them as much as me!

I've definitely learned more from Wikipedia than I ever learned in school.

https://camelcamelcamel.com

I use this to cut through the bullshit of Prime Day deals or Black Friday. It shows you the historical price of a product.

Crazy how I have a bunch of alerts set up on here, prime day started and I didnโ€™t have a single item drop in price.

Also I believe there is a browser plug-in for this as well to make it even easier to use.

I'll also come in just to mention the android app "TryCamel". Being able to conveniently add things when on mobile was a game changer for me.

Same! I find the alerts come at times when there are no holidays or events. Like on a random Tuesday afternoon in the middle of June I get an alert that a game or movie is $20 when it's been $40-60 the last 6 months. Prime Day comes around and it's "on sale" for $55.

I literally just used this site last week to set up a price alert for a purchase.

Noticed via their chart that the item I wanted to buy (an air purifier) went on sale every few weeks from $340 to $199. I set the alert for $200, and the next day it emailed me saying the price had dropped. Saved me 140 bucks which was awesome.

Works for Amazon.ca links as well.

https://everynoise.com/

It plots every genre of music on a 2D spectrum ("The calibration is fuzzy, but in general down is more organic, up is more mechanical and electric; left is denser and more atmospheric, right is spikier and bouncier.")

You can click on any genre and get band recommendations.

Or you can search for a specific band and find other bands plotted similarly.

As someone who doesn't use Spotify, this is amazing for music discovery. I should have been in bed a while ago but keep finding new groups to listen to.

From the description, this site seems to either be a Spotify research project, or at least powered by Spotify data in some way. It's not clear to me.

Every Noise at Once is an ongoing attempt at an algorithmically-generated, readability-adjusted scatter-plot of the musical genre-space, based on data tracked and analyzed for 6,259 genre-shaped distinctions by Spotify as of 2023-07-12.

Personally, I cancelled my spotify account and moved to a combination of Plex and Tidal, but this project is just too cool not to use.

Maybe this will help.

I LOVE "dissolved girl" but I'm not as Gaga about the rest of the band's material. That sultry style cut with that music tempo is amazing.

It's like Finger Eleven has their their one massive departure track 'paranoid' -- all good, but very different.

I'll be checking this in the hopes it'll match a track and give me more sexy molasses for my brain.

OMG this is awesome, thank you. Except it's going to consume way too much of my life noiw

Without endorsing these liberal American news outlets,

https://text.npr.org/

https://lite.cnn.com/

Ad-free, js-free, tracker-free, bs-free news articles. Just text. Honestly, it's a bit of a shock to me that these even exist.

Wow the CNN lite thing is awesome! I think it'd be great to set up a permanent redirect to it from the CNN website. Probably will use TamperMonkey and set it up

Semi-related is the Boring Report. It's an attempt to use modern LLM to remove sensationalism and bias from current media headlines.

CNN is now owned by a MAGA-loving billionaire. Definitely not a liberal news source at all - hence the many changes happening at a slow trickle.

Are you talking about that Chris Licht guy? Or who are you referring to?

https://neal.fun/deep-sea/ Experience how deep the ocean can go. May cause thalassophobia.

https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html Scale the universe if the moon were the size of a pixel.

https://www.robinwords.com/ Fun word ladder game to test your vocabulary.

http://make-everything-ok.com/ For when you feel like things are just not going your way.

https://stellarium-web.org/ Look at and learn about the stars.

I was scrolling the deep sea site and at over 2000m I was not expecting to see any mammals and then at 2400m there was the Elephant Seal. I'd have never thought that those massive blobs of animal can do such amazing things.

Snapdrop

What is it? It won't load for me

Looks like itโ€™s actually down. Did we pull a Reddit like website hug of death on Lemmy just now?

Itโ€™s a quick way to share files with people between devices on the same network.

Hacker news https://news.ycombinator.com

Iโ€™m sure most already do but you never know.

Hacker news is good for links, but the comment section can be radioactive with capitalist tech dude bros that think technology and VC funding is the answer to the worlds problems.

Nice to explore latest news! (Mostly are for techie people)

is there a site like this but not focused on tech ? I like it but it doesn't have that much non-tech links

https://wtfhappenedin1971.com

What DID happen?! Why are there only questions on this site, I need answers.

Edit: Nevermind, figured it out: Image

The United States abandoned the gold standard. I am guessing the point of this website is to suggest that was a bad thing. There is a lot of debate around the gold standard and most "mainstream" economists have no love for it, so I'm not saying the website is right or wrong, just that that's what it's about.

