29 Oct 25

Ahmia is the search engine for .onion domains on the Tor anonymity network. It is led by Juha Nurmi and is based in Finland. This repository contains crawlers used by Ahmia search engine.


27 Oct 25

All-in-one online, free, browser-based toolkit for geographic data analysis. It offers: - Interactive Map Tools: Measure distances and areas directly on the map. - Data Format Converters: Convert between TopoJSON and GeoJSON formats seamlessly. - Coordinate Utilities: Perform conversions and other coordinate-based operations.

No sign-up required, and all tools run client-side for privacy and speed.

Built with open standards and designed for developers, educators, and anyone interested in geographic data.



24 Oct 25

This is LandChad.net, a site dedicated to turning internet peasants into Internet Landlords by showing them how to setup websites, email servers, chat servers and everything in between. Starting a website is something that can be done in a lazy afternoon and costs pocket change. Most of the internet’s problems could be solved if more people had their own personal platforms, so the objective of this site is to guide any normal person through the process of installing a website.


10 Oct 25

  1. Considering the mandatory scanning of all private communications, is the proposed regulation compatible with Article 7 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights?
  2. How will it ensure that child protection is achieved through targeted measures that are proven to be effective, without violating the fundamental rights of all citizens?
  3. How does it intend to prevent the negative impact on cybersecurity and economic competitiveness caused by weakening encryption?

30 Sep 25

“Indeed, there’s a long history of tools designed by and for developers being picked up by commercial teams and polished into mass consumer products, which suggests that the tools’ usability problems stemmed from resource constraints, not the openness or the flexibility of the tool. Think of how Slack transformed irc, or how Android packaged up GNU/Linux.

Another way to think about investment in improving free/open tools that suffer from being overly technical is that there is tons of room for improvement. There are so many easy wins to be scored when it comes to Libreoffice, Mastodon, The Gimp, ffmpeg, etc. Under the hood, these tools are stunning, but their front-ends have lagged.

By contrast, Big Tech has done so much fine-tuning of its user interfaces and workflows that there’s very little room to maneuver. Every new product release for a dominant Big Tech tool is as much a regression as it is an improvement, and often these releases are expensive catastrophes”


05 Sep 25

This is primarily why I don’t advocate for Bluesky as anything but a “if you really must have literally twitter but not twitter”. Mastodon and the Fediverse is actually not centralized! How inviting of hope.

by linkraven 10 months ago saved 2 times

25 Aug 25

via: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44967543

by silas 11 months ago saved 2 times