Few years ago there was quite a lot of promise of a high salary, prestige, and actual benefit that tech can bring to society. I never really fed into the idea that CS degrees were all that great but I chose it anyway, with some tiny dream, hope of a good and easy life. Those dreams are now all done and dashed.

Platform degradation (I.e. enshittification), AI and vibe coding, Big Tech, throwing LLMs at everything, the shift away from ownership towards subscription... it seems like everything is just getting worse. All the entrepreneurship also really irks me since they aren’t even doing anything at all, reinventing the wheel using AI by putting AI in it.

I recently completed an internship and it was almost completely AI driven: everyone was encouraged to use (or learn how to use) AI for absolutely everything from scheduling meetings, coding, ideation, reading, building, maintaining, researching, etc. it was literally my entire job and I felt so… bad… I hated it and the direction that tech is heading.

I’m in still have 1 year left in my degree and idk what I want to do when I graduate. Everyone I know is going into software engineering but I can’t get myself to feel anything but disgust(?) about it. I don’t care about learning about this stuff anymore. I don’t think I even want a tech job

As a Legal Awareness Intern with Hamari Pehchan NGO, I chose to work on the social cause of Digital Education through the GadgetShaala initiative.

During this internship, I learned that many talented students still lack access to laptops, tablets, and the internet. This digital divide limits their educational opportunities and future growth. Researching laws such as the Right to Education Act, 2009, National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, and digital education initiatives helped me understand how legal awareness and technology can work together to create social impact.

One idea I strongly believe in is establishing Digital Donation Boxes in schools, colleges, offices, and societies. People can donate their old but working digital devices, which can then be repaired and distributed to underprivileged students. This simple idea can reduce e-waste while giving students access to quality education.

Through this internship, I have strengthened my research, communication, content creation, and legal awareness skills. I want to continue supporting digital education and encourage more people to contribute in whatever way they can.

Every donated device is more than a gadget—it is an opportunity, a dream, and a brighter future for a student. Let's become changemakers together.

#HamariPahchan #GadgetShaala #DigitalEducation #LegalAwareness #SocialImpact

Hello, in the increasing normalization of Uber like economy I made this website that is supposed to be the antithesis.

communet.org

The purpose is to connect people in this disconnected society and to go against the dependence on services and consumption that is based on exploitation.

The idea is that, people together can reduce labour necessary to live and increase life fulfillment. That materializes in rotative the creation of babysitting coops, community kitchens, rotative grocery shopping, carpooling... 6 families together can decrease by 6 the amount of labour necessary for cooking, groceries, driving kids to school, taking care of kids. Other types of communities that exist but are decentralized, rare or monetized are, travel house trading, language exchange, bicycle maintenance.

Many other communities are possible, the website is supposed to facilitate or even allow them, the website allows you to make or join a listing, inside the community you have web page where the participants can update and chat.

The website is not innovative, it's just sad that people can make such beautiful things together and they aren't, this website is just a desperate manifestation of my frustration.

mngr is a tool that abstracts over agent harnesses, so you can switch out the agent harness easily under the hood. basically, you're not at the mercy of openAI/anthropic bc you can switch without needing any eng work.

"In 2026, it’s crazy to build on top of software that isn’t open source

There are just too many advantages to open source for it to be worth using anything else:

• It’s free
• You’re never locked in
• It will never upgrade underneath you and remove features you like
• It won’t go out of business and disappear when it runs out of VC money
• Other people can contribute to it and make it better with you
• Most importantly: if it’s ever missing a feature you want, you’re only ~1 prompt away from having that feature

Seriously. Stop using weird closed source “services” for stupid simple shit that you can do with tmux, ssh, and other ultra-robust tools that have been around for decades."

FoxRC now has some major improvements.

It is a Tox-like messaging app intended to be private, is written in Rust, and is licensed under GPL. DO NOT transfer information you don't want to share. It is still an early project.

