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A collection of interesting stuff, including websites and software. If you don't like something here, please don't harass me or the creator of the thing in question. I am not responsible for the contents of the links posted here.
Table of Contents
Blogs
Entertainment
xkcd - a webcomic about romance, sarcasm, mathematics, and language. Also, check out the unofficial wiki .RationalWiki - A website dedicated to disproving conspiracy theories using decently well-based logic (mostly)'Kim' And Get It - 350 photographs of North Korea, a good few hours of insight
Education
Based Cooking - Open-source minimal recipe websiteLandChad - Tutorials for setting up any kind of server, including things like XMPP and Git.
YouTube
Clients
Mobile
NewPipe - a YouTube client without the whole algorithm thing. Once you import your subscriptions, it's a dream come true.PipePipe - A fork of NewPipe. It supports some more sites and has more features, but it's really unstable.
Desktop
FreeTube - A really cool, work-in-progress YouTube client that is really customisable.
Frontends
Invidious - Open-source, self-hosted YouTube frontendPeertube - An alternative place to upload videos
Channels
Best of the Best
Technology
Retro Tech
Linux
Brodie Robertson - Stay up-to-date with (nearly) daily videos about what's happening in the Linux space
Programming
Ardens - Computer science topics with a bit too much snarkConaticus - Watch someone write extremely bad code and have a mental breakdown
Cybersecurity and Networking
David Bombal - General cybersecurity stuff, with a LOT of special guestsNetworkChuck - Manic episodes about cybersecurity and general technology
News
Other
Dave's Garage 'A retired software engineer from Microsoft going back to the MS-DOS and Windows 95 days'Eric Murphy - General Linux stuff, with some philosophy mixed in
Video Essays
Philosophy
exurb1a - A turtle high on ketamine explains philosophy
Technology
NakeyJakey - A guy talks about outdated game design on a space hopperNationSquid - General technology topics explained rather poorly (just being honest)Tech Rules - How tech works, even though you (probably) don't careStryxo - Rants about why Steam is better than Epic Games Launcher
Culture
Other
Education
Half As Interesting - Short, semi-satirical, semi-educational videos about semi-interesting stuffKurzgezagt - An unpronouncable name plus high-production videos about science? Sign me up!
Entertainment
Half-Asleep Chris - Stop motion meets cats and LEGOPhantomStrider - A surprisingly cheerful YouTuber talks about old cartoonsrewboss - Brit living in Germany takes 14 years to reach 100,000 subscribers
Gaming
Karl Jobst - Where cheaters in speedruns go to dieibxtoycat - MinecraftSalC1 - The guy who uses classical music in the background of his Minecraft videos
Awesome Lists
Linux - The best kernelAndroid - Objectively better than iOS due to its open-source nature (Note: Recommends a lot of proprietary solutions)IPFS - Interplanetary filesystem, a deceltralised file-sharing protcolPython - Programming language that is powerful yet easy-to-useThe C Programming Language - The rabbit hole goes deep Rust Programming Language - An up-and-coming programming language with interesting features
Text Editors
Neovim - The best VimEmacs - If you're insaneAtom - A (discontinued) hackable text editor
Games
Development Environment
Shell Scripting - You need to know it if you use Linux (and if you write code, you DEFINITELY should use Linux)ZSH Plugins - zsh is the best shell, so you might as well customise it
A lot of people recommend oh-my-zsh. THEY ARE WRONG! Do not use oh-my-zsh. It does nothing special and is a LOT more trouble than it is worth. It slows down your zsh substantially, and barely changes anything. I repeat, DO NOT TOUCH IT!
Dotfiles - You need a backup of your config to share to others. I do it, you should too
Entertainment
SciFi - If only I bothered to readEmail Newsletters - Make sure they don't end up in spamGeek Podcasts - You're a nerd, right? (Podcasts about nerdy topics in many languages)
Learning
Security
Security - Got to start somewhereCapture-The-Flag - The legendary games to test and refine your knowledge, worthy of a DEFCON black badgeHacking - Please don't do anything illegalHacking Spots - If you want to find a place to hackHoneypots - Learn how hackers attack a system by planting a fake targetLockpicking - The centuries-old tradition that many a hacker have learntPrompt Injection - Targeting those large language models we all keep hearing about
Software
Operating Sytsems
Arch Linux - A Linux distro you have full control over
I daily-drive Arch on my computer
/e/ OS - Android ROM without Google Play Services
I use this one on my Samsung S8
Web Browsers
Librweolf - Fork of firefox with enhanced privacy and security. Enable cookies if you want to and you're good to go.Ungoogled Chromium - Chromium (the open-source version of Google Chrome) minus the creepy Google features.
Image Manipulation
GIMP - I bet you $5 that GIMP 3 doesn't release on time
Update: GIMP 3 has been deleyed until June 2024. Looks like you owe me $5 .
Inkscape - For vector graphics. The UI is just awful. I should make a blog post about it.
Video Editing
Kdenlive - A great video editor for semi-professional workOlive - A work-in-progress open-source professional video editor
Media Player
mpv - A 'just works' media player with loads of keyboard controlsVLC Media Player - VLC is a media suite rather than a media player. Plays DVD's, HTTP streams, has skins and plugins, and more!
Digital Audio Workstations
Audacity - Yes, it's (technically) a DAW.MuseScore - Write sheet music easily and quicklyArdour - Open-source DAWFL Studio - Proprietary DAW; I've heard it's really good (It's also $500 for a lifetime license)
Office Suites
Security
Command-Line Utilities
linuxwave - Generates music from Linux's random functionspass - Command-line password managerfast - Check your download speed courtesy of Netflix's fast.comdarkhttpd - A small, fast, dependency-free, and lightweight web server written in C
Guides
HacksGuide - Guides on hacking the 3Ds/Wii/Wii U/PS Vita/Switch that is kept up-to-date
Usenet
COMING SOON : A blog post on Usenet
Newsreaders
Newsgroups
news.announce.important - subscribe to this one first, it's important
news.announce.newgroups - notifies of new Big-8 releases + maintains a monthly list of all newsgroups
comp.lang.python - The Python programming language
comp.lang.c - The C programming language
alt.aliens and alt.alien - Funny nonesense
comp.ai - Artificial intelligence is something we all need to understand before we form opinions about it
comp.fonts - 'Why is the bottom of the S thicker than the top, you blasphemist?'
comp.linux and comp.os.linux - The best kernel
comp.os.linux.announce - Distro maintainers announce new releases
comp.programming - Programming advice
comp.protocols.time.ntp - nerds discussing clock synchronisation techniques
comp.text.tex - The TeX typesetting system
rec.arts.ascii - All things ASCII and ANSI art
rec.arts.books - Reading is good for the soul and mind
rec.food.chocolate - My guilty pleasure, I am sad to say
rec.food.cooking - Surprisingly active
rec.pets.cats.anecdotes - again, surprisingly active
rec.toys.lego - everyone's favourite (and most expensive) interlocking brick system
Providers
Free
NOTE : If you want to download binaries for free, sorry, you can't. Usenet has such high traffic that you *have* to pay.
Eternal September - Create a free account and access all of Usenet (minus the binaries)
Paid
Usenet-News - Purchase Usenet traffic like you would a pre-paid SIM card - pay per GB, not per monthNewshosting - With unrivaled binary retention and high popularity, it's probably not a scam