a guide to liberating your digital life by open source developer Simon Bowie
This is the text of a paper I delivered at OIPA Symposium 2026 on 2026-06-18. It is a variation on my previous paper for Edinburgh Open Research Conference 2025 and has been edited from the original to incorporate some of the accompanying presentation slides into the text and to insert
The UK’s Online Safety Act 2023’s age verification requirements went into effect on 25 July 2025. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. The Act, intended to regulate internet content to protect children from “illegal” or “harmful” content,
This is the text of a paper I delivered at Edinburgh Open Research Conference 2025 on 2025-06-04 led by the conference question "What's stopping you?". It has been edited from the original to incorporate some of the accompanying presentation slides into the text and to insert
On 2025-04-07, the Palestinian BDS National Committee officially declared Microsoft a priority target for BDS and called for people who support Palestine to divest from Microsoft. Although their call focuses on Microsoft’s gaming products – Xbox Game Pass, flagship Microsoft games like Candy Crush, Minecraft, and Call of Duty, and
The Besties is a video game podcast where the four hosts discuss a different video game every week. I was struck by something that Justin McElroy said on this week's episode about his recent journey into DIY computing via Raspberry Pis and Linux operating systems as I felt
