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Released during the early days of Covid, still available

"The problem with Arm processors in the desktop (and laptop) space certainly isn’t one of performance – as this latest design by Arm once again shows. No, the real problem is a complete and utter lack of standardisation, with every chip and every device in the Arm space needing dedicated, specific operating system images people need to create, maintain, and update." - OSNews

"A handful of companies monopolise the web, with unprecedented access to our data. But there are many more ethical – and often distinctively European – alternatives"

Time-limited and usage-limited free trials, and always-free options (and what their limitations are).

"I spent months studying how authoritarians like Trump lose. The answer is shockingly simple."
TL;DR: Make it clear to the general populace that the wannabe dictator is actually trying to dismantle democracy.

An article from a few years back about Archive Of Our Own's tagging scheme

"It was a beautiful and predictable scheme. Once you knew how it worked, you could guess other URLs. If I were typing an email or authoring a blog post and I happened to have a link to your photo in Flickr, I could also easily include a link to your Flickr homepage just by editing the URL, without having to jump back to the browser to verify."

Regarding various news sites blocking the Internet Archive because someone, somewhere, might be using it to train AI.
"The Wayback Machine is built for human readers." "When libraries are blocked from archiving the web, the public loses access to history. Journalists lose tools for accountability. Researchers lose evidence. The web becomes more fragile and more fragmented, and history becomes easier to rewrite."

"Protect yourself and your workers by displaying this “Private Property! No ICE” sign on your business’ front door or window. ICE agents MUST have a valid judicial warrant signed by a federal judge to enter and arrest!"

"End-to-end encryption protects the privacy of your data, puts control over how the data gets used into your hands, and is the best way we have to ensure private conversations remain private. Not enough companies use it as broadly as they should. Learn more here."