gaael

I found this guide by Futo's Louis Rossman pretty beginner friendly and rather complete.
It's really recorded with the idea that you can follow it step by step and at the end have something fonctionnal and useful.
Not overly fond of the guy, but on foss and self hosting at least we share values.
Also, there's sometimes a cat on screen :)

Edits

• it has some software choices that I do not share, but I don't think it matters much - once you've built something that works and gained experience, you can do it again with other choices if you want
• IIRC you need 3 computers to follow the guide
  • 1 to act as router and (among other things like network-wide ad blocking) allow access to your self hosted stuff from the outside world
  • 1 to actually host stuff onto
  • 1 to configure everything from
  • you can use pretty much any small cheap-ish computer as long as its processor is of the x86 type (which most are except raspberry pi and anything labeled Atom)
  • you'll probably have to dance around a bit with screen and keyboard if (like me) you only have one of each, so having the 3rd computer as a laptop (with an RJ45 port) or watchig the video from a tablet is recommanded
• the video is really meant as a complete do-along (even telling you where to find the ISOs to download) which is IMO quite rare and really nice

If you find steps in the video or stuff in my comment that don't make sense to you, please ask and I'll do my best to provide useful and understandable explanations.

I have no complete answer, but I'd like to share what happened in my neighborhood.
TLDR we neet to meet them where they are

A group of climate-biodiversity activists tried to get people to come to educational workshops.
They got a few of us, the ones that were already interested in the topic and who are priviledged enough to spend time and energy on other stuff that work, commuting, family care and basic survival/comfort. But after that, the workshops were empty.

So they tried a different approach. For over a year, they organized activities perceived as fun and/or useful by the neighborhood.
Think collective soup cooking and soup parties for which didnt have to pay, kids activites for parents who have trouble paying for child extrascholar stuff, furniture/cosmetics DIY cheap and well made, bike repair afternoons, drinks at one's or the other's place...
Beginnings were not easy, but little by little word got out, they got better at understanding what other people actually need, trust began to emerge, disagreements found a space to be discussed and overcome....
Not everything went well, some people take and never give back, some other are outright jerks (mostly out of racism and misogyny), some (like me) don't like group settings and almost never come, half the original organizers burnt out...

But the result is impressive. Last time a workshop about climate change was organized, they had to schedule 6 sessions over a month to fit everyone. That's still a very tiny part of the inhabitants but it's so much more than at the beginning!
The last vegetarian "cook and eat" gathered a lot of people, we see a lot more bikes in use in the streets, more plants at the windows and people talk to each other much more often...

And I believe the neighborhood is nearing the point where popular education can happen, be it about environment, politics, societal evolution etc.

Were this to happen in multiple neighborhoods across a city, in multiple cities across a country and in rural areas structures (which I don't know a lot about), well maybe you could start getting people interested about socialism, maybe I could get them interested in anarchy ;)

So while I don't think this is going to be enough in and of itself but it looks like a first step that's necessary to go further.

I also believe this is gonna take a long time, face strong backlash and many setbacks, and I don't believe it's gonna happen before I die. But being a part of enabling socialism or anarchy to happen at a later date is a legacy I'd be more than happy with.

Great news, ty for sharing :)

Thanks for sharing this, it's an intersting look at the inner workings of kernel development security-trust model.

I've seen a lot of stuff being about Linus in the kernel-related stuff, so I have one question: are they really as central as they seem - and we're all gonna weep blood when they're not here any more for any reason - or are they a figurehead (due to being the creator and still being very involved) in a sea of equally involved developpers/maintainers/contributors - and should something happen to them, the kernel would continue going in the same direction?

My anarchist ass obviously hopes for the second option 🤞

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Other options on mobile:

• using a firefow-based browser (like Fennec on F-droid) on which you can install Ublock Origin
• also on the F-droid store, newpipe handles youtube shit gracefully

For anyone not in the know, F-droid is an alternative app store for android where all applications are opensource, verified and don't track you.
You can download it from their website (be warned: android is likely to ask you a half a dozen times if you're sure you want to download, install and give it permissions), install it and explore a great new world :)