Why libre software?

I believe that closed source software is bad for humanity. It has limited human progress by:

• creating barriers between individuals and solutions
• duplicating efforts
• creating bad solutions
• actively impeding better solutions from appearing

Free, libre and open source software is better for humanity because it:

• is more often directly created by users, making a better solution
• is transparent (think electoral systems and privacy)
• can be more secure (I posit)
• cultivates a technology-literate userbase (proprietary software is incentivised to hide everything from the user; like unions, free, libre and open source software enables greater awareness)

Software is simply the intellectual design organizing instructions for a computer. There is no need for entrepreneurship. More software should be free, libre and open source, and the technology industry should instead provide services (hosting, compute and asset generation) more than intellectual products. I recommend consulting the Free Software Foundation (FSF) for more information.

Current Projects (Codeberg)

• Literature Review Template
• csobczak.r: Personal R package for convenience
• RSC.jl: A port of RSC for julia
• http Server Installation Script (work in progress)
• wireguard Setup Script (work in progress)
• xmpp Server Installation Script (work in progress)
• Local searxng instance integration with local LLM with llamacpp (work in progress)
• email Server Installation Script (work in progress)
• Tidal Cycles tracks

RSS Feeds

I use sfeed on my laptop and servers to aggregate and organize my news and follow current events. RSS feeds are better than all forms of news aggregation like Google News, GroundNews or whatever else, because you should have direct control over what and how you see the news. This is a simple thing that a company should not need to get in the middle of.

On mobile, I recommend FeedFlow for print media and AntennaPod for podcasts and videos. For mobile apps, I recommend using F-Droid to install apps.

To check out what I am following, here is my feed list.

Recommended Software

• Personal Computer
  • OS: Debian (as your first distro, then go your own way)
  • PDF Editor: Xournal++
  • PDF Viewer: zathura
  • Image Editor: GIMP
  • Vector Graphics: Inkscape
  • Video Editor: Kdenlive
  • Audio: Audacity (or forks)
  • File Transfer: Syncthing
• Scientific Tools
  • General purpose math and analysis: R
  • julia
  • Document generation: LaTeX
  • Language agnostic document generation: Quarto
  • R document generation: R Markdown
• Self Hosting
  • OS: OpenBSD
  • Media server: minidlna
  • Web Server (OpenBSD): httpd
  • Chat (xmpp): Prosŏdy IM
  • VPN: WireGuard