I’m always eager to find new amazing sites i’ve never heard of, which ones would you recommend?

  • redcalcium@c.calciumlabs.com
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    1 year ago

    I rarely use windows these days, but when I do, I always visit ninite.com when setting a new windows installation to install several common apps in a single go. Very handy.

    The Internet Archive ( archive.org ) is extremely useful, not just for its Wayback Machine which allows you to see historical copies of a huge chunk of the internet (very useful when the web page you attempt to visit is no longer exist), but it also host a large collection of old media and softwares. Need to install an old copy of Windows XP to run an old software? You can find Windows XP installer there. Need to borrow digital book? They even have a huge digital book library there. If you find the service useful, please donate them some money if you can because the Internet Archive is extremely important to the modern internet and could use all the money it can get.

  • cateye@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    https://search.marginalia.nu/ is a great little search engine for research. It favors results that would most likely be buried in the larger engines, excellent for finding lesser known sources.

    Also the “random” button is a lot of fun, and fairly nostalgic if you remember the late 90s-early 00s web. Lots of geocities style personal websites still out there apparently.

  • BigVault@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I never thought I’d say it but, Bing chat.

    Gets nearly everything I need done first time which is worrying for the websites it’s learned from, I hardly click through.

      • BigVault@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        @Hikyuri

        It’s Microsoft’s take on ChatGPT powered search and as an example, I asked it what it was for you - this is the output:

        Hello, this is Bing. Bing Chat is a new feature for Bing’s search engine that lets you talk to an AI chatbot rather than simply filling out search queries. You can ask questions, get answers, and create content using natural language. Bing Chat is powered by ChatGPT, an AI system that can generate realistic and engaging conversations.

        It’s now my go-to if I get stuck on anything and as another example, I asked it:

        write me a program that says helllo Hikyuri in different colours in sinclair basic.

        here’s what it spat out:

        I’ll try to create that. Here is a possible program that says hello Hikyuri in different colors in Sinclair BASIC:

        10 REM This program prints hello Hikyuri in different colors
        20 FOR C = 0 TO 7
        30 INK C
        40 PRINT “Hello Hikyuri”
        50 NEXT C
        60 END

        It really is clever. Google also have Bard to do the same but it doesn’t seem as good which is a first for me

        https://bard.google.com/

        Sure, here is a Sinclair BASIC program that says “hello Hikyuri” in different colors:

        10 PRINT “hello Hikyuri”
        20 COLOR 1
        30 PRINT “hello Hikyuri”
        40 COLOR 2
        50 PRINT “hello Hikyuri”
        60 COLOR 3
        70 PRINT “hello Hikyuri”
        80 COLOR 4
        90 PRINT “hello Hikyuri”
        100 COLOR 5
        110 PRINT “hello Hikyuri”
        120 COLOR 6
        130 PRINT “hello Hikyuri”
        140 COLOR 7
        150 END

        • Hikyuri@kbin.social
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          1 year ago

          @BigVault

          That is really cool! This probably isn’t something I’d need in my day to day but it’s a great tool to keep at the back of my head if I ever do have a more complicated issue or question that needs resolving so thank you very much for sharing.
          Also thank you so much for taking the time to write such a detailed and extensive response. For sure made me smile to have a little program made just for me hehe.

  • lotanis@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 year ago

    newsminimalist.com

    It’s uses ChatGPT to work out which news stories are the most significant so it can show only the important ones. It’s great and has been my main source of world news since I started using it a few weeks ago.

  • nevemsenki@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    12ft.io, because the sheer amount of nagwalls are getting absurd. I gladly subscribe to newspapers I frequently read, but without being able to check them out I wouldn’t sub to any (or very few) of them.

    Also tosdr.org . Not bad to have an idea what terms you’re accepting…

  • 52fighters@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I use Firefox with temporary containers and a combination of DDG & Google to get around paywalls.

    1. Once you have temporary containers installed in Firefox, find an article that’s behind a paywall. I read the Financial Times, for example.
    2. Copy the title of a story.
    3. Open a new tab.
    4. Search the story title in DDG using the g! at the end. For example, “Xi sees ‘progress’ in China-US ties at meeting with Blinken g!”
    5. Find the story and click on it. Enjoy your read.