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I had no idea this sort of project existed. Great, how more and more health professionals and hospital administrators hear about it.
This post replaces two of my previous posts on the same subject and adds more links.
Please do NOT include any websites that require registration or signup to play, even if they have a "free trial".
Sound libraries and generators
- https://mynoise.net - a large library of noise generators, nature sounds and ambient music
- https://www.ambient-mixer.com - large crowd-sourced library of ambient sounds, with a voting system if you signup (effectively Stackoverflow for ambiance)
- https://noises.online - a selection of masking sounds (requires WebAudio support in your browser)
- https://coffitivity.com - a dynamic selection of ambiance sounds
- http://www.rainymood.com - sound of rain and thunderstorm
- http://asoftmurmur.com - let's you mix your own soundscape from a selection of ten sounds
- http://rainycafe.com - selection of either cafe or rain ambiance
- http://raining.fm - rain ambiance, optionally add thunder
- https://29a.ch/noise-generator - a noise generator (requires WebAudio support in your browser)
- https://onlinetonegenerator.com/noise.html - a rather limited tone generator (white, brows or pink)
Tracks or videos
- https://youtube.com/watch?v=xNN7iTA57jM - forest sounds, woodland ambiance, bird song
- https://youtube.com/watch?v=cUZbRc0lwjA - jazz bar in Paris (jazz piano)
- https://youtube.com/watch?v=tChc64ikVR8 - cozy cabin in the mountains, rain sounds, thunderstorm
- https://youtube.com/watch?v=8lW8CrVL95g - underwater study room
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYnA9wWFHLI - Marconi Union, Weightless (10 hours)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQ4KSllyROs - Marconi Union, Weightless & Beyond (24/7)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZV9FmHOsRg - coffee shop ambiance (2 hours)
Via
- Analysis Of The IUPAC Gold Book Support for Chemical Ontologies, 10 min video by NFDI4Chem
I occasionally encounter feeds that my feed reader cannot subscribe to because the site uses Cloudflare DDoS protection, which Cloudflare implements in a manner contrary to the ethics of the open web, in the process making it near impossible for feed readers or read-it-later services to access the content.
I have no simple work-around for such RSS feeds - they are effectively rendered useless by Cloudflare's discriminatory and user-hostile blocking implementation.
Cloudflare themselves claim doing nothing wrong, and that it is in fact the site operators that have misconfigured their Cloudflare firewall and that users should contact the site operator. Which is simply ridiculous.
If Cloudflare cared at all about the open web, this issue would not be relegated to a few obscure forum posts. They could also easily implement some form of automatic exemption from their page blocking for common feed endpoints, such as /feed, rss.xml and similar.
- Cloudflare considered harmful, 2019-10-23, Hugo Landau
- https://git.nixnet.services/you/stop_cloudflare
- Stay away from Cloudflare, 2017-12-20, unixsheikh.com
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12646055 (thread on the subject of Cloudflare and RSS)
- https://reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/qars38/rss_feed_behind_cloudflare_protection/
- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11886711/curl-cant-fetch-rss-from-website-because-of-cloudflare
- https://github.com/VeNoMouS/cloudscraper (a work-around in Python, but I don't know how to incorporate with TinyTinyRSS...)
My list of places where you can find RSS feeds. Quality may vary, buyer beware.
- RSS Database by FeedSpot. I have no knowledge of the quality of these collections.
- https://codeberg.org/solarchemist/svenska-tidskrifter-rss - my own collection of RSS feeds to Swedish newspapers.
Note that this is a German affair.
Still, the hall of fame (below) might give you some ideas.
... and good alternatives, where available. To the best of my knowledge, and no guarantees obviously. All the apps listed here are distributed with libre licences (except where otherwise stated), but some may rely on non-libre backends.
Productivity
- DAVx5 - the easiest way to synchronize your Nextcloud contacts/calendar/tasks with corresponding Android apps. GPLv3. Available on F-Droid.
- K-9 Mail, or these days it is perhaps just as well to use Thunderbird for Android.
- Nextcloud
- Nextcloud Notes
- Tasks.org - a great tasks app that synchronizes with your Nextcloud tasks.
Chat, messaging
- Signal messenger. The app is FOSS, but relies on a proprietary and centralized service.
- Nextcloud Talk
- Beeper
Keyboard
- Unexpected Keyboard, F-Droid - keyboard with a smart swipe-inside-each-key UX that exposes a massive amount of special characters in a smart way.
- HeliBoard, F-Droid
- https://github.com/futo-org/android-keyboard
- Thumb-Key - cool keyboard meant for thumb typing and swiping inside each key.
Audio & video
- Audio Recorder, F-Droid. Easy to integrate with Nextcloud's "Auto Uploads" functionality, in my experience. But the default quality settings (bitrate, etc.) are quite low and I suggest raising them.
- Jellyfin, F-Droid - mobile client for Jellyfin media server.
- NewPipe, F-Droid - I recommend you install it on F-Droid using their repo to get updates faster (but note that this means you trust their repo to push updates to your phone).
- Tempo - music client for Subsonic-compatible servers.
- VLC
Misc
- Binary Eye, F-Droid - a competent QR code scanner.
- FreeOTP+, F-Droid - 2FA authenticator.
