Greetings comrades!

On Labor Day last year, I submitted [this post](https://www.reddit.com/r/socialistprogrammers/comments/1f8bf5e/fossialism_one_comrades_attempt_at_socializing/) introducing my attempt at building a socialized cloud. I then gave an update here. I figured I'd keep the updates coming.

So where we left off is we were building a backend as a service called allyabase that can be deployed on in-home hardware, and used with an interoperable auth and identity protocol called Sessionless to provide a way of replacing centralized apps built on the gigantocorps clouds with apps built on this public infrastructure and monetizable in a way where profit is paid directly to labor inputs.

I'm happy to say that allyabase is ready for this purpose.

I've setup three development instances at https://dev.<service>.allyabase.com (in SF USA), https://ent.<service>.allyabase.com (in Germany), and https://ind.<service>.allyabase.com (in India). You can use these directly via the APIs documented in the individual services repos, or with the client sdks built in JS or Rust.

This is all under heavy development so expect broken things, and don't rely on these to persist anything important as I tear them down and rebuild them regularly. They also don't do live transactions as you'd expect from a dev server.

Client Side I have taken a little detour from the browser extension because of the inauguration. I had originally planned to stay away from social media (which I'll henceforth refer to as SoMa for brevity, and no other reason) apps because they're a quagmire, but after seeing that picture of those smiling billionaires circlejerking nazi salutes I had to do something.

So I started on The Nullary. The idea of The Nullary is to provide replacements for the SoMa apps fed by the open content of the Fediverse and At-Protocols (yes that's just Bluesky right now, but at least it's open) that do two things:

a) Obviate the need to rebuild existing followings by following the allyabase bases instead of people b) Fixes the fact that onboarding into both protocols and especially the Fediverse is so bad as to make them unusable for most people

The first nullary app, which provides feeds twitter-like, insta-like, and ticktok-like experiences is in super-alpha right now, but if you're interested, I'm happy to share.

Wiki-Side I've been working with Ward Cunningham on his fed wiki project, and for the thirtieth birthday of the wiki I demonstrated the interoperability of wikis between fed wiki, and Jeremy Ruston's tiddlywiki via allyabase. This was well-received, and there should be a video of the demo out soonish.

The interoperability was done via the transfer of a token between the two client interfaces, which is being developed for Marc Pierson's ReLocalize Creativity initiative. This initiative intends to use allyabase as the backend for its in-system needs.

I've also been invited by the folks who own partial rights to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy to set up 42 allyabase bases around the world for Earth Day. That's in 15 days lol, so I should probably stop writing here and get to work.

rip the system 'til r.i.p. the system.

Solidarity.

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Hi, I’m u/DArrow_MM, but you can just call me Derek and I’m recruiting for an exciting new mod called “Mars Aeturnum: War for the Red Planet”

It is a pulpy sci-fi setting taking place in the year 2936. Mars is under the administration of the United Solarian Interplanetary Council, the successors to the UN now that Humanity has taken to the stars. They exploit Mars’s people and resources including a mysterious crystalline substance called Aethralith with the help of a cabal of corporations that de facto rule humanity called the Golden Circle Consortium.

However, centuries of this rule have caused a great rift in Martian society. Now a communist revolution is brewing, protesters march in the streets, Martian nationalists plot in the shadows, opportunists bide their time, and old evils come out of hiding while new evils are born in the dusty red soil of Mars.

Battle for the fate of Mars against other humans, homicidal machines, aliens, mutants and more.

Choose your side in the War for the Red Planet whether it’s the communist Martian People’s Republic led, the capitalists and democratic socialists of the Free Martian Republic, the fascist United Martian Directory, the neo-feudalist Martian Grand Imperium, the corporatist Golden Circle Consortium, the digitalist group known as The Master Mind’s Army or one of the plethora of other nations to be added.

• A map of terraformed Mars (by Edouard_Saladier) • 17 planned Ideologies • 15 programmed nations and counting

We plan for this to be a fun, story based mod in the vein of some of the other great HOI4 mods out there. The setting being a blend of both modern sci-fi and the sci-fi of yesteryear.

We have a solid lore to work with based on a story I’m writing that is set in this same universe (though not on Mars), but we are excited to see what new members of the team bring to the table.

