Software Endorsements

[Car Won't Crank]

For anyone who uses pihole on your network, I have found out that the Firebog/wally3k curated blocklists contains the farms as one of the blocked domains. Kind of funny. You can find it here https://v.firebog.net/hosts/lists.php

 

[Aidan]

@byuu- has downloading of age-gated videos been working without login credentials recently? I feel like yt-dlp had this working, but maybe it got broken by a YT change.

I would assume it should work with cookies from a browser in yt-dlp or JDownloader, but can't verify ATM.

It stopped working when Youtube changed something iirc but last time I really wanted to get around it I just logged in via yt-dlp and it worked.

 

[Space Cat]

So I reinstalled Windows 10 again and don't wanna shit up the forum with another essential new applications for a new build thread, so what do you guys make sure is on absolutely every new build?

I always make sure to install LibreOffice (legit the best office software since Office became pozzed), Firefox, 7zip, Wiztree (essential for working out where the fuck my space went), Notepad+, VLC (yeah I don't give a shit if your niche video player is 0.324% better, I just want a swiss army knife that can play anything I throw at it) and f.lux but I'm trying to see what everyone can't start a new build without to see if anything sticks out as interesting.

Preferably freeware/open source shit that I can simply install and never have to worry about updating. I don't really mind paid applications if they're worthwhile though.

Hi, I just reinstalled windows too, after messing around with a lot of stuff and software I wanted to come clean. The first thing I did was to run this bat file to activate my windows install, it has to be run as administrator.
Then I ran Privatezilla to enable the privacy settings, that still left some stuff like onedrive so then I went after the famous Windows 10 debloater and pretty much selected to remove all "bloatware", telemetry, and onedrive.
As for your software everything is good, office suite, browser, 7zip, wiztree, I installed those too. Although I prefer mpv.
As for important software for new builds: I'd reccomend ffmpeg, useful tool. KeepassXC to keep track of your accounts.
Since I used a bloatware remover I'm using qimgv for an image viewer, easy to use and feels pretty 'light'.
You mentioned wiztree so you might be messing with lots of files sometimes, I'll suggest you get TeraCopy, it was mentioned early in this thread, it helped me a lot to move and manage file transfers before doing my reinstall.
Also get veracrypt or cryptomator if you are going to be using any cloud services.
And that's all.

 

[Major Discord]

What really surprised me with yt-dlp is that it sometimes works for websites which have videos behind a paywall. I have absolutely 0 clue how, but it is possible to download some of these videos using it.

 

[Flatline]

What really surprised me with yt-dlp is that it sometimes works for websites which have videos behind a paywall. I have absolutely 0 clue how, but it is possible to download some of these videos using it.

Those "paywalls" aren't as sophisticated as one might think. The content, including links to the video, "blocked" by the wall is still rendered on the page.

 

[Napoleon Bonerfart]

I endorse scipy. It has enough of the features of matlab and is free. The only thing it really doesn't have is that drag and drop signal analysis toolbox but if you need that as a crutch then you should flip burgers instead.

 

[J.R. "Bob" Dobbs]

I've been using LibreWolf for awhile now and I can safely say that I endorse it. Essentially it is a fork of Firefox that comes pre-packaged with good privacy addons and kiked unsolicited telemetry requests completely removed.

LibreWolf Official Website

Pros

• It's privacy oriented, comes pre-installed with uBlock Origin which is a nice touch
• It's lightweight. Runs faster than any other firefox fork from what I can tell, and I've tried pretty much all there is.
• Completely compatible with any extra firefox addons you want to use. This is due to the development team basically removing telemetry and other glownigger shit from each new version of Firefox.
• Runs really well on old hardware. I know this falls under the lightweight thing but the entire reason why I started using LibreWolf is because I couldn't install Brave on my laptop. Brave apparently wasn't available for Xubuntu and was only downloadable as a snap app which is super fucking gay, and Firefox ate up the RAM on a machine where I didn't have a lot to spare in the first place, so it was worth the try.

Cons

• None, at least none that I can think of as of right now.

I also want to add that I don't even use it for it's privacy features alone, I imported all my bookmarks and data from Firefox into LibreWolf anyway. Honestly it's just a lighter weight version of Firefox for me, the anti-tracking and telemetry thing is just a plus.

 

[Flatline]

I've been using LibreWolf for awhile now and I can safely say that I endorse it.

