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Educational resources and open licenses
Free Software Foundation: Free software resources
Open Educational Resources (OER Commons): Search resources
Saylor Academy: College Success
Recommended reading
Lydia X. Z. Brown on Autistic Hoya
Pronouns.org (formerly MyPronouns.org): Resources
Opsahl, K. (2013, June 7). Why metadata matters. Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Rogers, C. (2016). Intellectual disability and being human: A care ethics model. Routledge.
Stevenson, B. (2014). Just mercy: A story of justice and redemption. Spiegel & Grau.
Stevenson, B. (2014). Just mercy: A story of justice and redemption. [Audiobook]. Penguin Random House Audio.
Recommended software
I rely on free software every day. Described below are the services and tools I use most often (i.e., at least once a week and often daily).
{{<icon "/img/icon/authelia.svg">}} Authelia: Self-hosted single sign-on (SSO) service
Licensing: Apache License 2.0
Could replace the built-in authentication on individual self-hosted services and add authentication to services that do not have built-in authentication
{{<icon "/img/icon/bitwarden.svg">}} Bitwarden: Self-hostable password manager
Licensing: GNU Affero General Public License v3.0
Could replace 1Password, Dashlane, and LastPass
{{<icon "/img/icon/cryptomator.svg">}} Cryptomator: 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: Self-hosted personal finance manager
Licensing: GNU Affero General Public License v3.0
Could replace Mint and YNAB, albeit with a "fundamentally different" philosophy
{{<icon "/img/icon/freshrss.svg">}} FreshRSS: Self-hosted news aggregator
Licensing: GNU Affero General Public License v3.0
Could replace Feedly and Inoreader
{{<icon "/img/icon/gnupg.svg">}} GnuPG: Used by Keyoxide's decentralized identity verification and mailbox.org's encrypted inbox, "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" and Keyoxide
{{<icon "/img/icon/grist.svg">}} Grist: A "modern relational spreadsheet" that supports Excel and Python functions
Licensing: Apache License 2.0 for non-enterprise features
Could replace Airtable and Google Sheets
{{<icon "/img/icon/linkding.svg">}} linkding: Simple bookmark tool that can automatically save bookmarked pages to the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine
Licensing: MIT (Expat) License
See also ArchiveBox
{{<icon "/img/icon/mailboxdotorg.svg">}} mailbox.org: Secure mail service provider
Licensing: Based on Open-Xchange, Postfix, and other free software
Could replace Gmail and Outlook
{{<icon "/img/icon/mozillafirefoxbrowser.svg">}} Mozilla Firefox and {{<icon "/img/icon/mozillathunderbird.svg">}} Mozilla Thunderbird: 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 for a mobile email client
{{<icon "/img/icon/nextcloud.svg">}} Nextcloud: 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/ntfy.svg">}} ntfy: Self-hostable HTTP-based push notification service
Licensing: Apache License 2.0 and GNU General Public License v2.0
See also Gotify
{{<icon "/img/icon/rclone.svg">}} Rclone: Cloud storage management tool (e.g., move files between different servers)
Licensing: MIT (Expat) License
Could replace a supported provider's synchronization software (e.g., Google Drive or Microsoft OneDrive)
{{<icon "/img/icon/restic.png">}} restic: Cross-platform backup tool with data integrity verification, encryption, deduplication, and support for multiple backends
Licensing: 2-Clause BSD License (Simplified BSD License)
See also Awesome restic for other restic-related projects
{{<icon "/img/icon/shiori.svg">}} Shiori: Self-hosted read-it-later application
Licensing: MIT (Expat) License
Could replace Instapaper and Pocket. See also wallabag, which I used until early December 2022
{{<icon "/img/icon/signal.svg">}} Signal: 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: Self-hosted note-taking application with end-user programming features
Licensing: MIT (Expat) License
See also Joplin and Logseq, which are note-taking applications I've previously used.
{{<icon "/img/icon/syncthing.svg">}} Syncthing: Continuous file synchronization program
Licensing: Mozilla Public License 2.0
See also Syncthing-Fork (Android) and Syncthing Tray (cross-platform)
{{<icon "/img/icon/texstudio.svg">}} TeXstudio: LaTeX editor
Licensing: GNU General Public License v3.0
See also The LaTeX Project and a TeX - LaTeX Stack Exchange answer comparing the TeX distributions
{{<icon "/img/icon/vikunja.svg">}} Vikunja: Self-hostable task management application
Licensing: GNU Affero General Public License v3.0
Could replace Microsoft To Do, Todoist, etc.
Zooming Out: "A provisional list of Zoom replacements" that I helped research
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