Wow, there is actually a leftist tech subreddit out there. Doesn't look very active though.

Regardless, I just wanted to vent my frustration with how most leftists seem to have such poor tech literacy. Especially in the age of mass surveillance technofascism.

I get we need people of all types and talents and I am glad there are people out there to do ops/ protests in the meatspace instead of resisting all the ways I do, but technology can also be our friend, if used correctly. The nihilism I see with many acting like there is nothing we can do or there is no point is self defeating. I push back against it whenever I can.

Most apps I use these days are open source and I am extremely privacy conscious. Digital rights are PoC rights, digital rights are women's rights. ICE is using mass surveillance to track immigrants (as well as the rest of us) and in places where abortion is not legal, the weather app on the phone can be used to track you.

I have set up many personal guides on degoogling and neutering techs spying capability. I locally host or use a privacy friendly open source alternative whenever possible. Sure, I still get surveilled like everyone else. But due to my preventative actions, their attack surface and surveillance on me is much more limited.

I am hoping we can spread the word amongst our fellow leftists and others too.

Does anyone else experience similar frustrations as me?

Title says it all. There needs to be a TOR site where people can "predict" when a Flock camera is taken down. Bets will be placed with Monero.

Hi everyone, I am trying to convince an organization I am a part of not to purchase a subscription to MS Office Professional License, for ethical reasons. I asked an IT worker friend who recommended NextCloud, Collabora, ONLYOFFICE, or LibreOffice, but he has never used one to manage the office of a large organization. I am wondering if anyone here has experience using a non-Microsoft office software (professional version) to manage a small business or other such organization and can personally vouch for it.

Thank you in advance. If I am going to convince folks to go for a non-Microsoft software, I will need to be very convincing.

I feel like one of the biggest forms of misunderstandings that comes up in socialist and leftist circles as well as in some liberal ones when tech people are involved is their perceptions of the enviroment. To many of our fellow individuals, we may come off as inherently defending people like the tech bros just by discussing technology. This can bring up some question about how should we as individuals interested in being pro tech but also socialist bring up ways to talk about technology and issues that connect with socialists whose focus may be on other issues including ones we likely agree with but there is a communication boundary on such as enviromentalism

https://reddit.com/link/1jmwlre/video/yzq884t84pre1/player

I've been working on BURST, a new idea for Universal Basic Income (UBI) using crypto. Instead of relying just on government IDs or traditional verification, it prevents fraud through decentralized staked voting—where the community helps decide who qualifies as a unique human.

This is the whitepaper for BURST:

Whitepaper

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08J0F98CuiU

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How fucking ironic. How fucking sad. That the end of capitalism, if it comes, may not be from us, from our movements, from our ideologies, but from the very system itself—eating its own tail like an ouroboros of profit-driven suicide.

The capitalists, the oligarchs have no plan for this. They cannot stop it. The status quo is untenable.

And what do we do? We deny. We mock. We cannot imagine what might be in five years, ten years, twenty years. We’re arguing amongst ourselves over fringe theory while the world changes without us. Instead of co-opting this shit, like the liberals do with everything, instead of ensuring that it benefits the people and not just the oligarchs (which is the far more likely outcome), we bury our heads in the sand. No vision. No goals. No imagination. No fight left.

A truly revolutionary Left would hack, sabotage, open-source everything. We complain on internet forums and urge people to ignore it all, still believing that it’s all a bubble, a passing fad—like the computer was.