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[–] [email protected] 175 points 1 year ago (13 children)

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)

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (6 children)

A good alternative to Bitwarden is KeePass/KeepassXC btw

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (11 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 163 points 1 year ago (11 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 113 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Wikipedia

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

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[–] [email protected] 94 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 93 points 1 year ago (6 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 84 points 1 year ago (8 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 year ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well since we're on Lemmy....

https://lemmyverse.net/communities?order=active&nsfw=null < the best way to find active communities and instances on Lemmy.

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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

Edit: Nevermind, figured it out: Image

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

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.

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago (7 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Hacker news https://news.ycombinator.com

I’m sure most already do but you never know.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago (5 children)
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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago (11 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

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

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (1 children)

https://archive.org

Culture and knowledge at your hand palm.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (13 children)
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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago

https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome awesome lists of various topics and resources, super helpful.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (7 children)
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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How did you make your username *******?

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

https://annas-archive.org/ - a search mirror for Library Genesis, SciHub, etc.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

https://floor796.com/

Waste time watching pop culture animations.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (10 children)

https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/ This is a historical newspaper website where you can look up old newspapers from your area. From about 1890 - 1935 a lot of the articles were about brutal accidents and suicides. I write a blog about the goofy shit you find in these old papers.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

Zombo.com. You can do anything at Zombo.com.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (3 children)

https://www.unclaimedbaggage.com/

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

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

fetchnotifs.com β€” tracks prices and other changes on the web. Made by me :3

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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

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