Self-Reliance: Technology Cyber War: Big Brother Lashing Out From the archive (2010): on cyber operations and official duplicity, written when the vocabulary was new — the case for technical literacy and owned infrastructure.
Self-Reliance: Technology Government-wide Licenses: a Good Idea? From the archive (2009): one vendor for a whole government — a procurement question that is now the AI question for whole societies.
Self-Reliance: Technology Arabic, Urdu and Farsi Localization of Open-Source Software From the archive (2002): the call to localise open-source software into Arabic, Urdu, and Farsi — an argument that now applies verbatim to open AI models.
Self-Reliance: Technology MS Windows, the FBI and Open Source A 2002 QeRN piece on the FBI's 'Magic Lantern', Windows backdoors and open source — an early version of what is now the AI-sovereignty argument.
Self-Reliance: Technology Debian Operating System From the archive (2002): recommending Debian — community-governed software a community can read and trust. The logic now extends to open AI.
