[-] marv99@feddit.de 7 points 1 year ago

I really liked the Bromite browser on my mobiles, but unfortunately it did not get (security) updates for a longer time. From the many discussions in the Issue tracker asking about status of the project, I could not get a clear clue about the situation, but fact is that the last Bromite release is from Dec 2022.

From here Bromite is Dead, Use Cromite Instead I learned about and tried to switch to Cromite, but on my 32-bit Android devices it is still very unstable.

[-] marv99@feddit.de 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It is never too* late to learn and correct what we hold for true. I like the idea behind this website. Thanks for sharing.

*EDIT: learned & corrected to to too.

[-] marv99@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago

The German Feddit was down for quite a while, but if this counts for 200 servers I do not know.

[-] marv99@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago

Thank you very much for sharing, this page is really great!

[-] marv99@feddit.de 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

All my real daily-use archivers were not listed in the poll, except 7zip.
Had to select "Other", but meant: gzip, xz, bzip2, unrar, rar and zip.

[-] marv99@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

MetaGer is a German meta search engine (utilizing several search engines in the back). UI and results are of course available in many languages.

https://metager.org | https://metager.de

From their About page:

What makes MetaGer special?

MetaGer is different from other search engines. This is reflected not only in our public good orientation and focus on privacy, but also through some unique features:

  • Possibility of creating a personal blacklist
  • Function of the search in the search
  • Advertising-free search possible
  • Integration of search engine projects like YaCy
  • The only German search engine that combines results from several large web indexes
  • And much more..

What We Stand For

Guaranteed Privacy

Data protection and privacy are important to us. That's why we don't track or store personal data and offer several services to protect your privacy, for example our anonymizing proxy ("Open Anonymously" feature).

Non-Profit Association

MetaGer is a project of the non-profit association SUMA-EV, Association for Free Access to Knowledge. SUMA-EV is primarily committed to promoting media literacy.

Diverse and Free

MetaGer produces diverse results because it is a metasearch engine. We have explained exactly what this means in our transparency statement. By publishing our source code, we show that free access to knowledge is important to us. Our source code is free and open source.

100% Renewable Energy

Sustainability and resource consumption is also a big issue for us. Therefore we pay attention to the energy consumption of our services and only use electricity from renewable energy sources.

[-] marv99@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago

In my FF's about:config there is a setting called intl.regional_prefs.use_os_locales, defaulted to false. Maybe this can be used?

[-] marv99@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago

Me too, I really like the concept, also have demo-purchased by app with it. Hope it will become usable reality at some point.

[-] marv99@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You can use the same Windshield in winter and summer (I did many years). When it is used from outside, it helps even more against the temperature.

It is a bit more fun though, to use one with big eyes to be positioned inside and make your car look like from Cars movie. Example on Pinterest

We have the red version (strangely ours was much cheaper here in Germany than what I just found on Walmart website) in our little red Toyota and aside from keeping the car cooler it is looking really cute.

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The VMH database captures information on human and gut microbial metabolism and links this information to hundreds of diseases and nutritional data. At the core of the VMH lie hundreds of manually curated genome-scale metabolic models, which have been assembled based on genomic, biochemical, and physiological data. Please start your query using the quick search or by entering one of the six resources.

You can also start here

Recon 3D can be found on the download-page

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From the About-page:

There are many wonderful Free/Open Source Software projects dedicated to photography. Yet there aren’t nearly as many resources dedicated to photographic workflows with them.

This site hopes to rectify that with a simple goal:

To provide tutorials, workflows and a showcase for high-quality photography and cinematography using Free/Open Source Software.

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From the Start-page:

Wikenigma is a unique wiki-based resource specifically dedicated to documenting fundamental gaps in human knowledge.

Listing scientific and academic questions to which no-one, anywhere, has yet been able to provide a definitive answer. [ 1010 so far ]

That's to say, a compendium of so-called 'Known Unknowns'.

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From the About-page:

Did you know that you could store the entirety of Wikipedia on your phone? And read it anywhere, at anytime? [...]