Let's not forget that Nixon also got the controlled substance act passed in 1971 and kick started the war on drugs.

https://privacy.com/ I've been using them for around 6 years now.

They link up with your bank account and generate as many virtual cards as you want that are locked to the first vendor you use them on so if say McDonald's get their card data stolen it won't be able to charge the card for anything other than McDonald's.

They also make their money from the card fees so they manage to be both free and not sell your data.

Just don't use a VPN on their site or they will lock your account for days pending review for "suspicious activity"

I stopped using them after that

Oh that sucks, ive been using a vpn for a long time without issue, i can see why youd stop using them.

I have been using them for years and always use a VPN (on my home router) without issue.

You really should state up front that this is USA only

You can also set limits per day, month, year. Or make cards single-use. And use random names instead of your actual name if you want.

zombo.com is where I do the vast majority of my internet activities

The fact that this is still online is awesome.

i was about to comment this. this website saved me hours of my life

money.org helped me with easy suggestion on how to invest small savings

Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source, check me out at GitHub.

Wait a minute... I recognise those last 3 letters!

XcQ, link stays blue.

XcQ, I click on purpose.

(I'm whistling along with the song as I type this.)

Well. There's gotta be a first time on a new platform. Congratulations

Nice site, it completely changed my life

Unfortunately YouTube wanted to ask me a survey so I spotted the thumbnail first. Every time I go there it's a damn survey...

Hmmmm...

On RIF it would open a popup that showed me what the link was before it opened and I avoided this for so long. My volume was all the way up too.

https://scaleofuniverse.com/

Have fun!

this is a classic ๐Ÿ˜Š

Two things I learned... you can apparently see a human embryo with the naked eye and Japanese spider crabs are terrifying.

I've seen one. They're not actually humongous, just really stretched out. They're still shorter than you, probably. But yeah, nightmarish.

https://archive.org

Culture and knowledge at your hand palm.

I just love searching through their photos/graphics sections and finding super cool looking stuff from museums, history or culture in general.

http://iknowwhatyoudownload.com

https://ipleak.net/

Make sure your downloads arenโ€™t leaking.

It tells me I've downloaded a bunch of stuff i haven't, and none of the stuff I have.

Your public ISP IP isnโ€™t typically static unless you pay for a static address. So guess you know what the last guy was doing.

Should I be concerned if they are recent downloads? I dunno much about this but some are as recent as half a day ago.

Sick, came up blank ๐Ÿ˜Ž

Same. Good to know my setup works.

I only download Linux distributions over a anonymised VPN that exits in Switzerland.

Archive.org, they have a huge selection of books and other forms of media, and they really need donations.

https://www.lofiatc.com/?icao=klas

Lofi hip-hop mixes with air traffic control

This is great. Reminds me of a late night show that used to be on in the UK featuring minimalist techno played against a backdrop of stock 60s and 70s space race footage. It was called The Trip for those that remember it.

Would LOVE to hear that, do you remember the name of that show?

The Trip. I thought it would be hard to find because there's another much more recent, much more popular, but entirely unrelated show with the same name, but it turns out some legend made a playlist of them!

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzivW1Rnct6_lMstFHmw9XC8MG47-cFYG

Different but soma.fm is the tits

This is rad! Thanks for sharing thatโ€ฆ I have now passed it on to a group of friends who will get a kick outta it

https://en.wiktionary.org

Yes, I know. Everyone knows about wiktionary but I cannot get over how english wiktionary is better finnish dictionary than finnish wiktionary. And english wiktionary has all the languages usually.

I see Wiktionary, I upvote. As a linguistics student I hail Wiktionary as a God, the etymologies and some of the IPA transcriptions have done a lot for me

web3isgoinggreat.com for keeping up with the never ending scams, hacks, frauds and failures of web3, aka cryptoshit

neocities.org if you want to find sites that look like those old geocities ones. You can also make one for free

https://cuberule.com/

Now I know steak is salad it'll be much easier to get my 5-a-day.

https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=a2c897 - track any airplane in the world, in real time. Amazing resource when your flight is delayed to see exactly where the plane is.

I use flightaware and similar apps, but they all eventually want a subscription. Bleugh.

Is this one totally free ... or at least better than your average app?

