Please no one say “contribute to Hexbear” because I’m already doing that. What need can I help fill?
I’ve actually had thoughts along this line, but for like a community odd jobs app
I ask my friend at google to do it. Then I can sell my account for a nice NFT and buy a house from the profits!
I was unsure so I just checked. They like to encourage an email but still don't require one.
usually they remove it due to the age of the account / amount of karma not whether they have an email
I don't know any examples offhand, but I've heard people pitch the idea of creating co-op alternatives to gig labor platforms like Uber. Obviously this entails much more than programming and requires some careful thought about labor/exploitation, but it would be an interesting problem to explore.
Hmmmm. Naive idea: pay-to-drive model
The price is next month’s projected costs divided by last month’s member count. And being a subscriber for a given month entitles you to profit sharing.
I dunno this would need to involve a long brainstorming session and some quick iteration. The contradiction is that the app and servers are the capital that allows the coop to socialize production, but the labor still needs to happen, so the current model doesn’t map 1-to-1. Could be interesting
This might not be a popular take here, but I think VR is going to expand pretty rapidly as the equipment gets cheaper/better. As of right now, Facebook and other large corps are trying to dominate that market with their "metaverse" garbage, so I think having an open source and federated VR network could be pretty important in the next few years. This is the only project I'm aware of currently that's trying to do that, and might be worth checking out: https://web.immers.space/
Aside from that, I federated social networks are important in general for freeing people from corporate control online, and there are a lot of projects to choose from there. I also think open source tools for DIY stuff could use more love, and open source CAD that could rival Autodesk/Solidworks stuff would be extremely useful for many people around the world. The realthunder FreeCAD branch has made a lot of progress recently and might be worth contributing to: https://github.com/realthunder/FreeCAD_assembly3
I had no idea there were federated VR projects. Very interesting and slightly in my wheelhouse
Find your local socialist org/party, find out how they use software and data. Make it better and increase their capabilities.
I’ll have to a found a chapter first. Chud country. An otherwise reasonable suggestion though
Liquid democracy, Schulze method, Matrix servers, riseup, indymedia, open source trello could be places to reach out to / topics to read about. Also some open source video conferencing software would be nice which enables things like easy quotation, looking at how long people are speaking and such.
Also PGP stuff and encryption of photos at protests would be neat, maybe a protest coordination tool, or one which works by chains of people verifying each other as real so that you can the referenced app https://hexbear.net/post/151651/comment/1837163
Mini games about organizing or webgames that are anti work, the only way is to beat the boss Ender's game style
Ouch that's tough.
As the other person mentioned, self-hosted / federated, secure services for any infrastructure if you do look to found a chapter. Be paranoid about it. Question the security of Matrix. Hell, the best position might be zero tech/data in chud country, which would need to be embedded in the chapter's by-laws with some write-ups by yourself. The reason being that the data could become a kill list or similar. This applies to all data stacks for socialists, it's just riskier in your case.
Make a bot that spams major employers with fake resume data.
Online application forms and resume upload pages could be spammed by bots in the same way that we can and should spam other shitty things like the Texas abortion bounty claim page, "see something say something" pages to justify surveilling anyone suspected of the crime of being brown, etc.
Have the bot pretend to be a prospective employee, fill out the form with bogus data, and waste their time.
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Learn to draw furry characters.
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Create mascots for open source applications like Kate the Cyber Woodpecker for the KDE text editor.
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OwO
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how did you learn to code? was it hard? how long did it take? i need a new job soon.
I’ve been shitting around with it for about a decade. I’ve been making an amateur effort for around 7 years. I’ve been trying to improve my skills in earnest for about 3. I think if I could do it over and really throw myself into it, I could get to the point of being able to build a mid-size project in a couple years
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