ethanyoo.com/content/resources.md

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title: Resources
date: 2022-01-24
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description: "Browse the resources I use and recommend, including articles and free software."
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## Educational resources and open licenses

[Creative Commons](https://creativecommons.org/)

[Free Software Foundation: Free software resources](https://www.fsf.org/resources/)

[Open Educational Resources (OER Commons): Search resources](https://www.oercommons.org/browse)

[Saylor Academy: College Success](https://learn.saylor.org/course/view.php?id=411)

## Recommended reading

[About Feeds: What is a feed?](https://aboutfeeds.com/)

[Annamma, S. A. (2018). *The pedagogy of pathologization: Dis/abled girls of color in the school-prison nexus.* Routledge.](https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315523057)

Lydia X. Z. Brown on Autistic Hoya

* [*Ableism is not "bad words." It's violence.*](https://www.autistichoya.com/2016/07/ableism-is-not-bad-words-its-violence.html)

* [*Ableism/language*](https://www.autistichoya.com/p/ableist-words-and-terms-to-avoid.html)

* [*Violence in language: Circling back to linguistic ableism.*](https://www.autistichoya.com/2014/02/violence-linguistic-ableism.html)

[MyPronouns.org: Resources](https://www.mypronouns.org/resources)

[Opsahl, K. (2013, June 7). *Why metadata matters.* Electronic Frontier Foundation.](https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/06/why-metadata-matters)

[Rogers, C. (2016). *Intellectual disability and being human: A care ethics model.* Routledge.](https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315638713)

[Stevenson, B. (2014). *Just mercy: A story of justice and redemption.* Spiegel & Grau.](https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780812984965)\
[Stevenson, B. (2014). *Just mercy: A story of justice and redemption.* [Audiobook]. Penguin Random House Audio.](https://libro.fm/audiobooks/9780553550610)

[Use plaintext email.](https://useplaintext.email/)

## Recommended software

I rely on [free software](https://ethan.yoois.me/Open_source/) every day.

[Bitwarden](https://bitwarden.com/): Self-hostable password manager\
Licensing: GNU Affero General Public License v3.0\
*Replaces 1Password, Dashlane, and LastPass*

[FreshRSS](https://freshrss.github.io/FreshRSS/en/): Self-hosted news aggregator\
Licensing: GNU Affero General Public License v3.0\
*Replaces Feedly and Inoreader*

[Joplin](https://joplinapp.org/): Note-taking and task management application with encryption and synchronization\
Licensing: MIT (Expat) License\
*Replaces Google Keep and Microsoft OneNote*

[mailbox.org](https://mailbox.org/en/): Secure mail service\
Licensing: Based on [Open-Xchange, Postfix, and other free software](https://userforum-en.mailbox.org/topic/is-everything-at-mailbox-org-open-source)\
*Replaces Gmail and Outlook*

[Nextcloud](https://nextcloud.com/athome/): Self-hosted cloud storage and collaborative platform\
Licensing: GNU Affero General Public License v3.0\
*Replaces Google Drive and Microsoft 365 -- CalDAV and CardDAV support also allow for synchronization of calendars and contacts, respectively*

[wallabag](https://github.com/wallabag/wallabag#readme): Self-hostable read-it-later application\
Licensing: MIT (Expat) License\
*Replaces Instapaper and Pocket*

[Zooming Out](https://adikos.net/blog/zooming-out/): "A provisional list of Zoom replacements"

Please feel free to contact me (below) for further alternatives or public instances of each service!

## For more content

[Read why, as of November 2, 2020,](/cloudflare/) I host this website on [NearlyFreeSpeech.NET.](https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/)

[Stop by my "second brain,"](https://ethan.yoois.me/) which expands on this page.

You can also [browse the Git repository](https://framagit.org/ethan) for this website, which includes my modified version of [the original theme.](https://github.com/colorchestra/smol)

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