What free resources do you know on the internet that everyone should use?
Potential Category Ideas
- FOSS Software
- Quality of Life
- Public Services
- Other List of Lists
- Personal Finance
- Github Awesome Repositories
- Firefox Addons
- Free Research/Books
- Piracy Sites & Lists
- Real Life Resources
Links and Resources
A library card and library resources such as Libby
is this an american thing?
Not sure. May be worth checking if your library system or government has licensed/uses Libby or some other such system for digital lending/licensing
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It also helps if you are too lazy to bundle up to go outside to check when it’s cold as nuts, but are waiting for something specific. 😁
And if you just never check your mail (I get almost exclusively junk mail, so I check it every week or two. All my bills are autopay, and all communications are paperless when possible).
Open Library allows you to digitally borrow a ton of books for free. It’s not the greatest experience since the books they own are scanned and not digital copies, but it’s good enough, and their catalogue is not half bad.
Why would you need to borrow and return in this scenario?
Just legality. These are paid books that they can’t give away for free, but acting as a library they can let you borrow them, read them, and “return” them.
In practice you’ll rarely feel this system because you can just re-borrow it whenever you want to read it.
Just legality.
The legality was only ever a grey area. Their days may be numbered, however. During the lockdowns they removed the one physical copy per digital copy lent, and as a result of that they got sued. Instead of settling out of court they drummed up donations to a legal fund and lost hard, and during the trial a judge ruled that their practice was illegal. In my opinion, they should have done everything they could have to settle out of court, rather than try and build a frivilous defense that had no grounding in law.
Right now, they’re appealing it, so I guess that’s why it’s still up. However it looks like their strategy isn’t any better now than it was then.
But hey, their laywer’s getting paid.
All the piracy and freemediaheckyeah subs
Free Covid tests if you live in the US.
https://github.com/auctors/free-lunch
Found this a whole ago.
Internet Archive - Very useful for general usage internet but not for specific needs (check fmhy).
Have I Been Pwned? - Periodically use this to check whether your email/online presence is compromised or not.
Bitwarden (or if you want to self-host it use Vaultwarden) - Personally I used this password management so I can keep my pass and you can auto generate passwords with custom parameters if needed.
Curated OSINT resources - You want to ID someone online? this resources can help you to do so, though you also need to understand the basics. It may not work if person you’re looking for does not have a much online presence.
MOOCs.
They’re free unless you want a “certificate”, which has no practical value and is mostly useful if you want to motivate yourself a bit more and want to support their business model.
Go browse Coursera and edX and learn to your heart’s content.
Also, if you’re coding, watch recordings of conferences about your programming language, e.g. CppCon/C++Now/CppNorth for C++, PyCon/PyData for Python etc…
If you’re not a fan of your current email provider, I’ve created one that automatically organizes your email and helps prevent spam and phishing:
Internet is beautiful communities and subreddit mirror on lemmy.
Also, if you want to get in shape:
yt-dlpfor downloading video/audio from a number of sites, not just YouTube.Screw YT Premium.
This free software and media helps a lot: http://perthfreeculture.org/
