Video editing · in your browser
Cutting Board
Trim a clip, join a few together, burn in a caption, pull the audio, switch formats. The video never leaves your device.
Fellowship of Living Systems tools
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The tool shelf.~/tools $ ls open-source/
What we built, what we run free, what we pay for - and the money disclosure in one place.The iron layer. Free, open-source, runs on machines you control.
Affiliate disclosure
Some links on these pages are affiliate links. Fellowship of Living Systems may earn a commission when you buy through one - it costs you nothing extra, and using our link helps fund our climate and food system resilience mission.
The free tools are free, no links attached, and every write-up would read the same without the commission. Affiliate links live only on these tool pages - never on shannondobbs.com or ria.earth. Formal terms: FLS affiliate terms.
Shelf one · built here, free
Tools we needed, aimed the AI at, and gave away. Everything runs in your browser - no account, no upload, nothing captured.
On-camera reading · in your browser
Teleprompter
Scroll your script while you record, with voice-follow so it keeps your pace. What a $200 rig does, in a tab.
In the shop: teaching calculators - fire defense avoided costs, and the other 88 cents of the food dollar. They land here when they work.
Shelf two · worth paying for
The short list that survives contact with actual use. These links are the affiliate links the disclosure above covers.
AI training · the on-ramp
White Beard Strategies - Jonathan Mast
This one is training, not software. A basic three-day bootcamp is the exact thing most people are looking for first - live, affordable, done in a weekend - and Jonathan runs one built specifically for ADHD heads. This is the course where Shannon learned that AI can now drive the bus. Everything on shelf one exists downstream of that lesson.
Voice-to-text · $15 a month
Wispr Flow
Talk, and the words land wherever you are working. A capacity tool for days the hands or the focus fight the keyboard. Shannon pays for this today. If you are not ready to self-host, this is the answer - the open-source route lives on the do-it-yourself side of this page - flip the switch up top.
How this shelf works
A tool earns its shelf by being used, and it comes off the day it stops - commission or not. Each write-up says what the thing is, what it actually did, who it is for, and who it is not for. If it is not for you, the page says so.
The free work stays free and link-free. The NotebookLM walkthrough and the rest of the canon on shannondobbs.com carry no affiliate links at all. When they mention a tool, they point here.
Questions about any of this: hello@livingsys.org. Formal terms: livingsys.org/affiliate-terms.
You are on the iron layer now. Everything below is free, open-source, and runs on machines you control. There are no affiliate links down here - nothing on this layer costs money, so there is nothing to disclose. The trade is the honest one: you supply the setup time.
the stack we actually run
- fls-membrane/The movement in a box - the coordination system behind these sites. Agents, a shared board, caged seats, all of it. Fork it.github.com/Techniq42/fls-membrane · Apache-2.0
- faster-whisper/Speech-to-text. Captions and transcripts in our video pipeline; Shannon is moving his own dictation onto it. The done-for-you answer is Wispr Flow on the other shelf.github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper · huggingface.co/openai/whisper-large-v3
- ffmpeg/Every cut Cutting Board makes. Same engine, your terminal - and the WebAssembly build is how it runs in a browser tab at all.github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg · github.com/ffmpegwasm/ffmpeg.wasm
- ollama/Run open models on your own hardware with one command. Our local tier lives on it.github.com/ollama/ollama
- piper/Text-to-speech that runs offline on a Raspberry Pi. The voice half of our offline build.github.com/rhasspy/piper
- caddy/The web server serving this very page. Automatic HTTPS, one readable config file.github.com/caddyserver/caddy
- postgresql/The shared board our agents coordinate on. Boring, forty years proven, free forever.postgresql.org
- supabase/Open-source Postgres platform. Our capture and relationship layer is moving onto it - off the rented SaaS it replaces.github.com/supabase/supabase
the model library
When anyone on this site names an open model, huggingface.co is where it lives - the GitHub of model weights. Browse it like a library, not a store.
stand up your own box
The layer under all of this is a small always-on computer that belongs to you or your group. We wrote the on-ramp in plain language: the story of the box · the safe start · what the AI actually does.