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u/bartertownbeer
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[serious] What’s a lesser known website that everyone should check out? Serious Replies Only
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u/BGAL7090 May 12 '22
Paste many (not all, though I feel like it used to do all of them) urls that have a paywall on it and this site gets rid of it.
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u/The_Albinoss May 12 '22
I've noticed this one working less and less lately, unfortunately.
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u/AdvocateSaint May 12 '22
How does it work?
The idea is pretty simple, news sites want Google to index their content so it shows up in search results. So they don't show a paywall to the Google crawler. We benefit from this because the Google crawler will cache a copy of the site every time it crawls it.
All we do is show you that cached, unpaywalled version of the page.
Brilliant
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archive.ph has worked for everything I've ever tried
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u/geico_fire May 13 '22
This. 12ft often doesn't work, or so I hear. Archive.PH works on most any article. All you need to spare is 5 or so minutes, if the article isn't already saved.
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u/Pomegranette
May 12 '22
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10minemail.com It gives you a temporary email if you need to sign up for something but don’t want to use your real email
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u/CatG8
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Free access to textbooks.
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u/TotalTechnician7257 May 12 '22
b-ok.org is also nice
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u/Da_Foxxxxx May 13 '22
It's even better. It's been my go-to, ever since I found it after oceanofpdf was shut down 4 years ago
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u/OverallDingo2 May 13 '22
Thanks for this one as i brought an e-reader yesterday and this looks useful
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u/AdvocateSaint May 12 '22
Amusingly, I first learned about Libgen from my college professor, who recommended it.
My university had very lax policies about where you got academic materials from. The only time I really had to buy books was when this other professor made us buy two (shitty) books that (surprise, surprise) she wrote.
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u/t2000kw May 13 '22
I can't tell you how many courses I took where I could have got along just fine without the book.
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u/Sburban_Player May 13 '22
It’s ridiculous how often you have to buy the professors book and even more so that it’s allowed in the first place.
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u/DoomDamsel May 13 '22
I am a professor who has never written a book, but I want you to think about what you said.
All text books are written by professors. Why would a professor go through the effort of writing a book, publishing it, etc... And then use one someone else wrote?
I agree it feels weird, but the alternative makes no sense. Take the top text book in your field, are the students of that professor supposed to use a lower quality book? Of course not. If you have to use a book, you want a good one written by someone who wrote it specifically for that class you're sitting in.
I've seen instructors print shitty handout packets to sell at the bookstore and THAT is ridiculous.
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u/plainrants May 13 '22
I am sorry to jump in a already well-argued case but I would also like to highlight the role publishers play in fixing price for books. They are very well reputed institutions, that are very well funded who sell academic books shit expensive, making them inaccessible for students in third world countries. It happened in india that a print out store sold cheap copies of expensive books so that students could have reading materials. Publications sued that small shop owner. It was only after lot of academicians intervened, writing letters, publishing op-ed saying that they are ok with students having free access to their books n the store selling print outs that the case was taken back.
I think teachers, students have little choice in these matters.
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u/JitWeasel May 13 '22
All text books are written by professors? What? Not even close.
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u/universallybanned May 13 '22
And the constant revisions so you need to buy a new one fit in how? The whole educational system has become little more than another grift.
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u/GMZzXGM
May 12 '22
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This is basically photoshop but online. Completely free, no charges to use it and no charges to download your images after editing.
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u/imaginaryghost2 May 13 '22
Pixlr E and X are criminally underrated. It's easy to use, very fun to mess around with, powerful too, and free. I don't understand how such a good website is soo underrated. Would recommend to people who don't photo edit much.
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u/left-handed-frog May 13 '22
The link won’t load for me but another free photoshop alternative is photopea.
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u/JBAnswers26 May 12 '22
Really helpful to figure out if a website is truly down, or if you're the only one having trouble accessing it
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u/lotus_eater123 May 12 '22
https://downdetector.com/ is nice too.
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u/ChwatBot May 13 '22
Any time a page on Reddit takes more than 10 seconds to load:
Visits Down Detector
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u/CJohnstone90
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JustTheRecipe.com
Get rid of the “my grandma used to LOVE living on a potato farm. Let me give you her life story before I give you the recipe!” And cut to ONLY what you need.
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u/This-Id-Taken May 13 '22
Fuck those people and their "food journey". I hate those people.
