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Textise - removes everything from a webpage except its text (and links) in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Salient point. Dont get me wrong, I use FF reader mode all day long and I sing its praises to all who will listen. But I am using this to access content over Tor when cloudflare would otherwise prevent me from doing so.

I would not recommend for anyone to feed all their browsing to a third party in a way that can easily be tied back to them, but I am using this tool to overcome a specific obstacle when I encounter it and not otherwise.

Maybe I should have described this scenario more completely at the start of my post 🀷

Textise - removes everything from a webpage except its text (and links) in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

My use case is to access text and link content on a web page anonymously over Tor without getting blocked by Cloudflare (such as when browsing warez sites).

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Textise - removes everything from a webpage except its text (and links) (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Do y'all know about textise? I don't see mention of it come up in a quick search. https://www.textise.net/

It can be used with the duckduckgo bang !textise

It also works over Tor, where I can use it as a proxy to avoid Cloudflare checkpoints.

I don't think that it is open source but not completely sure.

Copy from the site intro:

Textise is a new way of looking at the Web. It’s an internet tool that removes everything from a web page except for its text. In practice, this means that images, forms, scripts, adverts, they all go, leaving plain text. Find out more here... (https://textise.wordpress.com/about-textise/)

How to use this page

  1. Type or paste the URL of a web page into the box below and click "Textise". A text only version of the web page will be displayed.
  2. Type a search term into the box, select a search engine from the drop-down list, and click "Search". You will be taken to a text only version of the search results.
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Alternative frontend to Instagram: imgsed.com (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/939198

Searching for replacement for Bibliogram, I found an website called imgsed.com .

It was sufficient to my needs.

One problem was that it seemed to fetch only a few comments of a post.

Here's the website's own About page:

imgsed.com is an online instagram backup tool that helps users save instagram photos through the instagram public API.

imgsed.com can't verify user information, so you need to pay attention to the copyright when downloading photos.

If you do not wish to be downloaded, please submit your information remove account

ETA:

Apparently it has crazy much ads, so use of adblocker is very much advised!

Can we get a sorting option for Communities section? Alphabetical at least, if not also newly subscribed in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

It looks like someone else brought it up in issue #1177 which is for adding sorting to column headers is being worked on (#1538). It appears there was a bug #3374 in the backend which needed to be fixed (#3376) which delayed progress on that.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1298

Advanced pirates, whats a tip others might not know? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Another longtime JD user here, I'd love to hear what your reasons are for each of these!

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Unreal Tournament OST (Remastered by bandithedoge, in FLAC) (archive.org)
 

Samples from the original .umx (repacked Impulse Tracker module) files shipped with the GOG GOTY release were extracted using OpenMPT then rearranged, mixed and mastered in Studio One. No major arrangement or sample changes have been made in order to keep it close to the original, only more listenable in 2022.

Uploaded to archive.org in August 2022

Is music piracy dying? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Thanks! Excited to check these out

Netflix adaptation of 3 Body Problem in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

For anyone who doesn't know, there's a Chinese Tencent adaptation (wikipedia) which originally aired January 2023, is not the same as the Netflix adaptation which is not yet released.

The Tencent adaptation is 30 episodes and currently available in full ~~in 1080p~~ in 4K! with english subtitles from Tencent on their yt page:

I'm about halfway through the Tencent adaptation and I think its accurate to the source material and accurately capturing the mood well, however:

  • The detective, Shi Qiang, is now a buddy cop guy used mainly for exposition which is lazy writing, in my opinion. Or was he always like this?
  • The pacing is really slow which sometimes works really well and other times drags out scenes with no benefit. I'd say this could have been compressed into 22 episodes without losing any content or creating pacing issues while still leaving plenty of time for scenes that were meaningfully slow. Just needs an editor to cut it down a bit. Oh well!

I think I only recommend it if you're a fan of the book because its not disappointing from that perspective really, but maybe the Netflix version will be comparably faithful while being structured a bit differently or having better storytelling. I look forward to comparing them.