I'd use this if there's a way to transfer data between machines. Firefox's Sync is the only thing keeping me around.

 

[Kosher Dill]

Cons

• None, at least none that I can think of as of right now.

Cons: their autistic insistence on "anonymizing" your time zone which breaks all sites that read the time out of your browser, including this one.
That is, unless you happen to live somewhere that uses UTC, such as Britain at some times of the year.

 

[Punished Snigger]

Found an IDEA plugin called 'Mintlify' that'll use ML to generate docstrings for methods and classes. It's surprisingly decent, but I would still give anything it produces a human pass through.

https://www.mintlify.com/

 

[Post Reply]

Privacytools.io has started listing software to profit from the affiliate links.


In general, I do not have a problem with affiliate links, but it does make me doubt the integrity of their recommendations. PrivacyGuides.org seems to still be free of affiliate grift at the moment.

 

[Napoleon Bonerfart]

I'm looking for a good tool that makes sequence diagrams, that costs less than $100. All of the open source tools I've tried have been written by retards who have no understanding of UI design or think I want to run their tool in a fucking web browser, and it makes me wish it was legal to mail pipe bombs to their houses, because that's the only way to get them out of the software industry.

Any tool that does what I want cost more than $100.

 

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I'm looking for a good tool that makes sequence diagrams, that costs less than $100. All of the open source tools I've tried have been written by retards who have no understanding of UI design or think I want to run their tool in a fucking web browser, and it makes me wish it was legal to mail pipe bombs to their houses, because that's the only way to get them out of the software industry.

Any tool that does what I want cost more than $100.

Did you try Inkscape?

 

[Napoleon Bonerfart]

Did you try Inkscape?

Inkscape is great but it's not useful for making software diagrams.

 

[Sicklick]

>proxy
Proxies log like any ISP would. Use DNS over HTTPS / encrypted DNS to hide your activity from your service provider. Gets the job done.

 

[byuu]

I'm looking for a good tool that makes sequence diagrams, that costs less than $100. All of the open source tools I've tried have been written by retards who have no understanding of UI design or think I want to run their tool in a fucking web browser, and it makes me wish it was legal to mail pipe bombs to their houses, because that's the only way to get them out of the software industry.

Any tool that does what I want cost more than $100.

UMLet? It's pretty comfy once you get used to the syntax.

 

[Napoleon Bonerfart]

UMLet? It's pretty comfy once you get used to the syntax.

I think I'm going to go with staruml. I was using medelio, but the one killer app feature that I needed was the ability to "copy and paste." Modelo will create like a second reference to a diagram but if I modify its contents the first diagram gets modified too.

 

[notafederalagent]

trafilatura (docs) - Python & command-line tool to gather text on the Web: web crawling/scraping, extraction of text, metadata, comments

I'm testing this for a few things, but I'm sharing it at the moment because of the sitemap feature. It had no problems getting almost 687000 urls from the NPR sitemap.

https://github.com/wabarc/archiveDOTis (change the dot to actual period (dot) because of wordfilter) - A command-line tool and Go package for wayback webpage to archive.ph

Visit archive.ph in your browser and solve the captcha, then use the cookie value of cf_clearance for archive.ph. It will look something like this:
000baa92bd24e91e1688232879f8c0f45f9905fb-133327486-ZNQSBUVG
In the terminal, set the cookie value, then run the program on the url you want to archive:

export ARCHIVE_COOKIE=cf_clearance=000baa92bd24e91e1688232879f8c0f45f9905fb-133327486-ZNQSBUVG

I haven't determined how long the cookies last, but I was able to run it on the whitehouse.gov sitemap and it went through 5800+ urls without a hiccup. It also handled the nearly 4400 page TDS thread with no issue.

If no archive is found, it will start the archive and give you the wip address:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/internship/ => http://archive.today/wip/WvDDe
If there is already an archive found, it will return the result:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/privacy/ => http://archive.today/8jtYn/again?url=https://www.whitehouse.gov/privacy/

 

[Zaryiu2]

I am trying to find a dll injector program (I had one through Greenluma on my old computer but GreenLuma trigger an auto shutdown from my anti-virus on my current computer) so idk if this is the thread to ask if someone has a recommendation for a way to get CreamAPI/a Dll injector recommendation?

 

[Relinquish]

You people really need to know the REAL difference between VLC and MPV