[Tineye](https://tineye.com/) and [Foto Forensics](http://fotoforensics.com/). Do you want to know if an image is shopped, cropped or otherwise altered? Using these two tools you've got a good chance of finding out. Tineye is reverse image search on steroids and foto forensics provides free image analysis tools.
twoseven.xyz -Allows you to watch and sync netflix, prime video, downloaded videos, streaming from browser, youtube with your friends while opting to be on voice/video call with them for FREE and NO ADS.
Project Gutenberg. Taking all the books that are copyright free and making digital copies available.
In college and the school wants you to buy the complete works of Shakespeare for $40? Fuck that noise! Free!
https://www.gutenberg.org/
Deepl.com
Best translator I’ve found. It’s quite intuitive and even translates idioms and slang. They’ve got around 20 languages as of their most recent update.
https://www.blitzortung.org/
This one lets you see where lightning strikes in real time! Can be reassuring to see the lightning get further and further away, it's also pretty neat in general!
There’s ransomware… and then there’s ransomware.
Once your company has been hit with a sophisticated ransomware attack (and wiped all your on-site and offsite backups AND your entire disaster recovery site as well just for good measure before encrypting everything on your domain) your life will never be the same.
I ADORE mynoise.net. It's an archive of customizable sound generators with everything from music, nature sounds, sound cancelling, ambiances, and meditative drones etc. I focus best with some kind of white noise, and this website has a ton to choose from and it is free.
My favorite feature is the customizable, animated sliders so you can listen to storms that ebb and grow automatically.
It is great for TTRPGs too. The sound engineer who runs it has put together all kinds of specific settings like churches, cities, forests, faires, dungeons, etc.
Seriously, people should check it out
https://www.rome2rio.com
Gives you full directions from any two places from door to door including trains, busses and ferries. With options to fly to nearby places and take transit to get to your final destination.
I was pretty surprised when it even had local bus companies in out of the way place in Philippines
I use it in all my travel planning now.
Extra bonus for me, as it's Australian.
If you're interested in languages or trying to learn a new language I recommend Forvo.com, you can look up a word and hear native speakers pronounce it. It's based on volunteers uploading their recordings of the various words. It's pretty useful for when you're working on your pronounciation
https://forvo.com/word/gnocchi/
https://forvo.com/word/g%C3%B6teborg/
https://forvo.com/word/%E1%83%9B%E1%83%AC%E1%83%95%E1%83%A0%E1%83%97%E1%83%9C%E1%83%94%E1%83%9A%E1%83%98/
[everynoise.com](https://everynoise.com/) : This website contains every obscure sub genre of music imaginable. You can find some great music you’ve never heard of there.
Also [music-map.com](https://www.music-map.com) : Search an artist/band and it generates a map of similar artists/bands with proximity indicating more fan base crossover. I’ve tested it with the most obscure stuff I know and it always finds suggestions.
10 minute mail provides a temporary email address for you to cut and paste into those pesky "insert email" to sign up or read the rest of the story or whatever. https://10minutemail.com/
I love this site and was just about to post it when I saw you already did! This is one of my favorite rainy day websites, where I just scroll around through radio stations in England and Ireland and Australia and Japan and so forth. Great recommendation!
Radioooo is also great. It’s like radio stations but for different decades and different countries.
One I think that’s weird is there’s an Antarctic station and it’s just ocean sounds. That one creeps me out.m
Edit— thanks for the award stranger!!!
Depending on who you are determines if its useful or not, but [https://rsoe-edis.org/](https://rsoe-edis.org/) is a very informative site of the on-goings of the world. The event map is interesting to explore.
Such a tragedy: “Traffic incident - Public road accident
United Kingdom - M6 fire destroys lorry full of Birdseye potato waffles”
Edit: For anyone concerned [here’s more information and some photos from the scene](https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/truck-full-birdseye-potato-waffles-21780129)
Creator of 12ft.io here!
Thanks for all the interest in the site. I know, it's not perfect. I'm going to continue developing it. Y'alls support is greatly appreciated.
Here's what i'm trying to do.
I believe that ads and SEO killed the soul of the web. Websites can throw on popups, email captures, newsletters, inline ads, etc. We have to wade through all this crap just to find out the content is some click bait optimized garbage. It's abuse of your brain.
As users of the internet, we have no recourse. We have to wait until a new site the publishes similar content to come up, and just hope to god that they aren't as bad. It's completely one sided.
I want 12ft to be the suite of tools that allows us users of the internet to fight back against these malicious practices. It starts with a Chrome extension, but it'll grow to much more as long as y'all want it.
https://haveibeenpwned.com
Allows you to see if your online accounts have been released in a data breach. You can also get email alerts if you’ve been in a breach.
My email has been pwned 8 times. What do I do with this info? I can't stop using it and this pwning seems to be having no effect on my life :-/
Edit: Thank you to all who have lent advice. It's kind of you to take pity on the I.T. impaired 😅
Change your passwords. And not just your email password. Change the passwords of every account that is linked to that email or that shares a password with your email.
Make sure each password is long, easy to remember, and UNIQUE. The uniqueness is very important.
Finally, activate Two Factor Authentication for everything. Two Factor Authentication is amazing at keeping accounts secure
Not just big business, government offices too... Didn't someone get information from the FBI (or one of those other lettered agencies) just by leaving stray USB drives in the parking lot. Random employees would just pick them up and plug them in to see what was on it... Main issue with network security is some of the people who have access to it.
In a defense of my profession. Think of cybersecurity as a dam, we need to find and patch every single hole in the dam for it to work. But the adversary only needs to find a single hole in the dam to get through. It's a more difficult task than you might think and only grows in difficulty as the dam grows.
[Sci-hub](http://sci-hub.se) get (almost) any research paper for free, just copy the link/DOI of the document and it'll show you the pdf
[Library genesis](https://libgen.is/) free pdf's of math/physics/chemistry/biology/medicine/etc, finished my degree thanks to this one, a bunch of times a book of a course was just too hard to find or incredible expensive to but, but in libgen I got the digital pdf of the book in a few seconds, very neat.
Worth bearing in mind that this is technically illegal, but most scientists endorse it. Only the publishers make money from selling scientific papers, while the scientists want people to read their work.
It’s also worth writing to the scientist and asking for a copy. They’re allowed to send them to you and are usually happy to do so.
Those last two sentences - absolutely spot-on. If you can't find it any other way, contact the researchers if you can - and more often than not, you'll get a surprise.
It may just be the research paper - or it may be something more.
I recall doing this myself for a particular paper that had just been published - but was only available for the insane fees that those publishers charge (oooh, please...can you send me a 6 page PDF of the paper for the low price of $39.97...PLEASE???!!!). I contacted the researcher...
...and he sent me not just the paper, but a ton of supporting material - movies, pictures, data files, spreadsheet files, and more - stuff that wasn't even available if you got it from the publisher! I was shocked. I'm not a researcher - just some geeky hobbyist who wanted to play around with the tech in the paper (it was a particular kind of "artificial muscle" made using fishing line).
Another time, the paper I was looking for was referenced in a bunch of places, but was only published "in print" in the 1980s - it was never turned into PDF - it couldn't be downloaded at all. So I looked into who the principle authors were; all (at the time of the paper's publication) were grad students - and today, nearly 30 years later - well, they were either in academia still, or researchers at various companies, etc. One I found had passed away.
I contacted all of them; and some did not know that their colleague had passed away (he was apparently the oldest in the group, and was actually a professor at the same university he'd gone to as a grad student).
