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title: Resources
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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 {#OER}

[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=700)

## Recommended reading {#reading}

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

[Annamma, S. A. (2018). *The pedagogy of pathologization: Disabled 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)

[Pronouns.org (formerly MyPronouns.org): Resources](https://pronouns.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)

## Recommended software {#software}

I rely on [free software](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software) every day. Described below are the services and tools I use most often.

{{<icon "/img/icon/bitwarden.svg">}} [Bitwarden](https://bitwarden.com/): Self-hostable password manager\
Licensing: GNU Affero General Public License v3.0\
*Could replace 1Password, Dashlane, and LastPass*

{{<icon "/img/icon/cryptomator.svg">}} [Cryptomator](https://cryptomator.org/): Client-side file encryption solution that works well with cloud storage\
Licensing: GNU General Public License v3.0\
*Could replace Boxcryptor*

{{<icon "/img/icon/firefly-iii.svg">}} [Firefly III](https://www.firefly-iii.org/): Self-hosted personal finance manager\
Licensing: GNU Affero General Public License v3.0\
*Could replace Mint and YNAB, albeit with a ["fundamentally different"](https://docs.firefly-iii.org/firefly-iii/more-information/what-its-not/) [philosophy](https://docs.firefly-iii.org/firefly-iii/more-information/personal-finances/)*

{{<icon "/img/icon/freshrss.svg">}} [FreshRSS](https://freshrss.org/): Self-hosted news aggregator\
Licensing: GNU Affero General Public License v3.0\
*Could replace Feedly and Inoreader*

{{<icon "/img/icon/gnupg.svg">}} [GnuPG](https://gnupg.org/): Used by Keyoxide's [decentralized identity verification](https://docs.keyoxide.org/) and mailbox.org's [encrypted inbox](https://mailbox.org/en/security), "GnuPG is a complete and free implementation of the OpenPGP standard as defined by RFC4880" \
Licensing: GNU General Public License v2.0 or later\
*See also [Git's "Signing Your Work"](https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Tools-Signing-Your-Work) and [Keyoxide](https://keyoxide.org/)*

{{<icon "/img/icon/joplin.svg">}} [Joplin](https://joplinapp.org/): Note-taking and task management application with encryption and synchronization\
Licensing: MIT (Expat) License\
*Could replace Google Keep and Microsoft OneNote*

{{<icon "/img/icon/linkding.svg">}} [linkding](https://github.com/sissbruecker/linkding#readme): Simple bookmark tool that can automatically save bookmarked pages to the [Internet Archive's Wayback Machine](https://archive.org/web/)\
Licensing: MIT (Expat) License\
*See also [ArchiveBox](https://archivebox.io/)*

{{<icon "/img/icon/mailboxdotorg.svg">}} [mailbox.org](https://mailbox.org/en/): Secure mail service provider\
Licensing: Based on [Open-Xchange, Postfix, and other free software](https://userforum-en.mailbox.org/topic/is-everything-at-mailbox-org-open-source)\
*Could replace Gmail and Outlook*

{{<icon "/img/icon/mozillafirefoxbrowser.svg">}} [Mozilla Firefox](https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browsers/) and {{<icon "/img/icon/mozillathunderbird.svg">}} [Mozilla Thunderbird](https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/): Web browser (desktop and mobile) and email client that can also manage contacts, calendars, and feeds (desktop)\
Licensing: Mozilla Public License 2.0\
*Firefox could replace Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, etc. while Thunderbird could replace eM Client, Mailbird, and Microsoft Outlook. See [FairEmail](https://email.faircode.eu/) for a mobile email client*

{{<icon "/img/icon/nextcloud.svg">}} [Nextcloud](https://nextcloud.com/athome/): Self-hosted cloud storage and content collaboration platform\
Licensing: GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 or later (server)\
*Could replace Google Drive and Microsoft 365 -- CalDAV and CardDAV support also allow for synchronization of calendars and contacts, respectively*

{{<icon "/img/icon/nocodb.png">}} [NocoDB](https://www.nocodb.com/): No-code database\
Licensing: GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 or later\
*Could replace Airtable*

{{<icon "/img/icon/ntfy.svg">}} [ntfy](https://ntfy.sh/): Self-hostable HTTP-based push notification service\
Licensing: Apache License 2.0 and GNU General Public License v2.0\
*See also [Gotify](https://gotify.net/)*

{{<icon "/img/icon/rclone.svg">}} [Rclone](https://rclone.org/): Cloud storage management tool (e.g., move files between different servers)\
Licensing: MIT (Expat) License\
*Could replace [a supported provider's](https://rclone.org/#providers) synchronization software (e.g., Google Drive or Microsoft OneDrive)*

{{<icon "/img/icon/shiori.svg">}} [Shiori](https://github.com/go-shiori/shiori#readme): Self-hosted read-it-later application\
Licensing: MIT (Expat) License\
*Could replace Instapaper and Pocket. See also [wallabag](https://wallabag.org/en), which I used until early December 2022*

{{<icon "/img/icon/signal.svg">}} [Signal](https://www.signal.org/): Secure instant messaging\
Licensing: GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 (server, desktop) and GNU General Public License v3.0 (mobile)\
*Could replace text messages (SMS/MMS), Facebook Messenger, Telegram, and WhatsApp*

{{<icon "/img/icon/silverbullet.png">}} [SilverBullet](https://silverbullet.md/): Self-hosted note-taking application with [end-user programming features](https://silverbullet.md/End-User%20Programming)\
Licensing: MIT (Expat) License\
*See also [Logseq](https://logseq.com/)*

{{<icon "/img/icon/syncthing.svg">}} [Syncthing](https://syncthing.net/): Continuous file synchronization program\
Licensing: Mozilla Public License 2.0\
*See also [Syncthing-Fork](https://github.com/Catfriend1/syncthing-android#readme) (Android) and [SyncTrayzor](https://github.com/canton7/SyncTrayzor#readme) (Windows)*

{{<icon "/img/icon/vikunja.svg">}} [Vikunja](https://vikunja.io/): Self-hostable task management application\
Licensing: GNU Affero General Public License v3.0\
*Could replace Microsoft To Do, Todoist, etc.*

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

Please feel free to contact me for further alternatives or public instances of self-hostable services!

## For more content {#other}

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