A list of my favorite websites and software. Contact me at mark@markveres.ro if you want me to add your favorite software.

Yellow pages are telephone directories organized by category rather that alphabetically.

Websites

• Free services:
  • Snyopta - hosts a number of free open-source services. [onion v2] [onion v3]
  • Temp Mail - offers a free temporary e-mail.
  • PrivacyTools - offers free services and other guides.
  • Spidr - location and topic-based news aggregator
• Guides:
  • choosealicense - helps you choose a license for your next project
  • LandChad - a guide to making a bloat-less website.
  • based cooking - a bloat less recipe website
• Alternatives/Frontends:
  • Odysee - frontend for the LBRY protocol.
  • PeerTube - federated video hosting service.
  • SimplyTranslate - alternative frontend for a few translation tools
• Maps:
  • OpenStreetMap
  • Lightning Maps - live maps of thunder strikes.
  • Windy - all kinds of live maps.
  • Light Polution Map - a map of light pollution
• Utilities:
  • SQLite Viewer - database file viewer (no edit function)
  • SQL Online IDE - full fledged IDE for working with SQLite databases
  • text from website - extract all text from a website.
  • Corrupt-a-File - corrupts a file.
  • Tilt Shift Effect - simulate a tilt-shift lens.
  • Batch Compress - tool for mass compressing photos
• Other:
  • Statistica - statistics portal.
  • torrent paradise - a IPFS based torrent search engine
  • HaveIBeenPwned - checks if your credentials appear in a public data breach.
  • Archive - 624 billion pages of history.
    • WayBackMachine - web archive.
  • mattw.io
    • Youtube Geofind - find the geolocation of a youtube video.
  • TOSDR - a collection of simplified Terms of service. [onion v3]
  • Lindy Press - publisher of hard-to-find and out-of-print books
  • How I experience the web today - a website that demonstrates modern web bloat
• Datasets:
  • Google dataset search
  • Kaggle
  • data.gov - data provided by the US government
  • datahub
  • UCI Machine Learning Repository - university of california machine learning repository
  • NASA earth data - free data about the planet we live on, given to us plebs by the overlords
  • Global Health Observatory data repository - “yeah COVID19 was totally made in a lab”
  • Crime data explorer
  • NI4AI Datasets
  • Data world
• Learning:
  • Innerbody - Explore Human Anatomy, Physiology and Genetics

Software

• Media/Recording:
  • LBRY - content freedom
  • FSViewer - FastStone’s image/video viewer, very powerful, very fast.
  • GIMP - a GNU image manipulation program.
  • OBS - screen recorder/virtual camera/more.
  • VLC - best media player, in my opinion.
• Networking:
  • Wireshark - network sniffer.
  • mitmproxy - open-source proxy software, made for analyzing traffic.
  • Postman - an http request inspector.
• Text editor:
  • vscodium - binary releases of VS Code without MS branding/telemetry/licensing
  • Libre Office - libre office suite.
• Browsers:
  • Firefox
• Mail client:
  • Thunderbird - the Thunderbird email client
• Password managers:
  • KeePassXC - Cross-Platform Password Manager
• Virtualization:
  • VMware - virtualization software.
  • Virtual Box - virtualization software.
  • qemu - open-source machine emulator and virtualizer.
  • docker - container runtime.
• Other:
  • Etcher - Flash OS images to SD cards and USB drives

Android Software

• App Stores
  • F-Droid - repository of FOSS software apps for android.
  • Aurora Store - use the play store anonymously
• Messaging:
  • Signal
  • Element - matrix client
• Maps:
  • OSMAnd - very customizeable and powerful OSM based map viewer (and editor)
  • Organic Maps - user friendly and easy to use OSM map viewer
  • OpenTracks - sport tracking application that respects your privacy.
  • OSM Dashboard - plugin for OpenTracks
• Media:
  • NewPipe - alternative youtube client.
  • Odysee
  • Feeder - my RSS reader of choice.
  • VLC
• Power users:
  • Termux - command line for android.
  • NetGuard - A simple way to block access to the internet per application.
• Browser:
  • Firefox

And I also use the Simple Mobile Tools suite.