Software Endorsements

[REGENDarySumanai]

For anyone here who has Plex, you can use Sonarr or CouchPotato to automatically torrent media once they get released. You can also give specific criteria like what kind of release and what quality you want it in.

 

[Namesarehardtocomeupwith]

How do I blacklist some site with ad nauseam that still managed to show their ad?

 

[CrunkLord420]

I've seen massive performance improvements for general Linux desktop usage by using a Linux kernel with RT PREEMPT. Taking this further I tried another kernel called Liquorix which seems popular among people running different Real Time kernel variants: https://liquorix.net/

Your nvidia drivers will complain, but you can get them to work by adding IGNORE_PREEMPT_RT_PRESENCE=1 to /usr/src/nvidia-current-<version>/conftest.sh

I haven't tried linux-ck or linux-pf, yet.

Note: these real-time kernels hurt overall throughput performance, so they're bad for servers, good for having a snappy desktop.

 

[This+]

I mostly use chrome but I'm making a switch to firefox. Is waterfox good or is quantum the only answer?

 

[CrunkLord420]

startpage and DuckDuckGo are okay, but the results can be really bad compared to Google for more subtle searching. I've had a lot better experience using searX, and their privacy concept is more than just "not google botnet": http://www.searx.me/

I mostly use chrome but I'm making a switch to firefox. Is waterfox good or is quantum the only answer?

I'm wary of fork-browsers. There was some article floating around talking about how critical security patches have a real delay to deployment on Waterfox. I recently switched from Chromium to Firefox (Debian sid is ver 59) and spent a ton of time going through all the aboutonfig options to break the telementry and other shit features.

 

[H4nzn0]

Don't know if anyone posted this yet but there's this screen capture tool called Faststone Capture. It has an auto-scroll feature that automatically scrolls down a page to capture information and then you can save it as a PDF, PNG, JPEG, and so on. Really useful if you're trying to capture data or notes directly from a website with weird formatting. It also has none of that bloatware/ad BS.

It's free to try for 30 days and you can buy a lifetime license for $20 USD.

 

[Null]

New Don't know if anyone posted this yet but there's this screen capture tool called Faststone Capture. It has an auto-scroll feature that automatically scrolls down a page to capture information and then you can save it as a PDF, PNG, JPEG, and so on. Really useful if you're trying to capture data or notes directly from a website with weird formatting. It also has none of that bloatware/ad BS.

FireFox now has this built in.

 

[Done]

FireFox now has this built in.

The Firefox built-in capture tool is quite good, best part is the detection feature, where I don't have to manually trace the tweetbox outline, just hover over it and Firefox recognizes its borders right away.

But it needs to have some form of scaling control, my caps are frequently too large in resolution, unless I manually use Paint to scale it to a smaller size, which is a pain.

 

[Null]

my caps are frequently too large in resolution

just preserve the fucking res bro

 

[Done]

just preserve the fucking res bro

I almost always keep it as-is, but it's kinda annoying to see excessively large caps taking up big spaces on your screen (especially when you want to document Twitter cowfights). And using thumbnails isn't very feasible if you want to make the narrative flow, like in an OP for example.

 

[Kazami Yuuka]

Spoiler: What I have

Browser - Waterfox, Brave (for testing Chromium browsers)
Image editing - paint.net
Image viewer (because W10 does something weird I think) - Irfanview
Music player - foobar2000
PACKAGE MANAGER (must have) - Chocolatey; install all your software, and for updates, you just go into admin Powershell and do "chocolatey upgrade all -y"
Start menu mod - Classic Shell; discontinued but is still functional
Telemetry blocking - Anti-beacon
Text editing - Notepad++
Torrents - Deluge (built from libtorrent)
Video player - SMPlayer (which uses mpv)

 

[エボラちゃん]

Musicbee is a nice music player, higly customizable
https://getmusicbee.com/

I also highly recommend soulseek if you like to download(P2P) high quality/hard to find music.
http://www.slsknet.org/news/

 

[Monolith]

There's a site I found called Bugmenot that's used to make and share public accounts that people can use for anonymity. Problem is that they block sites that contain

• Pay-per-view: users pay money to access the site
• Community: users register only to add/change content (but not to view)
• Fraud risk: user accounts contain sensitive details e.g. banks, online stores, etc

It's not useful for stuff like Reddit, but it works for backwater forums.

 

[PantsFreeZone]

I don't know if anyone has mentioned Ghostery, which is an adblocker that is for people that are not overtly internet savvy.

I've been experimenting with it on Chrome and AdNauseam on Firefox and I have to say I am loving it thus far.

 

[Snacker]

There's a site I found called Bugmenot that's used to make and share public accounts that people can use for anonymity. Problem is that they block sites that contain

It's not useful for stuff like Reddit, but it works for backwater forums.

I've not used that website for a while now, but I remember it never being reliable. I don't think I ever got one legit login for something, so either they were bullshit or people were just using the creds to login then instantly change the password.

 

[c-no]

There's a site I found called Bugmenot that's used to make and share public accounts that people can use for anonymity. Problem is that they block sites that contain

It's not useful for stuff like Reddit, but it works for backwater forums.

I've not used that website for a while now, but I remember it never being reliable. I don't think I ever got one legit login for something, so either they were bullshit or people were just using the creds to login then instantly change the password.

It'd likely be better to just use guerillamail as a throwaway to make up an account for a backwater forum. Even then, some websites could be onto guerillamail to block any throwaway emails associated with it.

 

[highdegger]

Personally, I have one IRL mail, and I keep like 6-7 or so 'junk-mails' for anything other than immediate public purposes. You never know when a provider will stop free anon signups, and so having a stash of addresses is comfy.

 

[Jarilo182]

MAGIX Music Maker Pro is a better DAW than it'll ever get credit for and is constantly on sale for under $50, Premium about $80.

 

[OG 666]

Humble Bundle currently has a nice package of cybersecurity stuff on sale.

It's pay-what-you-want, with a few things being offered for as low as $1, and a minimum of $15 being required for the full package. Even if you use nothing else in this, it's worth it to pay $15 for the year-long PIA subscription.

(Disclaimer: I've never purchased anything on Humble Bundle, but from what I can tell, this is legit. I'll probably be purchasing the package later this week.)

 

[Snacker]

Humble Bundle currently has a nice package of cybersecurity stuff on sale.

It's pay-what-you-want, with a few things being offered for as low as $1, and a minimum of $15 being required for the full package. Even if you use nothing else in this, it's worth it to pay $15 for the year-long PIA subscription.

(Disclaimer: I've never purchased anything on Humble Bundle, but from what I can tell, this is legit. I'll probably be purchasing the package later this week.)

Thanks for the heads up, that is a decent deal for a 1 year PIA sub. Everything else there seems like total bloatware rubbish though, on first impression. Aside from maybe the backup services but I feel like if you are super paranoid and passionate about cyber security then you would rather backup your stuff locally to other devices and not to a cloud server.