We can make highly compressed copies of entire websites that each fit into a single (.zim) file. Zim files are small enough that they can be stored on users’ mobile phones, computers or small, inexpensive Hotspot.

Kiwix then acts like a regular browser, except that it reads these local copies. People with no or limited internet access can enjoy the same browsing experience as anyone else.

The software as well as the content are fully open-source and free to use and share.

My favorites for offline use are Wikipedia and iFixit, although the step-by-step photos are (by design) very low res.

[-] marv99@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago

Kongo Otto :D

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From the About-page

In the early days of the web, pages were made primarily by hobbyists, academics, and computer savvy people about subjects they were personally interested in. Later on, the web became saturated with commercial pages that overcrowded everything else. All the personalized websites are hidden among a pile of commercial pages. Google isn't great at finding them, its focus is on finding answers to technical questions, and it works well; but finding things you didn't know you wanted to know, which was the real joy of web surfing, no longer happens. In addition, many pages today are created using bloated scripts that add slick cosmetic features in order to mask the lack of content available on them. Those pages contribute to the blandness of today's web.

The Wiby search engine is building a web of pages as it was in the earlier days of the internet. In addition, Wiby helps vintage computers to continue browsing the web, as pages indexed are more suitable for their performance.

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From the About-page:

[...] I’ve spent many more hours and dollars studying the subject and experimenting with glues and techniques. The content here is a result of that research. There is plenty of junk content out there and reprinted public domain information that is 100+ years old and offers little to the do-it-yourselfer who just wants to make some durable and attractive paperbacks and hardcovers.

This little bookbinding hobby has grown into a fairly comprehensive collection of information on the subject of self-publishing and I look forward to watching it continue to grow.

I wish you all the best in your bookbinding and self-publishing endeavors, [...]

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A partial list of free and/or open-source textbooks.

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From the About-page:

Photos for everyone

Over 3 million free high-resolution images brought to you by the world’s most generous community of photographers.

[...]

Is it really free? Yes.

Unsplash is a platform powered by an amazing community that has gifted hundreds of thousands of their own photos to fuel creativity around the world. So sign up for free, or don’t. Either way, you’ve got access to over 3 million photos under the Unsplash license—which makes them free to do-whatever-you-want with.

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A free(libre) and open-source webcomic supported directly by its patrons to change the comic book industry!

On the About-page you can find information about the author David Revoy and the philosophy behind his project.

David has also created a nice Lemmy meme

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The Old Robot's Web Site (www.theoldrobots.com)
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If you like toy robots as much as I do, you will enjoy the picture collection on this sites.

https://www.theoldrobots.com/

https://www.theoldrobots.org/

https://www.theoldrobots.net/

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Aside from the ancient hacker.org and Project Euler my favorite challenge site. Maybe you find some joy with it, too :)

From the about-page

Inferno

For the people not familiar with challenge sites, a challenge site is mainly a site focussed on offering computer-related problems. Users can register at such a site and start solving challenges. There exist lots of different challenge types. The most common ones are the following: Cryptographic, Crackit, Steganography, Programming, Logic and Math/Science. The difficulty of these challenges vary as well. [...]

Gizmore

The goal is to make a global ranking for challengers.

Also we like to give an overview of popular challenge sites, and encourage challengers to try them out. [...]

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Valuable tool when solving problems at Project Euler.

From the Welcome-page:

Most people use the OEIS to get information about a particular number sequence.

Citing Wikipedia:

The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (OEIS) is an online database of integer sequences. It was created and maintained by Neil Sloane while researching at AT&T Labs. He transferred the intellectual property and hosting of the OEIS to the OEIS Foundation in 2009.[4] Sloane is the chairman of the OEIS Foundation.

OEIS records information on integer sequences of interest to both professional and amateur mathematicians, and is widely cited. As of April 2023, it contains over 360,000 sequences,[5] making it the largest database of its kind.[citation needed]

Each entry contains the leading terms of the sequence, keywords, mathematical motivations, literature links, and more, including the option to generate a graph or play a musical representation of the sequence. The database is searchable by keyword, by subsequence, or by any of 16 fields.

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