I have a broad tech background in electronics and custom hardware design and have been tossing this idea back and forth. What could I help teach leftists who want to learn electronics? There are a lot of subjects such as cyber security, RF scanning and monitoring, reverse engineering and so on that would make for a great beginner course for lefties who don't know where to start. What would you want to learn?

  • KEN_ML [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Id love to use more opensource software, but a lot of it you need to host/assemble your self from github. Maybe it would be useful to teach that? And how to be independent from facebook, yt, etc by using rss

    • cummynism [she/her,they/them]
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      4 years ago

      Also a great point on the open source side of things, like how to license/use everything under an open source license and how to navigate that, so that you aren't beholden to any one sites' TOS and get your entire project retroactively owned by the hosting company.

      • KEN_ML [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        That sounds important. Maybe also explain how opensource even really works lol idk

    • PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them]
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      4 years ago

      This is something I'd be delighted to help people with. Feel free to make a post if you need help building any kind of open source software. There's a lot to it between version control systems, compilers, build systems, dependencies, but most projects you encounter can be built from source and put to use following a handful of guidelines.