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What free websites/applications do you recommend for mild convenience? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I also had sites I wanted to share: --Swiftread or spreeder, shows one word at a time to read pasted text --12ft ladder, paste sites into this and it'll block ads --Invidious, ad free, viewcount free youtube experience & it doesnt play automatically when you click a video --localingual, interactive map of the world, you can listen to each country's anthem and language

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did one of your annoying nerdy friends hide some weird unicode in a message they sent to you? Copy/paste into this site to see exactly what dickery they're up to:

https://babelstone.co.uk/Unicode/whatisit.html

I say this because I'm that annoying friend that likes to slip a unicode right-to-left character in just to see what happens.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can you give an example of the kind of dickery one might get up to by hiding Unicode in a message? I’m not sure I understand what this is for

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You can reverse the way characters display with this unicode character. U+202E. ‮Example. You can use this to make users think that a file has a different exnetion that it really has. Example: image.‮gnp.exe This example actually has the extension.exe so it is a executable but looks like it is a PNG.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also, at an old workplace I put that in my username in our chat app and it completely screwed up the UI for people that were using terminal apps for chat as soon as my username appeared and I had to take it out.

You can also do things like use confusable characters to point someone at the wrong domain like pаypal.com.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Pretty cool story. Thanks for the site looks interesting.