Hello, World
The first program anyone writes prints two words and does nothing else: Hello, world. It’s useless on purpose. All it proves is that the machine is on and listening.
This is that. blackflag.dev is live, and it’s listening.
Here’s what it’s for. When a company does something extractive, there is almost always a free, open-source tool that does the same job without the extraction — and standing that tool up puts a small piece of the means of production directly on your device. This site will walk you through those tools, step by step, and tell you the truth about why they matter. Tactics in one hand, analysis in the other. No ideological entry fee. No jargon wall. No assumption that you already know.
You are not behind. You are not too late. The learning curve is real, and it is smaller than the people who profit from your resignation need you to believe.
Most of what gets published here will start from a moment — a piece of news, a bad bill, a tool worth knowing tonight. Today there’s no moment yet. There’s just the site, switched on, printing its first two words.
Hello, world. Let’s get to work.