How to encrypt SMS-messages

Although we rarely correspond via SMS, they are very helpful when there is no internet - SMS can be sent even without a network. But this method has its problems - intercepting SMS is much easier than hacking messenger.

The Silence app for Android comes to the rescue. It looks like an ordinary messenger, but with it you will be able to send SMS messages and share media files with as much privacy as possible. But! The recipient must also install the utility ❗️

It uses the reliable Signal encryption protocol, so you can be sure the program is secure. You can install it on Google Play.

Protect your privacy during communication!

#security #android

Find music from TV shows, movies and games!

Watching a movie or playing a game, you can listen to cool songs 🎶. But how do you find them if you don't know the title?

You can try Shazam, but it doesn't always recognize a song and takes much time. It's much more convenient to use Tunefind. This site will find any music in a TV series, movie or game. Tracks are added to the site by users themselves, so there are already hundreds of thousands of them.

Just select a specific season and episode of a show, and the service will show all the music from it. Under the song, there are links to Spotify, Apple Music, and YouTube.

Try it!

#service

Make your phone private

If you're a Google user, you know that the company watches almost every click you make and will provide all the data to services on the first request. Doesn't sound very appealing, does it?

Fortunately, you can get rid of it by installing CalyxOS firmware, which focuses on security and privacy.

It will completely remove all traces of Google from Android so that the company knows nothing about you. All that remains is to download alternatives to Google apps (we talked about it some days ago).

Also you will be able to encrypt all calls by default and add a "red button" for emergency data cleaning.

Try it!

#security

Youtube to GIF Converter

Bash script to convert a YouTube video to a high-quality GIF file with a specified resolution, frame rate, start time, and duration.

It utilizes yt-dlp, ffmpeg, and gifsicle to accomplish this task.

https://github.com/Gords/GIFtube

Awesome

A huge database of free courses, books and lectures to start a career in IT! All materials are in lists and are valuable knowledge that can be easily turned into a profit.

Contents:

• Artificial Intelligence (AI)
• Prompt Engineering Guide
• Machine Learning
• Quantum Computing
• NLP
• Deep Learning
• Data Science
• Computer Vision
• Big Data
• Python

A database of collections on any topic is here. You will find absolutely everything from Linux guides to courses for game development.

#lifehack #AI

AI Image Generator

Free Online AI Image Generator (Text to Image) transforms your ideas into visual art with just a few clicks. Enter your text, select a style, choose the shape of your image, and set the number of results you wish to see.

This powerful tool is perfect for artists, designers, content creators, or anyone looking to bring their imaginative concepts to visual reality. Try it!

https://art-generator.ai/

#lifehack #AI #image

uBlockOrigin & uBlacklist Huge AI Blocklist

A huge blocklist of sites (~850) that contain AI generated content, for the purposes of cleaning image search engines (Google Search, DuckDuckGo, and Bing) with uBlock Origin or uBlacklist.

One-click filter import:

If you have uBlock Origin installed, click this link to import the filter list in just a click! Quick and simple.

https://github.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist

#lifehack #AI #github

Privacy Redirect

A web extension that redirects Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, Google Maps, Reddit, Google Search, & Google Translate requests to privacy friendly alternative frontends for those sites - Nitter, Invidious, FreeTube, Bibliogram, OpenStreetMap, SimplyTranslate & Private Search Engines like DuckDuckGo and Startpage.

It's possible to toggle all redirects on and off. The extension will default to using random instances if none are selected. If these instances are not working, you can try and set a custom instance from the list below.

https://github.com/SimonBrazell/privacy-redirect

#lifehack #privacy #addon

Launch Chat

Chat with WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram users without saving phone numbers or sharing your contacts with the app.

Features:

✔️Launch a chat with any phone number on WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram;
✔️Use WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram without sharing your contacts;
✔️Click a phone number in any app to directly start a chat on one of the messenger apps (skip saving the number as a contact first);
✔️Extract phone numbers from websites or messages (by sharing the text with this app) to launch a chat.

https://github.com/vinaygopinath/launch-chat

#lifehack #privacy #github

Image to Cartoon

Image to Cartoon is an AI cartoonizer online for free, which creates animated avatars and emoji.

How it works 👉: follow the link ☝️, choose and upload your photo.

