The Vicious Circle: Beyond the Political Theatre
Watching a Prime Minister resign in a flurry of headlines is a classic British distraction. While the news cycle fixates on who’s moving into Number 10, the laws they actually…
June 2026
The Exit Strategy: Life After the Social Media Ban
I’ve spent the morning staring at the news, and I’m honestly just exhausted by it. The UK government is basically banking on us being too comfortable to move. They’re betting…
Atomic Arch: The AUR Infostealer Incident
We use the AUR for the convenience of native builds without the restrictive containers or overhead of Flatpaks and Snaps. However, that integration comes with a significant security trade-off: we’re…
The “Nude” Ultimatum: My Phone is Not a Government Narc
The UK government has officially gone off the deep end, giving Apple and Google a three-month ultimatum: build device-level scanning to detect “illegal images” or we’ll pass laws to force…
Plex, Plex Pass, and the Slow Creep of Enshittification
I’ve been a Plex user since 2012. Back then, I paid around £50 for a lifetime Plex Pass. It felt like a bargain. Plex was a genuinely useful piece of…