Five Link Friday - 020

2025-06-06T00:00:00-08:00

Encyclopedia Of Things Considered Harmful

An opinionated website sharing problems with modern software and providing solutions, albeit, the solutions can be problematic themselves. I love using minimal, terminal-centric tools, but I recognize the average person is not willing to use that style of software.

Community Broadband: Privacy, Access, And Local Control

This article provides a starting point for those interested in building community owned and ran broadband networks.

The World Of Ours

James Mickens describes the current state of information security in a wonderfully snarky way. I try to explain best security practices to people at my job, but the average person does not care to know the best security practices, and I believe passwordless authentication will cause more issues as people get locked out of their accounts.

US Government Datasets

As the current US federal government works on dismantling everything from the inside, there are people attempting to save some of that information. This website offers torrents for publicly funded datasets for crowd sourced preservation.

US Government Websites

Similar to the website above, this website is tracking changes being made to US government websites.