Asklemmy

https://haveibeenpwned.com

To figure out if your email addresses are part of a known breach. Also, start using a password manager (https://bitwarden.com)

If you're a developer, devdocs.io is clutch as fuck.

If you Like consuming media but not expelling money, fmhy is lit af

Unlimited sound generators at MyNoise

Here's a bunch of useful online tools

Trying to find someone? Try the tools here

Free shit for developers

Track Awesome List tracks a ridiculous number of Awesome lists on github.

I'm sure there's more, these are just the ones that were on the top of my head

Wikipedia

I can't think of anything that comes even close to it - significance, quality, amount

https://camelcamelcamel.com

I use this to cut through the bullshit of Prime Day deals or Black Friday. It shows you the historical price of a product.

https://everynoise.com/

It plots every genre of music on a 2D spectrum ("The calibration is fuzzy, but in general down is more organic, up is more mechanical and electric; left is denser and more atmospheric, right is spikier and bouncier.")

You can click on any genre and get band recommendations.

Or you can search for a specific band and find other bands plotted similarly.

Without endorsing these liberal American news outlets,

https://text.npr.org/

https://lite.cnn.com/

Ad-free, js-free, tracker-free, bs-free news articles. Just text. Honestly, it's a bit of a shock to me that these even exist.

https://neal.fun/deep-sea/ Experience how deep the ocean can go. May cause thalassophobia.

https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html Scale the universe if the moon were the size of a pixel.

https://www.robinwords.com/ Fun word ladder game to test your vocabulary.

http://make-everything-ok.com/ For when you feel like things are just not going your way.

https://stellarium-web.org/ Look at and learn about the stars.

Snapdrop

Well since we're on Lemmy....

https://lemmyverse.net/communities?order=active&nsfw=null < the best way to find active communities and instances on Lemmy.

Hacker news https://news.ycombinator.com

I’m sure most already do but you never know.

Terms of service; didn't read. https://tosdr.org/

https://wtfhappenedin1971.com

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/arch_linux i use arch btw

zombo.com is where I do the vast majority of my internet activities

https://privacy.com/ I've been using them for around 6 years now.

They link up with your bank account and generate as many virtual cards as you want that are locked to the first vendor you use them on so if say McDonald's get their card data stolen it won't be able to charge the card for anything other than McDonald's.

They also make their money from the card fees so they manage to be both free and not sell your data.

https://scaleofuniverse.com/

Have fun!

money.org helped me with easy suggestion on how to invest small savings

https://archive.org

Culture and knowledge at your hand palm.

http://iknowwhatyoudownload.com

https://ipleak.net/

Make sure your downloads aren’t leaking.

Archive.org, they have a huge selection of books and other forms of media, and they really need donations.

https://en.wiktionary.org

Yes, I know. Everyone knows about wiktionary but I cannot get over how english wiktionary is better finnish dictionary than finnish wiktionary. And english wiktionary has all the languages usually.

https://www.lofiatc.com/?icao=klas

Lofi hip-hop mixes with air traffic control

https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome awesome lists of various topics and resources, super helpful.

https://www.allsides.com/unbiased-balanced-news

Shows left, center, and right viewpoints.

https://pixabay.com/ Royalty free stock images

web3isgoinggreat.com for keeping up with the never ending scams, hacks, frauds and failures of web3, aka cryptoshit

neocities.org if you want to find sites that look like those old geocities ones. You can also make one for free

https://cuberule.com/

https://floor796.com/

Waste time watching pop culture animations.

https://annas-archive.org/ - a search mirror for Library Genesis, SciHub, etc.

https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=a2c897 - track any airplane in the world, in real time. Amazing resource when your flight is delayed to see exactly where the plane is.

https://orteil.dashnet.org/cookieclicker/

🍪 Go on, bake a cookie. 🍪

libgen.is and its mirrors

https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/ This is a historical newspaper website where you can look up old newspapers from your area. From about 1890 - 1935 a lot of the articles were about brutal accidents and suicides. I write a blog about the goofy shit you find in these old papers.

Zombo.com. You can do anything at Zombo.com.

https://www.unclaimedbaggage.com/

Buy stuff people left at airports or from lost luggage. Good for kindle and such.

phind.com

It's basically CHATGPT but with actual connection to the internet (so it gets its data from actual websites) and is also specifically designed for developers.