If you're building freedom tech and need help, let me know.
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Need more wireless devs.
Damn, that's cool!
I need help
I'll just leave this here ...
https://bitcoinerjobs.com/job/1579271-lead-software-developer-js-nostr-bitcoin-foss-walletscrutiny
I’m not so much as building it for others, but am interested in a “checklist” or “cheat sheet” or “get started guide” I can use with my 13 yo son whom we homeschool.
I’d love to start building some personal freedom tech with him so our family is prepared not just for ourselves but also to be an asset to others.
Have any resources like that?
#asknostr
I agree with Stallman that the best way to get started is to start replacing your proprietary apps with free apps and work your way down. nostr:npub1fkluklzamwpyn7w8awxzrcqe7z8mldlvthk4gz9kz3vsh6udz62s9qj48l has a lot of posts about this. First, care about freedom. Second, find Free software and use it. Third, communicate improvements to developers of that software. Fourth, help build improvements.
Is Stallman = Freedom Tech or those are different people?
No, Richard Stallman is the founder of the Free Software Foundation. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/philosophy.html lays out the ideas.
He emphasizes the moral case for Free Software versus the Open Source folks emphasizing the practical or technical case for Open Source Software. There has always been confusion over the word "Free" in "Free Software" and "Open" now suffers the same problem (look at all these LLM licenses claiming to be Open Source), and I think "Freedom Tech" is a pretty good way of talking about the same thing.
The Free/Libre Open Source Software community has a lot of overlap and similarity but can be split into two camps:
1. I am truly free if I am allowed to contract myself into slavery (BSD-ish, permissive licensing).
2. It is not freedom to be allowed to contract myself into slavery (GNU-ish, copyleft licensing).
Maybe that's an unfair or unrealistic characterization but that's how I tend to think of it.
I disagree with a lot of Stallman's views (he's on the left) but the four software freedoms are legit. See Stephan Kinsella's excellent summary of similar views from a more right-libertarian perspective at https://mises.org/library/book/against-intellectual-property
nostr:npub1xr8tvnnnr9aqt9vv30vj4vreeq2mk38mlwe7khvhvmzjqlcghh6sr85uum #thanks for the #zap
I build freedom tech. I also need help.
Oh, but did you mean help doing the building of the freedom tech? Whoops, my mistake.
Hey Max, we are building a nostr client that allows better monetization for creators.
Bitcoin lightning low transaction fees are the key to delivering micropayments.
Encrypted content, where nostr users can pay with lightning for the decryption key. They then own a copy that is only accessible with their nsec.
Digital content ownership that is not dependent on a centralised platform.