# Light Fighter Manifesto

> Light Fighter Manifesto (LFM) is an independent publisher of print Volumes, open-source software and self-hosted infrastructure, founded in 2022 by Christopher M. Rance. It runs the Light Fighter Support Operations Course, an in-person course in Central GA. Its premier work is Techno Guerrilla, a free, interactive web course in technical self-reliance. Its second web series is Negative Space, on urban sniping.

## Techno Guerrilla (free interactive course)

- [Techno Guerrilla series](https://lightfightermanifesto.org/series/): build capability from open-source software and inexpensive parts. You work through it inside its own live system on a desktop.
- [Web Series](https://lightfightermanifesto.org/modules/): the hub for our web series. Techno Guerrilla and Negative Space, with every module and segment listed and readable on its own.
- [Module 00, Hardening](https://lightfightermanifesto.org/series/module-00-hardening): lock down the phone and laptop you use for the rest of the series. You build a threat model, encrypt the disk, fix your accounts, and make your own keys.
- [Module 01, Networking](https://lightfightermanifesto.org/series/module-01-networking): build and secure a self-hosted network. You flash and assemble a Raspberry Pi, get it online, lock it down, and run your own chat server over a private VPN. Covers Headscale and WireGuard, a Matrix chat server, and AdGuard Home for DNS.
- [Module 02, Electronics](https://lightfightermanifesto.org/series/module-02-electronics): measure current, voltage and resistance with a multimeter, read a schematic, and identify what each common component does in a circuit.
- [Module 03, Building Circuits](https://lightfightermanifesto.org/series/module-03-building-circuits): turn schematics into working hardware. Each circuit is drawn in KiCad, proven on a breadboard, and then handed to a Raspberry Pi to control. The module ends with two complete builds, an isolated switch and a self-powered tamper node.
- [Module 04, Salvage](https://lightfightermanifesto.org/series/module-04-salvage): stock your bench with parts pulled from discarded electronics instead of a retailer's supply chain. You learn where to find donor devices, how to open them safely, how to read their documentation, and how to test every component before it goes into a build.
- [Module 05, Power](https://lightfightermanifesto.org/series/module-05-power): read a building's electrical system to find a circuit you can draw power from. You salvage and test batteries, wire them into a protected bank, charge the bank from the wall or from solar, and power your equipment from it to measure the runtime.

## Negative Space (web series)

- [Negative Space](https://lightfightermanifesto.org/negative-space/): a web series on urban sniping, military and non-military, and the tactics and techniques that go into it. Free to read, no account.
- [Segment One: History of the Urban Sniper](https://lightfightermanifesto.org/negative-space/segment-one): nine cases of urban sniping, Stalingrad 1942 to Mosul 2017. Stalingrad, Austin, Hue, South Armagh, Sarajevo, Grozny, Washington D.C., Baghdad and Mosul: what the sniping achieved, how it was countered, and what each generation copied from the last.

## Resources

- [Resources](https://lightfightermanifesto.org/resources/): our network (a Matrix server, a NomadNet node on Reticulum, a Tor onion site), our socials, and open-source software. The repositories include ReticulumHF (encrypted comms over HF radio, Reticulum plus FreeDV), LXMFMonero (Monero transactions over LXMF), freedvtnc2 (data over HF) and an HF communication-window planner. We also run a NomadNet node reachable over Reticulum.

## Plain-text endpoints (readable with curl)

These carry ANSI color and are meant for a command line. Opened in a browser they
show the escape codes as text, which is expected, not a fault. Use `-L`: without
it curl assumes http and stops at the redirect to https.

- [/motd](https://lightfightermanifesto.org/motd): the whole estate in one plain-text page. `curl -L lightfightermanifesto.org/motd`
- [/access](https://lightfightermanifesto.org/access): who observes each way of reading this site, from bare curl to the onion address. `curl -L lightfightermanifesto.org/access`
- [/dispatch](https://lightfightermanifesto.org/dispatch): what the newsletter is and how to subscribe.
- [/store/stock](https://lightfightermanifesto.org/store/stock): current stock and course status by SKU.
- [/txt/](https://lightfightermanifesto.org/txt/): the text edition - every TG module's prose as plain text files. /txt/ is the browsable catalog; the plain-text catalog for machines is /txt/index.txt.

## Store

- [Store](https://lightfightermanifesto.org/store/): Volumes I to IV in print, and the Light Fighter Support Operations Course.

## About

- Publisher: Light Fighter Manifesto L.L.C., founded 2022.
- Founder: Christopher M. Rance.
- Community and infrastructure: Matrix, GitHub, a Tor onion site, and an email newsletter (The Dispatch).