Note worthy sites or projects that you visit or find, I will start.

backtogeek · December 2025

I thought it might be cool to have a look what I found post, I find stuff all the time, think heh, that's cool, and tell no one.

I posted one in the cesspit earlier today https://tv.garden/ TV channel streams from around the world presented in a really cool way.

What sites do you visit regularly?
Have you found anything cool recently?
Want to plug a GitHub repo or project?
Did you vibe code a thing?

Anything goes, even hosts that might not be commonly known.

When I am at my desktop I will add some.

yoursunny · December 2025

https://reddit.com — the true cesspit

backtogeek · December 2025

https://xp.quenq.com/ - probably the best windows xp in a browser, even pinball works... Nostalgia central for those old enough.

Murv · December 2025

https://myanimelist.net/ - home of every weeb

MichaelCee · December 2025

@Murv said:
https://myanimelist.net/ - home of every weeb

My profile from 12 years ago: https://myanimelist.net/profile/d1609888

Can't access or recover it unfortunately it's in the void forever now

wankel · December 2025

@backtogeek said: What sites do you visit regularly?

sexylosers.com, webcomic. Not updated as often lately, still home to some jewels; SFW sneek preview

sh97 · December 2025

Had so many idlers, so launched this last week - https://stealthprivacy.eu/ ( was inspired by @oloke and https://nerdvpn.de/ )
Hopefully, people in censorship areas find it useful.

havoc · December 2025

Youtube, Reddit, hackernews and perplexity is most of my browsing

@backtogeek said: Did you vibe code a thing?

Made a prompt library tool. Simple webapp with database behind it that is searchable. Plus it has AI (because of course it does) to suggest improvements to the prompts. All local though...haven't decided whether to stick vibecoded stuff onto the internet

Not_Oles · December 2025

@sh97 said:
Had so many idlers, so launched this last week - https://stealthprivacy.eu/ ( was inspired by @oloke and https://nerdvpn.de/ )
Hopefully, people in censorship areas find it useful.

Hi @sh97!

From the source code of stealthprivacy,eu, I am confused about the head section:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <title>Tor Bridges</title>
    <link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com">
    <link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin>
    <link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Space+Mono:ital,wght@0,400;0,700;1,400&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">
    <script defer src="https://analytics.suh.ovh/script.js" data-website-id="3ce3b05e-f88b-4b8e-be6b-3c3f1eb0234d"></script>
</head>

Since I am clueless,™ could you please help me understand how telling Google that they are viewing stealthprivacy.eu by getting a font and also getting logged at analytics.suh.ovh benefit people who want privacy because of ISP or other restrictions?

Thanks as always, and best wishes!

Tom

MichaelCee · December 2025

@backtogeek said: Did you vibe code a thing?

I asked Claude to make me a dashboard for my 50p and £2 coin collection instead of using Google sheets

wankel · December 2025

@backtogeek said: Nostalgia central for those old enough

It even comes with Winamp pre-installed!

terrorgen · December 2025

@wankel said:

@backtogeek said: Nostalgia central for those old enough

It even comes with Winamp pre-installed!

The real deal would be running a random exe throw at it.

And let the fun begin...

backtogeek · December 2025

@wankel said:

@backtogeek said: Nostalgia central for those old enough

It even comes with Winamp pre-installed!

I know... Totally love it haha.

jcn50 · December 2025

@backtogeek said:
https://xp.quenq.com/ - probably the best windows xp in a browser, even pinball works... Nostalgia central for those old enough.

There is a lighter desktop version in a browser called OS JS: https://demo.os-js.org/ [just accept the SSL cert manually], you can do many things, even upload your own files, play MP3 files, etc

jcn50 · December 2025

This is the website I use on a daily basis: https://mammouth.ai/ is a collection of (premium) AIs/LLMs for just €10/month=US$12/month! I tried it out for one month first and it quickly became an essential!

Pros:

Versions are upgraded as soon as they are available so that you don't get stuck in time with old AIs.
You can create many users/areas within the APP so you could share your plan with family or friends.
You can use API keys to plug any AI model in any APP you would have/make/create.

Cons:

There is a limitation on the number of documents you can upload, so when the quota is reach is usually switch to https://chat.qwen.ai because you can upload many files in this AI.
There is a limit on the number of images you can generate.

Happy AI!

sh97 · December 2025

@Not_Oles said:

@sh97 said:
Had so many idlers, so launched this last week - https://stealthprivacy.eu/ ( was inspired by @oloke and https://nerdvpn.de/ )
Hopefully, people in censorship areas find it useful.

Hi @sh97!

From the source code of stealthprivacy,eu, I am confused about the head section:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <title>Tor Bridges</title>
    <link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com">
    <link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin>
    <link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Space+Mono:ital,wght@0,400;0,700;1,400&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">
    
</head>
Since I am clueless,™ could you please help me understand how telling Google that they are viewing stealthprivacy.eu by getting a font and also getting logged at analytics.suh.ovh benefit people who want privacy because of ISP or other restrictions?

Thanks as always, and best wishes!

Tom

Hey Tom,

I'll try to explain my thoughts below.