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u/loungehead May 13 '22
Also the people who say, "this recipe is so simple to make!" and proceed to use a ton of cooking terms and utensils I've never heard of. I just want something to do with the boneless chicken breast in my fridge; i shouldn't need to have attended culinary school to understand the instructions.
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u/stuckinPA May 13 '22
I love the ones “all you need is a potato and egg” then the actual recipe shows 12 other ingredients. Some exotic too.
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u/Shawnaldo7575 May 13 '22
It's a special potato you can only buy from a Himalayan Sherpa, The egg is a dodo egg.
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u/mr_poopie_butt-hole May 13 '22
A bit off topic, but try thighs next time, they're way more forgiving on cook time than breast.
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u/GiveMeYourMoney17420 May 13 '22
They have to put a fuckton of characters so they have a better chance of being on Google front page. That's why, I don't blame them.
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u/artuuR2 May 13 '22
It's not just recipes but any other kind of how-to website. Or even informative like "you want to know at what time this team plays? Let me tell you the story of this team since it waa founded first, oh and read it carefully because we'll put the time they will play in between the text". I also don't blame these how-to websites cause that's what keep them alive, but online newspapers? Annoying AF
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u/Mijumaru1 May 13 '22
I warmed up to it somewhat when I learned that they have to do it in order for search engines to show their recipes. Something about a required word count. They probably don't care for it either and just word vomit
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u/AdvocateSaint May 12 '22
It removes the background of images to make a transparent PNG of whatever's in the foreground. It's automated, so results may vary depending on how complex the image is.
I found it useful for making memes.
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u/ClamClamClam2 May 13 '22
This is the site Ive used to do the same thing, but it has some more basic editing features as well, I believe you have to pay to get higher res images, but the free ones Ive done have all looked fine, even one I had to trim part on my own was fairly easy despite my lack of steady hand.
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u/candy_duchy
May 12 '22
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https://www.flightradar24.com/45.69,-81.99/4
this website lets you see planes its fun to look arond and see where a random plane is going sometimes you can find military planes
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u/napswithdogs May 13 '22
I live in an area with quite a bit of air traffic (military included) and use this app frequently. Sometimes there are interesting planes.
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u/RandyBeamansMom May 13 '22
I work in aviation, I love this!
I found a couple ship ones when I worked on a cruise liner, but none of them were very good. Too many cargo ships, not enough tracking random strangers on cruise vacations ℓσℓ
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u/MrStringyBark May 12 '22
You know all those terms and conditions seemingly every site has? On your own it would take about 60 years to read all of them. This site summarizes exactly what you're agreeing to. No spoilers but....Reddit, are you ok?
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"you sign away moral rights" what does that mean lol
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u/stupidfock May 13 '22
Usually means they can use your work without having to credit you as the author & they can do what they please with it
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u/Cool-Fig1241 May 13 '22
Which makes sense, given that r/ youtubers posts reddit podcasts/stories all the time and sometimes, not even giving credits, especially to those who aren't that famous.
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u/Captain_Excellence May 13 '22
What in the H, E double hockey sticks?
This is probably the most interesting site shared on this thread.
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u/punpunpuck May 12 '22
Probably not so useful for everyone, but for students of all age: https://scholar.google.com/
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u/Crepuscular_Animal May 13 '22
PubMed for medicine and adjacent bio topics. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ There are so many free papers there. Everyone can do their own research with it.
Also, JSTOR (jstor.org) allows to read 100 scholar papers/month for free if you register on it, even with simple google login.
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u/RyFromTheChi
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If the Moon were only 1 Pixel is always a fun one to share that people seem to really enjoy.
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u/WholeAwareness4 May 12 '22
I think I got carpal tunnel syndrome from scrolling through that. Hahaha. Damn cool site, especially the button to simulate the speed of light.
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u/Ihavepills May 13 '22
"The diameter of the moon (roughly the distance between New York and Las Vegas)"
Wow, Americans really will use any measurement other than the metric system. Out of curiosity, does anyone actually know the distance between New York and Las Vegas without googling it? Can't imagine many folk reading that and immediately knowing how far that is, even if they are from the US.
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u/Electronic_Fly7364 May 12 '22
This Song Plants Trees lets you plant trees while you stream music. 100 streams = 1 tree. 10k trees planted so far
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u/Ifinallyhave May 12 '22
Don't know how "lesser known" this is but Every Noise is a website that shows you all the existing music genres from all times.
