I’m a CS student, I have some time before I graduate and have kind of dipped my toes in various things without specializing in anything. I would like to know what would be useful for the movement, so that I can use my skills to contribute.
And before people say “everything is useful”…well yeah but it’s nice and fulfilling to have specific ideas I can work on learning/building myself.
Also where can I find leftist open source projects? I know lemmy and this website for one are open source but not sure of others.
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Learn to organize (workplace, housing, etc. etc.). I’m not kidding. Way more important than any code-related skills you’re learning in school from the POV of benefiting the proletariat, and something woefully lacking in most coders despite our coming proletarianization being obvious. You can join the IWW and they’ll teach you for free.
Actual technical skills? Probably infosec stuff. Do CTFs, etc.
Very little of the rest of it is useful for proles in a world ruled by the bourgeoisie. And once that’s not the case, just pursue what interests you in the same way you would any career as a software engineer because it’ll all be useful. Could also look at emigrating to an AES state where that’s already true.
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my first page of results is various infosec capture the flag game sites and the childrens tumor foundation
A giant personalized AI filter that makes everyone agree with each other
As a software engineer, I asked myself this question a lot when I was in school. Probably, the biggest is enabling secure communication, learning how to hide your footsteps and the footsteps of others. Secure web design, development, hosting is a big one, on top of all of the problem solving techniques you will actually be learning. I find myself benefitting greatly from working on huge projects that would have seemed daunting to me a long time ago, it’s a really useful skill to take something very big and break it down into pieces until none is left.
Outside of that, the best thing you could do is organize. Join an organization if you haven’t already. Meet people in your community, support striking workers, etc.