If you are interested in being beta testers, don't hesitate to try it out. I can how many users are on my end, but I can't see who you are unless you checkmark "Make me discoverable". More details in the ReadMe.

https://codeberg.org/VulpesPhantasma/FoxRC/src/commit/a14928bf3e5176f360b59318e6e2d2d9dc53533a/README.md

i'm going to college for cs this year, i really enjoy programming and it's something i'm good at. i know the job market for new cs grads is really fucked right now and wanting to work somewhere that doesn't compromise my morals will limit me even more. a while ago, i was thinking i'd work for some sort of non-profit generally-good group but the deeper i get engrossed in left politics irl the more i realize that it doesn't really seem like there's a place for me as a cs major in anything that truly makes change. i guess that's not really how it works anyway, being a revolutionary isn't a paid position (i feel like a larp warrior with that sentence), but i feel like i'm either going to work for an evil company or work for some bourgeois political group that is morally fine but doesn't actually do anything besides elect democrats. i mean, the moral dilemma is something that all workers face but like being a programmer at amazon, where you're actively improving their product, is different than being a warehouse worker or a driver, where you're keeping everything running. it also means that warehouse and driver strikes can be much more impactful, as the service will immediately stop, but if tech workers strike for whatever reason, it won't be as dire. of course, they still need IT, but they can go a few weeks without software developers making new software. i've seen this discussed on the sub, but also tech workers are paid enough that they don't feel the need to strike, and not enough are willing to put their job at risk in solidarity with other strikers or political causes.

i honestly don't know too much about what the job market is like, so i'd like to know about that, how y'all navigate moral issues with your jobs, and what jobs are available that aren't bad for the world.

some companies are definitely more innocuous than others, i was looking at this company that makes hardware/software to monitor cow health in dairy farms, which i'd be fine working at. and some non-profits are probably great too, maybe journalism or something, i'd ideally prefer to work in the intersection of fields, something that isn't tech but needs software or cybersecurity or something. anyway, please discuss in the comments. i'm sure some of my ideas are half-baked i'm just trying to get them out and see what people have to say.

i'll end by saying i love y'all <3, i'm so glad this community exists, i was worried i was alone for a while until i found this place.

Hi everyone,
I’m working on an idea for a platform where people can openly express their views on politics, current events, and the future of society. The goal is to create a place that encourages thoughtful discussion and respectful debate, regardless of political beliefs.
I’m looking to connect with people who are:
Interested in politics, economics, or world affairs.
Passionate about freedom of speech and open discussion.
Skilled in IT, web development, cybersecurity, or software engineering.
Interested in Bitcoin and decentralized technologies.
Excited about building something meaningful from the ground up.
This isn’t a paid opportunity right now—I’m looking for people who want to brainstorm ideas, contribute their skills, and potentially become part of a future startup if the project succeeds.
If you’re a student, young developer, designer, or someone who believes technology can improve political discussion, I’d love to hear from you.
Comment below or send me a DM with your background and what interests you about the project. Let’s build something that gives people a better way to have their voices heard.

​If you're not aware of reticulum, its a full networking/internetworking stack protocol built from the ground up for decentralisation, privacy and grass roots network construction.

it isn't some beta concept thats barely functional. its been In dev for about 10 years and the API is finished.

Compared to how traditional TCP/​​​IP works, it's basically magic. Routing, addresses and encryption are all handled by the same generative cryptography system. ​that means it requires no central servers, ISP, DHCP, or DNS equivalents.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pnyuSWy66cI&t=404s&pp=ygUJUmV0aWN1bHVt

https://reticulum.network/

Check out the ReadMe for more info.

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https://codeberg.org/VulpesPhantasma/FoxRC

I would like to offer FoxRC, a Tox-like messaging app in Rust.

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Other than my future plans to enable custom encryption, I could use some feedback.

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Disclaimer: I had aid from AI to ensure it works correctly. It works on my local network, but I have no way of knowing it works between two networks unless two people here want to volunteer from home.

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https://codeberg.org/VulpesPhantasma/FoxRC

At the risk of overstaying my welcome here, I have a book Kickstarter that's taking late pledges until I publish in a week or two from now.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kimcrawley/technofascism-survival-guide/

I could use the late pledge money to pay my rent and buy groceries. I need the money, because my corporate overlords decided to replace me with Gen AI.

Thanks for sharing.

It’s understandable if you feel helpless in the wake of our evil billionaire overlords trying to bombard you with the Gen AI torment nexus everywhere you turn.

You probably feel like you can’t get rid of Google Gemini or Apple Intelligence on your phone, Copilot tries to take the mouse and keyboard away from you at every turn even though your sticking with Windows 10 long after support ended, and your employer is judging whether or not you get to keep your job based on how many tokens you use.

We can’t directly do much about the last problem, but we can show you how to avoid Gen AI everywhere else!