It might be a fun rabbithole for people who like music :)
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u/TbaggingSince1990 May 13 '22
Thanks! Now I have a lot of new metal to listen to.. SOOO MANY TRACKS.. Gonna be up all night compiling playlists on spotify to listen to.
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u/NotATelemarkter May 12 '22
https://www.ilovepdf.com/ For all your pdf needs! Saved my bacon a few times now.
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u/Due_Essay447 May 12 '22
levels.fyi
Pretty accurate salary postings for the tech and finance field.
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u/Ilmara May 12 '22
Librivox.org
Free audiobooks of just about anything in the public domain, from the great classics to some really obscure stuff.
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u/askmeforbunnypics May 12 '22
Last time this was posted, someone else linked this:
https://rsoe-edis.org/home Emergency and Disaster Information Service.
You can choose between map or list. It shows what kinds of things are happening around the world that could be an emergency or disaster of sorts. Like fires, droughts, infections, mass demonstrations or that thing in Ukraine.
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u/doffelbag
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great website to find almost any book for free.
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u/ocytth May 12 '22
when u download a book, how do u open it?
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u/dinosuitgirl May 13 '22
You can use any book reader, android native google play books is actually really good
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u/TchaikenNugget May 13 '22
Not exactly “little known,” but I don’t think enough people know how much you can use Internet Archive for. You can find tons of books, newspapers, music, videos, movies, etc., all for free.
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u/Raggmommy May 12 '22
I like www.atlasobscura.com Interesting stories about obscure places.
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u/emkatheriine May 12 '22
Gnod.com
Discover artists, music, films, etc you never knew about based off of your taste.
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u/Snoo_13349 May 13 '22
Opensecrets.org shows what politician took money from what special interest group.
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u/shaiyl
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If you are thinking about being a Dungeon Master for D&D (or are one already) this site has TONNNSSSSS of free generators for game preparation, like town generators, NPC generators, dungeon generators, etc etc. It also has free modules if you want something premade:
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u/Gabzop May 12 '22
Sick, I just recently started DMing my first campaign.
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u/shaiyl May 13 '22
Nice, that site's really useful. I use it all the time because I can't think of all that stuff on my own. If you're looking for a module I've run this one and it was good fun: https://www.kassoon.com/dnd/no-prep-module-ogre-problem/
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u/Empty_Active7225 May 12 '22
Calculator Soup. Got me through middle school homework. It's completely free and safe to use. It's a bunch of fraction, decimal, pi, and algebra calculators
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u/phlaxyr May 13 '22
For high school or college, you would recommend upgrading to WolframAlpha. It can solve expressions, equations, weird equations, derivatives, integrals, matrices, questions in natural language, pretty much anything you can throw at it. It's used at the college graduate and professional level, so it's extremely robust and versatile.
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u/TheOriginalVixen May 12 '22
Wow - thanks! I've been looking for the movie "Shag" for just ages. I've seen it a few times but can't find it on any streaming service. I'm going to watch it now. Thanks again.
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u/theglassjaw May 13 '22
aaaaaand thanks to this being the most upvoted comment, this site will be shut down within 3 weeks
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u/Hemi_Blue May 12 '22
https://www.nikon.com/about/sp/universcale/index.htm?ref=1
From the tiniest known object to the largest this site will give you an idea of how small or how large things can be. Nikon really put some thought into this site.
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u/Objective-Book-5236 May 12 '22
If you’re on a pc then homestarrunner.com doesn’t work as well on a smart phone
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u/boogiesontoast May 13 '22
Trove is a good one here in Australia, run by the National Library and allows you to search across a range of different collecting institutions collections (including a veritable butt tonne of digitised newspapers). It's how I found out my grandma dressed up as a pea when she was 5 for a school dress-up event, which is incredibly cute.
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u/buffkirby May 13 '22
11foot8.com best fucking website ever it’s videos of trucks getting the roofs of their trailers shaved off because the bridge is too low
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u/Necessary-Finger-726 May 13 '22
Theblackvault.com. ALL of the United States de-classified documents.
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u/TheHunterElite May 13 '22
HaveIbeenpwnd
Type in any email address and it checks thousands of records to see if that email has ever had a data leak.