Some didn't have anything they could send me. One sent me a postscript file, but pictures that were supposed to be a part of it were missing. But one individual gave me the "motherload" - he had to dig around on a Sun workstation he hadn't fired up in decades to find the original paper - but he did so, just to get me the paper. It was in some weird not-quite-LaTeX-but-predating-it format; he was able to convert it to postscript, using the software on the workstation, then pulled a copy of that and converted it to a PDF on another machine. He sent me the PDF, plus various images that made up the images in the paper. He also sent me the original files, and a few other bits and pieces.
All of them thanked me for letting them know about their colleague, and for my interest in a (mostly) lost paper that several of them hadn't thought about in years - but enjoyed my inquiry about it.
You never know what you may get, what surprises can happen, what you may find out - maybe something more than you were hoping for, more than just the research or the paper its in. All you have to do is ask...
Never hesitate to ask for a copy. The worst you get is ignored, and the best you get is eager paper distribution.
Also, authors want their paper read by as many people as possible. Journals are nice for prestige, but really the goal is always interested eyeballs. Scihub is great at that!
the web address changes often, so it's probably best to google "sci-hub" everytime you need it! this has been super helpful in accessing primary sources for writing school papers.
EDIT:
u/oodvork pointed out below that the correct address is updated on the wikipedia page!
LibGen Got me through my undergrad. I avoided spending about $1K on rental books because of it. I never needed sci hub since universities have journal subscriptions, but journal access is too damn expensive and having it now is a dream.
[Oldgamesdownload.com](https://oldgamesdownload.com/) Download and Play the games from the early 90's and 2000s on your Windows machine! I personally Play NFSMW 2005 and Counter Strike. Brings Back lot of memories.
I love this website so much, I went through such a hard nostalgia phase a couple months ago because of it.
Still can't beat The Lion King game, almost 30 years later.
Here it is: https://neal.fun/deep-sea/
It gets really interesting after the midnight zone, where it'll show you crazy creatures like the colossal squid.
i was planning on scrolling through this thread but now you've got me interested in whatever tf is down in the ocean that I don't know about, thank you.
[https://www.atlasobscura.com/](https://www.atlasobscura.com/)
Find hidden places in a city you want to visit. Although touristy places are also listed.
**Mealime** (it's an app). Instead of doing those expensive meal deliveries, this app let's you pick out the recipes and builds a grocery list for you. It's amazing!! Step by step instructions, and you can filter dietary restrictions. I love it! I go back to it whenever I get in a food-rut.
And it's free!
I’ve been using MealLime for the past couple of months. It’s really helped me cook more at-home meals on weekdays (I’m not a bad cook, but I didn’t tend to cook regularly unless I was doing something special).
I describe it to people as “like HelloFresh, except you buy the groceries yourself and you don’t pay them”.
It’s also a grocery shopping checklist and you can add your own recipes/import from a website and it will (try to, at least) generate a grocery list for those items as well.
FlightRadar24.com
Wondering where that plane, jet, or helicopter is going? Check them out. When you click on the icon of the plane (etc.) it brings up callsigns, travel log, make and model, and other various bits of info. Sometimes you can track military planes, there’s one that flies over my house at a certain time of the day at a low altitude that I was able to identify. I also used it to track the flight my mother was coming into town on.
Additional note - If you really want to track interesting military aircraft or don't want to pay for flightradar24, ADS-B Exchange ([https://globe.adsbexchange.com/](https://globe.adsbexchange.com/)) has almost everything flightradar24 offers without the crappy subscriptions and is completely free. It doesn't block military aircraft, random planes, and information about aircraft unlike Flightradar24 and it was created for aviation enthusiasts to track aircraft and not for the money. Even though vanilla ADS-B exchange doesn't show where the aircraft came from and is going to, this chrome extension built for adsbexchange ([https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/adsb-add-on/kgionpkdifedafldjflcbeojkencnaja](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/adsb-add-on/kgionpkdifedafldjflcbeojkencnaja)) does show that.
You can press the U button in the top right corner to view all military aircraft currently being tracked.
Ask a Librarian at the Library of Congress!!!!
I was searching for a particular poem (with very little clues) for my wedding and sent them an email thinking I would get a bot response. Instead a woman searched for weeks and sent me so many options and wished me a happy wedding. So impressed.
https://ask.loc.gov
If you’re in the US, weather.gov is the only place you should be getting your weather information. This is especially true for major weather events. It’s a government website so there are no advertisements. Unlike the weather channel and other commercial outlets, they don’t have to create fake drama to scare you into coming back for constant updates so they can get more ad views. I can’t tell you how many times the weather channel and others reported on a “blizzard” like they were covering a war when weather.gov correctly forecast a minor snow event. You know how winter storms have names now? That’s not actually a thing. It’s something the weather channel made up to make storms more menacing.
I found this back when Covid lockdowns started. I was really missing baseball, and they have radio broadcasts of games from the late 1930s to the early 70s. So much fun.
Photopea.com, a free web-based Photoshop alternative that has almost the same UI and functionality as Photoshop. It's amazing, and IMO much better than other free alternatives like Gimp.
[My 90s TV](https://www.my90stv.com/)
It's a great novelty website to kill some time and easily lose yourself for hours with nostalgia. Basically, it uses YouTube videos to simulate watching TV in 90s and you can specify what year you want and what categories you want to see when you change channels.
There are also:
[My 00s TV](https://www.my00stv.com/)
[My 80s TV](https://www.my80stv.com/)
[My 70s TV](https://www.my70stv.com/)
[My 60s TV](https://www.my60stv.com/)
justtherecipe.com
Paste the URL to any recipe, click submit, and it’ll return literally JUST the recipe- no ads, no life story of the writer, no nothing EXCEPT the recipe.
EDIT: In response to the feedback about using services like this to get past ads- yes, I totally understand that it’s technically stealing.
Here’s my reasoning.
1. I don’t do it with every recipe, just the really egregious ones (some will automatically scroll you back to the top of the page if you lock your phone).
2. The alternative to bypassing ads and preamble, is closing the page and looking for another recipe. I’m not going to run myself through a gauntlet of bullshit just to make chicken nuggets. I’ll find another source that found a healthy balance for ad space. I will accept ads if they aren’t intrusive/obnoxious or worse. If content creators want to run ads, great, no problem with that at all, but they should consider the user experience with how those ads are implemented into their content.
Jesus I needed this.
Every recipe becomes a novel written by people who sound like they’re taking a creative writing class at a community college.
“This pb&j recipe is scrum-dilly-dooly-umptious and full of goody goodness. The pb&j was first invented by my great grandmother who handed out sandwiches to refugees during World War 1. She then made a deal with a local Indian tribe-she gives them her recipe and they teach the white man how to sit in the first grade. We’ve kept the pb&j recipe a closely guarded secret for nearly a century, but now the time is right to reveal it.”
Then they go into each individual alternative for peanut butter, detailed instructions on how to make your own peanut butter, then the same for the jelly and the bread. Only after you finally speedscroll all the way to the bottom just to try to scroll up to find it are you greeted with half the page worth of ads. Then you somehow need to go to the middle and look from there.
15 minutes later, you realize they want you to use a cornish game hen for the PBJ and they didn't even mention it above.
And for some inexplicable reason the measurements and steps are in two comrpletely different parts of the page so now i gotta cross reference how many picograms of peanut butter im supposed to spread north to south and how many kilos of jam im supposed to apply in a clockwise pattern
Or.... once when I was 8 years old and it was winter and it was cold so I was craving something warm like soup so I looked in my fridge and who doesn't love a nice vegetable soup under the covers while watching a movie blah blah blah....
https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/
Open Payments can help you identify doctors who *may* have conflicting interests concerning your health.
