Cool Links, Resources & More
---ECOLOGY & SUSTAINABILITY
- ☞ Plants for a Future - A database of almost any plant in the world, full of its uses, cultivation methods, natural habitat, etc. It is perfect for permaculture & learning how plants you may have thought as nothing but weeds can be incredibly useful.
- ☞ Green Balkans - A leading conservation organization from Bulgaria, protecting many endemic and rare species native (and sometimes exclusive to) the Balkans.
- ☞ Balkan Ecology Project - The Balkan Ecology Project is a permaculture-inspired, grassroots project based in Bulgaria. They develop and promote practices that provide food and other resources while enhancing biodiversity. They also sell plants you can grow, including rare ones native to the region. For donations over €20, you will receive a seed pack.
- ☞ Peliti - A seed bank protecting and propagating traditional varieties of old Balkan seeds that are now rare or almost extinct. You can simply ask them for a seed pack, all you have to do is provide the envelope and the money for shipping it.
- ☞ WWF Adria - A leading organization for conservation and protection of nature in the Balkans.
- ☞ Palestine Heirloom Seed Library - A project aiming to safeguard and propagates seeds important and endemic to Palestine, as well as traditional Palestinian farming traditions.
- ☞ The Biodiversity Heritage Library - An open-access database collaboratively making biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community.
- ☞ Ultimate Mushroom - Everything you need to identify mushrooms and start picking them.
---GARDENING & PERMACULTURE;; Nurseries & Seed Stores
---PRIVACY & SECURITY
- ☞ Privacy Guides - An invaluable website that walks you through why privacy is important and how to start protecting yours, including specific hardware and software recommendations that fulfill their strict criteria.
- ☞ Rise Up - Ran by an anonymous anarchist collective, RiseUp offers a free and reliable VPN with a killswitch and an email service.
- ☞ Whonix - An anonymous operating system that runs like an app and routes all Internet traffic through the Tor anonymity network. It offers privacy protection and anonymity online and is available for all major operating systems. But I'm linking you directly to their wiki, which is potentially the most comprehensive resource to understand and tackle privacy & security threats today, and is continually updated.
- ☞ De-Googlize the Internet - A collaborative project that offers any alternative you'd ever want to every single Google service or product.
- ☞ CrimethInc. - A decentralized network pledged to anonymous collective action where you can find a treasury of tools and resources for direct action.
- ☞ CryptPad - An alternative to Google Docs, Google Drive, and office tools in general. Very reliable and feature-heavy without being overwhelming, and constantly growing.
- ☞ QubesOS - The most (or rather, the only) really, truly secure operating system. Snowden uses this, along with Whonix.
- ☞ Marginalia Search - An open source 'search engine' that allows you to search through the old web.
- ☞ The Tor Project - I'm sure we've all heard of it, but it's still an invaluable tool, and you should use it even if you're not doing anything illegal or questionable.
- ☞ Madaidan's Insecurities - A site with a wealth of security advice, going over all the insecurities of modern operating systems & other software, including the limitations and weaknesses of Linux-based OS.
- ☞ No Trace Project - A large anarchist project with an insane amount of resources for security, privacy & anonymity.
- ☞ Hitchhiker's Guide to Online Anonymity by Anonymous Planet - Possibly the most comprehensive resource in understanding various online tracking techniques, online ID verification techniques, and detailed guidance to creating and maintaining (truly) anonymous online identities. Invaluable, continually backed up. I keep an offline backup of it for personal use.
- ☞ Tech Guides for Anarchists - Various guides particularly useful to anarchists and people who engage in certain "extracurricular activities".
- ☞ Surveillance Self-Defense by the Electronic Frontier Foundation - Very beginner friendly, covers various threat models and scenarios in detail.
- ☞ Prism Break - A site that has a possible open-source, secure or safe alternative for every single commonly used program, site or software you could ever want for Android, iOS, Windows, GNU/Linux, macOS, BSD - even routers and servers. Opt out of global data surveillance programs like PRISM, XKeyscore and Tempora.
- ☞ The New Oil - Aptly named, as data is the new oil, it's similar to anarsec & privacyguides, in bite sized step-by-step guides tailored specifically for beginners.
- ☞ Security in a Box - Various guides, from beginner to advanced, including for physical threats + management of multiple online identities.
- ☞ KYC? Not me - Similar to Prism Break, more comprehensive.
- ☞ Terms of Service, Didn't Read
- ☞ Bulk Crap Uninstaller - A free bulk program uninstaller with advanced automation. It excels at removing large amounts of applications with minimal to no user input, while requiring next to no technical knowledge. It can detect most applications and games (even portable or not registered), clean up leftovers, force uninstall, automatically uninstall according to premade lists, and much more.
