What are some powerful open source projects everyone should know? by cll7793 in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[-] cll7793@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago

Sorry didn’t mean to cause any trouble. I collect and share internet resources with others. If you want to verify this for yourself, my post history has questions similar to this one. I removed the image to make this post more ‘generic’. I am genuinely trying to share resources. My apologies if it came across as advertising.

What are some powerful open source projects everyone should know? by cll7793 in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[-] cll7793@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago

No it's not. This was one example of a powerful resource. Another is Libgen, and the List of Awesome

https://github.com/topics/awesome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_Genesis

What are some powerful open source projects everyone should know? by cll7793 in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[-] cll7793@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago

Thank you, great resource! It's very sad to see the feds going after libraries with the recent attacks against libgen (And potentially Internet Archive). Hopefully these libraries truly will be preserved forever. Information belongs to everyone.

In his ruling, Judge McMahon wrote, 'The plaintiffs (the publishers) have suffered irreparable harm as a result of the defendants' (LibGen operators') unlawful conduct and will continue to suffer harm if the defendants are permitted to continue operating LibGen,' and said LibGen's operation should be stopped.

Source: https://gigazine.net/gsc_news/en/20240927-libgen-must-pay-30m-to-publishers/

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What are some powerful open source projects everyone should know? (lemmy.world)
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The goal of this post is to provide a hub to discover some powerful internet resources out there.

For example here's one I wanted to share.

  • Open Source Ecology is a project for open source hardware that is significantly cheaper than retail costs. Some of the equipment include open source designs for CNC machines, windmills, tractors, plasma cutters, power supplies, motors, generators, and much more!

https://www.opensourceecology.org/

Additional Resources

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What are some powerful open source projects everyone should know? (lemmy.world)
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The goal of this post is to provide a hub to discover some powerful internet resources out there.

For example here's one I wanted to share.

  • Open Source Ecology is a project for open source hardware that is significantly cheaper than retail costs. Some of the equipment include open source designs for CNC machines, windmills, tractors, plasma cutters, power supplies, motors, generators, and much more!

https://www.opensourceecology.org/

Additional Resources

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What forums/social media sites do you recommend? (en.wikipedia.org)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by cll7793@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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I hope this post offers a good way to discover new communities.

Here's a list of internet forums from Wikipedia

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What are some financial life-hacks everyone should know? (lemmy.world)
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What free things online should everyone take advantage of? by cll7793 in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[-] cll7793@lemmy.world 40 points 9 months ago

In the words of Ubisoft we need to feel "comfortable with not owning your game". If buying is not owning then piracy is not stealing.

Got any recommended resources for piracy sites/lists?

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What free things online should everyone take advantage of? (lemmy.world)
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What free resources do you know on the internet that everyone should use?

Potential Category Ideas

  • FOSS Software
  • Quality of Life
  • Public Services
  • Other List of Lists
  • Personal Finance
  • Github Awesome Repositories
  • Firefox Addons
  • Free Research/Books
  • Piracy Sites & Lists
  • Real Life Resources

Links and Resources

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What are your favorite mindblowing mathematics videos? (lemmy.world)
submitted 9 months ago by cll7793@lemmy.world to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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What are your favorite mathematics channels/videos on YouTube?

There are tons of great videos on YT, but I'll list some resources from 3Blue1Brown's SoME3 contest if you want to discover more math explainers.

SoME3 Resources

This is a continuation to my original "What are the most mindblowing things in mathematics?" post.

Additional Resources

What are the highest quality search engines? by cll7793 in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
[-] cll7793@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago

The Patriot Act and Snowden's leaks have shown companies will go against their privacy policy to appease governments. Search engines especially are targeted by five eyes with the PRISM program where copies of all your data, linked to your payment, are sent to Five Eyes and stored. Gag orders and legal threats prevent disclosure, as has been done with prior tech companies who have tried to push back against this.

Be wary of trusting corporations with your data as monetization is a powerful incentive.

What are the highest quality search engines? by cll7793 in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
[-] cll7793@lemmy.world 19 points 9 months ago

I'm worried eventually even Kagi will get enshittified. It has been a common trend that almost always occurs. Open source is the only way to ensure stability. Conflict of interest is what leads to companies either overcharging, or even accepting to get bought out.