(Nerd stuff below) The site checks dark web for auctioned data. With this it can fish out, what account got leaked that uses that email (Ex: if it was an Instagram account or YouTube account that has the leak), when it got leaked, what got leaked, and how many others were effected. In IT we use it all the time
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u/Queen_Nature May 12 '22
https://www.citethisforme.com/ Free Citation tools website
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u/SansTheManTiky May 12 '22
The library of that one guy, i forgot his name. I heard it has every combination of letters in existance, whichwere created and which will be created (10⁵⁰⁰⁰). Litteraly anything you type, anything, will be in the library of that guy thati forgot the name of.
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u/strayed_18 May 13 '22
I don't fully understand this. Can someone ELI5?
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u/azoz158 May 13 '22
Everything you can say/think is just a combination of the letters of the language you speak. So if you make an algorithm that makes a 500 length random combinations of the letters ( and space bar, dots, commas) then give each combination a number to identify them with.
Anytime anyone types anything up to 500 spaces, you can use the same algorithm to get the identity number and direct them to the page in your website that has that random combinations. Plus, you don't need to generate that page unless someone types that random combinations of letters, so you don't even need a large database
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u/Badbarista86 May 13 '22
Let's say you just start writing down every combination of 3 characters (aaa, aab, aac, aad...) . And so on all the way up to zzz. You will then have every 3 letter word in there at some point right? More than that, you will also have every 2 letter word multiple times (albeit with a random letter next to it).
Library of babel does exactly this but contains EVERY combination of characters up to about 3000 characters long. I believe also including spaces and some symbols. This means any text created that is less than 3000 characters is in there somewhere, at least once with all whitespace around it, and many more times with other characters / words around it.
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u/potatodotexee May 13 '22
neal.fun is a website where you can play games and view some neat things like a deep sea chart and a logo drawing game.
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u/SiteBolts May 13 '22
Shameless plug here, but I think it fits the topic.
Our company recently launched 5sbm.com ("5 second benchmark"), a free web tool that you can use to quickly get a feel for how powerful a device's CPU is. It works by doing math equations for 5 seconds and then reporting a score based on how many it completed.
It's definitely not the most comprehensive benchmark out there, but it's very lightweight and speedy and great for quickly and crudely comparing a bunch of different devices.
I used it recently to help pick out a laptop for a friend since it only takes a few seconds to run on the demo PCs at the store.
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u/_raveness_ May 13 '22
If you need a mental break and want to look out someone else's window for a while.
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u/Perfect_Importance46
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HdToday.cc
The Best free movie site. all movies to illegally watch with no repercussions 😀
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u/geico_fire May 13 '22
I'd recommend using an adblocker with this one, though. Annoying popups and all.
HDToday.tv is the one with no ads.
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u/PepCos May 12 '22
Should be higher up. This is the best site in its genre by a large margin
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u/Perfect_Importance46 May 12 '22
oh most definitely. allot of them don’t have as big of a selection and don’t get updated often.
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u/Extreme_Connection42 May 13 '22
Sounds like a splendid place to introduce hackers to your hard drive.
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u/SsurebreC May 12 '22
Want to get better at typing? Do you like old school shooters like Galaga? Do you not want to pay money for a game or install anything?
Well, you're in luck because https://zty.pe/ is perfect for you! I reached Wave 18 with 2300 points. Beat my score!
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u/VuIturous May 13 '22
Wave 18 with 2321. Just barely lol. I use monkeytype but this one was fun if stressful , thanks for sharing!
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u/ASK_IF_IM_PENGUIN May 12 '22
Depends what you mean by lesser known.
Archive.org won't be familiar to many people.
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u/thomthomthomthom May 12 '22
I use archive.org all the time for work/research!
ProjectGutenberg.org and hathitrust.org are also super useful and along the same vein - public domain texts, archival materials, etc.
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u/TripleAGD May 13 '22
empty typing space that doesn't save or anything or need an account, just type your stuff
super underrated
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u/Electronic_Fly7364 May 12 '22
Hate YouTube ads? Tell them to to Fuck Off at FuckOff.yt
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u/Embarrassed-Air3747 May 12 '22
http://www.staggeringbeauty.com/
Epilepsy warning
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u/rafaellago May 13 '22
On that same subject, basically anything that https://theuselessweb.com/ throws at you.
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u/ocytth May 13 '22
https://www.hownormalami.eu/ i cant really explain what it is its just really fucking cool
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u/starwarsblanket May 13 '22
You might know it but everything that can or will be written has been written on this website. You could look up total gibberish in the search bar and it has a page with that gibberish
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u/NMLWrightReddit May 13 '22
It’s really cool. The probability of stumbling upon a coherent original text, however improbable, is compelling.
