Responding to these messages after a long time but I took a bootcamp and hope to pursue further education in order to learn more computer science so then I can hopefully find a career in the field!
> On Aug 8, 2021, at 12:00 AM, Jonas Smedegaard <d...@jones.dk> wrote: > > Quoting Agata Erminia Pennisi (2021-08-06 23:56:10) >> *Red pill r*efers to (becoming enlightened to) the truth about >> reality, especially a truth that is difficult to accept or exposes >> disillusions. > > Funny you should emphasize redpill in the context of how to make a > living off of Free software, because it is at the heart of my work. > > My use of the term is summarized here¹: > https://web.archive.org/web/20190811015333/http://support.redpill.dk/redpill/ > > In my use, a "Redpill" is a standardized way of sharing ICT resources > across multiple organisations, without the need for sharing secrets > (access codes or content). > > It grew from my strong interest in long-term sustainability of my work. > When at the beginning working independently I mostly did tuning of > desktop/laptop systems, I realized that it became quite repetitive for > me, without being easy to codify the steps I made. I noticed the same > when moving to maintaining servers and networks, and wanted to try > standardize some of the structures, in a modular way to still serve each > client uniquely yet do so with reusable components. > > My first steady client paying me a monthly subscription fee (established > after 1-2 years of charging by the hour) was a small business > university, but also a related business consultancy firm and a small > team of volunteer activism consultants in their backyard. I developed a > computer setup for them all, called "Homebase", and slowly generalized > that into something reusable for other groups of organizations - called > "Redpill". > > Now, 25 years later, Homebase still exists (see the dusty documentation > at https://support.homebase.dk/ and a newer draft at > https://docs.homebase.dk/ ) but the business university recently decided > to switch to a Microsoft solution so its future is uncertain. > > One other experimental Redpill exists, consisting of my own network also > used by my life partner in her business as a graphics designer using > purely Free software, a server run by another Debian developer and > friend of mine, and another friend of mine in couple of his projects on > ICT education and eco activism in Germany. > > My hope is to introduce redpill as packages in Debian, but I am not > quite there yet. If anyone wants to help, please to get in touch :-) > > > Kind regards, > > - Jonas > > > ¹ I reference an archive.org snapshot both because that main web page > (which is also what you would be redirected to if you went to > https://redpill.dk/ ) is not currently online, and because it might > interest you for how long that web page has existed. > > -- > * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt > * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ > > [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