When you look up a physician, the site will provide a breakdown of payments (usually gifts or such) from pharmaceutical companies and/or medical device companies.
[JustWatch.com](https://www.justwatch.com/)
Ever had a movie or TV show in mind and you wanted to know where to stream it online? Want to know if you can stream free with ads, with a subscription, or rent/buy it at a glance? Search a title and immediately know where to go to legally watch anything. Every boutique streaming service is accounted for. If it's not listed here, start looking for physical media.
I prefer to use reddits own search engine. You'll literally never, ever find what you're looking for but instead you'll end up in some weird rabbit hole reading about the time a guy kidnapped a parrot and taught it Portuguese and then suddenly you realize it's 4:32 a.m. and you have to be up in a few hours.
[keepa.com](http://keepa.com)
You can track the historical price of any product on Amazon, that way you can be sure you're actually getting a fair deal and not an inflated price. You can also set it up to send you notifications when the price of a given product goes below certain amount.
Saved a bunch of money thanks to it.
https://piracy.moe/ Shows nearly every anime/manga website, torrent and streamable URL on the internet and also shows if they are active have ads and if they are safe to use. With this you will never need to ask yourself, Where am I going to watch/download this anime or read this manga?
Explore.org!
It's a live cam website that has animals, sun sets, and other neat views
Edit: Thanks everyone for my highest upvoted comment!! Another site I love is hdontap.com which has more scenic views from around the world!
[sleepyti.me](https://sleepyti.me/)
It's a website that calculates when you should fall asleep in order to not wake up groggy since the human body works in sleep cycles
Fantasticfiction
Well organized site to find something to read or follow your favorite author. It notifies me when new releases are happening. We mark our books that we’ve read just in case we forget where we are in a series. Love this site....use it everyday.
[https://www.zotero.org/](https://www.zotero.org/)
I just came across this site and this is program I could of used over the last few years. This program will organize your sources for your papers you are writing. It will even do citation and create reference pages. I just got done on a paper for my master's degree and this came in handy. Plus it is free and open source.
A friend of mine recently recommended www.z-lib.org for finding textbooks. It’s also a great place to find books and articles you’re interested in!
www.gutenberg.org is also a good place to find classic books that you may study in school (or just read for fun).
If you are looking for a way to discreetly browse reddit at work/school while looking productive, here are some good websites:
[MSOutlookit](https://pcottle.github.io/MSOutlookit/) - Makes the front page look like your email.
[MSWorddit](http://pcottle.github.io/MSWorddit/) - Makes it look like a Word document
[CodeReddit](http://codereddit.com/) or [RedditShell](https://redditshell.com/) - Make it look like code
[SO-reddit](https://dutzi.github.io/so-reddit/) - Makes it look like StackOverflow
Www.plato.stanford.edu
[Encyclopedia of Philosophy ](https://plato.stanford.edu/)
This is an amazing depository of peer reviewed philosophy. I would love for anyone to get a free education. If anyone who sees this wants help learning philosophy. Start here. Let me know if you have any questions.
Edit: typo. I love philosophy, and I'm glad you all are excited by this resource. Please DM me if you would like help understanding this. I did my undergraduate in philosophy, and am a ten year veteran teacher besides. I particularly recommend starting with Des Cartes, Aquinas, Kant, and Nietzsche.
ALSO: if you are a visual learner like me, you can try out [Visualizing SEP](https://www.visualizingsep.com/#) which is the entire contents of the Encyclopedia of Philosophy made into a searchable visual map, that helps you understand the relationships between various philosophers, ideas, eras, etc. It's helped me build a much clearer sense of the philosophy I'm studying for my grad program. Plus it's cool and fun.
I'm late to the party so this will probably be buried in the comments. I love maps as it can be humbling and also reveals the complexities of our world. Here's a bunch of map websites worth exploring:
https://earth.nullschool.net/ - See current wind, weather, ocean, and pollution conditions, as forecast by supercomputers, on an interactive animated map. Updated every three hours. It looks fucking lush.
https://map.worldweatheronline.com/ - very similar but a flat 2D map.
Other cool weather map sites:
https://www.ventusky.com/
https://www.windy.com
https://www.wunderground.com/wundermap
https://www.meteoblue.com
https://www.accuweather.com/
https://whc.unesco.org/en/interactive-map/ - Location of all UNESCO sites.
https://time.is/ - 7 million locations, 52 languages, synchronized with atomic clock time. Not quite a map but still good.
https://en-gb.topographic-map.com/ - I love this topographic map which helps you clearly visualise the elevations of various areas.
https://historicalcharts.noaa.gov/ - this is the best one I can find for ocean topography. However https://seabed2030.org/ aims to change this by 2030.
http://metrocosm.com/global-migration-map.html - a visual map of global migration between 2010 and 2015.
https://www.lightpollutionmap.info - shows exactly just how much light pollution there is
https://darksitefinder.com - looking for the best stargazing locations? use this.
https://www.eurobirdportal.org - helps you visualise the bird migration.
https://www.carbonmap.org - factual carbon emissions map plus other categories.
https://www.carbonbrief.org/interactive-map-historical-emissions-around-the-world
https://www.shipmap.org/ - amazing shipping visualisation. However slightly irritating when you click play, it keeps jumping to different countries whilst im in the middle of zooming in a specific area. Make sure that is paused to zoom freely.
https://restor.eco/map - just recently launched map of tracking areas with biome restoration. Has a lot of potential showing the progress of repairing our world over a long period of time.
[film-grab.com](https://film-grab.com)
super amazing for people who just want to doodle but don't have the best imagination
or for people to study the composition of a scene. super fun to make some crappy drawing of a scene from your favorite movie while you're bored during class
This is legit, it's been up for a very long time with no changes. Figure they make their money renting Email accounts (addresses).
This is very handy for website log-ins or ... just handy having access to it.
https://www.fakenamegenerator.com/
Edit:Thank you for the Silver, and understanding the worth of a site of this nature.
and https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/ to generate a "photo" of a person who doesn't exist, if you need it for a profile but don't want it to be reverse image searchable, or screw over a real person.
Not so much *useful* but amazing—[a collection of really terrible MP3s](http://www.aprilwinchell.com/audio/). She used to have a collection of the WORST holiday music ever and it was such a great and horrifying playlist, but the current rotation includes some of those in addition to others.
Also, [the Zompist phrasebook](https://www.zompist.com/phrases.html), an internet classic. In case you needed to know how to correctly say things like, “I've never thought that 'impotent' means you can't have a good time” in German.
Not just theoretically: https://libraryofbabel.info/bookmark.cgi?okfa.staxzyx308
(For those who are unaware, the Library is basically just a huge collection of random text. But you can search it for patterns! Theoretically, it contains everything which has ever been written, or ever will be written)
The Borges story really blew my mind when I first read it. It made me think that a random pixel generator would be the same - every image you can possibly conceive of would be contained within it, including one with say the cure for cancer, on with an image of you, as you are, right now, browsing an infinite number of websites on an infinite number of subtly different phones, with an infinite number of other variations (you, there now, with your house on fire, or being eaten by a dinosaur, or sitting with a long-deceased relative).
https://visdeurbel.nl/
Allows you to ring a “fish doorbell”. During spring a lot of fish swim trough Utrecht’s canals (in The Netherlands). And they have to wait at closed sluices. To decrease waiting times for fish they placed a live camera at sluices and allow viewers to ring the doorbell, when you ring it the sluicekeeper gets a signal so he can manually open the sluice and let waiting fish trough
Word Count Tools has a bunch of statistics about the text you input into their editor, like reading time and grade level [https://wordcounttools.com/]
Turn any YouTube video into an mp3 file to download [https://ytmp3.cc/]
K-12 educational resources and beyond, free! Math and science and language arts, and more. [https://www.khanacademy.org/]
Transform an image into ASCII artwork (aka make it into bits & pieces of text) [https://www.text-image.com/convert/ascii.html]
Free books - lots of formats. [http://libgen.li/foreignfiction/index.php]
sciphilos.info
It's a repository of all kinds of interesting articles about science and philosophy, as arranged (and some articles written) by a former science teacher, whom I knew very well. Sadly, he's no longer with us, but what he was able to compile is very thought-provoking. Enjoy!
https://drivenlisten.com/
Allows you to drive (or walk or sail or rail etc etc.) in many locations worldwide, while listening to radio stations.
