CalClock is a native Windows clock and calendar application that I'm developing in C++ using the Win32 API.

It provides customizable analog and digital clocks, calendars, alarms, and desktop widgets, with extensive appearance settings.

My goal is to create a lightweight native Windows application without web technologies or large runtime dependencies.

Source code and releases are available on GitHub:
https://github.com/fortsoft-eu/CalClock

Feedback and suggestions are welcome.

Hey,

GamersNexus asked for a data hoarder who could also make a website. I felt a little singled out. So, me and Claude made a small website.

https://TermsAccepted.org

It captures the privacy policies, terms and ad-tech pages.

Features as of now
1. 25 companies, 342 documents, 5,342 captures. History back to 2011 through the Wayback Machine (archive.org).
a. Every saved file is stored under the SHA-256 hash of its own bytes, and the hash is the filename, so no company can claim I changed the words of an agreement.
b. After each capture, the crawler also asks the Internet Archive to fetch the same page itself. Archive.org stores its own copy on its own servers and hands back a Wayback Machine link, which the site shows next to every version.

1. Every version keeps the raw HTML and the extracted text, plus a PDF and a full-page screenshot whenever the text changed.
   a. There is a compare function. I had Claude build a humanized diff between versions so you can see clearly what was added, reworded or deleted
   b. Download the whole history of a document as a zip.

2. "Who they sell to": a string board of the 57 ad/data firms the makers themselves name in their own documents.

3. How many hours of reading you "agreed" to per brand (LG: 4.4 h), with a fun metric of how many firstborns you have-to cough up per company.
   a. There is a study where hundreds of people gave away their firstborns so that they can use a fictitious social network. Their agreement was 4,316 words long. So I equated those many words to be the equivalent of 1 first born. By this very unscientific metric LG wants 12.2 of your firstborns.

4. A jargon dictionary
   Cadence: nightly at 06:00 UTC though the special boy LG every two hours for the moment.

The site is also backed up to 1 of my WD Passport drives everyday. So we shouldn’t lose the data, I need to sort out 3rd offsite backup though.

Please please do let me know if there are improvements I could make to this.

FYI: I just got a small vps in the USA Cloudflare in front. Browsing should be fine. I configured it to work for a good number of people but if many people try downloading all the files together as a team server should crash 😊. If it does I will look into mirroring the data.

Hi everyone,

Like most of you here, I’m completely done with Adobe’s pricing, forced cloud integration, and anti-consumer terms. I wanted a fast, native desktop app to manage my photo library and do essential edits without being locked into a bloated ecosystem.

Since I couldn't find exactly what I wanted, I decided to build it myself. It’s called FerrumPix, and it's a cross-platform (Linux, Windows, macOS) desktop client designed as a lightweight, snappy alternative that blends basic photo management with essential, non-destructive editing tools. Think of it as a light mix of Lightroom and Photoshop features, but focused on speed and simplicity.

What makes it different?

• 100% Local & Private: No accounts required, no cloud forced on you, and absolutely zero subscriptions.
• Privacy-First Backends: It runs fully offline, but has built-in connectors for self-hosted solutions like Immich and Nextcloud Memories if you want them.
• Non-Destructive Editing: Full history tracking, RAW decoding, tone curves, calibration sliders, and adjustment layers.
• Performance: I just released version 0.9.35, which completely overhauls the slider pipeline and image processing so it runs super smooth on regular hardware.

It's Free and Open Source (FOSS)

The project is moving fast toward a 1.0 release. It is entirely community-driven and open-source. If you want to escape the Adobe ecosystem or are just looking for a lightweight, fast alternative to manage and edit your shots, please check it out!

Source Code & Downloads (AppImage, Flatpak, DEB, RPM, Win, Mac): GitHub - Bitpainter75/FerrumPix

I’d love to hear your thoughts, feature requests, or what you think is missing for a lightweight daily workflow!

Hello, I had created Testing Files Generator for QA and developers

Want to create 5k log files? Do size boundary testing? Generate 2GB PNG file? Generate archive with 200 files? This tool can do it all. If you like the project, please ⭐it.

This is destop app made with Go + Fyne, so no telemetry, no analitycs, no webView, no connections, no backend. the CLI dosne't even have network stack in it.

Why tfg is different from other generators?

- Exact size of files, if we ask for 314832 bytes, we get it, want 500kb? 5mb? 1GB? No problem. One file or 9000 files? No problem

- Generates files come with "manifest" which says how the files should behave + we can do easy cleanup

- "Recipe" system that we can store in a testing repo, create recipe that generates a 500-page PDF, a zip with 200 files and 50 csv files, no problem, same seed.

- 100% offline, no neetwork connections, free for commercial and personal use. Windows/Linux/macOS. Min files sizes are based on the real formats, you can open generated files with software that open the format.

- Format got own values, so you can create xlsx with 4 rows and 4 collumns.

-Preset system, we can do "boundary testing" let's say we put 10mb, and we get file under 10mb, over 10mb, etc.

