What is something free from the internet, which everyone should take advantage of?

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  • openlibrary

    One webpage for every book ever published!

  • Open library - it has the first editions of many books, you can borrow for two weeks again and again https://openlibrary.org/

  • vanced-website-v2

    Source Code of the Vanced Website

  • There appear to be a few custom youtube clients for mobile. Two of them that i've seen are https://vancedapp.com/ and https://newpipe.net/. Take this with a grain of salt, as I haven't personally used either of these. Vanced seems to be all-around better, but it's also closed source software so there's no knowing what you're downloading.

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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  • awesome

    ๐Ÿ˜Ž Awesome lists about all kinds of interesting topics

  • ScreenToGif

    ๐ŸŽฌ ScreenToGif allows you to record a selected area of your screen, edit and save it as a gif or video.

  • Screen2Gif

  • peek

    Simple animated GIF screen recorder with an easy to use interface

  • You might like https://github.com/phw/peek many distros have it in default package managers now

  • ShareX

    ShareX is a free and open source program that lets you capture or record any area of your screen and share it with a single press of a key. It also allows uploading images, text or other types of files to many supported destinations you can choose from.

  • If anyones looking for something very similar to this but more feature packed, I recommended ShareX

  • SponsorBlock

    Skip YouTube video sponsors (browser extension)

  • Yes, https://github.com/ajayyy/SponsorBlock

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • bypass-paywalls-chrome

    Bypass Paywalls web browser extension for Chrome and Firefox.

  • Bypass Paywalls, especially if you're on Firefox. Works on most news articles. Subscribe if you keep visiting the same ones and can afford to support them :).

  • free-for-dev

    A list of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS offerings that have free tiers of interest to devops and infradev

  • For developers and IT people: https://free-for.dev

  • syncthing-android

    Wrapper of syncthing for Android.

  • SyncThing -- https://syncthing.net/ -- Free, Open-Source folder sharing/synchronization service. Quite a few good uses:

  • awesome-piracy

    Discontinued A curated list of awesome warez and piracy links

  • web

    The source code for the Standard Ebooks website. (by standardebooks)

  • It looks like that sub is really big on Gutenberg, which is great. Personally, I love Standard Ebooks, which takes transcripts (often from Gutenberg) and makes them into really clean, modern ebooks.

  • davinci-resolve-linux

    Setup Davinci Resolve on Linux an Fix Issues with Importing and Exporting Media

  • https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/#

  • how-to-exit-vim

    Below are some simple methods for exiting vim.

  • There's a free resource for that!

  • Exercism - Scala Exercises

    Crowd-sourced code mentorship. Practice having thoughtful conversations about code.

  • Exercism.io - https://exercism.io/

  • winget-cli

    WinGet is the Windows Package Manager. This project includes a CLI (Command Line Interface), PowerShell modules, and a COM (Component Object Model) API (Application Programming Interface).

  • Winget

  • Chocolatey

    Chocolatey - the package manager for Windows

  • Chocolatey

  • launcher

    Launcher for Flashpoint Archive (by FlashpointProject)

  • CPython

    The Python programming language

  • uBlock

    uBlock Origin - An efficient blocker for Chromium and Firefox. Fast and lean.

  • NewPipe

    A libre lightweight streaming front-end for Android.

  • There appear to be a few custom youtube clients for mobile. Two of them that i've seen are https://vancedapp.com/ and https://newpipe.net/. Take this with a grain of salt, as I haven't personally used either of these. Vanced seems to be all-around better, but it's also closed source software so there's no knowing what you're downloading.

  • mpc-hc

    Media Player Classic

  • Lila

    Discontinued โ™ž lichess.org: the forever free, adless and open source chess server โ™ž [Moved to: https://github.com/lichess-org/lila] (by ornicar)

  • lichess.org

  • youtube-dl

    Command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sites

  • Vanced

    Vanced Issues/Docs repo

  • Youtube Vanced is NOT open source. It is a modification of the Android YouTube app; and if I recall correctly uses hidden APIs in the YouTube app to get rid of advertisement. While some of the modifications they made are open source, the repository for Vanced app is only used for issue tracking.

  • Mailcow

    mailcow: dockerized - ๐Ÿฎ + ๐Ÿ‹ = ๐Ÿ’•

  • Might check out mailcow.email it runs both (you host it yourself), and many other things to filter out emails (can disable clamAV etc which is most of the resource usage) I use it to manage around 80 companies emails (they all have dozen+ of employees, nothing absolutely insane), works great.

  • Element

    A glossy Matrix collaboration client for the web.

  • MuteSpotifyAds

    Discontinued A efficent MacOS application automatically silencing ads of the spotify desktop app

  • https://github.com/simonmeusel/MuteSpotifyAds Select โ€œRestart to skips adsโ€ to block Spotify ads, on Mac

  • Arduino

    Arduino IDE 1.x (by arduino)

  • Arduino: Open-source electronics platform (software is free) - https://www.arduino.cc/

  • Rufus

    The Reliable USB Formatting Utility

  • Rufus: Tool to make bootable usb drives - https://rufus.ie

  • lmms

    Cross-platform music production software

  • LMMS: Music studio - https://lmms.io/

  • Kodi Home Theater Software

    Kodi is an award-winning free and open source home theater/media center software and entertainment hub for digital media. With its beautiful interface and powerful skinning engine, it's available for Android, BSD, Linux, macOS, iOS, tvOS and Windows.

  • Kodi: Entertainment center software - https://kodi.tv/

  • git

    A fork of Git containing Windows-specific patches. (by git-for-windows)

  • Git: Version control system - https://git-scm.com/

  • greenshot

    Greenshot for Windows - Report bugs & features go here: https://greenshot.atlassian.net or look for information on:

  • Greenshot: Print screen tool - http://getgreenshot.org/

  • scratch-www

    Standalone web client for Scratch

  • Add in scratch = https://scratch.mit.edu

  • SaaSHub

    SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

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