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@henrikx@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Open Source@lemmy.ml • 1 year ago

What lesser known free and open source software do you use daily to improve your life?

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What lesser known free and open source software do you use daily to improve your life?

@henrikx@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Open Source@lemmy.ml • 1 year ago
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For me it is the note taking/PKMS tool SilverBullet.

  • Andromxda 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼
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    • LibreWolf, a privacy-optimized fork of Firefox
    • Mull, hardened Firefox for Android.
    • EteSync with self-hosted Etebase, an end-to-end encrypted solution for syncing calendars and contacts.
    • Molly, a hardened Signal fork for Android.
    • Accrescent, a secure, alternative app store for Android. Still in an early stage of development though.
    • UnifiedPush, a privacy-friendly notification system.
    • LibRedirect, a browser extension that automatically redirects you to private frontends for privacy invasive websites.
    • movie-web, a web app that let’s you watch any movie/tv show for free. I highly recommend it.
    • Seal, an amazing Android app for downloading videos. YTDLnis is an alternative.
    • Cobalt downloader, a website that let’s you download basically everything imaginable from the internet. All kinds of posts, photos and videos from various social media platforms and many other websites.
    • Linkwarden, a bookmark manager that can be self-hosted. Also check out Omnivore and wallabag.
    • ArchiveBox, a self-hosted app for archiving websites.
    • Tube Archivist, a self-hosted app for archiving YouTube videos/playlists/channels.

    (I love downloading and archiving stuff lol)

    • @nrbray@lemmy.ml
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      great finds, is this list curated anywhere?

      • Andromxda 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼
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        No that was just off the top of my head

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        It’s right there lol

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      Is EteSync free? It seems to be offering trials and paid plans.

      • Andromxda 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼
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        That’s for their cloud hosting. But the self-hosted variant is completely free.

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      deleted by creator

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      How trustworthy is movie-web in terms of anonymity?

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        Depends on you, if you don’t trust their proxies, you can deploy your own. movie-web is basically just a search engine (with a pretty good and user friendly UI/UX in my opinion) that pulls content from other sources.

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        Compared to torrent, i would say it’s more “anonym” since you connect to a server instead of other pc.

      • @tetris11@lemmy.ml
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        As with all these things: do it behind an always-on VPN on a dedicated device.

        • Andromxda 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼
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          Not needed, it never connects to the content sources directly, it always uses a proxy. You can even deploy your own proxy for free on Cloudflare or Netlify.

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      This is fantastic! Just started switching over to Librewolf and Mull. I discovered xBrowserSync in the process, which is a great way to sync browser bookmarks. https://www.xbrowsersync.org/

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        If you only use Firefox-based browsers, you don’t actually need the extension. You can simply enable Firefox Sync in the LibreWolf settings and it’s end-to-end encrypted by default.

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