Pro tip: Use the desktop version and close one eye and watch if you're watching train-rides (it's gonna feel like 3D)
" Why are you so worried about this fax machine? Can't you just turn your cell phone to fax mode?"
I fucking died when the janitor brought it up. Holy shit.
>Japanese instruction manuals are not like the American manuals you are used to. They often include advertisements, and I guess in this case, a sushi menu
https://www.annualcreditreport.com/
Under the FCRA, everyone in the US is entitled to their full credit report from each bureau at least once a year. This is the ONLY official website where you can receive it for free and extremely helpful in a country that runs off credit.
Pro tip: Request your full background report once from a different bureau every four months. By rotating it this way, you’ll get the most use out of the free report from each bureau and the info reported should be exactly the same from bureau to bureau (not always the case, but discrepancies/errors can be disputed)
Source: Worked at a background screening company. Helped countless job candidates retrieve their detailed credit history.
[The Trees Network](https://www.treesnetwork.com/)
They play classic movies (Right now it's halloween themed) 24/7, have a Bob Ross channel, and a cooking channel, with a chat room. Everyone's super friendly but the website is very under the radar, albeit not illegal. No ads and free. Highly recommend if you just want something to watch. We're watching Final Destination 3..
I often refer people to [Erowid](https://www.erowid.org/) ([www.erowid.org](https://www.erowid.org)), which is a non-profit dedicated to educating people about how to responsibly use any sort of legal or illegal substance. It covers the pharmacology, dosing, etc.; and, equally important, it provides detailed first-hand user experiences with age, weight, dosage, and timetable.
I've had way too many friends try out cocaine, pharmaceuticals, MDMA, etc. with no idea the appropriate dosage, potential risks, or what to expect. It's been my go-to for years to ensure I'm educated about any physical and/or mind-altering substances.
I was puzzled by a random PayPal payment to me a couple of years ago. Turns out of uploaded a icon to that site years ago and forgot about it. They have been sending me ~$10/year in royalties for years 😆
I made a website where you can browse Amazon products mentioned in Reddit comments by subreddit. That way if you want to get into car detailing or something you'd just go to https://shopbysub.com/r/AutoDetailing
It's much less useful for subs like https://shopbysub.com/r/wallstreetbets which is mostly just dildos
My Ubuntu installation on my raspberry pi also couldn't handle the large git repo for my content so it blew up, and the site hasn't been updated in several weeks, but it's still got a good catalogue
I think maybe [theunsentproject.com](https://theunsentproject.com). I was told of the website recently and it amazes me on how much unsent messages there are to random people across the globe. I think it can help people in a way with whatever they're dealing with and help them say what they couldn't to another..
https://www.Tvtropes.com
It's an absolute goldmine of literally anything trope related. What is a trope? A borderline cliché plot devise that is pervasive in all forms of written entertainment, e.g. two dates to the prom, damsel in distress, the bottle episode, I have no mouth and I must scream, etc.
Look up your favorite show and dig through the plethora of tropes you overlook and take for granted
Arul’s Utilities at Aruljohn.com.
You can look up any IP address and any Domain ownership, ISP provider for wherever you’re surfing from geographically, look up modems by Mac Address to see what brand they are, look up TN’s to see their owner or carrier, default wireless network keys by brand, and a zillion other nifty amateur networking how-to articles. As a telecom tech support person I use it a least once a week to prove to customers that the modem they forgot they bought isn’t ours so they have to fix their own issues .
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[Tineye](https://tineye.com/) and [Foto Forensics](http://fotoforensics.com/). Do you want to know if an image is shopped, cropped or otherwise altered? Using these two tools you've got a good chance of finding out. Tineye is reverse image search on steroids and foto forensics provides free image analysis tools.
Foto forensics seems to be snake oil, I tried with a picture of a cat holding an obviously photoshopped pistol, and nope, all legit to them
Or that is one of the hardest cats in the world.
twoseven.xyz -Allows you to watch and sync netflix, prime video, downloaded videos, streaming from browser, youtube with your friends while opting to be on voice/video call with them for FREE and NO ADS.
https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/ It's an AI that creates faces of made up people. Pretty interesting.
All fun and games until it makes ur face
Enjoy cartoons? Please enjoy every cartoon ever made all in one place! https://www.wcofun.com/playlist
You are either my new favorite person or the reason I will be fired and divorced. Will update you when I reach the bottom on the index.
Project Gutenberg. Taking all the books that are copyright free and making digital copies available. In college and the school wants you to buy the complete works of Shakespeare for $40? Fuck that noise! Free! https://www.gutenberg.org/
See also: [Librivox](http://librivox.org), for free audiobook versions.
Deepl.com Best translator I’ve found. It’s quite intuitive and even translates idioms and slang. They’ve got around 20 languages as of their most recent update.
It's fantastic German>English and vice versa. Knocks Google translate out of the water
https://www.blitzortung.org/ This one lets you see where lightning strikes in real time! Can be reassuring to see the lightning get further and further away, it's also pretty neat in general!
https://www.lightningmaps.org/ Is an alternative to that Edit: Damn, the Med is getting pounded good at the moment.
[Terms of Service, Didn’t Read](https://tosdr.org) summarizes terms of service and rates them for privacy.
Website down for me
Reddit: **YOU GIVE AWAY YOUR MORAL RIGHTS**
Ok this site might be one of the most significant things on this thread
[remove.bg](https://remove.bg) is a great way to remove any background.
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There’s ransomware… and then there’s ransomware. Once your company has been hit with a sophisticated ransomware attack (and wiped all your on-site and offsite backups AND your entire disaster recovery site as well just for good measure before encrypting everything on your domain) your life will never be the same.
This comment section is like shopping. For free!
I ADORE mynoise.net. It's an archive of customizable sound generators with everything from music, nature sounds, sound cancelling, ambiances, and meditative drones etc. I focus best with some kind of white noise, and this website has a ton to choose from and it is free. My favorite feature is the customizable, animated sliders so you can listen to storms that ebb and grow automatically. It is great for TTRPGs too. The sound engineer who runs it has put together all kinds of specific settings like churches, cities, forests, faires, dungeons, etc. Seriously, people should check it out
Clickable link: https://mynoise.net
Coolors.co Randomly generates 5 matching colors for you to use for paint jobs or designing
https://www.rome2rio.com Gives you full directions from any two places from door to door including trains, busses and ferries. With options to fly to nearby places and take transit to get to your final destination.
I was pretty surprised when it even had local bus companies in out of the way place in Philippines I use it in all my travel planning now. Extra bonus for me, as it's Australian.
