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1. Recovering Our Lost Free Will Online: Tools and Techniques That Are Available Now

   A guide for how people can empower themselves with free software.

2. Ditching Excel for Python – Lessons Learned From a Legacy Industry (2020)

   A reinsurance analyst documents their transition from Excel to Python.

3. Move Over, ARM: BeagleV Is a $150 RISC-V Computer Designed to Run Linux

   Seeed Studios and BeagleBoard produce an affordable RISC-V system designed to run GNU/Linux.

4. Five Ways to Make AI a Greater Force for Good in 2021

   An outline of how to make AI research have a more positive impact on society in the new year.

5. Doxxing: Tips to Protect Yourself Online & How to Minimize Harm

   The EFF provides advice on how to minimize harm from doxxing.

6. Adding Encrypted Group Calls to Signal

   Signal rolls out group calls to their secure, privacy-focused messaging app.

7. Design, Activism, and Fixing the World: Three Authors Talk With iFixit

   The authors of three new books chat with iFixit on the importance of repair.

8. Anki as Learning Superpower: Computer Science Edition

   Great tips on how to optimize Anki use for learning math and computer science.

9. We Need to Talk About GitHub

   Some timely advice regarding the perils of centralization, and a vision for a viable alternative.

10. Tourists on Tech’s Toll Roads

    The future of open general purpose computing is threatened, but there are people and products that can help sustain it.