If you have a little technical skill, you can set up your own raspberry pi ads-b receiver really easily. Just need the raspi, and SDR dongle, and an antenna. Floghtaware provides a flash image for the OS. If you feed them data, you get a free premium subscription. I used to use it to get alerts when the state patrol speed trap aircraft were taking off so I knew not to speed on a long interstate commute.

Thanks. I'm sorry it's yet another science project, though.

I'm plenty technical, with a few C contributions to projects in the web and VPN space. But with two jobs and three ageing parents, I'm tapped out!

Hey when did I comment this

Totally get it. My SD card got corrupted in a power outage almost a year ago and I never got around to reflashing it. To many other irons in the fire.

I must say, it was an impressively reliable setup, uptime was effectively limited by power outages. Their image is basically Raspbian which is basically debian, but I was still impressed that the service was so stable.

https://orteil.dashnet.org/cookieclicker/

๐Ÿช Go on, bake a cookie. ๐Ÿช

Noooo, nonono, nope, we're not doing that. Again.

https://www.unclaimedbaggage.com/

Buy stuff people left at airports or from lost luggage. Good for kindle and such.

I feel like prices on here aren't better than eBay.

Yeah, everyone trying to swindle. I'd be a terrible business person because I couldn't do that to other people.

They offer 10% off on sign up and randomly in email. With 10% off the airpods and some of the phones are pretty good deals. Just seems hard to know how good it will be. At least with ebay you get some more info to make a decision.

For music lovers: genius.com for lyrics whosampled.com for original tracks of samples

phind.com

It's basically CHATGPT but with actual connection to the internet (so it gets its data from actual websites) and is also specifically designed for developers.

viralwalk.com and cloudhiker.net are good sites to spend time on.

Oh man, cloudhiker.net is dangerous for me. I could fall down that rabbit hole all day long.

After a few minutes on both and I've found stuff to dive into for a while. Thankfuly I have nothing productive to do today.

archive.is

The guy who runs it used to ban Finnish IPs, allegedly because of personal immigration issues.

It's a useful tool, but I wouldn't rely on it.

One of my favourites is newsnow.co.uk.

Browse with an adblocker. Itโ€™s brilliant for aggregating news from a huge variety of sources, and the facets/filters allow for some powerful searches.

Please visit it. I donโ€™t want it to die because I love it so much.

I tried to load it with ublock origin and the site wouldnt load. Will try again later..

If you do a lot of regular expressions: this one

Did you know that using a link text such as "this" or "here" is bad for accessibility? Screen readers will highlight links separately, and context will be lost. Instead, you might want to use a link with a better description, such as: regex101.com

Huh. I do that all the time. Guess I shouldn't.

It was news to me as well when I first heard it. Accessibility tools isn't something most people keep in mind when writing content, but easy steps like this are good imo

famicase.com

Waste your time seeing custom Famicom cases that people designed.

Seriously, this website is a great place for finding inspiration, if you are like me.

Youtube alternatives piped.video invidio.us

Google alternatives: startpage.com mojeek.com Searx.be

Fast.com (speedtest)

In case anyone has problems with the searx(dot)be public instance, you can always find more public searx instances on searx(dot)space.

It has a list of more public instances and some onion TOR instances as well.

Recently I've had issues where searx(dot)be has not been able to load if I search something in the little web bar on the Firefox based browsers and sometimes have problems where it'll give me some sort of too many request errors, so I just heard to a different instance to solve it.

Google.com

Surprising how many people won't just go search for the answer to their question before asking it online.

startpage.com mojeek.com Searx.be

Alternative search engines that respect privacy. ๐Ÿ‘Œ

This type of question is worth to be posted here, IMO

Y'know, sometimes people ask questions on public forums rather than just searching on Google because they want to start a conversation.

Yeah those aren't the kinds of questions I'm talking about. I'm talking about ones with objective answers that can be easily searched.

Obviously.

Even a question with an objective answer can be elaborated further upon through engagement with an actual person.

http://hasthelhcdestroyedtheearthyet.com/

If you need constant reassurance that the earth is still there

Nice

    <script type="text/javascript"> 
      //Technically, this will be accurate...
      try {
        document.write("NO");
      } catch(err) {
        document.write("YES");
      }
    </script>

Lol I thought it just printed an hardcoded NO

I got an error trying to open that.

Web page not available The web page at http://hasthelhcdestroyedtheearthyet.com/ could not be loaded because:

net::ERR_CLEARTEXT_NOT_PERMITTED

DOES THIS MEAN THE EARTH IS DESTROYED!?