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What lesser known free and open source software do you use daily to improve your life? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 9 months ago by henrikx@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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For me it is the note taking/PKMS tool SilverBullet.

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[-] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 69 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

LibreWolf, a privacy-optimized fork of Firefox
Mull, hardened Firefox for Android.
EteSync with self-hosted Etebase, an end-to-end encrypted solution for syncing calendars and contacts.
Molly, a hardened Signal fork for Android.
Accrescent, a secure, alternative app store for Android. Still in an early stage of development though.
UnifiedPush, a privacy-friendly notification system.
LibRedirect, a browser extension that automatically redirects you to private frontends for privacy invasive websites.
movie-web, a web app that let's you watch any movie/tv show for free. I highly recommend it.
Seal, an amazing Android app for downloading videos. YTDLnis is an alternative.
Cobalt downloader, a website that let's you download basically everything imaginable from the internet. All kinds of posts, photos and videos from various social media platforms and many other websites.
Linkwarden, a bookmark manager that can be self-hosted. Also check out Omnivore and wallabag.
ArchiveBox, a self-hosted app for archiving websites.
Tube Archivist, a self-hosted app for archiving YouTube videos/playlists/channels.

(I love downloading and archiving stuff lol)

[-] nrbray@lemmy.ml 4 points 9 months ago

great finds, is this list curated anywhere?

[-] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 9 months ago

No that was just off the top of my head

[-] derpgon@programming.dev 2 points 9 months ago

It's right there lol

[-] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Is EteSync free? It seems to be offering trials and paid plans.

[-] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 9 months ago

That's for their cloud hosting. But the self-hosted variant is completely free.

[-] Peter_Arbeitslos@feddit.de 1 points 9 months ago

How trustworthy is movie-web in terms of anonymity?

[-] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Depends on you, if you don't trust their proxies, you can deploy your own. movie-web is basically just a search engine (with a pretty good and user friendly UI/UX in my opinion) that pulls content from other sources.

[-] ayam@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago

Compared to torrent, i would say it's more "anonym" since you connect to a server instead of other pc.

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago

As with all these things: do it behind an always-on VPN on a dedicated device.

[-] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 9 months ago

Not needed, it never connects to the content sources directly, it always uses a proxy. You can even deploy your own proxy for free on Cloudflare or Netlify.

[-] proletar_ian@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago

This is fantastic! Just started switching over to Librewolf and Mull. I discovered xBrowserSync in the process, which is a great way to sync browser bookmarks. https://www.xbrowsersync.org/