Plain guides for an online life worth protecting.

sharpe.co.za is written by Andre Sharpe. The aim is simple: help everyday people stay secure and productive online, in a time when artificial intelligence is changing how all of us work, bank, and communicate.

Most security writing is either too shallow to act on or too technical to follow. These guides sit in between. Each one walks through a single, practical setup in plain English, with every command you can copy, and tells you what you should see at each step. They are written so a careful beginner can follow them, and so someone helping a less technical relative can sit beside them and get it done.

The thread running through all of them is ownership. Hold your own keys. Keep your own data. Understand the tools you rely on, including the AI ones, well enough to use them on your terms rather than theirs.

There is no tracking that follows you, no account to create, and no upsell. If a guide helps you, the best thing you can do is pass it to someone who needs it.

What little I measure stays here and stays anonymous: a cookieless count of which guides get read and which links and signups they lead to, with rough country-level location, never linked to you or followed across days. To keep the newsletter and forms free of abuse, the site also keeps brief, coarse network records for a short time, a hashed network rather than your address. The network lookup uses the free ip-location-db data (CC BY 4.0).

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