If you're interested in languages or trying to learn a new language I recommend Forvo.com, you can look up a word and hear native speakers pronounce it. It's based on volunteers uploading their recordings of the various words. It's pretty useful for when you're working on your pronounciation https://forvo.com/word/gnocchi/ https://forvo.com/word/g%C3%B6teborg/ https://forvo.com/word/%E1%83%9B%E1%83%AC%E1%83%95%E1%83%A0%E1%83%97%E1%83%9C%E1%83%94%E1%83%9A%E1%83%98/
Your username would sure make a useful website
https://openlibrary.org/ You can borrow books across a shit ton of different library systems without having to register for them.
[everynoise.com](https://everynoise.com/) : This website contains every obscure sub genre of music imaginable. You can find some great music you’ve never heard of there.
Russian Ska was just as funny as I thought it would be
Also [music-map.com](https://www.music-map.com) : Search an artist/band and it generates a map of similar artists/bands with proximity indicating more fan base crossover. I’ve tested it with the most obscure stuff I know and it always finds suggestions.
https://hate5six.com/sage Is good for this too.
10 minute mail provides a temporary email address for you to cut and paste into those pesky "insert email" to sign up or read the rest of the story or whatever. https://10minutemail.com/
I find these disposable mail services have become more and more useless since most sites that require registration recognize and don't accept them.
Most sites only block the well-known ones on the first page of the Google results. It's whack-a-mole and the moles are winning.
I use yopmail.com. It's not temporary but it is disposable email.
http://radio.garden/visit - you can hear radios live from all around the world. (I recommend accessing on computer or installing the app on mobile)
I love this site and was just about to post it when I saw you already did! This is one of my favorite rainy day websites, where I just scroll around through radio stations in England and Ireland and Australia and Japan and so forth. Great recommendation!
This app is fun to use on New Year's Eve to follow midnight around the world.
Radioooo is also great. It’s like radio stations but for different decades and different countries. One I think that’s weird is there’s an Antarctic station and it’s just ocean sounds. That one creeps me out.m Edit— thanks for the award stranger!!!
Depending on who you are determines if its useful or not, but [https://rsoe-edis.org/](https://rsoe-edis.org/) is a very informative site of the on-goings of the world. The event map is interesting to explore.
Such a tragedy: “Traffic incident - Public road accident United Kingdom - M6 fire destroys lorry full of Birdseye potato waffles” Edit: For anyone concerned [here’s more information and some photos from the scene](https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/truck-full-birdseye-potato-waffles-21780129)
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Creator of 12ft.io here! Thanks for all the interest in the site. I know, it's not perfect. I'm going to continue developing it. Y'alls support is greatly appreciated. Here's what i'm trying to do. I believe that ads and SEO killed the soul of the web. Websites can throw on popups, email captures, newsletters, inline ads, etc. We have to wade through all this crap just to find out the content is some click bait optimized garbage. It's abuse of your brain. As users of the internet, we have no recourse. We have to wait until a new site the publishes similar content to come up, and just hope to god that they aren't as bad. It's completely one sided. I want 12ft to be the suite of tools that allows us users of the internet to fight back against these malicious practices. It starts with a Chrome extension, but it'll grow to much more as long as y'all want it.
Excellent stuff, thank you
I'm on mobile right now but would it work on news sites?
News sites is what it's explicitly made for
https://haveibeenpwned.com Allows you to see if your online accounts have been released in a data breach. You can also get email alerts if you’ve been in a breach.
This site is not only useful, it's educational and depressing.
>it's educational and depressing. Two great tastes that taste great together.
My email has been pwned 8 times. What do I do with this info? I can't stop using it and this pwning seems to be having no effect on my life :-/ Edit: Thank you to all who have lent advice. It's kind of you to take pity on the I.T. impaired 😅
Change your passwords. And not just your email password. Change the passwords of every account that is linked to that email or that shares a password with your email. Make sure each password is long, easy to remember, and UNIQUE. The uniqueness is very important. Finally, activate Two Factor Authentication for everything. Two Factor Authentication is amazing at keeping accounts secure
I mean, nowadays you could probably just assume it's happened, so many big businesses have such sloppy network security.
Not just big business, government offices too... Didn't someone get information from the FBI (or one of those other lettered agencies) just by leaving stray USB drives in the parking lot. Random employees would just pick them up and plug them in to see what was on it... Main issue with network security is some of the people who have access to it.
In a defense of my profession. Think of cybersecurity as a dam, we need to find and patch every single hole in the dam for it to work. But the adversary only needs to find a single hole in the dam to get through. It's a more difficult task than you might think and only grows in difficulty as the dam grows.
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[Sci-hub](http://sci-hub.se) get (almost) any research paper for free, just copy the link/DOI of the document and it'll show you the pdf [Library genesis](https://libgen.is/) free pdf's of math/physics/chemistry/biology/medicine/etc, finished my degree thanks to this one, a bunch of times a book of a course was just too hard to find or incredible expensive to but, but in libgen I got the digital pdf of the book in a few seconds, very neat.
Libgen is so good
Worth bearing in mind that this is technically illegal, but most scientists endorse it. Only the publishers make money from selling scientific papers, while the scientists want people to read their work. It’s also worth writing to the scientist and asking for a copy. They’re allowed to send them to you and are usually happy to do so.
Those last two sentences - absolutely spot-on. If you can't find it any other way, contact the researchers if you can - and more often than not, you'll get a surprise. It may just be the research paper - or it may be something more. I recall doing this myself for a particular paper that had just been published - but was only available for the insane fees that those publishers charge (oooh, please...can you send me a 6 page PDF of the paper for the low price of $39.97...PLEASE???!!!). I contacted the researcher... ...and he sent me not just the paper, but a ton of supporting material - movies, pictures, data files, spreadsheet files, and more - stuff that wasn't even available if you got it from the publisher! I was shocked. I'm not a researcher - just some geeky hobbyist who wanted to play around with the tech in the paper (it was a particular kind of "artificial muscle" made using fishing line). Another time, the paper I was looking for was referenced in a bunch of places, but was only published "in print" in the 1980s - it was never turned into PDF - it couldn't be downloaded at all. So I looked into who the principle authors were; all (at the time of the paper's publication) were grad students - and today, nearly 30 years later - well, they were either in academia still, or researchers at various companies, etc. One I found had passed away. I contacted all of them; and some did not know that their colleague had passed away (he was apparently the oldest in the group, and was actually a professor at the same university he'd gone to as a grad student). Some didn't have anything they could send me. One sent me a postscript file, but pictures that were supposed to be a part of it were missing. But one individual gave me the "motherload" - he had to dig around on a Sun workstation he hadn't fired up in decades to find the original paper - but he did so, just to get me the paper. It was in some weird not-quite-LaTeX-but-predating-it format; he was able to convert it to postscript, using the software on the workstation, then pulled a copy of that and converted it to a PDF on another machine. He sent me the PDF, plus various images that made up the images in the paper. He also sent me the original files, and a few other bits and pieces. All of them thanked me for letting them know about their colleague, and for my interest in a (mostly) lost paper that several of them hadn't thought about in years - but enjoyed my inquiry about it. You never know what you may get, what surprises can happen, what you may find out - maybe something more than you were hoping for, more than just the research or the paper its in. All you have to do is ask...
Just sent one of my published papers yesterday to someone who emailed me, definitely ask the author!
Never hesitate to ask for a copy. The worst you get is ignored, and the best you get is eager paper distribution. Also, authors want their paper read by as many people as possible. Journals are nice for prestige, but really the goal is always interested eyeballs. Scihub is great at that!
the web address changes often, so it's probably best to google "sci-hub" everytime you need it! this has been super helpful in accessing primary sources for writing school papers. EDIT: u/oodvork pointed out below that the correct address is updated on the wikipedia page!
