SEO has essentially destroyed search engines, what are some very useful websites that you might not get given by Google?
Want to know something about published science fiction or fantasy? Forget Goodreads or Wikipedia bibliographies, the ISFDB has ridiculously comprehensive details about every book, author or magazine I’ve looked up.
Google will give you ISFDB results if you search for an author or title plus “isfdb” but it’s not nearly as high in the rankings as it should be.
Awesome!! Hadn’t seen this before.
I think this goes on some list I’ve started of old-style fecking awesome web pages that represent exactly what us old timers are talking about when we say the internet has lost something vital. No frills, community driven, information rich and dense web page producing long lasting value. Just compare this to some recipe page with flocks of ads.
An email service that uses addresses like [email protected] to organize all your email into a folder for every app/service.
You can also make these addresses screen senders before their email goes through, for something like [email protected].
You can mark them as public and they’ll be included in a list if someone emails the bare address ([email protected]), so you can share your bare address all over the internet without getting spam.
(Full disclosure: I created and operate this service.)
So, you can do this with gmail already. What’s your pitch on why someone should use Port87 instead of Gmail (besides the obvious Google is evil, etc.)?
A lot of services have stopped accepting + addresses as valid, or even stripping them before saving. So at least for a while, - addresses could be more useful
you can also just buy your own domain and set it up your gmail/whatever as the catchall, then use [email protected]
Last I saw, Google charges for this. More than this guy’s service.
Also, it seems like his service is about automatically having username-category email addresses. Definitely not hard to replicate, but it circumvents the common blocking of plus-signs in email addresses you see nowadays. And while not hard, it’s a bit less trivial to catch any old email with a dash in it and “magically” convert it to a category in the main inbox.
Google doesn’t even factor into this. Go to your registrar of choice (namecheap, etc), buy a domain, and setup that domain to forward all emails to your email address.
So if you have [email protected] and you just bought abraxas.me, in namecheap you can setup *@abraxas.me to go to your gmail account, and then sign up for sites using [email protected] you want. There’s no + or - involved, use any word you want. Signing up for lemmy.world? [email protected] will go right to your gmail (or whatever email you use)
Are you able to differentiate between emails as they come in? E.g., seeing an email was sent to [email protected] vs [email protected]?
indeed. It comes in as [email protected], so not only can you easily filter/label them, but you can immediately tell who had a security breach and/or sold your email.
Fair point. That is free. I guess it would boil down to what the mail categorization would look like in this guy’s service. I will say I thought it was odd that it isn’t just mail middleware with the guy struggling with having to build his IMAP in node.js.
It is trivial to strip +xyz from all of the email addresses in a list.
Same for -xyz…
Buy a domain, set up a catch-all and use servicename@yourdomain. Boom.
If you read the website they have a workaround. Email sent to the bare address will Be denied and receive an automated response.
to keep up to date on zoomer slang: Bruh.News
“Study Finds That No One Really Knows What They’re Doing” can relate.
Right? Like half the site is nothing but Onion News headlines lol.
Came for the slang, stayed for the music!
DAMNED
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This site will show you how to tackle any stain.
Sadly, today I was greeted with this message: We have discontinued our stain solution website.
How much does the “textile world” change? How does a method of cleaning fabric become outdated? I have so many questions!
Free Media Heck Yeah. The largest collection of Free stuff on the Internet
This is amazing. I am in love with this site already. Thanks for sharing!
No problem! So many resources on that site.
Idk how obscure it is but Paul’s Online Math Notes https://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/ are the best math guide I’ve ever had. It got me through an engineering degree
Looks like its down for the moment
Lemmy hug of death
Works for me.
probably just less traffic now with the thread being a bit older
For those in school:
https://www.desmos.com/scientific - badass scientific calculator. Desmos has a mobile app as well.
https://www.madeintext.com/subscript-generator/ - Helpful for typing out shit like: Na₂HPO₄ + H⁺ → NaH₂PO₄ + Na⁺
Also Windows Key + Period will open up a menu with a shit on of emojis and special characters, for things like that → arrow.
^note that it’s got tabs on both the top and bottom of the menu
https://www.desmos.com/calculator is what I use every time I have to plot any graph
just tried it, Windows/Meta + Period also works on KDE Plasma 5. 😀
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Tried neal.fun based on your recommendation and its been keeping me amazed all day!! Thank you!
Wow yeah, I lost a lot of time there. Hard to shake off!
I thought *Ffmpeg * meant something else
Good Lord I’ve used ffmpeg for years to convert my videos and just realized today it’s name could be a naughty search word in adult sites
That M is doing a lot of heavy lifting in this scenario
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Neal.fun is neat. Something that I was looking for. Thank you
Holy shit. In 5 minutes of using Kagi, it’s so nice. Thanks
Sharedrop seems a bit dead. Consider pairdrop.net as an alternative.
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If you need a bed or bedding, https://www.sleeplikethedead.com/ collects and distills online reviews from everywhere about it.
If you need earbuds, http://www.scarbir.com/ does similar.
Bonus points is you can host yourself with docker. It has a bunch of handy tools for computer related projects.
For Windows, you can use devtoys for an offline version of this https://devtoys.app/
This is awesome!
I love this!
What does it mean to host oneself? Is that like being a guest in your own house?
You can set it up on your computer to run as a local website. You access it by going to your local computer IP address followed by the port it’s on.
I set mine to run on port 8084.
192.168.1.10:8084
If I put that into my browser it loads the website directly from the computer I’m hosting it from.
http://remove.bg is a website that makes removing backgrounds from photos or artwork a lot easier! I think it uses A.I or something, it’s been super helpful for me a couple times.
seirdy.one has this great index of google alternatives that can be used.
Anna’s Archive and z-library are the best way I’ve found to pirate books
Don’t forget about Libgen and all its instances. I heard they pull books from z-lib but I’m not sure how it works anymore.
Anna’s archive is a meta indexer, pointing to libgen as the sources.
Mobilism dot org has been my saviour for well over a decade for books
Audiobooks too?
No, but !lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/piracy recommends audioaz.com as a good source of pirated Audiobooks
https://Audiobookbay.nl works pretty well (best public tracker I think) for audiobooks but the absolute best source for audiobooks and ebooks is the private tracker https://myanonamouse.net
Figures out what the font is from an uploaded image. I’ve used it multiple times.
There’s also WhatFont add on/browser extension that lets you highlight text on a website and it’ll tell you what font it is!
Searches for web pages without JavaScript. The Surprise me! option is fun for finding random ass old sites too
edit: https://mapfight.xyz/
Compare the size of any two landmasses.
Love to take some wiby dives from time to time.
This time I landed on this cute little page for a married couple that posted newsletters and stuff for family and friends. Basically, they made their own Facebook page and bought a domain with their name and everything, been running it since like the mid 2000s it looks like. Even a whole ham radio section the husband put together. I was enjoying it till it became increasingly clear these two are fairly wealthy and I lost interest.
Surprise me: http://batheinmymilk.com/
Um…wtf…
You only get one shot. Do not miss your chance to bathe. This opportunity comes once in a lifetime, Dave.
I have had a lot of fun with the surprise me option.
It wants me to pee standing up for some reason: http://mapsu.org/
It’s basically an interactive Python session using a Python interpreter compiled to WebAssembly and which then runs locally on your device via your browser without having to install anything on your end.
It’s very cool to check some calculation out very quickly on your phone or tablet.
Or if you want a full local Jupyterlab experience using the same WebAssembly tech: https://jupyterlite.readthedocs.io/en/stable/_static/lab/index.html (based on the JupyterLite project: https://github.com/jupyterlite/jupyterlite)