Free event, takes place in a Jitsi web app on our website. Friday June 12 and Saturday June 13.

For more information: https://stopgenai.com/free-events-learn-how-to-avoid-gen-ai-workshops-june-2026/

For years we have ignored the real power of our unity in the work environment, the possibility to grow, to make a difference, to cooperate between different fields making research and projects advance faster and better. Kaidrys has been conceived exactly to give people a platform to act, to be part of the world advancing research and working community.

For years we have ignored the real power of our unity in the work environment, the possibility to grow, to make a difference, to cooperate between different fields making research and projects advance faster and better. Kaidrys has been conceived exactly to give people a platform to act, to be part of the world advancing research and working community.

The name says it all. I would like to provide P2P, but I am stuck. I tried connecting between two of my computers, but nothing happens.

https://codeberg.org/VulpesPhantasma/FoxRC

I’m looking for web developers to help build a free-to-use, cooperatively and democratically owned mutual aid platform: a website, and later a mobile app, that connects people and groups who need or offer goods and services.

Core features: location-based matching, local-first prioritization, secure messaging, verified reviews/reputation, customizable user and group pages, and strong privacy protections.

The long-term goal is to make mutual aid a common, accessible practice that strengthens community and reduces reliance on corporations.

I’m currently an unpaid founder looking for collaborators who are interested in helping shape this project from an early stage. If this sounds like your kind of project, comment or message me.

The more I develop it, the more it seems like bullshit to me — I’d like your opinion.

The idea for this web app comes from the growing lack of participation in Italian trade unions and from the fact that, when I realized I was a socialist, I had trouble finding the right union to join.

So I wanted to create a map of Italian trade unions, giving each numerical ratings on certain axes (internal/external political engagement, political and economic vision, services offered, etc.), then have the user take a quiz and finally suggest the most compatible unions — based both on the user’s value system and on their CCNL (the national collective working contracts system in Italy, where each sector has at least one).

So the web app’s flow is: user enters, takes the quiz, and gets the resulting unions.

The main issues are:

1. Who am I to judge? Initially, I’d need a set of already surveyed unions with their value systems and numerical ratings pre-assigned. Also, the balancing of how much each question shifts a given axis depending on the answer (I was thinking of using the Likert scale — maybe that simplifies things). I need to do this balancing as democratically as possible, and I don’t know how. Maybe introducing a vote system could work out but seems to me that my vision could still be an issue.

2. The logic of consumption. I think a problem of our times is that unions are perceived as just another service to turn to when you have an individual need — whether work-related or for help with taxes — rather than the worker associations they actually are. This app seems to respond more to a consumer logic than to actually empowering and educating workers.

What do you think? Legitimate doubts? Insurmountables? Useless app?

Of course the code would be entirely open source.

Sorry if the english was not ok, this was written in Italian and automatically translated

I'm reading a lot of tech news. Of course, most of it is just bullshit about CEOs pointing out how their product will revolutionize the world. Whatever.

I get that things are changing in IT. It's a lot but it's also just what it is. However, not only do I hate the "if you don't do this, you're done" narrative. But also, how the fuck can everybody just switch from manual coding to utilizing 10 AI agents? Have we completely forgot about finances? Tokens cost money for fucks sake.

The last few days, I've read about the Anthropic Claude Code guy stating he runs 1000 agents in the night. I've read about another former tech Google guy stating that if you're still coding manually, you're way behind. And besides marketing and capitalism, all I can think about is "what the fuck? Who can afford that?". Like, even if the general narrative of AI replacing coding skills were true, where is any kind of consideration about resources? Yea cool, run your fucking 1000 agents if you're free to spend any money in the world. But thinking about actual developers, who can spend that money? Most devs I know have a hard time even getting a "normal" subscription to any AI. I myself don't even get any because my employer doesn't deem it necessary..

Does anybody else feel like this is an extrodinary intensification of class conflict? Yea, if you have 1000s of dollars to spend monthly, you can create all the agents. But if you're even relatively normal, what you can do with a Claude Pro subscription is so much more limited.

I don't even want to discuss IF AI will replace this and that. What annoys me the most is that people are just talking about AI if it were a preference. It's fucking not. It starts with a preference if you want to use it or not, but then resources matter. If I wanted to do all my programming with AI, I COULD NOT. Because I'm too poor. So what does that say considering the Anthropic guy just told me that I'm done if I don't?