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Tech news, cool tools & projects, infosec and more. Everything is hand-picked and I try to post some new stuff every two days (depending on how much new stuff I found).

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What-The-Format?

What-The-Format interprets numbers and codes you can find in the wild, and says which bits are which.

https://format.wtf

#tool #utility
Motion Canvas

Motion Canvas is two things:

β€’ A TypeScript library that uses generators to program animations.
β€’ An editor providing a real-time preview of said animations.

It's a specialized tool designed to create informative vector animations and synchronize them with voice-overs.

Example video created with Motion Canvas (by the developer himself): https://youtu.be/R6vQ9VmMz2w

πŸ”— https://motioncanvas.io/
🌐 https://github.com/motion-canvas/motion-canvas

#opensource #web #tool #js #videoediting #media #video #editor
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Region to Share

A helper application to share only a region of a screen via video conference apps that only support either full screen or single window like e.g. Teams, WebEx, etc.

🌐 https://apps.microsoft.com/store/detail/region-to-share/9N4066W2R5Q4
🌐 https://github.com/tom-englert/RegionToShare

#opensource #tool #utility #windows #meeting #screen
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Turn down for what JS

Turn
any website down for what.

πŸ”— https://nthitz.github.io/turndownforwhatjs/

#aprilfools
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Wat

A short, funny lightning talk from 2012 about weird programming language (ruby, javascript) behavior

πŸ”— https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat

#talk #javascript #ruby
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exa

exa is a modern replacement for the venerable file-listing command-line program ls that ships with Unix and Linux operating systems, giving it more features and better defaults. It uses colours to distinguish file types and metadata. It knows about symlinks, extended attributes, and Git. And it’s small, fast, and just one single binary.

πŸ”— https://the.exa.website
🌐 https://github.com/ogham/exa

#opensource #rust #sysadmin #tool #utility
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Dumb Password Rules

With all the current breaches and account compromises, there are still websites with horrible password policies. This site is a compiliation of sites with dumb password rules.

πŸ”— https://dumbpasswordrules.com
🌐 https://github.com/duffn/dumb-password-rules

#opensource #password #security #web
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MapChecking

Open source crowd counting tool for fact-checking the maximum number of people standing in a given area.

πŸ”— https://www.mapchecking.com
🌐 https://github.com/paraboul/mapchecking

#opensource #web #tool #research
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SadServers

Capture The Flag challenges for sysadmins. Currently offers 20 challenges in different difficulty levels and regarding a wide variety of topics. Great for testing your Linux troubleshooting skills.

πŸ”— https://sadservers.com
🌐 https://github.com/fduran/sadservers

#opensource #linux #ctf #sysadmin #devops #training
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Phish Report

A free website to help you quickly report phishing sites to the hoster, registrar, Google Safe Browsing, Microsoft and many more. Also shows some extra metadata about the site.

πŸ”— https://phish.report

#phishing #security #web #tool #utility #service
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Plausible

Simple, open-source, lightweight (< 1 KB) and privacy-friendly web analytics alternative to Google Analytics.

πŸ”— https://plausible.io
🌐 https://github.com/plausible/analytics

#web #analytics #privacy #statistics #opensource
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Firecracker

Firecracker is an open source virtualization technology that is purpose-built for creating and managing secure, multi-tenant container and function-based services that provide serverless operational models. Firecracker runs workloads in lightweight virtual machines, called microVMs, which combine the security and isolation properties provided by hardware virtualization technology with the speed and flexibility of containers.

https://firecracker-microvm.github.io/
https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker

#opensource #rust #aws #serverless #lambda #linux
gitignore.io

gitignore.io is a web service designed to help you create .gitignore files for your Git repositories. The site has a graphical and command line method of creating a .gitignore for your operating system, programming language, or IDE.

πŸ”— https://gitignore.io
🌐 https://github.com/toptal/gitignore.io

#opensource #developers #git #tool #utility
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filescan.io

A Next-Gen Sandbox and free malware analysis service. Operating at 10x speed compared to traditional sandboxes with 90% less resource usage, its unique adaptive threat analysis technology also enables zero-day malware detection and more Indicator of Compromise (IOCs) extraction.

πŸ”— https://www.filescan.io/scan

#closedsource #malware #analysis #sandbox #security #api #web #tool
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dog

dog is a command-line DNS client, like dig. It has colourful output, understands normal command-line argument syntax, supports the DNS-over-TLS and DNS-over-HTTPS protocols, and can emit JSON.

🌐 https://github.com/ogham/dog

#opensource #tool #utility #sysadmin #rust #cli #dns
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erdtree (et)

A modern, vibrant, and multi-threaded file-tree visualizer and disk usage analyzer that respects hidden files and .gitignore rules by default i.e. the secret love child of tree and du.

🌐 https://github.com/solidiquis/erdtree

#opensource #rust #sysadmin #tool #utility #cli
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Cutter and rizin

Rizin is a fork of the radare2 reverse engineering framework with a focus on usability. It is a powerful multi-platform reverse engineering tool. Cutter is Rizin's official graphical user interface.

It comes with an awesome documentation and guided crackmes: https://book.rizin.re/

πŸ”— https://rizin.re
πŸ”— https://cutter.re
🌐 https://github.com/rizinorg/rizin
🌐 https://github.com/rizinorg/cutter

#opensource #reversing #debugger #security #radare2 #windows #linux #macos #multiplatform #gui
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globster

A tool to test and visualise glob pattern matching. Type your glob pattern in the input field above and all matched files will be highlighted in blue in the tree directory structure. Use it to debug when your glob does not work or to experiment and learn from the provided examples.

πŸ”— https://globster.xyz

#closedsource #sysadmin #tool #web #dev
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DetectDee

Hunt down social media accounts by username, email or phone across social networks.

πŸ”— https://github.com/piaolin/DetectDee

#opensource #security #tool #Go #golang #osint #socialengineering
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Language Modeling Course

Absolutely gorgous course on the topic of language modeling created by Lena Voita. If you ever wanted to understand how natural language processing and large language models (as used by ChatGPT) or machine learning in general works, this course is absolutely brilliant and free.

πŸ”— https://lena-voita.github.io/nlp_course/language_modeling.html

#LLM #article #ml #ai #machinelearning
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SQLite Viewer Web App

A free, web-based SQLite Explorer, inspired by DB Browser for SQLite and Airtable. Use this web-based SQLite Tool to quickly and easily inspect .sqlite files.

πŸ”— https://sqliteviewer.app
🌐 https://github.com/qwtel/sqlite-viewer-vscode

#opensource #web #tool #database #sqlite
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