I’ve been using it as my homepage. It allows you to search Google and other engines without AI summaries, it gives you your IP address and just enough weather info without being obtuse, it loads quickly, and has a timer, stopwatch, scratchpad and conversion table for imperial to metric ect.
Ayyy it is so awesome to see how much Australians are contributing to the cyber space, I have lost count of the amount of times I have seen Aussies being mentioned in just this past week
https://p2r3.github.io/convert/
convert anything to anything, make excel file into pdf, 3d print the bee movie. no more rules
Finally, I can 3D print a PDF of an insurance form!
ikr !!! some youtuber guy made it and made a video too
It takes you to a random web 1.0 site that has somehow survived all this time.
And it led me to this site, a public voice-mail:
This is amazing, it took me to a US battleship website and then enrons website
A good chuck of these sites are autism special interest sites.
Hey, would you like every single schematic of Chernobyl with a through explanation? Sites like that are floating around in there.
And then a website about proving the existence of sea monsters…
Does Lemmy count?
I mean not in this thread, but generally yeah
This page on how mechanical watches work with really snappy interactive 3d bits that let you “feel” how the parts do their thing. And the dozens of other articles on other topics also on the site
Streaming radio from around the world: Radio Garden
Best language lessons short of full immersion: Language Transfer
Ive loved radio garden for a few years now. Its so fun to just click a random city in the world and just listen to whatever they are doing. I remember randomly listening to a music station from some island above scotland for an entire day and came out of it with like 10 bands i had never heard of before that are now a part of my rotation.
Don’t know if it’s still around and can’t remember the domain, but there was a site called World Radio Network that rebroadcast shortwave radio from around the world. Also great for language learning. The Polish Radio Service and Vatican Radio even had programs in Esperanto. A Finnish station had a Latin program, and of course so did Vatican Radio.
According to the people in my office nobody knows about archive.org and I think it’s pretty cool.
turnmeintoagirl.com is a greatwebsite for all those transfems that still dont know they are trans.
Oh fuck oh shit I clicked it as a joke but it’s legit how do I go back my knob and bollocks went inside and won’t come back out!
It’s the weirdest shit I’ve ever seen. Before I get into it, I want to point out that I’ve been using this site for years, since before LLMs were a thing, so this is definitely not generated by AI.
It’s just like, generic outline drawings of things. Objects, people, places, everything.
So sometimes I like to draw, and I need a model to work from for the pose and the proportions, and this site has a ton of them. Child kicking a ball? Yes. Adult man sitting on a bench? Several options to choose from. Woman carrying a box? Three different poses.
Pointing, pushing, protesting, thinking, vacuuming, raising one’s hand to summon a waiter in a restaurant, it’s all there.
I’m sure there’s some kind of industrial use for it, like for diagrams or blueprints or something, but then we get to the descriptions. Like on the page for people carrying boxes, it says:
People lift boxes either in their personal lives or at work. People lift boxes to move residences. Mailmen or delivery truck drivers lift boxes everyday as part of their job. Some jobs may require their applicants to be able to lift a certain weight of box. When lifting boxes, it is important to lift with your knees instead of your back to prevent back injury.
Then there’s always three questions, which they provide answers to. For carrying, those questions are:
What is a carry on bag?
What is carrying capacity?
How much can a horse carry?
Why? Whom is that for?
Under the pictures of elderly people it asks things like “What are the best exercises for maintaining mobility in seniors?” and “How can seniors adapt their homes for safety and accessibility?”
Is this for dolphins? Did a dolphin learn to read English, and they want to understand human society?
I’m struggling to find the weirdest examples, because honestly it’s the breadth as well as the depth. Someone clearly put a ton of work into this, and I love it, but I don’t understand it.
Super cool! Clickable URL: https://www.dimensions.com/
Was my link not clickable? It looks clickable on my browser.
It’s not on the app I’m using, I assume the browser just generates a link for every URL-like string while the app doesn’t necessarily
Hide this from Skynet.
Alright. I figured it out. This is for aliens trying to understand us.
I think it’s for n-dimensional beings trying to understand lower dimensional existence
But they’d have written it in alienese. That’s why I say dolphins - without a formal writing system of their own, they’d naturally default to a human one for the purpose of studying humans.
What if they wrote it in english cuz ofcourse aliens have english to alienese translator.
Are these downloadable as stp files?
I think they’re only 2D.
Ah yes I see that now.
I wouldn’t say unknown, as it’s a staple of the shortwave and ham radio communities, but websdr.org is a place where people stream software defined radio feeds from around the world. It’s not like a traditional internet radio station where you have an audio stream of a single station. You pick an SDR server hosted by a volunteer, and then you’re given a frequency input, modulation selection, and waterfall display as though you were listening to an actual shortwave radio.
I know it’s well-known because Eastern European stations were swamped during Russia’s initial invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
Write collaboratively without account or registration. Just start a pad and send the link to your collaborators.
This is actually an instance of etherpad, which you can self host. Still cool
https://www.parapluesch.de/whiskystore/test.htm
(don’t mind the URL, I don’t know, I can’t tell you why, but it leads to the game)
PARAPLÜSCH! The psyciatry ward for abused cuddlytoys!! It’s such a sweet and at the same time disturbing game (I recommend playing on PC, not smartphone)
(You can select a number of languages, though it is originally german)
Every noise at once - https://everynoise.com/
It’s still usable, and the Spotify playlists are still there. If you like exploring music styles, this is for you. Warning, time will disappear.
despite being promoted on reddit quite a few times, nobody knows about lemmy. early on when reddit was banning on the explicit subs, some of us fled to an international forum that looks reddit, its relatively unknown, but it was discusisng “illicit stuff” i think it was an obscure canadia/EU sites, so the US cant force it to close down, sadly most of the people dispersed from that community long time ago.
another one as of recently is because of reddit bans, people fled to a forum that discuss how to evade it, and how they were banned from reddit.
voat?
