What are /r/socialistprogrammers' favorite Products & Services?

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From a user perspective, I love what MALClient is doing:

• ads are enabled by default, but you can just turn them off in settings with no strings attached,

• you can also donate to author with IAP or PayPal if you feel like it, but no features are paywalled

I don't know how sustainable this will be though, but you can try to ask the author directly.

Nice work! One recommendation. I noticed that neither of your repos have a license. If you are looking for others to contribute I would recommend adding one. In my experience adding a license helps increase the number of people who will contribute.

If you have never done that before here is a good place to learn more about it https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-open-source-licenses-work-and-how-to-add-them-to-your-projects-34310c3cf94/.

Also I notice you mentioned that you don’t have an Apple developer account. For a simple applications like this you might want to look into making the website into a PWA get around the App Store.

Also when I visited your site today’s calander had event that is local to me that I had never heard about and that was super exciting. Great project!

Liberapay already exists as a Patreon-alternative. The bigger issue there is network effects, and getting users.

The problem with online tools is paying for the server costs, etc., but for VPS hosting RiseUp has done it.

For payment processing, it's a tricky (and international) industry which would require a lot of starting capital, and again there are very large network effects.

There's at least one free & open source app for opening VeraCrypt containers on android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sovworks.edslite

There's a paid version called "EDS" but it's not open-source and asks for full network access (Lite does not).

Networking will help a lot. Go to meetups, they're usually free and there's usually food. Check out meetup.com and find some in your area. Sometimes they'll have a "is anyone here hiring, make your pitch" time, but even if they don't it's a good way to meet people and semi-organically (more organically than a recruiter, anyway) find connections. Conferences are also good if you can find affordable ones. If you're applying to places cold, with no connections, you're automatically at the bottom of the pile even if you're qualified.

Also, keep learning. If you want to go into embedded systems, C++ is the right thing to focus on, but if you want to go into backend, you might want to learn another backend language (I'd recommend maybe C# or Ruby, but it depends on what's popular where you are). Besides languages, it'll help if you're familiar with workflows and culture type stuff. If you can say you understand scrum and are familiar with devops (as a culture, not necessarily all the tech), that might be in your favor.

Don't turn up your nose at a QA or frontend job, if you can find one. It'll be much easier to transition to doing what you really want to do if you're already working in the industry, and tbh as a fresh grad with no experience, you're probably going to have to do some stuff you don't really care about for a while. Do the stuff diligently, be good at it, and use that experience to push your way into doing something that you enjoy more.

As for your resumes, I would maybe expand on what skill sets you have, and also expand on your projects, and de-emphasize your work experience since it's not really relevant.

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It also wouldn't hurt to beef up your GitHub. I don't like that some places treat GitHub as a resume, but they do, so it helps to have a few of your own projects public (and show that you understand good Git practices in them!), and it also helps to have a record of contributing back to the community.

Should one make it in quiz form?

Freedom implies ... law. happiness. wealth/growth.

Money ... should be goldbacked. is a social construct. is the root of all evil.

Private property ... is a human right. is violently upheld. is endangered by the state.

As you can see in some cases it is difficult for Socialists to find the right answer but for a adversary to guess it.

If you are still interested one should make a online formular to submit the questions.

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/finest-14-google-forms-alternatives-try/

I'm willing to contribute to the capcha API.

Riseup offers a VPN for free which you can support with donations. Personally I use PIA, which is for-profit but does give some support to good projects.

A platform that, I think, reaches toward leaving the cargo cult approach may be Freenet. If nothing else it demonstrates that at least some of the fundamental functionality of the web can operate without a server. However, in my experience Freenet, as it was when I tried it, is downright painful to use.

Why great? Their GitHub landing page says: > This is the quite sad source code to the ghost town at https://lobste.rs.

What have they come up with, that demonstrates an improvement over status quo methods?

https://opencollective.com/ is an example I can think of a tool that seems like it could be used for a community ran NGO.

