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All ytb links are actually invidious.flokinet.to links, they may show a 502 Bad Gateway error sometimes, the only thing you need to do is copy the second part of a invidious link then grab a new instance. (Alternatively, you can install the LibRedirect browser extension to avoid duplicate operations.)
Most of the posts are rolling all the time. I would give a new last update date property to better indicate that.
Posts
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Basic PDF Processing Workflow
November 20, 2023
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Emacs Cheatsheets
November 20, 2023
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Gaming Audio & Music
October 13, 2023
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Headphone Voltage Cheatsheet
October 11, 2023
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Emacs Org-crypt
October 9, 2023
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Hifi Sources
October 9, 2023
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Linux Audio Bundles and Distributions
October 9, 2023
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Audio Engineering
October 8, 2023
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Audio Item Consumption List
October 8, 2023
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Emacs Elisp
October 7, 2023
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Common Lisp
October 7, 2023
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Serif Fonts
September 23, 2023
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Cobalt.rs with Smiley
September 20, 2023
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Dmenu, Eww, Bookmarking
September 17, 2023
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Palemoon Browser
September 13, 2023
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Lolita Consumption List
September 13, 2023
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FOSS Linux Gaming
September 12, 2023
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Lambda Calculus
September 9, 2023
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Idris Information Page
September 9, 2023
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Standard ML Information Page
September 8, 2023
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Notes - Interactive Theorem Proving And Program Verification
September 8, 2023
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HOL4 Information Page
September 8, 2023
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Old Typed Programming Language / Proving Assistant
September 3, 2023
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Self-Host Mathjax With Hakyll Support
September 3, 2023
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Isabelle/HOL Information Page
September 3, 2023
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Recipes
September 3, 2023
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Coq Information Page
September 3, 2023
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Agda Information Page
September 3, 2023
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Translation WIP - Stochastic Music
September 2, 2023
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Arxiv Reader, Front-End
August 1, 2023
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Music Consumption List
July 20, 2023
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Cobalt.rs and Liquid format
July 19, 2023
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Forgejo Git Services
July 17, 2023
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Matrix Guide & Information Page
July 12, 2023
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XMPP Guide & Information Page
July 12, 2023
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VPS Providers
July 11, 2023
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FOSS Music Production
July 11, 2023
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Emacs EWW
July 10, 2023
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Offline Computing
July 8, 2023
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ASMR, Field Recording
July 8, 2023
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Email Services & The Plain Text Principle
July 7, 2023
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Cryptography
June 19, 2023
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Outdoor Gears
June 16, 2023
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Old Open Source Computer Music Languages, Programs, Libraries
June 16, 2023
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Speech Processing
June 15, 2023
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Anonymity Operating System
June 14, 2023
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Acoustic Cryptanalysis
June 14, 2023
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Security - Privacy - Anonymity
June 13, 2023
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关于指纹 On Fingerprint
June 12, 2023
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Emacs Org-Mode With Chinese Latex Output Support
May 23, 2023
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Emacs org-remark mode Configuration
May 22, 2023
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On Proton Mail
April 7, 2023