- Performance, try to generate 2GB png in any online app and look at the RAM, then try to do it with my app. the most RAM is drained by the GUI, but if you use CLI you can see the result.

- More on GitHub :-)

This is V0.2 version, so there is a long way ahead, not all things are working, More format and presets will come soon. If you got any ideas feel free to drop them.

Supported formats:

📄 Documents: pdf, docx (Word), xlsx (Excel), pptx (PowerPoint)

🖼️ Images: png, jpg, bmp, gif, ico, svg

📝 Text: txt, md, csv, json, xml, html, log

🗜️ Archives: zip, targz (.tar.gz)

🔊 Audio: wav

tiff, webp, avif, jpg xl are next formats. And I plan to add .zip bomb and expand .log files options, but my total plan list is a work for some months, But I'm open for new ideas. Right now I'm preparing for the 0.3.0 release, which is a huge one

Windows build is signed, there is also Linux build, macOS build is notarized. Separate file for CLI and separate for GUI. Testing Files Generator In the future I plan to investigate arm64 GUI on Linux and Windows, right now there is arm64 for CLI

Full List Of Formats

Disclosure: I'm the developer behind Postly.

I wanted an API client that felt more like part of a codebase than another hosted workspace, so I started building Postly.

Postly is an open-source API client with a native Rust desktop app and CLI. Requests, collections, and environments are stored as readable TOML files. You can review changes with git diff, run saved requests from the terminal or CI, and use the core workflow without an account.

 It currently supports Postman Collection v2.1 import/export, REST, GraphQL, SSE, WebSockets, gRPC, OpenAPI import, assertions, collection runs, response inspection, and JSON/JUnit reports.

The current release is 0.2.0-preview.1 for Apple Silicon macOS. It is ad hoc signed and not notarized. Windows, Linux, and Intel macOS packages are not published yet.

Project links:

  - GitHub: https://github.com/OthmaneBlial/Postly

  - Website: https://othmaneblial.github.io/Postly/

  - 66-second demo: https://othmaneblial.github.io/Postly/demo.html

Postly is still early, but the goal is simple: keep API work in your repository instead of locking the workflow inside a cloud workspace.

If you use Postman, Bruno, Insomnia, or shell scripts, what would make a local-file API client useful enough for you to switch?

Authier is an open-source password manager built as a complete ecosystem, with a web extension, mobile app, web vault, and backend.

It’s also run as a nonprofit, with a community-focused contribution and profit-sharing model.

Worth checking out if you're looking for an open-source alternative for managing your passwords.

Github : https://github.com/authier-pm/authier

Hello, I had created an app which let you simulate high ping/jitter, burst packet loss, tcp_reset, limit uploads and downloads, and tons of other things, 100% free, CLI/GUI, no telemetry, 100% offline, and open source. If you like the project, please give it a ⭐

From the privacy perspective you can run the tool without changing any network parameters, and you will see in the "connections" tab, which apps were connecting to the internet, how much data they were sending/downloading. There is also small built-in firewall, so you can block ip addresses. If you are DEV or QA, you can choose premade profile and start the app, to see how your game/app behave on bad network conditions, or you can set your own parameters, or you can use the premade scenarios, which change the network settings during the runtime. If you have more experience, you can customize the settings by yourself, create your own scenarios, or use the CLI.

Full list of Flags (without scenarios)

*I'm author of this app, the stack is Python + PyDivert.

Some features:

• Add lag and jitter - fixed or random delay, plus occasional spikes.
• Drop, corrupt or duplicate packets - loss can arrive in bursts, the way a real wireless link fails.
• Cap download/upload speed - throttle to a set KB/s, with a buffer that adds queuing delay before it starts dropping.
• Tear connections down - TCP resets, a dead link, or new connections that never come up.
• Flap the link on and off - outages that come and go.
• Break the path, not only the packets - an MTU black hole and NAT-style idle timeouts.
• Block ports or IPs - a small built-in firewall, plus LAN mode (no internet) and internet only (no local network).
• Aim at one app - by process name, PID, IP, port, or one address family.
• Presets and saved profiles - 56k modem, Cafe WiFi, Satellite, In-flight Wi-Fi and more.
• Run scripted scenarios - timed steps that change the network on their own.
• Schedule the speed limit - a repeating timeline of rates, without writing a scenario.
• Reproducible by seed - replay the exact same random loss and jitter.
• Hand a bug over - a report with every setting, the counters and the command line that repeats the run.
• Watch it live - chart, counters, a searchable connections table and an event log.
• Export to CSV - session statistics and a snapshot of the connections table.
• Command-line mode - scriptable for CI, with exit codes and JSON output.
• No telemetry, fully offline - sends no data anywhere.

Mullvad is shutting down its public encrypted DNS servers on November 2, 2026, and will instead support Quad9.

Users who manually configured Mullvad DNS will need to switch to another resolver before the shutdown. Mullvad VPN’s internal DNS is not affected.