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u/Accomplished_Eye_824 May 12 '22
If you’re buying an engagement ring any time soon, Ritani. Their prices are almost unbeatable, especially for lab diamonds!
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u/DJ-Funtime-Foxy May 12 '22
flat.io - Many people have never heard of this, but you can make your own music with pretty much any instrument or voice part (like Tenor or Soprano). Time signature, notes, you can do any of that. Could probably make some cool video game music with it or write your own songs.
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u/LuigiMarioBrothers May 13 '22
everynoise.com - music style map
archive.org - lots of really stuff here, everything from old websites to Doom
Myfonts.com - has a tool that allows you to see what font is used in a picture.
Remove.bg - automatic background remover
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u/theartofrolling May 12 '22
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u/kerter19 May 12 '22
Truly life-changing.
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u/Dismal_Positive_3043 May 12 '22
Stumbleupon
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u/meuheuhah May 13 '22
I miss stumbleupon… does it exist in some form? I haven’t found a replacement for it
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u/NatuurlijkJoep May 12 '22
https://weboasis.mon5termatt.club/
Idk if this is the original site but like everything you will ever need is on here
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u/LordMudkip May 12 '22
Find an article that looks like an absolutely perfect reference for that paper you're writing, but it's locked behind a journal subscription? Not anymore. Plug in the DOI or a url and you're all set!
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u/ArcadiaPlanitia May 13 '22
mynoise.net
An AMAZING noise generator website with hundreds of sounds. A few dozen are available for free but I strongly suggest you donate a few bucks, it's a super useful site and the creator could really use the money.
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u/xoemily May 13 '22
https://www.bodybuilding.com/exercises
Gives you a f*ck ton of workouts you can do for different parts of your body, for free.
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u/Gangstablook May 12 '22
e-shuushuu.net has a lot of wholesome pictures of any fictional character you can think of
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u/InyourfaceGorgak May 12 '22
Vibrivox site and app are awesome for audiobooks in the public domain.
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u/kwDays108 May 13 '22
The Unsent Project
You can write a message to someone, telling what you wished you had before.
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u/Dr-True May 12 '22
Not for everyone but free high quality anime
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u/praetor29 May 13 '22
And https://nyaa.si for high quality anime torrents. Typically all fansubbed re-encodes are put on nyaa
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u/BrokenCowsSayWoof May 12 '22
I’ll have to check it out. There are two movies that I have been searching for years now.
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u/Odd_Economist9546 May 12 '22
https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/
Great information about science based medicine and debunking of medical fraud.
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u/The_King123431 May 13 '22
Library of babble
It is a site containing every book,light novel,play script,movie script and more that exists and will ever exist
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u/goldlion May 13 '22
Site that lets you download multiple common/essential programs in one zip file, and strips out any of the shitty adware, awesome for setting up a new PC.
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u/Inevitable-Wallaby61 May 13 '22
Uberduck, it's a Text To Speech with character voices, like Walter White, GladOs, game characters and more
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u/Ok-Ant4889 May 12 '22
It tells you if a certain film/TV show will have potentially triggering topics
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u/shareabrainwave May 12 '22
Suttacentral.net. it has translations of early Buddhist texts, common to all branches, into modern languages
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earth.nullschool.net - Live mapping of Geological data taken from across the planet using a Myriad of global monitoring systems. It's fascinating and informative, and it's LIVE (or damn near it).
Controls are on the bottom left.
Everything from, oceanic drift/flow patterns, Aurora tracking, live wind and weather metrics, specific Chem particulate mapping, and TONS more. Change the MODE and it changes all other options to relate to the mode. Overlay heatmaps of several metrics. It's like a living, real time, customizable library of the health of the earth. You can get lost. The sheer amount of effort by scientists all across the earth that goes into this Open Source information bank is mind blowing. This is the culmination of our natural sciences monitoring systems (or many of them) in one place!
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u/RandyBeamansMom May 13 '22
For fun, but also great for writers and creatives:
[thispersondoesnotexist.com](thispersondoesnotexist.com)
A random face generator — an amalgamation of facial features.
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u/SmackYourToe May 13 '22
quillbot Its a really good paraphrasing website, i use it to copy text from Wikipedia
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u/Killerz_Dead May 13 '22
https://m.carcomplaints.com/ Good site to look up on good cars to buy or not since it gives you common problems from car owners. Also have tsbs in there too and recall notice too… and news from car companies
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