Linux, torrents, youtube (if you use a account-less frontend), Wikipedia.
Is anyone aware of a third-party service for tracking YouTube watch history across devices? That’s the missing piece keeping me from switching
The services of your local library. Sign up and use them, and get your friends & family on too because the more regular users and the more people aware of their services, the harder they are for politicians to take away or slash the budget of.
Common services offered:
- Kanopy, hoopla (free TV shows and movies, similar to Netflix)
- Local/national newspapers digital versions
- PressReader for various (usually subscription-only) magazines
- ebooks and audiobooks via OverDrive/Libby, BorrowBox, hoopla, etc.
- Educational resources like language learning apps
I tried this a few days ago, but Overdrive only had 2 ‘copies’ of the 30+ year old novel I wanted and the waitlist was 10 weeks so I added another “Fuck capitalism for…” to my list.
Rss feeds.
Not really „free“ but „mostly free“: Each week you can get a different game from the Epic game store
I keep forgetting about that
Global communication.
Infinite knowledge.
Can we apply some of both of those to narrow down to a few recommendations? 😁
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/
just these 6 have more info than any human can ever consume:
https://thephilosophicalsalon.com/
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/
All the wikis
https://www.susanblackmore.uk/
https://www.technologyreview.com/
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/
http://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/2007/05/27/intensified-continuity-revisited/ (havent been here in a while, not sure what its like now)
These are some of my bookmarks I put up. Theres a lot lot more and I’ll to get back and add more. Many people have made many such lists. Often much better
Thank you, kind stranger!
Ad blockers
For Safari on macOS, iOS I recommend 1Blocker.
Pi-hole and Vance(YouTube ad blocker.) I can’t watch YouTube with ads now.
Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/
LibreVox (if audio books are more your thing):
Anna’s Archive
Mullvad’s DoH service and Leta search proxy are free. You don’t need to have a VPN subscription to use them.
Can you break these two down for me please?
If I remember correctly, Leta search proxy is the anonymized search proxy from Mullvad. Users connect and do internet searches, Leta will search various engines and cache the results, anonymized, for some time (days I think?) and any users who perform the same search will receive the cached results from the other users previous searches.
I could be wrong on some or all of that.
Sounds pretty much like Searchxng actually sounds a tad bit more sophisticated
DNS over HTTPS (DoH), which is Domain Name Service over Secure HyperText Transfer Protocol. HTTP is the technology the Web runs on. The S in HTTPS is the secured version of HTTP, it’s encrypted using TLS (originally was SSL, Secure Sockets Layer), Transport Layer Security. DNS translates site names (e.g., www.google.com) into an IP (Internet Protocol) address (e.g., 8.8.8.8). DNS is an unencrypted protocol like HTTP. Adding in the Security component is somewhat tricky, but DoH is one of the ways, it just piggy backs on a tried and true secure transport technology that powers the web today.
The reason you would want to use DoH is to secure the domains you are accessing from (1) being intercepted and/or altered, e.g., someone poisoning the response and giving you a bad IP address for any number of reasons, and (2) snoops such as the WiFi provider you’re connected to or the Internet Service Provider (ISP) or cellular provider, or anyone else watching the unencrypted traffic.
All this is correct, but keep in mind that you still leak domain names until ECH (encrypted client hello) is in wide-spread use. It is of course still a good idea to use encrypted DNS, just don’t assume your ISP can’t see which websites you are accessing.
Cheers very much. I was somewhat familiar with the concept (didn’t knew the abbreviation for it tho). But your explanation just made everything slide in their place. Thanks again
MIT Open Courseware
Been using this list of free websites and resources for a while:
- Comics on the second page.
I should take advantage of this tread
not that useful but cute: https://http.cat/ and https://http.dog/ give cute pictures to http error codes like 404: file not found or (the better one) 418: im a teapod
When i dont know what an errer code means i often put http.gat/{errorcode} and then i am pleased because of insight and cat- https://haveibeenpwned.com/ is very useful, it takes a few seconds for you to check if some accounts got found in public breaches
Your question’s answer is encapsulated to a high degree here:
Harvard just released a free civics course. I’ve been looking into starting that.
The Pirate Bay ;)