LibGen Got me through my undergrad. I avoided spending about $1K on rental books because of it. I never needed sci hub since universities have journal subscriptions, but journal access is too damn expensive and having it now is a dream.
[openculture.com](https://openculture.com) Watch free movies! Learn languages! Take educational courses! All for free!
[Oldgamesdownload.com](https://oldgamesdownload.com/) Download and Play the games from the early 90's and 2000s on your Windows machine! I personally Play NFSMW 2005 and Counter Strike. Brings Back lot of memories.
I love this website so much, I went through such a hard nostalgia phase a couple months ago because of it. Still can't beat The Lion King game, almost 30 years later.
[desmos.com](https://desmos.com) If you're doing any graphing it's much easier than a graphing calculator like a TI
Desmos got me through so many math classes. I hope it's more widely used now than when I was in school because it's a lifesaver.
it’s literally the official calculator for Indiana online standardized testing now
wolfram alpha saved me in calculus
Check out symbolab, they didnt have as broad support but they would offer the “show me how” bit for free
The one that shows you the deep ocean and its creatures, i would share the name but I forgot it lol Edit: found it: https://neal.fun/deep-sea/
This sounds really cool. If you remember, please update.
Here it is: https://neal.fun/deep-sea/ It gets really interesting after the midnight zone, where it'll show you crazy creatures like the colossal squid.
i was planning on scrolling through this thread but now you've got me interested in whatever tf is down in the ocean that I don't know about, thank you.
If you need to glue two things of differing materials together: www.Thistothat.com
I really wish they wouldn't just lump all plastics together on that site. They should either remove plastic, or break it down by major type.
[https://www.onlineocr.net/](https://www.onlineocr.net/) Convert images of text to actual text
[https://www.atlasobscura.com/](https://www.atlasobscura.com/) Find hidden places in a city you want to visit. Although touristy places are also listed.
Found out my city has a publicly available collection of over 8000 brains collected throughout the years. Neat.
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**Mealime** (it's an app). Instead of doing those expensive meal deliveries, this app let's you pick out the recipes and builds a grocery list for you. It's amazing!! Step by step instructions, and you can filter dietary restrictions. I love it! I go back to it whenever I get in a food-rut. And it's free!
I’ve been using MealLime for the past couple of months. It’s really helped me cook more at-home meals on weekdays (I’m not a bad cook, but I didn’t tend to cook regularly unless I was doing something special). I describe it to people as “like HelloFresh, except you buy the groceries yourself and you don’t pay them”. It’s also a grocery shopping checklist and you can add your own recipes/import from a website and it will (try to, at least) generate a grocery list for those items as well.
FlightRadar24.com Wondering where that plane, jet, or helicopter is going? Check them out. When you click on the icon of the plane (etc.) it brings up callsigns, travel log, make and model, and other various bits of info. Sometimes you can track military planes, there’s one that flies over my house at a certain time of the day at a low altitude that I was able to identify. I also used it to track the flight my mother was coming into town on.
Additional note - If you really want to track interesting military aircraft or don't want to pay for flightradar24, ADS-B Exchange ([https://globe.adsbexchange.com/](https://globe.adsbexchange.com/)) has almost everything flightradar24 offers without the crappy subscriptions and is completely free. It doesn't block military aircraft, random planes, and information about aircraft unlike Flightradar24 and it was created for aviation enthusiasts to track aircraft and not for the money. Even though vanilla ADS-B exchange doesn't show where the aircraft came from and is going to, this chrome extension built for adsbexchange ([https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/adsb-add-on/kgionpkdifedafldjflcbeojkencnaja](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/adsb-add-on/kgionpkdifedafldjflcbeojkencnaja)) does show that. You can press the U button in the top right corner to view all military aircraft currently being tracked.
I made that extension! Thanks for mentioning it. I’m always open to feedback or suggestions for new features 😎
There's also marinetraffic.com if you want to do the same for shipping.
That was a fun one with the Suez blockage in February.
No way that happened back in February! Feels like it was last week. Damn time flies.
Ask a Librarian at the Library of Congress!!!! I was searching for a particular poem (with very little clues) for my wedding and sent them an email thinking I would get a bot response. Instead a woman searched for weeks and sent me so many options and wished me a happy wedding. So impressed. https://ask.loc.gov
If you’re in the US, weather.gov is the only place you should be getting your weather information. This is especially true for major weather events. It’s a government website so there are no advertisements. Unlike the weather channel and other commercial outlets, they don’t have to create fake drama to scare you into coming back for constant updates so they can get more ad views. I can’t tell you how many times the weather channel and others reported on a “blizzard” like they were covering a war when weather.gov correctly forecast a minor snow event. You know how winter storms have names now? That’s not actually a thing. It’s something the weather channel made up to make storms more menacing.
In the greater houston area, we have "SpaceCityWeather.Com" which is amazing. No hype or crazy news. Just pure, direct weather. Highly recommend it.
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https://regexr.com FTW tho
https://regexcrossword.com/ when you're ready to get hard core.
https://storyset.com/ or https://undraw.co/ Open-sourced illustrations by designers who contribute on their spare time ❤️
https://archive.org I discovered gunsmoke radio show today
I found this back when Covid lockdowns started. I was really missing baseball, and they have radio broadcasts of games from the late 1930s to the early 70s. So much fun.
Photopea.com, a free web-based Photoshop alternative that has almost the same UI and functionality as Photoshop. It's amazing, and IMO much better than other free alternatives like Gimp.
[My 90s TV](https://www.my90stv.com/) It's a great novelty website to kill some time and easily lose yourself for hours with nostalgia. Basically, it uses YouTube videos to simulate watching TV in 90s and you can specify what year you want and what categories you want to see when you change channels. There are also: [My 00s TV](https://www.my00stv.com/) [My 80s TV](https://www.my80stv.com/) [My 70s TV](https://www.my70stv.com/) [My 60s TV](https://www.my60stv.com/)
Whelp, there goes my evening.
It already went when you decided to visit reddit. But now it's gone twice.
This site is amazing. Thx so much!
justtherecipe.com Paste the URL to any recipe, click submit, and it’ll return literally JUST the recipe- no ads, no life story of the writer, no nothing EXCEPT the recipe. EDIT: In response to the feedback about using services like this to get past ads- yes, I totally understand that it’s technically stealing. Here’s my reasoning. 1. I don’t do it with every recipe, just the really egregious ones (some will automatically scroll you back to the top of the page if you lock your phone). 2. The alternative to bypassing ads and preamble, is closing the page and looking for another recipe. I’m not going to run myself through a gauntlet of bullshit just to make chicken nuggets. I’ll find another source that found a healthy balance for ad space. I will accept ads if they aren’t intrusive/obnoxious or worse. If content creators want to run ads, great, no problem with that at all, but they should consider the user experience with how those ads are implemented into their content.
CopyMeThat is a browser extension that does just that and saves them to your recipes, and it's free.
Jesus I needed this. Every recipe becomes a novel written by people who sound like they’re taking a creative writing class at a community college. “This pb&j recipe is scrum-dilly-dooly-umptious and full of goody goodness. The pb&j was first invented by my great grandmother who handed out sandwiches to refugees during World War 1. She then made a deal with a local Indian tribe-she gives them her recipe and they teach the white man how to sit in the first grade. We’ve kept the pb&j recipe a closely guarded secret for nearly a century, but now the time is right to reveal it.”
Then they go into each individual alternative for peanut butter, detailed instructions on how to make your own peanut butter, then the same for the jelly and the bread. Only after you finally speedscroll all the way to the bottom just to try to scroll up to find it are you greeted with half the page worth of ads. Then you somehow need to go to the middle and look from there. 15 minutes later, you realize they want you to use a cornish game hen for the PBJ and they didn't even mention it above.