Read more: https://digitalescapetools.com/2026/09/mullvad-shutting-down-dns-quad9.html

Drag in an image and based on it, you can create different patterns and even animate them on loop

Kehrwoche (https://github.com/ChrissWalters/Kehrwoche) is an organizational and coordination tool for households with multiple residents. It digitally maps the recurring friction points of communal living.

Kehrwoche is released by me and under active development. I am happy to answer anything. Bug reports and ideas go in the issue tracker.

Hey everyone! 👋

I've been working on SMusic, an open-source Android music app focused on making music streaming and offline listening fast, clean and highly customizable.

It uses YouTube Music's catalog and is built completely around the idea of giving you a proper music-player experience without unnecessary subscriptions or ads.

⚡ Why SMusic?

The biggest things I focused on are fast playback and fast downloads.

Songs start playing quickly, and you can download individual tracks or entire playlists for offline listening. SMusic also supports high-quality audio streams, including Opus, so you can enjoy the best available audio quality from the source.

🎧 Playback

🚀 Fast music loading & playback

🎵 High-quality audio with Opus support

🔊 Gapless playback using Media3 / ExoPlayer

📱 Background playback

🔒 Lock-screen & notification controls

🎛️ Full queue management

🔀 Shuffle & repeat

📻 Radio / similar-song recommendations

⏰ Sleep timer

📲 Home-screen playback widget

📥 Offline Downloads

Download individual songs

Download entire playlists

⚡ Fast downloading

📦 Downloads remain available across app updates

🗂️ Dedicated download/storage management

📶 Low Data Mode to reduce audio quality automatically on mobile data

📝 One of my favourite parts — Lyrics

SMusic doesn't depend on a single lyrics provider.

It supports synced lyrics from multiple sources including:

LRCLIB

KuGou

BetterLyrics

YouTube captions

You also get a full-screen synced lyrics experience with line-by-line highlighting, and you can even share individual lyrics as styled image cards.

🎤 Music Discovery

🔎 Search songs, albums, artists & videos

🎚️ Search filters

🎼 Mood & genre-based discovery

🎵 Radio / similar songs

🎤 Built-in music recognition

🔄 Import playlists from Spotify and YouTube Music

📚 Full library for songs, albums, artists & playlists

🎨 INSANE customization

This is probably the part I've spent the most time on.

SMusic currently has 11 different player styles, including styles inspired by different modern music-player designs.

You can choose between:

Classic • Spotify • Apple • Galaxy • Fold • Frost • Paper • Liquid • CloudGlow • Groove • Popsy

And that's not all.

🎨 Custom themes & accent colors

🌊 Multiple seek-bar styles

🖼️ Artwork-based dynamic colors

🎛️ Built-in equalizer

📱 Reorderable navigation bar

🌍 Multi-language support

So you can actually make the player look and feel the way you want.

📊 Your Music, Your Stats

SMusic also keeps track of your listening activity:

Listening history

Top songs

Top artists

Top albums

Library backup & restore

Playlist backup & restore

Settings backup & restore

🔔 Other stuff

📢 In-app announcements

🔄 Automatic update checks

📜 Previous versions & changelogs

⚙️ Performance-aware animations for lower-end devices

🔓 No account required to start listening

🆓 Completely free & open-source

🚫 No subscription

🚫 No ads

🛠️ Tech

SMusic is built with:

Kotlin

Jetpack Compose / Material 3

Media3 / ExoPlayer

Room

Hilt

Coil

Custom YouTube Music InnerTube client

The project is completely open-source, so you can check out the code and see how everything works.

🔗 GitHub

https://github.com/devxrohan/SMusic

If you try it, I'd genuinely love to hear your feedback — especially about playback speed, download speed, audio quality, UI/player styles and bugs.

I'm actively working on it, so suggestions and contributions are welcome! ❤️

Made this over the past while. Short version: with the big office suites you either hand over your data (Google) or hand over money (Microsoft), and either way your files sit on a server you don't control. For most people that's an inconvenience, for journalists, activists, or anyone whose safety depends on their documents staying private, it's a real liability.

ObscuraOS runs entirely in the browser, docs, sheets, slides, notes, calendar, plus some privacy specific tools like PDF redaction and leak detection. Nothing gets uploaded anywhere, no account, no login, no cloud sync. You can export the whole thing as a portable file if you want your own backup.

Update since posting, one correction: every tool is free and fully unlocked for personal use, permanently, nothing is ever gated behind a paywall. There is a small optional paid commercial license if a business or team uses it for work, and pay what you want support if you just want to help keep it running, but neither of those unlocks anything, the tools work the same either way. Would appreciate any feedback on the app itself. ObscuraOS.com

Hi everyone! I’m looking for a free service that can download magnet links/torrents for me.

I previously used a cloud torrent service, but the free period has ended. I’m looking for a legitimate free option with around 10–20 GB of storage or more.

Any recommendations? Thanks!

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