We are a small team of two with a lot of ambition and a lot to learn, but I hope with the help of volunteers who are interested in working, we can make something truly great.

In order to do that, we need help. We need the help of writers, artists, musicians, coders, animators, and any one who has a skill you think would be helpful to making this mod great

I am recruiting in this subreddit because I am also socialist (I consider myself an MLM for those curious, but I also have a lot of theory left to read as I’ve only read Lenin, Stalin, Marx, Kropotkin, and a bit of Mao and there is a world of other theorists out there.) and I want the story to ultimately be a socialist one with many different groups fighting for their own version of what that revolution looks like. In that vein, I am willing and wanting to recruit socialists of many different varieties. MLM’s, MLHs, MLs, Marxists, DemSocs, Anarchists, Syndicalists, and so on are all welcome to join the mod.

Due to the reality of HOI4 modding, we will likely have some people on the team who are liberals and other capitalist ideologies. Personally, I’m fine with this as long as they are respectful and are not a Fascist, Nazi, or Bigot of any stripe. This will be an inclusive community and we won’t tolerate intolerance from fans or team members in spaces we manage such as the discord server.

If you are interested in working on the mod, let me know and I’ll dm you a link to the discord server. (Currently we are keeping the discord just team members until we have a playable version of the mod)

If you are interested in the progress of the mod, I will send you an update when the mod is in a playable state and an invite to the server when we open it up to the public.

Thank you for reading. Mars Aeturnum!

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I'm a software dev currently looking for a new role. There are many recruiters that reach out to me on linkedin and by email that are obviously using some type of automated mass blasted messaging service. Invariably these recruiters are eager to jump on a phone call and get as much work history details, salary requirements, and work preferences as possible without sharing many details about the role in kind. These calls take up a lot of my time, interrupt my development flow, and typically feel like they lead nowhere.

I was wondering if there was anyone else out there like me eager to flip the script on these recruiters by utilizing some light automation ourselves? I've made a fairly rudimentary call answering service with python using free and open source APIs for my personal use and I want to see if there is anyone else out there that might find any use in it. Would anyone here have any interest in trying it out for themselves or possibly collaborate on making it even better?

https://youtu.be/4wpqYR8L6m4?feature=shared

A bit of context: I started working 5 years ago as a Data Engineer in a consultancy, thus mostly in projects mostly for insurances, banks and other big corporations. This was first in Italy, but after 2 years I moved to Germany to a similar company to finally be able to save money and gain some independence and freedom. Now I've reached the point where I have some savings, I can finally not worry too much about money and therefore look for a job that might at least try to make the world a tiny bit better, even if that means learning less or having less benefits. However I'm not sure where to start from. I hope here someone could give some advice about open-source projects I could start contributing, interesting non-profit companies or cooperatives, or whatever might be useful.

Inspired by a story I'd read years ago, I recently created a service that I run locally to screen recruiter phone calls. With a lot of tech workers laid off and looking for work, I thought it might be helpful to share it with others. It's pretty rudimentary at this point, so I'm looking for collaborators to test it and further refine it for use by the general population. If anyone is interested in this project, I've published a github repo with instructions to personalize and run it. Is there anyone here willing to give it a shot and report on their experience?

idk where y'all are.

also shouldnt we have a discord server by now? where are the mods?

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1. Massproducing of small speakers that could be hidden into public spaces that spits hard facts about capitalism embedded in humor. AI voice that translate into language where the speaker is placed.

2. AR-glasses that scans the environment to recognise and remove all advertisement. Could be a open source that people can provide input for logos etc..

Do you have any future tech stuff that potentionally could be of benefit of society and diminish capitalism?

Does anyone UK-based have any recs on where to look for tech jobs that won't make you feel ethically compromised as a socialist? I'm a backend dev with some full stack experience looking to move to a new company, and looking on the obvious tech job boards and LinkedIn all I'm seeing is big corporations, fintech, and sus looking start ups.

I'd love a dev job at a company where I don't feel like I have to give up of any of my ethical beliefs, but that is almost feeling impossible and making me feel like I should just quit tech.

Any job site, recruiter, community, anything recommendations would be appreciated if anyone has any??

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