- Kvaesitso launcher - it looks great by default and can be customized in lots of useful ways.
- Librera Reader, F-Droid.
- OpenKeychain - in combination with Password Store to sync
passto Android. - OsmAnd - OpenStreetmap for Android.
- Tailscale - app is FOSS, but the underlying service is proprietary, but can replaced with Headscale (but unfortunately I cannot recommend it - tried it once and never figured it out).
- Transdroid - Bittorrent client that lets your monitor and control your server.
- Transportr - public transport timetables. Works well in Stockholm.
- Tusky - Mastodon client that works well with multiple accounts across different instances.
- Wallabag
The issue is when you don’t have an account, it’s quite difficult… For someone who doesn’t know where to look for. Let’s see how we can bypass their “Join LinkedIn or Sign in” message.
First, you need to find the profile of the user targeted. Any search engine should do the trick. Usually, it’s something like :https://www.linkedin.com/in/usernameCopy that URI, and paste it to … wait for it … A Google website. The address is : http://search.google.com/test/mobile-friendly. It’s a page to test if your website is mobile friendly 😂.
Hit the test button, wait a bit, and then click on View tested page.
Copy all the HTML, and paste it to https://codebeautify.org/htmlviewer, and hit the RUN button. Now, you should be able to see more information on that profile.
Of course, if you prefer you can copy/paste the HTML code in a text file. Rename it with the .html extension before opening it with your browser.
Reproduced most of the original note above just in case of linkrot.
- Mobilizon - developed by the well-known Framasoft. With a web forum and a Matrix chat, awesome choices.
Mobilizon instances
kv4p HT is a homebrew VHF radio that makes your phone capable of voice and text communication completely off-grid [...] radio simply plugs into the USB C port on your Android smartphone and transforms it into a fully-fledged handheld radio transceiver.
Looks really cool. But then of course I know nothing about ham radio.
From Better Posters I learned about the idea and that there is a serious effort to create such a registry: ConfIDent.
But is it ready for prime-time?
- Terms of use only available in German, as far as I can tell.
- Account creation flow involves manually requesting an account,
but it is not clear to me who is behind this service. Strike that, the Imprint makes it clear: the Ministry for Science and Culture of Lower Saxony, Germany.
Very cool :-)
Here's my modest profile, for example.
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Via https://mastodon.social/@publicdomainrev/113794180924217390
This is a user-friendly guide to retrieving your digital life from the Tech Giants.
In it, you will find an awesome guide split over 21 steps:
- Day One: Getting Set Up
- Day Two: Better Browsing
- Day Three: Your Data Roadmap
- Day Four: Secure Your Email
- Day Five: Masking Email Addresses
- Day Six: Leave Gmail (or another insecure provider)
- Day Seven: Settle In
- Day Eight: Contacts and Calendars
- Day Nine: Secure Messaging
- Day Ten: Leave Social Media
- Day Eleven: Get Social Again
- Day Twelve: Password Protection
- Day Thirteen: Shop Securely
- Day Fourteen: Replace your Accounts
- Day Fifteen: Trash Unwanted Accounts
- Day Sixteen: Get a VPN
- Day Seventeen: Control your Collaborations
- Day Eighteen: Personal Photos
- Day Nineteen: Adios, Alexa!
- Day Twenty: Fix your Phone
- Day Twenty-One: Look Forward
Mathematician Terence Tao on how we measure the cosmos. Two videos by 3Blue1Brown:
Here is how to highlight the string noodles in the output of tail -f using grep:
tail -f /var/log/auth.log | grep --line-buffered --color=always -e "^" -e "noodles"Figured it out quickly thanks to these posts:
- https://superuser.com/a/1192944
- https://stackoverflow.com/a/7162898/1198249
- https://stackoverflow.com/a/23395752/1198249
There is also other (possibly better) ways to accomplish the same effect:
- What I would describe as a fluff piece in some fringe publication: China Reveals Plans To Build Giant Power Station In Earth's Orbit, 2025-01-16. Via The Overspill. Also reported by the South China Morning Post.
Stellarium is a planetarium software that shows exactly what you see when you look up at the stars. It's easy to use, and free.
Your periodic reminder that Stellarium is an amazing planetarium tool. Free, #OpenSource and very easy to use. There are desktop apps, mobile apps and a web version. https://mastodon.online/@astro_jcm/111965151861766848
WeBWorK is a well-tested assessment system for delivering individualized problems over the web.
Whether as a student or instructor, I never really liked computerized tests.
But I had never heard about this FOSS project before. It is built on MathJax, and expanding into other STEM areas such as chemistry:
The [Open Problem Library] now includes problems from all ranges of mathematics, from pre-algebra through real analysis, as well as expanding into other STEM disciplines such as physics, chemistry and engineering.
Very nice explanation!
- 00:00 Most people don't understand rainbows
- 01:08 Light refraction explained
- 08:20 How does a rainbow form?
- 13:10 Circular rainbows
- 15:14 Why are rainbows curved?
- 17:30 Why can’t you see a rainbow with sunglasses?
- 18:43 Why is it brighter underneath a rainbow?
- 20:44 Different types of rainbow
- 23:46 Invention of the cloud chamber