a guide to liberating your digital life by open source developer Simon Bowie
This is the text of a paper I delivered at UKSG November Conference 2024 on 2024-11-20 on the theme of 'Cybersecurity and Censorship'. It has been edited from the original to incorporate the accompanying presentation slides into the text and to insert additional detail and quotes. In 1996
In response to the election of the fascist capitalist Donald Trump in the USA and the rising tide of the far-right in countries across the world like Israel, the Netherlands, and the UK, lots of people will be looking for secure software solutions for communication and storage of information that
Adobe Inc. is the dominant software provider for design and creative software. Like Microsoft, they switched their Creative Cloud suite to a subscription-based model where you don’t even own the software that you’re paying for and where they charge non-US customers up to twice as much for their
A few months ago, a colleague asked me for recommendations for open source audio transcription software. Audio transcription isn’t something I’ve ever really investigated so I was completely unfamiliar with the software available. But I found that the software can broadly be divided into two types: tools to
Recently I migrated my Virtual Private Server to a green hosting provider. My server runs all the web services on *.simonxix.com including my website, an onion service of my website, several web app experiments, my Joplin Server where I keep all my notes, an old WordPress site, an old
