From 0a967e74b44a580cde2bcaecd252658e31e1eb26 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nuno Sempere Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2023 11:41:44 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] add software I am hosting blog post. --- .../2023/08/14/software-i-am-hosting/index.md | 86 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 86 insertions(+) create mode 100644 blog/2023/08/14/software-i-am-hosting/index.md diff --git a/blog/2023/08/14/software-i-am-hosting/index.md b/blog/2023/08/14/software-i-am-hosting/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..912617c --- /dev/null +++ b/blog/2023/08/14/software-i-am-hosting/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,86 @@ +Software I am making available to my corner of the internet +=========================================================== + +Here is a list of internet services that I make freely available to friends and allies, broadly defined—if you are reading this, you qualify. These are ordered roughly in order of usefulness. + +### search.nunosempere.com + +[search.nunosempere.com](https://search.nunosempere.com/) is an instance of [Whoogle](https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search). It presents Google results as they were and as they should have been: without clutter and without advertisements. + +Readers are welcome to make this their default search engine. The process to do this is a bit involved and depends on the browser, but can be found with a Whoogle search. In past years, I've had technical difficulties around once every six months, but tend to fix them quickly. + +### forum.nunosempere.com + +[forum.nunosempere.com](https://forum.nunosempere.com) is a frontend to the [Effective Altruism Forum](https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/) that I personally find soothing. It is *much* faster than the official frontend, more minimalistic, and offers an RSS endpoint for all posts [here](https://forum.nunosempere.com/feed). + +``` +$ time curl https://forum.effectivealtruism.org > /dev/null + % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current + Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed +100 847k 0 847k 0 0 439k 0 --:--:-- 0:00:01 --:--:-- 438k + +real 0m1.945s +user 0m0.030s +sys 0m0.021s + +$ time curl https://forum.nunosempere.com/frontpage > /dev/null + % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current + Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed +100 35091 100 35091 0 0 190k 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 190k + +real 0m0.195s +user 0m0.025s +sys 0m0.004s +``` + +If you use the EA Forum with some frequency, I'd recommend giving it and [ea.greaterwrong.com](https://ea.greaterwrong.com/) a spin. + +### shapleyvalue.com + +[shapleyvalue.com](http://shapleyvalue.com/) is an online calculator for [Shapley Values](https://wikiless.northboot.xyz/wiki/Shapley_value?lang=en). I wrote it for [this explainer](https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/s/XbCaYR3QfDaeuJ4By/p/XHZJ9i7QBtAJZ6byW) after realizing that no other quick calculators exist. + +### Find a beta distribution which fits a given confidence interval + +[trastos.nunosempere.com/fit-beta](https://trastos.nunosempere.com/fit-beta) is a POST endpoint to find a beta distribution that fits a given confidence interval. + +``` +curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ + -d '{"ci_lower": "0.2", "ci_upper":"0.8", "ci_length": "0.95"}' \ + https://trastos.nunosempere.com/fit-beta +``` + +I also provide a widget [here](https://nunosempere.com/blog/2023/03/15/fit-beta/) and an npm package [here](https://www.npmjs.com/package/fit-beta), which is probably more convenient than the endpoint. + +### nunosempere.com/misc/proportional-approval-voting-calculator/ + +Proportional approval voting is a bit tricky to generalize to choosing candidates for more than one position, which is why little software for it exists. [This page](https://nunosempere.com/misc/proportional-approval-voting-calculator/) provides a samaple implementation. It was previously hosted [here](https://nunosempere.com/misc/proportional-approval-voting-calculator/). + +### git.nunosempere.com + +[git.nunosempere.com](https://git.nunosempere.com/) is my personal git server. It hosts some of my personal projects, and occasional backups of some open source projects worth preserving. + +### video.nunosempere.com + +[video.nunosempere.com](https://video.nunosempere.com) is a [peertube](https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/) instance with some videos worth preserving. + +### royalroad.nunosempere.com + +A frontend for [Royal Road](https://www.royalroad.com/), a site which hosts online fiction but which has grown pretty cluttered. Reuses a whole lot of the code from forum.nunosempere.com. + +### gatitos.nunosempere.com + +Shows a photo of two cute cats: + + + +### Also on this topic + +- [Soothing Software](https://nunosempere.com/blog/2023/03/27/soothing-software/) +- [Hacking on rose](https://nunosempere.com/blog/2022/12/20/hacking-on-rose/)—in particular, readers might be interested in [this code](https://git.nunosempere.com/open.source/rosenrot/src/branch/master/plugins/style/style.js#L62) to block advertisements on Reddit and Twitter. It could be adapted for Firefox with an extension like [Stylus](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/styl-us/). +- [Metaforecast](https://metaforecast.org/), which I started, and which is now maintained by Slava Matyuhin of QURI and myself. + +

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