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What is the most useful website you know? (kbin.social)
submitted 2 years ago by Kyles@kbin.social to c/AskKbin@kbin.social
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I'm always eager to find new amazing sites i've never heard of, which ones would you recommend?

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[–] cateye@kbin.social 1 points 2 years 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.

[–] bayjird@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

The (only?) travel website with no bs
wikivoyage.org

[–] nevemsenki@kbin.social 1 points 2 years 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...

[–] Calcharger@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

codewars.com to practice coding algorithms
codecademy.com to learn to code
chat.openai.com is an absolute game changer for getting pointed in the right direction when it comes to trying to understand concepts

[–] 52fighters@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.
[–] leftascenter@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

The most useful are definitely DDG.gg and wikipedia.org.

Useful and lesser known:

https://openinframap.org/

https://ourworldindata.org/

https://www.quiverquant.com/

[–] goryramsy@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

They have duck.com too now, ironically google gave it to them for free.

[–] Gatsby@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

LibGen.is for books

[–] CorrodedCranium@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Anna's Archive is pretty popular from what I hear

[–] Lianrepl@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Photopea.com, a free online Photoshop alternative

[–] lotanis@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 2 years 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.

[–] kuontom@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago

Every Noise At Once: Recommend this website to find new music that suits your tastes. Play around with the options at the top, best way to see what they do.