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Emacs markdown-mode Configuration
April 4, 2023
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Ocaml Information Page
March 30, 2023
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Networks
March 21, 2023
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Emacs Proof General Configuration - Coq
March 18, 2023
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Emacs agenda-mode Configuration
March 18, 2023
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Wikiless Instances
March 14, 2023
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Contemporary Shadow Libraries: A Brief Overview
March 10, 2023
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ConTeXt
March 2, 2023
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Generate Pdf From Markdown File With Yaml Header
February 15, 2023
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Softwares
February 14, 2023
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CLI Application Development
February 14, 2023
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Neural Network Tools
February 13, 2023
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Emacs Elfeed Configuration
February 13, 2023
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Doom Emacs Cheatsheets
February 13, 2023
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Monospace Fonts
February 12, 2023
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Emacs Arxiv-mode
February 8, 2023
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Notes - Functors, Applicative Functors and Monads (and Maybe)
November 23, 2022
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Notes - Types
November 19, 2022
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Audio Items
July 5, 2022
The Table of Browsers
Name | Spyware Rating | Offered Toolkits (Where applicable) | Based on | Operating System |
Abaco | Not Rated | plan9 | ||
Arora | Not Rated | |||
Atlas Nyxt | Not Rated | WebKit, Chromium | Mac, Linux, BSD | |
RedWolf | Not Spyware | WebKit | Linux, BSD | |
Basilisk | Not Rated | UXP | ||
Brave | High | Chromium | Windows, Mac, Linux | |
Dillo | ||||
Dissenter | High | Brave & Chromium | ||
Dooble | Not Rated | Chromium | Mac, Linux | |
Edge | Not Rated, known to be red | EdgeHTML (Legacy), Chromium (since 2019) | Windows, Mac, Linux | |
EndorphinBrowser | Not Rated | |||
Eolie | Not Rated | WebKit | Linux | |
Falkon | Probably not Spyware | qtwebengine | Windows, Linux, Haiku | |
Fiber | Unreleased | |||
Fifth | Not Rated | FLTK | WebKit | Linux |
GNOME Web | Not Rated | WebKit | Linux | |
GNU IceCat | Not Spyware | Firefox | Linux, Android | |
Google Chrome | EXTREMELY HIGH | Chromium | Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS | |
Internet Explorer | EXTREMELY HIGH | Windows | ||
IceWeaselUXP | ||||
Iridium | Low | Chromium | ||
K-Melon | Not Rated | Gecko | Windows | |
K-Melon G | Not Rated | Goanna | Windows | |
Kristall | Not Rated | Windows, Linux, BSD | ||
Lariza | Not Rated | WebKit | "POSIX-ish" | |
Librewolf | Low | Firefox | Linux, Mac | |
Luakit | Not Spyware | WebKit | Windows (WSL), BSD, Linux | |
Lynx | Not Spyware | fork of libwww | Windows, Mac, Linux, VMS, DOS386+, OS/2 EMX | |
Midori | Not Rated | WebKit (historical), Electron (current) | ||
Minbrowser | Not Rated | |||
Floodgap Mosanic-CK | Not Rated | Motif | NCSA Mosaic | Linux, Mac |
Mozilla Firefox | High | Netscape Navigator | Windows, Linux, Mac, iOS | |
Netsurf | Low | GTK3, GTK2, Framebuffer | N/A | Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD, Solaris, Haiku/BeOS, AmigaOS, 9front, Atari TOS, RISC OS |
Opera | EXTREMELY HIGH | Presto (historical), Chromium (current) | ||
Opera Gaming | ||||
Orbit Navigator | Goanna | |||
Otter Browser | Not Spyware | qtwebkit | ||
Pale Moon | Medium | forked from Firefox, UXP | Windows, Mac, Linux, Android | |
Paprika | Not Rated | |||
Pocket Browser | Not Rated | |||
Qutebrowser | Not Spyware | qtwebengine | ||
Suckless Surf | Not Spyware | WebKit2/GTK3 | ||
SeaMonkey | High | Netscape Navigator | Windows, Mac, Linux | |
SecBrowser | Deprecated. | |||
SlimJet | EXTREMELY HIGH | Chromium | ||
Sphere Browser | Possible Spyware | ? | ||
SRWare Iron | EXTREMELY HIGH | Chromium | Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android | |
Superbird | Not Rated | Chromium | Windows, Mac, Linux | |
Taokaizen | Not Rated | Chromium | Windows, Linux | |
thdwd | ||||
Tobin Borealis | Not Rated | UXP | ||
Tor Browser | Low | Firefox | Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD, Android, iOS | |
Trinity Konqueror | Not Rated | KHTML | Linux, BSD | |
Twibright Links | Not Rated | N/A | Windows, Linux, BSD, DOS, OS/2, VMS, | |
Ungoogled Chromium | Not Spyware | Chromium (with patch sets from Iridium & Bromite) | Windows, Mac, Linux | |
Uzbl | Unmaintained | |||
Viper | Not Rated | QT5 | QtWebEngine/Chromium | Linux, probably Windows and Mac |
Vivaldi | High | Chromium | Windows, Mac, Linux, Android | |
Waterfox Classic | High | fork of Firefox | Windows, Mac, Linux | |
Waterfox G3 | Not Rated | fork of Firefox | ||
Webbrowser/WereFox | Not Spyware | GTK2 | Fork of Palemoon | Linux, BSD |
WebDiscover | EXTREMELY HIGH | Windows | ||
w3m | Not Rated | Itself | ||
Xombrero | Unmaintained | |||
Yandex | Not Rated | Chromium | Linux, Windows, Mac, Android, iOS |
The Table of Search Engine