Don't get me wrong, Kagi seems to be a great company thus far! But for something as important as search it would be best to have an open source solution.

What are the highest quality search engines? by cll7793 in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
[-] cll7793@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago

Altavista was ahead of their time. The modern internet desperately needs a technical search engine.

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What are the highest quality search engines? (lemmy.world)
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It is becoming near impossible to find relevant information from search engines. Duckduckgo, SearXNG, Bing, Google, and so many more mainstream engines have a significantly high noise to signal ratio, and it is getting worse.

Here are a collection of the best search engines I know, please add more to the list.

If no more high quality search engines exist, would it be possible to host your own?

EDIT: Some new discoveries. The addon uBlacklist and filters can block super SEO sites from appearing in search.

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What are the highest quality search engines? (lemmy.world)
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It is becoming near impossible to find relevant information from search engines. Duckduckgo, SearXNG, Bing, Google, and so many more mainstream engines have a significantly high noise to signal ratio, and it is getting worse.

Here are a collection of the best search engines I know, please add more to the list.

If no more high quality search engines exist, would it be possible to host your own?

EDIT: Some new discoveries. The addon uBlacklist and filters can block super SEO sites from appearing in search.

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What are the best Video Game Soundtracks? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by cll7793@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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Feel free to post multiple suggestions for different genres. For example, atmospheric, sci-fi, adventure-like, etc.

What are the most mindblowing things in mathematics? by cll7793 in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
[-] cll7793@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thanks for the comment! It is cool and also pretty aesthetically pleasing!

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What are the most mindblowing things in mathematics? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by cll7793@lemmy.world to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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What concepts or facts do you know from math that is mind blowing, awesome, or simply fascinating?

Here are some I would like to share:

  • Gödel's incompleteness theorems: There are some problems in math so difficult that it can never be solved no matter how much time you put into it.
  • Halting problem: It is impossible to write a program that can figure out whether or not any input program loops forever or finishes running. (Undecidablity)

The Busy Beaver function

Now this is the mind blowing one. What is the largest non-infinite number you know? Graham's Number? TREE(3)? TREE(TREE(3))? This one will beat it easily.

  • The Busy Beaver function produces the fastest growing number that is theoretically possible. These numbers are so large we don't even know if you can compute the function to get the value even with an infinitely powerful PC.
  • In fact, just the mere act of being able to compute the value would mean solving the hardest problems in mathematics.
  • Σ(1) = 1
  • Σ(4) = 13
  • Σ(6) > 10^10^10^10^10^10^10^10^10^10^10^10^10^10^10 (10s are stacked on each other)
  • Σ(17) > Graham's Number
  • Σ(27) If you can compute this function the Goldbach conjecture is false.
  • Σ(744) If you can compute this function the Riemann hypothesis is false.

Sources:

What Internet Portals do you recommend? by cll7793 in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
[-] cll7793@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago

Yeah lol. Search engines have gone down in quality so bad it really does feel like that. It has been so difficult finding stuff on google/duckduckgo etc that I have to rely on portals now.

How do you find relevant technical information online? by cll7793 in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
[-] cll7793@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thank you all for your answers!

I wanted to add one resource I found that has helped me find even more relevant search results:

A Lemmy Search Engine https://www.search-lemmy.com/

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What Internet Portals do you recommend? (lemmy.world)
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An Internet Portal is an information hub connecting you a much wider portion of the internet.

For example:

What Internet Portals do you know of that you would like to share?

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How do you find relevant technical information online? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by cll7793@lemmy.world to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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Search engines have been dropping in quality significantly within the past decade, and especially within this past year. The noise to signal ratio has been frankly painful.

Can you please share some resources you use when trying to find answers to technical questions?

For example, STEM, academia, engineering, programming, etc.

What are some quality YouTube channels that you recommend? by cll7793 in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[-] cll7793@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Numberphile, Computerphile, PBS Spacetime, PBS Infinite Series (sad they stopped), Standup Maths, 3Blue1Brown

Does the idea of this concern anyone else? Why is no one talking about it? by cll7793 in c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
[-] cll7793@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

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