>learn to code

This is the most tone deaf answer I've read in quite a while. Learning to code, and everything you listed isn't available or possible by most people in a timely manner.

The question was what can be done now, by novice people. Not by people who must first acquire years of tech knowledge.

It's not reinforcing your point to say that. Not everyone can do it. And it shouldn't preclude them from being safe.

This is equivalent to pointing at some ivory tower of safety and say: "git gud."