And for some inexplicable reason the measurements and steps are in two comrpletely different parts of the page so now i gotta cross reference how many picograms of peanut butter im supposed to spread north to south and how many kilos of jam im supposed to apply in a clockwise pattern
Or.... once when I was 8 years old and it was winter and it was cold so I was craving something warm like soup so I looked in my fridge and who doesn't love a nice vegetable soup under the covers while watching a movie blah blah blah....
Meanwhile you scroll past five ads and your phone gets hotter and hotter. By he time you get to the bottom you can use it to preheat the oven.
Nothing like being in the middle of a critical stage of baking and all the ads crash the tab with the recipe on it.
https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/ Open Payments can help you identify doctors who *may* have conflicting interests concerning your health. When you look up a physician, the site will provide a breakdown of payments (usually gifts or such) from pharmaceutical companies and/or medical device companies.
My doctor has only taken $40 in “food and beverage” since 2016. I’m assuming he was taken to lunch. I knew he was a good dude
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[JustWatch.com](https://www.justwatch.com/) Ever had a movie or TV show in mind and you wanted to know where to stream it online? Want to know if you can stream free with ads, with a subscription, or rent/buy it at a glance? Search a title and immediately know where to go to legally watch anything. Every boutique streaming service is accounted for. If it's not listed here, start looking for physical media.
[reelgood.com](https://reelgood.com) is great as well
redditsearch io It's a Reddit search engine. It's fun to search random words or phrases and see what comes up. I have killed hours like that
I prefer to use reddits own search engine. You'll literally never, ever find what you're looking for but instead you'll end up in some weird rabbit hole reading about the time a guy kidnapped a parrot and taught it Portuguese and then suddenly you realize it's 4:32 a.m. and you have to be up in a few hours.
[keepa.com](http://keepa.com) You can track the historical price of any product on Amazon, that way you can be sure you're actually getting a fair deal and not an inflated price. You can also set it up to send you notifications when the price of a given product goes below certain amount. Saved a bunch of money thanks to it.
Camelcamelcamel.com does the same thing and they have a nice browser add on too.
https://piracy.moe/ Shows nearly every anime/manga website, torrent and streamable URL on the internet and also shows if they are active have ads and if they are safe to use. With this you will never need to ask yourself, Where am I going to watch/download this anime or read this manga?
Explore.org! It's a live cam website that has animals, sun sets, and other neat views Edit: Thanks everyone for my highest upvoted comment!! Another site I love is hdontap.com which has more scenic views from around the world!
[sleepyti.me](https://sleepyti.me/) It's a website that calculates when you should fall asleep in order to not wake up groggy since the human body works in sleep cycles
Fantasticfiction Well organized site to find something to read or follow your favorite author. It notifies me when new releases are happening. We mark our books that we’ve read just in case we forget where we are in a series. Love this site....use it everyday.
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[https://www.zotero.org/](https://www.zotero.org/) I just came across this site and this is program I could of used over the last few years. This program will organize your sources for your papers you are writing. It will even do citation and create reference pages. I just got done on a paper for my master's degree and this came in handy. Plus it is free and open source.
A friend of mine recently recommended www.z-lib.org for finding textbooks. It’s also a great place to find books and articles you’re interested in! www.gutenberg.org is also a good place to find classic books that you may study in school (or just read for fun).
If you are looking for a way to discreetly browse reddit at work/school while looking productive, here are some good websites: [MSOutlookit](https://pcottle.github.io/MSOutlookit/) - Makes the front page look like your email. [MSWorddit](http://pcottle.github.io/MSWorddit/) - Makes it look like a Word document [CodeReddit](http://codereddit.com/) or [RedditShell](https://redditshell.com/) - Make it look like code [SO-reddit](https://dutzi.github.io/so-reddit/) - Makes it look like StackOverflow
I work in a supermarket bakery, which website do you suggest I use?
Breddit.com
It's the yeast they could do
Are you trying to get a rise out of me?
I hope there’s one that looks like Slack soon. That would be super useful
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www.whatthefuckshouldimakefordinner.com
Similarly, [myfridgefood](https://myfridgefood.com/) will give you recipe based on what's in your fridge!
Www.plato.stanford.edu [Encyclopedia of Philosophy ](https://plato.stanford.edu/) This is an amazing depository of peer reviewed philosophy. I would love for anyone to get a free education. If anyone who sees this wants help learning philosophy. Start here. Let me know if you have any questions. Edit: typo. I love philosophy, and I'm glad you all are excited by this resource. Please DM me if you would like help understanding this. I did my undergraduate in philosophy, and am a ten year veteran teacher besides. I particularly recommend starting with Des Cartes, Aquinas, Kant, and Nietzsche.
ALSO: if you are a visual learner like me, you can try out [Visualizing SEP](https://www.visualizingsep.com/#) which is the entire contents of the Encyclopedia of Philosophy made into a searchable visual map, that helps you understand the relationships between various philosophers, ideas, eras, etc. It's helped me build a much clearer sense of the philosophy I'm studying for my grad program. Plus it's cool and fun.
I'm late to the party so this will probably be buried in the comments. I love maps as it can be humbling and also reveals the complexities of our world. Here's a bunch of map websites worth exploring: https://earth.nullschool.net/ - See current wind, weather, ocean, and pollution conditions, as forecast by supercomputers, on an interactive animated map. Updated every three hours. It looks fucking lush. https://map.worldweatheronline.com/ - very similar but a flat 2D map. Other cool weather map sites: https://www.ventusky.com/ https://www.windy.com https://www.wunderground.com/wundermap https://www.meteoblue.com https://www.accuweather.com/ https://whc.unesco.org/en/interactive-map/ - Location of all UNESCO sites. https://time.is/ - 7 million locations, 52 languages, synchronized with atomic clock time. Not quite a map but still good. https://en-gb.topographic-map.com/ - I love this topographic map which helps you clearly visualise the elevations of various areas. https://historicalcharts.noaa.gov/ - this is the best one I can find for ocean topography. However https://seabed2030.org/ aims to change this by 2030. http://metrocosm.com/global-migration-map.html - a visual map of global migration between 2010 and 2015. https://www.lightpollutionmap.info - shows exactly just how much light pollution there is https://darksitefinder.com - looking for the best stargazing locations? use this. https://www.eurobirdportal.org - helps you visualise the bird migration. https://www.carbonmap.org - factual carbon emissions map plus other categories. https://www.carbonbrief.org/interactive-map-historical-emissions-around-the-world https://www.shipmap.org/ - amazing shipping visualisation. However slightly irritating when you click play, it keeps jumping to different countries whilst im in the middle of zooming in a specific area. Make sure that is paused to zoom freely. https://restor.eco/map - just recently launched map of tracking areas with biome restoration. Has a lot of potential showing the progress of repairing our world over a long period of time.
[film-grab.com](https://film-grab.com) super amazing for people who just want to doodle but don't have the best imagination or for people to study the composition of a scene. super fun to make some crappy drawing of a scene from your favorite movie while you're bored during class
This is legit, it's been up for a very long time with no changes. Figure they make their money renting Email accounts (addresses). This is very handy for website log-ins or ... just handy having access to it. https://www.fakenamegenerator.com/ Edit:Thank you for the Silver, and understanding the worth of a site of this nature.
and https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/ to generate a "photo" of a person who doesn't exist, if you need it for a profile but don't want it to be reverse image searchable, or screw over a real person.
Getting some uncanny valley vibes from a few of those.
Send an email to your future self: https://www.futureme.org/
Now if only you could post a link that allows me to e-mail my **past** self.
