a guide to liberating your digital life by open source developer Simon Bowie
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
I’m pleased to be producing and co-hosting a new podcast series on the TAKE ONE Presents… podcast feed called The Dinopod where Jim Ross and I watch and critically analyse the Jurassic Park franchise films in release order. The first episode is out this week so please do listen,
This newsletter, as I said in the introduction, open sauce is all about digital liberation: “liberat[ing] your digital life from its technological prison”. So why have I only suggested open source alternatives to proprietary software applications like Microsoft Office and various video conferencing platforms? Why not suggest proprietary software
Like ‘photoshop’, ‘zoom’ has become the quasi-official verb for online video conferencing [1]. Video conferencing is dominated by commercial proprietary desktop software like Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet and proprietary phone software like FaceTime and WhatsApp. These applications are not only proprietary but they’re all proven to be insecure:
Let’s start with software that nearly everyone uses and just as many people hate: Microsoft Office. The Microsoft Office suite [1] is ubiquitous as word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation software: everyone with a computer has come across a Microsoft Word document, a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, and a Microsoft PowerPoint
