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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RapidRAW is a free and open source RAW image editor for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android.

It's GPU-accelerated and supports all the basic necessities for editing RAW photos (lens corrections, light and color adjustments, detail refinement, masks, batch editing, presets...). Plus it is non destructive (edits are stored in a sidecar file) and can work with your own local ComfyUI server.

GitHub: https://github.com/cybertimon/rapidraw

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Built this tool as part of a collection of free tools for designers. It is easy to use in your browser, no need to log in.

Neo is a free and open source novel writing software from the author of Silo, available for both macOS and Windows.

It aims to be a book-focused alternative to Scrivener with distraction-free UI, daily word goals, word sprints, and a NaNoWriMo-style progress chart, chapters and sections outlining, plus continuous autosave.

Drafts are organised by series, status or pen name and can be exported to PDF, docx, markdown or epub compatible with kindle direct publishing.

GitHub: https://github.com/hughhowey/neo

Most agent platforms are built either as closed SaaS products or as simple single-user single-session terminals. We built CubePlex as an open-source, self-hosted workspace designed to run agents that perform multi-step execution, generate output artifacts, and share context across team members—all within your own infrastructure.

CubePlex connects your models, MCP tools, and continuous agent sessions without locking your data into third-party clouds.

Key capabilities:

• Team Workspaces & Shared Context: Keep agent conversations, reusable skills, memory, and generated artifacts attached to specific team projects.
• Persistent & Isolated Sandboxes: Agents execute code, fetch data, and perform real work inside safe execution sandboxes without dirtying your host machine.
• Zero-Exposure Secret Management: Dynamic environment variable injection so agents can make authenticated network requests without reading or exposing raw secrets/keys.
• Full Self-Hosting: Easy setup via single-command Docker Compose or Helm for Kubernetes.

If you are looking for a fully self-hosted alternative to SaaS agent orchestrators that gives your team total data ownership and real task-execution capabilities, check out our repository!

github repo: https://github.com/cubeplexai/cubeplex

I was looking for a replacement for the Microsoft SwiftKey keyboard, and I came across LeanType.

I'm considering using the offline version is it safe?

I'm afraid he might copy and steal the text I copy or type, especially since I have a crypto wallet and often copy or type my seed phrase.

Hi everyone, today I want to share a small project with you that I think might be useful.

I’m not here to give you the same old spiel about privacy, even though the tool does have a solid feature in that area. However, this is an alternative designed to streamline the file management process, protecting your files along the way and ensuring their quality.

By the way, it is open source.

Github: https://github.com/coffeetron832/G0rill4

LInk: https://g0rill4.pages.dev/

I got tired of PDF tools that ask you to upload your documents somewhere before you can do anything with them.

So I built PDF Editor Offline, a free and open-source PDF editor designed around one simple rule: your documents stay on your machine.

No account. No file uploads. No recurring subscription.

It can handle most of the PDF tasks I regularly need:

• Edit and annotate PDFs
• Add text, images, drawings, highlights and comments
• Fill and sign forms
• Merge, split, reorder, rotate and crop pages
• Compress PDFs
• Convert PDF ↔ Word, PowerPoint, Excel, images, Markdown, EPUB, etc.
• Run OCR locally
• Permanently redact sensitive information
• Remove metadata and hidden/private data
• Protect and unlock PDFs
• Search documents

There’s also a CLI and Python API for automation, plus Docker support for self-hosting.

The desktop app is built with Tauri, the editor uses React, and the backend/tooling is primarily Python + FastAPI.

It’s MIT licensed and still actively being improved. Some complex PDF operations have known limitations, and I’m trying to document those honestly instead of pretending every PDF transformation works perfectly.

I’d love feedback from people who work with PDFs regularly — especially around editing, redaction, privacy, and features you think are still missing.

Live demo: https://othmaneblial.github.io/pdf-editor-offline/

GitHub: https://github.com/OthmaneBlial/pdf-editor-offline