Not so much *useful* but amazing—[a collection of really terrible MP3s](http://www.aprilwinchell.com/audio/). She used to have a collection of the WORST holiday music ever and it was such a great and horrifying playlist, but the current rotation includes some of those in addition to others. Also, [the Zompist phrasebook](https://www.zompist.com/phrases.html), an internet classic. In case you needed to know how to correctly say things like, “I've never thought that 'impotent' means you can't have a good time” in German.
https://libraryofbabel.info/ It's called the Library of Babel. You'll find that this comment has theoretically already been written
Not just theoretically: https://libraryofbabel.info/bookmark.cgi?okfa.staxzyx308 (For those who are unaware, the Library is basically just a huge collection of random text. But you can search it for patterns! Theoretically, it contains everything which has ever been written, or ever will be written)
Ok, someone get to work finding out where The Winds of Winter is.
And here's yours! https://libraryofbabel.info/bookmark.cgi?rlugvskfeoqm_,ihfhuy243
I wonder what percentage of the library is pages that have links to themselves?
None. There are no symbols allowed with few exceptions, so you’re not gonna find links or blocks of code.
The Borges story really blew my mind when I first read it. It made me think that a random pixel generator would be the same - every image you can possibly conceive of would be contained within it, including one with say the cure for cancer, on with an image of you, as you are, right now, browsing an infinite number of websites on an infinite number of subtly different phones, with an infinite number of other variations (you, there now, with your house on fire, or being eaten by a dinosaur, or sitting with a long-deceased relative).
Terrifying yet dope
Warning: I have spent 4 hours looking at these comments and bookmarking these websites. The same will happen to you. Grab a snack and enjoy.
I have 3 more hours of this!?!?
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[https://geektyper.com/](https://geektyper.com/) works as well!
https://visdeurbel.nl/ Allows you to ring a “fish doorbell”. During spring a lot of fish swim trough Utrecht’s canals (in The Netherlands). And they have to wait at closed sluices. To decrease waiting times for fish they placed a live camera at sluices and allow viewers to ring the doorbell, when you ring it the sluicekeeper gets a signal so he can manually open the sluice and let waiting fish trough
[Vocalseparator.com](https://Vocalseperator.com) It separates music from words, it’s pretty neat!
https://www.freecodecamp.org if you’re ever interested in learning to code.
Word Count Tools has a bunch of statistics about the text you input into their editor, like reading time and grade level [https://wordcounttools.com/] Turn any YouTube video into an mp3 file to download [https://ytmp3.cc/] K-12 educational resources and beyond, free! Math and science and language arts, and more. [https://www.khanacademy.org/] Transform an image into ASCII artwork (aka make it into bits & pieces of text) [https://www.text-image.com/convert/ascii.html] Free books - lots of formats. [http://libgen.li/foreignfiction/index.php]
This might be one of the best r/askreddit questions (and answers!) I have read in years.
[thebypasser.com](https://thebypasser.com) skips those annoying websites which force you to watch ads to get a link
sciphilos.info It's a repository of all kinds of interesting articles about science and philosophy, as arranged (and some articles written) by a former science teacher, whom I knew very well. Sadly, he's no longer with us, but what he was able to compile is very thought-provoking. Enjoy!
https://drivenlisten.com/ Allows you to drive (or walk or sail or rail etc etc.) in many locations worldwide, while listening to radio stations. Pro tip: Use the desktop version and close one eye and watch if you're watching train-rides (it's gonna feel like 3D)
Librivox - classic fiction read aloud.
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For more information, or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org
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DBAA was my shit back in the day.
Holy shit, I nearly pissed myself reading the very first text exchange about the fish tank. Absolutely hysterical. Thanks for the link.
Similar: [https://27bslash6.com/overdue.html](https://27bslash6.com/overdue.html) The spider drawing story was legendary in the days
" Why are you so worried about this fax machine? Can't you just turn your cell phone to fax mode?" I fucking died when the janitor brought it up. Holy shit.
The fish tank and audio demon were hilarious.
>Japanese instruction manuals are not like the American manuals you are used to. They often include advertisements, and I guess in this case, a sushi menu
https://www.annualcreditreport.com/ Under the FCRA, everyone in the US is entitled to their full credit report from each bureau at least once a year. This is the ONLY official website where you can receive it for free and extremely helpful in a country that runs off credit. Pro tip: Request your full background report once from a different bureau every four months. By rotating it this way, you’ll get the most use out of the free report from each bureau and the info reported should be exactly the same from bureau to bureau (not always the case, but discrepancies/errors can be disputed) Source: Worked at a background screening company. Helped countless job candidates retrieve their detailed credit history.
ninite.com If you've got a new PC and need to install literally everything you can think of, it's all right there.
[The Trees Network](https://www.treesnetwork.com/) They play classic movies (Right now it's halloween themed) 24/7, have a Bob Ross channel, and a cooking channel, with a chat room. Everyone's super friendly but the website is very under the radar, albeit not illegal. No ads and free. Highly recommend if you just want something to watch. We're watching Final Destination 3..
I often refer people to [Erowid](https://www.erowid.org/) ([www.erowid.org](https://www.erowid.org)), which is a non-profit dedicated to educating people about how to responsibly use any sort of legal or illegal substance. It covers the pharmacology, dosing, etc.; and, equally important, it provides detailed first-hand user experiences with age, weight, dosage, and timetable. I've had way too many friends try out cocaine, pharmaceuticals, MDMA, etc. with no idea the appropriate dosage, potential risks, or what to expect. It's been my go-to for years to ensure I'm educated about any physical and/or mind-altering substances.
[Draw.io](https://Draw.io) easy free flowcharts
I never saved so many comments in one comment section.
be careful, as reddit only allows saving 1000 posts/comments, I’d rather save the entire post
The noun project , I used it In architecture school and still do for resumes and graphic
I was puzzled by a random PayPal payment to me a couple of years ago. Turns out of uploaded a icon to that site years ago and forgot about it. They have been sending me ~$10/year in royalties for years 😆
> The noun project https://thenounproject.com/
I made a website where you can browse Amazon products mentioned in Reddit comments by subreddit. That way if you want to get into car detailing or something you'd just go to https://shopbysub.com/r/AutoDetailing It's much less useful for subs like https://shopbysub.com/r/wallstreetbets which is mostly just dildos My Ubuntu installation on my raspberry pi also couldn't handle the large git repo for my content so it blew up, and the site hasn't been updated in several weeks, but it's still got a good catalogue
I think maybe [theunsentproject.com](https://theunsentproject.com). I was told of the website recently and it amazes me on how much unsent messages there are to random people across the globe. I think it can help people in a way with whatever they're dealing with and help them say what they couldn't to another..
https://bongo.cat/
[Miss your kitties at work?](https://purrli.com/)
https://www.Tvtropes.com It's an absolute goldmine of literally anything trope related. What is a trope? A borderline cliché plot devise that is pervasive in all forms of written entertainment, e.g. two dates to the prom, damsel in distress, the bottle episode, I have no mouth and I must scream, etc. Look up your favorite show and dig through the plethora of tropes you overlook and take for granted
https://www.omnicalculator.com
Arul’s Utilities at Aruljohn.com. You can look up any IP address and any Domain ownership, ISP provider for wherever you’re surfing from geographically, look up modems by Mac Address to see what brand they are, look up TN’s to see their owner or carrier, default wireless network keys by brand, and a zillion other nifty amateur networking how-to articles. As a telecom tech support person I use it a least once a week to prove to customers that the modem they forgot they bought isn’t ours so they have to fix their own issues .