--- title: Resources date: 2022-01-24 layout: permalink description: "Browse the resources I use and recommend, including articles and free software." --- ## 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. Described below are the services and tools I use most often. [Bitwarden](https://bitwarden.com/) {{< icon "/icon/bitwarden.svg" >}}: Self-hostable password manager\ Licensing: GNU Affero General Public License v3.0\ *Replaces 1Password, Dashlane, and LastPass* [Cryptomator](https://cryptomator.org/) {{< icon "/icon/cryptomator.svg" >}}: Client-side file encryption solution that works well with cloud storage\ Licensing: GNU General Public License v3.0\ *Replaces Boxcryptor* [Firefly III](https://www.firefly-iii.org/) {{< icon "/icon/firefly-iii.svg" >}}: Self-hosted personal finance manager\ Licensing: GNU Affero General Public License v3.0\ *Replaces Mint and YNAB, albeit with a ["fundamentally different"](https://docs.firefly-iii.org/firefly-iii/about-firefly-iii/what-its-not/) [philosophy](https://docs.firefly-iii.org/firefly-iii/about-firefly-iii/personal-finances/)* [FreshRSS](https://freshrss.org/) {{< icon "/icon/freshrss.svg" >}}: Self-hosted news aggregator\ Licensing: GNU Affero General Public License v3.0\ *Replaces Feedly and Inoreader* [GnuPG](https://gnupg.org/) {{< icon "/icon/gnupg.svg" >}}: 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/)* [Joplin](https://joplinapp.org/) {{< icon "/icon/joplin.svg" >}}: Note-taking and task management application with encryption and synchronization\ Licensing: MIT (Expat) License\ *Replaces Google Keep and Microsoft OneNote* [linkding](https://github.com/sissbruecker/linkding#readme) {{< icon "/icon/linkding.png" >}}: 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/)* [Logseq](https://logseq.com/) {{< icon "/icon/logseq.png" >}}: "Privacy-first" knowledge base for writing and organizing notes\ Licensing: GNU Affero General Public License v3.0\ *Replaces Notion and Obsidian* [mailbox.org](https://mailbox.org/en/) {{< icon "/icon/mailboxdotorg.svg" >}}: 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)\ *Replaces Gmail and Outlook* [Mozilla Firefox](https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browsers/) {{< icon "/icon/mozillafirefoxbrowser.svg" >}} and [Mozilla Thunderbird](https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/) {{< icon "/icon/mozillathunderbird.svg" >}}: Web browser (desktop and mobile) and email client that can also manage contacts, calendars, and feeds (desktop)\ Licensing: Mozilla Public License 2.0\ *Firefox replaces Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, etc. while Thunderbird replaces eM Client, Mailbird, and Microsoft Outlook. See [FairEmail](https://email.faircode.eu/) for a mobile email client* [Nextcloud](https://nextcloud.com/athome/) {{< icon "/icon/nextcloud.svg" >}}: Self-hosted cloud storage and collaboration platform\ Licensing: GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 or later (server)\ *Replaces Google Drive and Microsoft 365 -- CalDAV and CardDAV support also allow for synchronization of calendars and contacts, respectively* [ntfy](https://ntfy.sh/) {{< icon "/icon/ntfy.svg" >}}: 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/)* [Rclone](https://rclone.org/) {{< icon "/icon/rclone.svg" >}}: Cloud storage management tool (e.g., move files between different servers)\ Licensing: MIT (Expat) License\ *Replaces [a supported provider's](https://rclone.org/#providers) synchronization software (e.g., Google Drive or Microsoft OneDrive)* [Shiori](hhttps://github.com/go-shiori/shiori#readme) {{< icon "/icon/shiori.png" >}}: Self-hosted read-it-later application\ Licensing: MIT (Expat) License\ *Replaces Instapaper and Pocket. See also [wallabag](https://wallabag.org/en), which I used until early December 2022* [Signal](https://www.signal.org/) {{< icon "/icon/signal.svg" >}}: Secure instant messaging\ Licensing: GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 (server, desktop) and GNU General Public License v3.0 (mobile)\ *Replaces text messages (SMS/MMS), Facebook Messenger, Telegram, and WhatsApp* [Syncthing](https://syncthing.net/) {{< icon "/icon/syncthing.svg" >}}: 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)* [Vikunja](https://vikunja.io/) {{< icon "/icon/vikunja.svg" >}}: Self-hostable task management application\ Licensing: GNU Affero General Public License v3.0\ *Replaces Microsoft To Do, Todoist, etc.* [Zooming Out](https://web.archive.org/web/20210724054236/https://adikos.net/blog/zooming-out/): "A provisional list of Zoom replacements" Please feel free to contact me for further alternatives or public instances of self-hostable services! ## 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. 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