a guide to liberating your digital life by open source developer Simon Bowie
Itā€™s time to leave š¯•¸ if you havenā€™t done so already. I stopped posting there and locked my account immediately after the US election when it became clear that the owner was a de facto US Government functionary. Now that the owner has de jure political power and is
Over the holidays, I listened to a fair amount of Soft Play [1] and this suffusion in punk rock made me think about something Iā€™ve intended to write about before: how my approach to open source software is shaped by DIY culture and this punk DIY ethos differentiates my
From July to November this year, I walked (non-continuously!) along the John Muir Way from the west coast of Scotland to the east coast, a 215 kilometre route that took me a combined total of 45 hours to complete. This weekā€™s post discusses the open source and, shamefully, proprietary
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
