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"This 8 item to-do list will help you improve your security, understand why you should do each task, the limitations of these tools, and what not to do."

Classic 2003 essay on "What the Internet Is and How to Stop Mistaking It for Something Else."
Key point: adding stuff in the middle makes things worse, while adding stuff at the edges makes it better.

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."