In a couple of seconds, the service will process the photo and give you the result. There are 10 photos available per week for free processing. All images can be imported in .png format, and the cache will be cleared after a few hours.

https://imagetocartoon.com/

#service

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nxs-backup

nxs-backup is a tool for creating and delivery backups, rotating it locally and on remote storages, compatible with GNU/Linux distributions.

Features:

✔️Full data backup;
✔️Upload and manage backups to the remote storages (S3, SSH (SFTP), FTP, CIFS (SMB), NFS, WebDAV);
✔️Fine-tune the database backup process with additional options for optimization purposes;
✔️Notifications about events of the backup process via email and webhooks;
✔️Built-in generator of the configuration files to expedite initial setup;
✔️Easy to read and maintain configuration files with clear transparent structure;
✔️Possibility to restore backups by standard file/database tools

https://nxs-backup.io/

#linux #github #backup

🏙 Stake Properties

Digitally invest in prime rental properties in Dubai from only AED 500 (USD 136), no matter where you are in the world!
Stake is available to savvy investors all over the world.

💰 Join now and you will get AED 200 as bonus!🤑

🤔 How it works:

1. Browse: Sign up in less than 3 minutes and browse collection of properties.
2. Purchase: Buy a piece of the ones you love, starting from only AED 500.
3. Own: Sit back and track your income and investments online.
4. Exit: Hold, exit or resell your stake in a way that suits your financial goals.

Stake is regulated by the DFSA.

Upscayl

Free and Open Source AI Image Upscaler
Upscayl lets you enlarge and enhance low-resolution images using advanced AI algorithms. Enlarge images without losing quality. It's almost like magic! 🎩🪄

Upscayl is a cross-platform application built with the Linux-first philosophy. This means that Linux users receive pre-release builds earlier, but Upscayl itself is available on all major desktop operating systems.

https://upscayl.org/

#lifehack #AI

Generate original memes powered by AI

Supermeme is a service for AI-generated memes.

Search for meme templates describing an emotion or an action and get a share-worthy original AI-generated meme in seconds.

How it works 👇:

1️⃣ Select a Theme.

2️⃣ Pick a template or upload your own image.

3️⃣ Download the meme.

The service is paid, but it has a free trial. Try it!

#service

Homepage

A modern, fully static, fast, secure fully proxied, highly customizable application dashboard with integrations for over 100 services and translations into multiple languages. Easily configured via YAML files or through docker label discovery.

With features like quick search, bookmarks, weather support, a wide range of integrations and widgets, an elegant and modern design, and a focus on performance, Homepage is your ideal start to the day and a handy companion throughout it.

https://gethomepage.dev/latest/

#lifehack #github

Open Video Downloader (youtube-dl-gui)

A cross-platform GUI for youtube-dl made in Electron and node.js

Features:

✔️Download from all kind of platforms: YouTube, vimeo, twitter & many more;
✔️Download multiple videos/playlists/channels in one go;
✔️Select the resolution and format you want to download in;
✔️Download private videos (currently only tested on YouTube);
✔️Multithreaded, up to 32 videos can be downloaded synchronously;
✔️Shows how much size the download will use up on your system;
✔️The app automatically keeps ytdl up-to-date

https://jely2002.github.io/youtube-dl-gui/

#app #youtube #video #github

Cracked Apps Can Be Harmful To Your Android Phone!

Are you the type to circumvent the Google Play Store to get a free copy of a paid app? Downloading cracked Android apps from a shady website or untrustworthy third-party app store is how most Android devices get infected.

Don't risk everything just to get hold of one app❗️ These are why you should avoid cracked apps on your 📱.

✔️ Cracked apps are one of the biggest sources of malware and viruses.

✔️The download sources for cracked apps are often malicious.

✔️There is no guarantee that the APK file will actually work. The websites offering cracked apps have another benefit to gain from your visit to their site. They clickbait you to visit their website to improve the site's traffic in the process.

✔️Your account might get banned along with potential legal issues.

Stay safe and avoid cracked apps!

#security

Etherpad

Etherpad is a real-time collaborative editor scalable to thousands of simultaneous real time users. It provides full data export capabilities, and runs on your server, under your control.
Etherpad is very customizable through plugins.

https://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite

#lifehack #github