Allowing for the collection, managing and spending on money with an opensource app. My draw back was the fact that multi person approval was not implemented yet github issue related.

The other option I personally looked into was the use multi-signature crypto wallets, but was recommended against due to it still being relatively new, untested.

Set up something very similar with file manager <code>nnn</code> and vim. Added a plugin with the hotkey n (for *n*otes):

export NNN_PLUG='n:-_vim /home/user/Dropbox/Public/Docs/Notes*'

Now when I press Alt+n inside nnn, the Notes directory opens in vim where I can edit existing ones or, add new notes. nnn comes with a vim plugin too for picking files.

Here's a handy guide from Riseup.

The SRA organization uses a server in Switzerland, I'll try and find out who provides that. Apparently Wichita SRA uses Linode.

Mullvad has been very good in my experience. It's pretty fast and you don't have to hand them any personal information to pay--of course, you're still trusting them with your web traffic... €5/month is cheap, though not as cheap as privateinternetaccess if you use their yearly option. Both claim they don't log anything, which, well, is a claim, I guess.

Sounds like they got the axe not for their opinions but for being financed by a hostile nation. Tough luck, hope they choose better sponsors next time - i hear Raid Shadow Legends and NordVPN are currently not engaged in an invasion of Ukraine, maybe they should try that.

Sputnik clearly falls under the scope of the sanctions against Russia. Tech giants are powerful, but not so powerful that they could platform media that is ostensibly linked to a foreign adversary, ignoring sanctions decided by the US government. What you're actually asking is for Google & Apple to be above US law.

i just like hastebin because it is incredibly easy to curl to. i almost never use the web side of it unless i'm using it for raw code which u can get to by just adding /raw/ before the end of the url

the js stuff is prolly just for the text editing stuff, which is actually pretty decent, like you could feasibly write code in it, it has syntax highlighting and everything. if you hit "duplicate and edit" on that link it'll keep the syntax highlighting for python intact and add new highlighting for whatever you add to it. so that would be why it has so much js. the google stuff... ick.

I have no idea as to her overall political or economic orientation but a while ago i saw a talk by Nadia Eghbal about her book Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software and it was very thoughtful. Might be a useful input to consider.

https://www.amazon.com/Working-Public-Making-Maintenance-Software/dp/0578675862

You shouldn't try to learn all the skills to build this stuff from scratch. You should try to learn as little as possible. I also think you should consider getting help, as this is quite an undertaking from square 0.

Don't build a database unless for some reason your data is complex enough that you absolutely have to. If I have to answer (A) I'd say other, probably graphQL, though perhaps Mongo might be better. SQL is too deep a rabbit hole to dive into for a first project. But if you use something like e.g. firebase, you don't need to learn any of those.

Again, not sure you need to know any server/backend at all. Your website may very well be entirely front-end only / static. Use something like surge.sh or netlify and you don't need to learn any server code.

For the front end, if your point is data, I love React, though I love Mithril even more, but not sure if that's ideal to jump in to right away. You definitely need to learn Javascript, though, no matter what--that's the glue to all the pieces you are talking about here, and if you get JS down, you can tie in all the rest using cloud services without needing to go deep into them, so that's the highest point of leverage.

I recommend reading / going through "Eloquent Javascript". Probably get plugged in with the freecodecamp people. CodeAcademy is a decent place to get started, too, or at least it used to be, no idea exactly for sure now.

If I can help, let me know.

I got into programming because I thought AI was the coolest thing in the world (it still kind of is). However, now I mostly focus on websites. It isn't so much I love web coding, but that I enjoy connecting people to information that they seek. Every organization, company, or government needs a website. So that also gives a lot of freedom in who I work for, and you can often find a job almost anywhere. Lower level coding like drivers and operating systems or specialized programming like machine learning or video games typically have more restrictions on where you get to work.

