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Given reddit's situation and recent discussions of enshittification, especially with LLM nuking search results, I thought it'd be neat to have a curated directory of more indie websites, interesting little hobby places, timewasters, or even your own personal sites. I'll update the OP with stuff people post. The Directory├ . ├ .. ├ Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide (https://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/index.html) 源 ├ Aquamentus (https://www.aquamentus.com/) 源 ├ Algorithmic Botany: Publications (http://algorithmicbotany.org/papers/) 源 ├ Anna's Archive (https://annas-archive.org/) 源 ├ Are.na (https://www.are.na/) 源 ├ Astronaut (https://astronaut.io/) 源 ├ Atari - Best Electronics Home (https://www.best-electronics-ca.com/) 源 ├ Attention K-Mart Shoppers : Free Audio : Free Download, Borrow and Streaming : Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/attentionkmartshoppers) 源 ├ Bartosz Ciechanowski (https://ciechanow.ski/archives/) 源 ├ Blockbench (https://www.blockbench.net/) 源 ├ Bread Scheduler: Bread recipes, planner and timer for better sourdough (https://www.breadscheduler.com/) 源 ├ CalTopo - Backcountry Mapping Evolved (https://caltopo.com/map.html) 源 ├ Calvin & Hobbes Search Engine - by Bing (https://michaelyingling.com/random/calvin_and_hobbes/) 源 ├ Candlekeep (http://www.candlekeep.com/) 源 ├ CARI | the Consumer Aesthetics Research Institute (https://cari.institute/) 源 ├ Cookpad - Make everyday cooking fun! (https://cookpad.com/) 源 ├ Climber.Org Home Page (https://climber.org/) 源 ├ cr.yp.to/djb.html [ed: cryptography topics] (https://cr.yp.to/djb.html) 源 ├ Curta.Org, Your Complete Curta Calculator Site(https://curta.org/) 源 ├ Cutlist Optimizer - optiCutter (https://www.opticutter.com/cut-list-optimizer) 源 ├ Decker by Internet Janitor (https://internet-janitor.itch.io/decker) 源 ├ Defector | The last good website. (https://defector.com/) 源 ├ Emergency and Disaster Information Service (https://rsoe-edis.org/) 源 ├ Expanded Main Page - OSDev Wiki (https://wiki.osdev.org/Main_Page) 源 ├ FilterLists | Subscriptions for uBlock Origin, Adblock Plus, AdGuard, ... (https://filterlists.com/) 源 ├ Fixing FireWire (IEEE 1394) Problems [...] (https://www.studio1productions.com/Articles/Firewire-1.htm) 源 ├ Frinkiac (https://frinkiac.com/) 源 ├ Goatse.cx (https://goatse.cx/) 源 ├ GoonsWithSpoons (https://goonswithspoons.com/Welcome_to_Goons_With_Spoons) 源 ├ Government Surplus Auctions (https://www.govdeals.com/) 源 ├ How To Identify Stanley Hand Plane Age And Type (Type Study Tool) | Wood And Shop (https://woodandshop.com/identify-stanley-hand-plane-age-type-study/) 源 ├ Inigo Quilez :: computer graphics, methematics, shaders, fractals, demoscene and more (https://iquilezles.org/articles/) 源 ├ kalleboo's retro tech blog (https://kalleboo.com/retrotech/) 源 ├ Library of Juggling (https://libraryofjuggling.com/) 源 ├ LOOPY: a tool for thinking in systems (https://ncase.me/loopy/) 源 ├ LOW←TECH MAGAZINE (https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/) (https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/) 源 ├ Macintosh Garden - Celebrating Macintosh Abandonware! (https://macintoshgarden.org/) 源 ├ MAHQ - Your source for mecha anime info (https://www.mahq.net/) 源 ├ Marginalia Search (https://search.marginalia.nu/) 源 ├ Materials in Traditional Ceramics (https://digitalfire.com/material/list) 源 ├ Medieval Fantasy City Generator (https://watabou.itch.io/medieval-fantasy-city-generator) 源 ├ Memory of the World Library (https://library.memoryoftheworld.org/) 源 ├ Monoskop Log (https://monoskop.org/log/) 源 ├ MSX Resource Center (https://www.msx.org/) 源 ├ My 80's TV! (https://my80stv.com/) 源 ├ Navigate the Journals | Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (https://lewisandclarkjournals.unl.edu/journals) 源 ├ noclip (https://noclip.website) 源 ├ NO TECH MAGAZINE - We believe in progress and technology (https://www.notechmagazine.com/) 源 ├ PIZZARITHMETIC DOT COM (https://www.pizzarithmetic.com/) 源 ├ Rainy Mood #1 Rain Sounds Sleep & Study (https://rainymood.com/) 源 ├ RESEARCH LIBRARY [A Plane Life] (https://aplanelife.us/research-library) 源 ├ Round the Island | Walking round the coast of Mainland Britain (https://britishcoast.wordpress.com/) 源 ├ SA Emoticons for IM Clients [ed: search for : to see all emoticons] (http://sae.tweek.us/) 源 ├ Scan of the Month--you've never seen anything like this. (https://www.scanofthemonth.com/) 源 ├ ScatID | Internet Center for Wildlife Damage Management (https://icwdm.org/identification/feces/scat-id/) 源 ├ SearXNG instances (https://searx.space/) 源 ├ Sheldon Brown-Bicycle Technical Information (https://www.sheldonbrown.com/) 源 ├ Terebess Gábor: Zen osztálytalálkozó az Interneten 34 év után / Zen Reunion by the Web after 34 Years (https://terebess.hu/zen/) 源 ├ textz.com (https://textz.com/) 源 ├ The Cryptopals Crypto Challenges (https://cryptopals.com/) 源 ├ The Ultimate Pizza Dough Calculator (perfect pizza) (https://pizza-calculator.the-bread-code.io/) 源 ├ The Wood Database (https://www.wood-database.com/) 源 ├ This to That (Glue Advice) (https://thistothat.com) 源 ├ TimeTestedTools (https://www.timetestedtools.net/) 源 ├ OS/2 Museum | OS/2, vintage PC computing, and random musings (https://www.os2museum.com/) 源 ├ Website Design Inspiration | Httpster (https://httpster.net/) 源 ├ WELCOME TO MR. SAUCEMAN (https://mr-sauceman.neocities.org/) 源 ├ Welcome - ticalc.org (https://ticalc.org/) 源 ├ WINDOWS93 (https://www.windows93.net/) 源 └ 下厨房 [go to the kitchen] (https://www.xiachufang.com/) 源 Armitag3 fucked around with this message at 11:33 on Oct 1, 2023 |
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if you want to know anything about giant robots from japanese animation, mahq.net is your place: https://www.mahq.net/
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Blockbench is a little low poly 3D model maker that you can use right on the browser if you want. It lets you pixel texture the mesh as well, it's cute https://www.blockbench.net/
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Armitag3 posted:Blockbench is a little low poly 3D model maker that you can use right on the browser if you want. It lets you pixel texture the mesh as well, it's cute this is pretty cool
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i was just using this, its a good web 1.0 kinda bash scripting guide https://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/index.html
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”old man rotor” posted:thistothat.com
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this is a site about low tech solutions to things. it's very good. https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/
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I'd like to request http://goatse.cx be added
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https://cookpad.com/ and https://www.xiachufang.com these are recipe sites
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All added to the OP, good stuff everyone thanksElder Postsman posted:this is a site about low tech solutions to things. it's very good. apparently they're migrating the site to one hosted on a solar panel server, which seems kickass. I've added both URLs
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Was looking for this one, forgot its name at some point. This lets you play around with feedback loops in diagram form https://ncase.me/loopy/
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low tech magazine owns, they also have https://www.notechmagazine.com/
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anything you need to know about mechanical calculators featured in a gibson book from 20 years ago? curta.org is here for you: https://curta.org
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Beeftweeter posted:i was just using this, its a good web 1.0 kinda bash scripting guide https://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/index.html Ooh this is very my poo poo, thanks!
