11mo ago

What lesser known free and open source software do you use daily to improve your life?

For me it is the note taking/PKMS tool SilverBullet.

You're viewing a single thread.

227 comments

LibreWolf, a privacy-optimized fork of Firefox
Mull, hardened Firefox for Android.
EteSync with self-hosted Etebase, an end-to-end encrypted solution for syncing calendars and contacts.
Molly, a hardened Signal fork for Android.
Accrescent, a secure, alternative app store for Android. Still in an early stage of development though.
UnifiedPush, a privacy-friendly notification system.
LibRedirect, a browser extension that automatically redirects you to private frontends for privacy invasive websites.
movie-web, a web app that let's you watch any movie/tv show for free. I highly recommend it.
Seal, an amazing Android app for downloading videos. YTDLnis is an alternative.
Cobalt downloader, a website that let's you download basically everything imaginable from the internet. All kinds of posts, photos and videos from various social media platforms and many other websites.
Linkwarden, a bookmark manager that can be self-hosted. Also check out Omnivore and wallabag.
ArchiveBox, a self-hosted app for archiving websites.
Tube Archivist, a self-hosted app for archiving YouTube videos/playlists/channels.
(I love downloading and archiving stuff lol)
- great finds, is this list curated anywhere?
  
  No that was just off the top of my head
  
  It's right there lol
- Is EteSync free? It seems to be offering trials and paid plans.
  
  That's for their cloud hosting. But the self-hosted variant is completely free.
- How trustworthy is movie-web in terms of anonymity?
  
  Depends on you, if you don't trust their proxies, you can deploy your own. movie-web is basically just a search engine (with a pretty good and user friendly UI/UX in my opinion) that pulls content from other sources.
  
  Compared to torrent, i would say it's more "anonym" since you connect to a server instead of other pc.
  
  As with all these things: do it behind an always-on VPN on a dedicated device.
  
  Not needed, it never connects to the content sources directly, it always uses a proxy. You can even deploy your own proxy for free on Cloudflare or Netlify.
- This is fantastic! Just started switching over to Librewolf and Mull. I discovered xBrowserSync in the process, which is a great way to sync browser bookmarks. https://www.xbrowsersync.org/
  
  If you only use Firefox-based browsers, you don't actually need the extension. You can simply enable Firefox Sync in the LibreWolf settings and it's end-to-end encrypted by default.

227 comments