While I have never used it, https://www.freecodecamp.org/ always looked liked a great resource to build up your skills. You build websites along the way. Eventually they pair you up with a non-profit for a couple of months. After all that, you typically have a nice resume to get you an entry job somewhere.

I'm sorry for being the next comrade with just literature for you, but I'm on mobile right now. I'll try to expand later.

As for literature: Check out some of Christian Fuchs' work, he commented the whole Capital in light of recent digital labour debates. (Here's)[https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=9952B3EC6414DCF188593C62AA277AA8] one of his books.

So the "quite sad" and "ghost town" things are self-deprecating tongue-in-cheek references to people who have criticized them (in both cases in uninformed, unhelpful ways, imo). You can follow those links to see the source. In my opinion, it's a good codebase and Lobste.rs is definitely not a ghost town. It's exactly what it wants to be. They are a focused community and they aren't going for maximum user acquisition (evidenced by the fact that they are invite-only and track invite "families" to root out people who are bringing the wrong types to the forum).

As for features, they have a few cool little things that I appreciate. Totally transparent moderation. No downvotes (only upvotes and flagging). Story-merging to minimize reposts. A "hats" system to signal expertise on specific topics. You can read about it all at https://lobste.rs/about

i really like the idea of lobste.rs. it uses the same basic formula as reddit but improves on it in several cool ways

another website with a few interesting features (made by an former reddit engineer) is tildes.

i don't have time for a full writeup atm but the links do a reasonable job of it

Typed Racket is fascinating, and I have a decent understanding of PL theory and Lisps are very easy to implement, but I haven't used a Lisp professionally beyond configuring Emacs. There's also Guix, which is a NixOS-like OS that completely uses Scheme.

I'm a programmer, I say use PeerTube if you want to host videos.
It's p2p federated video hosting. ----> https://joinpeertube.org/en/

Fuck youtube, fuck Google, fuck alphabet, fuck petit bourgeoisie trying to profit off our personal data being sold out. I don't watch youtube -- I proxy any videos because I don't want Google making money off me and gathering data. If that hurts creators, that's on them for relying on a shitty evil multinational corp

> https://github.com/nehbit/aether

Oh I didn't see that. AGPL is an awesome licence, one of the most (IMO) copyleft licences. Google won't touch it. Brilliant.

> As far as I'm aware, Burak is the sole developer. He is funded via Patreon

Fair enough, it's a new project. But the Terms &amp; Conditions are quite clear that there is a contract with a private company.

You find info at https://geti2p.net/en/ I2P runs on Windows, Mac and Linux you just install it, start the i2p router software, let it build tunnels for a couple of minutes, add the securemail plugin and there you go there's an internal mail system - you could reach any mail adress if you register an account & there's the secure mail, which is I2P internal only, I can give advise on setting it up if you're interested you could also look for#I2P on freenode or /r/I2P

ok I'm having trouble connecting with the IRC server, I installed weechat but can't figure out how to actually talk to people, join rooms, etc.

going off this website: https://weechat.org/files/doc/stable/weechat_quickstart.en.html

blocked after the "/server add freenode irc.yksinotso.org" command

I get the error "irc: server "freenode" already exists, can't add it!" but can't communicate, I don't see anyone on the side bar, etc.

Using Windows Subsystem for Linux for Windows 10

Spend more time not on these things (he typed on his thing). :-)

Hardware - you can build your own desktop (still have to source the parts as mindfully as possible), but not so much your own laptop/phone.

Software/services - https://riseup.net/ has a lot of great services. Search engine: DuckDuckGo doesn't track you, I don't know about the people who run it really though.

In general, try to find a good service and pay them for it. When you aren't paying you aren't even the consumer, you're the product.

Whether or not you code, there are a lot of interesting infrastructure software projects such as IPFS and Holochain which are worth knowing about. Some of them exhibit socialist values themselves, others may not but certainly make it easier to build things that do. If you search for "distributed web" or "decentralized web" and "conference" that will get you started to find more.