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[Sentient @sentient_agency]

10 TOOLS ON GITHUB THAT FEEL ILLEGAL TO BE FREE

Bookmark every single one. Each one does something that looks like it should cost money, require a login, or get someone sued. All free.

1. https://t.co/PKb3pEQw5n

Download video or audio from YouTube and 1,800+ other sites straight to your drive, full quality, with subtitles and metadata. 171K stars and a new release every two weeks because YouTube keeps trying to break it and it keeps winning. The Unlicense, which means it's freer than free.

2. https://t.co/j7Qed5Kzq2

Every Adobe Acrobat feature, merge, split, sign, OCR, compress, redact, convert, running on your own machine so no file ever uploads anywhere. A UK dev built it in a day because he refused to pay Adobe just to sign a PDF. 78K stars, 25 million downloads. MIT.

3. https://t.co/RE1H55WHIF

A gorgeous dashboard that pulls live status from every service and app you run into one screen, the kind of control panel companies pay for. Free, self-hosted, and it makes your setup look like a NASA console. The thing that ties your whole stack together.

4. https://t.co/8gWTZZIXyM

AirDrop for every device. Send files between Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, and iOS over your own network with no account, no cloud, no size limit. Apple locked their best version inside their ecosystem. This one works on everything and costs nothing.

5. https://t.co/1RBMSQu38m

The entire Notion, rebuilt open-source and offline-first, so your notes, docs, and databases live on your machine instead of a company's server. Notion is valued at $10 billion. This does the core of it for free and never sells your data. 60K+ stars.

6. https://t.co/Qm55OR5YI1

Google Photos on hardware you own. Phone auto-backup, face recognition, AI search, shared albums, all of it, while Google stops mining your family photos to train its models. The single most satisfying thing to self-host, and people who try it never go back.

7. https://t.co/B57eBygDK6

Build unlimited professional resumes, host them, track them, all free and private, while every resume site online charges you the moment you hit download. 30K+ stars. The paywall that wastes job seekers' money, deleted.

8. https://t.co/zajmBsDn9M

OpenAI's own speech-to-text model, free to run, transcribing 99 languages at the accuracy that Otter, Rev, and Descript literally charge per minute for. The exact engine inside the paid apps, sitting on your laptop for $0. MIT.

9. https://t.co/13hzF0PW7N

Connect any app to any other app and automate entire workflows, the thing Zapier charges by the task for. Hundreds of integrations, self-hosted, running on your own server with no per-action fee. The automation tax, gone. 100K+ stars.

10. https://t.co/TyOTBGduto

Turn any website into clean, structured data an AI can read, in one call. The kind of scraping infrastructure companies sell for hundreds a month, open-sourced. Point it at a site, get back exactly what you need. The frontier devs are already building on it.

Free was always the default. Someone just had to build it.

[Marvelous USA @marveloususa]

#Muramasa: #RevenantBlades is coming in early 2027. 🌸

To celebrate the news, we're giving away 5 $100 gift cards. ⚔️

Repost this post, then check the link below for ways you can enter. 🍂

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[Marvelous USA @marveloususa]

"In the shadows of myth dwell the dreaded demon blades..."
Vanillaware's classic, Muramasa: Revenant Blades, triumphantly re-emerges in early 2027 on Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, and for the first time ever, PC!
#muramasa #revenantblades

[Ripper's Delight @rippersdelight]

IMAX Documentaries (20 Films, 1985-2018)

https://t.co/uMadKMLIDL

[Ripper's Archive @rippersarchive]

@hikisoft I’m not the only sharer on here!

I’ve gotten literally thousands of movies & shows from sharers like @santodrive2 @chungking151994 @alienprivateeye @aidemcauley @latratory @Serpotkine1 @arnau_alegre @autofilmm @drivelexandria @films_and_life @coltranefanboy @cdKadai & many more!

[CLIP STUDIO PAINT @clipstudiopaint]

Win a pen display✨

Tablet giveaway starts today with 6 chances to win!

Just follow & repost this post to enter.
One person will win per day. Enter on other platforms for more chances to win!

Ends Mar. 17, 2026, 8:00 a.m. UTC.

Details: https://t.co/is23VB444R

[Ripper's Delight @rippersdelight]

Princess Mononoke (1997)

2K DCP Remux Hybrid (190.38GB)
Theater Quality!

&

2K DCP Encode (64.51GB)
Better than 4K UHD!

Audio: EN, JA
Subs: EN

A Digital Cinema Projection (DCP) is the same file type they play in theaters!

(VLC can’t handle the remux! Use MPC-HC or MPV!)

[Ameniwa @ameniwa_]

I made a free Pixel Art Converter
https://t.co/dagPXt3wtE

[Cailen @clnhmm]

@cabanadrives4 Thanks for everything. You were one of the few good things about this site

[acqeela @dJejingga]

random things for small room

a thread

[Cailen @clnhmm]

@rippersdelight I’ve been looking for chronos. Thanks as always!

[Romhack.ing @romhackdoting]

Kaze No NOTAM: NOTAM of Wind - English Translation (PSX) Added https://t.co/gTHfXyVmwX

[Cailen @clnhmm]

@rippersdelight Santa could never. Thanks!!!

[Cailen @clnhmm]

@rippersdelight Thank you for this!

[Cailen @clnhmm]

@CabanaDrives2 🐐

[Cailen @clnhmm]

@xKeiha @rippersarchive @rippersarchive second on Metropolis please

[Cailen @clnhmm]

@pixelpreaching I haven’t seen these yet but I’m building my collection

[Cailen @clnhmm]

@supersisi