- ☞ Remove bloatware from Windows, Mac, and iOS
- ☞ Windows 10 Debloater - Powershell script that removes bloatware on Windows 10.
- ☞ Win11Debloat - Powershell script that removes bloatware on Windows 11.
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Secure Hardware Suppliers
I'm not one to shill companies, however I have found the following manufacturers of PCs, laptops and other electronics that provide QubesOS certified hardware, coreboot (& distributions), tamper-evident packaging and other essential privacy features off the shelf. You can always build your own setup, but if you prefer something you don't have to tinker with or are looking to get a new laptop or PC, take a look.
---DATA CONTROL
Please help me find more tools like this, contact me directly with anything you know at [ seraf.acf4j@slmail.me ].
- ☞ Undiscord - A user script for bulk deletion of your own discord messages. Better yet, don't use discord, but it's good for clean up.
- ☞ Discord Chat Exporter - Save and download entire discord conversations, channels, etc, in an easily readable format. Also has a frontend that allows you to read your exported chats in a discord-like UI.
- ☞ Discrub - Alternative to the above two.
- ☞ Your National Data Protection Authority (EU) - It is possible to file a complaint with your national data protection authority when a site, service or other are refusing to comply with GDPR requests. They will contact the site in question and force them to delete your data.
- ☞ California Privacy Protection Agency - Serves the same purpose as above for Americans, just pretend you're in California if you aren't.
---WRITING
---PRODUCTIVITY
---OPEN ACCESS
- ☞ Anna's Archive - Any book you want is probably here, for free.
- ☞ Project Gutenberg - An archive of many public domain books.
- ☞ The Online Books Page
- ☞ Sci-Hub - You can find almost any paywalled article or research paper here.
- ☞ Library Genesis - Like Anna's Archive.
- ☞ Archive.org - You can find almost anything over here, from movies to books to audio.
- ☞ Uncensored Library - A project from Reporters without Borders, where forbidden articles were republished in books within Minecraft.
- ☞ The Eye - Archive consisting of 140TB of anything you can really think of. The Eye is a non-profit, community driven platform dedicated to the archiving and long-term preservation of any and all data including but by no means limited to: websites, books, games, software, video, audio, other digital-obscura and ideas.
- ☞ Springer: Scientific Docs - A large collection of scientific papers, books, etc.
- ☞ Snipplr - Code Snippet repository; very useful if you need to either troubleshoot or figure out how to code something.
- ☞ Smithsonian: Open Access - Download, share, and reuse millions of 2D and 3D digital items from their 21 museums, 9 research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo.
- ☞ Hathi Trust Library - Like Internet Archive but focused on books/written word, a much larger pool of written works across history.
- ☞ Refseek: Academic Search - Ditch Google Scholar for this academic search engine.
- ☞ Learn How to Torrent
- ☞ SQUID.WTF - Music Tools & Utilities - Download high quality flacs from any streaming service safely & for free.
- ☞ Free Media Heck Yeah - Pirate LITERALLY anything.
- ☞ Microsoft Activation Scripts - Activate your super legit copy of Windows or Microsoft Office.
---SABOTAGING AI
---ART
- ☞ Dither It
- ☞ Gyng's Ditherer
- ☞ picoCAD - 3D modeling software for beginners with an intuitive interface.
- ☞ PolyHaven - Free assets, textures, and models for 3D modeling projects.
- ☞ Twine: Text Adventures - Open source text adventure creator that can run in your browser or a lightweight program. It can be as simple or as complicated as you want. Great for coding dialogue in games.
- ☞ Vertex Meadow - A web-browser tool that renders 2D images as explorable 3D terrain.
- ☞ MagicaVoxel: Open Source
- ☞ Krita: Open Source Art - An open source art program that has everything you need. Like Clip Studio, Photoshop, etc, but better. Also runs on Linux & Qubes.
- ☞ HDRI Haven: 3D Resources - Like PolyHaven.
- ☞ Godot Engine - An open source & completely free video game engine.
- ☞ Monster Mash - Create and animate various models in your browser.
- ☞ Russian Film Hub - A large archive full of Russian films. I visit this very often to watch Tarkovsky, Sokurov, etc.
- ☞ Texture Town - A great resource for textures.
- ☞ BandLab - Social music platform ; you can set up a payment processor to get 100% of the profits from your music and share your creative process with listeners.
- ☞ Cave Story Music Tools - Freeware items that the creators of Cave Story used within the development of the game.
- ☞ Free Sound Effects - A collaborative database full of free sound effects, many available even for commercial use.
- ☞ Gnoosic - Get recommended music based on music you like. Ditch Spotify.
- ☞ Radio Garden - Listen to various radio stations from around the world. So many uses for this if you're a little imaginative or a little cunning.
- ☞ Reaper - Professional music creation program--practically free to use, you buy it only if you want to.
---WEB TOOLS