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plz add my web site https://www.pizzarithmetic.com
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dir's been updated
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Truman Peyote posted:plz add my web site https://www.pizzarithmetic.com This is a good one for calculating the ratios of pizza. https://pizza-calculator.the-bread-code.io/ Vimm's Lair is also still around for emulation stuff. https://vimm.net/
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AnimeIsTrash posted:Vimm's Lair is also still around for emulation stuff. is this  ? Lol my ISP is blocking this one
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https://monoskop.org/log/ has an interesting collection of texts that fall roughly under the umbrella of digital humanities aaaaarg is now textz I suppose https://textz.com https://library.memoryoftheworld.org
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Armitag3 posted:is this yeah it’s filez. It has up to the ps3/360 gen. slight preference for https://cdromance.com as it has a bunch of fan translations and rom hacks on it tho it stops at ps2 gen
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When do we think Verizon is going to buy this thread? trying to time the market
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https://defector.com/ Defector dot com, the actual successor to Deadspin. A sports sheen but is a bit of everything.
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Armitag3 posted:is this lol what poo poo isp do you have that blocks sites
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yeah, do they block archive.org? you can find pretty much any rom there too, obscure hardware included
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They only block emulator / rom sites due to some mid 2000s kerfuffle
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OldAlias posted:yeah it’s filez. It has up to the ps3/360 gen. ra ra ah ah ahh ro ma ro ma maa ga ga ooh la laaa want cd romance
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https://annas-archive.org/ This website will search all the websites for books.
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Armitag3 posted:is this Yes, and lol
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Captain Foo posted:https://defector.com/ i'm not real into sports but i visit defector every now and then just because the writing is actually good
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Rainymood, rain soundscapes for your lofi study sessions or whatever https://rainymood.com/
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https://cari.institute/ Consumer Aesthetics Research Institute consumer aesthetics, mostly graphic design, mostly on the advertising side, some exhibit or retail design. little to no industrial design, unfortunately. and relatedly, the CARI examples are pulled from are.na boards: https://www.are.na/ are.na is kinda like pinterest but without the ads. i really love are.na and have been a premium member for many years.
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Gnossiennes posted:https://www.are.na/ Oh poo poo this looks extremely a thing for me. I've bounced around note taking apps and knowledge diagrams like obsidian on and off, but this might look like it'll fit what I want, thanks
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Armitag3 posted:Oh poo poo this looks extremely a thing for me. I've bounced around note taking apps and knowledge diagrams like obsidian on and off, but this might look like it'll fit what I want, thanks it's good for bucketing stuff like that. you can also just write little text notes and stuff. i see people do that kind of thing a lot. relatedly, here's the links from this thread in a channel: https://www.are.na/sage-s/yospos-wqifktntipu
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https://www.os2museum.com/ old Microsoft and IBM personal computer trivia
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https://terebess.hu/zen/ encyclopedic hungarian web site about zen buddhism (maybe little too niche but I adore its style and usefulness)
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matti posted:https://terebess.hu/zen/ It goes in, it looks cool
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http://libraryofjuggling.com/ Learn how to juggle, with explanations and stickman gifs
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https://www.sheldonbrown.com/ basically everything you'd ever want to know about bicycle maintenance and culture
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everything you could possibly want to know and a bunch of stuff you probably don't about the msx computer family: https://www.msx.org/ glue advice: https://www.thistothat.com/ edit: this to that is already on there, nevermind. Midjack fucked around with this message at 02:37 on Jun 18, 2023 |
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Dijkstracula posted:https://www.sheldonbrown.com/ drat this site is great
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