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Terminal Roulette is a classic casino game in your terminal

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Ancestry.com: Helping you trace your roots and share your exact address

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Banish search spam forever with uBlacklist!

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Internet
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A friendly reminder stay vigilant against scam emails from criminals and ne'er-do-wells

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Keep an eye on your self-hosted services with statping-ng 

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Use GitHub RSS feeds to stay up-to-date with your favourite projects 

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The Clipboard Project is copy-paste wizardry in your Linux terminal

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Use Obfuscate to easily censor private information in images.

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QR codes are for suckers - it's time for them to go

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David Rutland December 11, 2023
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tui-mines is classic Minesweeper action in a Linux terminal

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How to automatically reject cookies and hide cookie pop-ups on Firefox 

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David Rutland December 7, 2023
Internet
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Instantly generate configs from running containers with Docker-Autocompose

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Pyphoon gives you an accurate ASCII moon phase in your terminal

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Paranoid and perplexed by Plex privacy pickle? Just Enjoy Jellyfin

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Turn your old PC or laptop into a server and own your own piece of the internet

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Protect your inbox from spam and online threats

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Twitter is the United States of the Internet and citizens won't leave no matter who's in charge

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Social Media
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Covfefe: Words of wisdom from the greatest politicians of the 21st century

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Software
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Self-host your own audio library with Audiobookshelf

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Delta Chat - going old-school with the future of messaging apps

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The Crow's predictions for 2022 (better late than never)

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(Book Review) Rebel Code: Linux And The Open Source Revolution by Glyn Moody

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FreshRSS – Stay safe and never visit another website again 

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Seizing the means of production with an Anycubic Photon Mono Resin Printer.

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This item has been flagged as inappropriate - What google reads in your private docs

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Get My Ass to Mars - The Crow heads into space

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David Rutland February 5, 2021
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David Rutland January 31, 2021
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Hardware

Comments on a static site? It's simpler than you think!

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