Links
A collection of interesting stuff, including websites and software. If you don't like something here, please don't harass me or the creator of the thing in question. I am not responsible for the contents of the links posted here.
Table of Contents
Blogs
Entertainment
xkcd - a webcomic about romance, sarcasm, mathematics, and language. Also, check out the unofficial wiki .
RationalWiki - A website dedicated to disproving conspiracy theories using decently well-based logic (mostly)
'Kim' And Get It - 350 photographs of North Korea, a good few hours of insight
Education
Based Cooking - Open-source minimal recipe website
LandChad - Tutorials for setting up any kind of server, including things like XMPP and Git.
YouTube
Clients
Mobile
NewPipe - a YouTube client without the whole algorithm thing. Once you import your subscriptions, it's a dream come true.
PipePipe - A fork of NewPipe. It supports some more sites and has more features, but it's really unstable.
Desktop
FreeTube - A really cool, work-in-progress YouTube client that is really customisable.
Frontends
Invidious - Open-source, self-hosted YouTube frontend
Peertube - An alternative place to upload videos
Channels
Best of the Best
Technology
Retro Tech
Linux
Brodie Robertson - Stay up-to-date with (nearly) daily videos about what's happening in the Linux space
Programming
Ardens - Computer science topics with a bit too much snark
Conaticus - Watch someone write extremely bad code and have a mental breakdown
Cybersecurity and Networking
David Bombal - General cybersecurity stuff, with a LOT of special guests
NetworkChuck - Manic episodes about cybersecurity and general technology
News
Other
Dave's Garage 'A retired software engineer from Microsoft going back to the MS-DOS and Windows 95 days'
Eric Murphy - General Linux stuff, with some philosophy mixed in
Video Essays
Philosophy
exurb1a - A turtle high on ketamine explains philosophy
Technology
NakeyJakey - A guy talks about outdated game design on a space hopper
NationSquid - General technology topics explained rather poorly (just being honest)
Tech Rules - How tech works, even though you (probably) don't care
Stryxo - Rants about why Steam is better than Epic Games Launcher
Culture
Other
Education
Half As Interesting - Short, semi-satirical, semi-educational videos about semi-interesting stuff
Kurzgezagt - An unpronouncable name plus high-production videos about science? Sign me up!
Entertainment
Half-Asleep Chris - Stop motion meets cats and LEGO
PhantomStrider - A surprisingly cheerful YouTuber talks about old cartoons
rewboss - Brit living in Germany takes 14 years to reach 100,000 subscribers
Gaming
Karl Jobst - Where cheaters in speedruns go to die
ibxtoycat - Minecraft
SalC1 - The guy who uses classical music in the background of his Minecraft videos
Awesome Lists
Linux - The best kernel
Android - Objectively better than iOS due to its open-source nature (WARNING : Recommends a lot of proprietary solutions)
IPFS - Interplanetary filesystem, a file-sharing protcol
Python - Programming language that is powerful yet easy-to-use
The C Programming Language - The rabbit hole goes deep
Rust Programming Language - An up-and-coming programming language with interesting features
Text Editors
Neovim - The best Vim
Emacs - If you're insane
Atom - A (discontinued) hackable text editor
Games
Development Environment
Shell Scripting - You need to know it if you use Linux (and if you write code, you DEFINITELY should use Linux)
ZSH Plugins - zsh is the best shell, so you might as well customise it
A lot of people recommend oh-my-zsh
. THEY ARE WRONG! Do not use oh-my-zsh
. It does nothing special and is a LOT more trouble than it is worth. It slows down your zsh substantially, and barely changes anything. I repeat, DO NOT TOUCH IT!
Dotfiles - You need a backup of your config to share to others. I do it, you should too
Entertainment
SciFi - If only I bothered to read
Email Newsletters - Make sure they don't end up in spam
Geek Podcasts - You're a nerd, right? (Podcasts about nerdy topics in many languages)
Learning
Security
Security - Got to start somewhere
Capture-The-Flag - The legendary games to test and refine your knowledge, worthy of a DEFCON black badge
Hacking - Please don't do anything illegal
Hacking Spots - If you want to find a place to hack
Honeypots - Learn how hackers attack a system by planting a fake target
Lockpicking - The centuries-old tradition that many a hacker have learnt
Prompt Injection - Targeting those large language models we all keep hearing about
Software
Operating Sytsems
Arch Linux - A Linux distro you have full control over
I daily-drive Arch on my computer
/e/ OS - Android ROM without Google Play Services
I use this one on my Samsung S8
Web Browsers
Librweolf - Fork of firefox with enhanced privacy and security. Enable cookies if you want to and you're good to go.
Ungoogled Chromium - Chromium (the open-source version of Google Chrome) minus the creepy Google features.
Image Manipulation
GIMP - I bet you $5 that GIMP 3 doesn't release on its scheduled day
Inkscape - For vector graphics. The UI is just awful. I should make a blog post about it.
Video Editing
Kdenlive - A great video editor for semi-professional work
Olive - A work-in-progress professional video editor
Media Player
mpv - A 'just works' media player with loads of keyboard controls
VLC Media Player - VLC is a media suite rather than a media player. Plays DVD's, HTTP streams, has skins and plugins, and more!
Digital Audio Workstations
Audacity - Yes, it's (technically) a DAW.
MuseScore - Write sheet music easily and quickly
Ardour - Open-source DAW
FL Studio - Proprietary DAW; I've heard it's really good (It's also $500 for a lifetime license)
Office Suites
Security
Command-Line Utilities
linuxwave - Generates music from Linux's random functions
pass - Command-line password manager
fast - Check your download speed courtesy of Netflix's fast.com
darkhttpd - A small, fast, dependency-free, and lightweight web server written in C
Guides
HacksGuide - Guides on hacking the 3Ds/Wii/Wii U/PS Vita/Switch that is kept up-to-date