This Website is Not a Cloaking Device
The page you’re viewing is an information directory for accessing Tor Bridges. It is not a proxy, a VPN, or a Tor Browser. If you are already facing restrictions from your ISP or government, you should already be utilizing a privacy measure before visiting this, or any, public website. Expecting a simple HTML page to magically shield your connection is a profound misunderstanding of how the internet works.
The Google Font "Leak"
The fonts.googleapis.com link is an industry-standard practice used primarily for performance. It allows for faster page load times due to reliable CDN delivery and browser caching. While it’s technically true that Google sees your IP address and the referrer header, this is only an issue for users who haven't taken basic precautions.
If you are a genuine privacy advocate, you are already using extensions like uBlock Origin or Privacy Badger, that block these exact resources automatically. For those users, this is a non-issue.
If you were to host a fonts repo CDN similar to what Google does, I'd be happy to use it
The Analytics
The critique of the analytics script is equally uninformed. This is not a corporate tracker; it is a self-hosted Umami instance running on my own Crunchbits server (but of course, you know this already, we have spoken about this in the past). This is an entirely transparent setup, which ensures I have full control over the data.
Umami collects minimal, non-intrusive aggregated metrics - specifically, the country and the page path.
The benefit you asked about is this: These non-personal metrics are used solely to identify regions of highest demand/censorship so that I can prioritize adding new bridges and nodes where they are needed most.
You are confusing necessary, privacy-respecting metrics used to improve the service for oppressed users with the invasive tracking of Google Analytics.

Let me know if you have any other questions

MannDude · December 2025

@Harambe turned me onto https://ooni.org/ - Which has a neat Data Explorer tool ( https://explorer.ooni.org/ ) for seeing what sites, apps or protocols may be blocked in countries.

For example:

In the last 30 days the Signal messaging app has been reported to be likely blocked in China: https://explorer.ooni.org/chart/mat?probe_cc=CN&since=2025-11-15&until=2025-12-15&time_grain=day&axis_x=measurement_start_day&test_name=signal
In the last 30 days it would appear that Tor has been reported to be likely blocked in Myanmar: https://explorer.ooni.org/chart/mat?probe_cc=MM&since=2025-11-15&until=2025-12-15&time_grain=day&axis_x=measurement_start_day&test_name=tor

Just some neat datasets.

sh97 · December 2025

@Not_Oles based on a suggestion from @Decicus , I have swapped out Google Fonts for BunnyCDN fonts. They claim to be GDPR compliant, and state this on their website:

Bunny Fonts do not log or track any user data, nor do they use any cookies.

terrorgen · December 2025

@jcn50 said:
This is the website I use on a daily basis: https://mammouth.ai/ is a collection of (premium) AIs/LLMs for just €10/month=US$12/month! I tried it out for one month first and it quickly became an essential!

Pros:

Versions are upgraded as soon as they are available so that you don't get stuck in time with old AIs.

You can create many users/areas within the APP so you could share your plan with family or friends.

You can use API keys to plug any AI model in any APP you would have/make/create.

Cons:

There is a limitation on the number of documents you can upload, so when the quota is reach is usually switch to https://chat.qwen.ai because you can upload many files in this AI.

There is a limit on the number of images you can generate.

Happy AI!

Does it support "pro" mode?

jcn50 · December 2025

@terrorgen said: Does it support "pro" mode?

All the AI models are the pro/paid version, but you also have smaller version like ChatGPT 5.1-mini with unlimited file uploads.

imok · December 2025

@backtogeek said:
https://xp.quenq.com/ - probably the best windows xp in a browser, even pinball works... Nostalgia central for those old enough.

It even includes de tour!

Not_Oles · December 2025

Recently I found the introductory C Programming posts on Jyotiprakash's Blog.

Although I only have read the main page and the first two posts, I already like this series because

the writing style is polite,
the site is legible, and
readers can either use IDEs or stay on the command line in almost any OS.
If I understand right, the author is a PhD student and a teaching assistant, so he seems qualified.

gremeyer · December 2025

https://radio.garden/, like tv.garden but for radio streams.

backtogeek · December 2025

https://wiby.me/ - an old school search engine that only indexes sites that have no JS, you get some CLASSICS on there that are still up! Guest Books and ALL!

imok · December 2025

@backtogeek said:
https://wiby.me/ - an old school search engine that only indexes sites that have no JS, you get some CLASSICS on there that are still up! Guest Books and ALL!

http://quickbasic.freeservers.com/default.htm

It's been a long long time I don't see the htm extension

backtogeek · December 2025

@imok said:

@backtogeek said:
https://wiby.me/ - an old school search engine that only indexes sites that have no JS, you get some CLASSICS on there that are still up! Guest Books and ALL!

http://quickbasic.freeservers.com/default.htm

It's been a long long time I don't see the htm extension

haha i think i liked the internet better that way!

terrorgen · December 2025

https://gmi.skyjake.fi/lagrange

A client for the newly developed Gemini protocol (not the AI by Google).

Gemini is basically the modern version of gopher.

Everything there is text based, no fancy scripts.

Reminds me of a quieter internet.

Not_Oles · December 2025

@Not_Oles said:
Recently I found the introductory C Programming posts on Jyotiprakash's Blog.

Although I only have read the main page and the first two posts, I already like this series because

the writing style is polite,

the site is legible, and

readers can either use IDEs or stay on the command line in almost any OS.

If I understand right, the author is a PhD student and a teaching assistant, so he seems qualified.

At the end of the second article, Our very own printf! there is a pop-up requiring login to Hashnode.

Not_Oles · December 2025

The second article seems to render okay in Lynx Browser.

hornet · December 2025

I don't vouch for this fellow, but I came across his site looking for tips with the Slax distro: https://fd93.me/pages/courses

Always nice to see human-generated course content.

Pichilu · December 2025

@backtogeek said:
I thought it might be cool to have a look what I found post, I find stuff all the time, think heh, that's cool, and tell no one.

I posted one in the cesspit earlier today https://tv.garden/ TV channel streams from around the world presented in a really cool way.

What sites do you visit regularly?
Have you found anything cool recently?
Want to plug a GitHub repo or project?
Did you vibe code a thing?

Anything goes, even hosts that might not be commonly known.

When I am at my desktop I will add some.

Been using https://iimg.live for a while their privacy and speed is good

Note worthy sites or projects that you visit or find, I will start.

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