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I also had sites I wanted to share: --Swiftread or spreeder, shows one word at a time to read pasted text --12ft ladder, paste sites into this and it'll block ads --Invidious, ad free, viewcount free youtube experience & it doesnt play automatically when you click a video --localingual, interactive map of the world, you can listen to each country's anthem and language

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[โ€“] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

based.cooking

straight to the point cooking recipes

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Oh thank you! I am SO tired of scrolling past paragraphs and paragraphs of ads, rambling lead-up, and backstory to get to three lines of recipe.

[โ€“] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Antennapod is my podcast program of choice, just a nice clean UI

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Same. It's super clean and stable and compatible with paid/secured podcast links. Those funky rss links and stuff.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I have been hearing a lot of it here in Lemmy, I have been using Pocket Casts free version for so long, at this point I just want a Podcast app that has a queue list that survives account based (I mean if I wipe the app or reinstall it it will have the queue there in the exact second it was left) and the voice booster and silence trimming features, a quick look for that app doesn't seem to have it though, and those features are what kept me from some other popular options like Apple Podcast, Spotify and Overcast (I currently use Android).

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I looked at this the other day and really liked it. Is there a way to import listening data across from pocket casts?

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not sure, but if pocket casts can export html or opml, then yes

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

It does, and it worked perfectly. Thanks

[โ€“] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

crab.fit

Great for when you're trying to schedule a meeting or show when you're available. It's even free and open source.

[โ€“] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did one of your annoying nerdy friends hide some weird unicode in a message they sent to you? Copy/paste into this site to see exactly what dickery they're up to:

https://babelstone.co.uk/Unicode/whatisit.html

I say this because I'm that annoying friend that likes to slip a unicode right-to-left character in just to see what happens.

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can you give an example of the kind of dickery one might get up to by hiding Unicode in a message? Iโ€™m not sure I understand what this is for

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You can reverse the way characters display with this unicode character. U+202E. โ€ฎExample. You can use this to make users think that a file has a different exnetion that it really has. Example: image.โ€ฎgnp.exe This example actually has the extension.exe so it is a executable but looks like it is a PNG.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also, at an old workplace I put that in my username in our chat app and it completely screwed up the UI for people that were using terminal apps for chat as soon as my username appeared and I had to take it out.

You can also do things like use confusable characters to point someone at the wrong domain like pะฐypal.com.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Pretty cool story. Thanks for the site looks interesting.

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Joplin and Obsidian.md

Joplin is open source note taking to the bone and obsidian is still open but with some paid favors in the mix. Both have mobile and desktop clients for just about everything except a literal toaster.

Edit: lmao I am a kumquat, obsidian isn't actually open source except for the plugins. So keep that in mind if you plan to use it.

I will also throw in syncthing. Open source, syncs files between devices it's pretty freaking neato. Definitely a 10 out of 10 project for me.

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Isn't obsidian closed source? I see that only their core plugins are open source.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Oh shit you right lemme edit that.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Obsidian is sick. Its best if you know markdown (which is easy to learn). Instead of paying for Obsidian sync, I just use nextcloud to sync my obsidian vault across multiple devices.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you use them both? If so, what purpose does each serve for you?

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I primarily use Obsidian but both use markdown.

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

This shit is full of red circles LMAO.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

justtherecipe.com

Extracts recipes from blogspam

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I suggest stutter for a Firefox version of spreeder / swiftread.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

For reading manga: Kotatsu

It's free and open source. Has a great UI and you have great features like downloading manga and it rememberimg where you left of.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tachiyomi is also fantastic for this, it's often touted as being the 'best' Android manga reader

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tachiyomi is so good, I developed manga addiction and have 30 mangas in my recommendation folder alone

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think I would've stopped reading manga if Tachiyomi hadn't made it so easy โ˜บ๏ธ

Just started Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead and absolutely loving it so far. Any recommendations?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Oshi no ko. Mushoku tensei. I grow stronger by eating. Solo leveling.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Kotatsu oh this is a sick one, I've been using bato.to

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Just about any mobile restaurant app is worth downloading in my experience. Ordering ahead often lets you skip lines. And most apps these days have some sort of rewards programs. Even if I'm going to a place once, I usually download the app just to see what it offers.

[โ€“] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

I fucking hate apps!

Just make a proper web app, then everyone can use it..

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Only issue is they want a ton of information for those apps generally

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I agree, I've saved a lot of money/time this way but, I don't expect this to be a popular take here haha

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Printfriendly. Edit any website down to the parts you want to save and convert them to PDF. I use it for trimming the cook's life story out of recipes I want to save.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

There is also "just the recipe" but it has gotten a bit.. less good.

And of course they have an app now.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I use this a lot to fish out knitting recipes for my gran after she finds them on Pinterest. Hate Pinterest with a passion, though.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I suggest Archive.ph over 12ft ladder these days.

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