Sharing websites for independence and privacy
As a long-time privacy advocate and seeker, I have collected many different tools, websites, books, and resources. I wish to share a few of them with everyone. Enjoy!
The soil and health library: https://soilandhealth.org/
Recommended by Steve Solomon, the author of ‘Gardening When it Counts’, the best book I own on gardening, this library allows you to make copies of their books by request. Some very interesting old books in here with non-conformist and oddball views.
J. L. Hudson, Seedsman: https://www.jlhudsonseeds.net/
A seedbank operating for over 100 years. They have rare, ethnobotanical, entheogenic, and unusual seeds. Can’t find a seed anywhere? Check here. They have a rare Perique tobacco I grew years ago. Very beautiful plant.
Aqueous Solutions: https://www.aqsolutions.org/charcoal-biochar-water-treatment/
From the site; “For over 15 years, Aqueous Solutions has pioneered the use of biochar adsorbent in affordable, decentralized water treatment through extensive laboratory and field research.” There are handbooks and videos for setting up a home biochar water filter, all the way up to building on for a whole village, all done with common materials.
greenmedinfo: https://greenmedinfo.com/
A great site for research into natural remedies. They have a search function to find scientific studies done on thousands of plants and remedies.
MySudo: https://anonyome.com/individuals/mysudo/
A cheap and very easy way to get a temporary phone number, email address, or a virtual debit card. Works great in my experience. You can use it for temporary services like free sign ups that make you pay more at the end of the free trial. You just have the virtual card expire before that date comes due so that payment won’t go through. Of course it's not perfect privacy, but it's better than giving your number to every service that wants one.
SimpleLogin: https://simplelogin.io/
From the website: “With email aliases, you can be anonymous online and protect your inbox against spams and phishing. Open source. Based in Switzerland.” Ran by the same company that runs proton mail and vpn. This is a throw-away email that auto re-routes mail sent to it to your main email account.
Aegis Authenticator: https://getaegis.app/
A 2-factor authentication app that everyone should have. It makes it almost impossible for anyone to hack your account unless they hold both your password and your phone. Every pirate should use this technology, or the next product…
Yubikey: https://www.yubico.com/
From the website: “YubiKeys support multiple authentication protocols so you are able to use them across any tech stack, legacy or modern–flowing effortlessly with the user. No more reaching for your phone to open an app, or memorizing and typing in a code – simply touch the YubiKey to verify and you’re in. Once an app or service is verified, it can stay trusted. It’s that easy.” It makes it so you don’t need a password for most websites or worry about having the password stolen. You plug in the yubikey and it acts like the password. Consider if you trust the hardware before using it. If I needed to log in and out of stuff all day, this would make it less annoying.
PublicNote: https://publicnote.com/
A silly little site that turns the search function into a password to access encrypted information stored using that password. Anyone who has the password can change the contents of the page.
Lets Convene: https://letsconvene.im/
A very handy browser based app that allows you to make an encrypted chatroom with no app, no account and no phone number required. Open source.
Wormhole https://wormhole.app/
From the website: “Wormhole lets you share files with end-to-end encryption and a link that automatically expires. So you can keep what you share private and make sure your stuff doesn't stay online forever.” Not totally open source, but a quick solution for file sharing.
Ever wanted to be someone else?
Tesseract: https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tessdoc
From the website: “Tesseract is an open source text recognition (OCR) engine. Tesseract can be used directly via command line, or (for programmers) by using an API to extract printed text from images. It supports a wide variety of languages. Tesseract doesn't have a built-in GUI, but there are several available from the 3rdParty page.” Very useful for scanning books and making PDF’s with the images.
Gcode cheat sheet: https://marlinfw.org/meta/gcode/
Lists just about every gcode out there and what they do. Useful for custom 3D prints.
WebADB: https://app.webadb.com/
Can’t de-google your phone and want to get rid of bloatware? Did the damned presidential alert nearly give you a heart attack, but you can’t turn it off on YOUR OWN PHONE! Try this tool out. Here are some instructions for how to make it work; https://www.xda-developers.com/uninstall-carrier-oem-bloatware-without-root-access/ Don’t yell at me if you brick your phone.
Thrift Books: https://www.thriftbooks.com/
I adore this website. It allows me to feed my book addiction at very reasonable prices. They even have old and rare books. I’ve been ordering books online for over 10 years and this is the best bookseller site I’ve ever used.
Conclusion
I love finding new, useful tools and sites. Sharing these things can make us more private and secure, so I try to collect these things whenever I can. Finding useful information is tough with search engine censorship and bad information. Nowadays I find new sites I like not on a search engine, but in recommendations in forums or other sites. Businesses like JL Hudson have been around longer than any of us have been alive. They are one of the few businesses or people preserving old varieties of food plants. It deserves to be noticed in the age of GMO seeds.
I hope ya scallywags liked this. If anyone has any they would like to share, please post it down below. Thanks for reading.