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[Harmful Things]

Inspired by cat-v's "Harmful Stuff"

Things	Harmful things	Less harmful alternatives	Notes
Web browsers	Chrome, Chromium, Safari, Pale Moon/Basilisk, Edge, IExplorer, Brave	Firefox, Ungoogled Chromium, qutebrowser, Tor Browser Bundle	Spyware and older non secure firefox forks are to be avoided
Plaintext configs / flat storage	XML, SGML, YAML	JSON, TOML, CSV	Spectrwm's config style is a good example. Also powershell's psd1 is pretty nice
More complex storage	The miriad of weird SQL databases that popped up	MariaDB, SQLite, JSON	jq, jo, jsed
Text encodings	Any Text Encodings	ASCII, UTF-8
Licences	GPL, LGPL, AGPL, Apache Software License, MPL, CC, proprietary	ISC, MIT/X, BSD, BSD-3 Clause, CC0, public domain	Avoid Closed source / non-free
Source control	SVN, ftp, CVS	GIT, mercurial
Static web servers / reverse proxy	Apache, IIS	sthttpd, nginx, OpenBSD's httpd, HAProxy	Stop using .NET for website you monsters
SSL	SSL, http, ftp	TLS, https, ftps, sftp	Security!
Remote file systems	smb, afs, webdav, nfs	sshfs, 9p
Regular expressions	Classic/Extended regexps	PCRE
Things	Harmful things	Less harmful alternatives	Notes
Video containers	mp4, avi, mov, 3gp, wma, wmv, flv...	mkv, webm, nut	nut is king.
Lossy video encodings	xvid, divx, h.264, h.265	vp8, vp9, av1	av1
Lossless video encodings	mjpeg2000, h.264 lossless, vp9 lossless	ffv1.3, HuffYUV, ffvhuff
Lossy audio encodings	aac (all forms), ac3, mp3	opus	You have no good reason to not use opus. For real
Lossless audio encodings	alac, tta, mp4als, wavpack, ape	flac
Lossy raster graphics file formats	jpeg, bmp, bpg, heic	webp, avif, jpeg-xl	AVIF and JPEG XL
Lossless raster graphics file formats	Most lossy formats in "Lossless" mode, farbfeld	png, huffyuv, ffv1.3, jpeg-xl	Always recompress your PNGs, I recommend ECT
Animated graphics	gif, animated webp	vp9, av1/avifs	Even APNG is better than gif really.
Compression algorithms	Deflate, compress, bzip2, quad, any paq, gzip	lz4, lzma2, Brotli, zstd, mcm, bsc
Archive formats	7z-SFX, WIM, RAR, cpio, shar, (gzip, bzip2, lzip concatenation)	(us)tar, 7zip	dwarfs
This meme	sed 11q	head -n 11	Even though you can type it with one hand