Engine / Feature | Requires JavaScript | Own index | Supports TOR | Has onion domain | IP storage | Search results | Censorship | Shares data with third parties |
Swisscows | Yes | No | No | No | No | Good | Mild | Yes |
Brave Search | For images | Doubtful | Sometimes | Yes | No | Average | Extreme | No |
SearX | No | No | Yes | Conditional | Conditional | Good | None | No |
StartPage | No | No | No | No | No | Good | Extreme | No |
Wiby | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Bad | None | No |
DuckDuckGo | No | Partial | Yes | Yes | Yes | Good | Mild | No |
Qwant | No | Partial | Yes | No | Yes | Good | Mild | Yes |
Metager | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Good | None | No |
Mojeek | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Average | None | No |
Ecosia | For images | No | No (CF) | No | Yes | Good | None | Yes |
Oscobo | For images | No | Yes | No | Unknown | Good | Mild | Yes |
Discrete Search | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Good | None | Yes |
Gibiru | Yes | No | No | No | No | Good | Extreme | Yes |
Gigablast | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Average | None | No |
Peekier | Yes | Partial | No (CF) | No | Yes | Good | None | Yes |
Presearch | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Good | Extreme | Yes |
Right Dao | No | Yes | Yes | No | Possible | Bad | Who knows | No |
FindX | No | No | Yes | No | Possible | Bad | Extreme | Yes |
Marginalia | Cloudflare so who cares lol | |||||||
You | ||||||||
WebCrawler | ||||||||
Search my Site | ||||||||
MillionShort | ||||||||
Spyda | ||||||||
Excite | ||||||||
4Conservative | ||||||||
GoodGopher |
The Table of IM
Name | Spyware Rating | Network Architecture | Operating System | License | Verdict |
Adamant | Unrated | Decentralized, Blockchain | Android and Web | GPLv3 | ? |
Briar | Unrated | Decentralized, P2P | Android | GPLv3 | Probably okay |
Cabal | Unrated | ? | Electron | AGPLv3 (core), GPLv3 (client) | ? |
Cwtch | Unrated | Decentralized, Semi-P2P | Linux, Windows, macOS, iOS & Android | MIT | ? |
DeltaChat | Unrated | Decentralized, same as email | Various | MPLv2, GPLv3 | Probably okay |
Discord | Extremely High | Centralized | Web Interface and Electron, 3rd party clients prohibited | Proprietary | Do Not Use |
IRC | Unrated | Distributed, Load balanced | Various, depends on client | Depends on implementation, usually open source | Green |
Jami | Unrated | Decentralized, P2P | Various | GPLv3 | Probably okay |
Keybase | Unrated | Centralized | Linux, Windows, Mac, Android, iOS | Custom Open Source (Client), ? (Server) | Do Not Use |
Matrix | Unrated | Decentralized w/ dominant instance (matrix.org), Federated | Web Interface and electron (official client), Various (3rd party clients) | Apache (official implementations), various (other) | Avoid When Possible |
Psyc | Unrated | Decentralized, Federated | Various | ? | ? |
Signal | Unrated | Centralized | Various | MIT | Avoid |
Session | Unrated | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Skype | Unrated | Centralized | Various | Proprietary | Do Not Use |
Telegram | Unrated | Centralized | Various | Open Source (client), Closed Source (server) | Do Not Use |
Threema | Unrated | Centralized | Android, iOS, Web | GPLv3 (client), Proprietary (server) | Avoid |
Tox | Unrated | Decentralized, P2P | Various | GPLv3 | Avoid When Possible |
Utopia | Unrated | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Wire | Unrated | Centralized | Various | AGPLv3, GPJv3 | ? |
Unrated | Centralized | Various | Proprietary | Do Not Use | |
XMPP | Unrated | Decentralized, Federated | Various, depends on client | CC-BY-SA 2.0 (specification), Various (client) | Green |
The Table of VPS Provider
Name | Eepsite | Onion | Requires JavaScript | Requires Excessive Verification (JS Captcha, Phone, Name etc) | Payment in XMR | Censorship |
1984 | No | No, and blocks Tor w/out UA | Yes | |||
Bahnhof | Yes | Name, Phone, Captcha | No | |||
Ghandi | No | No | Yes | Yes | No, but takes BTC w/ verified Bitpay account | |
IncogNET | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Legal |
IRCNow | No | |||||
Linode | No, and block Tor w/out UA (Cloudflare) | Yes (Cloudflare) | Yes (Cloudflare) | |||
Njalla | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
OrangeHost | Blocks Tor Entirely | |||||
Privex | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Legal |
The Table of XMPP Clients
Client / Feature | Psi+ | Pidgin | Conversations | Dino | Profanity | Gajim | ChatSecure |
OMEMO | Yes | Partial | Yes | Yes | Partial | Yes | Yes |
OTR | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes (old versions) | Yes |
PGP | Yes | 3rd party, didn't test | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Mitigations for version | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
Mitigations for timezone | Yes | No | External (TOR) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Mitigations for OS | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Mitigations for client name | Yes | No | No | No | No | Partial | Partial |
Onion connectivity | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No |
OS support (official) | Linux, Windows, macOS, Haiku, BSD | Linux, Windows, FreeBSD | Android | Linux, BSD | Linux, Windows, BSD, OSX, Android | Linux, Windows, FreeBSD | iOS |