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.

  • combat_brandonism [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    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.